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Q. 1. What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series

8, 4.5, 5.5, 13, 56, ?

Choose the correct answer

2545

356

456

468

396

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 2. What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series

5, 12, 33, 136, 675, ?

Choose the correct answer

1360

1250

3696

3448

4056

Correct Answer is: E

Solution:

Q. 3. What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series

25, 26, 18, 45, ?, 106

Choose the correct answer

-14

-19

-16

-18

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 4. What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series

4,11, 37, 153, ?, 4633

Choose the correct answer

771

761

753

768

789

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 5. What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series

18, 20, 26, 38, 58, ?

Choose the correct answer

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 6. The speed of train A is 60 kmph. It met with an accident to the train standing at the station. If the speed of the train A was 20 kmph lesser, then it would have taken 2 hours more to meet the accident. Find the distance covered by the train.

Choose the correct answer

180 km

240 km

220 km

300 km

250 km

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 7. The ratio of school ages of Nitin and Mayuri is 5 : 6. If the ratio between the one-third age of Nitin and half of Mayuri's age is 5 : 9. Then what is the school-age of Mayuri?

Choose the correct answer

12 years

15 years

16 years

Cannot be determined

None of the above

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 8. In an examination, 68 percent of candidates passed in mathematics and 62 percent of the candidates passed in statistics. While 40 percent passed in both the subjects. If 30 candidates failed in both these subjects, then the total number of candidates were:

Choose the correct answer

180

450

300

600

None of the above

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 9. The average expenditure of the hotel when there are 15 guests is Rs. 70 per guest and the average expenditure is Rs. 50 when there are 25 Guests. If it is known that there are some fixed expenses irrespective of the number of guests then the average expenditure per guest when there are 75 guests in the hotel.

Choose the correct answer

Rs. 35

Rs. 25

Rs. 20

Rs. 30

Rs. 40

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 10. The present age of Ram and Rohit are in the ratio of 7 : 8 respectively. After 6 years, the respective ratio between the age of Ram and Rohit will be 9 : 10. What is the age of Rohit after 10 years?

Choose the correct answer

30 years

34 years

27 years

42 years

40 years

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 11.

Read the following information carefully and answer the questions based on it.

Following bar graph shows number of students of different branches of a college. Study the graph and answer the following question.

Find the average number of boys in a college including five branches.

300

390

370

420

400

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 12.

Read the following information carefully and answer the questions based on it.

Following bar graph shows number of students of different branches of a college. Study the graph and answer the following question.

Ratio of total number of students in computer branch to total number of Students of Mechanical and Electronics is -

23 : 15

22 : 15

16 : 23

21 : 16

None of these

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 13.

Read the following information carefully and answer the questions based on it.

Following bar graph shows number of students of different branches of a college. Study the graph and answer the following question.

Which branch has minimum ratio of boys' and girls' students?

Computer

Civil

Electronics

Electrical

Both 2 and 3

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 14.

Read the following information carefully and answer the questions based on it.

Following bar graph shows number of students of different branches of a college. Study the graph and answer the following question.

Total number of girls in College for five branches is approximately what percent of total number of students in College?

45%

34.45%

60.60%

43.48%

None of these

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 15.

Read the following information carefully and answer the questions based on it.

Following bar graph shows number of students of different branches of a college. Study the graph and answer the following question.

Total number of boys in Mechanical branch is approximately what percent of total number of boy's students in all five branches?

21.70%

25.64%

30%

22.54%

None of these

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 16.

What approximate value should come in the place of question mark (?) in the following question

(34.85)² - (18.99)² - (5.01)³ = ?

Choose the correct answer

739

807

617

673

807

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 17.

What approximate value should come in the place of question mark (?) in the following question

(√63.99) × 149.99% - 175.99 ÷ 22.22 = ?

Choose the correct answer

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 18.

What approximate value should come in the place of question mark (?) in the following question

49.827% of 1119.61 - ?% of 1600.092 = 79.762

Choose the correct answer

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 19.

What approximate value should come in the place of question mark (?) in the following question

19.99% of 119.99 + ∛216.06 - √624.99 = ?

Choose the correct answer

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 20.

What approximate value should come in the place of question mark (?) in the following question

(76.87 × 10.99 ÷ 6.97 + 1.99) ÷ ∛26.99 = ?

Choose the correct answer

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 21.

