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Number Systems
General Problems:
1. The subtraction between the largest and the smallest number of 4 digits comprised of 0, 1, 2 and 3 is:
A. 3147 B. 2287 C. 2987 D. 2187
8 8
2. If n = 3 - 2 . Which of the following is NOT a factor of n?
A. 97 B. 65 C. 35 D.13
3. How many numbers from 1 to 200 inclusive are equal to the cube of an integer?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. none
4. How many terms of Arithmetic Progression (A.P.) 21,18,15,12, --- must be taken to give the sum zero?
A. 10 B. 15 C. 22 D. 27
5. When 0.232323..... is converted into a fraction, then the result is:
2 1 23 23
A) B) C) D)
9 5 99 100
6. which one of the following numbers has rational square root ?
A. 0.4 B. 0.09 C. 0.9 D. 0.025
7. What is the smallest number to be subtracted from 549162 in order to make it a perfect square?
A. 28 B. 36 C. 62 D. 81
8.What is the unit digit in the product 84×59×13×76
A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8
9. Which of the following has the most numbers of divisors?
A. 99 B. 101 C. 176 D. 183
10. Find the multiple of 11 in the following numbers.
A. 112144 B. 447355 C. 869756 D. 978626
11. Find the number of zeroes in 10 × 20 × 30 × ... × 1000.
A. 100 B. 124 C. 120 D. 150
12. The difference between the local value and the face value of 7 in the numeral 32675149 is.
A. 75142 B. 64851 C. 5159 D. 69993
13. The total number of digits used in numbering the pages of a book having 366 pages is ___.
A. 1080 B. 990 C. 999 D.1098
14. A boy multiplied 423 by a number and obtained 65589 as his answer. If both the fives in the answer are
wrong and all other figures are correct, the correct answer is-
A. 60489 B. 62189 C. 61189 D. 62389

Old and Even Number:

15. If n is an even integer, which of the following must be an odd integer
A. n – n B. n + 2 C. 3n - 1 D. 3n²
16. If positive integers x and y are not both odd, which of the following must be even?
A. xy B. x + y C. x - y D. 2(x + y) - 1
17. If n - 5 is an even Integer, what is the next large consecutive even integer?
A. n - 7 B. n - 3 C. n - 4 D. n - 2
18. When n is divided by 8, the remainder is 5. Which of the following is not an even number?
A. n + 3 B. n - 3 C. 3n + 1 D. 5n + 2
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19. In each expression below, N represents a negative integer. Which expression could have a negative value?
A. N² B. 6 - N C. - N D. 6 + N

Prime Number:
20. If x and y are prime numbers which of the following cannot be the sum of x and y?
A. 5 B. 9 C. 13 D. 23
21. The product q of two prime numbers is between 9 and 55. If one of the prime numbers is greater than 2 but
less than 6 and the other is greater than 13 but less than 25, then q =
A. 15 B. 33 C. 34 D. 51

Consecutive Number:
22. The sum of three consecutive even integers are equal to 4 times the smallest. What is the smallest integer?
A. 2 B. 6 C. 8 D. 10
23. The average of five consecutive odd numbers is 61. What is the difference between the highest and lowest
number?
A. 2 B. 5 C. 8 D. None
24. If a, b and c are 3 consecutive integers and a > b > c. Which of the following has the maximum value?
c a b b
A. b + B. c + C. c + D. a +
a b a c

25. The sum of three consecutive odd integers is 28 more than the first of these numbers. What is the middle
number?
A.10 B. 11 C. 13 D. 16
26. If the product of 4 consecutive integer is equal to the one of them. What is largest possible value of one of
the integers?
A.0 B. 3 C.4 D. 24
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27. What is the difference between the sixth and the fifth terms of the sequence 2, 4, 7, -- whose n term is n +
(n-1)
2 ?
A. 3 B. 6 C.16 D.17
28. If the first and sixth term of a geometric series are respectively 1/2 and 1/64 then the common ratio is?
1 1
A. B. C. 1 D. 2
4 2

Finding the Number:

