Quant CAT Mock Test - 09

Mensuration
1. If the length of the diagonal AC of a square ABCD is 5.2 cm, then the area of the square
is :
(1)15.12 sq.cm (2)13.52 sq.cm
(3)12.62 sq.cm (4)10.00 sq.cm.
2. A solid metallic cone of height 10 cm, radius of base 20 cm is melted to make spherical
balls each of 4 cm diameter. How many such balls can be made ?
(1)25 (2)75 (3)50 (4)125
3. The diagonal of a square is 4√2 cm. The diagonal of another square whose area is double
that of the first square is :
(1)8√2 cm (2)16 cm (3)√32 cm (4)8 cm
4. The ratio of the area of a square to that of the square drawn on its diagonal is :
(1)1: 1 (2) 1 : 2 (3)1 : 3 (4)1 : 4
5. A cistern 6 m long and 4 m wide, contains water up to a depth of 1 m 25 cm. The total
area of the wet surface is
(1) 55 m² (2) 53.5 m² (3) 50 m² (4) 49 m²
6. The perimeter of five squares are 24 cm, 32 cm, 40 cm, 76 cm and 80 cm respectively.
The perimeter of another square equal in area to sum of the areas of these squares is :
(1)31 m (2)62 cm (3)124 cm (4)961 cm
7. The difference of the areas of two squares drawn on two line segments of different
lengths is 32 sq.cm. Find the length of the greater line segment if one is longer than the
other by 2 cm.
(1) 7 cm (2) 9 cm (3) 11 cm (4) 16 cm
8. The diagonal of a square A is (a+b). The diagonal of a square whose area is twice the area
of square A, is
(1)2 (a+b) (2) 2 (a+b)² (3) √2(a+b) (4) √2(a-b)
9. A kite in the shape of a square with a diagonal 32 cm attached to an equilateral triangle of
the base 8 cm. Approximately how much paper has been used to make it? (Use √3 =
1.732)
(1)539.712 cm² (2)538.721 cm²
(3)540.712 cm² (4)539.217 cm²
10. From four corners of a square sheet of side 4 cm, four pieces, each in the shape of arc of a
circle with radius 2 cm, are cut out. The area of the remaining portion is :
(1)(8 – π) sq.cm. (2)(16 – 4 π) sq.cm .
(3) (16 – 8 π) sq.cm (4)(4 – 2 π) sq.cm.
11. A took 15 sec. to cross a rectangular field diagonally walking at the rate of 52 m/min. and
B took the same time to cross the same field along its sides walking at the rate of 68 m/
min. The area of the field is :
(1)30 cm² (2)40 m² (3)50 m² (4)60 m²
12. The radius of a circle is so increased that its circumference increases by 5%. The area of
the circle then increases by:
(1)12.5% (2) 10.25% (3) 10.5% (4) None of these
13. If the length of a side of the square is equal to that of the diameter of a circle, then the
ratio of the area of the square and that of the circle is ( π = 22/7)
(1)14 : 11 (2)7 : 11 (3)11 : 14 (4)11 : 7
14. If the numerical values of the height and the area of an equilateral triangle be same, then
the length of each side of the triangle is
(1)2 units (2)4 units (3)5 units (4)8 units
15. The sides of a quadrilateral are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5 : 6 and its perimeter is 72 cm. The
length of its greatest side (in cm) is
(1)24 (2)27 (3)30 (4)36
16. The base of a right prism is a rightangled triangle whose sides are 5 cm, 12 cm and 13
cm. If the area of the total surface of the prism is 360 cm², then its height (in cm) is
(1)10 (2)12 (3)9 (4)11
17. The length of a rectangular garden is 12 metres and its breadth is 5 metres. Find the
length of the diagonal of a square garden having the same area as that of the rectangular
garden :
(1)2√30 m (2)√13 m (3)13 m (4)8√15 m
18. The length of a room floor exceeds its breadth by 20 m. The area of the floor remains
unaltered when the length is decreased by 10 m but the breadth is increased by 5 m. The
area of the floor (in square metres) is :
(1)280 (2)325 (3)300 (4)420
19. The area of a rhombus is 216 cm² and the length of its one diagonal is 24 cm. The
perimeter (in cm) of the rhombus is
(1)52 (2)60 (3)120 (4)100
20. The length of a rectangle is increased by 10% and breadth decreased by 10%. The area of
the new rectangle is
(1) neither increased nor decreased (2)increased by 1%
(3) decreased by 2% (4) decreased by 1%
21. In measuring the sides of a rectangle, there is an excess of 5% on one side and 2% deficit
on the other. Then the error percent in the area is
(1)3.3% (2)3.0% (3)2.9% (4)2.7%
22. Point O is the centre of a circle of radius 5 cm. At a distance of 13 cm from O, a point P is
