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FORMULA SHEET
Equations & Fractions 8. Relationship
between a and b
1. Fraction of work left = ______________, when a a is directly
proportional to b
does of the work, b does of the remaining a is inversely
proportional to b
work, and c does of the remaining work.

Exponents
2. The best way to compare fractions is to
___________________ . 9. (256 )0.18 × (256 )0.07 = ______________ .

10. If x ≠ 0, x0 = _______ and (x)–2 = _______ .

3. = . If 10 is added to a and b, what is the new

ratio?
11. The lowest value of x2 = _________ .

4. Ratio of a to b is 7 : 1. Ratio of b to c is
2 : 5. Ratio of a : b : c is = Progressions
12. (i) The n th term of an arithmetic progression
_________.
5. In a quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0
(i) Roots of the equation = _____________. (ii) Sum of the first ‘n’ terms of an arithmetic
(ii) Sum of the roots = ________________. progression _________ .
(iii) Product of the roots = _____________.

13. (i) Number of integers between 5 and 10.

6. If xy = 6 and x + 2y = 7, what is the value of x?

(ii) Number of integers from 5 to /through

10.
7. Equation Number of Roots
x2 – 4x + 4 = 0
14. The n th term of a geometric progression _________.
x2 +12x – 64 = 0
x2 + 9x + 21 = 0

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15. (i) There are _________ spaces between ‘n’ 22. (i) x2 = 9
things on a straight line.
⇒ x = ______

(ii) x=
(ii) There are _________ spaces between ‘n’
⇒ x = ______
things on a circle.

23. M, N and a are positive integers

Inequalities + Absolute Values Quantity A Quantity B
16. Solve for x :
(i) –2x < – 14
(ii) |x – 5| > 2
(iii) |5 – x| < 2
(iv) |x + 5| > 2 Number System
24. (i) Divisors of 10 = __________
(ii) Multiples of 10 = __________
17. . Solve for x.

25. What are the prime factors of 60.

18. For what value of x, does the following inequality
hold true?
26. The sum of the positive factors of a prime number
(i) (x – 2)(x + 3) > 0 is _________ .

27. Is 0 odd / even?

(ii)

Is 0 positive / negative ?
19. (i) x2 > x. Give the range of x’s values.

28. a × b = c where a and b are different prime

(ii) x0.5 > x > x2. Give the range of x’s values. numbers. How many positive factors does ‘c’
has?

20. a2 > 62. Give the range of a’s values.

29. The product of two positive integers = GCF × ____.

21. (i) If x > 0,

|x| = 30. a and b are consecutive integers. What is their
HCF?
(ii) If x < 0,
|x| =

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31. If a number is divisible by ‘x’ and by ‘y’, then the 37. There are ___________ prime numbers from
number must be divisible by _________ . 1 to 50 and _________ from 1 to 100.

32. For the decimal 253.846, which digit is in the 38. Which digits raised to any positive integer end in
hundredths place? themselves?

33. If m is a 2 digit number and n is obtained by 39. Squares of integers never end in__________,
interchanging the digits of m, then the sum of m ________, ________, and ________.
and n is a multiple of _______ and their difference
is divisible by ________.
40. Concept of cyclicity.

34. (i) The product of two consecutive integers is 41. How many repeating decimals will we get if 1 is
always divisible by _________. divided by :
(ii) The product of three consecutive integers is (i) 2 = ______________
always divisible by_________.
(ii) 3 = ______________
(iii) The product of two consecutive even
(iii) 5 = ______________
integers is always divisible by ________.
(iv) 7 = ______________
(iv) The product of three consecutive even
integers is always divisible by_________. (v) 11 = _____________

35. Relationship between divisor, dividend, quotient,

and remainder ______________. 42. Which numbers are consecutive odd integers
of –3?

36. What is the divisibility test for :

(i) 2 = ___________________ 43. If the sum of ‘n’ consecutive integers is ‘0’, then
‘n’ is an ________ (odd/even) integer.
(ii) 3 = ___________________
(iii) 4 = ___________________
44. 13 × 15 × 17 × 19 = n
(iv) 5 = ___________________
(v) 8 = ___________________ Which number, if changed, would least affect the
value of n ?
(vi) 9 = ___________________
(vii) 10 = ___________________

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45. Which of the following numbers are prime? 54. Sum of the interior angles of any n-sided polygon=
(i) 81
(ii) 91 55. Which of the following can be the dimensions of
the three sides of a triangle?
(iii) 101
(i) 6, 6, 12
(ii) 7, 3, 11
Geometry (iii) 5, 6, 10
46. Length of the arc of a circle =
56. Pythagorean triplets.
47. Area of a sector of a circle = (i) ______________

(ii) ______________

(iii)______________
48. 2+ 4=

57. AC = 5

AB =

O = 1320, A = BC =

49. ‘O’ is the centre of the circle

‘A’ is a point on the circle.

58. (i)

50. Angle in a semicircle is ______(measure).

ABC is a triangle, in which
A = 300
51. Two wheels of circumferences x and y make 9 and
12 revolutions respectively to cover the same B = 300
distance. Ratio of their areas = ____________. C = 1200
What is AB : BC : AC ?
52. Two tangents from a point outside the circle are
_________. (ii)

53. Sum of the exterior angles of any n-sided polygon=

What is AB : BC : AC ?

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59. Triangle ABC is an equilateral triangle. 64. In an isosceles or an equilateral triangle, the
perpendicular is also the __________________.
Altitude =
65. The triangles given below are equilateral. Calculate
Area = the ratio of the height of the triangle to the radius
of the circle.

(i)
60. AD = AB

AE = AC

(ii)
=

61. When is the area of a triangle largest, if two of the

sides are given?
66. (i) In the given figure,
triangle is equilateral
62. What are legs of a triangle ?
triangle

63.

(ii)

l1 || l2 ,
Area of ∆ABC _________ Area of ∆BCD =
(>, <, =)

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67. Any equilateral triangle can be divided into 71. Perimeter of a rhombus = 40. One of the diagonals
_________ smaller equilateral triangles by joining is 16. Find the area.
the midpoints, each having ______________ the
dimensions and _________ the area.
72. When is the area of a parallelogram largest for the
given dimensions of the sides?

73. In the rectangle given below

68.

Given L1 | | L2 using <, >, = or + give the relation between the

A = = = areas of regions 1, 2, and 3.

