Verbal maths - Speed Test 9

Q.1. In the following number series, a wrong number is given. Find out that wrong number?
      892   445   220  108  52    24   10
(1)445   (2)220  (3)108   (4)52   (5)24

Q.2. An amount of money is to be divided between P.Qand R in the ratio of 2: 5 :7 respectively. If the
total of P's and R's share is Rs. 800 more than Q's share, what will be P's share in it ?
(1)Rs. 200  (2)Rs.400  (3) Rs. 800   (4) Rs. 1000   (5) None of these

Q.3. The ratio of two numbers is 7 less than the difference between these two numbers. What will be
the total of these two numbers?
(1)91   (2)84   (3)106   (4) data inadequate   (5) None of these

Q.4. If 954 • - 4208 = 5$39, which of the following digits will replace ‘ * ‘ ?
(1)5  (2)8  (3)7  (4)3  (5) None of these

Q.5. What will be the area of a semicircle of radius 14 cm?
(1)62 cm  (2) 88 cm  (3) 72 cm  (4) data inadequate   (5) None of these

Q.6. If 9* 67-758 =8709, which of the following numbers should replace the ‘ * ‘ ?
(1)8   (2)1   (3)2   (4)4    (5) None of these

Q.7. The ratio of Vishal's age and Neelu's age is 3:5 and sum of their ages is 80 years. Find the ratio
of their ages after 10 years?
(1)3:2  (2)3:5  (3)2:3  (4)1:2  (5) None of these

Q.8. The average age of 20 employees in a factory is 30 years. If the supervisor's age is added, the
average age is increases by one. What is the age of the supervisor ?
(1)31  (2)61  (3)51  (4)50  (5) None of these

Q.9. How many pieces each of 3.5 metres length can be cut out of a length of 525 metres.
(1)180  (2)150  (3)75  (4)15  (5) None of these

Q.10. One-third of the boys and one half of the girls of a college participate in its social work project. If
the number of participating students is 300, out of which 100 are boys, what is the total numnber
of students in the college ?
(1)900   (2)600   (3)700   (4)800   (5) None of these

Q.11. A third of Praveen's marks in Mathematices exceeds a half of his marks in Social Studies by 30.
If he got 240 marks in the two subjects together, how many did he got in Social Studies ?
(1)70   (2)60   (3)80   (4)90   (5) None of these

Q.12. If a quarter kilogramme costs 60 paise, how many paise will 200 grames cost ?
(1)38   (2)24   (3)36    (4)48   (5) None of these

Q.13. The cost of a chair is Rs. 81 and of a table is Rs. 133. What is the cost of 12 dozon of chairs and
a half dozen of tables approximately ?
(1)Rs. 11,000   (2) Rs. 12,000  (3) Rs. 15,000  (4) Rs. 14,000  (5) Rs. 16,000

Q.14. The average age of 12 players of a team is 25 years. If the age of the captain is added, the
average age increases by 1 year. What is the age of the captain ?
(1) 25 years  (2) 27 years  (3) 26 years  (4) 24 years  (5) None of these

Q.15. A number exceeds its one-third by 50. What is the number ?
(1)50   (2)66   (3)75   (4)76   (5) None of these

Verbal maths - Speed Test 8

Q.1.   Three fourth of a number is 36 more than 30 per cent of that number. What is the number ?

(1)90 (2)60 (3)120 (4)180 (5) None of these

Q.2.   The area of a rectangular plot is 6 times its perimeter. What is the length of the rectangle ?

(1) 30 meters (2) 60 meters (3) 90 meters (4) data inadequate (5) None of these

Q.3.   Two-third of one -fourth of a number is 30. What is the number ?

(1)240 (2)80 (3)180 (4)120 (5) None of these

Q.4.   The difference between the highest and the lowest of three consecutive numbers is one-eight of the the middle number, what is the highest of these three numbers?

(1)16   (2)18   (3)17   (4) data inadequate    (5) None of these

Q.5.   When 16 is subtracted from a number, it reduces to its two-third, what will be 150 per cent of that number?

(1)72 (2)56 (3)76 (4)48 (5) None of these

Q.6.   In a class, 30% of the boys play football, 40% of the remaining play cricKet and the  remaining 21 boys paly different other games. How many boys are there in the class ?

