1. A hostel had 320 inmates.

This year 80 more inmates joined and the average expenditure

reduced by 5 but the total expenditure went up by 400. What is the expenditure of the
hostel in this year?
A. 1000
B. 15000
C. 8000
D. 12000

2. The ratio of two number is 6:7 and their HCF is 3. Their LCM is_____.
A. 124
B. 128
C. 122
D. 126

3. A company decided to install a fountain within it main entrance lobby.if the fountain is to
be 148cm wide 297 long and 91 cm deep, how much water would be required to feel the
fountain to a depth of 69cm?(1liter=1000 cubic centimetres)
A. 4000
B. 967
C. 3033
D. 5360

4. Find the number of trailing zeros at the end of the first hundred multiples of
10
A. 100
B. 111
C. 320
D. 432

5. How many trailing zeros are there in 120 factorial?

A. 28
B. 30
C. 27
D. 25

6. How many trailing zeros are there in 777 factorials?

A. 53
B. 113
C. 143
D. 193

7. What is the unit digit of 1! + 2! + 3! + ……+ 88! + 89!?

A. 5
B. 3
C. 1
D.8

8. What is the remainder when 1294*1298 is divided by 16.

A. 14
B. 11
C. 12
D.10

9. When the cost of cigarettes increases by 25 %, a man reduces his annual consumption by
10 %. Find the % change in his annual expenditure on cigarettes?
A. 12.5 %
B. 11.11 %
C. 15 %
D. 6.25 %
10. Renuka spends 35 % of her income on clothes and 40 % on food. If food amounts to Rs.
384, what does she spend on clothes (in Rs.)?
A. 436
B. 320
C. 310
D. None of these

11. Ali the barber shaved 40 % of his customers and gave a haircut to 80 % of his customers.
He charged Rs. 7 for a shave and Rs. 5 for a haircut. If 20 % of customers who opted for a
shave also had a hair-cut, what were Khan’s earnings if he had 75 customers (in Rs.)?
A. 410
B. 1020
C. 510
D. None of these

12. A candidate who got 20% marks fails by 10 marks but another candidate who gets 42%
marks get 12% more than the passing marks. Find the maximum.
A. 100
B. 120
C. 150
D. 200

13. In an election between two candidates, a person who got 58% of total votes won the
election by a majority of 960. Find the total number of votes.
A. 9600
B. 6000
C. 10000
D. 1655

14. A report consists of 20 sheets each of 55 lines and each such line consists of 65
characters. This report is reduced onto sheets each of 65 lines such that each line consists of
70 characters. The percentage reduction in number of sheets is closest to:
A. 20%
B. 5%
C. 30%
D. 35%

15. 2/5th of the voters promise to vote for A and the rest promised to vote for B. Of these,
on the last day 15% of the voters went back of their promise to vote for A and 25% of voters
went back of their promise to vote for B, and A lost by 200 votes. Then, the total number of
voters is:
A. 10000
B. 11000
C. 9000
D. 9500

16. Forty per cent of the employees of a certain company are men and 75% of the men earn
more than Rs. 25,000 per year. If 45% of the company’s employees earn more than Rs.
25,000 per year, what fraction of the women employed by the company earn Rs. 25,000 or
less per year?
A. 2/11
B. 1/4
C. 1/3
D. 3/4

17. When a sum of money was equally distributed among 49 children, each child received
Rs. 20. If the same amount is equally distributed among children, such that each child gets
Rs. 3.5, find the number of children.
A. 280
B. 246
C. 245
D. 240
18. The ratio of two numbers is 9 : 5. If 9 is added to the greater number and 5 is subtracted
from the smaller number, the greater number becomes thrice the smaller one. Find the
numbers.
A. 72, 40
B. 18, 10
C. 36, 20
D. None of these

19. The ratio of the first and second-class fares between the two stations is 6 : 4 and the
number of passengers traveling by first and second-class is 1 : 30. If Rs. 2100 is collected as
fare, what is the amount collected from first class passengers?
A. Rs.250
B. Rs. 200
C. Rs. 150
D. Rs. 100

20. Divide Rs. 390 among 3 persons A, B and C such that 3 times A’s share, 2 times B’s share
and 4 times C’s share are all equal. The shares of A, B and C are respectively
A. Rs. 120, Rs. 180, Rs. 90
B. Rs. 60, Rs. 90, Rs. 45
C. Rs. 240, Rs. 157, Rs. 90
D. None of these

