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1. A student loses 1 mark for every wrong answer and scores 2 marks for very correct answer. If he
answers all the 60 questions in an exam and scores 39 marks, how many of them were correct?
a) 27 b) 31 c) 33 d) 37

2. The city library donated some books to a class. If each student takes 4 books, there will be 20 books
left. If 3 students do not take a book and the rest of the students take 5 books each, there will be no
books left. How many books were donated to the class?
a) 120 b) 140 c) 160 d) 175

3. In a zoo, there are rabbits and pigeons. If heads are counted, there are 200, and if legs are counted
there are 580. How many pigeons are there?
a) 90 b) 100 c) 110 d) 120
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4. A man could buy a certain number of notebooks for tk. 300. If each notebook cost is Tk. 5 more, he
could have bought 10 notebooks less for the same amount. Find the price of each notebook?
a) 15 b) 20 c) 10 d) 8

5. A cough syrup contains 250 ml of syrup. A 5 year old child accidentally swallowed from the bottle
until it holds 50 ml of syrup less than the quantity the child swallowed. How much did he swallow?
a) 50 b) 100 c) 150 d) 200

6. A grocer buys some eggs at 3 Tk. each .He finds that 12 of them are broken, but he sells the others at
tk.4 each and makes profit of tk. 96. How many eggs did he buy?
a) 140 b) 142 c) 144 d) 150

7. A picnic was attended by 240 persons. There were 20 more men than women and 20 more adults
than children. How many men were there in the picnic?
a) 240 b) 75 c) 110 d) 130

8. On a certain multiple choice test, 9 points are awarded for each correct answer and 7 points are
deducted for each incorrect or unanswered questions. Azad received a total number of 0 points in the
test. If the test has fewer than 30 questions, how many questions are on the test?
a) 12 b) 16 c) 19 d) 21

9. The electricity bill of a certain establishment is partially fixed and partially varies as the member of
units of electricity consumed. When in a certain month 540 units are consumed, the bill is tk. 1800.In
another month 620 units are consumed, the bill is Tk. 2040.In yet another month if 500 units are
consumed what would be the bill (in tk.) for that month?
a) 1950 b) 1560 c) 1840 d) 1680

10. Rina was waiting in a line to buy a movie ticket. She counted three times as many people ahead of
her as behind her. Which of the following could be the total number of people waiting in the line?
a) 35 b) 36 c) 37 d) 39

11. Find a number such, when 15 is subtracted from 7 times the number; the result is 10 more than
twice the number.

a) 5 b) 6 c) 7 d) 8

12. If kabir loses 8 pounds, he will weight twice as much as his sister. Together they now weigh 278
pounds what is kabir's present weight in pound?
a) 185 b) 186 c) 187 d) 188

13. Mr. X lost a wallet containing Tk. 120. Incidentally, he had only notes of Tk. 2 and Tk. 5
denominations in the wallet. If the total number of notes was 30, how many Tk. 5 denomination notes
did he have?
a) 15 b) 18 c) 20 d)22

14. A sum of Tk. 312 was divided among 100 boys and girls in such a way that each boy gets tk. 3.60
and each girl tk2.40. The number of girls is-
a) 40 b) 50 c) 60 d) 45

15. A boy was asked to multiply a number by 25. He instead multiplied the number by 52 and got the
answer 324 more than the correct answer. The number to be multiplied was-
a) 12 b) 14 c) 15 d) 19

16. Monwar, Jasmin and Khairul had lunch together. Khairul’s meal cost 50%
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more than jasmin’s meal and monwar’s meal cost as much as khairul’s meal.
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If jasmin paid tk. 1000 for his meal, what was the total amount they paid for lunch?
a) 2500 b) 3000 c) 3750 d) 4000

17. Jahir has 15 red balls, he gives Sami 3 balls. Sami now has twice the number of balls Jahir has left.
How many balls did Sami have at the beginning?
a) 24 b) 12 c) 27 d) 21

18. Salem earns Tk. 8.50 per hour on days other than Sundays and twice that rate on Sundays. Last
week he worked a total of 40 hours, including 8 hours on Sunday. What were his earnings for the
week?
a) TK.272 b) TK. 340 c) TK. 398 d) TK. 408

