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i) If then what is the value of ?
j) A is younger than B by 4 years. If their ages are in the ratio of 7 :9 , how old is A?
2. How much smaller is than ?
3. Find if .
3. Which is greater
4. The difference between two numbers is 14 and the difference between their squares is 448. Find the
numbers.
4. If , find ( A ∪ B ) ∩ C .
5. The list price of a printer is Rs. 8,019. It is available for Rs. 7,425 including sales tax. What is the rate of
sales tax ?
6. The diameter of the wheels of a bus is 140cm. How many revolutions per minute must a wheel make in
order to move at a speed of 66km/hour.
7. Rawna can do a piece of work in 24 days while Awia can do it in 30 days. In how many days can they
complete it, if they work together.
8. In a mixture of 28 litres, the ratio of milk and water is 5 :2. Another 2 liters of water is added to the
mixture. Find the ratio of water and milk in the new mixture.
9. A man borrowed Rs.2500 @ 6% p.a. simple interest and promised to return it after 73 days along with the
interest. Find the amount to be paid at the end of 73 days.
10. A trader marks his goods 25% above cost price and allows a discount of 8% on it. Find his gain per cent.
11. A machine costing Rs.4,800 was bought two years ago. During each of these years, it has lost through
depreciation 15% of its value. Find the present value of the machine.
12. Kimi goes to a shop to buy a pressure cooker costing Rs.1,962. The rate of sales tax is 9%. She asks the
shopkeeper to reduce the price of cooker to such an extent that she has to pay Rs.1962 inclusive of sales tax.
Find the reduction needed in the price of the cooker.
13.
14. In a city electricity bill is increased by 20% and the consumption of electricity is decreased by 20%.
What is the net effect on revenue from electricity bill?
15. Five years ago, A was thrice as old as B and ten years later A shall be twice as old as B. What are the
present ages of A and B?
16. A field is in the form of a circle. The cost of ploughing the field at Rs.3 per m2 is Rs.11,550. Find the
cost of fencing the field at Rs.17 per meter.
17. Kunga borrowed Rs.20,000 at 9% p.a. simple interest. On the same day he lent it to Siama at the same
rate but compounded annually. What does he gain at the end of 2 years?
8. The value of of is
i) −2.8 ii) 10.8 iii) 25/5 iv) 1/4
9. The LCM of 2/3and 6 /15 is
i) 2 ii) 3 iii) 4 iv) 5
30. In an examination , 80% of the students passed in English, 85% in Maths and 75% both English and
Maths. If 40 students failed in both the subjects, what is the total number of students?
i) 400 ii) 600 iii) 800 iv) Can not be determined.
31.
32. If the surface area of a cube is 864sq.cm, its volume is –
i) 1216cu.cm ii) 1000cu.cm iii) 144cu.cm iv) 1728cu.cm
33. A man cleared only 3/4 of his loan and he still has a balance of Rs.1500, what is the whole amount of
loan taken by him?
i) Rs.6000 ii) Rs.8000 iii) Rs.7500 iv) Rs.4500
34.
36.
45. In the figure below, AC = 7cm and OB = 2cm, the area of the shaded region is
i) 10.35c m2 ii) 6.125 c m2 iii) 5.23 c m2 iv) 9.5c m2
46. A solid metal cone of radius base 12 cm and height 24cm is melted to form a solid sphere of diameter
6cm each. Find the number of balls thus formed.
i) 40 ii) 30 iii) 32 iv) 10
Directions (Q. 47-Q.50) Study the following graph carefully and answer the following questions :
47. In what month, was the registration of vehicles other than two wheelers maximum?
i) January ii) April iii) May iv) June
48. The percentage increase in registration of two wheelers from March to April 2017 is –
11%
i) ii) % iii) % iv) 75%
49. What was the ratio of the total number of vehicle in march to the total number of vehicles in June 2017?
i) 3 :4 ii) 4 :3 iii) 5 :7 iv) 7 :5
50. The average monthly registration of new vehicles from January to June 2017 is –
i) 6.5 ii) 5.23 iii) 7.47 iv) 14
2014 ASSISTANT DIVISIONAL ACCOUNTANT
1. Answer the following:
a)
c) What will be the HCF of 3 × 4 ×9 × 11 , 3 × 4 ×11× 13 ,3 × 4 ×5 × 11 and 3 × 4 ×5 × 9?
