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This section includes 921 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Arithmetic Ability knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 801. |
_ If the price of the commodity is increased by 50% by what fraction must its consumption be reduced so as to keep the same expenditure on its consumption?$? |
| A. | 1/4 |
| B. | 1/3 |
| C. | 1/2 |
| D. | 2/3 |
| Answer» C. 1/2 | |
| 802. |
__In an election 4% of the votes caste become invalid. Winner gets 55% of casted votes and wins the election by a margin of 4800 votes. Find the total number of votes casted.__ |
| A. | 45000 |
| B. | 48000 |
| C. | 50000 |
| D. | 52000 |
| Answer» D. 52000 | |
| 803. |
__Two tailors X and Y are paid a total of Rs. 550 per week by their employer. If X is paid 120 percent of the sum paid to Y, how much is Y paid per week?__ |
| A. | Rs. 200 |
| B. | Rs. 250 |
| C. | Rs. 300 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Rs. 300 | |
| 804. |
_Fresh grapes contain 80% while dry grapes contain 10% water. If the weight of dry grapes is 250 kg, what was its total weight when it was fresh?$? |
| A. | 1000 kg |
| B. | 1125 kg |
| C. | 1225 kg |
| D. | 1100 kg |
| Answer» C. 1225 kg | |
| 805. |
_50 minutes is what percentage of a day (approx.)-$? |
| A. | 3.5% |
| B. | 4% |
| C. | 5% |
| D. | 6% |
| Answer» B. 4% | |
| 806. |
_Two numbers are respectively 20% and 50% of a third number. What per cent is the first number of second?$? |
| A. | 10% |
| B. | 20% |
| C. | 30% |
| D. | 40% |
| Answer» E. | |
| 807. |
_A shop sells floor tiles at Rs 48 per square meter. A contractor employs a machine that polishes the tiles that damages 10% of the total number of tiles which cannot be used any more. Calculate the amount that needs to be paid by contractor to tile shop owner, if the hall is of a square shape and has a perimeter of 400 meters?$? |
| A. | Rs 4,00,000 |
| B. | Rs 5,00,000 |
| C. | Rs 5,28,000 |
| D. | Rs 3,65,000 |
| Answer» D. Rs 3,65,000 | |
| 808. |
_The price of the sugar rise by 25%. If a family wants to keep their expenses on sugar the same as earlier, the family will have to decrease its consumption of sugar by$? |
| A. | 25% |
| B. | 20% |
| C. | 80% |
| D. | 75% |
| Answer» C. 80% | |
| 809. |
_In an election between two candidates, the winner got 65% of the total votes cast and won the election by a majority of 2748 votes. What is the total number of votes cast if no vote is declared invalid?$? |
| A. | 8580 |
| B. | 8720 |
| C. | 9000 |
| D. | 9160 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 810. |
Half percent, written as a decimal, is$? |
| A. | 0.2 |
| B. | 0.02 |
| C. | 0.005 |
| D. | 0.05 |
| Answer» D. 0.05 | |
| 811. |
Three candidates contested an election and received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get ?$? |
| A. | 45% |
| B. | 57% |
| C. | 60% |
| D. | 65% |
| Answer» C. 60% | |
| 812. |
X * 12 = 75% of 336. Find X.$? |
| A. | 27 |
| B. | 25 |
| C. | 21 |
| D. | 19 |
| Answer» D. 19 | |
| 813. |
In a test, minimum passing percentage for girls and boys are 45% and 60% respectively. A boy scored 767 marks and failed by 313 marks. What are the minimum passing marks for girls?$? |
| A. | 910 |
| B. | 920 |
| C. | 840 |
| D. | 810 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 814. |
Due to fall of 10% in the rate of sugar, 500 gm more sugar can be purchased for Rs. 140. Find the original rate?$? |
| A. | Rs. 31.11 |
| B. | Rs. 29.22 |
| C. | Rs. 33.11 |
| D. | Rs. 32 .2 2 |
| Answer» B. Rs. 29.22 | |
| 815. |
The schedule working hour of a labour in a week if 48 hours and he gets Rs. 480 for that. Over time rate is 25% more than the the basic salary rate. In a week a labour gets Rs. 605, how many hours altogether he works in that week.$? |
| A. | 49 |
| B. | 52 |
| C. | 55 |
| D. | 58 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 816. |
Three candidates contested an election and received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get ?? |
| A. | 45% |
| B. | 57% |
| C. | 60% |
| D. | 65% |
| Answer» C. 60% | |
| 817. |
In a test, minimum passing percentage for girls and boys are 45% and 60% respectively. A boy scored 767 marks and failed by 313 marks. What are the minimum passing marks for girls?? |