19. Mr. A and Mr. B have a combined weekly salary of Taka 1000. If salary of A is increased by 2.5
times and salary of B is increased by 1.5 times. The combined salary would be taka 1600. What was
the original salary of B?
a) 900 b) 1100 c) 1225 d) 1150
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20. Rahim gave half of his stamps to karim. Karim gave half of his stamps to Fatima. Fatima gave 𝟒 of
the stamps given to her to Tonmoy and kept the remaining 12. How many stamps did Rahim start
with?
a) 64 b) 65 c) 66 d) 67

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21. If 𝟖=of a pencil is black of the remaining is white and the remaining 3 𝟐 cm is blue find the total
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length of the pencil?
a) 7 b) 8 c) 9 d) 12

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22. If 𝟖 of a number is 11 more than 𝟔of the number, what is 𝟒 of that number?
a) 18 b) 26 c) 28 d) 32.5

23. On an average, Arif sells 10 dozen of apple per day and Karim sells 12 dozen of apple per day.
Arif’s selling price is 1.5times as much as that of karim’s. If karim’s weekly sales are tk. 4200, what is
arif’s weekly sale in taka?
a) 5000 b) 5250 c) 5300 d) 5100

24. Half of the people on a bus get off at each stop after the first, and no one gets on after the first stop.
If only 4 people get off at stop number 4, how many people got on at the first stop?
a) 16 b) 32 c) 44 d) none

25. If Kamal gives 20 marbles to Shuvo. Then both of them will have equal numbers of marbles in
their possessions. If Shuvo gives 40 marbles to kamal. Then kamal will have twice the number of
marbles that Shuvo will retain. What is the number of marbles that Kamal has?
a) 200 b) 250 c) 270 d) 300

26. Rahim and Karim donated tk. 100 each in charity. Karim gives each tk. 1 more than Rahim and
Rahim distributes money to 5 more people than karim. How many people are there in this charity?
a) 45 b) 72 c) 90 d) 60
27. 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?
a)2 b) 3 c) 5 d) 7
28. One-third of Ratan’s investment in National Savings Certificate (NSC) is equal to one-half of his
investment in FDR. If he has Tk. 1, 50,000 as total investment, how much he invested in savings
certificate?
a) Tk. 30,000 b) Tk. 50,000 c) Tk. 60,000 d) Tk. 90,000

29. Bowl S contains only marbles. If ¼ of the marbles were removed, the bowl would be filled to ½ of
its capacity. If 100 marbles were added, the bowl would be full. How many marbles are in bowl S?
a) 100 b) 200 c) 250 d) 300
30. P and Q are two positive integers such that PQ= 64. Which of the following is not the correct value
of P+Q?
a) 16 b) 20 c) 35 d) 65

31. A shopkeeper has sufficient money to buy 50 books. On reduction in the price of each book by Tk
4, he could buy 10 books more. How much money does he have?
a) 1000 b) 1500 c) 1200 d) 2000

32. A man deposits certain amount in his bank account. After a few days, he withdraws half of the
money deposited and deposits Tk. 500 more. If he has a balance of Tk. 2000 in his bank account, find
the amount deposited initially.
a) 1500 b) 2000 c) 2500 d) 3000
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33. Ages of three persons are now in the proportion of 2:3:4 and in five years from now, the
proportion will be 5:7:8. What is the present age of the youngest person?
a) 10 years b) 20 years c) 30 years d) 40 years
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34. The larger of two numbers exceeds twice the smaller number by 9. The sum of twice the larger and
5 times the smaller number is 74. If ‘a’ is the smaller number, which equation below determines the
correct value of ‘a’?
a) 5(2a-9) +2a= 74 b) 5(2a-9)-2a= 74 c) (4a+9)-5a= 74 d) 2(2a+9)+5a= 74

35. The sum of two numbers is 184. If one-third of the one exceeds one-seventh of the other by 8, find
the smaller number.
a) 65 b) 72 c) 76 d) 80
36. A sum of money is to be distributed among A, B, C, D in the proportion of 5:2:4:3. If C gets Tk
1000 more than D, what is B’s share?

