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General Instructions:
The CMAT is a 30 minute aptitude test. It requires no specialised math knowledge, but it tests how
well one can use the information provided to arrive at an answer. It also requires the use of some
common math procedures; the kind that most adults can solve.
This document contains a sampling of the kind of questions that test mathematical aptitude as
opposed to one’s knowledge of math formulae and procedures.
Q1. All the students in a class are made to stand in a row. Ali is the 8th student from the front of
the row, and 13th from the back. How many students are there in the class?
[a] 19
[b] 20
[c] 21
[d] 22
Q2. The bar graph given below shows the data of the production of books (in thousands) by three
different companies A, B and C over the years.
What is the percentage increase in the production of Company B from 2012 to 2015?
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Q4. The commander of a stranded battalion with a strength of 400 soldiers has enough food
to last them for 12 days. A few kilometers away, the commander notices another smaller,
stranded group of 80 soldiers. The commander is worried that if the smaller group were to
join his group, their food supplies would run out faster. How many days would the food last
for 480 soldiers?
2, 7, 14, 23, ?, 47
4, 6, 12, 14, 28, 30, ?
4, 9, 13, 22, 35, ?
Q6. On an average, Paromita can type 10 pages in 5 minutes. Rukmani is slower than Paromita,
and can type an average of only 5 pages in 10 minutes. If the two of them work together,
roughly how many pages can they be expected to type in half an hour?
Q7. Alpha, Beta and Gamma are three siblings. Alpha is two years older than Beta, who is twice as
old as Gamma. If the total of their ages is 27 years, how old is Beta?
Q8. The product of three natural numbers (or counting numbers) is 8. If M is the maximum
possible value of the sum of these numbers, while m is the minimum possible value of the
sum of these numbers, what is the difference between M and m?
Q9. Suppose that you have to calculate the sum S of all the numbers from 1 to 10:
S = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10
Typically, we would add the numbers from left to right. However, there’s a more elegant way
to find S. Note that:
S = (1 + 10) + (2 + 9) + (3 + 8) + (4 + 7) + (5 + 6)
Using a similar logic, find the sum S’ of all the numbers from 1 to 100:
S’ = 1 + 2 + 3 + … + 98 + 99 + 100
Q10. Sometimes, very large numbers are represented using exponential notation. For example,
suppose that the distance between two planets is 136000000 km. We can write this distance
as (1.36 × 100000000) km, or 1.36 × 108 km.
The mass of Jupiter is about 2 × 1027 kg, while that of the Sun is about 2 × 1030 kg.
Roughly, how many Jupiters would equal the mass of the Sun?
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ANSWER KEY
Q1. 20 (there are 7 students in front, 12 at the back, and Ali himself)
35 � 30
Q2. Percentage increase = ×100 = 16.6%
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Q3. 24
Q4. 10 days (The amount of food they have is 400 soldiers × 12 days = 4800 soldier-days. If there
are 480 soldiers instead, then the number of days the supply will last is 4800 / 480 = 10)
34 + 60 + 57 = 151 (first series has increasing differences, second is add 2 and multiply 2,
third is modified Fibonacci series in which each number is the sum of the two preceding
numbers)
Q6. 75 (Paromita can type 2 pages per minute, Rukmani 0.5. Together they can type 2.5 pages per
minute, so in 30 minutes, they can type 30 × 2.5 = 75 pages)
Q10. 1000
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