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COM APTITUDE PART FIVE

NUMERICAL COMPETENCY
1. If a man was r years old s years ago, how years old will he be t years from now?
A. rs + t B. r-s + t C. r + s + t D. None

2. In one week the naval fire department had a total of thirty calls, six of which were false
alarms. What was the percentage of actual calls this department attended?
A. 20% B. 65% C. 75% D. None

3. The greatest number of Mondays which can occur in a 45-day period is Ay6 B. 7 C. 8 D.
None 4. The number 9 is 15% of

A. 45 B. 54 C. 60 D. None

5. If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 26 men and 48 boys can do the same in 2
days, the time taken by 15 men and 20 boys in doing the same type of work will be:

A. 4 B. 5 D. None
C.6

6. A does 80% of a work in 20 days. He then calls in B and they together finish the remaining work in 3
days. How long B alone would take to do the whole work?

A.23 days B. 37 days C. 37.5 days D. None

7. The difference between a two-digit number and the number obtained by interchanging the digits is 36.
What is the difference between the sum and the difference of the digits of the number if the ratio between the
digits of the number is 1: 2?

A. 4 B. 8 C. 6 D. None

8. The diagonal of a rectangle is 41 cm and its area is 20 sq. cm. The perimeter of the rectangle(in
cm) must be:

A. 9 B. 18 C. 20 D.None

9. Find out the wrong number in the given sequence of numbers.

36, 54, 45, 63, 54, 75

A.75 B^54 C. 63 D. None

 10. What is the highest common factor of 36 and 84?

A. 4 B. 6 C. 12 D. None

11.How many digits will be there to the right of the decimal point in the

product of 95.75 and .0255A?

A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. None

12. Insert the missing number.

1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, (....)

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A.54 B. 56 C. 64 D. None

13. Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is:

A. 1/6 B. 5/12 C. l/2 D. None

14. Running at the, same constant rate, 6 identical machines can produce a total of 270 bottles per
minute. At this rate, how many bottles could 10 such machines produce in 4 minutes?

A.648 B. 1800 C. 2700 D. None

15. If 20% of a = b, then b% of 20 is the same as:

A. 4% of a B. 5% of a C. 20% of a D. None £3.

16. A man walked diagonally across a square field. Approximately, what was the percent saved by not
walking along the edges?

A. 20 B.24 C. 30 D. None

17. Find a positive number which when increased by 17 is equal to 60 times the reciprocal of the
number.

A. 3 B. 10 C. 17 D. none

18. Azeb’s father was 38 years of age when she was born while her mother was 36 years old when her
brother four years younger to her was born. What is the difference between the ages (in years) of her
parents?

A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. None