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Q.No

Question

1 Rahul buy an article at Rs15850 From the retailer who sell it at a profit of 15%. The retailer bought it from a wholesaler who sold it at a profit of 20%. The Manufacturer sold it at a profit of 30% to the wholesaler. Find the cost price of manufacturing the article(approximately)?
2 Find the maximum possible value x-y+33 if x,y are any two single digit integers, not necessarily the same 3 Arun was all bent on building a new house. He carefully got the blue print of his house designed buy his friend Ashwin, a civil engineer. He wanted to build a room of dimension 27 by 48 ft and lay tiles in this room. Each tile was of dimension 2 by 3 ft. How many tiles should Arun buy? 4 Find the value of 213x213x213-31x31x31/213x213+213x31+31x31 5 5 neptuninas can destroy 5 small plutos in 5 solar years. How long will 7 neptuninas take to destroy 7 small plutos(in solar years)? 6 Jenny makes a block with small cubes of 9 cubic cm volume. To make the block, she uses 4 small cubes long, 8 small cubes wu=ide and 16 small cubes deep. She realizes that she has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realizes that she could have guled a fewer number of cubes together to look like a block with same dimensions, if it were hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she needs to take out so that the bigger cube is hollow? 7 In group there are 5 singers, 3 dancers, 2 artists, 1 musician, 1 guitarist and 1 teacher. The average height of the above mentioned people reduces by 2cm if I repalce the guitarist with a joker. Find the height of the joker if the height of the guitarist is 184cm. 8 How many 3-digit numbers have even number factors WWW.PROFMARIAMICHAEL.COM

Rs.8835 Rs.15000

Rs.12192

Cannot say

41 300

33 216

42 253

43 120

a d

191 7 168

182 5 512

178 10 344

210 12 342

b b a

154

171

158

160

22

879

21

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9 Seven years ago, the combined ages of Amir and Akshay was twice that of Saif. If the sum of the ages of Akshay and Amir, fifteen years hence, is 98 years, what is the present age of Saif? 10 If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned.if a person tastes very of this he will die within 14 hours so they decided to test it with mice. Given that a mouse dies in 24 hours and you have 24 hours in all to find out the posioned can, how many mice are required to find the poisoned can? 11 Cadbury manufactures a chocolate box which contains "x" no of chocolates. Ther are three houses A, B and C in the neighbourhood of Cadbury. Since it is a new variety of chocolate the marketing manager of Cadbury decided to distribute free chocolates to the children in the neighbouring houses A,B and C. in house A there are 3 children, in B there are 5 children, and in C there are 7 children. After distributing the chocolates , he was left with one chocolate in each case. How many chocolates did he have in the begining for distribution? 12 Vodafone has come up with a new scheme called "Pay Easy". They have decided to charge the first 100 calls of Pay Easy customer @Rs.1/-call, the next 100 calls @Rs.1.25/-call and the next 100calls @Rs.1.75/-call.Raj is a Pay Easy customer. He paid Rs.286.25/-as his mobile bill that month. How many calls did raj make? 13 Pointing to a photograph, a man tells his friend, "She is the daughter of the only son of my father's wife". How is the girl in photograph related to the man? 14 Arvind, a mason, decided to build a small house. For constructing the house he had to mix gravel, sand and cement in the ratio of 7:5:3. the cement Rs.250 a bag which contains 10kg of cement. He has spent Rs.4500 to buy cement. How much will he have spend for sand which costs Rs.70 for a 20kg bag? 15 Find the missing term in the sequence 2,6,22,86,342,-----16 If 29th February 2004 was a Sunday, which month starts with a Sunday in WWW.PROFMARIAMICHAEL.COM

