CAT Replica Arithmetic -1,CWQAT-2101
1.A four-digit number ‘ABCD’ gets reversed, if multiplied by 4.
What is value of A+B+C-D?
(a)18 (b)12 (c)2 (d)None of these
2.Each of A, B and C had some marbles with them. B
distributed half the marble with him among A and C in the ratio
5:4. Then C distributed one third of the marbles with him among
A and B in the ratio 2:1 after that, A distributed one fourth of the
marbles with him among B and C in the ratio 1:3. If each of
them now has 216 marbles, find initial number of marbles with
A.
(a)139 (b)342 (c)167 (d)234
3. A, B and C are three quantities such that A varies inversely
with B when C is constant and B varies inversely with C when
A is constant. When B & C are 8 and 7 respectively, A is 30.
Find A if B & C are 16 and 21 respectively.
4. Ritu was asked to multiply a two-digit number N by a 3-digit
number M. But she mistakenly multiplied N by the number
formed by writing the digits of M in the reverse order, thereby
getting an answer which was 22770 more than the correct
number. Find minimum 11.possible sum of the digits of M?
(a)5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 10
5. In the previous question, Find the correct product of N and
M, if it is known that Ritu reversed the digits of both the numbers
N and M, she would have got an answer 12816 more than her
earlier answer.
6. A mathematics teacher wrote n positive numbers of the black
board and asked the students in her class to find the product of
all the n numbers. One of her students, Ranjith, randomly
chose one of the n numbers and increased it by a certain
quantity and found the original product increased by 9%. Two
other students, Satish and Tarun also carried out a similar
calculation and found out the original product increased by 12%
and 18% respectively. If all the students increased the number
that they choose by the same quantity, then find the ratio of the
numbers that they choose?
7.Two vessels, A and B, contain equal quantities of a solution
of milk and water. The concentration of milk is the same in both
A and B. If eight litres of the solution from A is replaced with
pure milk, then the concentration of milk in A becomes twice of
what it was initially. If 16 litres of the solution from B is replaced
with pure milk, then then find the ratio of final concentration of
milk in B to that of the initial concentration of milk in B.
(a)2.5 (b) 3 (c) 3.5 (d) 4
8. Neha takes a loan at 20% p.a. with interest being
compounded annually. The loan is to be repaid in 10 equal
annual instalments of ₹7200 each paid the end of each year.
After paying the eighth instalment, the rate of interest reduced
to 10% p.a. for ninth and tenth years. Now, if Neha wants to
repay the remaining loan in the single payment at end of 9 th
year, what is the amount that she must pay?
9. X, Y and Z start business. Their investments are in the ratio
x: y: z where y-x = z-y = k and y>3k. Their annual profit shares
are in the ratio z2: y2: x2. The ratio of the time periods of X and
Z can be?
(a) 9 (b) 10 (c) 11 (d)7
10.Ramlal buys a pen for ₹100 and sells it after marking it x%
higher. Shyamlal buys a pen stand for ₹200 and marks it up by
3x%. If after selling it at discount of x%, Shyamal makes the
same profit as Ramlal. Find x.
11.Some sparrows and pigeons are sitting on a fence, when 5
sparrows leave, there remains two pigeons for every sparrow.
Then 35 pigeons leave, there are now 3 sparrows for every
pigeon. Find the initial number of pigeons.
(a)52 (b)46 (c)48 (d)42
12. A Mixture has 25% salt. Using the filtration process, the
mixture can be purified. Each iteration will reduce the salt
content in the mixture by 20%. What is the least number of
iterations required for the salt content in the mixture to
decrease to 2% or less of the initial salt content is (log 2 =
0.3010)?
13. A grandmother bought some chocolates from a shop and
kept them in a cupboard. She wanted to give the chocolates to
her three grandchildren. One of the grandchildren spotted the
chocolates, divided them into three equal parts and found one
chocolate remaining. He ate that chocolate and hid one of the
equal parts. After some time, another grandchild came and did
the same. After some more time, the third grandchild came and
did the same. Sometime later, the grandmother came and
realized that the number of chocolates in the cupboard was one
more than the number she could divide equally among her
grandchildren. The number of chocolates that she bought was
at least?