69. Rectangle Square Rhombus 74. Lines a, b, and c lie on same plane. If a ⊥ b and
b ⊥ c, then a __ c.
Diagonals are
always equal
75. Area of a trapezium =
Diagonals
always bisect
at 900 76. Name all geometrical figures in which if only one
dimension is known, we can calculate all the other
Diagonals are dimensions.
always angle
bisectors
77. A regular hexagon is made up of _____________.

70. Area of a square (using diagonal ) =_________.

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78. Which formula applies to each ? Statistics
Melting of a sphere = 82. For the integers 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5 give :
Mean = _______________________
Painting of a sphere = Median = _______________________
Mode = _______________________
Painting of cuboid =
Range = _______________________
Cutting of cuboid =
83. If n terms are in AP, then their Mean ___ Median,
use =, > or < .
Amount of cloth required for a conical tent=
84. Compare the Standard Deviation of the two series:
Surface area of a cube =
Series 1 =,>,< Series 2
Amount of air inside a conical tent = 10, 10, 10 1, 2, 3
11, 12, 13 101, 102, 103
Volume of a cube =
20, 30, 40 201, 202, 203
–1, 0, 1 10, 11, 12
Volume of a cylinder =
–6, –4, –2 2, 4, 6

79. Maximum distance between any two points in a 85. When is the standard deviation 0?
cube (Diagonal of a cube) =

81. What is the Weighted mean formula?

80. A room measures 10 × 12 × 15 cubic. What is the
length of longest rod that can fit in it?
Coordinate Geometry
81. In a Cube : 86. (i) Distance formula = _________

Number of Edges = ____________________

(ii) Distance of a point with coordinates
Number of Faces = ____________________ (x, y) from the origin = _________

Number of Vertices = ____________________

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87. (i) Equation of a circle = ______________ 91. Express graphically:
Radius of Circle = ______________ 3x + y ≤ 6
Center of Circle = ______________

(ii) Equation of a line = _________

(iii) 2x + 3y = 6
x - intercept = _____________
y - intercept = _____________
Slope = _____________ 92. Mirror image of (4, –6) :
88. Relationship between the slopes of two lines when (i) across y–axis _______________
they are :
(ii) across x–axis ________________
(i) parallel –
(iii) across x = y _________________
(iv) across x = – y _______________
(ii) perpendicular –

93. (i) Equation of a Parabola : _____________

89. When is the slope of a line :
(ii) y = x2 means : ____________________
(i) 0 = ________________________
(iii) y = x2 + 5 means : __________________
(ii) 1 = ________________________
(iv) y = x2 – 5 means : __________________
(iii) –1 = _______________________
(v) y = (x – 5)2 means : _________________
(iv) not defined = _______________
(vi) y = (x + 5)2 means : _________________
(v) positive = __________________
(vi) negative = __________________
94. f(x) = y = x2 + 5x + 6
(i) x - intercepts = _______________
(ii) y - intercept = _______________
(iii) Vertex = _______________
(iv) Axis of symmetry = _______________

90. Slope of l1 ______Slope of l2 (=, <, >, can’t say).

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 Percentage 101. (i) a increased by 300% of a.
Final value = _________ . (in terms of a)
95. (i) What percent of 50 is 40?
(ii) a increased to 300% of a.
(ii) What percent of 40 is 50?
Final value = _________ . (in terms of a)
(iii) x is increased by 10% = ______ x
(iv) x is decreased by 7% = ______ x
102. (i) Speed of a is 1.5 times the speed of b.
(v) x is increased by 20% = ______ x Ratio of their speeds = ____________.
(vi) x is decreased by 50% = ______ x
(ii) Speed of a is 1.5 times faster than the speed
(vii) By what percent is 50 greater than 40? of b. Ratio of their speeds = ________.
(viii) By what percent is 40 less than 50?

103. x is increased by 15% and then decreased by 25%

96. A value changes by a% and then changes by b%.
Overall percentage change = _______ % = (1.___)(0.___) x.

97. Discount of x% + Discount of y% (>, <, =)

Speed, Time & Distance
_________ Discount of (x + y) % 104. X and Y, each complete a job in A and B hours
respectively. How much time will they take to finish
the same job together?
98. Increase of x% + Increase of y% (>, <, =)
_________ Increase of (x + y) %
Permutation & Combination
105. The number of diagonals in a decagon =
99. x% + x% _________ x% + x% (<,>,=).

106. (i) n
C1=_________
100. (i) 50% + x% = 0% ⇒x= (ii) n
Cn=_________
(iii) n
Cr =_________
(ii) 33.33% + y% = 0% ⇒y=
(iv) 5
C2 =_________
(iii) 20 % + z% = 0% ⇒z=
(v) n
Pr =_________
(vi) n
Pn =_________

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 Probability Miscellaneous
107. P(A) = 0.3 and P(B) = 0.6 109. 1 billion = _________ million
(i) What is the probability that either event A
or event B occurs, if both A and B events 1 trillion = _________ billion
are mutually exclusive?

(ii) What is the probability that either event A 110. 2 dimes + 3 nickels = $ _________
or event B occurs, if both A and B events
are independent of each other?
111. 20 pints = ___________ gallons

= ___________ fluid ozs

Simple Interest and
= ___________ quarts
Compound Interest
108. Person A took a loan of $P at an annual rate of 112. A cuboid is 3 yards × 7 yards × 9 yards. What is
interest of R%. For the following, find the the volume in cubic feet?
amount to be paid after n years, if amount is:

Compounded annually ___________________ 113. How many digits are needed to express 10100 in the
decimal notation ?
Compounded semi-annually ______________

Compounded quarterly ___________________

114. The minimum and maximum values of probability
Compounded monthly ___________________ are __________ and __________ respectively.

Calculated after simple interest ____________

115. Venn diagram formula for 2 cases = ________.

116. A + B = 10. What is the maximum value of A·B?

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INEQUALITIES AND ABSOLUTE VALUE

For what values of x, do the following inequality –1 < x < 1 and x ≠ 0

hold true?
Quantity A Quantity B
(i) (x – 2)(x + 3) > 0
x +x
3 5
x2 + x4
(ii) (x – 2)(x + 3) < 0

(iii) <1

If 0 < x < y, which of the following must be

negative?