a) Tk 500 b) Tk 1500 c) Tk 2000 d) None of these

37. Let C and K be constants. If x2 + kx+ 5 factors into (x+1)(x+C), the value of K is
a) 0 b) 5 c) 8 d) 6
38. A number is as much greater than 31 as less than 55. Which of the following is that numbers?
a) 47 b) 52 c) 39 d) 43
39. Rahim can hammer 20 nails in 6 minutes. Charlie can do the same job in only 5 minutes. How long
will it take them to hammer 22 nails if Rahim hammers the first 5 nails, then Charlie hammers for 3
minutes and finally Rahim finishes the job?
a) 4.6 min. b) 5.0 min. c) 5.4 min. d) 6.0min.
40. Rina and Shila entered into a partnership with their capitals in the ration 5:6. At the end of 8
months, Rina withdraws her capital. If they receive the profit in the ration of 5:9, find how long
Shila’s capital was used?
a) 12 months b)14 months c)16 months d) 18 month

41. A class starts at 10.00 am and last till 1.30pm. Four periods are held during this interval. After
every period, 10 minutes are given free to the students. What is the exact duration of each period?
a) 42 min b) 45 min c) 48 min d) 50 min

42. The maximum recommended pulse rate R, when exercising, for a person who is x years of age is
given by the equation R= 176-0.8x. What is the age, in years, of a person whose maximum
recommended pulse rate when exercising rate when exercising is 140?
a) 40 b) 45 c) 50 d) 55

43. For what value of x between -4 and 4, inclusive, is the value of x2 +10x+16 the greatest?
a) -4 b) -2 c) 0 d) 2

44. Azim sold 5 kg chocolates boxes for ‘c’ tk. per box and Dobir sold 3 kg chocolates boxes for ‘c’ tk.
per box. Azim increased the price per box by‘d’ tk. and Dobir decreased the price per box by ‘d’ tk.
and afterwards ,the two shops were selling chocolates for the same price per kg. In terms of‘d’ ,what
was the original price of Azim’s 5 kg chocolate box?

a) 2d b) 4d c) 7d d) 8d

45. Adding three-eighths of a number to two-fifths of its double is 21 more than the original number.
What is three-fifths of the number?
a) 120 b) 130 c) 150 d) 140 e) None

46. Shobha bought some notebooks at Rs.70 each and some pens at Rs.30 each. She spends a total of
Rs. 810 and buys the maximum number of accounts he can afford. What is the ratio of her purchased
notebook and pen?
a) 4:3 b) 2:3 c) 3:4 d) 3:2 e) None

47. After subtracting 100 from the total marks obtained by the students of a class in Mathematics, the
average marks obtained by the students dropped from 50 to 48. What is the total number of students
in that class?
a) 40 b) 50 c) 55 d) 60 e) None

48. Concrete pillars are placed 20 m apart on both sides of a road 472 long. If width of each pillar is 0.5
m, how many pillars are placed along the road?
a) 23 b) 24 c) 36 d) 48 e) None

49. If x-1 = 2x, what is the value of x ?

50.98 oranges divided between two baskets in such a way that six times the number of oranges in the
larger basket is 12 more than six times the number of oranges in the smaller basket. How many more
oranges were in the big basket than the small basket?
a) 2 b) 3 c) 5 d) 6

51. A box contains 200 marbles,25% of them are red and the rest are black. From the box, you gave
your brother a certain number of marbles of which 60% are black. You then found that among the
remaining marbles, only 20% are red. How many marbles did you give to your brother?
a) 50 b) 60 c) 80 d) none

52. After filling the car's fuel tank,a driver drove from P to Q and then to R. He used 2/5 th portion of
the fuel driving from P to Q. If she used another 7 Litres to drive from Q to R and still had ¼ th of the
tank left, how many litres does the tank hold?
a) 12 b) 18 c) 20 d) 21

53. A glass when full of milk, weighs 1 kg. It weighs 0.75 kg when the glass is half full. What is the
weight of the empty glass?
a) 0.25 kg b) 0.35 kg c) 0.40 kg d) 0.50 kg.

