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placement activity 1

Total questions: 55

Worksheet time: 2hrs 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which number is 40% less than 90% of 100?

(a)  

2.

The salaries of A and B together amount to Rs. 2000. A spends 95% of his salary and B 85% of his. If how, their savings are the same, then what is A’s salary?

(a)  

3.

The population of a town is 18000. It increases by 10% during first year and by 20% during the second year. The population after 2 years will be…..

(a)  

4.

A candidate has to secure 40% of the total marks to pass. He gets 190 marks and fails by 190 marks. Find the total marks.

(a)  

5.

If the radius of a circle is decreased by 50%, its area is reduced by…..

(a)  

6.

if 15% of (A+B) = 25% of (A-B), then what percent of B is equal to A?

(a)  

7.

A dishonest dealer sells as a weight of 800 gm in place of 1 kg and adds 20% impurities in sugar. What would be his profit %? If he claims to be selling at cost price?

(a)  

8.

30% of the students in a class wear glasses, 10% of the students who wear glasses, wore gold rimmed glasses. If the class has 200 students, how many wear gold rimmed glasses?

(a)  

9.

A and B are two alloys of argentum and brass prepared by mixing metals in proportions 7 : 2 and 7 : 11 respectively. If equal quantities of the two alloys are melted to form a third alloy C, the proportion of argentum and brass in C will be ?

(a)  

10.

A shopkeeper has a number of apples and oranges in the ratio 11 : 17. He has to pack both the fruits in a certain number of boxes such that each box contains equal number of apples and equal number of oranges. If the difference between the numbers of fruits of two varieties in a box is 72, and the number of boxes is 16, what is the total number of fruits?

(a)  

11.

Red, blue and yellow marbles in a bag have a ratio of 5 : 2 : 6. After removing the red marbles, there are 32 marbles left in the bag. How many red marbles were in the bag?

(a)  

12.

The ratio of the total amount distributed in all the males and females as salary is 6: 5. The ratio of the salary of each male and female is 2: 3. Find the ratio of the no. of males and females.

(a)  

13.

Pervez, Sunny, and Ashu Bhati alone can complete a piece of work in 30, 50, and 40 days. The ratio of their salaries of each day is 4: 3: 2 respectively. The total income of Parvez is Rs 144. Find the total income of Sunny.

(a)  

14.

The price of silver-biscuit is directly proportional to the square of its weight. A person broke down the silver-biscuit in the ratio of 3: 2: 1, and faces a loss of Rs 4620. Find the initial price of silver-biscuit.

(a)  

15.

B is inversely proportional to the cube of A. If B=3, A=2. If B = 8/9. Find the value of A.

(a)  

16.

Ravi can do a job in 10 days. Raman can do the same job in 20 days. They together start doing the job but after 4 days Raman leaves. How many more days will be required by Ravi to complete this job alone?

(a)  

17.

A builder appoints three construction workers Akash, Sunil and Rakesh on one of his sites. They take 20, 30 and 60 days respectively to do a piece of work. How many days will it take Akash to complete the entire work if he is assisted by Sunil and Rakesh every third day?

(a)  

18.

Time taken by A to finish a piece of work is twice the time taken B and thrice the time taken by C. If all three of them work together, it takes them 2 days to complete the entire work. How much work was done by B alone?

(a)  

19.

Sonal and Preeti started working on a project and they can complete the project in 30 days. Sonal worked for 16 days and Preeti completed the remaining work in 44 days. How many days would Preeti have taken to complete the entire project all by herself?

(a)  

20.

Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 36 minutes and 45 minutes respectively. A water pipe C can empty the tank in 30 minutes. First A and B are opened. After 7 minutes, C is also opened. In how much time is the tank full?

(a)  

21.

There is a set of 30 numbers. The average of the first 10 numbers is equal to the average of last 20 numbers. What is the sum of last 20 numbers? 

a)

Twice the sum of the first ten numbers 

 

b)

Sum of first 10 numbers. 

c)

Twice the sum of the last ten numbers 

d)

Cannot be determined

22.

Let a number ‘x’ when divided by 406 leaves a remainder 115. What will be the number when the number is divided by 29? 

a)

28

b)

30

c)

24

d)

26

23.

A sequence of an alpha-numeric is to be formed. The sequence consisting of two alphabets followed by two numbers is to be formed with no repetitions. In how many ways can it be formed? 

a)

65000 

b)

64320 

c)

58500 

d)

67600 

24.

According to a particular code language, A=0, B=1, C=2, …, Y=24, Z=25 then how can ONE+ONE (in the form of alphabets only) be coded? 

a)

DABI 

b)

CIDA 

c)

BDAI 

d)

ABDI 

25.

In the sequence of problemsolvingproblemsolvingproblemsolving… what is the 2015th alphabet? 

a)

b)

 

c)

d)

n

26.

30 liters of 78% of a concentrated acid solution is to be prepared. How many litres of 90% concentrated acid needs to be mixed with 75% solution of concentrated acid to get the result? 

a)

10 

b)

c)

d)

27.

