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This section includes 58 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Arithmetic Ability knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
A hawker purchased oranges at the rate of 4 oranges per rupee, but he sells at the rate of 5 oranges per rupee. His loss is: |
| A. | 0.25 |
| B. | 0.5 |
| C. | 0.15 |
| D. | 0.2 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
Find the ratio of purchase price and sell price if there is loss of 12 1/2 %. |
| A. | 7:08 |
| B. | 8:07 |
| C. | 2:25 |
| D. | 25:02:00 |
| Answer» C. 2:25 | |
| 3. |
If A : B = 3 : 4, C : B = 5 : 4, C : D = 10 : 9, then A : B : C : D is |
| A. | 8 : 6 : 9 : 10 |
| B. | 8 : 6 : 10 : 9 |
| C. | 6 : 8 : 10 : 9 |
| D. | 6 : 8 : 9 : 10 |
| Answer» D. 6 : 8 : 9 : 10 | |
| 4. |
A square garden has fourteen posts along each side at equal interval. Find how many posts are there in all four sides. |
| A. | 56 |
| B. | 44 |
| C. | 52 |
| D. | 60 |
| Answer» D. 60 | |
| 5. |
Two identical bottles A and B of sweet drinks contain sugar such that 30% of sugar in A is equal to 40% sugar in B. The ratio of sugar in the two bottles is |
| A. | 4:03 |
| B. | 3:04 |
| C. | 12:01 |
| D. | 1:12 |
| Answer» B. 3:04 | |
| 6. |
The ratio of daily wages of two workers is 4 : 3 and one gets daily Rs 9 more than the other, what are their daily wages? |
| A. | Rs 80 and Rs 60 |
| B. | Rs 60 and Rs 45 |
| C. | Rs 36 and Rs 27 |
| D. | Rs 32 and Rs 24 |
| Answer» D. Rs 32 and Rs 24 | |
| 7. |
A two digit number is three times the sum of its digits. If 45 is added to it, the digits are reversed. The number is |
| A. | 23 |
| B. | 32 |
| C. | 27 |
| D. | 72 |
| Answer» D. 72 | |
| 8. |
Three years ago the average age of A and B was 18 years. If C joins them today, the average becomes 22 years. How old is C now? |
| A. | 27 |
| B. | 24 |
| C. | 30 |
| D. | 28 |
| Answer» C. 30 | |
| 9. |
42 oranges are distributed among some boys and girls. If each boy gets 3, then each girl gets 6. But if each boy gets 6 and each girl gets 3, it needs 6 more. The number of girls is |
| A. | 10 |
| B. | 8 |
| C. | 6 |
| D. | 4 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
The sum of the present age of the father and his daughter is 42 years. 7 years later, the father will be 3 times old than the daughter. The present age of the father is |
| A. | 32 |
| B. | 28 |
| C. | 35 |
| D. | 33 |
| Answer» D. 33 | |
| 11. |
1, 3, 1, 9, 1, 81, 1 ? |
| A. | 4 |
| B. | 1 |
| C. | 243 |
| D. | 6561 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 12. |
What number comes next ?4, 196, 16, 144, 36, 100, 64 |
| A. | 36 |
| B. | 100 |
| C. | 80 |
| D. | 64 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 13. |
4, 7, 3, 6, 2, 5, ? |
| A. | 8 |
| B. | 1 |
| C. | 4 |
| D. | 3 |
| Answer» C. 4 | |
| 14. |
How many minimum number of colours will be required to paint all the sides of a cube without the adjacent sides having the same colours ? |
| A. | 3 |
| B. | 4 |
| C. | 5 |
| D. | 6 |
| Answer» B. 4 | |
| 15. |
?, 6, 30, 120, 360, 720 |
| A. | 5 |
| B. | 8 |
| C. | 1 |
| D. | 3 |
| Answer» D. 3 | |
| 16. |
A cube with all the sides painted was divided into small cubes of equal measurement. The side of a small cube is exactly one fourth as that of the big cube. Therefore, the number of small cubes with only one side painted is |
| A. | 64 |
| B. | 36 |
| C. | 24 |
| D. | 12 |
| Answer» D. 12 | |
| 17. |
240, ?, 120, 40, 10, 2 |
| A. | 240 |
| B. | 120 |
| C. | 180 |
| D. | 200 |
| Answer» B. 120 | |
| 18. |
0.5, 1, 2.5, 5, ? |
| A. | 7.5 |
| B. | 6.5 |
| C. | 8.5 |
| D. | 9.5 |
