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• How many numbers of zeroes are

there in 1076!
• (a) 265
• (b) 266
• (c) 267 (c)267
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• How many zeros are there at the end

of the product?
• 10*15*20*25*30*35*40*45*50
• (a) 7
• (b) 8
• (c) 11 (b)8
• (d) None of these
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Number System
• What should be subtracted from 4x4
+12x3+15x2+20x+25, so that it will be
divisible by x-2?
• (a) 280
• (b) 282
• (c) 285 (c)285
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• A number which when on being divided

by 5 and 7 successively leaves the
remainders 3 and 4 respectively. If the
same number is divided by 35, what will
be the remainder?
• (a) 22
• (b) 23
• (c) 24
• (d) Can not be determined
(b) 23
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Number System

• A number which when on being divided by 4,

5 and 7 successively leaves the remainders
2, 3 and 4 respectively. If the same number is
divided by 140, what will be the remainder?
• (a) 90
• (b) 92
• (c) 94 (c) 94
• (d) Can not be determined.
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Number System

If 5x4+15x3+20x2+25x+30 is divided by
x-3, what will be the value of the
quotient?
(a) 5x3+30x2+110x+355
(b) 5x4+32x2+105x +355
(c) 5x4+30x2+110x+350 (a)
(d) None of these
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Number System

• A number, when divided by 289 leaves the

remainder 80. If the same number is
divided by 17, what will be the remainder?
• (a) 10
• (b) 11
• (c) 12 (c) 12
• (d) Can not be determined.
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Number System

• Let N =1421*1423*1425. What is the

remainder when N is divided by 12?
• (a) 0
• (b) 9
• (c) 3 (c) 3
• (d) 6
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Number System

• The integers 34041 and 32506, when

divided by a three-digit integer n, leave
the same remainder. What is the value
of n?
• (a) 289
• (b) 367
• (c) 453 (d) 307
• (d) 307
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Number System

• Amita had to do a multiplication. Instead of

taking 35 as the multipliers, she took 53. As
a result, the product went up by 540. What is
the new product?
• (a)1050
• (b) 540
• (c) 1440
• (d) 1590 (d) 1590
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Number System

• Number S is obtained by squaring the

sum of digits of a two digit number D. If
the difference between S and D is 27,
then the two digit number D is:
• (a) 24
• (b) 54
• (c) 34 (b) 54
• (d) 45
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Number System

• If a number 774958A96B is to be
divisible by 8 and 9, the respective
values of A and B will be:
• (a) 7 and 8
• (b) 8 and 0
• (c) 5 and 8 (b) 8 & 0
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• If n is any odd number greater than

1, then n (n2-1) is divisible by:
• (a) 96
• (b) 48
• (c) 24 (c) 24
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• P and Q are two positive integers such

that PQ=64. Which of the following cannot
be the value of P+Q?
• (a) 20
• (b) 65
• (c) 16
• (d) None of these
(d)
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Number System
The owner of a local jewellery store hired 3 watchmen
to guard his diamonds, but a thief still got in and
stole some diamonds. On the way out, the thief met
each watchman, one at a time. To each he gave ½ of
the diamonds he had then, and 2 more besides. He
escaped with one diamond. How many did he steal
originally?

• (a) 40
• (b) 36
• (c) 25 (b) 36
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• A child was asked to add first few natural

numbers (i.e. 1+2+3+…) so long his patience
permitted. As he stopped, he gave the sum as
575. When the teacher declared the result is
wrong, the child discovered he had missed
one number in the sequence during addition.
The number he missed was:
• (a) Less than 10
• (b) 10
• (c) 15 (d) 20
• (d) 20
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Number System

• When 2 256 is divided by 17, the

remainder would be:
• (a) 1
• (b) 16
• (c) 14
• (d) None of these
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Number System
• Three friends, returning from a movie, stopped to eat at a
restaurant. After dinner, they paid their bill and noticed a bowl
of mints at the front counter. Zima took 1/3 of the mints, but
returned four because she had a monetary pang of guilt. Rima
then took ¼ of what was left but returned three for similar
reasons. Lima then took half of the remainder but threw two
back in to the bowl. The bowl had only 17 mints left when the
raid was over. How many mints were originally in the bowl?

