Number System

LEVEL – I

1. In a division sum, the quotient is 15 times and the divisor is 10 times the remainder. If the
quotient is 240, find the dividend.

2. What digit should be put in place of x in five-digit number 4398x to make it divisible by 9?

3. Find the largest six-digit number which is divisible by 270.

4. Find the largest six-digit number which when divided by 270 leaves a remainder of 36.

5. Find the largest six-digit number which when divided by 270 leaves a remainder of 128.

6. Find the smallest six-digit number which is divisible by 270.

7. Find the smallest six-digit number which when divided by 270 leaves a remainder of 240.

8. Find the smallest six-digit number which when divided by 270 leaves a remainder of 100.

9. If the difference of two numbers is eleven times the smaller number, how many times is the
smaller number contained in their sum?

10. A multiplication sum having been worked out is partially rubbed out; the figures that remain
are one of the multiplicand 99 and the last two digits 85 in the product. Restore the complete
work.

11. If 15129 plants are to be arranged in such a way there are as many rows as there are plants in
a row, the number of rows will be:

12. Which of these is greater : 15100 or 4200 ?

13. Find the least number divisible by 12, 15, 18, 25 and 30.

14. Find the least number which when divided by 18, 24 and 36 leaves 7 as remainder in each
case.

15. Find the least number which when divided by 16, 18, 24 and 32 leaves remainders 13, 15, 21
and 29 respectively.
16. Find the least multiple of 11 which when divided by 5, 8, 12 and 30 leaves the remainder 2 in
each case.

17. Find the largest five digit integer, which when divided by 3, 8, 11 and 16 leaves remainder 1, 6,
9 and 14 respectively.

18. Find the largest number which can divide 144, 216, 528 and480.

19. Find the greatest number that will divided 1709, 1879 and 2399 leaving in each case the same
remainder.

20. Find the greatest number that will divide 786, 991 and 1196 leaving 4, 5 and 6 as remainders
respectively.

21. Four bells ring after an interval of 18, 24, 36 and 40 seconds respectively. When will they ring
together again?

22. Find the greatest possible number with which when we divide 37 and 58, it leaves the
respective remainder of 2 and 3.

23. Find the largest possible number with which when 60 and 98 are divided it leaves the
remainder 3 in each case.

24. Find the largest possible number with which when 38, 66 and 80 are divided, the remainder
remains same.

25. Find the LCM of 36, 42, 64 and 70.

26. Find the least possible number of six digits which is perfectly divisible by 36, 42, 64 and 70.

27. Find the largest possible number of seven digit which is perfectly divisible by 36, 42, 64 and
70.

28. Find the number of numbers between 1 and 2000 which are perfectly divisible by 6, 7, 8 and 9.

29. Find the smallest possible perfect square which is exactly divisible by 12, 35, 40, 49 and 75.

30. Four bells in the Birla temple toll at the regular interval of 36, 48, 72 and 108 seconds
individually at what time they will toll together after 4:00am?

31. In the above problem how many times these bells will toll together till the 4:00 am on the
next day.

32. What is the least possible number which when divided by 24, 32 or 42 leaves the remainder
11 in each case?
33. What is the least possible number which when divided by 18, 35 and 42 leaves the remainders
as 5, 22 and 29 respectively?

34. Four runners started running the race in the same direction around a circular path of 3 km.
Their speeds are 3, 5, 7 and 11 km/h. If they have started their race at 5 O’ clock in the
morning, then at what time they will be at the starting point?

35. The HCF and LCM of 17! and 37! are:

36. Find the largest value of a in the 10a (a basically a natural number) which can exactly divide
1000!

37. Find the unit digit of 153+72+2894+365.

38. Find the unit digit of the product of all prime numbers.

39. Find the unit digit of 23 x 34 x 4 5 x 67 x 8 9 x 910

40. Find the unit digit 311 x 5 13 x 7 15 x 917

41. Find the unit digit of the expression

2 2 2 2 2 2 2
1 +2 +3 +4 + 5 + 6 +…+100

42. Find the unit digit of the expression

1 2 3 4 5 10
1 +2 + 3 +4 +5 + …+10

43. What is the remainder when 10+102 +103 +104 + 105+ 106 +107 is divided by 6?

44. What is the sum of the following series?

1 1 1 1
+ + +…
1x 2 2x 3 3 x 4 100 x 101

45. A monkey wanted to climb on the smooth vertical pole of height 70 meter. In the first two
minute he climbs up 10 meter and in the next two minute he slips down by 4 meter. Further
he repeated the same process till he has reached on the top of the pole. How many times it
has to go upward to and in which minute it will reach at the top.

