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This document contains 25 numerical ability questions with multiple choice answers. The questions cover a range of topics including ratios, proportions, averages, percentages, time/work problems, and number properties. For each question, the correct answer option is provided.

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Numerical Ability

This document contains 25 numerical ability questions with multiple choice answers. The questions cover a range of topics including ratios, proportions, averages, percentages, time/work problems, and number properties. For each question, the correct answer option is provided.

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Numerical Ability

Q1. What is the fourth proportional of 0.006,1.2 & 6/25 ?

A. 36
B. 48
C. 4.8
D. 3.6

Answer: Option B

Q2. The present ages of three brothers are in the proportion 12:14:17. The difference between
the ages of the elder and the eldest is 6 years. What will be the proportion of their ages after
four years?

A. 14:16:19
B. 40:46:55
C. 16:18:21
D. 13:15:18

Answer: Option A

Q3. Two ants of length 1cm and 1.2 cm crawl in opposite directions with average speeds 2 and
1 mm per second respectively. How many seconds will they take to cross each other?
A. 4.4
B. 2.8
C. 0.4
D. 1.5

Answer: Option A

Q4. The index numbers of five commodities are 121,123,125,126,128 and the weights assigned
to these are respectively 5,11,10,8,6. Then what is the weighted average index number?
A. 123.8
B. 124.2
C. 124.6
D. 125.2

Answer: Option C

Q5. Which one among the following has the least value?
A. √75 - √74
B. √74 - √73
C. √77 - √76
D. √76 - √75

Answer: Option C

Q6. The Range and the Standard Deviation of a data are R & S respectively. With the shift of
origin of the data change(s) occur in the value(s) of:
A. Both R & S
B. Neither R nor S
C. R only
D. S only

Answer: Option B

Q7. A sum was lent to X for three years by an organisation who fixed a yearly rate of 10%
compound Interest for repayment along with the condition of recovery in equal installments of
Rs.31944. What percentage (correct to two decimal places) above the borrowed amount had X
to pay the organization?
A. 18.43
B. 21.25
C. 16.52
D. 20.63

Answer: Option D

Q8. A retailer purchased 25 identical toys for a price Rs P and sold some of them for Rs P. If he
calculated his profit as 8%, with selling price as base instead of cost price then how many did he
sell?
A. 24
B. 20
C. 21
D. 23

Answer: Option D

Q9. The Table below presents the percentage marks obtained by three students A, Y, Z in the
four components of assessment, A, B, C, D of a paper whose respective weightages are 4, 3, 2,
2, 1.

Students/Marks A B C D

X 78 85 72 76

Y 65 68 64 73

Z 82 76 81 75

What is the ratio of the average percentage of X in A, B to that of Y, Z combined in C, D?


A. 324:283
B. 326:293
C. 28:25
D. 81:73

Answer: Option D

Q10. A city water supply tank has two inlet pipes X and Y, which can fill it in 20 and 30 hours
respectively, and an outlet pipe Z which can empty a full tank in 40 hours. If the tank is empty
and the taps are opened in succession for one hour each, and the process continues, in how
many hours will the tank get filled?
A. 49 1/4
B. 51 3/7
C. 49 ½
D. 49 1/7

Answer: Option C

Q11. A sum of Rs.12500 is invested on 1st January 2016 at 4% simple interest p.a. How much
interest in RS. gets accrued on the end of the day on 1st July 2016?
A. 240
B. 400
C. 250
D. 500

Answer: Option C

Q12. What is the real value of (0.000314 + 0.000198)^(1/3)?


A. 0.04
B. 0.08
C. 0.8
D. 0.4

Answer: Option B

Q13. What is the simplified value of (10/15*6)[22/2/5 of [(64-2*8) +2]-⅖?


A. 6
B. 4
C. 5
D. 2

Answer: Option B

Q14. A man who has to walk 11Km, finds that in 30 minutes he has travelled two-ninth of the
remaining distance. What is his speed in Km/h?
A. 4.8
B. 4
C. 4.2
D. 4.5

Answer: Option B

Q15. Six square plots are connected end to end to obtain a rectangular plot area 726 m 2. If we
take, π=22/7, by what factor is the perimeter of this plot more than that of the circumference
of a circle of radius 10m?
A. 1.45
B. 2.45
C. 2.1
D. 2.8
Answer: Option B

Q16. The mean and standard deviation of the data which is comprised of a set of ten positive
numbers are 8 and 2 respectively. If the sum of squares of time along with ten numbers is
599.What is the tenth number?
A. 7
B. 8
C. 9
D. 11

Answer: Option C

Q17. With what value should the highest quantity in data 65,52,14,26,18,35,32,38 be replaced
so that the mean and median become equal?
A. 51
B. 66
C. 64
D. 53

Answer: Option D

Q18. A work is assigned to 6 men and 12 women and they could complete it in 3 days. It was
also observed that together they can do 7 times as much work a man and a woman can do.In
how many days would 14 women have done the work?
A. 10
B. 6
C. 12
D. 9

Answer: Option D

Q19. If the HCF of 180 and 432 is expressed as (180m + 432n), where m and n are integers, then
what is the difference between m and n?
A. 3
B. 7
C. 9
D. 8
Answer: Option B

Q20.If (x+10)% of 240 is 60% more than x% of 180, then 15% of (x+20) is what percent less
than
25% of x?

A. 16
B. 15
C. 15 ½
D. 191/21

Answer: Option A

Q21. A sales representative ‘s commission is 6% on all sales upto Rs.15000nand 5% on all sales
exceeding this. He remits Rs.47350 to his company after deducting his commission. What were
the total sales?
A. Rs.49000
B. Rs.47500
C. Rs.50500
D. Rs.50000

Answer: Option D

Q22. The sales (in multiples of hundred) of three brands A, B, C of car from a showroom during
four consecutive years, 2012 - 2015 have been presented through the Bar Graph given below.

In which year is the sale of A and B together is 125% of that of C?


A. 2013
B. 2014
C. 2015
D. 2012

Answer: Option D

Q23. The List Price of an item was kept 40% above what the shopkeeper had
paid to the manufacturer. On selling the item a profit of 8.64% was earned
after allowing two successive discounts, the first one of which was 20%. What
was the percentage of the second discount?
A. 3.25
B. 3.6
C. 3.84
D. 3

Answer: Option D

Q24. A man has to travel 50 km in two hours. He could cover 20 km in one hour,
and then had to stop for 10 minutes for refueling. By what factor should be
increase his speed with reference to that during the first hour so as to be able to
complete the journey as per schedule?
A. 1.2
B. 1.8
C. 2.4
D. 1.5

Answer: Option B

Q25. If n is an integer such that 1nn352 is a six-digit number exactly divisible by


24, what will be the sum of the possible values of n?
A. 15
B. 27
C. 9
D. 21

Answer: Option A

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