27yrs

35yrs

34yrs

49yrs

29

15

204

211

241

217

243

241

242

235

Niece

Daughter

Mother

None of these

Rs.1050

Rs.2050

Rs.1075

Rs.2000

728 September

1366 October

912 August

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that year? 17 Kailash faces North. Turning to his right, he walks 25m. He then turns to his left walks 30m. Next, he moves 25m to his right. He then turns to his right again and walks 55m. Finally, he turns to the right and moves 40m. In which directions is he now from his starting point? 18 Eight years ago, the average of a family of three members was 25 years. A baby was born after a few years and the present average age of the family is the same as it was eight years ago. What is the present age of the baby? 19 A family consists of a father, a mother, their two sons and the yungest daughter. The age of the first son and daughter are in the ratio 3:1. the mother is 3.5 times as old as the second son. The age of the second son is 2/3 of the first son. The age of the youngest daughter is 5 years. what is the age of the mother? 20 When 5% of the total wheat is lost in grinding, a country can export 9 million tons of wheat, but when 6% of the total wheat is lost in grinding it needs to import 2 million tonnes of wheat. What is the total production of wheat in the country?(in million tonnes) 21 Mr.Govind was a building contractor. He was doing reasonably well in his business but was always on an expansion mode.Mr.Govind won a contract with the Corporation and his business began to boom. So he decided to deploy more people in his projects. If he were to increase his labour force by 33.33%, what will be percentage reduction in the work load of each employee? 22 5-digit numbers are formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 without repetition. The probability that the numbers so formed is divisible by 6 is 23 A pipe can fill a tank in 3 hrs. due to a leakage in the tank, it takes 3.5 hrs to fill the same tank. The how many hours will the leakage can empty the tank. 24 Joe counts 48 heads and 134 legs among the chikens and dogs on his farm. How many dogs does he have? WWW.PROFMARIAMICHAEL.COM

SouthWest

South

NorthWest

South-East

2 yrs

3 yrs

4 yrs

1 yr

40

35

15

25

1000

900

1100

1150

75

50

25

33.33

1/5 3.5hrs

2/5 30hrs

3/5 0.5hrs

4/5 21hrs

b d

29

21

18

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25 A father with eight children takes three at a time to the zoological garden, as often as he can, without taking the same three children together more than once. How often will he go and how often will each child go? 26 John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and gives a cheque for 35 dollars. The shopkeeper exchanges the cheque with his neighbour and gives the change to John. After 2 days, the cheque is bounces and the shopkeeper is forced to pay the cheque amount to his neighbour. The cost price of the cycle is 19 dollars. what is the loss incurred by the shopkeeper? 27 A Person buys a brand new Honda bicycle for Rs.800. He uses it for a year and then sells it. He makes a profit of 10% in this transation. Then, again, he buys a new cycle but finds that the price has gone up b 20%. He uses the new cycle for a year and then sells it for a profit of 30%.Find the average annual profit of the person through these transactions 28 A cubiod of length 4 cm, breadth 6 cm and height 8 cm is formed using unit cubes. All the faces of the cuboid are painted using different colours. Now the cubes are seperated and the cubes with no face painted are used to form a new cuboid. Find the volume of the newly formed cuboid. 29 Eight coins are tossed together. The probability that all of them show the same face is 1 in 30 The Tatas have decided to launch their new brand "Aria" in the SUV segment. Mr.Mehra decided to take a test drive before choosing Aria. During the test drive, he found that Aria could cover 500m in 20seconds. Aria is known for its uniform acceleration. Can you find ot the acceleration? 31 The points A (-5,4), B (-7,6) and C (5,2) are the coordinates of a right angled triangle. Which of the following angle is a right angle? 32 If Tarun buys only pens costing Rs.13 each or only pencils costing Rs.5 each, he is left with Rs.2 in each case. Which of the following cannot be the amount available with him? WWW.PROFMARIAMICHAEL.COM

56,35

92,42

56,21

56,42

23

35

19

31

160

184

168

172

48

72

96

36

256 3.2

128 2.5

4096 1.8

64 2

b b

A Rs.457

B Rs.782

C Rs.577

None of these Rs.1042

d c

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33 A man, a woman and a boy can do a work in 20 days, 30 days and 60 days respectively. How many boys must assist 2 men and 8 women to do the work in 2 days? 34 We all know that Aryabhatta is a greatest mathematician from India. When his daughter Mayabati was a teenager, he discovered a problem. At that time, Mayabati's age was x, a prime number. After some years, her age became y. at this time, Aryabhatta was able to solve that problem with the help of his daughter Mayabati.If x + y = 15 and the product x and y is 26 then what is the squares of the two numbers x and y? 35 A bag contains 20 yellow balls, 23 green balls, 27 white balls. What is the minimum number of balls one should pick out so that make sure that one gets at least 2 balls of all colors?

212

173

128

132

48

52

60

68

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