Verbal Reasoning

Arithmetic Reasoning - Base Level

11.  Two bus tickets from city A to B and three tickets from city A to C cost Rs. 77 but three tickets from city A to B and two tickets from city A to C cost Rs. 73. What are the fares for cities B and C from A ?
A. Rs. 4, Rs. 23
B. Rs. 13, Rs. 17
C. Rs. 15, Rs. 14
D. Rs. 17, Rs. 13
12.  A farmer built a fence around his square plot. He used 27 fence poles on each side of the square. How many poles did he need altogether?
A. 54
B. 84
C. 104
D. 108
13.  A bus starts from city X. The number of women in the bus is half of the number of men. In city Y, 10 men leave the bus and five women enter. Now number of men and women is equal. In the beginning, how many passengers entered the bus?
A. 25
B. 35
C. 45
D. 55
14.  A motorist knows four different routes from Bristol to Birmingham. From Birmingham to Sheffield he knows three different routes and from Sheffield to Carlisle he knows two different routes. How many routes does he know from Bristol to Carlisle?
A. 12
B. 24
C. 48
D. 60
15.  Find the number which when added to itself 13 times, gives 112.
A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
16.  The number of boys in a class is three times the number of girls. Which one of the following numbers cannot represent the total number of children in the class?
A. 40
B. 42
C. 44
D. 46
17.  Five bells begin to toll together and toll respectively at intervals of 6, 5, 7, 10 and 12 seconds. How many times will they toll together in one hour excluding the one at the start?
A. 5 times
B. 6 times
C. 7 times
D. 8 times
18.  In three coloured boxes - Red, Green and Blue, 108 balls are placed. There are twice as many balls in the green and red boxes combined as there are in the blue box and twice as many in the blue box as there are in the red box. How many balls are there in the green box ?
A. 18
B. 36
C. 45
D. None of these
19.  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. 100 grams
B. 150 grams
C. 200 grams
D. 240 grams
20.  A father is now three times as old as his son. Five years back, he was four times as old as his son. The age of the son(in years) is
A. 10
B. 12
C. 15
D. 18

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