29. A number is doubled and 9 is added. If the resultant is trebled, it becomes 75. What is that number?
A. 8 B. 6 C. 3.5 D. None
30. One third the sum of 13 and a certain number is the same as one more than twice the number. Find out the
number.
A. 6 B. 2 C. 5 D. 3
31. Two-fifth of one-fourth of three seventh of a number is 15. What is the half of the number?
A. 75 B. 157 C. 175 D. 57
32. If one number exceeds another number by 14 and the larger number is 3/2 times the smaller number, then
the smaller number is -
A. 13 B. 26 C. 28 D. 31
33. The sum of three integers is 40. The largest integer is 3 times the middle integer, and the smallest integer is
23 less than the largest integer. What is the product of the three integers?
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A. 1104 B. 972 C. 672 D. 294
34. If k and m are positive integers each greater than 1 and if 21(k+1) = 29(m+1). What is the least possible
value of (k + m)?
A. 45 B. 50 C. 51 D. None
35. The product of two numbers x and y is twice the sum of the numbers. What is the sum of the reciprocals of
x and y?
1 1 1
A. B. C. D. 2
8 4 2
36. If a two-digit positive integer has its digits reversed, the resulting integer differs from the original by 27. By
how much do the two digits differ?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D.6
37. A two-digit number becomes five-sixth of itself when its digits are reversed. The two digits differ by one.
What is the number?
A. 45 B. 54 C. 56 D. 65
38. If a + 1, 2a + 1, 4a - 1 are in Arithmetic Progression, then the value of “a” is
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
3 4
39. The largest number from among 2, 3 and 4 is:
3 4
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. all are equal
40. Which of the following numbers does not lie between 4/5 and 7/13 ?
1 2 3 5
A. B. C. D.
2 3 4 7
41. If 25% of a number is subtracted from a second number, the second number reduces to its five sixth. What
is the ratio of the first number to the second number?
A. 1:3 B. 2:3 C. 3:2 D. Data inadequate
42. The number 50 is divided into two parts such that the sum of their reciprocals is 1/12 then these parts are
A. 30 and 20 B. 30 and 25 C. 30 and 40 D.30 and 35
43. The sum of the squares of three numbers is 532 and the ratio of the first and the second as also of the second
and the third is 3 : 2. The first number is -
A. 8 B. 12 C. 18 D. 20
44. The difference of two numbers is 1365. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 6 as quotient
and 15 as remainder. What is the smaller number ?
A. 240 B. 270 C. 295 D. 360
45. A number is decreased by 10% and then increased by 10%. The number so obtained is 10 less than the
original number. What was the original number ?
A) 1000 B) 2000 C) 3000 D) 4000
46. If the number 91876*2 is completely divisible by 8, then the smallest whole number in place of "*" will be:
A. 1 B. 3 C. 4 D. 2
47. The numbers 11, 12, 14,( x-2), (x+4), (x+9), 32, 38, 47 are arranged in ascending order and the medium is
24; find x.
A. 18 B. 24 C. 22 D. 20

Divisible Number:
48. In a division sum, the remainder is zero. A student mistook the divisor by 12 instead of 21 and obtained 35
as quotient. What is the correct quotient?
A. 0 B. 12 C. 13 D. 20
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49. The number 87715938* is divisible by 4. The unknown non-zero digit marked as * will be -
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 6
50. If 'n' is an integer divisible by 6 but not by 4, then which of the following CANNOT be an integer?
n n n n
A. B. C. D.
2 3 12 10
51.How many integers from 1 to 1000 are divisible by 30 but not by 16?
A. 29 B. 31 C. 32 D. 38
52.A number when divided by a divisor leaves a remainder of 24. When twice the original number is divided by
the same divisor, the remainder is 11. What is the value of the divisor?
A. 13 B. 35 C. 37 D. 59
53. 'm', 'n' and 'o' are integers in such that 'm' is a multiple of 'n' and 'o' is a factor of 'm'. given these
relationships, which of the following CANNOT be an integer?
n n n n
A A. B. C. D.
2 3 12 10
54.In first 1000 natural numbers, how many integers exist such that they leave a remainder 4 when divided by 7
and a remainder 9 when divided by 11?
A. 11 B. 13. C. 15 D. 17
55. Find the least number of six digits which is the exactly divisible by 15, 21 and 28;
A. 100480 B. 100270 C. 100380 D. 100340
56.How many positive integers less than 100 have a reminder of 2 when divided by 13?
A. 0 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8
57. A number when divided by 3 leaves a remainder 1. When the quotient is divided by 2 it leaves a remainder
1. What will be the remainder when the number is divided by 6?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 2
58. The product of two positive number is p. If each of the number is increased by 2, the new product is how
much greater than twice the sum of the two original number?
A. p times B. 2p times C. (p+4) times D. (2p+3) times
59. If a and c are positive integers and 4a + 3 = b and 4c + 1 = d, which of the following could be the value of b
+ d?
A. 46 B. 58 C. 68 D. 74
60. There are how many positive factors of 2600?

A. 28 B. 36 C. 2 D. 24
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61. What is the minimum value of 2x – 8x + 7?

A. – 1 B. 14 C. 4 D. none of this
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Answers:
1. D 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. D
8. D 9. C 10. D 11. B 12. D 13. B 14. A
15. C 16. A 17. B 18. D 19. D 20. D 21. D
22. B 23. C 24. D 25. C 26. B 27. D 28. B
29. A 30. B 31. C 32. C 33. B 34. D 35. C
36. A 37. B 38. B 39. B 40. A 41. B 42. A
43. C 44. B 45. A 46. B 47. D 48. D 49. A
50. C 51. A 52. C 53. D 54. B 55. C 56. D
57.B 58.C 59.C 60.A 61.A