Quantitativr Aptitude 2

Quantitative Aptitude - 02

1. Babla alone can do a piece of work in 10 days. Ashu alone can do it in 15 days. The total wages 

for the work is Rs.5000. How much should be Babla be paid if they work together for an entire 

duration of work? 

a. 5000 

b. 4000 

c. 3000 

d. 2000 

Answer: 3000 

2. How many of the integers from 1 to 86 (inclusive) contain the digit 4 or have the digit sum 

divisible by 4? 

a. 40 

b. 41 

c. 24 

d. 35 

Answer: 35 

3. In this problem ABS(X)is the mathematical value of X without regard to its sign. for example 

ABS(3)IS 3 and ABS(-3) is also 3.if the equation ABS(x+12)+ABS(x-5)=r is satisfied by infinitely 

many values of x the value of r is 

a. 12 

b. No such r exists 

c. 17 

d. 5 

Answer: 17 

4. Of height 36 m at the edge of a road broke ( While remaining attached to the tree ) at a certain 

height and it fell in such a way that touched the other edge of the road. If the breadth of the 

road is 12m. Then the height at which the tree broke was 

a. 16 

b. 18 

c. 24 

d. 12 

Answer: 16 

5. Two cars start at the same time from a and b and travel towards each other at speeds of 

50kmph and 60 kmph respectively at the time of their of their meeting the second car has 

travelled 120 km more than the first the distance between a and b is

12 

a. 720 km 

b. 1320 km 

c. 600 km 

d. 1230 km 

Answer: 1320 KM 

6. The numbers from 5 to 26 are written side-by-side as follows 567..2526. What is the remainder of dividing the resultant number by 9? 

a. 1 

b. 3 

c. 8 

d. 5 

Answer: 5 

7. A certain number of teams took part in a competition each team in the competition must play one game with each of the other teams, how many teams took part in the competition if they 

played 55 games in all? 

a. 10 

b. 12 

c. 7 

d. 11 

Answer: 11 

8. Which of the following represents the largest 4 digit number which can be added to 7855 in order to make the derived number divisible by each of the following numbers 12,14,21,33 and 

54? 

a. 461 

b. 8777 

c. 9953 

d. 9965 

Answer: 461 

9. You are driving along a highway at a constant speed of 55 miles per hour you observe a car one-half mile behind you the car is moving fast and zooms past you exactly one minute later. How fast is this car travelling (mph)if its speed is constant? 

a. 80 

b. 70 

c. 85 

d. 72 

Answer: 85

 

10. A store is selling a jacket on sale at 30% off the marked price. A matching pair of pants is on 

sale at 40% off the marked price. If the marked price of the pants is Rs. 8500 less than the 

marked price of the jacket and the total sale price of both items is Rs. 23500, then what is the 

marked price of the jacket? 

a. 21700 

b. 21800 

c. 22000 

d. 22100 

Answer: 22000 

11. In a group of 5 families, every family has a certain number of children, such that the number of children forms an arthmetic progression with a common difference of one, starting with two children in the first family. Despite the objection of their parents every child in a family has three times as many pets to look after as the number of offspring in the family. What is the total number of pets in the entire group of five families. 

a. 270 

b. 99 

c. 165 

d. 27 

Answer: 270 

12. If we add x to both numerator and denominator of the fractions ⅔ and 20/23 the resulSng fractions are equal x is 

a. 56 

b. 12 

c. 7 

d. 143 

Answer: 7 

13. How many words of 11 letters could be formed with all the vowels present only in the even places, and the consonants only in the odd places, using letters of the english alphabet? Each letter may appear only once . the vowels are A,E,I,O,U and the consonants are the remaining letters of the alphabet. In the answer ,n! Donotes n factorial (or 1*2*...*n) 

a. 21! 

b. 26! / 5! 

c. 21! * 5! / 15! 

d. 21! / (5!*5!) 

Answer: 21! * 5! /15!

14. On a certain assembly line the rejection rate for hyundai i10’s production was 4 percent for hyundai i20’s production 8 percent and the two cars combined 7 percent .what was the ratio of hyundai i20’s production to hyundai i10’s production? 

a. 1:1 

b. 2:1 

c. 1:2 

d. 3:1 

Answer: 3:1 

15. The average temperature of may, July and august was 31 degrees. The average temperature of July, august and October was 30 degrees, if the temperature of May was 30 degrees , find the temperature October (in degrees) 

a. 27 

b. 28 

c. 26 

d. 25 

Answer: 27 

16. The arithmetic mean of three numbers is 147.if the mean of the first two numbers is 141.what is the third number? 

a. 18 

b. 159 

c. 6 

d. 723 

Answer: 159 

17. Raj divided 50 in to two parts such that the sum of their reciprocal is 1/12 we get the parts as 

a. 28,22 

b. 36,14 

c. 20,30 

d. 24,36 

Answer: 20, 30 

18. A child was looking for his father. He went 90 metres in the East before turning to his right. He went 20 metres before turning to his right again to look for his father at his uncle’s place 30 

metres from this point. His father was not there. From here he went 100 metres to the North 

before meeting his father in a street. How far did the son meet his father from the starting 

point?

a. 80 

b. 30 

c. 90 

d. 100 

Answer:100 

19. The greatest common divisor of two numbers A and B is 22. The least common multiple of A 

and B is 2002, if A has fewer divisors B, what is A + B? 

Answer: 20 

20. Usha has three boxes with ten balls in each.she plays a game where the goal is to end up with 

as few balls as possible in the boxes.the boxes are each marked with a seperate number 4,7, 

and 10.it is allowed to remove n balls from the box marked with the number n,put three of 

them aside and put the rest in another box.what is the least possible number of balls the boxes 

together can contain in the end?? 

Answer: 1 

21. For a positive integer N. Let P(N) be the product of the digits of N. example,P(123) = 6. The 

value of P(101) + P (102)+.....P(201) + P(202) is 

Answer: 504 

22. We have two cubes . the sum of the two cubes is 25. The sum of a side length of one cube and 

a side length of the other is 4. What is the sum of the total surface areas of the two cubes? 

Answer: 57