46. P, Q and R start at the same time from the same point a circular track in the same direction. P
complete a round in 198 seconds, Q in 252 seconds and R in 308 seconds. After, what time will
they meet again at the starting point?
 LEVEL - II
1. Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers is 3 more than twice the third. The
third integer is:
(a) 9 (b) 11
(c) 13 (d) 15

2. L.C.M. of two prime numbers x and y (x > y) is 161 The value of 3y – x is:
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) -1 (d) -2

3. The smallest single digit number that must be added to 803642 in order to obtain a multiple
of 11 is:
(a) 2 (b) 3
(c) 7 (d) 5

4. A number when divided by 663 gives 53 as a remainder, find the number when this number is
divided by 39.
(a) 9 (b) 14
(c) 16 (d) Cannot be determined

5. The product of the digits of a two-digit number is one half that number. If we add 27 to the
required number, we get a number consisting of the same digit written in the reverse order.
Find the number:
(a) 24 (b) 42
(c) 32 (d) 36

6. The value of the expression given below is

3 2
12 x 21 x 25
2 4
35 x 3

(a) 128 (b) 144

(c) 192 (d) None of those

7. Which of the following can never be in the ending of a perfect cube?

(a) 6 (b) 00 (only last two zero’s)
(c) 1 (d) 000 (only last three zero’s)

8. Which of the following can be a number divisible by 24?

(a) 5132604 (b) 1165284
(c) 1236480 (d) None of these

9. If x3717 is divisible by 11, find the value of the smallest digit x?

(a) 5 (b) 1
(c) 7 (d) 9

10. If 3576ab is divisible by 80. Then find the value of (a + b):

 (a) 4 (b) 2
(c) 8 (d) 6

11. If 24753x is divisible by 36, then find the value of x:

(a) 2 (b) 4
(c) 6 (d) 8
x
12. A number of the form 10 −1 is always divisible by 11, where x is a natural number then:
(a) x is prime (b) x is even
(c) x is odd (d) None of these

13. When a three digit number 882 is added to another three digit number 6a4 we get a four digit
number 14b6 which is divisible by 22. The value of (a + b) is:
(a) 13 (b) 12
(c) 11 (d) 10

14. The smallest possible number which must be multiplied or divided to 5780 to make it a
perfect square.
(a) 10 (b) 5
(c) 8 (d) 20

15. √ 729 ÷ √a=3, then the value of a is:

(a) 27 (b) 9
(c) 81 (d) 243

16. Find the total number of factors of 270:

(a) 12 (b) 16
(c) 20 (d) 24

17. Find the HCF of 36, 42, 105, 135

(a) 6 (b) 3
(c) 7 (d) 5

18. A milk container is 2/3 full. When 12 liters of milk is taken out, it remains 5/8 full. Find the
capacity of the milk container.
(a) 216 l (b) 252l
(c) 288 l (d) 360 l

19. The number of Zeros at the end of the product of the expression
1 2 3 12
10 x 10 x 10 x … x 10 x is :

(a) 55 (b) 66
(c) 77 (d) 78

20. If (53)2−(47)2=15 a , then the value of a is:

(a) 40 (b) 60
(c) 50 (d) 80
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21. If a+ =5, then the value of a + 3 is:
a a

(a) 125 (b) 140

(c) 110 (d) 100

22. If a+b+c = 0, then the value of a 3+ b3 +c 3 is:

(a) 0 (b) 1
(c) abc (d) 3abc

n
23. 17 −1 is:

(a) always divisible by 8 (b) always divisible by 18

(c) never divisible by 8 (d) always divisible by 17

24. When a two digit number is reversed, then the new number becomes 5/6th of the original
number. The original number is:

(a) 45 (b) 54
(c) 36 (d) 63

25. If the numerator and denominator of a fraction are exchanged then the product of these
two fraction becomes equal to 1. The total number of such fraction is:

