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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.
| 1. |
100 kg of rice costs $90 and if one person consumes $27 worth of rice in a month, for how many people will 150 kg of rice be enough for a month? |
| A. | 10 |
| B. | 5 |
| C. | 7 |
| D. | 3 |
| Answer» D. 3 | |
| 2. |
If all sides of a hexagon are increased by 7%, find the % increase in its area. |
| A. | 0.3214 |
| B. | 0.4249 |
| C. | 0.1449 |
| D. | 0.257 |
| Answer» D. 0.257 | |
| 3. |
Last year Edna’s annual salary was $20,000. This year’s raise brings her to an annual salary of $25,000. If she gets a raise of the same percentage every year, what will her salary be next year? |
| A. | $30,000 |
| B. | $27,500 |
| C. | $32,500 |
| D. | $31,250 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
In measuring the side of a square, an error of 5% in excess was made. The error percent in the calculated area is: |
| A. | 0.25 |
| B. | 0.1 |
| C. | 0.105 |
| D. | 0.1025 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 5. |
If a mixture is (3/7) alcohol by volume and (4/7) water by volume, what is the ratio of the volume of alcohol to the volume of water in this mixture? |
| A. | (4/7) |
| B. | (3/7) |
| C. | (4/3) |
| D. | (3/4) |
| Answer» B. (3/7) | |
| 6. |
Gasoline varies in cost from $0.96 to $1.12 per gallon. If a car’s mileage varies from 16 to 24 miles per gallon. What is the difference between the most and the least that the gasoline for a 480-mile trip will cost? |
| A. | $7.04 |
| B. | $5.12 |
| C. | $14.40 |
| D. | $11.52 |
| Answer» D. $11.52 | |
| 7. |
A man spends 75% of his income. His income is increased by 20% and he increases his expenditure by 10%. His savings are increased by: |
| A. | 0.25 |
| B. | 0.1 |
| C. | 0.5 |
| D. | 37½% |
| Answer» D. 37½% | |
| 8. |
Cal is used to display calendar. If no arguments are supplied, what is displayed? |
| A. | Shows an error |
| B. | the current month is displayed |
| C. | None of the above |
| D. | Nothing is displayed |
| Answer» C. None of the above | |
| 9. |
A man spends 10% of his capital on raw material, 20% of the remaining on advertisement, 30% of the remaining on building, 40% of the balance on machinery and thus he was left with Rs.9072. Find his capital. |
| A. | 40000 |
| B. | 36000 |
| C. | 30000 |
| D. | 45000 |
| Answer» D. 45000 | |
| 10. |
A man spends 20% of his capital on raw material, 25% on building, 10% on the machinery and he was left with 4.5 lakh rupees. Find his actual capital? |
| A. | 1000000 |
| B. | 100000 |
| C. | 1500000 |
| D. | 2000000 |
| Answer» B. 100000 | |
| 11. |
In a class of 60 students, boys constitute 40% of the total. If 1/3 of the boys and 2 girls drop out of the class, what percent of the remaining students in the class would be girls? |
| A. | 0.5 |
| B. | 0.6 |
| C. | 0.68 |
| D. | 0.32 |
| Answer» D. 0.32 | |
| 12. |
From a 20lt solution of alt and water with 20% salt, 2lt of water is evaporated. Find the new % concentration of salt |
| A. | 0.23 |
| B. | 0.2 |
| C. | None |
| D. | 0.25 |
| Answer» D. 0.25 | |
| 13. |
A 7.5-L mixture of water and molasses is 60 percent molasses. If 1.5-L of water is added, approximately what percent of the new mixture is molasses? |
| A. | 0.5 |
| B. | 0.4 |
| C. | 0.64 |
| D. | 0.63 |
| Answer» B. 0.4 | |
| 14. |
A certain amount of money at compound interest grows up to Rs5350 in 8 years and up to Rs5671 in 9 years. Find the rate per cent per annum? |
| A. | 0.06 |
| B. | 0.05 |
| C. | 0.1 |
| D. | 0.08 |
| Answer» B. 0.05 | |
| 15. |
A person spends 20% of his income on rent, 20% of the rest on food, 10% of the remaining on clothes and 10% on groceries. If he is left with Rs. 9520/- find his income |
| A. | 15000/- |
| B. | 10000/- |
| C. | None |
| D. | 20000/- |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
A vessel of 70 liters is filled with milk and water. 60% of milk and 25% of water is taken out of the vessel. It is found that the vessel is emptied by 40%. Find the difference between the initial quantities of milk and water? |
| A. | 8 liters |
| B. | 10 liters |
| C. | 12 liters |
| D. | 15 liters |
| Answer» C. 12 liters | |
| 17. |
A positive number is by mistake divided by 5 instead of being multiplied by 5. What is the percentage error in calculation? |
| A. | 0.25 |
| B. | 0.96 |
| C. | 25 |
