Math

Class-3

Content: Instructed by:

1. Time & Work Md. Zahidul Islam

2. Pipe & Cistern Examiner (Testing), BSTI
3. Distance & Speed Math Instructor, Exambuzz
4. Algebra Ex- Senior Officer, BKB
5. Mensuration
6. Simplification
 Time & Work
1. If Masud can do a job in P days, while Minhaz can do the same job in Q days separately, how
long will it take to finish the job if they work together? (Officer Cash- 2024)
a. (P+Q)/PQ days
b. PQ/(P+Q) days
c. (P+Q) days
d. (1/P + 1/Q) days
2. Salam earns Tk. 8.50 per hour on days other than Friday and twice the rate on Friday. Last week
he worked a total of 50 hours including 8 hours on Friday. What is his earning for the week?
(S.Officer- 2023-01)
a. Tk. 340
b. Tk. 398
c. Tk. 408
d. Tk. 493
3. A is 30% more efficient than B. How much time will they, working together , take to-complete a
job which A alone could have done in 23 days? (BB AD 2016)
a. 11 days
b. 13 days
c. 21 days
d. None
4. If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 26 men and 48 boys can do the
same in 2 days, the time taken by 15 men and 20 boys in doing the same type of work will be-
a. 4 days
b. 5 days
c. 6 days
d. 7 days
5. X men can do a work in h hours, if 2 men leave the work, the additional time required to
complete the work is-
2ℎ
a. 𝑥+2
2ℎ
b. 𝑥−2
𝑥+2
c. 2ℎ
𝑥−2
d. 2ℎ

6. A takes 5 days more than B to do a certain job and 9 days more than C. A and B together can do
the job in the same time as C. How many days A would take to do it?
a. 15
b. 10
c. 7
d. 8
 Pipe & Cistern
1. Two pipes A and B together can fill a tank in 6 hours. If pipe A can fill 5 hours faster than pipe B,
in how many hours B alone can fill the tank?
a. 15 hour
b. 10 hour
c. 8 hour
d. 7 hour
2. Two pipes A & B would fill a tank in 20 & 30 min respectively. Both pipes being open, find when
A must be turned off so that the tank may be just filled in 15 minutes.
a. After 10 minutes
b. After 15 minutes
c. After 20 minutes
d. None
3. Two pipes can fill a tank in 20 and 24 minutes respectively and a waste pipe can empty 3 gallons
per minute. All the three pipes working together can fill the tank in 15 minutes. The capacity of
the tank is:
a. 60 gallons
b. 100 gallons
c. 120 gallons
d. 180 gallons

4. Having the same capacity, 9 taps fill up a water tank in 20 minutes. How many taps of the same
capacity are required to fill up the same water tank in 15 minutes?
a. 10 taps
b. 12 taps
c. 15 taps
d. 18 taps
 Distance & Speed
1. A motorcyclist completes a certain journey in 5 hours. He covers one-third distance at 60
km/hour and the rest 80 km/hour. The length of the journey is- (Officer Cash- 2024)
a. 240 km
b. 270 km
c. 300 km
d. 360 km
2. A plane traveling at 600 miles per hour is heading for Chittagong airport. At 3.58 pm it was 30
miles from the airport. At what time it will arrive at 600 at the airport? (Officer Cash- 2024)
a. 4.01 pm
b. 4.02 pm
c. 4.18 pm
d. 4.20 pm
3. If a 240-metre-long metro rail passes a pole in 24 seconds, how long will it take to pass a
650-metre-long platform? (Officer Cash- 2024) (S.Officer- 2023-01)
a. 60 seconds
b. 75 seconds
c. 89 seconds
d. 130 seconds
4. There are 23 poles with a constant distance between each pole. A car takes 24 seconds to reach
the 12th pole. How much time will it take to reach the last pole? (Officer General- 2024)
a. 40 seconds
b. 44 seconds
c. 48 seconds
d. 46 seconds
5. A train crossed a platform in 45 seconds travelling with a speed of 36 km/h. If the length of train
is 200 meters, then what will be the length (in meters) of the platform? (S.Officer- 2023)
a. 200
b. 250
c. 300
d. 350

6. 10 minutes after a plane leaves the airport, it is reported to be 40 miles away. What is the
average speed in miles per hour of the plane? (Officer Cash- 2023)
a. 560
b. 400
c. 240
d. 200

7. If 5 students run a mile in 5 minutes, how much time will 50 students take to run a mile?
(Officer Cash- 2023)
a. 5 minutes
b. 10 minutes
c. 50 minutes
d. None of these
8. The diameter of the driving wheel of a bus is 140 cm. How many revolutions per minute must
the wheel make in order to keep a speed of 66 km per hour? (S.Officer- 2023-01)
a. 200
b. 250
c. 300
d. 350