For what values of x, given inequality holds true.

x2 > x

x<y+1
Quantity A Quantity B
x y

How many integer values of n are there such that

8 < –2n 2 + 40 < 38?

x < 2x < x2 Two

Quantity A Quantity B Three

Four
x +1
Five
Six

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 n is a number which lies between m and –m.
If 1 < a < 3, –2 < b < 2 and 4 < c < 6, then lies Which of the following is definitely true?
between :
m>0
|n|≥ 0
–n < 0

5 < a < b < 10

Quantity A Quantity B
If , which of the following must be
– –
true?

x>0
x<9
x > –9
0<x<3
If x < 0 < y < 1, which of the following shows

the expressions x2, (xy)2, x2y , and are

in order least to greatest?

xy < 0 and x – y > 0
Quantity A Quantity B
x 2 < (xy) 2 < < < x 2y
|x| |y|

< x 2 < (xy) 2 < < x 2y

(xy) 2 < < < x 2y < x 2

|x – 10| > |x – 30|
Quantity A Quantity B
x 2 < (xy) 2 < x 2 y < <
x 20

(xy) 2 < x 2 y < x 2 < <

x > x2 and y = 3 – |x – 2|
Quantity A Quantity B
y 2

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EXPONENTS

xy = 1
If = 0.02 × 1014, what is the value
Quantity A Quantity B
of m? x y
14
19
20
Quantity A Quantity B
24
29

Quantity A Quantity B
200400 400200
+ = 20
Quantity A Quantity B

100

x<y
Quantity A Quantity B
x2 + y2 2xy
If p4 + q4 = 100, then maximum value of p lies
between?
0 and 1
1 and 2
Quantity A Quantity B 2 and 3
(x + 40) + (x – 40)
2 2
–160x 3 and 4
4 and 5

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VENN DIAGRAMS

Of the 60 trucks sold by a dealer in a month, 40 80 percent of the people in the party drink coffee
have air-bag, 25 have power-steering, and 7 have and 10 percent of these also drink tea. 10 percent
both air-bag and power-steering. How many of of the people in the party drink neither of these
the sold trucks have neither air-bag nor power- two drinks. What percent of the people in the
steering? party drink :
2 (i) Coffee but not tea
7 (ii) Tea but not coffee

10 (iii) Tea

15
18

In a certain flight of its seats were booked,

In University X, 60 candidates applied for a including of its business class seats. If of its
particular PhD course. Out of these, 30 had a
masters degree, 20 had assistantship experience seats were business class, then what percent of
of at least 3 years and 10 had an assistantship
experience of less than 3 years and did not have the seats that were not booked were business
a master degree . How many candidates had at
class?
least 3 years assistantship experience and a
masters degree ?
20%

33 %

35%

45%

80%

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In each production lot of LED bulbs, 15% of the The drama club has 75 members. At most 70 of
bulbs are size A and 85% bulbs are size B. Half the drama club members are in the students
of the LED bulbs are red and half are green. If union. If there are 90 students in the students
10 out of a lot of 100 LED bulbs are red and size union, then what could be the number of
A, how many of the LED bulbs are green and members of students union who are not in the
size B? drama club?
15 5
30 15
35 20
45 75
85
90

Of the 30 cricket players selected for England

tour, half are allotted to Senior Team and half to
Junior Team. However, 60 percent players prefer
Senior Team and 40 percent prefer Junior Team.
What is the least possible number of players who
will not be assigned to the Team they prefer?
3
4
5
6
7

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SEQUENCE AND SERIES

How many multiples of 5 are there : A sequence Q consists of 15 numbers arranged in

ascending order. The first term in this sequence is
(i) from 50 to/through 100.
25. In this sequence for the first 14 terms the ratio
(ii) between 50 and 100. of the term to the next term is a fixed constant. Last
term of the sequence is four times the first term.
(iii) between 50 and 100, inclusive. What is the 8th term in the sequence?
50
62.5
25(4)7
25(2)8/7
If x is equal to the sum of the even integers from
20 to 40, inclusive, what is the value of x ? 25(2)8/15

n th term of a certain sequence, for all n > 2, can

be obtained by subtracting from the previous
term the term before that. If first term is 4 and
second term is 8, what is the sum of first 100
terms of the sequence?

11, 15, 19, 23……, 91

11 being the first term in the above sequence,
and, each successive term is obtained by adding
4 to the previous term. What is the number of
terms in the above sequence?

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 A sequence of numbers a1, a2, a3, ..... is defined
nth term of a certain sequence, an = . as follows:

What is the sum of first 100 terms of the given a1 = 3, a2 = 5 and every term in the sequence
after a 2 is the sum of all terms in the
series?
sequence preceding it, e.g., a3 = a1 + a2 and
a 4 = a 1 + a 2 + a 3.

If an = t and n > 2, then what is the value of

an+ 2 in terms of t ?
8+t
8t
4t
t3
t4

If M(n) is the sum of sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, _ _ _, n,

in terms of n and M(n), M(2n) = ?
2 × M(n)

n × M(n)

2n × M(n)

2M(n) + n 2

M(n) + 2n 2

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PERCENTAGES

If 10% of A is equal to 120% of B, then what Number of students in Mr. Charle’s class
percent of B is A? increased by 5% in the session 2009-2010.
For the next session, 2010-2011, number of
(A) 12%
students in his class, again increased by 5%.
(B) 110% What is the percentage increase in the number
of students for Mr. Charle’s class from 2009-
(C) 120% 2011?

(D) 1200%
%
(E) 12000%

60% of x is increased by 200% to give 450. What

is the value of x? In an experiment, a solution ‘P’ was observed.
In the 1st hour, 8% of solution ‘P’ evaporated.
In the 2nd hour, 5% of remaining solution ‘P’
evaporated. What percent of initial solution ‘P’
is left after 2 hours?