54.One – third of Arun'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?
a) 180 b) 120 c) 90 d) 60

55. Reena bought some chocolates to distribute to her friends. If she gives 3 chocolates to each friend,
one friend will get only 2 chocolates. Also, if she gives 2 chocolates to each friend, she will be left with
15 chocolates. How many chocolates did she buy?
a) 47 b) 44 c) 50 d) 35

56. A positive number, when decreased by 4 is equal to 21 times the reciprocal of the number. The
number is?
a) 3 b) 5 c) 7 d) 9

57. The price of two bananas is Tk.40.And the sum of the prices of one banana and two kiwis is
Tk.50.The sum of the prices of two bananas and three kiwis is Tk:
a) 90 b) 100 c) 85 d) 50
58. Arafat has Tk. 420.He purchased fifty mangoes and thirty oranges with the whole amount. He then
chose to return 6 mangoes for nine oranges both quantities are equally priced. What is the price of
each mango in Tk?
a) 4.00 b) 5.00 c) 4.50 d) 6.00 e) none

59. The students of Khulna Zilla School fixed a bus for Tk.2400 to go to the annual picnic and decided
that every student would bear the same fare. For an additional 10 students, the fare is reduced by Tk.8
per person. How many students were on the bus?
a) 50 b) 60 c) 70 d) 80

60.A box contains some Tk. 50,some Tk.20 and some Tk. 80 notes having a monetary value of
Tk.980.If there are 20 notes of 20 tk. in that box, how many 50 tk. notes are there in the box?
a) 7 b) 8 c) 9 d) 10 e) none

61. If 4 students sit on each bench in a class, 3 benches is empty. But if 3 students sit on each bench, 6
students have to stand. What is the number of students in that class?
a) 50 b) 60 c) 70 d) 80

62. 22% of total voters did not vote in an election. Between the two candidates the defeated candidate
got 21216 votes and the winner candidate got 50% more votes than the defeated candidate. If the
winning candidate gets 60% votes, then what is the total number of voters in that constituency?
a) 65000 b) 68000 c) 62000 d) 53000

63. A scholarship of Tk.250 or Tk.750 for a total of Tk.3000 was given to the students of a school on
the basis of examination results. If at least one scholarship of Tk. 250 and one scholarship of Tk.750
are given, what cannot be the number of scholarships of Tk. 250?
a) 3 b) 5 c) 9 d) 12 e) None

64. Asad went to the market to buy 12 oranges. But he found that he had the money to buy only 10
oranges. He calculated that if the price per piece of orange was 3 tk. less she could have bought 12
oranges. How much money did Asad have?
a) 150 b) 160 c) 175 d) 180

65. The price of commodity X increases by 40 paisa every year, while the price of commodity Y
increases by 15 paisa every year. If in 2001,the price of commodity X was Tk.4.20 and that of Y was
Tk.6.30,in which year commodity X will cost 40 paisa more than the commodity Y?
a) 2010 b) 2013 c) 2012 d) 2011
66. There are 48 books in 3 shelves. If 3 books from third shelf are shifted to the second, there will be
same number of books on first and third shelves and double the number of books on second shelf.
How many books were there on three shelves originally?
a) 10,25,13 b) 12,21,15 c)11,23,14 d)13,19,16

67. When 117 chocolates are distributed among x number of students you are left with (x -9)
chocolates. Which of the following could be the value of X?
a) 15 b) 18 c) 21 d) 18, 21

68. A group of students decided to collect as many paisa from each member of a group as is the
number of members. If the total collection amounts to Tk. 59.29, what is the number of members in
the group?
a) 57 b) 67 c) 77 d) 87
69. If 100 is divided into two parts in such a way that the sum of their reciprocals is 1/21, the
difference between the two parts is –
a) 30 b) 40 c) 45 d) 60 e) none

70. A fuel tank is 1/5 th full and requires 32 gallons more to make it 3/7 full. What is the capacity of the
tank?
a) 120 gallons b) 140 gallons c) 135 gallons d) 141 gallons.
71. Barkat bought equal numbers of 20 paisa and 30 paisa stamps. If the total cost of the stamps was
Tk.10.00, what was the total number of stamps tonight?
a) 25 b) 34 c) 40 d) 46