9. If a person walks at 14 km/hr instead of 10 km/hr, he can cover 20 km more. The actual distance
travelled by him is- (BB Cash- 2023)
a. 50 km
b. 56 km
c. 70 km
d. 80 km
 Algebra
1. If a2 + b2 = 45 and ab = 18, find 1/a + 1/b (BB Cash- 2023)
a. ⅓
b. ½
c. ⅔
d. ¼

2. If ax = b and by= a, then find the value of xy. (BB Cash- 2023)
a. 1
b. 0
c. a
d. y
 𝑥 𝑦 𝑧
3. If 2𝑥+𝑦+𝑧
= 𝑥+2𝑦+𝑧
= 𝑥+𝑦+2𝑧
= a, then find the value of ‘a’ if (x + y + z) ≠ 0 (BB AD- 2023)
a. ½
b. ⅓
c. ¼
d. ⅛

4. 230 + 230 + 230 + 230 = ? (BB Cash- 2023)

a. 830
b. 8120
c. 232
d. 230
5. If (2x - 1) 2 = 100 then which one of the following could equal x? (Officer Cash- 2023)
a. -11/2
b. -9/2
c. 11/2
d. 13/2

6. What is the value of 10 + 25 + 108 + 154 + 225 (S.Officer- 2023)

a. 6
b. 4
c. 2
d. 1
 3 3
𝑥 𝑦 𝑥 𝑦
7. If 𝑦
+ 𝑥
= 6, the value of 3 + 3 is- (Officer General- 2024)
𝑦 𝑥
a. 198
b. 176
c. 156
d. 144

1 1
8. If x = a + 𝑎
and y = a - 𝑎
then x4 + y4 - 2x2y2= ? (Officer Cash- 2024)
a. 4
b. 8
c. 16
d. None of these
 2𝑎 +𝑏 𝑎 +𝑏
9. If 𝑎 + 4𝑏
= 3, then find the value of 𝑎 + 2𝑏
9
a. 7
7
b. 9
9
c. 10
10
d. 9

1
10. If x= 3+√8, then 𝑥 + 2 is equal to-
𝑥
a. 36
b. 34
c. 32
d. 30
 Mensuration
Perimeter পরিসীমা Right Angle সমকোণ
Square বর্গ Circumference পরিধি Obtuse Angle স্থূলকোণ
Rectangle আয়তক্ষেত্র Diameter ব্যাস Acute Angle সুক্ষ্ম কোন
Parallelogram সামন্তরিক Radius ব্যাসার্ধ
Circle বৃত্ত Centre কেন্দ্র Cylinder বেলন
Semicircle অর্ধবৃত্ত Chord জ্যা Sphere গোলক
Triangle ত্রিভু জ Tangent স্পর্শক Hemisphere অর্ধগোলক
Equilateral Triangle সমবাহু ত্রিভু জ Diagonal কর্ণ Cone কোণক
বক্রতলের
Isosceles Triangle সমদ্বিবাহু ত্রিভু জ Perpendicular লম্ব Surface Area
ক্ষেত্রফল
Rectangular
Scalene বিষমবাহু ত্রিভু জ Base ভূ মি আয়তাকার ঘন
Solid
Right Triangle সমকোণী ত্রিভু জ Hypotenuse অতিভু জ Cube ঘন
Polygon বহুভূ জ Transversal ছেদক Area ক্ষেত্রফল
Vertices শীর্ষবিন্দু Volume আয়তন
 Cube Rectangular Solid/ Cuboid Cylinder

No. of Faces- 6 No. of Faces- 6

No. of edges 12 No. of edges 12 Base Area πr2
Diagonal √3a Diagonal 2 2 2 Curved Surface/ 2πrh
𝑎 +𝑏 + 𝑐
Lateral Area
Total Surface Area 6a2 Total Surface Area 2(ab + bc + ca) Total Surface Area 2πr(r+h)
Volume a3 Volume abc Volume πr2h
Perimeter 12a Perimeter 4(a+b+c)
 Sphere Hemisphere Cone

Slant Height 2 2
l= ℎ + 𝑟
Base Area πr2 Base Area πr2
Curved Surface Curved Surface
2πr2 2
πrl= πr ℎ + 𝑟
2
Area Area
Surface Area 4πr2 Total Surface Area 3πr2 Total Surface Area πr(r+l)
4 2 1
Volume 3
πr3 Volume 3
πr3 Volume 3
πr2h
1. The area of the floor of an auditorium is 600 sq. meter. How many unbroken tiles of dimension
10x30 cm³ will be required to cover the floor completely? (S.Officer- 2023-01)
a. 200
b. 15000
c. 10000
d. 20000
2. A box contains 90 nuts each of 100 gm and 100 bolts each of 150 gm. If the entire box weighs
35.5 kg, then find the weight of the empty box. (BB Cash- 2023)
a. 10.5kg
b. 11kg
c. 11.5kg
d. 24 kg