i) 3 × 4 ×5 ii) 3 × 4 ×5 ×11 iii) 3 × 4 iv) 3 ×11
d) The vulgar fraction 0.3 6 is
i) 9/25 ii) 2/5 iii) 11/30 iv) 1/15
e)
i) 116 ii) 118 iii) 124 iv) 134
f)
i) 235 ii) 225 iii) 265 iv) 285
g)
h)
i)
l)
m) A die is thrown once, find the probability of getting an even number is
i) 1/2 ii) 1/6 iii)1/4 iv) 1/3
n)
o)
p) The area of a rectangular plot is 462m2 and its length is 28m. The breadth of the plot is
i) 15cm ii) 16cm iii) 16.5cm iv) 17cm
q)
r)
s)
t) A cube of side 6cm is cut into a number of cubes each of side 2cm. The number of cubes formed is
i) 6 ii) 9 iii) 12 iv) 27
2. Answer the following:
x
a) Find the value of for which .
b) Find the LCM of 0.3 and 1.2 and 2.1.
h) Simplify : .
l
i) Make the subject of the formula .
j) The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 45cm. Find its area.
k) Find the length of the longest pole that can be put in a room 10m long, 9m broad and 7m high.
l) Find the smallest number by which 1323 must be multiplied so that the product is a perfect square.
√ 2=1.4142
m) If , find the value of in decimal number.
n) A mixture contains sugar and water in the ratio 2 :11.If it contains 4.6Kg of sugar, find the quantity of
water in the mixture.
o)
3. Answer the following:
a)
b) A shopkeeper announces a discount of 5% on a TV set. If the marked price of the TV Set is Rs.15,000,
how much will a customer have to pay for buying the TV set if the rate of sales tax is 10%?
c) In an election contested by two candidates, 128 votes were declared invalid. The winning candidates
scored 52% of the valid votes and won by 386 votes. Find the total number of votes polled.
d) A boat travels 40km upstream in a river in the same period of time as it takes to travel 50km downstream.
If the rate of stream be 3km/h, find the speed of the boat in still water.
e) A person on tour has Rs.360 for his expenses. If the extends his tour by 4 days he has to cut down his
daily expenses by Rs.3 per day. Find the original duration of the tour.
f) Divide 16 into two parts such that twice that square of the larger part exceeds the square of the smaller
part by 164.
g) A candidate scoring 30% of the maximum marks in an examination, fails by 27 marks while another who
scores 40% o 40% of the maximum marks, gets 18 marks more than required for passing. Find –
i) the maximum marks
ii) the number of marks necessary for passing
x
Solve for : .
i) j) Mawia has 50p, 25p and 10p coins in the ratio of 5 :9 :4 , amounting to Rs.412. Find the numbering
coins in each type.
MIZORAM PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO THE POST OF ASSISTANT AUDITOR, ASSISTANT DIVISIONAL
ACCOUNTANT & ASSISTANT TREASURY ACCOUNTANT UNDER FINANCE DEPARTMENT,
GOVERNMENT OF MIZORAM, JANUARY – 2019
SECTION A:
1. Find the smallest whole number by which 1458 should be multiplied to get a perfect square.
2. Simplify: .
3.
4. Find the volume of a cube whose surface area is 1944 square cm.
5. Three boxes A,B and C contain marbles in the ratio 1:2:3. The total marbles is 60. The above ratio is
changed to 3:4:5 if some marbles are transferred from C to A. How many marbles are required to be
transferred from?
