NUMBER SYSTEM - PRACTICE EXERCISE

25 leaves of the notebook and added the 50 numbers she

found on those pages. which of the following is not true?
(a) She could have found the sum of pages as 1275.
(b) She could have found the sum of pages as 1990.
(c) She could have found the sum of pages as 1375.
(d) None of these.

1. How many digits are required for numbering the pages of a

book containing 185 pages?
(a) 435
(b) 185
(c) 447
(d) 235
2. Two of a, b, c and d are even and two are odd, not necessarily
in order. Which of the following is definitely even?
(a) a + b c + d
(b) 2a + b + c d
(c) a + b + c 2d
(d) a + 2b c

12. If 19 + 30 + 32 + x = 5, then which of the following is the

value of x?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4

3. If n is an integer, which of the following must be even?

(a) n2
(b) 2n + 1
(c) n + 2
(d) 2n
4. Let x and y be positive integers such that x is prime and y is
composite. Then which of the following is true?
(a) y x cannot be an even integer.
(b) xy cannot be an even integer.

13. What is the smallest integer n for which 25n > 51 2 ?

(a) 7
(b) 6
(c) 9
(d) 10
1033 2)
, then the sum of the digits of S is
3
(a) 97
(b) 100
(c) 106
(d) 103

14. If S

(x + y)
(c)
cannot be an even integer..
x
(d) None of these.

15. For how many integral n is n2 + 18n + 92 a perfect square?

(a) 1
(b) 2
(c)
(d) more than 3

5. If a, b, and c are consecutive positive integers and a < b < c,

which of the following must be true?
I. c a = 2
II. abc is an even integer.

16. If n is a integer, how many values of n will give an integral

value of

(a + b + c)
is an integer..
3
(a) I and II only
(b) II and III only
(c) I, II, and III only
(d) I only

III.

(a) 3

1000

17. What is the remainder when 4

(a) 6
(b) 5
(c) 4

3p
q

(b) pq

(c) 2(p + q)

(d) 8
is divided by 7?
(d) None of these

18. When two numbers are divided by a certain divisor, the remainders are 9 and 10 respectively. When the sum of the
numbers is divided by the same divisor, the remainder is 6.
What is the divisor?
(a) 12
(b) 13
(c) 14
(d) 15

6. If p is an even integer and q is an odd integer, which of the

following must be an odd integer?
(a)

(16n2 7n 6)
?
n
(b) 4
(c) 6

(d) 2p + q

7. J, K, L and M are four integers. The product of the larger three

is 4199, and that of the smaller three is 1547. What is their
sum?
(a) 67
(b) 81
(c) 53
(d) 56

19. A certain number when successively divided by 15 and 5,

leaves remainders of 5 and 2 respectively. What is the least
possible number in this case?
(a) 83
(b) 27
(c) 21
(d) 57

8. When a certain single digit number multiplies 1234 the units

digit and the thousands digit will be the same in the product.
What is the number formed by the other two digits in the
same order?
(a) 63
(b) 17
(c) 81
(d) 93

20. When a number is successively divided by 7, 5, and 4, it leaves

remainders of 4, 2 and 3 respectively. When the smallest such
number is successively divided by 8, 5 and 6?
(a) 5, 0, 3 (b) 2, 2, 4
(c) 3, 0, 3
(d) 2, 4, 2

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21. How many two digit number when successively divided by 6,

8 and 9 will leave remainders of 3, 4 and 2 respectively?
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 3
(d) None of these

9. Of the three-digit integers greater than 700, how many have

two digits that are equal to each other and the remaining
digit different from the other two?
(a) 82
(b) 36
(c) 80
(d) 90

22. Find the unit digit of 256782345 X 34854857.

(a) 5
(b) 0
(c) 2
(d) 1

10. What is the difference between the largest and the smallest
four digit numbers that can be formed using all the digits 0,
1, 2 and 8 (none of the digits being repeated)?
(a) 7182
(b) 8128
(c) 8082
(d) 198

23. What are the respective values of A and B, if the number

79A856776B is divisible by 8, 9 and 5?
(a) 4, 5
(b) 5, 0
(c) 8, 0
(d) No such values of A and B exist