| Answer» D. 9.5 | |
| 19. |
1, 5, 8, 10, 11, ? |
| A. | 3 |
| B. | 14 |
| C. | 12 |
| D. | 11 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
It takes one minute to fill 3/7 th of a vessel. What is the time taken in minutes to fill the whole of the vessel? |
| A. | 44289 |
| B. | 44259 |
| C. | 44380 |
| D. | 44257 |
| Answer» D. 44257 | |
| 21. |
A clock gains 5 minutes in one hour. Therefore, the angle traversed by the minute hand in one minute is |
| A. | 360° |
| B. | 390° |
| C. | 390.5° |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. 390.5° | |
| 22. |
A shop offers 10 percent discount on the purchase of any article. It also offers an additional 12 percent discount if the payment is made in cash. If the original price of the item is Rs. 250, then what is its actual price if paid in cash ? |
| A. | Rs. 220 |
| B. | Rs. 195 |
| C. | Rs. 198 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 23. |
If the Republic Day of India in 1980 falls on Saturday, X was born on March 3, 1980 and Y is older to X by four days, then Y's birthday fell on |
| A. | Thursday |
| B. | Friday |
| C. | Wednesday |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Friday | |
| 24. |
If p > q and r < o (where '>' stands for greater than and '<' stands for less than), then which is true ? |
| A. | pr < qr |
| B. | p - r < q - r |
| C. | p + r < q + r |
| D. | None is true |
| Answer» B. p - r < q - r | |
| 25. |
A walks from P to Q @ 3 km/hr and from Q to P @ 6 km/hr. What is his average speed ? |
| A. | 4.5 km/hr |
| B. | 5 km/hr |
| C. | 5.5 km/hr |
| D. | 4 km/hr |
| Answer» E. | |
| 26. |
A coin is placed on a plain paper. How many coins of the same size can be placed around it so that each of the coins touches its adjacent ones ? |
| A. | 4 |
| B. | 5 |
| C. | 6 |
| D. | 7 |
| Answer» D. 7 | |
| 27. |
Two persons A and B get the same salary. Their basic pays are different. Their allowances are 65% and 80% of their basic pays respectively. What is the ratio of their basic pays ? |
| A. | 7:05 |
| B. | 17:15 |
| C. | 11:10 |
| D. | 12:11 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
There are eight mango trees in a straight line. The distance between each mango tree with other is 3 metres. What is the distance between first tree and eighth tree? |
| A. | 24 m |
| B. | 27 m |
| C. | 30 m |
| D. | 21 m |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
4 men & 6 women can complete a work in 8 days, while 3 men and 7 women can complete it in 10 days. In how many days will 10 women complete it? |
| A. | 35 days |
| B. | 40 days |
| C. | 30 days |
| D. | 25 days |
| Answer» C. 30 days | |
| 30. |
A goat is tied to one corner of a square plot of side 12m by a rope 7m long.Find the area it can graze? |
| A. | 155 sq.m |
| B. | 19.25 sq.m |
| C. | 144 sq.m |
| D. | 38.5 sq.m |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
A father is 30 years older than his son. He will be three times as old as his son after 5 years. What is the father's present age? |
| A. | 35 |
| B. | 45 |
| C. | 40 |
| D. | 30 |
| Answer» D. 30 | |
| 32. |
A student is ranked 13th from right and 8th from left. How many students are there in total? |
| A. | 18 |
| B. | 19 |
| C. | 20 |
| D. | 21 |
| Answer» D. 21 | |
| 33. |
A man wants to reach a window which is 40 feet above the ground. The distance from the foot of the ladder to the wall is 9 feet. How long should the ladder be ? |
| A. | 9 feet |
| B. | 81 feet |
| C. | 41 feet |
| D. | 49 feet |
| Answer» D. 49 feet | |
| 34. |
Find the next term in the series: 3, 6, 9, 18, 27, 54, ... |
| A. | 81 |
| B. | 69 |