60% of 200 downloads of a mobile app ‘A’ were

on android platform in 2014, whereas 40% of
600 downloads of the mobile app ‘A’ were on
android platform in 2015. What was the percent
change from 2014 to 2015 in the number of A person earns $100 in a day, working for 10
downloads on android platform for the app ‘A’? hours at $10 per hour.
Quantity A Quantity B
% Earnings per day, if Earnings per day,
hourly wage is if working hours
increased by 40% increased by 10%
for working and hourly wage
10 hours increased by 30%

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In year 1980, the price of an article was $X. The If radius of a right circular cylinder is increased
price was increased by 12% from 1980–1982 and by 20%, what is the percentage change in the
the increase in price from 1980–1984 was 24%. volume of the cylinder? (Note : Given that the
height of the cylinder remains same.)
Quantity A Quantity B
20%
Percentage change in 12%
price from 1982 - 1984 37%
44%
72.8%
64.8%

Grace is offered a series of two successive

discounts, 20% on sales price of movie ticket
and then x% on reduced price, which is
equivalent to net 40% discount on the sales price
Eddy bought a bicycle at discount for $Y from
of movie ticket.
ranger bicycles. But he sold it to his friend at
Quantity A Quantity B the initial marked price, thereby making 20%
profit on purchase price.
x 20
Quantity A Quantity B
Discount percentage 20%
offered by ranger
bicycles to Eddy

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SIMPLE INTEREST AND COMPOUND INTEREST

Tom took a loan of $P at an annual rate of interest Mr. Harry, who was a resident of State Y for only
of R%. For the following, find the amount to be 7 months last year, had a taxable income of
paid after N years if the rate of interest is: $300,000 for the year. If the state tax rate was 8
percent of the year’s taxable income prorated for
(i) Compounded annually
the proportion of the year during which the
(ii) Compounded semi-annually taxpayer was a resident, what would be the
amount of Mr. Harry’s State Y tax for last year?
(iii) Compounded quarterly
$14,000
(iv) Compounded monthly
$21,000
$24,000
$28,000
$36,000
$P were deposited in each of two different
accounts, one gives simple interest and in the
other amount is compounded annually. For
both accounts the annual rate of interest is R%.
(R > 0) (Note : No other transactions were made Mr. X invested an amount of $5000 in two funds
apart from those mentioned.) at the start of 2001. From one fund, he was
Quantity A Quantity B earning interest of 5% per annum and from
another fund 8% per annum. Total interest earned
Difference between Difference between by him from both the funds at the end of the year
the interests the interests 2001was $315.
earned in accounts earned in accounts
in 2nd year in 1st year Quantity A Quantity B
Amount invested Amount invested
in fund at in fund at
5% per annum 8% per annum

Maggie bought a 1-year certificate of deposit,

and annual interest earned on the deposit is 6
percent compounded semi-annually. What was
the amount invested, if interest earned on the
certificate at maturity is $60.9? Investment of $4000 at R% per annum
compounded annually will become $16000 in
$1100 8 years. If $2000 is invested at R% rate of
$1010 interest, in how many years will the investment
become $16000?
$1000
$110
$100

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EQUATIONS AND RATIOS

Today Tina is thrice as old as Rita and Rita is 4 A magician marks-off on a stick of length 1 yard
years younger than Agatha. If Tina, Rita, and in thirds and fifths and breaks the stick at the
Agatha are all alive 5 years from today, which marked points. What is the maximum number of
of the following must be true on that day? pieces which are equal in length?

Tina is thrice as old as Rita. 2

3
Rita is 4 years younger than Agatha.
4
Tina is older than Agatha.
5
6

A store currently charges the same price for each

candy box that it sells. If the current price of
each candy box were to be increased by $1, 6
fewer of the candy boxs could be bought for A certain number of candies is distributed equally
$180. What is the current price of each candy among Alice, Ben, Cane and Dino. Alice further
box?
distributes of his candies equally among the
$4
other three people. Later, Ben gives half of his
$5
candies to Dino. What fraction of the total
$6
number of candies does Dino have in the end?
$30
$40

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The weights of two wrestlers are in the ratio A water bottle costs $x and a cola bottle costs
7: 8. If each of the wrestlers wears additional $y. Ratio of cost of 2 bottles of water and 5
fighting accessories weighing 2 pounds, what is bottles of cola to 6 bottles of water and 15 bottles
the ratio of their new weights? of cola is 1:3.
Quantity A Quantity B
Cost of 1 bottle Cost of 1 bottle
of water of cola

If 2x2 – bx + 36 = 7x has one root equal to 3,

what is the value of other root?
4
6
7
14
The initial ratio of three variables x, y, and z is
3 : 24 : 100. Values of x, y, and z are changed 25
such that ratio of x to z is doubled while the ratio
of y to z is halved. If the new value of x is 24,
what is the new value of y?
25
48
75
100
150

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RATE AND TIME

An empty water tank can be filled to capacity Machine A produces toys at a uniform rate of 90
through an inlet Pipe A in 4 hours, and the same toys in 15 minutes, and Machine B produces toys
filled tank can be completely drained by an outlet at a uniform rate of 60 toys in 30 minutes. If the
Pipe B in 12 hours. If both the Pipes A and B are two machines run simultaneously, how many
fully open at the same time, in how many hours minutes would be required to produce a total of
will the empty tank be filled to capacity? 400 toys?
4
5
6
8
12

9 men working together can finish a piece of

work in 12 days. How many days will it take for
24 men to complete the same piece of work?
(Note: Assume the efficiency of all men to be
Tom, Amanda and Harry working alone can same)
finish a task in 4, 6, and 12 hours respectively.
Tom, Amanda and Harry start working together
and work for 1 hour, then Tom leaves and
Amanda and Harry work together for 1 hour, then
Amanda leaves and the rest of the work is done
by Harry alone. If the task was started at 10.00
am, then at what time does the task get
completed?
12:00 pm
12:30 pm If 4 identical taps can fill a 100 liter tank in 6
hours, then how many hours will be required to
3:00 pm fill a 150 liter tank by 8 such taps? (Note : Inlet
flow rate of each tap is same)
4:00 pm
4:40 pm

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In a garrison, there are 600 soldiers. It has food A car has to travel from New York to Chicago at
supply which is sufficient for 30 days. After 10 an average speed of 40 miles per hour and return
days, 200 more soldiers join the garrison. If rate immediately along same route at an average
of food consumption is same for every soldier, speed of 60 miles per hour. What is the average
then how long will the food supply last after these speed, in miles per hour, for the round trip?
200 soldiers joined?
45
48
50
51
55

A wall can be painted either by using 30 cans of

Brand A paint or 50 cans of Brand B paint. If x
cans of Brand A and 30 cans of Brand B are
required to paint the wall, what is the value of Bob can read 30 pages and Jane can read 40
x? pages in an hour. Bob starts with a novel at 4:30
pm and Jane starts with the same novel at 5:20
30 pm, then after how many minutes after 5:20 pm,
will they start reading the same page?
24
20
18
12

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GEOMETRY

In the figure above, O is the center of the circle.

If angle ACO = 40o, what is the degree measure
of angle ABC? Length of diameter AC is 10 units.
Quantity A Quantity B
Area of triangle 25
in sq. units

. AB is diameter of circle with center O.

