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| 9401. |
Three friends shared the cost of a television. If Amit, Bharat and Dinesh each paid Rs. 3000 and Rs. 1800 respectively, then Dinesh paid what percent of the total cost? |
| A. | 10% |
| B. | 20% |
| C. | 30% |
| D. | 40% |
| Answer» B. 20% | |
| 9402. |
Ram’s income is 20% less than Shyam's. How much is Shyam's income more than Ram’s in percentage terms? |
| A. | 20% |
| B. | 25% |
| C. | 30% |
| D. | 15% |
| Answer» C. 30% | |
| 9403. |
Change 1/8 into percentage |
| A. | 12.5% |
| B. | 15% |
| C. | 8% |
| D. | 25% |
| Answer» B. 15% | |
| 9404. |
The smallest of the fractions given below |
| A. | 9/10 |
| B. | 11/12 |
| C. | 23/28 |
| D. | 32/33 |
| Answer» D. 32/33 | |
| 9405. |
A person takes 3 hours to walk a certain distance and riding back. He could walk both ways in 5 hours. How long could it take to ride both ways. |
| A. | 1.5 hr |
| B. | 1 hr |
| C. | 0.5 hr |
| D. | 2 hrs |
| Answer» C. 0.5 hr | |
| 9406. |
12.5% of 80 is equal to |
| A. | 8 |
| B. | 20 |
| C. | 10 |
| D. | 40 |
| Answer» D. 40 | |
| 9407. |
A dishonest shopkeeper uses a weight of 800 gm for a kg and professes to sell his good at cost price. His profit is : |
| A. | 20% |
| B. | 21% |
| C. | 24% |
| D. | 25% |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9408. |
The average monthly income of a person in a certain family of 5 members is Rs. 1000. What will be monthly average income of one person in the same family if the income of one person increased by Rs. 12,000/- per year? |
| A. | Rs. 1200/- |
| B. | Rs. 1600/- |
| C. | Rs. 2000/- |
| D. | Rs. 3400/- |
| Answer» B. Rs. 1600/- | |
| 9409. |
By selling 11 oranges for a rupee, a man loses 10%. How many oranges for a rupee should he sell to gain 10%? |
| A. | 9 |
| B. | 10 |
| C. | 8 |
| D. | 5 |
| Answer» B. 10 | |
| 9410. |
The length of a square is increased by 15% and breadth decreased by 15%. The area of the rectangle so formed is |
| A. | neither increases nor decreases |
| B. | decreases by 2.25% |
| C. | increases by 2.25% |
| D. | decreases by 22.5% |
| Answer» D. decreases by 22.5% | |
| 9411. |
The ratio of milk and water in 60 Litres of adulterated milk is 2: 1. If theratio of milk and water is to be 1 : 2, then the amount of water to be added further is |
| A. | 20 Litres |
| B. | 30 Litres |
| C. | 40 Litres |
| D. | 60 Litres |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9412. |
A piece of cloth costs Rs. 70. If the piece is 4 metre longer and each metre costs Rs. 2 less, the cost remains unchanged. The length of the piece is |
| A. | 8 mt |
| B. | 9 mt |
| C. | 10 mt |
| D. | 12 mt |
| Answer» D. 12 mt | |
| 9413. |
147 Of the three numbers, the first is one third of the second and twice the third. The average of these numbers is 27. The largest of these numbers is |
| A. | 18 |
| B. | 36 |
| C. | 54 |
| D. | 108 |
| Answer» D. 108 | |
| 9414. |
A train 100 meters long running at 54 km/hr takes 20 seconds to pass a bridge. The length of the bridge is |
| A. | 50 mt |
| B. | 150 mt |
| C. | 200 mt |
| D. | 620 mt |
| Answer» D. 620 mt | |
| 9415. |
A tank can be filled up by two pipes A and B in 2 hours and 3 hours respectively. A third pipe C can empty the full tank in 6 hours. If all the taps can be turned on at the same time, the tank will be full in |
| A. | 1 hour |
| B. | 40 minutes |
| C. | 1.5 hours |
| D. | 3 hours |
| Answer» D. 3 hours | |
| 9416. |
A mixture of 40 litres of milk and water contains 10% of water. How much water is to be added to the mixture so that the water may be 20% in the new mixture. |
| A. | 5 Litres |
| B. | 4 Litres |
| C. | 6.5 Litres |
| D. | 7.5 Litres |
| Answer» B. 4 Litres | |
| 9417. |
Raju earns twice as much in March as in each of the other months of the year. What part of his annual earnings he earns in that month? |
| A. | 1/5 |
