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Concepts

Numbers

▪ All the natural numbers which are divisible by 2 are even numbers. Even numbers are represented
as 2n, where n is an integer.
▪ All the natural numbers which are not a multiple of 2 are odd numbers. Odd numbers are
represented as 2n – 1, where n is an integer.
▪ Observations about even and odd numbers:

odd ± odd = even

odd ± even = odd
even ± even = even
odd × odd = odd
odd × even = even
even × even = even

▪ All the natural numbers that have exactly two distinct factors i.e. 1 and number itself are prime
numbers.
▪ Every prime number greater than 3 can be represented as either 6n – 1 or 6n + 1, where n is a
natural number, but the converse is not true i.e. every number of the above mentioned forms is
not a prime number.
▪ There are 25 prime numbers from 1 to 100.
▪ 2 is the only prime number which is even.
▪ A natural number is a prime if it is not divisible by any prime number which is less than or equal to
the square root of the number.
▪ ab = 10a + b, where ab is a two-digit number; abc = 100a + 10b + c, where abc is a three-digit
number.
▪ ab + ba = (10a + b) + (10b + a) = 11(a + b) i.e. the sum of a two-digit number and the number
formed by interchanging its digits is always divisible by 11.
▪ ab – ba = (10a + b) –(10b + a) = 9(a – b) i.e. the difference of a two-digit number and the
number formed by interchanging its digits is always divisible by 9.

Factors

▪ Factors (divisors) of a number are the numbers which divide the number completely.
▪ Prime factorization is the process of expressing a composite number as a product of its prime
factor(s).
a p  bq  c r
▪ If N = , where a, b, c,… are prime numbers such that a < b < c …, then

• Number of factors of N = (p + 1) × (q + 1) × (r + 1) × …;
• Number of even factors of N = p × (q + 1) × (r + 1) × … if a = 2;
• Number of even factors of N = 0 if a ≠ 2;
• Number of odd factors of N = 1 × (q + 1) × (r + 1) × …

Cyclicity

▪ The cyclicity of unit digits 0,1, 5 and 6 is 1.

▪ The cyclicity of unit digits 4 and 9 is 2.
▪ The cyclicity of unit digits 2, 3, 7 and 8 is 4.
▪ When a natural number A ends with 0, Ak will always end with 00, where k is a natural number
greater than 1.
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▪ When a natural number A ends with 5, Ak will always end with 25, where k is a natural
number greater than 1.

LCM & HCF

▪ HCF of two or more numbers is the greatest number which completely divides the numbers.
In other words, it is the greatest factor common to the numbers.
▪ The LCM of two or more numbers is the least number which is divisible by all the numbers.

Class Exercise:

1. How many prime numbers are there between 10 and 50?

A. 10 B. 11 C. 15 D. 1/8

2. How many multiples does 23 have between 116 and 253?

A. 6 B. 4 C. 7 D. 5

3. Find the value of 3+6×12/3

A. 27 B. 24 C. 30 D. 36

4. Let x, y and z be distinct integers. x and y are odd and positive, and z is even and positive. Which one
of the following statements cannot be true?
A. (x – z)2 y is even B. (x – z) y2 is odd
C. (x – z) y is odd D. (x + y)3 z is even

5. The sum of the digits of a three-digit number is 17, and the sum of the squares of its digits is 109. If
we subtract 495 from the number, we shall get a number consisting of the same digits written in the
reverse order. Find the number. (TCS-2018)
A. 773 B. 683 C. 944 D. 863

6. A whole number n which when divided by 4 gives 3 as remainder. What will be the remainder when 2n
is divided by 4? (Cognizant – 2018)
A. 0 B. 1 C. 4 D. 2

7. 5765X4Y is divisible by 9. What is the maximum number of values that X can take for any value of Y?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

8. If 122x, where x is a single digit whole number, is divisible by 4, how many values ‘x’ can have?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

9. Find the number of factors of 900 excluding 1 and itself.

A. 22 B. 25 C. 27 D. 30

10. How many factors does N have if N = 25 x 38 x 107?

A. 936 B. 953 C. 432 D. 436

11. Find the number of odd factors of 24 x 610 x 73.

A. 61 B. 88 C. 176 D. 44

12. Find the number of even factors of 3600.

A. 32 B. 36 C. 40 D. 45

13. In how many ways can 1764 be expressed as a product of two of its distinct factors?
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A. 13 B. 18 C. 24 D. 36

