1.Train A traveling at 60 km/hr leaves Mumbai for Delhi at 6 P.M.

Train B traveling at 90 km/hr also leaves

Mumbai for Delhi at 9 P.M. Train C leaves Delhi for Mumbai at 9 P.M. If all three trains meet at the same time
between Mumbai and Delhi, what is the speed of Train C if the distance between Delhi and Mumbai is 1260
kms?
(1)

60 km/hr

(2)

90 km/hr

(3)

120 km/hr

(4)

135 km/hr

Correct Answer - (3)

6.Mr. and Mrs. Aye and Mr. and Mrs. Bee competed in a chess tournament.Of the three
games played:
a)In only the first game werethe two players married to each other.
b)The men won two games and the women won one game.
c)The Ayes won more games than the Bees.
d)Anyone who lost game did not play the subsequent game.
Who did not lose a game?
Ans.Mrs.Bee did not lose a game.
9.In a class composed of x girls and y boys what part of the class is composed of girls
A.y/(x + y)
B.x/xy
C.x/(x + y)
D.y/xy
Ans.C

12.A coffee shop blends 2 kinds of coffee,putting in 2 parts of a 33p. a gm. grade to 1 part
of a 24p. a gm.If the mixture is changed to 1 part of the 33p. a gm. to 2 parts of the less
expensive grade,how much will the shop save in blending 100 gms.
A.Rs.90
B.Rs.1.00
C.Rs.3.00
D.Rs.8.00
Ans.C

5.In the following figure:

A
B
C

D
E
F

Each of the seven digits from 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 is:

a)Represented by a different letter in the figure above.
b)Positioned in the figure above so that A*B*C,B*G*E, and D*E*F are equal.
Which digit does G represent?
Ans.G represents the digit 2.
6.Mr. and Mrs. Aye and Mr. and Mrs. Bee competed in a chess tournament.Of the three
games played:
a)In only the first game werethe two players married to each other.
b)The men won two games and the women won one game.
c)The Ayes won more games than the Bees.
d)Anyone who lost game did not play the subsequent game.
Who did not lose a game?
Ans.Mrs.Bee did not lose a game.
7.Three piles of chips--pile I consists one chip, pile II consists of chips, and pile III consists
of three chips--are to be used in game played by Anita and Brinda.The game requires:
a)That each player in turn take only one chip or all chips from just one pile.
b)That the player who has to take the last chip loses.
c)That Anita now have her turn.
From which pile should Anita draw in order to win?
Ans.Pile II
8.Of Abdul, Binoy, and Chandini:
a)Each member belongs to the Tee family whose members always tell the truth or to the El
family whose members
always lie.
b)Abdul says ''Either I belong or Binoy belongs to a different family from the other two."
Whose family do you name of?
Ans.Binoy's family--El.
9.In a class composed of x girls and y boys what part of the class is composed of girls
A.y/(x + y)
B.x/xy
C.x/(x + y)
D.y/xy
Ans.C

10.What is the maximum number of half-pint bottles of cream that can be filled with a 4-

gallon can of cream(2 pt.=1 qt. and 4 qt.=1 gal)

A.16
B.24
C.30
D.64
Ans.D

11.If the operation,^ is defined by the equation x ^ y = 2x + y,what is the value of a in 2 ^

a=a^3
A.0
B.1
C.-1
D.4
Ans.B

12.A coffee shop blends 2 kinds of coffee,putting in 2 parts of a 33p. a gm. grade to 1 part
of a 24p. a gm.If the mixture is changed to 1 part of the 33p. a gm. to 2 parts of the less
expensive grade,how much will the shop save in blending 100 gms.
A.Rs.90
B.Rs.1.00
C.Rs.3.00
D.Rs.8.00
Ans.C

13.There are 200 questions on a 3 hr examination.Among these questions are 50

mathematics problems.It is suggested that twice as much time be spent on each maths
problem as for each other question.How many minutes should be spent on mathematics
problems
A.36
B.72
C.60
D.100
Ans.B