| B. | 5/7 |
| C. | 2/13 |
| D. | 1/10 |
| Answer» D. 1/10 | |
| 9418. |
Sameer is as much younger to Mohan as he is older to Arun. If the sum of the ages of Mohan and Arun is 48, the age of Sameer is |
| A. | 20 years |
| B. | 24 years |
| C. | 30 years |
| D. | cannot be determined |
| Answer» C. 30 years | |
| 9419. |
Sanjay sold his watch for Rs. 1140 and thereby loses 5%. In order to gain 5% he has to sell the watch for |
| A. | Rs. 1254 |
| B. | Rs. 1260 |
| C. | Rs. 1197 |
| D. | Rs. 1311 |
| Answer» C. Rs. 1197 | |
| 9420. |
A flag pole 18 m high casts a shadow 9.6 m long. What is the distance of the top of the pole from the far end of the shadow? |
| A. | 20 metres |
| B. | 20.04 metres |
| C. | 20.4 metres |
| D. | 24 metres |
| Answer» D. 24 metres | |
| 9421. |
Rajneetha walks around the circular park in 15 minutes. If she walks at the rate of 5 km/hr, how much distance would she have to travel, at the minimum, to reach the centre of the park from any point on its perimeter? |
| A. | 100 metre |
| B. | 200 metre |
| C. | 250 metre |
| D. | 300 metre |
| Answer» C. 250 metre | |
| 9422. |
Francis has 18 eggs out of which 12 eggs were sold at 10% loss than the cost price. At what mark up should be sell the remaining eggs to cover his losses? |
| A. | 5% |
| B. | 10% |
| C. | 15% |
| D. | 20% |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9423. |
If (9/7)3 x (49/81)2x-6=(7/9)9, then the value of x is: |
| A. | 12 |
| B. | 9 |
| C. | 8 |
| D. | 6 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9424. |
Two coins are tossed simultaneously. The probability of getting at the most one head is: |
| A. | ¼ |
| B. | ½ |
| C. | ¾ |
| D. | 1 |
| Answer» D. 1 | |
| 9425. |
The 10th term of the series 5, 8, 11, 14,……is |
| A. | 32 |
| B. | 35 |
| C. | 38 |
| D. | 185 |
| Answer» B. 35 | |
| 9426. |
A cylindrical tennis ball container can contain maximum three balls stacked on one another. The top and bottom balls also touch the lid and the base of the base of the container respectively. If the volume of a tennis ball is 240 cm3, then what is the volume of the container? |
| A. | 1080 cm3 |
| B. | 840 cm3 |
| C. | 1440 cm3 |
| D. | 720 cm3 |
| Answer» B. 840 cm3 | |
| 9427. |
A bag contains 19 red balls, 37 blue balls and 27 green balls. If a ball is picked up from this bag atrandom, what is the probability of picking a blue ball? |
| A. | 19/83 |
| B. | 37/87 |
| C. | 34/81 |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9428. |
During the academic session 2009-10, in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, the number of students studying Arts, Law and Commerce was in the ratio of 5:6:7. If during the academic session 2010-11 the number of students studying Arts, Law and Commerce increased by 20%, 30% and 40% respectively, what will be new ratio? |
| A. | 26:42:63 |
| B. | 36:44:73 |
| C. | 26:39:49 |
| D. | 30:39:49 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9429. |
Difference between two numbers is 9 and difference between their squares is 981. Lowest of the twonumbers is:13 |
| A. | 40 |
| B. | 50 |
| C. | 55 |
| D. | 59 |
| Answer» C. 55 | |
| 9430. |
A man walks from his house to the Railway station to catch a train, which is running as per schedule. If he walks at 6 km/hr, he misses the train by 9 minutes. However, if he walks at 7 km/hr, he reaches the station 6 minutes before the departure of train. The distance of his home to the Railway Station is: |
| A. | 2 km |
| B. | 1.5 km |
| C. | 1.05 km |
| D. | 1.25 km |
| Answer» D. 1.25 km | |
| 9431. |
A customized jewellery was sold at Rs 1000 with 90% discount on the ‘making charges’. If the payment made for making charges was Rs 100, what is the approximate rate of discount on the product? |
| A. | 35 |
| B. | 45 |
| C. | 47 |
| D. | 90 |
| Answer» D. 90 | |
| 9432. |
