1) Number System - Q
1) Number System - Q
Q2. X and Y are natural numbers other than 1 and Y is greater than X. Which of the following
represents the largest number?
a) Y/X
b) X/Y
c) XY
d) (X+Y)/ XY
Q5. A two-digit number is such that the product of the digits is 8. When 18 is added to the
number, then the digits are reversed. The number is:
a) 18
b) 24
c) 42
d) 81
Q6.A number consists of 3 digits whose sum is 10. The middle digit is equal to the sum of the
other two and the number will be increased by 99 if its digits are reversed. The number is:
a) 145
b) 370
c) 352
Q9. Find a positive number which when increased by 17 is equal to 60 times the reciprocal of
the number.
a) 5
b) 10
c) 3
d) 20
Q10. Which one of the following will have minimum change in its value if 5 is added to both
numerator and the denominator of the fractions 2/3, 3/4, 4/5 and 5/6?
a) 2/3
b) 5/6
c) 4/5
d) 1/6
Q12. 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) 8
b) 4
c) 16
Q13. In a two-digit, if it is known that its unit's digit exceeds its ten's digit by 2 and that the
product of the given number and the sum of its digits is equal to 144, then the number is:
a) 46
b) 26
c) 42
d) 24
Q14. A farmer divides his herd of k cows among his 4 sons, so that one son gets one half of
the herd, the second gets one-fourth, the third gets one-fifth and the fourth gets 9 cows. Then
k is equal to?
a) 80
b) 180
c) 140
d) 120
Q15. In dividing a number by 585, a student employed the method of short division. He divided
the number successively by 5, 9 and 13 (factors 585) and got the remainders 4, 8, 12
respectively. If he had divided the number by 585, the remainder would have been:
a) 24
b) 144
c) 292
d) 584
Q16. The Units digit in the product (784 x 618 x 917 x 463) is
a) 3
b) 2
c) 4
d) 5
Q17. The largest integer that divides product of any four consecutive integers is
a) 4
b) 6
c) 24
d) 12
Q21. The number 2784936 is divisible by which one of the following numbers?
a) 88
b) 87
c) 86
d) 89
Q22. If n is a positive integer, then what is the digit in the unit place of 3^(2n+1) + 2^(2n+1)?
a) 0
b) 3
c) 5
d) 7
Q25. There is a number consisting of two digits, the digit in the units’ place is twice that in the
tens’ place and if 2 be subtracted from the sum of the digits, the difference is equal to 1/6th of
the number.
a) 24
b) 26
c) 23
d) 25