| C. | 108 |
| D. | 72 |
| Answer» B. 69 | |
| 35. |
What is the ratio of 12 minute to 1 hour ? |
| A. | 44230 |
| B. | 44259 |
| C. | 44201 |
| D. | 44200 |
| Answer» D. 44200 | |
| 36. |
Find the area of a right angled triangle whose hypotenuse is 10 cm and base 8 cm. |
| A. | 34 sq.cm |
| B. | 36 sq.cm |
| C. | 24 sq.cm |
| D. | 48 sq.cm |
| Answer» D. 48 sq.cm | |
| 37. |
10 cats caught 10 rats in 10 seconds. How many cats are required to catch 100 rats in 100 seconds |
| A. | 100 |
| B. | 10 |
| C. | 20 |
| D. | 50 |
| Answer» C. 20 | |
| 38. |
Speed of a boat in still water is 9 km/hr. It goes 12 km down stream and comes back to the starting point in three hours.What is the speed of water in the stream? |
| A. | 3.5 km/hr |
| B. | 3 km/hr |
| C. | 5 km/hr |
| D. | 5.5 km/hr |
| Answer» C. 5 km/hr | |
| 39. |
What is the sum of two consecutive even numbers, the difference of whose squares is 84? |
| A. | 32 |
| B. | 34 |
| C. | 38 |
| D. | 42 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
Two trains of equal lengths take 10 seconds and 15 seconds respectively to cross a telegraph post. If the length of each train be 120 metres, in what time will they cross each other travelling in opposite direction? |
| A. | 9 s |
| B. | 10 s |
| C. | 11 s |
| D. | 12 s |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
In a class of 100 students, 50 students passed in Mathematics and 70 passed in English, 5 students failed in both Mathematics and English. How many students passed in both the subjects? |
| A. | 50 |
| B. | 40 |
| C. | 35 |
| D. | 25 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
Pipe A can fill a tank in 20 minutes and Pipe B in 30 mins and Pipe C can empty the same in 40 mins.If all of them work together, find the time taken to fill the tank? |
| A. | 15 1/7 minutes |
| B. | 12 1/7 minutes |
| C. | 17 1/7 minutes |
| D. | 10 1/7 minutes |
| Answer» D. 10 1/7 minutes | |
| 43. |
A can contains a mixture of two liquids A and B in the ratio 7:5.When 9 litres of mixture are drawn off and the can is filled with B, the ratio of A and B becomes 7:9. How many litres of liquid A was contained by the can initially? |
| A. | 21 |
| B. | 19 |
| C. | 18 |
| D. | 17 |
| Answer» B. 19 | |
| 44. |
When you reverse the digits of age of father, you will get the age of son. one year ago the age of father was twice that of son's age. what are the current ages of father and son? |
| A. | 73 and 37 |
| B. | 45 and 54 |
| C. | 31 and 13 |
| D. | 24 and 42 |
| Answer» B. 45 and 54 | |
| 45. |
A can type 10 pages in 5 minutes. B can type 5 pages in 10 minutes. Working together, how many pages can they type in 30 minutes? |
| A. | 15 |
| B. | 25 |
| C. | 65 |
| D. | 75 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
Q is as much younger than R as he is older than T. If the sum of the ages of R and T is 50 years, what is the difference between R and Q’s age? |
| A. | 1 year |
| B. | 2 years |
| C. | 25 years |
| D. | Data insufficient |
| Answer» E. | |
| 47. |
What number must be added to 6, 16 and 8 to get an average of 13? |
| A. | 22 |
| B. | 25 |
| C. | 20 |
| D. | 18 |
| Answer» B. 25 | |
| 48. |
If 30% of a number is 12.6, find the number? |
| A. | 45 |
| B. | 38 |
| C. | 40 |
| D. | 42 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
If the area of a circle is 75.44 square cm then what is the circumference of the circle? |
| A. | 40.2 cm |
| B. | 28.9 cm |
| C. | 29.2 cm |
| D. | 30.8 cm |
| Answer» E. | |
| 50. |
What is the next term in the series : 25, 34, 52,79, 115,? |
| A. | 160 |
| B. | 140 |
| C. | 153 |
| D. | 190 |
| Answer» B. 140 | |