11. Seema bought a notebook containing 96 leaves and numbered them which came to 192 pages. She tore out the latter
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24. How many pairs of A and B are possible in number 89765A4B 35. If n is a natural number less than or equal to 5, for how many
if the number is divisible by 9, given that last digit of the
values of n is 2n n a prime number?
number is even?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 11
(d) None of these 36. F(x) is a fourth order polynomial with integer coefficients and
25. A number D236D0 is exactly divisible by 36 if D is
with no common factor. The roots of F(x) are 2, 1, 1, 2. If p is
(a) 8
(b) 6
(c) 1
(d) None of these
a prime number greater than 97, then the largest integer that
divides F(p) for all values of p is:
26. If n is a positive integer, then n(n + 1) (n + 2) is
(a) 72
(b) 120
(c) 240
(d) 360
(a) divisible by 4 whenever n is even
(b) even only when n is odd
(c) odd whenever n is odd
(d) divisible by 3 only when n is odd

37. Four bells toll at intervals of 14, 21 and 42 minutes respectively. If they toll together at 11 : 24 a.m., when will they toll
together for the first time after that?
(a) 11 : 56 a.m.
(b) 12 : 06 p.m.
27. For what values of k and m is (19k 3k) (18m 11m) divisible
(c)
1
:
49
p.m.
(d) 11 : 48 p.m.
by 112? (k, m N)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

when k is odd, m is even.

when k is even,m is odd.
for all values of k and m.
Cannot be determined.

38. During a flood relif programme, food packets were air dropped
in lots of equal size from 3 different aircrafts containing 250,
490 and 850 packets. In each aircraft same number of damaged packets remained undropped. If the number of lots has
to be minimum, and the number of damaged packets is less
28. A hundred and twenty digit number is formed by writing the
than the lot size, then how many lots were dropped in all?
first y natural numbers in front of each other as
(a) 3
(b) 7
(c) 11
(d) 13
1234567891011121314.... Find the remainder when this num39. When 7179 and 9699 are divided by another natural number
ber is divided by 8.
N, remainder obtained is same. How many values of N will be
(a) 0
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) None of these
ending with one or more than one zeroes?
29. From the group of first 100 natural numbers, all the numbers
(a) 46
(b) 64
(c) 169
(c) 24
which are multiples of 3 and 4 but not 12 are removed. What
is the number of remaining numbers?
(a) 71
(b) 68
(c) 49
30.

31.

32.

33.

34.

40. A military commander is grouping the soldiers into smaller

battalions for operation Vijay. He finds the number of groups
them into battalions each of 7, 8, 13 soldiers, he always finds
If p is the product of the integers from 1 to 30, inclusive, what
3 soldiers left. Which of the following could be the number of
k
is the greatest interger k for which 3 is a factor of p?
soldiers?
(a) 13
(b) 14
(c) 15
(d) 16
(a) 1459
(b) 1452
(c) 1467
(d) 1472
What is the highest power of 5 which can divide N = (22! +
41. A woman collects just above 800 sticks for firewood and when
17894!)?
she bundles them in groups of 4 she is left with 2 sticks and
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 3
(d) 4
when she bundles them in groups of 5 she is left with 3 sticks.
A candidate takes a test and attempts all the 100 questions in
How many sticks are left if she bundles them in groups of 12?
it. While any correct answer fetches 1 mark, wrong answers
(a) 10
(b) 2
(c) 8
(d) 4
are penalised as follows: one-tenth of the questions carry
42. Banti, the rice merchant has 149 kg rice of one quality and
1
1
177 kg rice of another quality. He packs and sells them in
negative mark each, one-fifth of the questions carry
10
bags of equal quantity, which are of the largest possible size,
5
and finds that 5 kg of first quality and 9 kg of the second
1
quality are still remaining. Had he mixed both the qualities of
negative marks each and the rest of the questions carry
2
rice and packed them in bags which are 1.25 times the weight
negative marks. What is the difference between the maximum
of each of the present bags, then how many kilograms of rice
and the minimum marks that he can score?
remain?
(a) 98
(b) 140
(c) 160
(d) None of these
(a) 14
(b) 12
(c) 26
(d) 18
If N, N + 2 and N + 4 are prime numbers, then the number of 43. In what scale of notation is 25 doubled by reversing the digpossible solution for N is/are
its?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) None of these
(a) 6
(b) 7
(c) 8
(d) 9
If P is a prime number strictly greater than 35, then what is 44. For single digit numbers a,b and c (abc) = (cba) . Then the
7
9
the remainder when p2 + 34 is divided by 12?
value of a + b + c is
(a) 5
(b) 7
(c) 9
(d) 11
(a) 11
(b) 8
(c) 16
(d) Cant say
(d) 58

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