A box contains 90 discs which are numbered from 1 to 90. If one disc is drawn at random from the box, the probability that it bears a perfect square number is: |
| A. | 1/10 |
| B. | 1/11 |
| C. | 1/90 |
| D. | 1/9 |
| Answer» B. 1/11 | |
| 9433. |
In a staff room of 25 teachers, 13 drink black coffee, 7 milk coffee, 9 drink both tea and either type of coffee, and everyone drinks either of the beverages. How many teachers drink only tea? |
| A. | Insufficient information |
| B. | 5 |
| C. | 6 |
| D. | 9 |
| Answer» B. 5 | |
| 9434. |
Ms. Jhulan Goswami scores 102 runs in the 18th innings of her career and thus increases her average by5. After the 18th inning, her average is: |
| A. | 17 |
| B. | 21 |
| C. | 26 |
| D. | 28 |
| Answer» B. 21 | |
| 9435. |
S1:tAmerican private lies may seem shallow.P :tStudents would walk away with books they had not paid for.Q :tA Chinese journalist commented on a curious institution: the libraryR :tTheir public morality, however, impressed visitors.S :tBut in general they returned them.S6:tThis would not happen in china, he said.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | PSQR |
| B. | QPSR |
| C. | RQPS |
| D. | RPSQ |
| Answer» C. RQPS | |
| 9436. |
The ratio of two numbers is 4:5. But, if each number is increased by 20, the ratio becomes 6:7. The sum of such numbers is: |
| A. | 90 |
| B. | 95 |
| C. | 100 |
| D. | 60 |
| Answer» B. 95 | |
| 9437. |
S1:tA noise started above their heads.P :tBut people did not take it seriously.Q :tThat was to show everyone that there was something wrongR :tIt was a dangerous thing to do.S :tFor, within minutes the ship began to sink.S6:tNearly 200 lives were lost on the fateful day.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | PQSR |
| B. | PRQS |
| C. | QPRS |
| D. | QPSR |
| Answer» D. QPSR | |
| 9438. |
Akbar will turn 50 when his son Jehangir turns 18. What will be Akbar’s age when it will be exactly 5 times that of Jehangir? |
| A. | 36 |
| B. | 40 |
| C. | 44 |
| D. | 48 |
| Answer» C. 44 | |
| 9439. |
Arun can climb a Coconut tree by 1.5 feet by each lift; however he slips 0.5 feet every time he makes the next lift. How many individual lifts he will have to reach the top of the Coconut tree of 18.5 feet? |
| A. | 20 |
| B. | 19 |
| C. | 18 |
| D. | 17 |
| Answer» D. 17 | |
| 9440. |
Jogen’s taxable income for 2010-11 is Rupees 5, 00,000. The tax rates are (i) nil for first 1, 50,000, (ii)10% for 1, 50,001—3, 00,000, and (iii) 20% for the remaining. His Tax liability is: |
| A. | Rs 45000 |
| B. | Rs 50000 |
| C. | Rs 55000 |
| D. | Rs 60000 |
| Answer» D. Rs 60000 | |
| 9441. |
S1:tIn India marriages are usually arranged by parentsP :tSometimes boys and girls do not like th idea of arranged marriages.Q :tMost young people accepts the state of affairs.R :tShanta was like that.S :tThey assume their parents can make good choices.S6:tShe felt she was a modern girl and not subject for bargaining.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SPRQ |
| B. | PSRQ |
| C. | QSPR |
| D. | RQPS |
| Answer» D. RQPS | |
| 9442. |
S1:tThe path of Venus lies inside the path of the Earth.P :tWhen at its farthest from the Earth, Venus is 160 million awayQ :tWith such a wide range between its greatest and leat distances it is natural that at sometimes Venus appears much brighter than at others.R :tNo other body ever comes so near the Earth, with the exception of the Moon and occasional comet or asteroid.S :tWhen Venus is at its nearest to the earth it is only 26 million miles away.S6:tWhen at its brightest, it is easily seen with the naked eye in broad daylight.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SRPQ |
| B. | SQRP |
| C. | PSQR |
| D. | QPRS |
| Answer» B. SQRP | |
| 9443. |