There is an office consisting of 38 people. 10 of them like to play golf, 15 like to play football and 20 neither play golf nor football. How many like both golf and football? 

   

a)

10 

   

b)

 7 

     

c)

15 

     

d)

18 

28.

How many positive integers less than 500 can be formed using the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 5 for digits, each digit being used only once. 

a)

68 

b)

34 

c)

66 

d)

52

29.

In how many possible ways you can write 3240 as a product of 3 positive integers?

a)

320

b)

420

c)

350

d)

450

30.

If log 27 = 1.431, then the value of log 9 is:

a)

0.934

b)

0.945

c)

0.954

d)

0.958

31.

Mara runs faster than Gail.

Lily runs faster than Mara.

Gail runs faster than Lily.

If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

a)

true

b)

false

c)

uncertain

32.

In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is the probability that it is neither red nor green?

a)

1/3

b)

3/4

c)

7/19

d)

8/21

33.

Two numbers are respectively 20% and 50% more than a third number. The ratio of the two numbers is:

a)

2 : 5

b)

3 : 5

c)

4 : 5

d)

6 : 7

34.

A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how many days can A do the work if he is assisted by B and C on every third day?

a)

12 days

b)

15 days

c)

16 days

d)

18 days

35.

If a dice is rolled 2 times, what is the probability of getting a pair of numbers with sum equal to 3 or 4? 

   

a)

6/36 

     

b)

5/36 

     

c)

1/9 

     

d)

1/12 

36.

Find the next number in the series of 3, 12, 7, 26, 15, ?

a)

54

b)

55

c)

64

d)

74

37.

10 programmers are able to type 10 lines in 10 minutes. How many programmer are required to type 60 lines in 60 minutes?

a)

10

b)

16

c)

60

d)

None of the above

38.

At what rate per cent per annum will the SI on a sum of money be 2/5 of the amount in 10 years?

a)

6%

b)

5 2/3

c)

4%

d)

6 2/3 %

39.

n how many different ways can the letters of the word 'LEADING' be arranged in such a way that the vowels always come together?

a)

360

b)

480

c)

720

d)

5040

40.

The greatest number of four digits which is divisible by 15, 25, 40 and 75 is:

a)

9000

b)

9400

c)

9600

d)

9800

41.

Find the value of (-3)-(-5) =

a)

-8

b)

-2

c)

+2

d)

+8

42.

Who is greater?

-200, -582, 0, -456

a)

0

b)

-200

c)

-582

d)

-456

43.

If Ramu starts to walk at 6:00 am towards east at a speed of 8 km/hr and Raju starts by 7:00 am towards west from the same spot at a speed of 6 km/hr. Find the time they meet each other.

a)

1:00 pm

b)

9:00 am

c)

8:30 am

d)

None of the above

44.

Mrs. Rani Mukarjee bought a mobile phone at a rate of Rs.18,000 and sold it at a rate of Rs.20,000. What is her profit?

a)

Rs. 1000

b)

Rs. 2000

c)

Rs. 3000

d)

Rs. 4000

45.

Find the missing term of the given expression:

18.834 + 818.34 -? = 618.43

a)

217.644

b)

218.744

c)

217.744

d)

217.844

46.

If 15 men can reap the crops of a field in 28 days, in how many days will 5 men reap it?

a)

50 days

b)

60 days

c)

84 days

d)

9.333 days

47.

Find the next term of the series 2, 5, 9, 19, 37.......

a)

76

b)

74

c)

75

d)

none of these

48.

A shopkeeper sells candles in packets of 12 and candle stands in packet of 8. What is the least number of candles packet and candle stands packet Nita should buy so that there will be one candle for each candle stand.

a)

2,2

b)

2,3

c)

3,2

d)

3,3

49.

Find the lowest number which leaves 3 as remainder when divided by 8, 12 and 16.

a)

51

b)

48

c)

45

d)

27

50.

9×99+9÷9=?9\times9-9+9\div9=?  

a)

0

b)

9

c)

73

d)

81

51.

In how many ways can a group of 5 men and 2 women be made out of a total of 7 men and 3 women?

a)

64

b)

1

c)

126

d)

63

52.

How many two digit numbers can be generated using the digits 1,2,3,4 without repeating any digit?

a)

10

b)

12

c)

4

d)

16

53.

A father said his son , " I was as old as you are at present at the time of your birth. " If the father age is 38 now, the son age 5 years back was :

a)

14

b)

19

c)

33

d)

38

54.

A right triangle with sides 3 cm, 4 cm and 5 cm is rotated the side of 3 cm to form a cone. The volume of the cone so formed is:

a)

12π12\pi  cu.cm

b)

15π15\pi  cu.cm 

c)

16π16\pi  cu.cm

d)

20π20\pi  cu.cm

55.

1+2+3+...+10 = ?

a)

45

b)

50

c)

55

d)

60