14.In a group of 15,7 have studied Latin, 8 have studied Greek, and 3 have not studied
either.How many of these studied both Latin and Greek
A.0
B.3
C.4
D.5
Ans.B

15.If 13 = 13w/(1-w) ,then (2w)2 =

A.1/4
B.1/2
C.1
D.2
Ans.C

16. If a and b are positive integers and (a-b)/3.5 = 4/7, then

(A) b < a
(B) b > a
(C) b = a
(D) b >= a
Ans. A

17. In june a baseball team that played 60 games had won 30% of its game played. After a
phenomenal winning streak this team raised its average to 50% .How many games must
the team have won in a row to attain this average?
A. 12
B. 20

C. 24
D. 30
Ans. C

18. M men agree to purchase a gift for Rs. D. If three men drop out how much more will
each have to contribute towards the purchase of the gift/
A. D/(M-3)
B. MD/3
C. M/(D-3)
D. 3D/(M2-3M)
Ans. D

19. A company contracts to paint 3 houses. Mr.Brown can paint a house in 6 days while
Mr.Black would take 8 days and Mr.Blue 12 days. After 8 days Mr.Brown goes on vacation
and Mr. Black begins to work for a period of 6 days. How many days will it take Mr.Blue to
complete the contract?
A. 7
B. 8
C. 11
D. 12
Ans.C

20. 2 hours after a freight train leaves Delhi a passenger train leaves the same station
travelling in the same direction at an average speed of 16 km/hr. After travelling 4 hrs the
passenger train overtakes the freight train. The average speed of the freight train was?
A. 30
B. 40
C.58
D. 60
Ans. B

21. If 9x-3y=12 and 3x-5y=7 then 6x-2y = ?

A.-5
B. 4
C. 2
D. 8
Ans. D
22. There are 5 red shoes, 4 green shoes. If one draw randomly a shoe what is the
probability of getting a red shoe
Ans 5c1/ 9c1

23. What is the selling price of a car? If the cost of the car is Rs.60 and a profit of 10%
over selling price is earned
Ans: Rs 66/-

24. 1/3 of girls , 1/2 of boys go to canteen .What factor and total number of classmates go
to canteen.
Ans: Cannot be determined.

25. The price of a product is reduced by 30% . By what percentage should it be increased to
make it 100%
Ans: 42.857%

26. There is a square of side 6cm . A circle is inscribed inside the square. Find the ratio of
the area of circle to square.
Ans. 11/14
27. There are two candles of equal lengths and of different thickness. The thicker one
lasts of six hours. The thinner 2 hours less than the thicker one. Ramesh lights the
two candles at the same time. When he went to bed he saw the thicker one is twice
the length of the
28.

29. thinner one. How long ago did Ramesh light the two candles .
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28. If M/N = 6/5,then 3M+2N = ?

29. If p/q = 5/4 , then 2p+q= ?
30. If PQRST is a parallelogram what it the ratio of triangle PQS & parallelogram PQRST .
Ans: 1:2
31. The cost of an item is Rs 12.60. If the profit is 10% over selling price what is the selling
price ?
Ans: Rs 13.86/32. There are 6 red shoes & 4 green shoes . If two of red shoes are drawn what is the
probability of getting red shoes
Ans: 6c2/10c2
33. To 15 lts of water containing 20% alcohol, we add 5 lts of pure water. What is %
alcohol.
Ans : 15%
34. A worker is paid Rs.20/- for a full days work. He works 1,1/3,2/3,1/8.3/4 days in a
week. What is the total amount paid for that worker ?
Ans : 57.50
35. If the value of x lies between 0 & 1 which of the following is the largest?
(a) x
(b) x2
(c) -x
(d) 1/x
Ans : (d)
36. If the total distance of a journey is 120 km .If one goes by 60 kmph and comes back at
40kmph what is the average speed during the journey?