(1)50 (2)100 (3)48 (4)96 (5) None of these

Q.7.   Prabir gave one-fifth of his money to Saiil. Salil in turn gave one-third of what he received to Jayesh. If the total of the money of Salil and jayesh together is Rs. 4,400 less than that of Prabir, how much money did Prabir have?

(1)Rs. 4800         (2)Rs. 6400         (3)Rs. 7200       (4)Rs.6000 (5) None of these

Q.8.   Two-seventh of a number is 2 more than 25 percent of that number. What is the number ?

(1)28 (2)42 (3)49 (4)56 (5) None of these

Q.9.   Which of the following is in descending order?

(1)15/13,13/11,11/9 (2)11/9,13/11,15/13 (3)15/13,9/11,13/11 (4)11/9,15/13,13/11 (5) None of these

Q.10.   The sum of three consecutive even numbers is 26 more than the first number of these three numbers. What is the second number ?

(1)16 (2)12 (3)18 (4)20 (5) None of these

Q.11.   What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series ?

3       4.5       9        22.5        67.5        ?

(1)270 (2)236.25 (3)202.5 (4) 303.75 (5) None of these

Q.12.   A boat takes 9 hours to travel from Ato B upstream. If the river current is 3 km. per hour, how long will it take to travel downstream between B and A ?

(1)3 hours (2) 6 hours (3) 4.5 hours (4) data inadequate (5) None of these

Q.13.   In the following number series, a wrong number is given. Find out that wrong number?

2       6      16       38       84      180       368

(1)6 (2)16   , (3)38 (4)84 (5)180

Q.14.   The ratio between the income and expenditure of Gopal is 5:4. If the total income is Rs. 800/- more than his total expenditure, what is his total income ?

(1)Rs. 4,000        (2) Rs. 2,400        (3) Rs. 5,200      (4) Rs. 3,200 (5) None of these

Q.15.   What will be the simple interest earned on Rs. 8,000 at the rate of 8 p.c.p.a. at the end of 5 years?

(1)Rs. 2,400        (2) Rs. 3,200        (3) Rs. 3,600      (4) Rs. 4,800 (5) None of these

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Verbal maths - Speed Test 7

Q.1.   What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series?

2     3    6    15    45    ?

(1)112.5 (2)135 (3)157.5 (4)180 (5) None of these

Q.2.   Avinash started business investing Rs. 12000. Ashok joined him after 4 months by investing Rs.    
            18000. What would be Ashok's share in the profit of Rs. 9500 at the end of the year?

(1) Rs. 4000 (2) Rs. 5000 (3) Rs. 3000   (4) Rs. 5500 (5) None of these

Q.3.   A diagonal of a rectangle is 10 cm. long. What is its perimeter?

(1)30 cm (2) 14 cm (3) 56 cm (4) 42 cm (5) None of these

Q.4.   Kailash gave one-third of his money to Keshav. Keshav gave three-fourth of the money he received 
            from Kailash to Sanket. If Sanket got Rs. 900 less than the money Kailash had, how much money did      
            Keshav get from Kailash?

(1)Rs. 600 (2) Rs. 300 (3) Rs. 400      (4) Data inadequate       (5) None of these

Q.5.    10 girls have their average age 14 years and 12 boys have their average age as 16 years. When 6    
              boys from these 12 join the 10 girls, they all together have average age as 14.5 years. What is the   
             average age of the remaining 6 boys?

(1) 16— years   (2)16.5years   (3)15 —years   (4) 16— years    (5) None of these

Q.6.   A train crosses a man standing on the platform in 10 seconds. How much time will it take to cross 
            the platform of length 150 metres?

(1)150 Seconds   (2) 300 Seconds   (3) 30 Seconds    (4) Data inadequate (5) None of these

Q.7.   The price of 4.5 dozen pens is Rs. 1170. What is the price of 18 such pens?

(1)Rs. 369    (2)Rs. 269     (3) Rs. 359      (4)Rs.379 (5) None of these

Q.8.   What should come in place of the question mark(?) in the following number series?

50   55 64 77 94 ?

(1)119 (2)115 (3)114 (4)116 (5) None of these

Q.9.   The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 12 and their product is 27. What is one-third of that

number?

(1)31/-    (2)13     (3)117     (4) Data inadequate     (5) None of these

Q.10.    In the following number series a wrong number is given. Find out the wrong number?