72. Mahfuz has a total of Tk. 480 in the denominations / of one Taka, five Taka and Ten taka notes.
The numbers of different notes are equal. What is the total number of notes?
a) 45 b) 75 c) 90 d) none
73. Eight people are planning to share equally the cost of a rental car. If one person withdraws from
the arrangement and the other shares equally the entire cost of the car, then the share of the
remaining persons will be increased by –
1 1 7 1
a) 7 b) 8
c) 8
d) 2

74.If c and d are two integers and @ is defined in p and q as @(p,q) = (p+1)(q+2),and @(c,d) equals
the product of 3 and 5, then what should be the value of c+d?

a) 11 b) 0 c) 5 d) 6
75. In a legislative body of 200 people, the number of Democrats is 50 less than 4 times the number of
Republicans. If one fifth of the legislators are neither Republican nor Democrat, how many of the
legislators are Republicans?
a) 42 b) 50 c) 71 d) 95 e) none
76. Moyna has n chocolates, where n is an integer such that 20 < n < 50. If Moyna divides the
chocolates equally among 5 children, she will have 2 chocolates remaining. If she divides the
chocolates among 6 children, she will have 1 chocolates remaining. How many chocolates will remain
if she divides the chocolate among 7 children?
a) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 3

77. Of 3600 employees of a company 1/3 are clerks. If the clerical staff were to be reduced by 1/3,
what percent of the total number of remaining employees would be clerical staff?
a) 25 b) 22.2 c) 20 d) none

78. Two tanks A and B are filled with petrol. Tank A holds 600 liters more than tank B. If 100 liters of
petrol were taken out from each tank, tank A would then contain 3 times as much petrol as tank B.
What is the total number of liters of fuel in the two full tanks?
a) 1400 b) 1200 c) 1000 d) 900

79.Two -third of the faculty members of a department are female. Twelve of the male faculty members
are unmarried, while 60% of them are married. What is the total number of faculty members in the
department?
a) 90 b) 60 c) 30 d) none

Answer:

1. C 2. C 3. C 4. C 5. C 6. C 7. B
8. B 9. D 10. C 11. A 12. D 13. C 14. A
15. A 16. C 17. D 18. D 19. A 20. A 21. B
22. A 23. B 24. B 25. A 26. A 27. D 28. D
29. B 30. C 31. C 32. D 33. B 34. D 35. B
36. C 37. D 38. D 39. D 40. A 41. B 42. B
43. A 44. B 45. E 46. D 47. B 48. D 49. A
50. A 51. A 52. C 53. D 54. D 55. A 56. C
57. C 58. D 59. B 60. D 61. B 62. B 63. D
64. D 65. D 66. B 67. D 68. C 69. B 70. B
71. C 72. C 73. A 74. C 75. A 76. C 77. A
78. A 79. A

Exercise :-
1. An employer pays Tk. 20 for each day a worker works and deducts tk. 3 for
each day is idle at the end of sixty days a worker gets Tk. 280, for how many days
did the worker remain idle?
a) 40 b) 50 c) 60 d) 70
2. A man has some hens and cows. If the number of heads be 48 and the number
of feet equals 140, then the number of hens will be-
a) 22 b) 24 c) 25 d) 26

3.Students of a class stand to a queue. If Ratan is 19thin order from both ends,
how many students are there in the queue?
a) 20 b) 37 c) 38 d) 39

4.Amit had to do a multiplication. Instead of taking 35 as one of the multipliers,

5. A box contains only marbles. If ¼ of the marbles were removed, the box
would be filled to of its capacity. If instead 100 marbles were added the box
would be full. How many marbles are there in the box?
a) 100 b) 160 c) 200 d)None of these Solution

6. A bucket which is full of water weighs 20 kg. If the bucket is ¾ th full, then it
weighs 16 kg. Find the weight of empty bucket?
a) 4 kg b) 3 kg c) 2 kg d) 5 kg

7. After hiring a bus for 2400 tkto go to a banquet,10 passengers did not turn up
and the rest had to pay an additional fare of 8 tk per head.How many passengers
were on the bus?
a) 40 b)45 c) 48 d) 50

Answer:
1.A 2.D 3.B 4.D 5. D 6.A 7. D