Ans: 48kmph
37. A school has 30% students from Maharashtra .Out of these 20% are Bombey students.
Find the total percentage of Bombay?
Ans: 6%

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38. An equilateral triangle of sides 3 inch each is given. How many equilateral triangles of
side 1 inch can be formed from it?
Ans: 9
39. If A/B = 3/5,then 15A = ?
Ans : 9B
40. Each side of a rectangle is increased by 100% .By what percentage does the area
increase?
Ans : 300%
41. Perimeter of the back wheel = 9 feet, front wheel = 7 feet on a certain distance, the
front wheel gets 10 revolutions more than the back wheel .What is the distance?
Ans : 315 feet.
42. Perimeter of front wheel =30, back wheel = 20. If front wheel revolves 240 times. How
many revolutions will the back wheel take?
Ans: 360 times
43. 20% of a 6 litre solution and 60% of 4 litre solution are mixed. What percentage of the
mixture of solution
Ans: 36%
44City A's population is 68000, decreasing at a rate of 80 people per year. City B having
population 42000 is increasing at a rate of 120 people per year. In how many years both the
cities will have same population?
Ans: 130 years

45Two cars are 15 kms apart. One is turning at a speed of 50kmph and the other at
40kmph . How much time will it take for the two cars to meet?
Ans: 3/2 hours
46A person wants to buy 3 paise and 5 paise stamps costing exactly one rupee. If he buys
which of the following number of stamps he won't able to buy 3 paise stamps.
Ans: 9

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47There are 12 boys

and 15 girls, How many different dancing groups can be formed with 2 boys and 3 girls.
48Which of the following fractions is less than 1/3
(a) 22/62
(b) 15/46
(c) 2/3
(d) 1
Ans: (b)
49There are two circles, one circle is inscribed and another circle is circumscribed over a
square. What is the ratio of area of inner to outer circle?
Ans: 1 : 2
50Three types of tea the a,b,c costs Rs. 95/kg,100/kg and70/kg respectively.
How many kgs of each should be blended to produce 100 kg of mixture worth Rs.90/kg,
given that the quntities of band c are equal
a)70,15,15
b)50,25,25
c)60,20,20
d)40,30,30
Ans. (b)
51. in a class, except 18 all are above 50 years.
15 are below 50 years of age. How many people are there

(a) 30
(b) 33
(c) 36
(d) none of these.
Ans. (d)
52. If a boat is moving in upstream with velocity of 14 km/hr and goes downstream with a
velocity of 40 km/hr, then what is the speed of the stream ?
(a) 13 km/hr
(b) 26 km/hr
(c) 34 km/hr
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Ans. A
53. Find the value of ( 0.75 * 0.75 * 0.75 - 0.001 ) / ( 0.75 * 0.75 - 0.075 + 0.01)
(a) 0.845
(b) 1.908
(c) 2.312
(d) 0.001
Ans. A
54. A can have a piece of work done in 8 days, B can work three times faster than the A, C
can work five times faster than A. How many days will they take to do the work together ?
(a) 3 days
(b) 8/9 days
(c) 4 days
(d) can't say
Ans. B
55. A car travels a certain distance taking 7 hrs in forward journey, during the return
journey increased speed 12km/hr takes the times 5 hrs.What is the distance travelled
(a) 210 kms
(b) 30 kms
(c) 20 kms
(c) none of these

Ans. B
56. Instead of multiplying a number by 7, the number is divided by 7. What is the
percentage of error obtained ?
57. Find (7x + 4y ) / (x-2y) if x/2y = 3/2 ?
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 7
(d) data insufficient
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58. A man buys 12 lts of liquid which contains 20% of the liquid and the rest is water. He
then mixes it with 10 lts of another mixture with 30% of liquid.What is the % of water in the
new mixture?
59. If a man buys 1 lt of milk for Rs.12 and mixes it with 20% water and sells it for Rs.15,
then what is the
percentage of gain?
60. Pipe A can fill a tank in 30 mins and Pipe B can fill it in 28 mins.If 3/4th of the tank is
filled by Pipe B alone and both are opened, how much time is required by both the pipes to
fill the tank completely ?
61. If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give
10% discount then what is the profit percentage.
(a) 40%
(b) 55%
(c) 35%
(d) 30%
Ans. D
62. A certain number of men can finish a piece of work in 10 days. If however there were 10
men less it will take 10 days more for the work to be finished. How many men were there
originally?