The ratio of water to milk in 250 liters of mixture A is 4 : 1. Mixture B has 25 liters of water and the ratio of water to milk in mixture B is 5 : 7. If 40% of mixture A and 80% of mixture B is Mixed and new mixture C is made then find the ratio of milk to water in Mixture C.

Choose the correct answer

15 : 17

23 : 16

17 : 15

25 : 12

12 : 25

Correct Answer is: E

Solution:

Q. 22. Two pipes can fill a tank in 12 hours and 15 hours respectively, while the third pipes can empty it in 18 hours. If first two pipes fill the tank for 5 hours then, time taken to empty the tank by third pipe ?

Choose the correct answer

13.5 hours

12.5 hours

11.5 hours

14.5 hours

15.5 hours

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 23. 2 men can complete the job in 24 days. If the faster one can alone complete the job 20 days faster than the second man, find the time taken by faster man to complete the work.

Choose the correct answer

48 days

20 days

60 days

68 days

40 days

Correct Answer is: E

Solution:

Q. 24. Avinash bought an iron at some price, later he sold it to Praveen at 10% profit. However Praveen damage the iron and spent Rs.1500 for it's repairing and later sold it to Piyush at a loss of 25%. What is the price at which Avinash brought the Iron, such that if he directly sold the iron to Piyush he would have gained a profit of 5%?

Choose the correct answer

Rs. 4500

Rs. 4800

Rs. 6200

Rs. 5500

Rs. 5000

Correct Answer is: E

Solution:

Q. 25. Sam bought two different articles- A and B at a total cost of Rs. 5000. He sold article A at a loss of 25% and article B at a profit of 6%. Sam incurred an overall loss of Rs. 165 by selling both the articles. What is the cost price of article A?

Choose the correct answer

Rs. 1200

Rs. 1250

Rs. 1500

Rs. 1800

Rs. 2000

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 26.

Study the following information carefully and answer accordingly.

In the SSC and PO exams, among a certain number of participants (Boy + Girl), some participate in both the events of SSC and PO while some of them participate in PO or SSC alone. The ratio of Boys to Girls who participate in SSC and PO is 4 : 3 and 8 : 13 respectively, while the ratio of Boy to Girl who participates in both the exams PO and SSC is 2 : 1 and the ratio of Boys to Girls who participate only in the PO exams is 1 : 2. The participation of boys in the SSC exam alone is 10 more than the Girls who participate in it. Boys who participate in both SSC and PO is 20% of the Boys who participate in SSC events alone.

How many participants were there in the competition?

205

190

199

195

250

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 27.

Study the following information carefully and answer accordingly.

In the SSC and PO exams, among a certain number of participants (Boy + Girl), some participate in both the events of SSC and PO while some of them participate in PO or SSC alone. The ratio of Boys to Girls who participate in SSC and PO is 4 : 3 and 8 : 13 respectively, while the ratio of Boy to Girl who participates in both the exams PO and SSC is 2 : 1 and the ratio of Boys to Girls who participate only in the PO exams is 1 : 2. The participation of boys in the SSC exam alone is 10 more than the Girls who participate in it. Boys who participate in both SSC and PO is 20% of the Boys who participate in SSC events alone.

Find the ratio of boys who participated in SSC to Girls who participated in PO.

12 : 13

9 : 25

3 : 5

11 : 15

13 : 12

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 28.

Study the following information carefully and answer accordingly.

In the SSC and PO exams, among a certain number of participants (Boy + Girl), some participate in both the events of SSC and PO while some of them participate in PO or SSC alone. The ratio of Boys to Girls who participate in SSC and PO is 4 : 3 and 8 : 13 respectively, while the ratio of Boy to Girl who participates in both the exams PO and SSC is 2 : 1 and the ratio of Boys to Girls who participate only in the PO exams is 1 : 2. The participation of boys in the SSC exam alone is 10 more than the Girls who participate in it. Boys who participate in both SSC and PO is 20% of the Boys who participate in SSC events alone.

Find the ratio of participants who participated only in SSC to only in PO.

2 : 3

1 : 1

4 : 3

5 : 2

3 : 4

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 29.

Study the following information carefully and answer accordingly.