• (a) 38
• (b) 31
• (c) 41
• (d) None of these (d)
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Number System
• A young girl Reena leaves home with X flowers, goes to the
bank of a near by river. On the bank of the river, there are four
places of worship, standing in a row. She dips all the X flowers
in to the river, the number of flowers doubles. Then, she enters
the first place of worship, offers Y flowers to the deity. She dips
the remaining flowers in to the river, and again the number of
flowers doubles. She goes to the second place of worship,
offers Y flowers to the deity. She dips the remaining flowers in
to the river, and again the number of flowers doubles. She goes
to the third place of worship, offer Y flowers to the deity. She
dips the remaining flowers in to the river, and again the number
of flowers doubles. She goes to the fourth place of worship,
offers Y flowers to the deity. Now she is left with no flowers in
hand.
• Contd……
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Number System

1. If Reena leaves home with 30

flowers, the number of flowers she
offers to each deity is:
• (a) 30
• (b) 31
• (c) 32 (c) 32
• (d) 33
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• 2. The minimum number of flowers

that could be offered to each deity
is:
• (a) 0
(c) 16
• (b) 15
• (c) 16
• (d) cannot be determined
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• 3. The minimum number of flowers

with which Reena leaves home is:
• (a) 16
• (b) 15
(b) 15
• (c) 0
• (d) Cannot be determined
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Number System

• Number of students who have opted for the subjects

A,B and C are 60, 84, and 108 respectively. The
examination is to be conducted for these students
such that only the students of the same subject are
allowed in one room. Also the number of students in
each room must be same. What is the minimum
number of rooms that should be arranged to meet all
these conditions?
• (a) 28
• (b) 60
• (c) 12
(d) 21
• (d) 21
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Number System

• A certain number when divided by 899

leaves the remainder 63. Find the
remainder when the same number is
divided by 29:
• (a) 5
• (b) 4 (a) 5
• (c) 1
• (d) Cannot be determined.
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Number System

• A is the set of positive integers such

that when divided by 2, 3,4,5,6 leaves
the remainders 1, 2,3,4,5 respectively.
How many integers between 0 and 100
belong to set A?
• (a) 0
• (b) 1 (b) 1
• (c) 2
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• Three wheels can complete 60, 36, 24

revolutions per minute respectively. There is
a red spot on each wheel that touches the
ground at time zero. After how much time, all
these spots will simultaneously touch the
ground again?
• (a) 5/2 s
• (b) 5/3 s
• (c) 6 s (c) 6 s
• (d) 7.5 s
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Number System

• A hundred digit number is formed by writing

first natural numbers in front of each other
as 12345678910111213….. Find the
remainder when this number is divided by 8.
• (a) 1
• (b) 7
• (c) 2
(a) 1
• (d) 5
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Number System

• 72 hens cost Rs__96.7__ Then what

does each hen cost, where two digits in
place of __are not visible or are written
in illegible hand-writing?
• (a)Rs3.23
• (b) Rs5.11
• (c) Rs5.51
(c) Rs5.51
• (d) Rs7.22
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Number System
• Three balls chime at intervals of 18 minutes,
24 minutes and 32 minutes respectively. At a
certain time, they begin to chime together.
What length of time will elapse before they
chime together again?
• (a) 2 hr and 24 min
• (b)4 hr and 48 min
• (c) 1 hr 36 min
(b)
• (d) 5 hr
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Number System

• What is the least number that must be

subtracted from 1856 so that the
remainder when divided by 7, 12 and 16
is 4?
• (a) 137
• (b) 1361
• (c) 140 (d) 172
• (d) 172
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Number System

A young girl counted in the following way on the

fingers of her left hand. She started calling thumb 1,
the index finger 2, middle finger 3, ring finger 4, little
finger 5, then reversed direction, calling the ring
finger 6, middle finger 7, index finger 8, thumb 9 and
then back to the index finger 10, middle finger for
11, and so on. She counted up to 1994. She ended
on her:
• (a) Thumb
• (b) index finger
• (c) middle finger (b) Index finger
• (d) ring finger
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Number System

• The number of positive integers not

greater than 100, which are not
divisible by 2, 3 or 5, is:
• (a) 26
• (b) 18
(a) 26
• (c) 31
• (d) None of these.
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Number System

• What will be the unit digit of the

product 3473 5237*5787 7829 * 6789 2367?
• (a) 3
• (b) 7
• (c) 9
• (d) None of these
(c) 9
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Number System

• Let N=553+173-723. N is divisible by:

• (a) Both 7 & 13

• (b) Both 3 & 13
(d)
• (c) Both 17 & 7
• (d) Both 3 & 17
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Number System

• If n2=12345678987654321,
• what is n?
• (a) 12344321
• (b) 1235789
• (c) 111111111 (d)
• (d) 11111111
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Number System

• A red light flashes 3 times per minute and a

green light flashes 5 times in two minutes at
regular intervals. If both lights start flashing
at the same time, how many times do they
flash together in each hour?
• (a) 30
• (b) 24
• (c) 20 (a) 30
• (d) 60
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Number System

