Verbal Reasoning

Arithmetic Reasoning - Expert Level

21.  There are n boxes and m fruits. If we put 3 fruits in each box 3 fruits will be excess. If we put 4 fruits in each box 1 box will be excess. Find number of boxes and fruits ?
A. 3 & 9
B. 6 & 19
C. 7 & 24
D. 5 & 18
22.  If 200 cats kill 200 mice in 200 days, then 8 cats would kill 8 mice in how many days ?
A. 8 days
B. 200 days
C. 800 days
D. 1 day
23.  The price of commodity X increases by 60 rupees every year, while the price of commodity Y increases by 20 rupees every year. If in 2002, the price of commodity X was Rs. 320 and that of Y was Rs. 740, in which year commodity X will cost 60 rupees more than the commodity Y ?
A. 2011
B. 2014
C. 2012
D. 2017
24.  In a street, there are certain number of houses. People in that street are decided to paint their houses with certain colours. If four houses are painted with each colour, then one house will be left without any colour. If five houses are painted with each colour, then one colour will remain. Find the number of houses in that street ?
A. 25
B. 6
C. 32
D. 7
25.  Hemavathi cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of the small pieces is fifteen grams in weight. If she has nine pieces of the cake in all with her, how heavy was the original cake ?
A. 240 gms
B. 280 gms
C. 180 gms
D. 170 gms
26.  At what time will B catch up with A, if A starts from a place at 11.00 A.M. and travels at a speed of 3.5 kmph, B starts at 1.00 P.M. and travels with speeds of 1 kmph for 1 hour, 2 kmph for the next 1 hour, 3 kmph for the next 1 hour and so on.
A. 8 : 47 pm
B. 6 : 40 pm
C. 8 : 42 pm
D. 7 : 40 pm
27.  What is the time required to punch 1500 cards of 45 column each at the rate of 9,000 punches per hour ?
A. 8 hrs
B. 7 hrs 15 min
C. 7 hrs 30 min
D. 8 hrs 20 min
28.  Ajay and Vijay have some marbles with them. Ajay told Vijay "if you give me 'x' marbles, both of us will have equal number of marbles". Vijay then told Ajay "if you give me twice as many marbles, I will have 30 more marbles than you would". Find 'x' ?
A. 4
B. 10
C. 8
D. 5
29.  There are five bags. In the first bag we put some fruits. Each bag the number of fruits is reduced by 1/4. The last bag contains 4. Then the number of fruits in the first bag is ?
A. 2596
B. 1024
C. 256
D. 64
30.  On sport’s day, if 12 children were made to stand in each column, 98 columns could be formed. After a certain music being played the plan was that the children have to stand in concentric circles such that the innermost circle will have one student, the next circle will have two students, the third circle will have 3 students and so on. How many circles will be formed in this manner ?
A. 44
B. 46
C. 48
D. 49

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