(a) 110 men

(b) 130 men
(c) 100 men
(d) none of these
Ans. A
63. In simple interest what sum amounts of Rs.1120/- in 4 years and Rs.1200/- in 5 years ?
(a) Rs. 500
(b) Rs. 600
(c) Rs. 800
(d) Rs. 900
Ans. C
64. If a sum of money compound annually amounts of thrice itself in 3 years. In how many
years
will it become 9 times itself.
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(c) 10
(d) 12
Ans A
65. Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in
the slower train
observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes by him.
What is the length of faster train ?
(a) 100m
(b) 75m
(c) 120m
(d) 50m
Ans B
66. How many mashes are there in 1 squrare meter of wire gauge if each mesh
is 8mm long and 5mm wide ?

(a) 2500
(b) 25000
(c) 250
(d) 250000
Ans B
67. x% of y is y% of ?
(a) x/y
(b) 2y
(c) x
(d) can't be determined
Ans. C
68. The price of sugar increases by 20%, by what % should a housewife reduce the
consumption of sugar so that expenditure on sugar can be same as before ?
(a) 15%
(b) 16.66%
(c) 12%
(d) 9%
Ans B
69. A man spends half of his salary on household expenses, 1/4th for rent, 1/5th for travel
expenses, the man deposits the rest in a bank. If his monthly deposits in the bank amount
50, what is his monthly salary ?
(a) Rs.500
(b) Rs.1500
(c) Rs.1000
(d) Rs. 900
Ans C
70. The population of a city increases @ 4% p.a. There is an additional annual increase of
4% of the population due to the influx of job seekers, find the % increase in population after
2 years ?
71. The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a school is 3:2 Out of these 10% the boys
and 25% of girls are scholarship holders. % of students who are not scholarship holders.?
72. 15 men take 21 days of 8 hrs. each to do a piece of work. How many days of 6 hrs.
each would it take for 21 women if 3 women do as much work as 2 men?
(a) 30

(b) 20
(c) 19
(d) 29
Ans. A
73. A cylinder is 6 cms in diameter and 6 cms in height. If spheres of the same size are
made from the material obtained, what is the diameter of each sphere?
(a) 5 cms
(b) 2 cms
(c) 3 cms
(d) 4 cms
Ans C
74. A rectangular plank (2)1/2 meters wide can be placed so that it is on either side of the
diagonal of a square shown below.(Figure is not available)What is the area of the plank?
Ans :7*(2)1/2
75. The difference b/w the compound interest payble half yearly and the simple interest on
a
certain sum lent out at 10% p.a for 1 year is Rs 25. What is the sum?
(a) Rs. 15000
(b) Rs. 12000
(c) Rs. 10000
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Ans C

76. What is the smallest number by which 2880 must be divided in order to make it into a
perfect square ?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 6
Ans. C

77. A father is 30 years older than his son however he will be only thrice as old as the son
after 5 years
what is father's present age ?
(a) 40 yrs
(b) 30 yrs
(c) 50 yrs
(d) none of these
Ans. A
78. An article sold at a profit of 20% if both the cost price and selling price would be Rs.20/the profit would be 10% more. What is the cost price of that article?
29. If an item costs Rs.3 in '99 and Rs.203 in '00.What is the % increase in price?
(a) 200/3 %
(b) 200/6 %
(c) 100%
(d) none of these
Ans. A
80. 5 men or 8 women do equal amount of work in a day. a job requires 3 men and 5
women to finish the job in 10 days how many woman are required to finish the job in 14
days.
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b) 7
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d) 12
Ans 7
81. A simple interest amount of rs 5000 for six month is rs 200. what is the anual rate of
interest?
a) 10%
b) 6%
c) 8%
d) 9%