• A set of consecutive positive integers

beginning with 1 is written on the
blackboard. A student came along and
erased one number. The average of the
remaining numbers is 35 7/17. What is the
number erased?
• (a) 7
• (b) 8
• (c) 9 (a) 7
• (d) none of these
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Number System

• A student instead of finding the value of 7/8

of the number, found the value of 7/18 of the
number. If his answer differed from the
actual one by 770, find the number.
• (a) 1584
• (b) 2520
• (c) 1728
• (d) 1656
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Number System

• In a particular country where monogamy was

a law, 3/5 of the men were married to 2/3 of
the women. What fraction of the adult
population was married?
• (a) 7/19
• (b) 12/19
• (c) 7/15
• (d) 8/15
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Number System

A person has a certain number of sheep and wants

to divide them in to equal groups. He tries groups of
2, but finds he has 1 left over. Then he tries groups
of 3, but has 2 left over. Then he tries groups of 4,
but has 3 left over….and so on, until he gets to
groups of 17, and the sheep fit perfectly. What is the
minimum number of sheep the person has?
• (a) 5045039
• (b) 5224079
• (c) 3520640
• (d) 1208379 (a) 5045039
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Number System

• Amaresh wanted one-rupee, two-rupee, three-rupee,

five-rupee & ten-rupee stamps. He asked his friend
Adarsh to get four each of two denominations &
three each of the other denominations, and gave him
Rs80. Before buying stamps, Adarsh treated himself
to a candy worth Rs2, but still had enough money to
buy the stumps. What was the value of each stamp
of the kinds which Amaresh wanted four in number?
• (a) Rs10 & Rs3
• (b) Rs5 & Rs3
• (c) Rs2 & Rs10
(d) Rs10 & Rs5
• (d) Rs10 & Rs5
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Number System

• The Gangtak Town council decided to have some fun

with numbering the houses in snap road which is a
new street in the town. For reasons known only to the
council, they decided not to use house numbers that
contained the digit 3 (e.g. 13, 32 etc) or numbers that
were multiples of 5 or 7.If there were 30 houses in
snaps street, what is the number of the last house?
• (a) 74
• (b) 62
• (c) 82
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• Three brothers divided certain amount

equally amongst them selves. After each one
had spent Rs12 from their pocket, they had
as much money left amongst them as each
one had after the distribution. How much
money was distributed?
• (a) 52
• (b) 54
• (c) 56
• (d) None of these (b) 54
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Number System

• If we divide an unknown two-digit number by

the number consisting of the same digits
written in reverse order, we get 4 as quotient
& 3 as remainder. Now if we divide the
required number by the sum of the digits, we
get 8 as quotient and 7 as the remainder.
Find the number.
• (a) 91
• (b) 72
• (c) 71
• (d) 64 (c) 71
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Number System

• What is the greatest number that will

divide 2930 & 3250 and will leave as
remainders 7 & 11 respectively?
• (a) 77
• (b) 78
• (c) 79
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• The traffic lights at three different road

crossings change after every 48 seconds, 72
seconds & 72 seconds respectively. If they
all change simultaneously at 8:20:00 hrs,
then at what time will they again change
simultaneously?
• (a) 8:27:12 hrs
• (b) 8:27:15 hrs
• (c) 8:27:30 hrs
• (d) 8:27:40 hrs
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Number System

A boy multiplied 423 by a certain number and

obtained 65589 as his answer. If both the
fives are wrong, but other figures are right,
find the correct answer.
• (a) 60489
• (b) 60389
• (c) 62389
• (d) 61389
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Number System

• The numbers 11284 and 7655, when

divided by a certain number of three
digits, leave the same remainder. Find
that number of three digits.
• (a) 190
• (b) 191
• (c) 192
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• If x2 +kx-24=0 & -3 is one of the roots of

the equation, then find the value of k:
• (a) 5
• (b) -5
• (c) 8
(b) -5
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• The H. C.F of two numbers is 67 and

their sum is 670. How many such
numbers are possible?
• (a) 2
• (b) 3
• (c) 4 (a) 2
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• Find the greatest number that divides

187, 233 and 325 leaving the same
remainder in each case:
• (a) 23
• (b) 46
• (c) 92
(b) 46
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is

1/5th of the difference between the number &
the number obtained by interchanging the
positions of the digits. What definitely is the
difference between the digits of that
number?
• (a) 2
• (b) 3
• (c) Can not be determined
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• 5 members of a basketball team are weighed

and an average weight is recalculated after
each member is weighed. If the average
increases by 2 kg each time, how much
heavier is the 5th player than the 1st?
• (a) 16kg
• (b) 20kg
• (c) 24kg (a) 16 kg
• (d) 26 kg
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Number System

