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Arithmetic Reasoning - Base Level

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Arithmetic Reasoning - Base Level

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Question 1
Between two book ends in your study are displayed your five favourite puzzle books. If you decide to arrange the five books in every possible combination and moved just one book every minute, how long would it take you?

A
2 hours
B
3 hours
C
4 hours
D
5 hours
Correct Answer: Option A

Clearly, number of ways arranging 5 books,
= 5! = 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 120.
So total time taken = 120 minutes = 2 hours.

Question 2
A is 3 years older to B and 3 years younger to C, while B and D are twins. How many years older is C and D?

A
3
B
6
C
9
D
12
Correct Answer: Option B

Since B and D are twins. So B = D.
Now A = B + 3 and A = C - 3.
Thus, B + 3 = C - 3 ‹=› D + 3 = C - 3 ‹=› C - D = 6.

Question 3
A girl counted in the following way on the fingers of her left hand : She started by calling the thumb 1, the index finger 2, middle finger 3, ring finger 4, little finger 5 and then reversed direction calling the ring finger 6, middle finger 7 and so on. She counted upto 1994. She ended counting on which finger?

A
Ring finger
B
Middle finger
C
Thumb
D
Index finger
Correct Answer: Option D

Clearly, while counting the numbers associated to the thumb will be 1,9,17,25,.........
i.e., numbers of the form (8n + 1 ).
Since 1994 = 249 × 8 + 2, so 1993 shall correspond to the thumb and 1994 to the index finger.

Question 4
A monkey climbs 30 feet at the beginning of each hour and rests for a while when he slips back 20 feet before he again starts climbing in the beginning of the next hour. If he begins his ascent at 8.00 a.m., at what will he first touch a flag at 120 feet from the ground?

A
4 p.m.
B
5 p.m.
C
6 p.m.
D
8 p.m.
Correct Answer: Option C

Let ascent of the monkey in 1 hour = ( 30 - 20 ) = 10 feet.
So, the monkey ascends 90 feet in 9 hours i.e., 5 p.m.
Clearly, in the next 1 hour i.e., till 6 p.m.
The monkey ascends remaining 3o feet to touch the flag.

Question 5
A tailor had a number of shirt pieces to cut from a roll of fabric. He cut each roll of equal length into 10 pieces. He cut at the rate of 45 cuts a minute. How many rolls would be cut in 24 minutes?

A
30 rolls
B
58 rolls
C
120 rolls
D
150 rolls
Correct Answer: Option C

Number of cuts made to cut a roll into 10 pieces = 9.
Therefore Required number of rolls = 45 × 24 / 9 = 120.

Question 6
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
70
B
75
C
80
D
85
Correct Answer: Option B

Clearly, out of every 16 persons, there is one captain.
So, number of captains = 1200 / 16 = 75.

Question 7
A placed three sheets with two carbons to get two extra copies of the original. Then he decided to get more carbon copies and folded the paper in such a way that the upper half of the sheets were on top of the lower half. Then he typed. How many carbon copies did he get?

A
1
B
2
C
3
D
4
Correct Answer: Option B

Since the number of carbons is 2, only two copies can be obtained.

Question 8
There are deer and peacocks in a zoo. By counting heads they are 80. The number of their legs is 200. How many peacocks are there?

A
10
B
20
C
40
D
60
Correct Answer: Option D

Let x and y be the number of deer and peacocks in the zoo respectively.
Then, x + y = 80 ------------------> (i)
4x + 2y = 200 or 2x + y = 100 ---------> (ii)
Solving (i) and (ii), we get : x = 20, y = 60.

Question 9
When Rahul was born, his father was 32 years older than his brother and his mother was 25 years older than his sister. If Rahul’s brother is 6 years older than him and his mother is 3 years younger than his father, how old was Rahul’s sister when he was born?

A
5 years
B
8 years
C
10 years
D
14 years
Correct Answer: Option C

When Rahul was born,
his brother’s age = 6 years,
his father’s age = ( 6 + 32 ) = 38 years.
his mother’s age = ( 38 - 3) years = 35 years.
his sister’s age = ( 35 - 25 ) years = 10 years.

Question 10
A man wears socks of two colours black and brown. He has altogether 20 black socks and 20 brown socks in a drawer. Supposing he has to take out the socks in the dark, how many must he take out to be sure that he has a matching pair?

A
1
B
3
C
20
D
29
Correct Answer: Option B

Since there are socks of only two colours, so two out of any three socks must always be of the same colour.

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