Brain Quest Paper (Quantitative Aptitude)

1) A sum of money doubles itself at compound interest in 15 years. In how many years will it become eight times? a. 30 years b. 45 years c.60 years d. 40 years

2) If an article is sold at 8% profit instead of 8% loss, it would have brought Rs. 12 more. Find out the cost price of the article. a. Rs 75 b. Rs 72 c. Rs 60 d. Rs 70

3) A cloth merchant sells cloth at a mark-up of 10% for every meter of cloth. What will be his profit in summer if the meter scale expands 10%? a. 1.21% b) 10% c) -1.21% d. No Profit

4) A television set listed at Rs. 3200 is sold to a retailer at successive discounts of 25% and 15%. The retailer desires a profit of 20% after allowing a 10% discount to the customer. At what price should he list the television set? 1. Rs. 2720 b. Rs. 3200 c. Rs 4000 d. Rs 2900

5) Find the percentage increase in the total surface area of a cylinder if the diameter of the base as well as its height ,both increase by 10%. a. 10% b. 21% c.22% d. 25%

Directions (Q. 6-7): Books and More sells books, music CDs and film DVDs. In Dec. 2009, they earned 40% profit in music CDs and 25% profit in books. Music CDs contributed 35% towards their total sales in rupees. At the same time total sales in rupees from books is 50% more than that of music CDs. 6) If Books and More have earned 20% profit overall, then in film DVDs they made a 15.2% Profit b. 16.3% loss c.23.4% Profit d. 23.4% loss

7) If Books and More made 50% loss in film DVDs, then they made an overall a 12.3% Profit b. 20% loss c. 8.7% Profit d.6.25% loss

8) At the end of year 1998, Shepard bought ten dozen goats. Henceforth, every year he added a% of the goats at the beginning of the year and sold b% at the end of the year where a >0 and b >0. If Shepard had nine dozen goats at the end of year 2002, after making the sales for that year, which of the following is true? a. a=b b. a <b c. a >b d. a=

9) Gopal Jee has two investment plans- A and B, to choose from. Plan A offers an interest of 10% compounded annually while plan B offers a simple interest of 12% per annum. Somehow, he settles for Plan B. After the end of how many years will he repent his decision for the first time? 1. 3 years b. 4 years c. 5 years d. 6 years

10) Om Prakash sat for a popular management examination in 2010. He obtained 90% marks in section A and 80% in section B, but missed the cumulative cutoff of the premier institute by 1%. Disappointed, he wrote the examination again and cleared the cutoff marks by a margin of 2% in 2011, when his marks got reversed in two sections. Find the percentage change in cut-off marks, in these two years, assuming the institute treats the two sections equally. a. increase by 3.48% determined b. decrease by 3.48% c. decrease by 2.93% d. Cannt be

11.The population of two parts of a city, namely eastern and western, were equal after a fall of 20% in the population of eastern part and a rise of 20% in that of western, at the end of 2006.Due to an epidemic in the western part, in the beginning of 2007, 5% inhabitants died. The municipality launched an immunization programme in the middle of 2007 where inhabitants were vaccinated. This programme was vigorously implemented throughout the city and costed the civic administration Rs 3,75000. What would have been the cost if administration has launched the programme in the affected area before the onset of the epidemic? a. Rs100,000 b. Rs 200,000 c. Rs 250,000 d. Rs 300,000

12. The market share of Pepsi Co. in soft drinks segment for 2010 was reported to be 20% and 25% value and volume wise respectively. Find the ratio of the average price for Coke, a rival company, to the average price of Pepsi, if its market share, value and volume wise was given as 25% and 20% respectively. a. 25:20 b.25:18 c. 25:16 d. 5:4

13. Balaji Sweets sells Barfis in boxes of different sizes. The Barfis are priced at Rs 2 per Barfi for up to 200 Barfis.The box holding this amount is called Common size. For every additional 20 Barfi, the price of the whole lot goes down by 10 paise per Barfi. The size of the box that would maximize the revenue is reffered to as Golden Size. By what percent is Golden Size greater than Common Size? a. 20% b.40% c. 50% d.None of these

14. Firoza works as a part-time faculty in a Popular coaching institute. She charges Rs 600 per class till her no. of classes is less than or equal to 30. She increases her charge by 10% for every class

15. Jyotirmoyee, lost half of his initial amount in gambling after playing 3 rounds. The rule of gambling is that if he wins he will receive Rs 100, but he has to give 50 % of the total amount after each round. Luckily, he won all the three rounds. The initial amount with which he started the gambling was a. Rs 166.66 b. Rs 233.33 c. Rs 300 d. Rs 600

If a selling price of Rs 24 results in a 20% discount off the list price, the selling price that would result in a 30% discount off the list price is a. Rs 9 b. Rs 27 c. Rs 14 d. Rs21