Ans 8%
82. In objective test a correct ans score 4 marks and on a wrong ans 2 marks are ---. a
student score 480 marks from
150 question. how many ans were correct?
a) 120
b) 130
c) 110
d) 150
Ans130.
83. An artical sold at amount of 50% the net sale price is rs 425 .what is the list price of the
artical?
a) 500
b) 488
c) 480
d) 510
Ans 500
84. A man leaves office daily at 7pm A driver with car comes from his home to pick him
from office and bring back home
One day he gets free at 5:30 and instead of waiting for driver he starts walking towards
home.
In the way he meets the car and returns home on car He reaches home 20 minutes
earlier than usual.
In how much time does the man reach home usually??
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85. A
works thrice as much as B. If A takes 60 days less than B to do a work then find the number
of days it would take to
complete the work if both work together?
Ans. 22days
86. How many 1's are there in the binary form of 8*1024 + 3*64 + 3
Ans. 4

87. In a digital circuit which was to implement (A B) + (A)XOR(B), the designer implements
(A B) (A)XOR(B)
What is the probability of error in it ?
88. A boy has Rs 2. He wins or loses Re 1 at a time If he wins he gets Re 1 and if he loses
the game he loses Re 1.
He can loose only 5 times. He is out of the game if he earns Rs 5.
Find the number of ways in which this is possible?
Ans. 16
89. If there are 1024*1280 pixels on a screen and each pixel can have around 16 million
colors
Find the memory required for this?
Ans. 4MB
90. On a particular day A and B decide that they would either speak the truth or will lie.
C asks A whether he is speaking truth or lying?
He answers and B listens to what he said. C then asks B what A has said B says "A says
that he is a liar"
What is B speaking ?
(a) Truth
(b) Lie
(c) Truth when A lies
(d) Cannot be determined
Ans. (b)
91. What is the angle between the two hands of a clock when time is 8:30
Ans. 75(approx)
92. A student is ranked 13th from right and 8th from left. How many students are there in
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93. A
man walks east and turns right and then from there to his left and then 45degrees to
his right.In which direction did he go
Ans. North west

94. A student gets 70% in one subject, 80% in the other. To get an overall of 75% how
much should get in third subject.
95. A man shows his friend a woman sitting in a park and says that she the daughter of
my grandmother's only son.
What is the relation between the two
Ans. Daughter

96. How many squares with sides 1/2 inch long are needed to cover a rectangle that is 4 ft
long and 6 ft wide
(a) 24
(b) 96
(c) 3456
(d) 13824
(e) 14266
97. If a=2/3b , b=2/3c, and c=2/3d what part of d is b/
(a) 8/27
(b) 4/9
(c) 2/3
(d) 75%
(e) 4/3
Ans. (b)
2598Successive discounts of 20% and 15% are equal to a single discount of
(a) 30%
(b) 32%
(c) 34%
(d) 35%
(e) 36
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ol tank of an automobile can hold g liters.If a liters was removed when the tank was full,
what part of the full tank was removed?
(a)g-a
(b)g/a
(c) a/g
(d) (g-a)/a
(e) (g-a)/g
Ans. (c)
100. If x/y=4 and y is not '0' what % of x is 2x-y
(a)150%
(b)175%
(c)200%
(d)250%
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The sum of the squares of the first 15 positive integers (12 + 22 + 32 + . . . + 152) is equal to 1240. What is the
sum of the squares of the second 15 positive integers (162 + 172 + 182 + . . . + 302) ?
(A) 2480
(B) 3490
(C) 6785
(D) 8215
(E) 9255

