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QUESTION: 01
The bus fare for two persons for travelling between Agra and Aligarh id four-
thirds the train fare between the same places for one person. The total fare
paid by 6 persons travelling by bus and 8 persons travelling by train
between the two places is Rs.1512. Find the train fare between the two
places for one person?
A. Rs.126
B. Rs.132
C. Rs.120
D. Rs.114
Answer: A
QUESTION: 02
A man purchased 15 pens, 12 books, 10 pencils and 5 erasers. The cost of

each pen is Rs.36, each book is Rs.45, each pencil is Rs.8, and the cost of
each eraser is Rs.40 less than the combined costs of pen and pencil. Find the
total amount spent?
A. Rs.1180
B. Rs.1120
C. Rs.1140
D. Rs.1160
Answer: A
QUESTION: 03
A man traveled a total distance of 1800 km. He traveled one-third of the whole
trip by plane and the distance traveled by train is three-fifth of the distance
traveled by bus. If he traveled by train, plane and bus, then find the distance
traveled by bus?
A. 450 km
B. 850 km
C. 1200 km
D. 750 km
Answer: D
QUESTION: 04
Ajay and Vijay have some marbles with them. Ajay told Vijay "if you give me
'x' marbles, both of us will have equal number of marbles". Vijay then told
Ajay "if you give me twice as many marbles, I will have 30 more marbles than
you would". Find 'x'?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 8
Answer: B
QUESTION: 05
There are some rabbits and peacocks in a zoo. The total number of their
heads is 60 and total number of their legs is 192. Find the number of total
rabbits?
A. 30
B. 36
C. 40
D. 44
Answer: B
QUESTION: 06
Alok ordered 16 chapatis, 5 plates of rice, 7 plates of mixed vegetable and 6

ice-cream cups. The cost of each chapati is Rs.6, that of each plate of rice is
Rs.45 and that of mixed vegetable is Rs.70. The amount that Alok paid the
cashier was Rs.961. Find the cost of each ice-cream cup?
A. Rs.25
B. Rs.22.50
C. Rs.20
D. Rs.17.50
Answer: A
QUESTION: 07
A bag contains a total of 93 coins in the form of one rupee and 50 paise coins.
If the total value of coins in the bag is Rs.56, find the number of 50 paise coins
in the bag?
A. 60
B. 56
C. 64
D. 74
Answer: D
QUESTION: 08
Rs.1200 divided among P, Q and R. P gets half of the total amount received by Q
and R. Q gets one-third of the total amount received by P and R. Find the amount
received by R?
A. Rs.400
B. Rs.500
C. Rs.300
D. Rs.600
Answer: B
QUESTION: 09
The present average age of a couple and their daughter is 35 years. Fifteen
years from now, the age of the mother will be equal to the sum of present
ages of the father and the daughter. Find the present age of mother?
A. 43 years
B. 40 years
C. 48 years
D. 45 years
Answer: D
QUESTION: 10
The number obtained by interchanging the two digits of a two-digit number is

less than the original number by 45. If the sum of the two digits of the number
so obtained is 13, then what is the original number?
A. 49
B. 94
C. 83
D. Either (a) or (b)
Answer: B
QUESTION: 11
The number obtained by interchanging the digits of a two-digit number is less

than the original number by 63. If the sum of the digits of the number is 11,
what is the original number?
A. 29
B. 92
C. 74
D. Cannot be determined
Answer: B
QUESTION: 12
Three friends, returning from a movie, stopped to eat at a restaurant. After dinner,
they paid their bill and noticed a bowl of mints at the front counter. Sita took 1/3 of
the mints, but returned four because she had a momentary pang of guilt. Fatima
then took 1/4 of what was left but returned three for similar reasons. Eswari then
took half of the remainder but threw two back into the bowl. The bowl had only 17
mints left when the raid was over. How many mints were originally in the bowl?
A. 38
B. 31
C. 48
D. None of these
Answer: C
QUESTION: 13
There were a hundred schools in a town. Of these, the number of schools having
a play – ground was 30, and these schools had neither a library nor a laboratory.
The number of schools having a laboratory alone was twice the number of those
having a library only. The number of schools having a laboratory as well as a
library was one fourth the number of those having a laboratory alone. The number
of schools having either a laboratory or a library or both was 35. What was the
ratio of schools having laboratory to those having library?
A. 1 : 2
B. 5 : 3
C. 2 : 1
D. 2 : 3
Answer: B
QUESTION: 14
My son adores chocolates. He likes biscuits. But he hates apples. I told him that he
can buy as many chocolates he wishes. But then he must have biscuits twice the
number of chocolates and should have apples more than biscuits and chocolates
together. Each chocolate cost Re 1. The cost of apple is twice the chocolate and
four biscuits are worth one apple. Then which of the following can be the amount
that I spent on that evening on my son if number of chocolates, biscuits and apples
brought were all integers?
A. Rs. 34
B. Rs. 33
C. Rs. 8
D. None of these
Answer: A
QUESTION: 15
Once I had been to the post office to buy five-rupee, two-rupee and one-
rupee stamps. I paid the clerk Rs. 20, and since he had no change, he gave
me three more one-rupee stamps. If the number of stamps of each type
that I had ordered initially was more than one, what was the total number of
stamps that I bought?
A. 10
B. 9
C. 12
D. 8
Answer: A

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DIFFERENT WAYS TO CREATE AN OBJECT

A man purchased 15 pens, 12 books, 10 pencils and 5 erasers. The cost of

Alok ordered 16 chapatis, 5 plates of rice, 7 plates of mixed vegetable and 6

The number obtained by interchanging the two digits of a two-digit number is

The number obtained by interchanging the digits of a two-digit number is less

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