If length of side AB is 8 units, what is the area of
Quantity A Quantity B ∆ABC? (in sq. units)
Measure of angle ACB 90 0 8
8 (1 + )
8 (1 + )
16
16 (1 + )

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 The figure above is a regular hexagon with the
length of side as 5 units, calculate:
In the above figure, if QS = 6 units and PS = 8
units, then what is the length of segment SR? (i) Area of hexagon
(ii) Height of hexagon
(iii) Length of largest diagonal
____________________ units

In parallelogram PQRS, M and N are mid points

of PS and QR respectively. A and B are two points
on line segment MN.
Quantity A Quantity B
Area of ∆PAQ Area of ∆RBS

In the figure above, O is the center of the circle.

Length of the arc BCD is 5π units, and length of
line segment ED is 4 units. Find the area of
shaded region?
25π – 6
25π – 24
25π – 36
25π – 48
25π – 64

In quadrilateral ABCD, AB = AD = 5 and BC = 6

and CD = 1. Which of the following could be
the degree measure of angle A?
45
60
75
90
120
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In right triangle PQR, X and Y are mid-points of
PQ and PR respectively. T is any point on QR.
PQ = 6, QR = 8.
Quantity A Quantity B
What is the volume of right circular cylinder with
Area of quadrilateral 12
radius 3 units is placed inside the cone as shown
PXTY
above, in square units?
24π
36π
48π
72π
100π

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NUMBERS

How many positive integers are factors of 100? For an annual function, an organizer needs to
select some participants, which should be evenly
divisible in the groups of 9, 10, and 12. What is
the minimum number of participants the
organizer can select?

n is an integer greater than 0.

Quantity A Quantity B
Number of prime Number of prime
factors of 2n(2n + 2) factors of n(n + 1)
Digit p is the thousandths digit of A = 7.24p6. Which
of the following could be the value of p, if A, when
rounded to hundredths digit, has the hundredths digit
equal to 4?

2
If 2a + b and are even, a and b are integers, 3

then which of the following must be true? 4

5
a is even
6
b is even
a + b is even
a – b is even
a is a multiple of 4
b is a multiple of 4

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A is a two digit positive integer, and B is formed If p, q and r are positive integers such that q is a
by interchanging the digits of A. Which of the multiple of p and r is a factor of p, which of the
following could be true? following is not necessarily an integer?

A + B = 63

A – B = 33

A + B = 132

If m is a positive integer and m3 is divisible by

48, then what is the minimum possible value
of m?
6
9
12
18
When the positive integer n is divided by 60,
48 remainder is 9.Which of the following cannot be
a divisor of n?
3
6
If m is a positive integer, and, m2 is divisible by 9
both, 8 and 18.
12
(i) what is the minimum value of m?

(ii) which of the following integers are divisors M and N, are positive integers that have
of every integer m? remainders of 3 and 2 respectively, when divided
by 6. Which of the following could be the
4 remainder when (M + N) is divided by 12?
6 3

8 5

12 11

24

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When positive integer n is divided by 3, Quantity A Quantity B
remainder is 1, and when n is divided by 4,
Units digit of 1
remainder is 2. What is the remainder when n is
(233)23(727)22(929) 3
divided by 12?

N is positive integer

Pat took ‘N’ whole days to complete the project. Quantity A Quantity B
If the dash represent the digit which has been Remainder, when 2 N
Remainder, when 7N
omitted, then which of the following could be is divided by 10 is divided by 5
the number of hours that he took to complete the
project?
6_98

6_36

6_50 Which of the following could be the units digit

6_90 of (37) X(21) X+1(35) X+2, where X is a positive
integer?
8_62 1
2
3
4
Quantity A Quantity B
5
Number of
prime numbers 300 6
from 1 to 1000
7
8
9

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 Quantity A Quantity B 0<z<y<x
Remainder, when 1 Quantity A Quantity B
550 is divided by 6
(x + 10)·(y)·(z) (x)·(y)·(z + 10)

Which of the following numbers are terminating

decimals?

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STATISTICS

Arithmetic mean of a given list of N numbers is The table below shows the number of toys with
P. X is added to each of these numbers in the list corresponding height in cms.
and then each of the numbers in the new list
Height 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69
formed is divided by Q to form the final list.
in cms
What will be the arithmetic mean of the numbers
in the final list? No. of 2 3 7 8 13 17
toys

Quantity A Quantity B
Range of 50
height of toys
Range of a given list of 6 numbers is 27.4. 10 is
added to each number in the list and then each
resulting number is divided by 2. What will be
the range of final list of numbers?

Given a list of terms : 5, 15, 40, 55, and X.

The median of the given 5 numbers is 15. What
will be the value of X so that the mean of these
numbers is maximum?
5
Which of the following does not affect the
median of a list of 5 different numbers? 14

Multiply each number by 2. 15

40
Add 10 to each number.
55
Increase largest number only.
Increase smallest number only
Decrease smallest number only.

Mode of 7 students scores is 87, average is 80,

median 82, and lowest score is 70. Calculate the
maximum value of the highest score among
7 students, if scores are integer values?

Set X contains 10 consecutive multiples of 7.

Quantity A Quantity B
Mean of set X Median of of set X

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 List I = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Scores of boys in a certain class have a range of
20.4 and scores of girls in the same class have a
A term x is added in list I to form list II. What
range of 32.6. Which of the following options
can be the values of x, sot that :
is/are individually sufficient to determine the
(i) Mean of list II is equal to mean of list I. range of scores of all the students in that class?
Median score of boys is same as the
median score of girls.
Highest score among boys is 4 units
(ii) Mean of list II is greater than mean of list I. greater than the lowest score among girls.
Maximum score among the girls is at most
2.2 more than the maximum score among
boys.
(iii) Mean of list II is less than mean of list I.

Compare Standard deviation: (<, > or =)

(i) 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 33, 34, 35, 36, 37

(ii) 110, 120, 150, 180, 190 110, 130, 150, 170, 190
Mean score of a group of male students is 110 (iii) 9, 9, 10, 11, 11 6, 8, 10, 12, 14
and that of female students is 150. If the ratio of
male students to that of female students is 3:5, (iv) 10, 14, 30, 49, 50 110, 127, 130, 134, 150
then what is the average score after combining
both groups?

Given a list of 5 terms as: 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25.

A 6th term X is added in the list, what will be the
value of X so that the standard deviation (S.D.)
of the final list of 6 terms is minimum ?