3. The area of a rectangular field is 52000 sq. meters. This rectangular area has been drawn on a
map to the scale 1 cm to 100 m. The length is shown as 3.25 cm on the map. The breadth of the
rectangular field in the map is- (BB AD- 2023)
a. 1.6 m
b. 160 m
c. 160 cm
d. 1.6 cm
4. A square park is surrounded by a path of uniform width 2 meters all around it. The area of the
path is 288 sq. meters. Find the perimeter of the park. (BB AD- 2023)
a. 34 m
b. 1156 m
c. 136 m
d. Cannot be determined
5. A rectangular sheet of paper, 10 cm long and 8 cm wide has squares of side 2 cm cut from each
of its corners. The sheet is then folded to form a tray of depth 2cm. What is the volume of this
tray? (S.Officer- 2023)
a. 32 cm3
b. 48 cm3
c. 49 cm3
d. 54 cm3
6. A circle and a rectangle have the same perimeter. The sides of the rectangle are 18 cm and 26
cm. What is the area of the circle? (BB AD- 2023)
a. 1250 sq. cm
b. 616 sq. cm
c. 154 sq. cm
d. 88 sq. cm

7. The area of a square is three-fifths the area of a rectangle. The length of the rectangle is 25 cm
and its breadth is 10 cm less than its length. What is the perimeter of the square? (Officer
General- 2024)
a. 60cm
b. 44cm
c. 80cm
d. cannot be determined
8. What would be the measure of the perimeter of a square whose area is equal to 256 square
cm? (Officer Cash- 2024)
a. 16 cm
b. 36 cm
c. 64 cm
d. 128 cm

9. A hemisphere and a cone have equal bases. If their height are also equal, then the ratio of their
curve surface will be:
a. √2 : 1
b. 1 : √2
c. 2 : 1
d. 1 : 2
10. The height of a cylinder is four times the radius of the cylinder. If the volume of the cylinder is
256 π cm², what is the radius of the cylinder?
a. 4cm
b. 8cm
c. 16cm
d. 24cm
 Simplification
1. In a T-20 cricket match, the number of boundaries scored was twice the number of over
boundaries by a team. The team took 22 single runs, no two or three runs and could not score
from 38 deliveries. How many runs did the team score? (Officer Cash- 2024)
a. 124
b. 144
c. 150
d. 302
2. The daily rate for a hotel room that sleeps 4 people is Tk. 390 for one person and X taka for each
additional person. If 3 people take the room for one day and each pays Tk 210 for the room, then
what is the value of X? (Officer Cash- 2024)
a. 60
b. 120
c. 80
d. 240
3. How many pieces of 85 cm length stick can be cut from a 42.5 meters long stick?
(Officer Cash- 2023)
a. 30
b. 40
c. 50
d. 60
4. The total salary of X, Y and Z is Tk.90,000. X earns twice of what Z earns, and Y earns 1.5 times
of what Z earns. What is the salary of Z? (Officer Cash- 2023)
a. Tk. 15,000
b. Tk.20,000
c. Tk.25,000
d. Tk.30,000

5. M is a girl and has the same number of brothers as sisters. N is a boy and has twice as many
sisters as brothers. M and N are the children of Q. How many children does Q have? (S.Officer-
2023-01)
a. 2
b. 7
c. 5
d. 8
6. Ruby's height is 5'2". Ana is taller than Ruby but she is not taller than Pamela. Pamela is shorter
than her cousin Rony but she is not shorter than Ruby. Who is the tallest in the group? (S.Officer-
2023-01)
a. Ana
b. Rony
c. Pamela
d. Ruby

7. Students of a class stand in a queue. If Ratan is 19th in order from both ends, how many
students are there in the queue? (BB Cash- 2023)
a. 20
b. 37
c. 38
d. 39
8. A shopkeeper has sufficient money to buy 50 books. On a reduction in the price of each book by
Tk. 4, he could buy 10 more books. How much money does he have? (BB Cash- 2023)
a. Tk. 1000
b. Tk. 1200
c. Tk. 1500
d. Tk. 2000
9. A worker earns Tk. 250 on the first day and spends tk. 200 on the second day, earns Tk. 250 on
the third day and again spends Tk. 200 on the fourth day and so no. On which day would he have
had Tk. 1000? (BB Cash- 2023)
a. 20th day
b. 30th day
c. 31th day
d. 40th day

10. One third of Aman's marks in Mathematics exceeds a half of his marks in English by 30. If he
got 240 marks in the two subjects together, how many marks did he get in English? (BB AD- 2023)
a. 180
b. 120
c. 90
d. 60
11. Three boys agree to divide a bag of marbles in the following manner. The first boy takes one
more than half the marbles. The second takes a third of the number remaining. The third boy finds
that he is left with twice as many marbles as the second boy. The original number of marbles is-
(BB AD- 2023)
a. 38
b. 36
c. 32
d. Cannot be determined