OBJECTIVE-TYPE QUESTIONS

4
(a)
9

(b) 9
4

(c) 4

(d) 3

26. Consider the following values of the three given

numbers:
103 , 99.35 , 102.20

1. 10.1489 (Approx)
2. 10.109 (Approx)
3. 9.967 (Approx)
The correct sequence of these values matching with the
above numbers is:
(a) 1, 2, 3
(b) 1, 3, 2
(c) 2, 3, 1
(d) 3, 1,
2
27. The expression
.85 (.105 .024 .
008)
.022 .25
1.7

simplifies to:
(a) 11
(b)

1.1

(c) 11

(d)

.011

28. The value of

2

(0.01) (0.22) (0.333)

2

is:

(0.0333)

(a)

(b) 10

10

(c) 100

(d) 1000

29. A large water tank gets filled from two pipes P1 and
P2. P1 alone can fill it in 50 minutes, while P2 alone can fill
it
in one hour. If on any day P2 starts working only after P1 has
been used for filling half the tank, then the time taken to
fill
the tank will be:
(a)

50 60
minutes
2
1

(b) 25 +
minutes

50

1
1
(c)

1
60

(a) 22 : 20 : 25

the number formed by the first two digits and the

number formed by the last two digits are also perfect squares,
then the four-digited number is:
(a) 6416
(b) 3616
(c) 1681
(d) 1664

25

1
1

50 60

30. Two trains, each 100 metre long, moving in opposite

directions, cross each other in 8 seconds. If one is moving
twice as fast as the other, then the speed of the faster train
is:
(a) 30 km/h
(b) 45 km/hr
(c) 60 km/hr

(b) 10 : 9 : 7

(c) 11 : 10 : 8
(d) 22 : 18 : 25
39. If a four-digited perfect square number is such that

minutes
2

(a) Rs 1000
(b) Rs 1050
(c) Rs 1100
(d) Rs
1150
37. If the monthly electricity bill in a hostel for lighting
22 bulbs, each of 100 watt for 6 hours daily is Rs 3,520. Then
the amount of the bill when 30 bulbs each of 100 watt are
lighted for 8 hours daily is:
(a) Rs 3,200
(b) Rs 4,800
(c) Rs 5,800
(d) Rs 6,400
38. If the income of A is 10% more than that of B and the
income of B is 20% less than that of C, then the incomes of A,
B and C are, respectively, in the ratio:

F I
J
2 50 minutes
60 K

(d)

year. The population before three years was:

(a) 5000
(b) 5500
(c) 6000
(d) 6600
36. A person divided Rs 10,800 among his 3 sons in
the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. Second son kept Rs 1000 for himself, gave
Rs 600 to his wife; and divided the remaining money
among his 2 daughters in the ratio 11 : 9. Then one of his
daughters received:

(0.001) (0.022)
1

is decreased by 12%. The expenditure of the family on edible

oil is increased by:
(a) 13% (b) 10%
(c) 37%
(d) 30%
33. A sum of money invested at a certain rate of simple
interest doubles itself in 12 years and 6 months. It will treble
itself at the same rate of interest in:
(a) 18 years and 9 months
(b) 20 years and 8 months
(c) 22 years
(d) 25 years
34. A shopkeeper sells an item at a loss of 12 1 %. In
2 price
order to gain 6% profit, he must increase the selling
by Rs 92.50. The cost price of the item
is: (a) Rs 500
(b) Rs
450
(c) Rs 550
(d) Rs 600
35. The population of a village is 7986. During the
last
three years, the population increased at the rate of 10% per

(d) 75 km/hr

9
3
be: 40. If x 3 is divided by x 1, then the remainder will

(a) 2
(b) 2
(c) 1
(d) 1
41. The prime numbers dividing 109 and leaving a
31. Person A can do a work in 6 days, while persons B

and C can do the same work in 12 and 18 days

respectively.
If they start together to do the work on the same day and
C
stops working after 3 days, then the time required by A
and
B together to finish the rest of the work will be:
(a) 1 day and 12 hours (b) 16 hours
(c) 8 hours
(d) 1 day and 6 hours
32. Due to the increase in the price of edible oil in
the
market by 25%, the consumption of this oil in a certain
family

remainder of 4 in each case are:

(a) 5 and 7
(b) 2 and 11
(c) 3 and 7
(d) 11 and 13
42. Which one of the following numbers is divisible by
11?
(a) 4823718
(b) 8423718
(c) 8432718
(d) 4832718
43. The average age of 30 students in a class is 15 years.
If 6 students of this class have the average age of 16 years,
then the average age of the remaining 24 students would be:

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