Average fees paid by one group consisting of N

number of students is $17,500 and the average
fees paid by another group consisting of N–1
students is $22,500.
Quantity A Quantity B
Average fees paid by $20000
2N–1 students
Prices of 5 different tables are $190, $210, $175,
$230 and $163
Quantity A Quantity B
S.D. of final prices S.D. of the final
if a discount of $100 prices if a discount
is given on price of 10% is given on
of each table prices of each table

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Mileage of five different vehicles as reported by Box plot below shows the weight, in grams, of
Jack were 16, 18, 11, 13 and 19 units. Two of 600 toys manufactured by company ABC Inc:
the mileages were wrongly reported by jack, so
that one was 5 units more than the correct value,
and other was 5 units less than the correct value.

Quantity A Quantity B
(i) What is the range, the three quartiles, the inter
S.D. of reported S.D. of actual quartile range and the approximate number of
mileages mileages toys that weigh between 136 and 142 grams?

(ii) Quantity A Quantity B

62.5th percentile 152 grams
of the weights of
Each of the following linear equations defines y the toys
as a function of x for all integers x from 1 to
20. For which of the following equations is the
standard deviation of the y-values corresponding (iii) If 22nd percentile of the weights is 133 grams,
to all the x-values, the greatest? approximately how many toys have weight
between 133 grams and 142 grams?
y=

y= +2

y=x
y = – 2x + 7
y = 4x – 9

In a class of 950 students, where each student’s

height is different, X centimeters height is at the
78th percentile. If there are 171 measurements
in the distribution that are greater than Y
centimeters but less than X centimeters, then Y
is approximately at what percentile in the
distribution?
50th
55th
60th
78th
96th

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 Number of phones sold, in thousands, in each
month of 2015 by retailer X is given below:
Jan 23 July 46
–2 –1 0 1 2
Feb 41 Aug 42
Mar 78 Sep 31 The figure above shows the standard normal
distribution curve, with mean 0 and standard
Apr 82 Oct 27 deviation 1, including approximate percentage
May 86 Nov 49 of the distribution corresponding to the six
regions shown.
June 23 Dec 72
The random variable x is normally distributed
Standard Deviation of the above data is 22.5
with mean ‘M’, and, standard deviation,
(in thousands)
‘D’. What percent of the values of x are less than
(i) Find the mean, median, mode, range, quartiles (M+D)?
and interquartile range of number of phones sold
2%
in various months?
(ii) If the number of phones sold in each month of 14%
2015 was 1.5 times that in corresponding month 36%
of 2014, what was mean, median, mode, range
and interquartile range of the number of phones 84%
sold in 2014 in each month? 86%
(iii) If the number of phones sold in each month of
2015 is 700 less than the targeted number phones
to be sold in 2016, what would be the standard
deviation and interquartile range of the targeted
number of phones to be sold in 2016?
The random variable X is normally distributed.
The values 120 and 280 are at the 10th and 40th
percentiles of the distribution of X, respectively.

Quantity A Quantity B
X 0 2 4 6 8
Value at 25th 200
Relative 0.34 0.06 0.10 0.30 0.20 percentile of the
Frequency distribution X
For the relative frequency distribution given
above, find:
(i) Mean
(ii) Median A data set has arithmetic mean of 35 and standard
deviation of 4, which of the following values is/
(iii) Mode
are more than 1.5 standard deviation from the
(iv) Range mean?
24
28
32
40
42
44

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COORDINATE GEOMETRY

Find the equation of the line that passes through

the points (4, 5) and (6, 9)?

Quantity A Quantity B
Line L passes through two points (3, 7) and
(8, 2). Find : Slope of line l1 Slope of line l2

(i) Equation of a line perpendicular to line L

and passing through (3, 7).
(ii) Equation of a line parallel to line L and
passing through origin.

Slope of a line l that passes through (a, b) is .

(i) Quantity A Quantity B

x -intercept y-intercept
of line l of line l
“C” is the mid-point of line segment AB. Find
the coordinates of “C” if (ii) If line l passes through origin.
Slope of line passing through A = 1 Quantity A Quantity B
a b
Slope of line passing through B =

Slope of a line l is –1.

Quantity A Quantity B
x-intercept of y-intercept of
line l line l

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Slope of the line joining points M and N is In the rectangular coordinate system, calculate
positive such that the point M(p, q) lies in first the area enclosed by the following system of
quadrant and point N(a, b) lies in the fourth linear inequalities?
quadrant.
x + y < 6, x > 1 and y > 3?
Quantity A Quantity B
a+b p+q

The coordinates of 3 of the vertices of a

parallelogram ABCD are (–1, 4), (7, 4) and
(3, –5).
(i) What is the area of the parallelogram
ABCD?

(ii) Quantity A Quantity B

Quantity A Quantity B x-coordinate of y-coordinate of
4th vertex 4th vertex
a+b p+q

In the rectangular coordinate system, the line

In the rectangular coordinate system, which of
y = –x is perpendicular bisector of line segment
the following quadrants, if any, contains at least
AB and x-axis is perpendicular bisector of line
one point (x, y) that satisfies the inequality
segment BC. If the coordinates of point A are
4y – 3x + 4 > 0?
(–2, 8), what are the coordinates of point C?
I
II
III
IV
What is reflection of line 3x - 4y = 4, along
x = y?

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 What could be the equation of the given
parabola?

y2 + x2 = 5
y = (x – 5)2
y = x2 + 4
y + 4 + x2 = 0
y+4+x=0

For parabola y = x2 + 6x + 8, find out:

The figure above shows the graph (i) Coordinates of the vertex
of y = g(x). If f is defined as (ii) x -intercept
f(x) = g(2x) – 2g(–x), then which of the following
value is closest to f(2)? (iii) y -intercept

2 (iv) Axis of symmetry

10

The function f is defined as f(x + 3) = x2 + 4 for

all non zero values of x.
Quantity A Quantity B
f(–9) 148

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 In the xy-plane, triangular region R is bounded
by the x-axis and y = 6 – |x|. Which of the
following points lie inside region R ?
(0, 7)
(0, 4)
(2, 3)
(3, 4)
(4, –4)

(–2, –3)

In the rectangular xy-plane, P(0,4) is the center of (–3, 1)

the circle as shown in the figure above,
and y = 2 is a tangent to the circle. What is the
equation of the circle ?
(x + 4)2 + y2 = 4
x2 + (y – 4)2 = 2
x2 + (y – 4)2 = 4
(x – 4)2 + y2 = 2
x2 + (y – 2)2 = 4

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PERMUTATION & COMBINATION

In how many ways can a committee of 4 men A company ABC has 20 employees.
and 2 women can be formed from a group of 7
men and 5 women?