| A. | 910 |
| B. | 920 |
| C. | 840 |
| D. | 810 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 818. |
Due to fall of 10% in the rate of sugar, 500 gm more sugar can be purchased for Rs. 140. Find the original rate?? |
| A. | Rs. 31.11 |
| B. | Rs. 29.22 |
| C. | Rs. 33.11 |
| D. | Rs. 32 .2 2 |
| Answer» B. Rs. 29.22 | |
| 819. |
X * 12 = 75% of 336. Find X.? |
| A. | 27 |
| B. | 25 |
| C. | 21 |
| D. | 19 |
| Answer» D. 19 | |
| 820. |
The cost of an article was Rs.75. The cost was first increased by 20% and later on it was reduced by 20%. The present cost of the article is: |
| A. | Rs. 72 |
| B. | Rs. 60 |
| C. | Rs. 75 |
| D. | Rs. 76 |
| Answer» B. Rs. 60 | |
| 821. |
Population of a town increase 2.5% annually but is decreased by 0.5 % every year due to migration. What will be the percentage increase in 2 years? |
| A. | 5 |
| B. | 4.04 |
| C. | 4 |
| D. | 3.96 |
| Answer» C. 4 | |
| 822. |
In an examination 80% candidates passed in English and 85% candidates passed in Mathematics. If 73% candidates passed in both these subjects, then what per cent of candidates failed in both the subjects? |
| A. | 8 |
| B. | 15 |
| C. | 27 |
| D. | 35 |
| Answer» B. 15 | |
| 823. |
In a mixture there is 15% of salt. When 30 liter of water is evaporated, salt becomes 20% of mixture. Find the initial quantity of mixture. |
| A. | 120 lit. |
| B. | 110 lit. |
| C. | 125 lit. |
| D. | 115 lit. |
| Answer» B. 110 lit. | |
| 824. |
In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was: |
| A. | 2700 |
| B. | 2900 |
| C. | 3000 |
| D. | 3100 |
| Answer» B. 2900 | |
| 825. |
In a competitive examination in State A, 6% candidates got selected from the total appeared candidates. State B had an equal number of candidates appeared and 7% candidates got selected with 80 more candidates got selected than A. What was the number of candidates appeared from each State ? |
| A. | 7600 |
| B. | 8000 |
| C. | 8400 |
| D. | 8800 |
| Answer» C. 8400 | |
| 826. |
In a metro train there are 600 passengers out of which 34% are females. Fare of each male is Rs. 20 and each female's fare is 25% less than each male. What is the total revenue generated by all the passengers together? |
| A. | Rs. 10880 |
| B. | Rs. 10980 |
| C. | Rs. 10740 |
| D. | Rs. 10680 |
| Answer» C. Rs. 10740 | |
| 827. |
If 75% of the students in a school are boys and the number of girls is 420, the number of boys is: |
| A. | 1176 |
| B. | 1350 |
| C. | 1260 |
| D. | 1125 |
| Answer» D. 1125 | |
| 828. |
78% Of 750 + 34% Of X = 30% of 2630. Find X. |
| A. | 960 |
| B. | 600 |
| C. | 800 |
| D. | 750 |
| Answer» C. 800 | |
| 829. |
A and B are two fixed points 5 cm apart and C is a point on AB such that AC is 3cm. if the length of AC is increased by 6%, the length of CB is decreased by |
| A. | 6% |
| B. | 7% |
| C. | 8% |
| D. | 9% |
| Answer» E. | |
| 830. |
If A's salary is 25% more than B's salary, then B's salary is how much lower than A's salary? |
| A. | 33(1/3)% |
| B. | 25% |
| C. | 20% |
| D. | 16(2/3)% |
| Answer» D. 16(2/3)% | |
| 831. |
1.14 expressed as a per cent of 1.9 is: |
| A. | 6% |
| B. | 10% |
| C. | 60% |
| D. | 90% |
| Answer» D. 90% | |
| 832. |
In an election 4% of votes cast are invalid. A candidate gets 55% of casted votes and wins the election by 4200 votes. Find the total number of votes casted. |
| A. | 30000 |
| B. | 43750 |
| C. | 45000 |
| D. | 42000 |
| Answer» C. 45000 | |
| 833. |
Population of a district is 2,96,000 out of which 1,66,000 are male. 50% of the population is literate. If 70% males are literate, then the number of woman who are literate, is |
| A. | 32,200 |
| B. | 31,800 |
| C. | 66,400 |
| D. | 48,000 |
| Answer» C. 66,400 | |
| 834. |
The population of a village is 5000 and it increases at the rate of 2% every year. After 2 years, the population will be: |
| A. | 5116 |
| B. | 5202 |
| C. | 5200 |
| D. | 5204 |
| Answer» C. 5200 | |
| 835. |
A number x is mistakenly divided by 10 instead of being multiplied by 10. what is the percentage error in the result? |
| A. | -99% |
| B. | -100% |
| C. | +99% |
| D. | +100% |
| Answer» B. -100% | |
| 836. |
The price of rice falls by 20%. How much rice can be bought now with the money that was sufficient to buy 20 kg of rice previously? |