(a) 0 (b) 1
(c) 2 (d) Infinite

26. The expression

(1+ 13 )(1+ 41 )( 1+ 15 ) … .( 1+ 1n ) , simplifies to

3 n
(a) (b)
n n+1
n+1 1 1 1 1
(c) (d) 1+ . . ...
3 3 4 5 n

27. (219 +1) is divisible by:

(a) 2 (b) 3
(c) 4 (d) 6

73 72 71
28. 2 −2 −2 is same as
72
(a) 2 (b) 271
 70
(c) 2 (d) 273
75
29. The remainder when 7575 is divided by 37:

(a) 0 (b) 1
(c) 5 (d) 7

30. If 5a−1 +5a +5 a+1=775 then the value of a for every positive integer a is:

(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4

31. A thief somehow managed to steal some mangoes from an orchard but while coming out of
it, at the first door he was caught by the watch man and he successfully dealt him by paying
1 mango plus half of the rest mangoes. Further he had to pay 2 mangoes, then half of the
rest to the second watch man. Once again at the third and last gate he had to give 3
mangoes and half of the rest to the third watch man. Finally he was left with only one
mango. How many mangoes did he steal from the orchard?

(a) 25 (b) 35
(c) 36 (d) None of these

32. A 120 digit number is written using the positive integers in the form of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13……. Find the remainder when this number is divided by 8

(a) 0 (b) 2
(c) 6 (d) 7

33. The difference of 1025−7 & 1024− x is divisible by 3 for which value of x?

(a) 0 (b) 1
(c) 2 (d) 3

34. Given that : (12 +22 +32 +… 102 ¿=385 , then the value of (22 +4 2 +62 +… 202 ) is equal to:

(a) 770 (b) 1540

(c) 3080 (d) 385 x 385

35. If the unit digit in the product (239 x 696 x 48A x 574) is 2, the value of A is:

(a) 3 (b) 4
(c) 5 (d) 2

36. If a number 774958P96Q is to be divisible by 8 and 9. The values of P and Q, respectively:

(a) 7,8 (b) 5 , 8

(c) 6, 8 (d) 0 , 8
37. A shopkeeper has three kinds of oil. Oil of first kind is 117 liters, second kind is 130 liters and
the third kind is 143 liters. The least number of container of equal size require to store oil is:
(a) 13 (b) 30
(c) 390 (d) None of these

38. When some coins are arranged in stacks of fifteen, there are 5 left over; in stacks of twenty,
10 left over, in stacks of twenty five, 15 left over and in stacks of thirty five. 25 left over. At
least how many coins are there totally?
(a) 2100 (b) 4200
(c) 2090 (d) 2110

39. The LCM of two numbers is 2900% more than their HCF and the sum of LCM and HCF of two
number is 310. If one of the number is 20, the other number is:
(a) 150 (b) 75
(c) 290 (d) 105

40. The HCF and LCM of two numbers and 21 and 4641 respectively. If one of the number lies
between 200 and 300, then the two numbers are:
(a) 273,357 (b) 231,378
(c) 252,378 (d) 273,399

41. If a+b=9 and ab=14, find the value of a-b

(a) ± 25 (b) ± 6
(c) ± 5 (d) ±3

42. If 1/8th of a pole is colored red, 1/3rd of the remaining is colored white and the remaining
14 m as green. Find the total length of the pole.
(a) 32m (b) 28m
(c) 44m (d) 24m
a b c a+b+ c
43. If = = , then value of is:
5 7 8 a

(a) 2 (b) 4
(c) 2.5 (d) 5

2a
1
44. If 1+
a
= 1, then the value of a is
1+
1−a

(a) 1/2 (b) 2/3

(c) 3/4 (d) 1

45. Simplify the expressions:

(999 17 +999 72 + 999 37 +999 47 +999 57 +999 67 )

 (a) 6000 (b) 3000
(c) 2997 (d) 5994

46. √
Find the value of 2+ √ 2+ √ 2+ … is:

(a) 2√ 2 (b) 2+ √ 2
(c) 2 (d) 4

61 62 63. 64
47. 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 is divisible by

(a) 3 (b) 5
(c) 17 (d) 34