• A certain number of horses and an equal

number of men are going some where. Half
of the owners are on their horses back while
the remaining ones are walking along leading
their horses. If the number of legs walking on
the ground is 70, how many horses are
there?
• (a) 10
• (b) 12
• (c) 14
• (d) None of these (c) 14
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Number System

• In a caravan in addition to 50 hens, there are

45 goats and 8 camels with some keepers. If
the total number of feet be 224 more than the
number of heads in the caravan, the number
of keepers is:
• (a) 5
• (b) 8
• (c) 10 (d)15
• (d) 15
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Number System

• Priyanka has the same number of sisters as

the number of brothers, but her brother Anil
has twice as many sisters as the number of
brothers. How many children are there in the
family?
• (a) 3
• (b) 5
• (c) 7 (c) 7
• (d) Can not be determined
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Number System

• A batsman scores equal number of fours

and sixes. If he has not given any dot
balls, then the average run per ball is:
• (a) 4
• (b) 4.8
(b) 4.8
• (c) 5
• (d) Can not be determined
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Number System

• The sum of four numbers is 22. The first number is

twice the difference of the second and fourth. The
second number is five times the difference of the
third and the fourth. The third number is twice the
difference of the first and the fourth. If the fourth
number is the largest of the four then, what is the
fourth number?
• (a) 9
• (b) 11
• (c) 8
• (d) 7
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Number System
• When an object is dropped , the number of
feet that it falls is given by the formula N=1/2
gt2, where t is the time in seconds from the
time it was dropped and g is 32.2 ft/sec 2. If it
takes 5 seconds for the object for the object
to reach the ground, how many feet does it
fall during the last 2 seconds?
• (a) 64.4
• (b) 96.6
• (c) 161.0 (d) 257.6
• (d) 257.6
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Number System

• Helen and Jolly are out, bird hunting. Helen

fires 8 shots when Jolly fires 3. But Helen
kills one in four, while Jolly one in two. When
Jolly has missed 39 shots, how many birds
has Helen killed?
• (a) 52
• (b) 53
• (c) 54 (a) 52
• (d) 55
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Number System

Sonia likes coke very much. At the local super

market a scheme has been announced, under
which, for 5 empty coke bottles she receives one
full bottle. As a part of Girl’s guide recycling
initiative Sonia was able to collect 77 bottles of
coke. How many bottles of coke will she be able to
drink in total?
• (a) 15 bottles
• (b) 15.4 bottles
• (c) 18 bottles
• (d) 19 bottles (d) 19 bottles
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Number System

• I have a certain number of marbles to divide

equally among 18 boys. If the number of
marbles and the number of boys were
increased by two, each boy would receive 5
marbles less. How many marbles do I have?
• (a) 918
• (b) 920
• (c) 924
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• In a one day cricket match Sachin

Tendulkar decides that for every single
run he takes he will hit a four or a six.
After hitting 3 fours he can change his
bat. When he got out at 87 runs, he has
changed his bat for the third time. If he
scores all the runs only from singles,
fours and sixes, then find out:
• Contd...
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Number System

• 1.How many singles did he take?

• (a) 10
• (b) 12
• (c) 15
• (d) 20 (c) 15
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Number System

• 2. How many fours did he take?

• (a) 9
• (b) 10
• (c) 11
• (d) None of these (a) 9
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Number System

• 3. How many sixes did he take?

• (a) 4
• (b) 5
• (c) 6
c
• (d) None of these
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Number System
• Directions: (Q 9 & Q 10) Read the following
information carefully and answers the given
questions:
• In a kiddy bank the ratio between 50 paisa coins
and one rupee coins is 1:2. In another kiddy bank
there are only fifty paisa coins and one rupee
coins. If half of the amounts from the second
kiddy bank is transferred to the first kiddy bank,
the ratio between fifty paisa coins and one rupee
coins became equal. Then find out:
• Contd…
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Number System

• What is the minimum amount in both

the kiddy banks put together?
• (a) Rs4.50
• (b) Rs5.50
(c) Rs6.50
• (c) Rs6.50
• (d) Can not be determined
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Number System

• 2. What is the ratio between the

amounts in both the kiddy bank?
• (a) 1:2
• (b) 2:3 (c) 5:8
• (c) 5:8
• (d) can not be determined
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Number System

• If 13456789 is divided by 125, what

will be the remainder?
• (a) 39
• (b) 49
(a) 39
• (c) 59
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• If 237648517227 is divided by 99,

what will be the remainder?
• (a) 0
• (b) 1
• (c) 2
• (d) None of these (a) 0
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Number System

• How many zeros are there in the

value of 123!
• (a) 25
• (b) 27
• (c) 28
(c) 28
• (d) None of these
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Number System

• How many factors are there in 240?

• (a) 18
• (b) 19
• (c) 20
• (d) None of these
(c) 20