In the SSC and PO exams, among a certain number of participants (Boy + Girl), some participate in both the events of SSC and PO while some of them participate in PO or SSC alone. The ratio of Boys to Girls who participate in SSC and PO is 4 : 3 and 8 : 13 respectively, while the ratio of Boy to Girl who participates in both the exams PO and SSC is 2 : 1 and the ratio of Boys to Girls who participate only in the PO exams is 1 : 2. The participation of boys in the SSC exam alone is 10 more than the Girls who participate in it. Boys who participate in both SSC and PO is 20% of the Boys who participate in SSC events alone.

Find the number of participants who participated in both events (SSC and PO)?

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 30.

Study the following information carefully and answer accordingly.

In the SSC and PO exams, among a certain number of participants (Boy + Girl), some participate in both the events of SSC and PO while some of them participate in PO or SSC alone. The ratio of Boys to Girls who participate in SSC and PO is 4 : 3 and 8 : 13 respectively, while the ratio of Boy to Girl who participates in both the exams PO and SSC is 2 : 1 and the ratio of Boys to Girls who participate only in the PO exams is 1 : 2. The participation of boys in the SSC exam alone is 10 more than the Girls who participate in it. Boys who participate in both SSC and PO is 20% of the Boys who participate in SSC events alone.

The number of Boys who participated only in PO exam is what percent of Boys who participated only in SSC events?

60%

65%

40%

35%

55%

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 31.

A pie chart below shows the percentage distribution of employees from the different departments namely A, B, C, D and E and the total number of employees in the company is 560. The following table gives the ratio of males and females corresponding to the departments. Study the pie chart and answer the given questions.

How many male employees working in departments B and D together?

120

130

140

150

160

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 32.

How many female employees working in departments B and C together?

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 33.

What percentage of the total number of employees working in department B is more than the total number of employees working in department E?

30%

35%

15%

25%

20%

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 34.

Find out the department in which the number of male employees is maximum.

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 35.

What is the ratio of the number of female employees from department C and D together to that of the male employees working in department B and D together?

35 : 43

16 : 35

35 : 99

35 : 16

99 : 35

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 36. What will come in place of question mark '?' in the following number series?

182, 186, 202, ?, 302, 402

Choose the correct answer

238

225

235

230

240

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 37. What will come in place of question mark '?' in the following number series?

722, 363, 124, ?, 12, 8

Choose the correct answer

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 38. What will come in place of question mark '?' in the following number series?

20, 20, 41, 125, 503, ?

Choose the correct answer

2417

2119

2519

2989

2389

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 39. What will come in place of question mark '?' in the following number series?

4, 10, 22, 42, 72, 114, ?

Choose the correct answer

144

154

161

170

197

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 40. What will come in place of question mark '?' in the following number series?

512, 256, 384, 960, ?, 15120

Choose the correct answer

2740

3360

4580

5520

7120

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 41.

Two cards are taken together out of a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one card is a spade and the other is a heart?

Choose the correct answer

$\frac{1}{52}$

$\frac{3}{52}$

$\frac{1}{23}$

$\frac{13}{102}$

$\frac{13}{51}$

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 42. A person mixed milk and water in 2 containers in the ratio 3 : 4 and 5 : 6 respectively then he mixed both the mixture in the third container and the ratio of milk and water in the resultant mixture becomes 4 : 5. Total quantity of mixtures is 18 litres. Find the quantity of milk in the 1st container.

Choose the correct answer

5 L

4 L

7 L

2 L

3 L

Correct Answer is: E

Solution:

Q. 43. The ratio between the length of the rectangular field and the side of the square field is 6 : 1 and the breadth of the rectangular field is 1/3rd of the side of the square field. If the perimeter of the square is 120 m, then, find the cost of fencing the rectangular field at the rate of Rs. 20 per m?

Choose the correct answer

Rs. 7,600

Rs. 7,200

Rs. 7,500

Rs. 8,200

None of these

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 44. Ujjwal gave two tests having the same maximum marks. The qualifying percentage of the first and second tests are 40% and 30% respectively. In the second test, he scored 132 marks which are 15 less than the qualifying marks. Find the qualifying marks in the first test.

Choose the correct answer

186

176

194

195

196

Correct Answer is: E

Solution:

Q. 45. Three workers H, I and J are working on a lathe machine for 9 hours in a day and have received a target of completing 2000 pieces of metal in 5 days. What will be the extra hours required if H is 50% more efficient than I, Ratio of work done by I to J is 4 : 5 and J can complete 100 pieces in a day.