21. Albert starts walking from U towards V with speed 5 km/hr and Ronith starts on her
scooty from V towards U with the speed 45 km/hr. In how much time do they meet if both
starts at 6 am and distance between U and V is 320 km?
A. 1:35 pm
B. 12:24 pm
C. 12:36 pm
D. 11:45 am
22. Arun has to meet Anita at a restaurant at 2 : 30 PM. He starts from his home when his
wristwatch shows 12 : 30 PM and he knows he should have left 30 minutes before to reach
on time, so he speeds up and reaches the restaurant when his wristwatch shows 2 : 30 PM.
When he talks to Anita after reaching the restaurant he comes to know that he has actually
arrived 30 minutes early and also that his watch is running 30 minutes ahead of time. To
complete the journey on time by how much percent he had to increase his average speed?
A. 20%
B. 33.33%
C. 25%
D. 66.66%

23. A and B are running on the boundary on two concentric circles with radii in the ratio 2 :
3. The speed ratio of A and B is 8 : 9, where A is running on the inner and B is running on the
outer circle. Their starting points form a right angle at the centre of the circle. They both
start running in same direction and after 7 seconds B completes a quarter of the outer
circle. After how much time the distance between A and B will be minimum?
A. 35 sec
B. 49 sec
C. 56 sec
D. 63 sec

24. Sunny covers a certain distance in a certain time. While returning, he takes only 1/3rd
the time he took for the outward journey. What is the ratio between the average speed for
the entire journey and his original speed?
A. 2 : 3
B. 3 : 2
C. 4 : 5
D. 5 : 4

25. A man can swim to a place 120 km distant and come back in 35 hours. He finds that he
he can swim 6 km against the stream in the same time as 8 km with the stream. Find the
ratio of speed of man in still water to that of stream?
A. 5 : 2
B. 4 : 7
C. 7 : 1
D. 2 : 9

26. Two trucks ‘X’ and ‘Z’ were moving towards each other which were 490 km away
initially. If the ratio of the speed of the trucks ‘X’ and ‘Z’ was 4 : 3 and the speed of the truck
‘Z’ was 60 km/h, what time will it take for the two trucks to meet each other?
A. 210 min.
B. 240 min.
C. 180 min.
D. 270 min.

27. In a cycle race from Bhubaneshwar to Puri the cyclist who came last travelled 19 km less
distance in 5 hours than the distance travelled by the cyclist in 6 hours who came first and,
the distance travelled by the cyclist who came last in 8 hours is 6 km more than the distance
travelled by the cyclist in 4 hours who came first. Which of the following can be the speed
range of the cyclists?(in kilometers per hour)
A. 5 – 6 km/hr
B. 4 – 6.5 km/hr
C. 3.5 – 5 km/hr
D. 5 – 8.5 km/hr

28. The average speed of a train is five times of the average speed of a car. If the difference
between the time taken by them to cover a distance of 1260 km is 168 hours then find the
time taken by the train will take to cover the same distance?
A. 33.6 hours
B. 42 hours
C. 56 hours
D. 21 hours

29) The average speed of a tractor is four – fifth of the average speed of a bus. Both vehicles
start simultaneously from Bangalore at 09 : 00 AM and reach Chennai together at 06 : 00
PM on the same day. For bus, one halt was scheduled on the way. For how long (in minutes)
was the halt scheduled? A. 112
B. 108
C. 72
D. 90

30) Ram and Shyam start at the same time from the same place towards their school. If the
speed of Shyam is 83.33% of Ram’s speed then he reaches the school 1 hour 15 minutes
after Ram. Find the time taken by Ram to reach the school?
A. 6 hours 15 minutes
B. 6 hours 45 minutes
C. 7 hours 30 minutes
D. 5 hours 15 minutes

31) A trader mixes 26 kg of rice at Rs 20 per kg with 30 kg of rice of other variety at Rs 36 per
kg and sells the mixture at Rs 30 per kg. His profit percent is:
A) No profit no loss
B) 5%
C) 8%
D) 10%

32) Two shopkeepers announce the same price of Rs 700 for a sewing machine. The first
offers successive discounts of 30% and 6% while the second offers successive discount of
20% and 16%. The shopkeeper that offers a better discount, charges ……… less than the
other shopkeeper.
A) Rs 9.80
B) Rs. 16.80
C) Rs. 22.40
D) Rs. 36.40

33) The price of an article is raised by 30% and then two successive discounts of 10% each
are allowed. Ultimately, the price of the article is: [SSC 2003]

A) decreased by 5.3%

B) increased by 3%
C) increased by 5.3%

D) increased by 10%

34) Lila makes terracotta showpieces for her living. On any day she makes as many
showpiece as the price per showpiece. Everyday she sells all her pieces at a profit of Rs. 30
per piece. If at the end of the day she makes a profit of 10%, then much overall profit did
she make by the end of the day?