| A. | 5 kg |
| B. | 15 kg |
| C. | 25 kg |
| D. | 30 kg |
| Answer» D. 30 kg | |
| 837. |
What is a percent of b divided by b percent of a? |
| A. | a |
| B. | b |
| C. | 1 |
| D. | 10 |
| E. | 100 |
| Answer» D. 10 | |
| 838. |
In company there are 75% skilled workers and reaming are unskilled. 80% of skilled workers and 20% of unskilled workers are permanent. If number of temporary workers is 126, then what is the number of total workers ? |
| A. | 480 |
| B. | 510 |
| C. | 360 |
| D. | 377 |
| Answer» D. 377 | |
| 839. |
In Sabarmati Express, there as many wagons as there are the no. of seats in each wagon and not more than one passenger can have the same berth (seat). If the middlemost compartment carrying 25 passengers is filled with 71.428% of its capacity, then find the maximum no. of passengers in the train that can be accommodated if it has minimum 20% seats always vacant. |
| A. | 500 |
| B. | 786 |
| C. | 980 |
| D. | 1060 |
| E. | None of These |
| Answer» D. 1060 | |
| 840. |
80% of a smaller number is 4 less than 40% of a larger number. The larger number is 85 greater than the smaller one. The sum of these two number is |
| A. | 325 |
| B. | 425 |
| C. | 235 |
| D. | 500 |
| Answer» D. 500 | |
| 841. |
The length, breadth and height of a room in the shape of a cuboid are increased by 10%, 20% and 50% respectively. Find the percentage change in the volume of the cuboid. |
| A. | 77% |
| B. | 75% |
| C. | 88% |
| D. | 98% |
| E. | 99% |
| Answer» E. 99% | |
| 842. |
A spider climbed 125/2% of the height of the pole in one hour and in the next hour it covered 25/2% of remaining height. If pole's height is 192 m, then distance climbed in second hour is: |
| A. | 3m |
| B. | 5m |
| C. | 7m |
| D. | 9m |
| Answer» E. | |
| 843. |
Distance between A and B is 72 km. Two men started walking from A and B at the same time towards each other. The person who started from A traveled uniformly with average speed of 4 km/hr. The other man traveled with varying speed as follows: In the first hour his speed 2 km/hr, in the second hour it was 2.5 km/hr, in the third hour it was 3 km/hr, and so on. When / where will they meet each other? |
| A. | 7 hours after starting |
| B. | 10 hours after starting |
| C. | 35 km from A |
| D. | Mid-way between A and B |
| E. | Can't be determined |
| Answer» E. Can't be determined | |
| 844. |
In a library 60% of the books are in Hindi, 60% of the remaining books are in English rest of the books are in Urdu. If there are 3600 books in English, then total no. of books in Urdu are: |
| A. | 2400 |
| B. | 2500 |
| C. | 3000 |
| D. | 3200 |
| Answer» B. 2500 | |
| 845. |
An alloy contains the copper and aluminum in the ratio of 7:4. While making the weapons from this alloy, 12% of the alloy got destroyed. If there is 12 kg of aluminum in the weapon, then weight of the alloy required is : |
| A. | 14.4 kg |
| B. | 37.5 kg |
| C. | 40 kg |
| D. | 48 kg |
| Answer» C. 40 kg | |
| 846. |
The population of a city is 35000. On an increase of 6% in the number of men and an increase of 4% in the number of women, the population would become 36760. What was the number of women initially? |
| A. | 18000 |
| B. | 19000 |
| C. | 17000 |
| D. | 20000 |
| Answer» D. 20000 | |
| 847. |
The total emoluments of A and B are equal. However, A gets 65% of his basic salary as allowances and B gets 80% of his basic salary as allowances. What is the ratio of the basic salaries of and B? |
| A. | 16 :13 |
| B. | 5 :7 |
| C. | 12 :11 |
| D. | 7 :9 |
| Answer» D. 7 :9 | |
| 848. |
Two discount of 8% and 12% are equal to a single discount of: |
| A. | 20% |
| B. | 19.04 |
| C. | 22.96 |
| D. | 22% |
| Answer» C. 22.96 | |
| 849. |
600 students took the test on Physics and chemistry. 35% students failed in Physics and 45% students failed in chemistry and 40% of those who passed in chemistry also passed in Physics, then how many students failed in both : |
| A. | 16 |
| B. | 15 |
| C. | 13 |
| D. | 12 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 850. |
If two numbers are respectively 30% and 40% more than a third number, what percent is the first of the second? |
| A. | 92(6/7)% |
| B. | 84(4/5)% |
| C. | 80% |
| D. | 75% |
| Answer» B. 84(4/5)% | |