6. Liana’s father is 7 times older than him. After four years, the sum of their ages would be 56 years.
Calculate the present age of Liana.
7.
8. A 6.5m long ladder placed 2.5m away from the foot of the wall of a 5 – storeyed building could reach
only up to the floor of the third storey of the building. Calculate the height of that building.
9. At what percent per annum will a sum of Rs. 31250 amount to Rs. 35152 at Compound Interest in
years interest being compounded half – yearly.
10. 11. A room is 16m long, 9m wide and 2.6m high. It has two doors, each of dimensions (180cm X 80cm)
and three windows, each of dimensions (160cm X 80cm). Find the cost of distempering the walls of the
room from inside at the rate of Rs. 50 per square meter.
12. Prepare a suitable graph from the following data that shows the quarterly expenditure of a particular
Department’s Office on OE head for the years 2015, 2016, 2017:
Months 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter
Expen. in 2015(in Rs.‘000’) 20 50 32 18
Expenditure in 2016 22 30 45 25
(in Rs. ‘000’)
Expenditure in 2017 35 20 40 23
(in Rs. ‘000’)
13. A man exchanged a note of Rs. 500 with Rs. 5 and Rs. 10 notes. If the total number of Rs. 5 notes and
Rs. 10 notes he received was 90 in all, then how many Rs. 10 notes he got?
SECTION B:
1. Which of the following is the correct way of writing 15thousands?
3. The value of
i) 15 ii) 16 iii) 17 iv) 18
4. The HCF of two numbers is 24 and their LCM is 1271. If one of the number is 246, the other number is:
i) 1295 ii) 84 iii) 11664 iv) 124
27.
28. The diameter of a wheel is 1.26m. How far it will travel in 500 revolutions?
i) 3.96m ii) 1.980km iii) 19.8km iv) 198km
29. Fela said to Rama,”If you give me Rs. 5, I shall have five times the amount of money as you have”. But
Rama said to Fela, “ That’s not fair. Give me Rs. 5 so that we can have equal amount of money.”From this
conversation, it is clear that Rama has-
i) Rs. 10 ii) Rs. 20 iii) Rs. 30 iv) Rs. 40
30. A,B,C and D engaged in a business with a joint capital of Rs. 160000/-. At the end of the year, A
receives Rs. 21000, B Rs. 45000, C Rs. 12000 and D Rs.18000. How much capital did C put in?
i) Rs. 12000 ii) Rs. 18000 iii) Rs. 20000 iv) Rs. 31000
31. The diameter of sphere is 48cm. It is melted and drawn into a cylindrical wire of 16mm diameter. The
length of the wire is
i) 244m ii) 2.8m iii) 24m iv) 288m
32. A bag contains 5 white balls, 7 red balls, 4 black balls and 2 blue balls. One ball is drawn at random
from the bag. What is the probability that the ball drawn is neither white nor black?
i) 7/18 ii) 11/18 iii) 13/18 iv) 1/2
33.
35. A solid hemisphere of base radius is melted and recast into a solid cone of same radius, the height of
that cone is equal to
42. The sum of the production of food grains in the year 2000 and 2001 is equal to that in the year
i) 2002 ii) 2003 iii) 2004 iv) 2005
43. The difference of the production of food grains for the year 2005 and 2003 is
i) 5000 tonnes ii) 3500 tonnes iii) 5500 tonnes iv) 6000 tonnes
44. The percentage increase in production from 2003 to 2004 is
i) 20% ii) 25% iii) 30% iv) 40%
45. The ratio of production in 2002 to that of 2003 is –
i) 3:7 ii) 7:5 iii) 5:8 iv) 1:2
46. The average yearly production during 2000 to 2005 was
i) 35000 tonnes ii) 40000 tonnes iii) 50000 tonnes iv) 60000 tonnes
Directions: (Questions 47 – 50): Study the graph below and answer the questions that follow. The
Adjoining Pie-chart shows monthly expenditure of a family of various heads:-
47. The total amount of expenditure on Food and Clothing taken together is
i) Rs. 20000 ii) Rs. 32000 iii) Rs. 23000 iv) Rs. 29000
48. The expenditure on Education exceeds the expenditure on Clothing by
i) Rs. 5000 ii) Rs. 6000 iii) Rs. 2300 iv) Rs. 2000
49. Amount of Expenditure on Miscellaneous Head is –
i) Rs. 10000 ii) Rs. 12000 iii) Rs. 13000 iv) Rs. 14000
50. The monthly savings of the family is
i) Rs. 10000 ii) Rs. 12000 iii) Rs. 13000 iv) Rs. 14000
1.