S1:tWe now know that the oceans are very deep.P :tFor example, the Indian ocean has a range called the Indian Ridge.Q :tMuch of it is fairly flat.R :tHowever, there are great mountain ranges as well.S :tOn average the bottom is 2.5 miles to 3.5 miles downS6:tThis reaches from the India to the Antarctic.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SQPR |
| B. | PQSR |
| C. | RSQP |
| D. | QPRS |
| Answer» B. PQSR | |
| 9444. |
S1:tMoncure Conway devoted his life to two great objects freedom of thought, and freedom of the individual.P :tThey threaten both kinds of freedom.Q :tBut something also has been lost.R :tThere are now dangers, somewhat different in form from those of the past ages.S :tIn regard to both these objects, something has been gained since his time.S6:tUnless a vigorous and vigilant public opinion can be aroused in defence of them, there will be much less of both a hundred years hence then there is now.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | PQRS |
| B. | QSPR |
| C. | SQRP |
| D. | RSPQ |
| Answer» D. RSPQ | |
| 9445. |
S1:tFar away in a little street there is a poor house.P :tHer face is thin and worn and her hands are coarse, pricked by a needle, for she is a seam stress.Q :tOne of the windows is open and through it I can see a poor woman.R :tHe has a fever and asking for oranges.S :tIn a bed in a corner of the room her little boy is lying ill.S6:tHis mother has nothing to give but water, so he is crying.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SRQP |
| B. | PQSR |
| C. | QPSR |
| D. | RSPQ |
| Answer» D. RSPQ | |
| 9446. |
S1:tMinnie went shopping one morning.P :tDisappointed She turned around and returned to the parking lot.Q :tShe got out and walked to the nearest shop.R :tShe drove her car into the parking lot and stopped.S :tIt was there that she realised that she'd forgotten her purse at home.S6:tShe drove home with an empty basket.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RSQP |
| B. | RQSP |
| C. | PQRS |
| D. | QPRS |
| Answer» C. PQRS | |
| 9447. |
S1:tThe study of speech disorders due to brain injury suggests that patients can think without having adequate control over their language.P :tBut they succeed in playing games of chess.Q :tSome patients, for example fail to find the names of objects presented to them.R :tThey can even use the concepts needed for chess playing, though they are unable to express many of the concepts in ordinary language.S :tThey even find it difficult to interpret long written notices.S6:tHow they manage to do this we do not know.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | PSQR |
| B. | RPSQ |
| C. | QSPR |
| D. | SRPQ |
| Answer» D. SRPQ | |
| 9448. |
S1:tMinnie went shopping one morning.P :tDisappointed She turned around and returned to the parking lot.Q :tShe got out and walked to the nearest shop.R :tShe drove her car into the parking lot and stopped.S :tIt was there that she realised that she'd forgotten her purse at home.S6:tShe drove home with an empty basket.The Proper sequence should be |
| A. | RSQP |
| B. | RQSP |
| C. | PQRS |
| D. | QPRS |
| Answer» C. PQRS | |
| 9449. |
P :tShe was leading a young woman wearing a hat.Q :tThe woman swept it off and tossed it in the air.R :tThe child jumped up to catch the hat.S :tThe young man tossed his head to shake the hat back.S6:tBoth disappeared from view.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | PSQR |
| B. | RPSQ |
| C. | QRPS |
| D. | SQRP |
| Answer» B. RPSQ | |
| 9450. |
S1:tWhat are the causes of our chronic food shortage ?P :tTo find for these growing new millions is desperate task.Q :tevery year, we add more than a crore of persons to our population.R :tDespite stupendous efforts by our government, the population is growing unabated.S :tThe chief cause is the population explosion.S6:tThis unprecedented growth can drag us to the doors of starvation very soon.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRSP |
| B. | SQPR |
| C. | QPRS |
| D. | PSQR |
| Answer» C. QPRS | |