In how many ways can a team of two-members

or three-members be made from a group of 4
boys and 3 girls? In how many ways can a team of 3 people be
selected such that :
(i) None of the three is experienced.

12 people attended a meeting in Townhall. In (ii) Exactly 1 person is experienced.

how many ways can a team of 6 people be
selected from the people attending the meeting,
if 4 people cannot be in the team and 2 particular
persons have to be selected in the team?
(iii) At least 1 person is experienced.

How many three-element subsets of the set

{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5} are there:
(i) Which contain neither 2 nor 4.

(ii) Which contain 2 but not 4.

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 How many different 3-digit numbers can be In how many different ways can 5 senior
formed so that the units digit is always prime? executives be seated on 5 chairs around a circular
table?
(i) Repetition of digits is allowed.

(ii) Repetition of digits is not allowed.

In how many ways can we arrange all letters of

the word VIVID in straight line?

Quantity A Quantity B
Number of 3-digit 99
numbers that can be
formed using different
digits from the list In how many ways can we arrange letters of word
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 such that WATER, if vowels are not next to each other?
product of digits of the
number is even

In how many different ways can 5 children be In how many ways can we arrange letters of the
seated in a row of 5 chairs? word HEALTH so that word starts with a vowel
and ends with a vowel?

How many different three or four letter codes

In how many different ways can 3 children be can be formed from the first 10 letters of English
seated in a row of 6 chairs? alphabet?

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In how many ways can University XYZ give 3 Quantity A Quantity B
scholarships, one each of $30,000, $20,000 and
No of 3 digit passwords 10
$10,000 to 3 different applicants from a pool of
that can be formed
12 applicants?
using 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, so that
the digits are in increasing
order from left to right

In how many ways can you arrange Alice, Beth,

In how many ways can University XYZ give 3 Clan and Dony in a line so that Clan is on the
scholarships of $10,000 each to 3 different left of Beth?
applicants from a pool of 12 applicants?

In how many ways can 4 different balls be put

into 3 different boxes, if any box can have any
number of balls?
A group of students has 5 boys and 5 girls. Each
student shakes hands with every other student.
Quantity A Quantity B
Minimum number 45
of handshakes

5 particular points lie on the circumference of a

circle.
Quantity A Quantity B
Number of triangles Number of line
that can be made segments that can be
using the 5 points made using the
5 points

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PROBABILITY

A bag consists of three differently coloured –9, –7, –5, –3, –1 , 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

bottles, which includes 3 black, 4 white and 5
If two integers are randomly selected from given
red. If 2 bottles are picked randomly from the
list of numbers, what is the probability that the
bag, what is the probability that :
product of the two integers selected will be
(i) Both the bottles selected are Red positive?

(ii) Both the bottles selected are not Red

(iii) None of the bottles selected is Red

(iv) One is red and the other is Black

(v) First bottle selected is red and the second
one is black

A 20-sided die, has faces numbered from 1 to

20, and each of the 20 possible outcomes is
equally likely to occur.
A 10-sided fair die which has its faces numbered (i) If die is rolled once, find the probability of
from 1 to 10, is to be rolled twice. What is the rolling either a multiple of 3 or an even
probability that an odd number shows up in the number?
first attempt and a prime number shows up in
the second attempt?

(ii) If die is rolled twice, what is the probability

that product of numbers is even?

For the post of head boy, the probabilities of

selecting a student from a group of boys Alli,
Ban, Clan, Don, Eric and Fany are X, 2X, 3X,
4X, 5X and 6X respectively. If one of these six
has to be selected, find the value of X?

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A marker is selected from a box containing 100
different markers. The selected marker is found From a list of 60 consecutive even integers, the
to be defective so it is placed back in the box,
and then second marker is picked. What is the probability of selecting a number less than 50 is
probability that the second marker selected is the
same marker? . Find the greatest number of the sequence?

Six points are equally spaced on a circle.

(i) If 2 of the 6 points are to be chosen at
random, what is the probability that the line
Five tools are taken out of a tool box having 20
segment formed by joining these 2 points is
different machine tools. If three out of the 20
a diameter?
tools in the tool box are defective, what is the
probability of taking out exactly two defectives
tools?

(ii) If 3 of the 6 points are to be chosen at

random, what is the probability that the
triangle that has the selected 3 points as
vertices will be an equilateral triangle?

If an integer is selected from all positive 3-digit

integers, what is the probability that the integer
selected :
(i) Is a multiple of 10.

(ii) Contains neither 4 nor 5.

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The table below shows the number of students
and corresponding height in cms. What is the
probability of selecting a student whose height
is greater than the median of their height?

Height in cms Number of students

140 2 AC and BD are diagonals of parallelogram
ABCD. A point is randomly selected inside the
145 3
parallelogram.
150 7
Quantity A Quantity B
155 8
The probability that The probability that
160 13 the point lies in the the point lies in the
165 17 shaded region unshaded region

In a regional knockout cricket match series, the

probability of team A winning a match is 0.3.
What is the probability the team A is knocked
out of the series just after the 3rd match?
(Note : No match ends in a tie.)

A smaller square is inscribed in a bigger square In a box of 40 pencils, half of the pencils are
of side 11 units by joining the mid points of the with an eraser. From same box probability of
bigger square. If a point is randomly selected on selecting a red color pencil is 0.4; 25% of these
the largest square, what is the probability that are with an eraser. Find the probability of
the point lies inside the shaded region? selecting a pencil which is not red but has an
eraser?

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 The random variable X follows normal
The probability is that a certain coin will turn distribution, with mean 60 and SD 6. What is
the probability that 48 < X < 66?
up heads on any given toss. On 5 tosses of a coin,

what is the probability of getting :

(i) Exactly 3 heads

(ii) At least 4 heads

The probability of Alice hitting the target while

shooting is 0.4 and probability of either Alice,
Ban or both hitting the target is 0.8.

In a lot of CMW cars, of the cars have AC and (i) What is the probability of Ban hitting the
target, if both events are mutually exclusive?
of the cars have power windows.

(i) What could be the probability of selecting a car

that has AC, Power window or both? (ii) What is the probability of Ban hitting the
0.5 0.6 target, if both events are independent?