Choose the correct answer

2 hours

3 hours

3.5 hours

4 hours

4.2 hours

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 46.

The table given below shows the distribution of male adults out of total adults (male and female) and the percentage distribution of children out of total adult in four cities. The total number of male adults in four cities is 2700. Note: The ratio of male to female adults in city B, C and D is 5 : 3, 5 : 6 and 9 : 11 respectively.

The total number of children in city B is what percentage of the total number of children in city D?

35%

66.66%

40%

50%

55%

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 47.

If the number of female adults in city A is 250 more than the number of male adults in city D, then find the total number of female adults in city A, B and D together.

1100

2000

1700

1600

1500

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 48.

The number of female adults in city B is what percentage of the total number of adults in city D?

45%

25%

35%

55%

60%

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 49.

If the ratio of male adults to female adults in city A is 10:7, then find the ratio of the total female adults in all four cities and the male adults of cities A and B together.

35 : 46

40 : 31

47 : 36

51 : 37

46 : 35

Correct Answer is: E

Solution:

Q. 50.

The total number of children in city B and C together is what percentage of the number of male adults in city C?

22.60%

25.50%

55%

50.40%

None of these

Correct Answer is: D

Solution:

Q. 51. A and B can do a piece of work 18 days and 24 days respectively. Both started the work together but A left after 6 days and C joined B. They together finished the remaining work in 6 days. In how many days C alone can finish that work?

Choose the correct answer

332

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 52.

A mixture of 189 litres that contain alcohol and water in the ratio of 5 : 4. Find the amount of pure alcohol added to the mixture, to get a new mixture containing alcohol and water in the ratio of 5 : 3.

Choose the correct answer

27 litres

35 litres

40 litres

32 litres

None of these

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 53. A diamond of weight 150 grams is cut into three pieces. The weight of the first piece and the second piece are in a ratio of 8 : 5. The weight of the third piece is 20 grams. Find the weight of the first piece.

Choose the correct answer

80 grams

90 grams

100 grams

85 grams 95 grams

95 grams

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 54. For traveling a distance of 48 km, a girl noticed that after walking for 1 hour and 40 minutes, the distance covered by her was 2/7 of the remaining distance. What was her speed in meters per second?

Choose the correct answer

16/9 m/s

14/5 m/s

4 m/s

3 m/s

None of these

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 55. There are two vessels A and B of milk and water. The vessel A contains ratio of milk to water as 3 : 5 and vessel B contains ratio of milk to water as 2 : 3. If 32 litres of mixture from vessel A and x litre of mixture from vessel B is taken out to form the new mixture. Ratio of milk to water in the new mixture is 5 : 8. Find the value of x.

Choose the correct answer

15 litres

20 litres

22 litres

25 litres

28 litres

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 56. On a certain sum of money, the simple interest for 2 years is Rs. 400 at the rate of 5% per annum. It was invested at compound interest at the same rate for the same duration as before, how much more interest would be earned?

Choose the correct answer

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 57.

In the given question, two equations numbered l and II are given. You have to solve both the equations and mark the appropriate answer -

16x² + 20x + 6 = 0
10y² + 38y + 24 = 0

Choose the correct answer

x > y

x < y

x ≥ y

x ≤ y

x = y or relation cannot be established

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 58.

In the given question, two equations numbered l and II are given. You have to solve both the equations and mark the appropriate answer -

2x² + 23x + 56 = 0
12y² + 41y + 35 = 0

Choose the correct answer

x > y

x < y

x ≥ y

x ≤ y

x = y or relation cannot be established

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 59.

In the given question, two equations numbered l and II are given. You have to solve both the equations and mark the appropriate answer -

2x² + 7x + 3 = 0
4y² + 16y + 15 = 0

Choose the correct answer

x > y

x < y

x ≥ y

x ≤ y

x = y or relation cannot be established

Correct Answer is: E

Solution:

Q. 60.

In the given question, two equations numbered l and II are given. You have to solve both the equations and mark the appropriate answer -

2x² + 7x + 3 = 0
2y² - 9y + 4 = 0

Choose the correct answer

x > y

x < y

x ≥ y

x ≤ y

x = y or relation cannot be established

Correct Answer is: E

Solution:

Q. 61.

In the given question, two equations numbered l and II are given. You have to solve both the equations and mark the appropriate answer -

x³ = y + 239
y² + 46y + 529 = 0

Choose the correct answer

x > y

x < y

x ≥ y

x ≤ y

x = y or relation cannot be established

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 62. Rs. 16500 is split into two fixed deposits for 2 years at 10% and 12% Simple Interest. If the total interest received from the deposits is Rs. 3620, how much was invested in the 12% scheme?