14.Mahesh sells sugar at 20% more than the cost of purchase.
He also cheats on weight and weighs only 950 gm per kg of
sugar. Suresh being a regular customer is offered a discount of
5% and pays only ₹18 for a kg of sugar. The profit of Mahesh
when Suresh purchases 1 kg of sugar from his is
(a) ₹3.60 (b) ₹3 (c) ₹2.85 (d) ₹2.70
15. The average monthly salary of 200 employees of a
company is 90000/-. This company has two branches, one in
Delhi and other in Mumbai. Each branch has 100 employees.
The average salary of employees in Delhi branch is 1000 more
than that of employees of branch in Mumbai. If Pradeep, the
highest paid employee of Delhi branch is transferred to Mumbai
and Gopal, the lowest paid employee of Mumbai branch is
transferred to Delhi branch, the average monthly salary of two
branches got interchanged. Transfer of Pradeep only makes
the average monthly salary of two branches equal. Find the
monthly salary of Gopal.
(a)40000 (b) 30000 (c)50000 (d)None of these
16. The consumption of petrol per hour of my car varies directly
as the square of its speed. When the car is travelling at 100
kmph its consumption is 8 ltrs. If each litre costs Rs. 60 and
other expenses per hour is Rs. 120, then what would be the
minimum expenditure required to cover the distance of 500
km?
(a) Rs 1600 (b) Rs 2400 (c) RS 3000 (d) None of these
17. The average of 36 numbers is 25. A new average is found
after including some numbers from the set {30,31, 32……65}.
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The minimum number of numbers to be included in the order
for the new average to exceed 30 is
(a)40 (b)5 (c) 6 (d) 7
18. A man borrowed a certain sum under compound interest,
compounded annually, from a bank. CI for 2nd and 3rd year are
₹3840 and ₹4608 respectively. Find the sum.
(a)₹14000 (b) ₹16000 (c) ₹18000 (d) ₹20000
19. A man purchases certain number of pencil boxes at the rate
of ₹20 per box. But while selling, he sells the first box for ₹2,
second one for ₹4, third for ₹6……and so on. If he wants to
make an overall profit of at least 40%, what is the minimum
number of boxes he should sell?
(a)24 (b)18 (c) 27 (d) 32
20. Amit earns a% more than Bimal and Bimal earns b% less
than Amit. If a-b≥10 what is the smallest value ‘a’ can take?
(a)38 (b)32 (c)47 (d)21
Additional questions for practice:
1. If the cost of one toffee with wrapper is ₹1. A person
can get one toffee for free for every 3 wrappers. How
many total toffees a person can get with total of ₹123?
(a)184 (b)183 (c)185 (d)182
2. Ram purchased 12 detergent bars and 11 toothpastes.
The ratio of cost prices of detergent and toothpaste is 6: 5.
He marked each bar 20% above its cost price and
toothpaste by ₹25 above its cost price. By selling five-sixth
of bars and 9 toothpastes, he realized a total amount of
₹1980. The rest of detergent bars and toothpastes were
damaged and could not be sold. Find Ram’s overall
profit/loss.
(a) ₹75 profit (b) ₹25 profit (c) ₹25 Loss (d) ₹75 Loss
3. If sum of squares of first N natural numbers exceeds the
sum of first N natural numbers by 1600%, then what is
value of N?
4.The publisher of novel, published the novel in six
volumes numbered I, II, III, IV…VI. Number of pages in
each volume is 25% more than that in the previous volume.
If number of pages in volume V of the book is 500 more
than that of volume IV, how many pages were there in
volume II of the book?
(a)480 (b) 960 (c) 640 (d)1280
5. If the digits of a four-digit number reversed, the number
decreased by 7542. How many such numbers are
possible?