| D. | 0.04 |
| Answer» C. 25 | |
| 18. |
From 1985 to 1990, the berry production of bush x increased by 20 percent. From 1990 to 1995, the berry production increased by 30 percent. What was the percent increase in the berry production on the bush over the entire ten-year period from 1985 &n |
| A. | 0.5 |
| B. | 0.25 |
| C. | 0.6 |
| D. | 0.56 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. |
To implement new application on IBM z/10. Which of the following options need to be considered if it to be implemented in Linux? |
| A. | Red Hat Linux in commercial workloads IBM z/OS is more expensive, Linux is shareware |
| B. | IBM z/OS outperforms |
| C. | z/OS is supported by IBM SupportLine, whereas Red Hat Linux can only be supported by Red Hat |
| D. | Red Hat Linux does not support all the devices supported by IBM z/OS |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
A sum of money is sufficient to pay Ram’s wages for 10 days and Shyam’s wages for 15 days. For how many days can wages be paid to Ram and Shyam both from such amount of money? |
| A. | 12 |
| B. | 6 |
| C. | 25 |
| D. | 5 |
| Answer» C. 25 | |
| 21. |
In a factory producing parts for an automobile, parts manufactured on the shop floor are required to go through three quality checks; each conducted after a specific part of the processing on the raw material is completed. Only parts that are not rej |
| A. | 0.152 |
| B. | 0.17 |
| C. | 0.1621 |
| D. | 0.848 |
| Answer» D. 0.848 | |
| 22. |
Venkat purchased 20 dozens of toys at the rate of Rs375 per dozen. He sold each one of them at the rate of Rs33. What was his percentage profit? |
| A. | 0.056 |
| B. | 0.065 |
| C. | 0.045 |
| D. | 0.035 |
| Answer» B. 0.065 | |
| 23. |
What is the shortcut to the login directory? |
| A. | cd enter key |
| B. | shift cd |
| C. | ctrl cd |
| D. | alt ctrl cd |
| Answer» B. shift cd | |
| 24. |
The price of a T.V. is increased by 20% and sales are decreased by 30%. Find the percentage change in the revenue? |
| A. | 10% decrease |
| B. | 16% decrease |
| C. | none of these |
| D. | 16% increase |
| Answer» C. none of these | |
| 25. |
Which framework is provided for the programs to interchange information about Linux OS? |
| A. | Resource Security Framework |
| B. | Resource Sharing Framework |
| C. | Resource Definition Framework |
| D. | Information Sharing Framework |
| Answer» D. Information Sharing Framework | |
| 26. |
A and B entered into partnership with capitals in the ratio 4 : 5. After 3 months, A withdrew of his capital and B withdrew of his capital. The gain at the end of 10 months was Rs. 760. A\'s share in this profit is: |
| A. | Rs. 360 |
| B. | Rs. 330 |
| C. | Rs. 430 |
| D. | Rs. 380 |
| Answer» C. Rs. 430 | |
| 27. |
Mr. K lent Rs60000 partly at 12% and partly at 18%. His total income after a year was Rs8100. Find the sum lent at 18%? |
| A. | Rs20000 |
| B. | Rs30000 |
| C. | Rs15000 |
| D. | Rs18000 |
| Answer» D. Rs18000 | |
| 28. |
You have implemented RAID5. You can expect: |
| A. | Fast reads and slow writes |
| B. | Fast reads and fast writes |
| C. | Slow reads and slow writes |
| D. | Slow reads and fast writes |
| Answer» B. Fast reads and fast writes | |
| 29. |
What is the major difference between UNIX and LINUX? |
| A. | UNIX uses Linux like OS |
| B. | Linux is an open source and free software |
| C. | Both a and c |
| D. | UNIX is an open source and free software |
| Answer» C. Both a and c | |
| 30. |
-4u -f /dev/nrst1 /home will update the following file(s): |
| A. | /etc/dump/home/dumpdates |
| B. | /home/dumpdates |
| C. | /etc/home/dumpdates |
| D. | /etc/dumpdates |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
A and B started a business in partnership investing Rs. 20,000 and Rs. 15,000 respectively. After six months, C joined them with Rs. 20,000. What will be B\'s share in total profit of Rs. 25,000 earned at the end of 2 years from the starting of |
| A. | Rs. 9000 |
| B. | Rs. 7500 |
| C. | Rs. 10,000 |
| D. | Rs. 9500 |
| Answer» C. Rs. 10,000 | |
| 32. |
Which command reduces the size of a file? |
| A. | gcat |
| B. | pzip |
| C. | gzip |
| D. | pgcat |
| Answer» D. pgcat | |
| 33. |
In an examination, 80% of the students passed in Hindi and 90% passed in Telugu, while 5% of the students failed in both the subjects. If 180 students passed in both the subjects, find the total number of students who appeared in the examination. |
