DATA SUFFICIENCY

Percents
1. A bag contains a mixture of beans and pulses. To achieve 20 percent beans in the mixture, what percent
of the mixture should be taken out and replaced with pulses?
1. The mixture originally has 40 percent beans and 60 percent pulses.
2. Total quantity of the mixture is 20 lb.

Percents
2. A nut-mix contains peanuts and cashews. Cashews are more expensive than peanuts by what
percentage?
1. The nut-mix contains 10% peanuts.
2. The nut-mix costs 20% more than pure peanuts.

Time work
3. Two pipes, A and B, can fill a tank with water in 12 hours and 8 hours, respectively. There is a third pipe,
C, which is used to empty the tank. Only pipes A and B were opened initially and after hours, pipe C was
also opened. How long does it take for pipe C to empty the full tank?
1. Three hours after pipes A and B were opened, the tank was only half filled.
2. is an integer.

Equations
4. A salesman normally gets a fixed salary of $500 and a commission of 5 percent on sales above $1000
per month. What were the sales of the salesman in March?
1. In March, the salesman had received a fixed salary of $600 and a commission of 4 percent on sales
above $800.
2. In March, the pay structure of the salesman was changed and he received $104 more salary than he
would have received according to his earlier pay structure.

Percents
5. In a class, 30 percent of the boys read The Telegraph every day. Boys constitute 60 percent of the class
and 40 percent of the whole class reads The Telegraph. What percentage of the class reads only gossips or
only cartoons?
1. Among the boys who read The Telegraph, 40 percent read only the cartoons and the rest read only
the sports page.
2. Among the girls who read The Telegraph, 60 percent read only the gossips page and the rest read
only the fashion page.

Geometry – line triangles circles

6. P, Q, R are the centres of the three circles each of which touches the
other. What is the perimeter of PQR? P
Q
1. The radius of circle with centre R is 10 units. R

2. The radius of the circle with centre P is 6 units.

Profit loss
7. Two toy stores, A and B, sell Hot-Wheels. The regular price at store A is 80% of the manufacturer’s
suggested retail price. Store B normally does not offer any discount on the manufacturer’s suggested retail
price. During Christmas, both stores offer special discounts. What is the difference between the prices of
the toys of the two stores?
1. Store A offers a special discount of 20% on its regular price and finally sells at $64.
2. Store B offers 40% discount on its regular price.

Profit loss
8. At what price was the article sold?
1. The article was sold at 10 percent profit.
2. Had the article been sold for $150 more, the profit would have been 12 percent.

Profit loss
9. What is the percent increase in selling price of articles in the store after the old manager was replaced
by a new one? Assume that all articles are identical.
1. Articles were initially sold by the old manager at a price resulting in 10% loss for the store.
2. After the old store manager was replaced by a new one, articles were sold at a price resulting in
80% profit for the store.

Profit loss
10. What is the percent profit made on selling an article?
1. The percent profit, when calculated on the selling price of the article is 20 percent.
2. The selling price is arrived at by increasing the cost price of the article by 50 percent and then
offering a 16.67 percent discount.

Time distance
11. A man travelled from one city to another. What is the distance between the two cities?
1. He travelled the first of his distance at a uniform speed of 15 miles per hour. Thereafter, he
increased his speed to 20 miles per hour.
2. The time for which he travelled at 20 miles per hour was 5 hours greater than the time for which
he travelled at 15 miles per hour.

Time distance
12. Two friends, X and Y start from two points M and N and move towards each other and meet at a point
P on the way. What is the distance NP?
1. X and Y travel at speeds of 30 miles per hour and 20 miles per hour, respectively.
2. Had Y travelled at 20 percent higher speed, X and Y would have met at a point which is 10 miles
away from P.

Time distance
13. X and Y start travelling, from a particular point, at 7:00 am and 7:45 am, respectively, in the same
direction. At what time do they meet?
1. Speed of Y is double that of X.
2. After 5 hours from when X started, Y is 10 miles ahead of X.

Time distance
14. A man, while driving on a highway at uniform speed, observes his car’s odometer reading to be 18992
miles. What is the speed at which the man was driving?
1. After 5 hours, the odometer reading of the car showed a five-digit palindrome as the total distance
travelled (A palindrome is a number which reads the same forward as well as backward).
2. After 2 hours, the man found that he had travelled less than 80 miles.

Coordinate geometry
15. What is the equation of the straight line parallel to the line 2x+3y = 7?
A. The equation is of the form ax + by = 10 .
B. a = 4.