Answer 8215

Q.2 A ladder lies against a wall. The top of the ladder reaches 8 ft. above the ground. When the
ladder slips two metres away from the wall, the top of the ladder touches the foot of the wall. The
length of the ladder is
1) 15 2) 17 3) 8 4) 10
Q.3 A takes 4 days to do a work. B takes twice as long as A. C takes twice as long as B and D
takes twice as long as C. They are made in groups of two. One of the groups takes two third of
the time taken by second pair. What is the combination of the first pair?
1) A,C 2) A,D 3) B,C 4) B,D
Q.4 A student got marks in the ratio 6:7:8:9:10 in five subjects having equal maximum marks. In
all, he scored 60% marks. In how many subjects, he got more than 50% ?
1) 4 2) 5 3) 3 4) None of these
Q.5 What is the least value of x for which expression x3 7x2 + 11x 5 gives positive quantity?
1) 4 2) 5 3) 8 4) None of these
Q.9 Ram is having 158 coins of one rupee. He puts it in different bags, so that he can hand over
the cash of any denomination required between Rs. 1 to Rs. 158. What is the least no. of bags
required ?
1) 11 2) 13 3) 15 4) None of these
Q.10 Train X starts from A towards B. At same time, train Y start from B towards A. Train X
travels at speed of 70 kmph and Y travels at 50 kmph. While X does not stop anywhere on the

way, the train Y stops at station C in between at 60km from B for 15 minutes. At what distance
from A they would meet
1) 115km 2) 112km 3) 120km 4) None of these
Q.11 There are three classes X,Y and Z. Average of class X is 83. Average of Class Y is 76.
Average of class Z is 85. Average of class X and Y is 79, average of class Y and Z is 81. Find
average of three Classes.
1) 81 2) 81.5 3) 82 4) 84

Q.12 There are five nos. a,b,c,d,e having value of 2,5,6,10,4, not necessarily in this order. We
have following clues
1) c + a = e 2) e + a = d 3) b-d = d
Which of the following is true ?
1) 10-5 = b-d 2) 4 + 6 = a+e 3) 4-2 = b-d 4) None of these.
Q.13 How many 5 digit different nos. can be formed which is divisible by 4 from the digits
1,2,3,4,5,6 without repetition.
1)144 2)168 3)192 4)None of these
Q.14 All the pages of a book starting from page 1 are summed. One of the pages has been added
twice, and the total thus obtained is 1000. Which is the page that has been added twice ?
1) 10 2) 12 3) 14 4) None of these.
Q.15 In a certain system product of 44 X 11 is represented as 2124 find how 1453 can be
represented in decimal system ?
1)248 2) 346 3) 393 4) 410
Q.16 All positive consecutive integers starting from 1 were written on the blackboard. One of the
students entered the class and erased one of the numbers. Now the average of the remaining
numbers is 35 7/17.The erased number is _______.
1)17 2)8 3)9 4)None of these

Q.18 In a four digit number, the sum of digits in the first and fourth place is twice the sum of the
digits in the third and fourth place. The difference in the first and third digit is equal to the
second digit. What is the digit in the third place?
1) 5 2) 4 3) 3 4) 1

Q.19 A person had to multiply two numbers. Instead of multiplying by 35, the person multiplied
by 53, and the product went up by 540.What was the raised product?
1) 780 2) 1040 3) 1590 4) None of these
Q.20 Euclid had a triangle in his mind .The longest side is 20 and the other side is 10.Area of the
triangle is 80.The third side is__
1) root 260 2) root 240 3) root 250 4)root 210
ANSWER FOR QUQNT
2. (2)
3. (2)
4. (1)
5. (4)
6. (1)
7. (1)
8. (4)
9. (4)
10. (2)
11. (2)
12. (3)
13. (3)
14.(1)
15.(3)
16.(4)
17.(2)
18.(2)
19.(3)
20. (1)