| A. | 240 |
| B. | 250 |
| C. | 340 |
| D. | 300 |
| Answer» B. 250 | |
| 34. |
What is the default number of shell commands saved in the history list of .cshrc file? |
| A. | 100 |
| B. | 200 |
| C. | 175 |
| D. | 1501 |
| Answer» C. 175 | |
| 35. |
The Binary Ice Cream Shoppe sells two flavors, vanilla and chocolate. On Friday, the ratio of vanilla cones sold to chocolate cones sold was 2 to 3. If the store had sold 4 more vanilla cones, the ratio of vanilla cones sold to chocolate cones sold w |
| A. | 35 |
| B. | 32 |
| C. | 48 |
| D. | 42 |
| Answer» C. 48 | |
| 36. |
What is the content of /etc directory? |
| A. | Contains the system startup scripts |
| B. | Configuration files for your system. |
| C. | User specific settings for programs like IRC, X et |
| D. | Both a and b |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
Your server has Red Hat 7.x installed. Your NIC has been detected but you have not configured networking. To allot it an IP address, you have to edit the following file: |
| A. | /etc/hosts |
| B. | This is impossible. An address has to be allotted the moment an NIC has been detecte |
| C. | /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 |
| D. | /etc/sysconfig/network |
| Answer» C. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 | |
| 38. |
By default DNS checks: |
| A. | hint file only |
| B. | cache only |
| C. | cache and hint file in that order |
| D. | hint file and cache in that order |
| Answer» D. hint file and cache in that order | |
| 39. |
A shopkeeper offers three successive discounts of 10%, 20% and 30% to a customer. If the actual price of the item is Rs. 10000, find the price the customer has to pay to the shopkeeper. |
| A. | 4000/- |
| B. | 5040/- |
| C. | None |
| D. | 6000/- |
| Answer» C. None | |
| 40. |
Which Linux command will successfully mounts a USB drive? |
| A. | mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb |
| B. | mount /dev/uda1 /mnt/usb |
| C. | mount /dev/hde1 /mnt/usb |
| D. | mount -t usbfs /dev/usb001 /mnt/usb |
| Answer» B. mount /dev/uda1 /mnt/usb | |
| 41. |
Which of the following below is/are true for Date command? |
| A. | It always needs an argument |
| B. | It can work w/o arguments |
| C. | None of the above |
| D. | It always need to have a as an argument |
| Answer» C. None of the above | |
| 42. |
405 sweets were distributed equally among children in such a way that the number of sweets received by each child is 20% of the total no. of children. How many sweets did each child receive? |
| A. | 45 |
| B. | 15 |
| C. | 18 |
| D. | 9 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
If A is 20% taller than B, by what percent is B shorter than A? |
| A. | 0.25 |
| B. | 0.2 |
| C. | None |
| D. | 0.1666 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 44. |
Saving open files, flush the system cache and other necessary system maintenance are allowed by. |
| A. | rebooting the system |
| B. | restarting the system |
| C. | shutting down the system |
| D. | logging off the system |
| Answer» E. | |
| 45. |
Which of the following below are environmental variables? |
| A. | USER |
| B. | HOME |
| C. | VARHOST |
| D. | both a and b |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
The minimum keysize for a DSA and ElGamal key generated by gpg 1.0.6 is: |
| A. | 1024 bits |
| B. | 768 bits |
| C. | 4096 bits |
| D. | 512 bits |
| Answer» C. 4096 bits | |
| 47. |
The population of a town is 60,000. if males are increased by 20% and females are increased by 40%. At the end of the year the population will be 78,000. Find the number of females in the town at the beginning? |
| A. | 40000 |
| B. | 30000 |
| C. | None of these |
| D. | 20000 |
| Answer» C. None of these | |
| 48. |
In a class of 40 students, there are 24 girls. What percent of the class are boys? |
| A. | 0.4 |
| B. | 0.24 |
| C. | 0.6 |
| D. | 0.5 |
| Answer» B. 0.24 | |
| 49. |
Which character is used to match exactly one character? |
| A. | * |
| B. | $ |
| C. | ? |
| D. | ^ |
| Answer» D. ^ | |
| 50. |
You wish to use multiple monitors with your X: |
| A. | You have to use the omniX server |
| B. | You have to use the lbx extensions |
| C. | It is not possible to use multiple monitors with X. |
| D. | You have to use the xinerama extensions |
| Answer» E. | |