Interest
16. A man invests two equal sums of money in two banks, both under simple interest. What is the ratio of
the rates of interest in the two banks?
1. The interests obtained from the two banks after 2 years and 3 years, respectively are in the ratio 4 :
5.
2. The rate of interest in the first bank is 6 percent per annum.

Interest
17. A man invests $1400 in a bank under simple interest. What was the final value of the investment after
3 years?
1. Had the investment been done for 2 years, the amount would have been $1600.
2. Had the rate of interest been doubled, the amount after three years would have been $300 greater
than the actual interest obtained.

Interest
18. A man took a loan under simple interest. What was the rate of interest?
1. The number of years for which the loan was taken was the same as the rate of interest.
2. The final value of the loan after the duration of loan was 9 percent higher than the amount taken as
loan.

Interest
19. A man invested two different sums of money, under simple interest, for different periods of time, but
at the same rate of interest. The total interest he obtained was $2250. What was the rate of interest?
1. The sums of money lent are $12000 and $9000, respectively.
2. The durations for which the sums are invested are 3 years and 5 years, respectively.

Interest
20. A man invests a sum of money in a bank in the beginning of a year and another sum of money, after an
integer number of months, in another bank, both under simple interest. After how many months from the
beginning of the year did he invest the second sum of money?
1. The sums of money invested in the two banks are in the ratio 1 : 6, respectively. The ratio of rates
of interest applicable in the two banks are in the ratio 3 : 4, respectively.
2. The total interest accumulated after one year was 4 percent of the total investment made in the
year.
Mixtures
21. Two varieties of tea are mixed together, with each pound of the costlier variety being priced at $15
more than each pound of the cheaper variety. In what ratio were the two varieties of tea mixed?
1. The average price of the mixture is $20 per pound.
2. The average price of the mixture is $7 per pound cheaper than the costlier variety.

Time distance
22. A man covers a part of his journey at 20 miles per hour and the remaining at 30 miles per hour. What
is the total distance covered by the man?
1. The average speed of the man is 24 miles per hour.
2. The ratio of the time for which he travelled at 20 miles per hour and that for which he travelled at
30 miles per hour is 3 : 2.

Time distance
23. A travels from point P to point Q, while B travels from point Q to point P. At what time do they meet on
the way?
1. A starts his journey at 9:00 am while B starts his journey from 11:00 am.
2. A takes 9 hours to reach point Q while B takes 6 hours to reach point P.

Time distance
24. A and B participate in a walkathon. If they start at the same time, does A win the contest?
1. For every 5 steps taken by A, B takes 8 steps.
2. 3 steps of A are of the same length of 5 steps of B.

Computational
25. Find the number of terms in a Geometric Progression whose 2nd term is 9?
A. The first term is 3.
B. Sum of 1st four terms is 120.

Time distance
26. A man covers a part of his journey by train at 80 miles/h and the rest by bus at 60 miles/h. What is the
ratio of the distances he travelled by train and by bus?
1. The total distance is 720 miles
2. Had the man covered the entire journey by train at 80 miles per hour, he would have taken only
of the time he actually took.

Time distance
27. A boy usually walks to school from his home at a uniform speed and reaches school on time. How early
will he reach school if he cycles to school from his home if his cycling speed is thrice his walking speed?
1. The distance to his school is 6 miles
2. Had the boy travelled in a car at a speed twice that of his cycling speed, he would have reached
school 10 minutes before the time he reaches while cycling.

Coordinate geometry
28. What are the two points P and Q?
A. P & Q lie on the line x + y = 4. P is on the first quadrant and Q is on the second quadrant.
 B. They lie at a unit distance from the line 4x + 3y – 10 = 0

Geometry - triangles
29. ABC and XYZ are two triangles. Is AC = XZ?
A. Area of ABC = area of XYZ.
B. XY = AB, YZ = BC.

Inequalities
30. Is x > y?
A. |x| = |y|
B. x-5 > y-5

Number system
31. If and are positive integers, can always be expressed as a positive integer multiple of ?
1.
2.

Number system
32. If and are single digit numbers from 1 to 9, inclusive, is divisible by 9?
1. The number is divisible by 9.
2. The number is divisible by 9.

Number system
33. If is an even number, is also an even number?
1. , where is a positive integer.
2. , where is a positive integer.

Number system
34. What is the remainder when is divided by 10?
1. , when divided by 10, leaves remainder 4.
2. , when divided by 10, leaves remainder 3.