23.
24.
25.
UDC (CONTRACT) UNDER COOPERATION DEPARTMENT, 2016
1. Choose the correct answer in each of the following:
a)
b)
c) What will be the present worth of Rs.676 due in 2 years at 4% p.a. compound interest?
i) Rs.625 ii) Rs.650 iii) Rs.652 iv) Rs.666
d)
e)
f) Mrs.Rini buys a mobile handset quoted at Rs.4800 as the following terms : Cash . Find the
amount she will have to pay if the payment is made on the 5th day.
i) Rs.4800 ii) Rs.4608 iii) Rs.4560 iv) Rs.4500
g)
2. Answer the following :
a) Water tax is increased by 20% and its consumption decreased by 20%. Find the change in the
expenditure.
b)
c) Mr.Siama went to a shop to buy a mobile handset costing Rs.880. The rate of sales tax is 10%. He asks
the shopkeeper to reduce the price of the handset to such an extent that he has to pay Rs.880 inclusive of all
tax. Find the reduction needed in the price of the handset.
d) A reduction of 25% in the price of tomatoes would enable a purchaser to get 2 kg of tomatoes more for
Rs.240. Find the original price per Kg of tomatoes.
e) A shopkeeper purchases a watch for Rs.540 and fixes its list price in such a way that after allowing
discount , he earns a profit of 20%. Find the list price of the watch.
3. The cash price of a Mobile handset is Rs.24000/-. Mr Liana agrees to pay Rs.13500 in cash followed by
two equal annual instalments. If the rate of interest be 10% p.a compounded annualy. What is the value of
each instalment.
OR
On selling an article for Rs.240, a trader losses 5%. For how much should he sell so as to gain 10%?
4. Divide Rs.990 among three persons A,B and C such that C gets twice as much as A, and four times B’s
share is equal to three times C’s share.
OR
The difference between the compound interest and the simple interest on a certain sum for 2 years at 6% p.a.
is Rs.9, find the sum.
2.
x,
3. The value of
x
1. If , then find the value of .
i) 6 ii) 1/7 iii) 1/6 iv) 7
2.
3.
4.
6
8.
9.
11. The cost price of a machine is Rs.10000. If its price decreases 10% every year, then what will be the cost
of the machine after 3 years?
i) Rs.1000 ii) Rs.5000 iii) Rs.6500 iv) Rs.7290
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17. A man and a boy received Rs.1400 as a wages for 10 days for the work they did together. The man
efficiency in the work was six times that of the boy. What is the daily wages of the boy?
i) Rs.5 ii) Rs.20 iii) Rs.22 iv) Rs.25
18.
19.
22. An invoice of Rs.2500 has the following terms : cash 4 , . Find the discount if the payment is
made on the fourth day.
i) Rs.50 ii) Rs.60 iii) Rs.100 iv) Rs.300
23.
24.
25. Agricultural department supplied potato seeds to farmer at a subsidy of 60%. If 1 kg of potato seeds
costs Rs.3 for a farmer, calculate the price of potato seeds per kg in the open market without subsidy.
i) Rs.5 ii) Rs.10 iii) Rs.15 iv) Rs.20
1.
2.
3. The least number which when divided by 8,9,12 and 15 leaves 1 as remainder each time is
i) 541 ii) 451 iii) 291 iv) 361
4.