14. Find the sum of all the factors of 3600.

A. 12493 B. 12943 C. 2418 D. 12472

15. How many factors of 1080 are divisible by 12?

A. 8 B. 12 C. 12 D. 16

16. The number of factors common to 3011 and 2013 is

A. 144 B. 156 C. 168 D. 136

17. How many three-digit numbers are divisible by 4?

A. 224 B. 225 C. 200 D. 223

18. What is the unit digit of 333?

A. 3 B. 9 C. 7 D. 1

19. What is the units’ digit of (247 + 713)?

A. 8 B. 7 C. 3 D. 5

20. Find the last two digits of the number 744.

A. 7 B. 23 C. 01 D. 43

21. 21. What is the LCM of 12, 16 and 30?

A. 240 B. 160 C. 4 80 D. 120

22. What is the HCF of 39, 117 and 1001?

A. 13 B. 3 C. 39 D. 11

23. What is the LCM of the fractions 5/3, 6/7 and 3/5?
A. 15 B. 30/7 C. 60 D. 30

24. If LCM of 36, 42 and x, where x is a natural number, is 252, what is the maximum possible value of x?
A. 252 B. 126 C. 63 D. 93

25. If S is the sum of the digits the LCM of 8, 12 and 36, what is the value of S?
A. 12 B. 9 C. 5 D. 11

26. If the product of two natural number is 144 and their HCF 4, what is the LCM of the two numbers?
A. 24 B. 36 C. 48 D. 72

27. What is the smallest number which when decreased by 8 is divisible by 21, 27, 33, and 55?
(Cognizant – 2018)
A. 1490 B. 10405 C. 15490 D. 10403

28. Three bells chime simultaneously at 12 noon. If they chime at intervals of 4 min, 8 min and 12 min
respectively, at what will they chime together the next time?
A. 12: 12 pm B. 12: 24 pm C. 12: 48 pm D. 12: 36 pm

29. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals 2,4,6,8,10 and 12 seconds respectively. In 30
minutes how many times they toll together. (Wipro-2018)
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A. 4 B. 10 C. 15 D. 16

30. What is the sum of the digit of 7!?

A. 9 B. 8 C. 12 D. 12

Home Exercise

1. If th of rd of a number is 16, then what is that number?

A. 168 B. 192 C. 180 D. 256

2. If one-fourth of one-sixth of a number is 16. What is the number?

A. 192 B. 171 C. 132 D. 154

3. Find the smallest number to be added to 8042 to obtain a multiple of 11.

A. 9 B. 11 C. 12 D. 10

4. How many times the digit zero would appear in the sequence of whole numbers up to 100?
A. 12 B. 10 C. 11 D. 9

5. The sum of two numbers is 176 and they are in ratio 3: 1. The difference of the number is
A. 66 B. 41 C. 12 D. 44

6. The product of a number and its square root is 8. What is the number?
A. 6 B. 4 C. 3 D. 8

7. What are the last two digits of expression 5307 × 214?

A. 18 B. 98 C. 48 D. 78

8. a, b, c are non negative integers such that 28a+30b+31c = 365. a + b + c = ?

A. 15 B. 14 C. 13 D. 12

9. What are the total number of divisors of 600 (including 1 and 600)?
A. 24 B. 40 C. 16 D. 20

10. If (68-a)(68-b)(68-c)(68-d)(68-e) = 725, where a, b, c, d and e are natural numbers, find the value of
(a + b + c + d).
A. 231 B. 238 C. 134 D. 229

11. Which digit would come in the unit’s place of 87 18?

A. 9 B. 2 C. 7 D. 1

12. The HCF and LCM of two numbers is 9 and 10557 respectively. If one of the numbers is 207, find
the other number.
A. 459 B. 287 C. 455 D. 308

13. What is the least number between 50 and 100 which is completely divisible by 4,6 and 20?
A. 65 B. 70 C. 60 D. 79

14. Which of the following is the largest four digit number which is divisible by 32, 21 and 3?
A. 9408 B. 9349 C. 9939 D. 9633

15. What is the remainder when 128 × 1000 is divided by 153?

A. 52 B. 51 C. 151 D. 152
Answer Key
1–B 2-A 3-D 4–A 5-D
6-B 7-B 8-D 9–A 10 - A
11 – A 12 - A 13 - C 14 – A 15 - A