A.Rs. 5000

B. Rs. 6000

C. Rs. 8000

D. Rs. 9000

35) Sanjay buys two second hand cars for Rs. 1 lakh and Rs. 150000 respectively. He spends
Rs. (x + 5000) on the first car and Rs. x on the second car for repairing them. He marks up
the first car by 20% and second car by 30% and sells the two cars to Romy at a discount of
25% each. Now Romy sells both of them for total of Rs. 360000 at a profit of 20%. Find the
amount spent by Sanjay on repairing of both the cars.

A. Rs. 62500

B. Rs. 63400

C. Rs. 65200

D. Rs. 68200

36) A box contains 4 chocobars and 4 ice creams. Tom eats 3 of them one after another.
What is the probability of sequentially choosing 2 chocobars and 1 icecream?

A. 3/8

B. 1/7

C. 2/3
D. 2/7
37) A magician holds one six-sided die in his left hand and two in his right. What is the
probability the number on the dice in his left hand is greater than the sum of the dice in his
right?
A. 7/108
B. 5/54
C. 1/9
D. 2/17

38) A child paints the six faces of a cube with six different colors red, blue, pink, yellow,
green and orange. What is the probability that red, pink and blue faces share a common
corner?
A. 1/6
B. 1/20
C. 1/10
D. 1/5

39) A tiffin box contains x pink and (x – 4) yellow toffees and another tiffin box contains (x –
1) yellow and (x – 3) pink toffees. If one of the tiffin box is selected at random and 2 toffees
are drawn at random from the box thus selected, the probability that the two toffees are of
different colours is 67/132. Find the total number of toffees in the first tiffin box?
A. 8
B. 12
C. 10
D. 16

40) There is a dart board with five concentric circles of radius 4cm, 6cm, 10cm, 14cm and
24cm. What is the probability that a dart thrown will hit the board between smallest and
second largest circle?
A. 9/19
B. 49/144
C. 83/144
D. 5/16
41) A box contains 50 marbles of different colours i.e. purple, pink and blue. Find the
number of pink marbles in the box, if probability of picking up a purple marble is 3/5 and
that of either a purple or a pink marble is 4/5.
A. 6
B. 8
C. 5
D. 10

42) A bag contains ‘x’ red, ‘x+5’ blue and ‘x + 7’ grey balls. If two balls are randomly drawn
from the bag and the probability that both the balls are of same colour is 148/435, then find
the total number of balls in the bag.
A. 36 balls
B. 64 balls
C. 58 balls
D. 30 balls

43) 16 persons shake hands with one another in a party. How many shake hands took place?
A. 124
B. 120
C. 165
D. 150

44) How many five digit numbers can be formed with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 which
are divisible by 4 if repetition is allowed?
A. 1728
B. 1444
C. 1600
D. 1344
45) In an auditorium the chairs were arranged such that the number of rows were 3 more
than the number of columns. The chairs are rearranged by removing 3 columns and adding
6 rows without adding or removing any chair. How many people can sit in that auditorium at
a time?
A. 124
B. 96
C. 108
D. 98

46) How many 3 - letter words with or without meaning, can be formed out of the letters of
the word, 'LOGARITHMS', if repetition of letters is not allowed?
A. 720
B. 420
C. 5040
D. 120

47) In how many ways 5 different balls can be distributed among 9 people, if any person can
receive any number of balls?
A. 9 × 5 ways
B. 15120 ways
C. 5^9 ways
D. 9^5 ways

48) Five people out of whom only two can drive are to be seated in a five seater car with
two seats in front and three in the rear. The people who know driving don’t sit together.
Only someone who knows driving can sit on the driver’s seat. Find the number of ways the
five people can be seated.
A. 40
B. 60
C. 48
D. 36
49) A chess board has rows and columns marked A to H and 1-8. Aman has a knight and a
rook which he has to place on the board such that the two pieces are not in same row or
column, what is total number of ways he can place the two pieces?
A. 3072
B. 3136
C. 6272
D. 6144

50) A postmaster wants to get delivered 6 letters at six different addresses. In the post
office there are 2 postmen then in how many ways can the postmaster send the letters at
different addresses through the postmen?
A. 6! /2!
B. 6! × 2!
C. 64
D. 36

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11) C 12) A 13) B 14) A 15) A 16) D 17) A 18) C 19) D 20) A
21) B 22) C 23) D 24) B 25) A 26) A 27) B 28) B 29) B 30) A
31) B 32) A 33) C 34) D 35) D 36) B 37) B 38) D 39) B 40) D
41) D 42) D 43) B 44) A 45) C 46) A 47) D 48) D 49) B 50) C