General awareness and Aptitude test
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ARITHMETICAL REASONING
Hints for Answering Questions:
The section tests the basic calculation skills
such as addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division, calculation of percentages, average etc.
The questions of ‘age’ and direction are also
included in this test. The candidate must know
the basics of geometry to solve the direction
problems.
1) Rajesh walks 7 km to the north then turns
left and walks 3 km. Then takes another left
and continue walking this time another 7 km
forward. How much distance in km is he
away from the starting point.
a) 10km
b) 6km
c) 3km
d) 2km
2) Balwant had 17 sheep. A storm in the village
killed all but 7 sheep .How many was he left
with?
a) 10
b) 6
c) 7
d) 9
3) What is the smallest number of ducks that
can swim in this formation- two ducks in
front of a duck two ducks behind a duck and
a duck between two ducks?
a) 3
b) 5
c) 7
d) 9
4) What is the product of all the numbers in the
dial of a telephone?
a) 1,58,480
b) 1,59,450
c) 1,59,480
d) None of those
5) A group of 1200 persons consisting of
captains and soldiers is travelling in a train.
For every 15 soldiers there is one captain.
The number of captains in the group is
a) 85
b) 80
c) 75
d) 70
6) Aruna cut a cake into two halves and cuts
one half into smaller pieces of equal size.
Each of the small pieces is twenty grams in
weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake
in all with her, how heavy was the original
cake?
a) 120 grams
b) 140 grams
c) 240 grams
d) 280 grams
7) First bunch of bananas has ¼ again as many
bananas as a second bunch. If the second
bunch has 3 bananas less than the first bunch,
then the number of bananas in the first bunch
is
a) 9
b) 10
c) 12
d) 15
8) At the end of a business conference the ten
people present all shake hands with each
other once. How many handshakes will there
be altogether?
a) 20
b) 45
c) 55
d) 90
9) A student got twice as many sums wrong as
he got right. If he attempted 48 sums in all,
how many did he solve correctly.
a) 12
b) 16
c) 18
d) 24
10) There were 28 people at last week’s board
meeting. If the ratio of men to women was
4:3, how many women were at the meeting?
a) 16
b) 12
c) 7
d) 4
11) At a certain corporation, the ratio of clerical
workers to executives is 7 to 2. If a combined
total of 81 clerical workers and executive
workers for that corporation, how many
clerical workers are there?
a) 9
b) 14
c) 18
d) 63