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Q. 1. This year Rahul`s birthday is on Sunday. 45 days after Rahul`s birthday, his friend
Ashwin will have his birthday. On what day of the week is Ashwin`s birthday ?
(1) Monday (2) Tuesday (3) Wednesday (4) Thursday

Q. 2. If today`s sunrise is at 6 : 32 a.m. and the sunset will come just 11 hours 47 minutes after
the sunrise, at what time will today`s sunset occur?
(1) 5 : 39 p.m. (2) 6 : 79 p.m. (3) 6 : 39 p.m. (4) 6 : 19 p.m.

Q. 3. Starting from zero, Sahil begins counting out loud by sixes and Reena begins counting
out loud by eights. What is the first number that both of them will say as they count (not
including zero) ?
(1) 12 (2) 24 (3) 16 (4) 18

Q. 4. Arun has five boxes of sweet each weighing 250 grams, and Bharat has 7 boxes of sweet
each weighing 150 gram. Which of the following statement is correct ?
(1) Arun has 250 grams more than Bharat (2) Arun has 150 grams less than Bharat
(3) Bharat has 200 grams less than Arun (4) Arun and Bharat have equal weight of sweets

Q. 5. On their trip around the world Fred and Ben saw a beautiful paper dragon in China. The
body of the dragon with its head is 740 cm long. Its body is 460 cm longer than its head.
How long is the head of the dragon?
(1) 120 cm (2) 140 cm (3) 80 cm (4) 280 cm

Q. 6. In a village the houses were numbered from 1 to 100. The head of the village does not
like the number 3 and orders all houses having the digit 3 in their number be changed and
numbered serially after 100 without the digit 3. What would be the greatest number used
to number these houses.
(1) 119 (2) 125 (3) 121 (4) 111

Q. 7. Great Hunter has a total of 104 arrows in his three arrow bags A, B & C. If he takes out
18 from the first bag and 9 from the second bag, and puts one in the third bag, then all
three bags contain the same number of arrows. How many arrows were there originally in
each bag?
(1) A = 44, B = 35 & C = 25 (2) A = 42, B = 36 & C = 26
(3) A = 40, B = 36 & C = 28 (4) A = 38, B = 42 & C = 24

Q. 8. In a market you get an orange for 3 bananas, and an apple for 2 oranges and 2 bananas
To get 2 apples how many bananas would you have to give ?
(1) 8 (2) 16 (3) 24 (4) 18

Q. 9. A cowboy was asked how many cows does he have? He replied the sum of the heads and
legs of all the cows is 100. How many cows did the cowboy have ?
(1) 100 (2) 75 (3) 80 (4) 20
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Q. 10. On the Land of the Giants Gulliver had to hurry to keep up with the giants. While a giant
made three steps, Gulliver had to make 15 steps. How many steps did Gulliver have to
make from the ship to the king’s castle, if a giant would have to take 42 steps on that
distance?
(1) 630 (2) 210 (3) 126 (4) None of these

Q. 11. In the year 1996 Seema celebrated her birthday on 15th January, which was on a Monday
On what day did she celebrate her birthday in the year 2000 ?
(1) Monday (2) Sunday (3) Saturday (4) Thursday
1 2 3 4 5 6
Q. 12. Find the number from the square using the clues given below:
1. The number is odd 2. It is a multiple of 3 7 8 9 10 11 12
3. It is smaller than 7 x 4 4. Its tens digit is even 13 14 15 16 17 18
5. It is greater of the two possibilities 19 20 21 22 23 24
(1) 15 (2) 29
25 26 27 28 29 30
(3) 21 (4) 27
31 32 33 34 35 36

Q.13. A fourth grade class have 35 students, out of which 25 are girls, and 12 students were
glasses. In this class there are 7 boys with no glasses. How many girls wear glasses
in this class ?
(1) 3 (2) 6 (3) 5 (4) 9

Q. 14. The smallest whole number divisible by both 8 and 12 is :

(1) 4 (2) 16 (3) 24 (4) 48

Q. 15. Which of the following angle is formed between the hour hand and the minute hand
when the time is 9:30.
(1) Acute angle (2) Obtuse angle (3) Straingt angle (4) Right angle