A big cube is formed by rearranging the 160 coloured and 56 non-coloured similar cubes in such a way that the exposure of the coloured cubes to the outside is minimum. The percentage of exposed area to that is coloured is: a. 25.9% these b.44.44% c. 35% d. None of

One bacterium splits into eight bacteria of the next generation. But due to environmental constraints only 50% of one generation can produce the next generation. If the population in the seventh generation is 4096 million, then what is the number in the first generation. a. 1 million b. 2 million c. 4 million d. 8 million

There are three water-alcohol solutions A, B and C whose alcohol concentrations are 50%, 60% and 70% respectively. x ml of A, (x + 2) ml of B and (x + 3) ml of C are mixed. If the alcohol concentration of the resultant mixture is 65%, then x lies in the range a. 0.1 to 0.5 b. 0.5 to 0.9 c. 0.9 to 1.4 d. 1.4 to 1.9

A sum of Rs. 9000 was invested in two different Savings Schemes. Scheme A offered Simple Interest at the rate of 16% p.a. while Scheme B offered Compound Interest at the rate of 16% p.a., with semi-annual compounding. The amount received after two years from Scheme A was eight times the amount received from Scheme B. What were the approximate amounts invested in Scheme A and Scheme B respectively? a. Rs. 8,000 and Rs. 1,000 d. Rs. 6,000 and Rs. 3,000 b Rs. 6,778 and Rs. 2,222 c. Rs. 8,025 and Rs. 975

A cylindrical pipe of length 75 m, through which water flows at the rate of 54 km/hr, can fill 80% of a cuboidal tank of 118800 m3 capacity in 14 hours. What is the radius (in cm) of the cross section of the pipe? a. 20 b. 25 c.50 d. Cannot be determined

One hundred ml of alcohol is mixed with y ml of water. Forty ml of this alcohol-water mixture is added to 2y ml of another alcohol-water mixture whose alcohol concentration is 26%. If the percentage of water in the resultant mixture is 2y%, then what is the value of y? a. 30 b. 40 c. 20 d. 25

A merchant marks up the cost of cloth by 30% and then gives a discount of 20% on the Marked Price to all his customers. What is his profit/loss percentage in winter when the meter-scale shrinks by 10% due to cold? a. Profit, 15.56% b. Profit, 16.67% c. Loss, 16.67% d. Loss, 15.56%

The owner of an art shop conducts his business in the following manner: every once in a while he raises his prices by X%, then he reduces the new prices by X%. After once such up-down cycle, the price oa painting decreased by Rs. 441. After a second up-down cycle the painting was sold for Rs. 1944.81. What was the original price of the painting? a. Rs 2,756.25 b. Rs 2,256.25 c. Rs 2,500 d. Rs 2,000 Directions for Questions : Answer the following questions based on the information given below

A certain perfume is available at a duty-free shop at Bangkok International airport. It is priced in the Thai currency but other currencies are also acceptable. In particular, the shop accepts Euro and US Dollar at the following rates of exchange: US Dollar 1 = 41 Bahts Euro 1 = 46 Bahts The Perfume is priced at 520 Bahts per bottle. After one bottle is purchased, subsequent bottles are available at a discount of 30%. Three friends S, R and M together purchase three bottles of perfume, agreeing to share cost equally. R pays 2 Euros, M pays 4 Euros and 27 Thai Bahts and S pays the remaining amount in US Dollars. How much does R owe to S in Thai Bhat? a. 428 b. 416 How much does M owe to S in US Dollars a. 3 b. 4

c. 334

d. 324

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A college has raised 75% of the amount it needs for a new building by receiving an average donation of Rs. 600 from the people already solicited. The people already solicited represent 60% of the people the college will ask for the donations. If the college is to raise exactly the amount needed for the new building, what should be the average donation from the remaining people to be solicited? a. Rs. 300 b. Rs. 250 c. Rs. 400 d. Rs 500

Three friends after eating in a restaurant noticed a bowl of mints at the front counter. Lakhan took onethird of the mints, but returned four because he had a momentary pang of guilt. Satish took one-fourth of what was left but returned three for the similar reason. Firoza then took half of the remainder but threw two back into the bowl. The bowl had only 17 mints left. How many mints were originally in the bowl? a. 38 b. 31 c. 41 d. None of these Directions for Questions The table below provides certain demographic details of thirty respondents who were part of a survey. The demographic characteristics are gender, number of children and age of respondents. The first number in each cell is is the number of respondents in that group. The minimum and maximum age of respondents in each group is give in brackets. For example, there are five female respondents with no children and among these five, the youngster is 34 years old, while the oldest is 49. No. of Children 0 1 2 3 Total Male 1(38,38) 1(32,32) 8(21,65) 2(32,33) 12 Female 5(34,49) 8(35,57) 5() Total