0.7 0.8

0.9

(ii) Quantity A Quantity B

Probability of A bag has 30 different coins, of which 20 are

fair coins.
selecting a car with both
AC and power window (i) If two coins are selected without replacement
from bag, what is the probability of selecting
exactly one fair coin?
(ii) Two coins are selected with replacement
from bag.
Quantity A Quantity B

The probability of
selecting exactly one
fair coin

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DATA INTERPRETATION SET 1

MAXIMUM DAILY TEMPERATURE FOR JANUARY 2007 FOR STATE X

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What was the average maximum daily Approximately what percent of the days had
temperature of State X for January, 2007? (In maximum daily temperature greater than the
degree celcius) mode but less than the median of the maximum
daily temperatures for January, 2007?
3
12%
4
22%
5
26%
6
30%
7
40%

Which of the following statements are true?

Mode of the maximum daily temperatures
for January, 2007 was 7oC.
Average maximum daily temperature was
same as median of the maximum daily
temperatures for January, 2007.
It can be inferred from the given data that
range of the maximum temperatures was 6oC.

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DATA INTERPRETATION SET 2

PERCENT CHANGE IN USAGE OF OPERATING SYSTEM iOS, 2001-2008

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If at the start of 2004, 595,000 users were using Which of the following statements can be
iOS, what was the approximate number of users inferred from the given data?
of iOS at the start of 2006? (in thousands)
Number of users at the start of 2002 was same
593 as the number of users at the end of 2004 of
595 iOS.

597 Total percentage increase in the number of

users of iOS from the start of 2005 to the
600 end of 2006 was greater than percentage
increase in of IOS users 2007.
601
From starting of 2001 to the end of 2008,
numbers of IOS users were maximum at the
end of 2007.

What was the total percent change in number of

users of operating system iOS from the start of
2001 to the start of 2004?
9.75%
15%
15.5%
20.5%
25%

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DATA INTERPRETATION SET 3

COURSE-WISE DIVISION OF 50,000 ENROLMENTS IN 2001

COURSE-WISE DIVISION OF 50,000 ENROLMENTS IN 2002

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In year 2001, which of the following courses had Which of the following courses had the greatest
enrolments most nearly equal to the average percentage change in enrolments from 2001 to
(arithmetic mean) enrolments per course? 2002?
Science Commerce
Physical Education Technical
Commerce Humanities
Applied Sciences Science
Vocational Vocational

In year 2002, of science enrolments, of

vocational enrolments, of commerce

enrolments and of physical education

enrolments were offered scholarships. What was
the approximate number of enrolments offered
scholarships in 2002? (Note : No enrolment in
any other course was offered any scholarship.)

3000
4300
5800
6900
7500

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DATA INTERPRETATION SET 4

NUMBER OF RIDES THROUGH MAXI CAB RIDES AS A PERCENT OF
MAXI CAB SERVICES IN CITY X, 1980–1995 TOTAL RIDES THROUGH CABS

PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL NUMBER OF RIDES THROUGH CABS IN CITY

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In 1986, what was the approximate number of What was the average change per year in the
rides through cabs in the city? number of rides through cabs from 1980 – 1995?
8000 18250
12500 19500
15000 96000
20000 292000
50000 300000

What was the approximate percent increase in In 1992, the top three cab services in the city, in
rides through cabs from 1981 to 1982? terms of number of rides serviced, were Maxi,
Uber and Ola. What is the minimum number of
15%
cab services in the city?
27%
40%
55%
80%

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DATA INTERPRETATION SET 5

LED VS. LCD TV’S REVENUE AS A PERCENT OF TOTAL REVENUE OF A COMPANY

TOTAL REVENUE FROM SALES OF LED AND LCD TV SETS (in million dollars)

AVERAGE PRICE PER LED AND LCD TV SET (in dollars)

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For how many months the revenue from sales of In September the number of LED and LCD TV
LED TV sets was less than twice that of LCD sets sold was closest to which of the following?
TV sets?
135000
1
155000
2
180000
3
200000
4
220000
5

Which of the following, is closest to the revenue,

in million dollars, from sales of LCD TV sets in
July?
12
18
28
30
40

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DATA INTERPRETATION SET 6

AVERAGE ANNUAL PREMIUM PAID FOR MEDICAL POLICY BY

DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS IN STATE X, 1980-87 (in dollars)

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Which of the following is closest to the average Which of the following statements are true?
change per year in the average annual premium
paid for medical policy by people of age group Average premium paid for medical policy by
40 – 49 years in State X, from 1980 – 1987? people in the age group of 40 - 49 years in
1987 is 200% more than what they paid in
$45 1980.
$50 Total premium paid for medical policy by
$60 all age groups in 1986 is more than that paid
by them in 1984.
$70
Percentage change in average premium paid
$80 for medical policy by people of age group
50–59 years was positive for every year from
1985 to 1987.

In 1980, at the age of 51 years, Mr. Jack bought

the Medical Policy. If Mr. Jack paid premium
every year, what is the approximate total amount In 1982, Mr. Jack’s family had two people from
of premium paid by him from 1985 to 1987? each age group who bought the medical policy.
$2600 What is the approximate amount of premium paid
by Mr. Jack’s family? (in dollars)
$3000
$4800
$5500
$8200

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DATA INTERPRETATION SET 7

ANNUAL EXPENDITURE BY DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF

DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, 2001–2005

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent
of Total of Total of Total of Total of Total
Waste Management 24.8 32.8 32.8 35 38.1
Agriculture Sector 30 25 24.9 25.5 26
Education Infrastructure 20 24 23 21 15.1
Land Division 14.2 12.2 9.5 11 10.2
Labour Force 7 4 5.8 5.8 7.9
Others 4 2 4 1.7 2.7
Total (Expendture in 100% ($3500) 100% ($4000) 100% ($4980) 100% ($5017) 100% ($5950)
thousand dollars)

EXPENDITURE DISTRIBUTION BY DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS OF

WASTE MANAGEMENT BRANCH

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From 2002 to 2003, what was the approximate What was the approximate expenditure by
percentage change in the expenditure distribution education infrastructure branch in 2000, if
to transport department of waste management percentage change in expenditure by Education
branch? Infrastructure Branch for 2000 – 2001 was same
as that from 2001 – 2002 ? (in thousand dollars)
20%
16
40%
260
56%
500
68%
600
75%
900

In 2003, the amount allotted for equipments

department of waste management branch was
approximately what percent of the annual
expenditure of development authority?
2.5%
4.2%
10.8%
14.8%
24.8%

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