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1. A deer has four legs, a spider has 8 legs and a cricket has six legs.
The total member of legs found at a zoo is six hundred twelve, if in the zoo there is equal
number of each of these three animals, what is the total number of animals in zoo?
(A) 104 (B) 34 (C) 56 (D) 102

2. A family I know has several children. Each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers
but each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are
there?
(A) 4 boys, 3 girls (B) 4 boys, 4 girls (C) 4 boys, 2 girls (D) 2 boys, 3 girls

3. While visiting a small town in the US. I lost my overcoat in a bus. When I reported the matter
to the bus company I was asked the number of the bus. Though I did not remember the exact
number I did remember that the bus number has a certain peculiarity about it. The number
plate showed the bus number was a perfect square and also if the plate was turned upside
down, the number would still be a perfect square, I came to know from the bus company they
had only 500 buses numbers from 1 to 500. What was the number of bus?
(A) 169 (B) 196 (C) 619 (D) 691

4. It is a small town railway station and there are 25 stations on that line. At each of the 25
stations the passengers can get tickets for any of the other 24 stations.
How many different kinds of tickets do you think the booking clerk has to keep?
(A) 600 (B) 576 (C) 500 (D) 726

5. A friend of mine bought a used pressure cooker for Rs 60. She somehow did not find it
useful and so when a friend of her offered her Rs 70 she sold it to her. However, she felt bad
after selling it and decided to buy it back from her friend by offering her Rs 80. After having
bought it once again she felt that she did not really need the cooker. So she sold it at the
auction for Rs 90.
How much profit / loss did she make?
(A) Rs 10 profit (B) Rs 20 loss (C) Rs 10 loss (D) Rs 20 profit

6. There is a number, the second digit of which is smaller than its first digit by 4, and if the
number was divided by the digit’s sum, the quotient would be 7. What is the number?
(A) 73 (B) 95 (C) 62 (D) 84

7. Bacteria is known to multiply very rapidly. A certain container contains just one bacteria on
the first day there are twice as many on the next day. In this manner the number of bacteria
in the container doubles itself everyday.
Assuming that the container would be full of bacteria on the 10 th day, on which day would the
container be half full.
(A) 5th day (B) 6th day (C) 4th day (D) 9th day

8. I have two 10 paise coins. If 4/5 of what I have is 8/9 of what you have, how much do you
have?
(A) 17 paise (B) 15 paise (C) 18 paise (D) 10 paise

9. Ten children take part in a tournament. Each one to play every other one. How many games
must they play?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 30 (D) 45

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10. There are some benches in a classroom. If 4 students sit on each bench, then 3 benches
are left unoccupied. However, if 3 students sit on each bench, 3 students are left standing.
How many students are there in the class?
(A) 36 (B) 48 (C) 56 (D) 64

11. Aruna cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of
the small pieces is twenty grams in weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake in all with
her, how heavy was the original cake?
(A) 120 grams (B) 140 grams (C) 240 grams (D) 280 grams

12. Consider the diagram given below:

English Hindi
30 10 75

5
12 12

50
Mathematic
Five hundred candidate appeared in an examination comprising of tests in English, Hindi
and Mathematics. The diagram gives the number of candidate who failed in different tests.
What is the percentage of candidates who failed in at least two subject?
(A) 0.078 (B) 1.0 (C) 6.8 (D) 7.8

13. 90 gifts were distributed in a party. Everyone presented a gift to another. How many persons
were there in the party?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 81 (D) 89

14. At the end of a business conference the ten people present all shake hands with each other
once. How many handshakes will there be altogether?
(A) 10 (B) 45 (C) 55 (D) 90

15. What is the product of all the numbers in the dial of a telephone?
(A) 1,58,480 (B) 1,59,450 (C) 1,59,480 (D) None of these

16. A man wears socks of two colours – black and brown. He has altogether 20 black socks and
20 brown socks in a drawer. Supposing he has to take out the socks in the dark, how many
must he take out to be sure that he has a matching pair?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 20 (D) 21

17. A printer numbers the pages of a book starting with 1 and uses 3189 digits in all. How many
pages does the book have?
(A) 1000 (B) 1074 (C) 1075 (D) 1080

18. An enterprising businessman earns an income of Rs.1 on the first day of his business. On
every subsequent day, he earns an income which is just double of that made on the previous
day. On the 10th day of business, his total income is:
(A) Rs.29 (B) 210 (C) Rs.10 (D) Rs.102

19. A girl counted in the following way on the fingers of hr left hand: She started by calling the
thumb 1, the index finger 2, middle finger 3, ring finger 4, little finger 5 and then reversed
direction calling the ring finger 6, middle finger 7 and so on. She counted upto 1994. She
ended counting on which finger?
(A) Thumb (B) Index finger (C) Middle finger (D) Ring finger

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20. A monkey climbs 30 feets at the beginning of each hour and rests for while when he slips
back 20 feet before he again starts climbing in the beginning of the next hour. If he begins
his ascent at 8:00 a.m., at what time will he fist touch a flag at 120 feet from the ground?
(A) 4 P.M. (B) 5 P.M. (C) 6 P.M. (D) None of these

21. If 100 cats kill 100 mice in 100 days, then 4 cats would kill 4 mice in how many days?
(A) 1 day (B) 4 days (C) 40 days (D) 100 days

22. On Children’s Day, sweets were to be equally distributed among 175 children in a school.
Actually on Children’s Day, 35 children were absent and therefore each child got 4 sweets
extra. Total how many sweets were available for distribution?
(A) 2400 (B) 2480 (C) 2680 (D) 2800

23. Mr. X, a mathematician, defines a number as ‘connected with 6’ if it divisible by 6 or if the

sum of its digits is 6, or if 6 is one of the digits of the number. Other numbers are all ‘not
connected with 6’. As per this definition, the number of integers from 1 to 60 (both inclusive)
which are not connected with 6 is:
(A) 18 (B) 22 (C) 42 (D) 43

24. At a dinner party every two guests used a bowl of rice between them, every three guests
used a bowl of dal between them and every four used a bowl of meat between them. There
were altogether 65 dishes. How many guests were present at the party?
(A) 60 (B) 65 (C) 90 (D) 100

25. There are 50 students admitted to a nursery class. Some students can speak only English
and some can speak only Hindi. Ten students can speak both English and Hindi. If the
number of students who can speak English is 21, then how many students can speak Hindi,
how many can speak only Hindi and how many can speak only English?
(A) 39, 29 and 11 respectively (B) 37, 27 and 11 respectively
(C) 28, 18 and 11 respectively (D) 21, 11 and 29 respectively

ANSWERS
Arithmetical Reasoning

1. D 2. A 3. B 4. A
5. D 6. D 7. D 8. C
9. D 10. B 11. C 12. D
13. B 14. B 15. D 16. B
17. B 18. A 19. B 20. C
21. D 22. D 23. D 24. A
25. A

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