Q.

1) A passenger train covers the distance between stations X and Y, 50 minutes faster than a goods
train. Find this distance if the average speed of the passenger train is 60 kmph and that of goods train is
20 kmph.
a)20km
b)25km
c)40km
d)45km
Q.2) A plane flying north at 500 kmph passes over a city at 12 noon. A plane flying east at the same
attitude passes over the same city at 12.30 pm. The plane is flying east at 400 kmph. To the nearest
hundred km, how far apart are the two planes at 2 pm?
a)600 km
b)1000 km
c)1100 km
d)1200 km
Q.3) Ram covers a part of the journey at 20 kmph and the balance at 70 kmph taking total of 8 hours to
cover the distance of 400 km. How many hours has been driving at 20 kmph?
a)2 hours
b)3 hours 20 minutes
c)4 hours 40 minutes
d)3 hours 12 minutes
Q.4) Abhishek starts to paint a fence on one day. On the second day, two more friend of Abhishek join
him. On the third day 3 more friends of him join him and so on. If the fence is completely painted this
way in exactly 20 days, then find the number of days in which 10 girls painting together can paint the
fence completely, given that every girl can paint twice as fast as Abhishek and his friends(Boys)?(Assume
that the friends of Abhishek are all boys).
a)20
b)40
c)45
d)77

Q.5) There are 12 pipes that are connected to a tank. Some of them are fill pipes and the others are
drain pipes. Each of the fill pipes can fill the tank in 8 hours and each of the drain pipes can drain the
tank completely in 6 hours. If all the fill pipes and drain pipes are kept open, an empty tank gets filled in
24 hours. How many of the 12 pipes are fill pipes?
a)6
b)8
c)7
d)5
Q.6) A merchant marks his goods up by 75% above his cost price. What is the maximum % discount that
he can offer so that he ends up selling at no profit or loss?
a)75%
b)46.67%
c)300%
d)42.85%
Q.7) If apples are bought at the rate of 30 for a rupee. How many apples must be sold for a rupee so as
to gain 20%?
a)28
b)25
c)20
d)22
Q.8) A man invests Rs.5000 for 3 years at 5% p.a. compound interest reckoned yearly. Income tax at the
rate of 20% on the interest earned is deducted at the end of each year. Find the amount at the end of
the third year.
a)5624.32
b)5630.50
c)5788.125
d)5627.20

Q.9) 60 litres of diesel is required to travel 600 km using a 800 cc engine. If the volume of diesel required
to cover a distance varies directly as the capacity of the engine, then how many litres of diesel is
required to travel 800 kms using 1200 cc engine?
a)80
b)90
c)120
d)170
Q.10) A fort has provisions for 60 days. If after 15 days 500 men strengthen them and the food lasts 40
days longer, how many men are there in the fort?
a)

3500

b)

4000

c)

6000

d)

None of these

Q.11) Find the G.C.D of 12x2y3z2, 18x3y2z4, and 24xy4z3.

a)6xy2z2
b)6x3y4z3
c)24xy2z2
d)24xy3z2
Q.12) Least number which when divided by 5,6,7,8 and leaves remainder 3, but when divided by 9,
leaves no remainder?
a)1600
b)1526
c)1683
d)2263
Q.13) There are 5 Rock songs, 6 Carnatic songs and 3 Indi pop songs. How many different albums can be
formed using the above repertoire if the albums should contain at least 1 Rock song and 1 Carnatic
song?

a) 15624
b) 16384
c) 6144
d)240
Q.14) A team of 8 students goes on an excursion, in two cars, of which one can seat 5 and the other only
4. In how many ways can they travel?
a) 9
b) 26
c) 126
d) 3920
Q.15) If log2X + log4X = log0.25and x > 0, then x is
a) 6-1/6
b) 61/6
c) 3-1/3
d) 61/3
Q.16) Find the value of x which satisfies the relation log103+log10(4x+1)=log10(x+1)+1
a)2/7
b)7/2
c)2/5
d)5/2
Q.17) log 75/16 - 2log 5/9 + log 32/243
a)log2
b)log3
c)log5
d)log6
Q.18) How many digits will the number 3200 have if the value of log103 = 0.4771?

a)95
b)94
c)96
d)91
Q.19) If logx y = 100 and log2 x = 10, then the value of y is:
a)210
b)2100
c)21000
d)210000
Q.20) There are 12 yes or no questions. How many ways can these be answered?
a) 1024
b) 2048
c) 4096
d) 144
Q.21) What is the value of 1*1! + 2*2! + 3!*3! + ............ n*n!,
where n! means n factorial or n(n-1)(n-2)...1
a) n(n-1)(n-1)!
b) (n+1)!/(n(n-1))
c) (n+1)! - n!
d) (n + 1)! - 1!
Q.22) If 5a = 3125, then the value of 5(a - 3) is:
a)25
b)125
c)625
d)1625

Q.23) 30% of the men are more than 25 years old and 80% of the men are less than or equal to 50 years
old. 20% of all men play football. If 20% of the men above the age of 50 play football, what percentage
of the football players are less than or equal to 50 years?
a)15%
b)20%
c)80%
d)70%
Q.24) A library has an average of 510 visitors on Sundays and 240 on other days. The average number of
visitors per day in a month of 30 days beginning with a Sunday is:
a)250
b)276
c)280
d)285
Q.25) In what ratio must a person mix three kinds of tea costing Rs.60/kg, Rs.75/kg and Rs.100 /kg so
that the resultant mixture when sold at Rs.96/kg yields a profit of 20%?
a)1 : 2 : 4
b)3 : 7 : 6
c)1 : 4 : 2
d)None of these