Number system
35. If and are positive integers, and , what is the value of ?
1. , when divided by , leaves remainder 9.
2. , when divided by , leaves remainder 10.

Number system
36. Is ?
1. represents the greatest possible value of the exponent of 3, such that can divide !. Also,
represents the greatest possible value of the exponent among all possible prime numbers , so that
can divide !.
2. .

Number system
37. If and are positive integers, is the number even?
1. is even.
2. is even.

Number system
38. If is a positive integer, what is the value of ?
1. is perfectly divisible by .
2.

Percents
39. The surface area of a square tabletop was changed so that one of the dimensions was reduced by 1 inch
and the other dimension was increased by 2 inches. What was the surface area before these changes were
made?
1. After the changes were made, the surface area was 70 squares inches.
2. There was a 25 percent increase in one of the dimensions.

Number system
40. In the diagram below, a portion of the number line is shown, with numbers and marked. If
none among and are ‘0’, is ?

1.
2.

Number system
41. What is the value of ?
1. The roots of are positive integers
2. The roots of are positive integers

Number System
42. What is the two digit number ab?
A. 8a + 7b = 17a + 6b
B. The two digit number is a multiple of 19.

Inequalities
43. P, Q, R and S are four cakes. Is the total cost of P and S less than that of Q and R?
1. The cost of R is half of the cost of S.
2. The cost of Q is twice that of R, which in turn, is costlier than P.

Inequalities
44. What is the value of q/r =?
A. |r – 6| = 11 and |2q – 12| = 8
B. 6q + 5r = 35
Exponents
45. What is the value of x?
A. 1 + 3x/2 = 2x
B. (0.4)x-1 = (2.5)6x-13

Probability
46. A gambler’s luck follows a pattern. If he wins a game, the probability of winning the next game is 0.6.
However if he loses a game the probability of losing the next game is 0.7. What is the probability that he
wins the second game?
A. The probability of winning the first game is known to be 0.5.
B. The probability of winning the third game is known to be 0.5.

Computational
47. A man has a certain amount of money in $1 and $10 notes. Can the total number of notes with him be
9?
1. The number of $1 notes multiplied by the number of $10 notes is equal to the total money (in
dollars) with him.
2. The number of $1 notes is less than 15

Computational
48. The letters A, B, C, D and E represent distinct numbers among 2, 4, 5, 6 and 10, not necessarily in the
same order. What is the value of B?
1. A + C = E and A + E = B
2. B = 2D

Equations
49. If and are positive numbers and , can the value of equal 20?
1.
2.

Functions
50. If , is ?
1.
2.

Permutation Combination
51. Some men and women are seated in a row so that no two women sit beside one another. What is the
total number of people?
1. The number of men is one greater than the number of women.
2. The number of ways of arranging the men and women maintaining the above condition is .
Geometry – triangles
A
52. In ABC, OB and OC are are the angle bisectors of angles ABC and ACB.
What is the value of BOC?
A. ABC = 30
B. BAC = 60 O

B C

Permutation Combination
53. A number of students have to be selected from a class of 25 students to form a group. What is the
number of students in the group?
1. The number of possible selections of the students to form the group is the largest possible value.
2. The number of students selected is less than 50 percent of the strength of the class.

Geometry – triangles
54. What is the area of the triangle?
A. The altitudes of the triangle are 4, 5 and 10 units.
B. The perimeter of the triangle is 22 units.

Probability
55. There are cards. Two cards are drawn in succession, with replacement.. What is the probability that
the number on the first card is less than the number on the second card?
1. The two cards are numbered consecutively, from 1 to .
2. .

Probability
56. There are red and blue colored balls inside an urn. How many of them are red?
A. There are 24 balls inside the urn and both the number of red balls and the number of blue balls are
prime numbers.
B. If one ball is randomly picked from the urn, the chance that it will be blue is greater than 2/3

Geometry – triangles
57. a, b and c are positive integers. Is c2 + 2ab always expressible as the squares of the sum of two positive
integers?
A. a, b and c are sides of a right angled triangle with ACB = 90
B. a, b, and c are prime numbers.

Probability
58. In a multiple-choice test, each question is followed by options. What is the value of ?
1. The test is designed in such a way that if a candidate appearing for the test, decides to mark the
options for every question in a random manner, the candidate would expect to receive ‘0’ marks in
the test.
 2. For every correct answer, a candidate is awarded 1 mark and for every wrong answer, there are
marks assigned.