2 4 8 30 105 420 1890

(1)4      (2)8     (3)30     (4)105     (5)420

Q.11.   Sixty-four men can complete a work in 15 days. In how many days will eighty men complete the

same work?

(1)80     (2)150      (3)180      (4)120     (5) None of these

Q.12.   An article was sold with 30% discount on the labelled price. To make 12% profit on the labelled

price, at what profit percentage should the article be sold ?

(1)160    (2)150    (3)180     (4) data inadequate      (5) None of these

Q.13.   The average age of P ,Q and R is 26 years. If the average age of P and R is 30 years. What is Q's age?

(1)24 years         (2) 48 years         (3) 36 years       (4) data inadequate       (5) None of these

Q.14.   The ratio between the ages of father and son is 5:2. If the difference between their ages is 27 years, what will be the father's age after 6 years?

(1) 50 years        (2) 49 years        (3) 51 years      (4) 52 years     (5) None of these

Q.15.   In the following number series, a wrong number is given. Find out that wrong number?

4       5      13       44       183       925       5555

(1)5     (2)13     (3)44     (4)183     (5)925

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Verbal maths - Speed Test 6

Q.1. In the following numbers series, a wrong number is given. Find out the wrong number.
       4 10 20 43 90 185 376
     (1)10   (2)20    (3)43    (4)90    (5)185

Q.2. What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series?
       250 230 225 205 198 178 169?
       (1)164    (2)159     (3)144    (4)149     (5) None of these

Q.3. At What rate of annual simple interest will Rs. 6500 fetch an interest of Rs. 1787.5 at the end of 5 years?
       (1)4.5    (2)6.5    (3)7.5   (4)3.5    (5) None of these

Q.4. Total of Aniket's marks in Maths and Science together are 100 more than his marks in English. His average marks in the three subjects are 60. What are his marks in English?
       (1)60     (2)40      (3)80     (4) Data inadequate     (5) None of these

Q.5. One-fifth of three-fourth of one-third of a number is 24. What is 10% of that number?
        (1)24    (2)470    (3)48     (4)34   (5) None of these

Q.6. Suresh bought an article with 20% concession on the labelled price. He made 25% profit by selling it for Rs. 125. What was the labelled price of the article?
       (1)Rs. 112    (2)Rs. 130     (3)Rs. 110   (4) Data Inadequate    (5) None of these

Q.7. The breadth of a rectangular plot is 0.6 times its length. If twice the perimetre of the plot is 320 metres. What is the length of the plot in metres?
        (1)50   (2)60    (3)30    (4)40    (5) None of these

Q.8. An amount of money is to be divided amohg A,B and C in the ratio 7:6:12 respectively. If total share of A and B together is  Rs. 60 more than of C, What is the difference between the Shares of A&C?
       (1)Rs. 360    (2)Rs.24O    (3) Rs. 300    (4) Data inadequate    (5) None of these

Q.9. 36 men can complete a work in 10 days. How many men will complete it in eight days?
       (1)48    (2)32     (3)40   (4)44    (5) None of these

Q.10. What should come in place of both the question marks (?) in the following equation. 
40__?_
T~62~5
       (1)25    (2)10    (3)15    (4)40     (5) None of these

Q.11. Srinivas sold the bag for Rs. 504. Which he had bought for Rs. 420. What was his percentage profit?
         (1)25    (2)10    (3)15    (4)40   (5) None of these

Q.12. The ratio between the present ages of Saket and Sameer is 4:3 respectively. If the difference between their ages is 10 years, What will be the total of their ages after 15 years?
         (1) 85 years   (2) 70 Years   (3) 100 Years     (4) 95 Years    (5) None of these

Q.13. In the following number series a wrong number is given. Find out the wrong number.
40 42 49 57 74 100 137
         (1)100    (2)74    (3)57    (4)49     (5)42

Q.14. When 64 is subtracted from a number it reduces to its 36 percent. What is five-fourth of that number?
        (1)100    (2)125    (3)75    (4)105    (5) None of these

Q.15. Srawan spends 20% of his monthly salary on food, 40% of the remaining on house rent and balance amount spends on other items of routine expenses. What is his yearly salary if he spends Rs. 5760 per month on other items of routine expenses?
        (1)Rs. 120000   (2)RS,244000    (3)RS.144000    (4) RS. 154000    (5) None of these

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Verbal maths - Speed Test 5

Q.1. In the following numbers series, a wrong number is given. Find out the wrong number.