Choose the correct answer

Rs. 8000

Rs. 9500

Rs. 8500

Rs. 10000

Rs. 10500

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 63. The ratio of present ages of A and B is 7 : 8. After 6 years from now, the ratio of their ages will be 8 : 9. If C's present age is 10 years more than the present age of A, then the present age (in years) of C is:

Choose the correct answer

445

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

Q. 64. Three pipes A, B and C can fill a tank in 6 hours together. All three pipes are opened for 2 hours, and then pipe C is closed. The remaining part of the tank is filled by pipes A and B in 7 hours. How much time will pipe C take to fill the empty tank alone?

Choose the correct answer

14 hours

12 hours

18 hours

20 hours

None of these

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 65. A shopkeeper gives 1 shirt free for every 10 shirts bought and also gives a discount of 10%. If a person buys 10 shirts, the shopkeeper gets the profit of Rs. 200. The marked price of one shirt is Rs. 310/9. Find the CP of one shirt.

Choose the correct answer

None of these

Correct Answer is: A

Solution:

Q. 66.

Answer the questions based on the information given below.

Person 'X' views some international and regional videos on 5 different websites. After watching videos, he downloads a few of them. The line graph given below shows the percentage of the total number of videos (international+regional) 'downloaded' (out of the total number of 'viewed' videos) from each particular website.
The table given shows the number of 'regional' videos downloaded from each particular website.

If the number of 'international' videos downloaded from each website 'A', 'B', and 'E' is equal and the total number of videos 'downloaded' from websites 'A', 'B', and 'E' together is equa

100

150

200

250

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 67.

Answer the questions based on the information given below.

Person 'X' views some international and regional videos on 5 different websites. After watching videos, he downloads a few of them. The line graph given below shows the percentage of the total number of videos (international+regional) 'downloaded' (out of the total number of 'viewed' videos) from each particular website.
The table given shows the number of 'regional' videos downloaded from each particular website.

The difference between the total number of 'viewed' videos on website 'C' and the number of 'international' videos downloaded from the same website is 187 and the number of 'videos' stored in a hard disk is 75% of the to

320

324

328

332

336

Correct Answer is: B

Solution:

Q. 68.

Answer the questions based on the information given below.

Person 'X' views some international and regional videos on 5 different websites. After watching videos, he downloads a few of them. The line graph given below shows the percentage of the total number of videos (international+regional) 'downloaded' (out of the total number of 'viewed' videos) from each particular website.
The table given shows the number of 'regional' videos downloaded from each particular website.

if the total number of videos downloaded from websites 'A' and 'E' together is equal to 250 and the total number of 'viewed' videos on website A is 150% more than that on website 'E', then find the total number of 'i

202

222

212

242

232

Correct Answer is: E

Solution:

Q. 69.

Answer the questions based on the information given below.

Person 'X' views some international and regional videos on 5 different websites. After watching videos, he downloads a few of them. The line graph given below shows the percentage of the total number of videos (international+regional) 'downloaded' (out of the total number of 'viewed' videos) from each particular website.
The table given shows the number of 'regional' videos downloaded from each particular website.

The number of 'regional' videos downloaded from another website 'F' is 6.25% more than that from website 'D' and the number of 'international' videos downloaded from website 'F' is 326 more than that of 'regi

100 GB

150 GB

200 GB

250 GB

300 GB

Correct Answer is: E

Solution:

Q. 70.

Answer the questions based on the information given below.

Person 'X' views some international and regional videos on 5 different websites. After watching videos, he downloads a few of them. The line graph given below shows the percentage of the total number of videos (international+regional) 'downloaded' (out of the total number of 'viewed' videos) from each particular website.
The table given shows the number of 'regional' videos downloaded from each particular website.

If the total number of 'international' videos downloaded from website 'B' and website 'D' is 153 and 164 respectively then find the ratio between the total number of 'viewed' videos on website 'B' and 'D'

115 : 12

105 : 12

145 : 12

135 : 12

125 : 12

Correct Answer is: C

Solution:

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