Functions
59. What is the average speed of the spaceship over the first five seconds ( is a positive integer)?
1. The distance, in miles, travelled by the spaceship in the second is given by
2. The total distance, in miles, travelled by the spaceship in seconds is given by

Inequalities
60. Is k greater than 3?
A. (k – 3) (–2) (k – 1) > 0

B. k>1

Computational

61. If # denotes a mathematical operation, is x # y = y # x for all x and y?

A. For all x and y, x # y = 2 (x2 + y2)

B. For all y, 0 # y = 2y2

Probability

62. A committee consists of n women and k men. In addition, there are 4 alternates, 2 of whom are women.
If one of the committee member selected at random is to be replaced by one of the alternates, also
selected at random, what is the probability that the number of women on the committee will increase?
A. n + k = 12

B. k/n = 1/3

Geometry – 3D
63. What is the volume of a certain cube?
A. The sum of the areas of the faces of the cube is 54.
B. The greatest possible distance between two points on the cube is 33
Geometry – triangles, quadrilaterals

64. If the length of each side of rectangle R is squared, what is the sum of the four squared lengths?
A. The diagonal of rectangle R has length 15.
B. The product of the lengths of two adjacent sides of rectangle R is 108.

Geometry – triangles, quadrilaterals

65. Is quadrilateral Q a square?

A. The sides of Q have the same length.

B. The diagonals of Q have the same length.

Computational

66. Committee member W wants to schedule a one-hour meeting on Thursday for himself and three other
committee members X, Y and Z. Is there a one-hour period on Thursday that is open for all four
members?
A. On Thursday, W and X have an open period from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.
B. On Thursday, Y has an open period from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and Z has an open period from 8:00
a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Ratios

67. Is a/b > 1?

ax a
A. 
bx b

a+x
B. >0
b+x

Exponents

68. If xy = x2y – 3, what is the value of xy?

A. x and y are positive integers

B. x3 = 8

Number system

69. If 1 < d < 2, is the tenth digit of the decimal representation of d equal to 9?
A. d + 0.01 < 2
 B. d + 0.05 > 2

Computational

70. The participants in a race consisted of 3 teams with 3 runners in each team. A team was awarded 6 – n points
if one of its runners finished in nth place, where 1  n  5; else no points were awarded. If all of the runners
finished the race and if there were no ties, was each team awarded at least one point?
A. No team was awarded more than a total of 6 points
B. No pair of teammates finished in consecutive places among the top five places.

Equations

71. In a four-volume set of books, how many pages does volume 1 contain?
A. The four volumes contain a total of 840 pages.
B. Volumes II, III and IV collectively contain 300 pages more than volume I contains.

Computational

72. All of the seats in a lecture hall are arranged in 15 rows. After the front row, each row has one more seat
than the row in front of it. How many seats are in the 8 th row from the front?
A. The lecture hall has a total of 285 seats.
B. The last row in the back has 26 seats.

Equations

73. Manisha sells two products, X and Y. She earns commissions of $10 per unit of product X sold and $7 per
unit of product Y sold. If she earned a total commission of $350 last week from the sale of these products,
how many units of product X did she sell last week?
A. Last week her commission from the sale of product X was at least $140.
B. Last week she sold 18 more units of products X than units of product Y.

Number system

74. Is the given expression an integer, given that X and Y are positive integers?
A. X + 7Y is even.
B. X – 2Y is odd
Number system

75. Is one of X or Y a fraction?

A. X2 Y 3 = 8
B. X is rational.

Answer choices for all:

a) Statement I alone is sufficient b) Statement II alone is sufficient

c) Statement I and II combined is sufficient d) Either statement alone is sufficient
e) The answer cannot be determine even after combining the statements

Answer Key

1 A 9 C 17 D 25 E 33 A
2 C 10 D 18 C 26 B 34 D
3 E 11 C 19 C 27 B 35 E
4 E 12 C 20 E 28 C 36 A
5 C 13 C 21 B 29 C 37 A
6 A 14 C 22 E 30 E 38 A
7 C 15 C 23 C 31 A 39 C
8 C 16 A 24 C 32 E 40 E

41 C 49 B 57 A 65 C 73 B
42 A 50 A 58 C 66 B 74 C
43 C 51 C 59 D 67 E 75 E
44 C 52 B 60 A 68 B
45 D 53 C 61 A 69 B
46 D 54 C 62 B 70 A
47 A 55 C 63 D 71 C
48 A 56 E 64 A 72 D