taken. From this point, two tangents PQ and PR are drawn to the circle. Then , the area of
quadrilateral PQOR is
(1)60 m.² (2)32.5 cm.² (3)65 cm.² (4)30 cm.²
23. The area of a circle is proportional to the square of its radius. A small circle of radius 3
cm is drawn within a larger circle of radius 5 cm. Find the ratio of the area of the annular
zone to the area of the larger circle. (Area of the annular zone is the difference between
the area of the larger circle and that of the smaller circle).
(1)9 : 16 (2)9 : 25 (3)16 : 25 (4)16 : 27
24. The area of a field in the shape of a trapezium measures 1440 m². The perpendicular
distance between its parallel sides is 24 m. If the ratio of the parallel sides is 5 : 3, the
length of the longer parallel side is :
(1)75 (2)45 m (3)120 m (4)60 m
25. The perimeter of a rhombus is 40 m and its height is 5 m. Its area is :
(1)60² (2)50 m² (3)45 m² (4)55 m²
26. The altitude drawn to the base of an isosceles triangle is 8 cm and its perimeter is 64 cm.
The area (in cm²) of the triangle is
(1)240 (2)180 (3)360 (4)120
27. The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 544 cm and each of the equal sides is 5/6 times
the base. What is the area (in cm²) of the triangle ?
(1)38172 (2)18372 (3)31872 (4)13872
28. The ratio of the length of the parallel sides of a trapezium is 3 : 2. The shortest distance
between them is 15 cm. If the area of the trapezium is 450 cm², the sum of the length of
the parallel sides is
(1)15cm (2)36 cm (3)42 cm (4)60 cm
29. The length of each side of a rhombus is equal to the length of the side of a square whose
diagonal is 40√2 cm. If the length of the diagonals of the rhombus are in the ratio 3 : 4,
then its area (in cm²) is
(1)1550 (2)1600 (3)1535 (4)1536
30. The four equal circles of radius 4 cm drawn on the four corners of a square touch each
other externally. Then the area of the portion between the square and the four sectors is
(1)9 (π – 4) sq. cm. (2)16 (π – 4) sq. cm.
(3) 9 (4 – π) sq. cm. (4)16 (4 – π) sq.cm.
31. The radii of two circles are 5cm and 12cm. The area of a third circle is equal to the sum
of the area of the two circles. The radius of the third circle is :
(1)13m (2)21 cm (3)21 cm (4)17 cm
32. The volume of a conical tent is 1232 cu. m and the area of its base is 154 sq. m. Find the
length of the canvas required to build the tent, if the canvas is 2m in width. (Take π =
(22/7)
(1)270 (2)272 m (3)276 m (4)275 m
33. If the volume of two right circular cones are in the ratio 4 : 1 and their diameter are in the
ratio 5 : 4, then the ratio of their height is :
(1)25:16 (2)25 : 64 (3)64 : 25 (4)16:25
34. A solid metallic cone is melted and recast into a solid cylinder of the same base as that of
the cone. If the height of the cylinder is 7cm, the height of the cone was
 (1)20 cm (2)21 cm (3)28 cm (4)24 cm
35. The radius of the base and height of a metallic solid cylinder are r cm and 6 cm
respectively. It is melted and recast into a solid cone of the same radius of base, The
height of the cone is :
(1)53 m (2)27 cm (3)18 cm (4)9 cm
36. The base of a right prism is a trapezium whose lengths of two parallel sides are 10 cm and
6 cm and distance between them is 5 cm. If the height of the prism is 8 cm, its volume is
(1)320³ (2)300.5 cm³ (3)310 cm³ (4)300 cm³
37. The radii of two solid iron spheres are 1 cm and 6 cm respectively. A hollow sphere is
made by melting the two spheres. If the external radius of the hollow sphere is 9 cm, then
its thickness (in cm) is
(1)1.1 (2)1.5 (3)0.5 (4)1
38. A conical iron piece having diameter 28 cm and height 30cm is totally immersed into the
water of a cylindrical vessel, resulting in the rise of water level by 6.4 cm. The diameter,
in cm, of the vessel is :
(1)3.5 (2)35/2 (3)32 (4)35
39. A cylindrical vessel of diameter 24 cm contains some water. If two spheres of radii 6 cm
each are lowered into the water until they are completely immersed, then the water level
(in cm) in the vessel will rise by
(1)10 (2)6 (3)4 (4)9
40. From a solid right circular cylinder of length 4 cm and diameter 6 cm, a conical cavity of
the same height and base is hollowed out. The whole surface of the remaining solid (in
square cm.) is
(1)148π (2)15π (3)63π (4)24π

Quant Mock Test -09 key

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