5.
6. The median of the data 14,14,15,17,22,17,17,16,13 is
i) 13 ii) 17 iii) 16 iv) 22
7. The length and breadth of the rectangular hall are 40m and 30m respectively. The distance between the
two opposite corner of the hall is
i) 35m ii) 45m iii) 50m iv) 55m
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
15. In a group of 65 people, 40 like badminton, 10 like badminton and chess. How many like chess only and
not badminton?
i) 65 ii) 55 iii) 45 iv) 35
16. The number of cubes of side 2cm that can be formed from a cube of side 6cm is
i) 6 ii) 9 iii) 12 iv) 27
17.
18. The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 18cm. Its area is
i) 6 √ 3 c m2 ii) 9 √ 3 c m2 iii) 12 √ 3 c m2 iv) 15 √ 3 c m2
19. In a group of 30 people, 15 people play badminton and 20 people play football. Each of them likes to
play at least one of the two games. The number of people who play both the two games is
i) 5 ii) 10 iii) 15 iv) 18
20. The number that must be added to each of the numbers 2,3,10 and 35 so that they are in proportions is
i) 2 ii) 3 iii) 5 iv) 8
21.
22.
23. After 3 years, Thanga will be thrice of his own age 3 years ago. Then his present age is:
i) 3 years ii) 6 years iii) 12 years iv) 15 years
24.
25.
11. Addition of is
10. The volume of a right circular cylinder is and its height is 7 cm. The radius of the cylinder is
i) 81cm ii) 9cm iii) 18cm iv) 21cm
11.
12.
13.
16. The perimeter of a rectangle whose area is 650c m2 and breadth 13cm is
i) 156 ii) 126 iii) 139 iv) 40
17. The diagonal of a square is 5.4cm. Its area is
i) 14.58c m2 ii) 41.85c m2 iii) 14.85 c m2 iv) 15.48 c m2
18.
19. A result of a survey of persons with respect to their knowledge of Hindi(H), English(E) and Mizo(M) is
given below:
What is the ratio of those who know all the three languages to those who do not know Mizo?
i) 13:2 ii) 5:9 iii) 10:9 iv) 2:13
20.
21.
22.
23.
24
27. If
i) 0 ii) 1/4 iii) 1/2 iv) 1
In which year, the production of motor cyclesof all factories was equal to the yearly average number of
Motor Cycles produced during 1985-1989?
i) 1985 ii) 1986 iii) 1987 iv) 1988
38.Budget estimated by a family is shown below for their monthly expenditure. The total salary of the
family per month is Rs.32000.
What is the budget estimated by the family on clothing and grocery together?
i) Rs.8850 ii) Rs.8960 iii) Rs.8690 iv) Rs.8780
39.Number of candidates (in thousand) qualified in the written test for admission to two different
institutions:
What was the respective ratio between the number of candidates qualified in the written test in the year 2002
for admission in institution B and the number of candidates qualified in the written test in the year 2006 for
admission to institution A ?
i)8:5 ii) 7:8 iii) 7:4 iv) 7:5
40.The average temperature of 5 major cities in India during a day of summer season are given below:
Cities Delhi Kolkata Mumbai Chennai Bangalore
Temperature 42 40 35 38 25
The central angle for Mumbai to draw a pie chart is
i) 80 degree ii) 70 degree iii) 90 degree iv) 60 degree
41. If median = 15 and Mode = 30, the value of mean is equal to
i) 8.5 ii) 9.5 iii) 7.5 iv) 6.5
42. If , then
i) 130 ii) 150 iii) 110 iv) 140
43. The number of spherical lead balls each of radius 2cm can be made from a sphere of radius 8cm are
i) 64 ii) 46 iii) 74 iv) 86
44.
45. The number of natural numbers between 1 and 1000 which are divisible by 5 is
i) 197 ii) 198 iii) 200 iv) 199
46. The sum of natural numbers from 1 to 150 is
i) 11235 ii) 12135 iii) 11325 iv) 11352
47. A bag contains 8 red, 2 black and 5 white balls. One ball is drawn at random. The probability that the
ball is not black is
i) 2/15 ii) 13/15 iii) 8/15 iv) 1/3
48.
1. After reading 7/9 of a book, 40 pages are left. The number of page in the book is
i) 180 ii) 175 iii) 170 iv) 167
2. From a rope 11m long, two pieces of length m and are cut –off . The length of the remaining
rope is
17. If the area of an equilateral triangle is , then the length of each side is
i) 12cm ii) 14cm iii) 15cm iv) 17cm
18. How many persons can be accommodated in a dining hall of dimension (20mX16mX4.5m), assuming
that each person require 5 cubic meters of air?
i) 273 ii) 278 iii) 288 iv) 290
19. How many bricks will be required to construct a wall 8m long, 6m high and 22cm thick if each brick
measures (25cmX11cmX6cm)?
i) 6200 ii) 6265 iii) 6300 iv) 6400
20. A well of inner radius 7m is dug to a depth of 15m. The volume of the earth dug out is
i) 2310m3 ii) 2320m3 iii) 2342m3 iv) 2350m3
21.
22.
23.
26.
29.
30. The 105th term of the A.P 12,17,22….. is
i) 532 ii) 512 iii) 522 iv) 517
31. The 15th term from the end of the AP 4,9,14,…,254 is
i)174 ii) 179 iii) 184 iv) 214
32. In a school, there are 18 teachers who teaches English or Mathematics. Of these, 10 teach English and 6
teach both English and Mathematics. How many teach Mathematics?
i) 8 ii) 12 iii) 13 iv) 14
33. Two vertical poles of height 9m and 14m stand on a ground. If the distance between their feet is 12m,
then the distance between their tops is
i) 8m ii) 10m iii) 11m iv) 13m
34. The radius of a wheel of a bus is 70cm. The distance covered by the wheel in 2 revolutions is
i) 880cm ii) 870cm iii) 860cm iv) 850cm
35. The area of the ring whose outer and inner radii are 19cm and 16cm respectively is –
i) 325 sq.cm ii) 330 sq.cm iii) 335sq.cm iv) 340sq.cm
36. If the area of a circle is 616cm2 , then its radius is
i) 7cm ii) 12cm iii) 14cm iv) 15cm
37. A cube of side 6cm is cut into a number of cubes each of side 2cm. The number of cubes formed is –
i) 27 ii) 36 iii) 12 iv) 32
38. A bag contains 20 balls bearing numbers 1,2,3,…20 respectively. A ball is drawn at random from the
box. The probability of getting a ball bearing a prime number is
i) 2/9 ii) 3/7 iii) 4/7 iv) 2/5
39. Four bells ring at intervals of 3,7,12 and 14 minutes respectively. All four rang together at 12 noon.
When will they ring together again?
i) 1:24pm ii) 1:30pm iii) 1:35pm iv) 1:40pm
40. The number of boys in a school is 120 more than the number of girls. If there are 980 students in the
school, then the number of boys in the school is
i) 530 ii) 535 iii) 540 iv) 550
41. The electricity bill and the telephone bill of a family for the month June were in the ratio 3:8. If Rs. 800
more was paid for the telephone than for the electricity. Then the bill paid for the electricity was
i) Rs. 460 ii) Rs. 480 iii) Rs. 485 iv) Rs. 490
42. To fix fences wires in a garden 70m long and 50m wide, Rova bought metal pipes for the posts. If he
fixed a post every 5 meters apart, then the number of pipes he bought was –
i) 40 ii) 44 iii) 48 iv) 50
43. The length and breadth of a room are 6m and 4m respectively. If the cost of carpet Rs. 240 a square
meter, how much will it cost to carpet the entire room?
i) Rs. 5500 ii) Rs. 5650 iii) Rs. 5700 iv) Rs. 5760
44.