4 10 20 43 90 185 376

(1)10    (2)20    (3)43     (4)90    (5)185

Q.2. What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series?

250 230 225 205 198 178 169      ?

(1)164     (2)159     (3)144     (4)149      (5) None of these

Q.3. At What rate of annual simple interest will Rs. 6500 fetch an interest of Rs. 1787.5 at the end of 5 years?

(1)4.5    (2)6.5     (3)7.5      (4)3.5     (5) None of these

Q.4. Total of Aniket's marks in Maths and Science together are 100 more than his marks in English. His average marks in the three subjects are 60. What are his marks in English?

(1)60     (2)40     (3)80     (4) Data inadequate      (5) None of these

Q.5. One-fifth of three-fourth of one-third of a number is 24. What is 10% of that number?

(1)24       (2)470      (3)48      (4)34      (5) None of these

Q.6. Suresh bought an article with 20% concession on the labelled price. He made 25% profit by selling it for Rs. 125. What was the labelled price of the article?

(1)Rs. 112      (2)Rs. 130      (3)Rs. 110    (4) Data Inadequate     (5) None of these

Q.7. The breadth of a rectangular plot is 0.6 times its length. If twice the perimetre of the plot is 320 metres. What is the length of the plot in metres?

(1)50       (2)60      (3)30      (4)40      (5) None of these

Q.8. An amount of money is to be divided amohg A,B and C in the ratio 7:6:12 respectively. If total share of Aand B together is Rs. 60 more than of C, What is the difference between the Shares of A&C?

(1)Rs. 360     (2)Rs.24O      (3) Rs. 300   (4) Data inadequate     (5) None of these

Q.9. 36 men can complete a work in 10 days. How many men will complete it in eight days?

(1)48        (2)32      (3)40     (4)44      (5) None of these

Q.10.  What should come in place of both the question marks (?) in the following equation.

40__?_

T~62~5

(1)25     (2)10     (3)15     (4)40      (5) None of these

Q.11. Srinivas sold the bag for Rs. 504. Which he had bought for Rs. 420. What was his percentage profit?

(1)25      (2)10     (3)15      (4)40      (5) None of these

Q.12.   The ratio between the present ages of Saket and Sameer is 4:3 respectively. If the difference between their ages is 10 years, What will be the total of their ages after 15 years?

(1) 85 years     (2) 70 Years      (3) 100 Years    (4) 95 Years     (5) None of these

Q.13.   In the following number series a wrong number is given. Find out the wrong number.

40 42 49 57 74 100 137

(1)100      (2)74      (3)57      (4)49      (5)42

Q.14.   When 64 is subtracted from a number it reduces to its 36 percent. What is five-fourth of that number?

(1)100     (2)125      (3)75      (4)105      (5) None of these

Q.15.   Srawan spends 20% of his monthly salary on food, 40% of the remaining on house rent and balance amount spends on other items of routine expenses. What is his yearly salary if he spends Rs. 5760 per month on other items of routine expenses?

(1)Rs. 120000     (2)RS,244000      (3)RS.144000     (4) RS. 154000      (5) None of these

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Verbal maths - Speed Test 4

Q.1.   Suresh bought a table for Rs. 1640/-and sold it with 35 percent profit. At what price did he sell the table?

(1)Rs. 1968         (2)Rs.2132         (3) Rs. 1066       (4)Rs.2214      (5) None of these

Q.2.    In the following number series a wrong number is given. Find out that number.

8      18     40    86    178    370     752

(1)178      (2)18      (3)370     (4)40      (5)

86

Q.3.   Sixteen persons can complete a work in eighteen days. In how many days will twelve persons complete the same work?

(1)26        (2)28       (3)24       (4)22      (5) None of these

Q.4.   The average of four consecutive even numbers is 23. What is the smallest of these numbers?

(1)26        (2)20       (3)22       (4)28       (5) None of these

Q.5.   When 33 is subtracted from a number it reduces to its 5/8th. What is the number?

(1)99        (2)88       (3)66       (4)128       (5) None of these

Q.6.   Prabhat bought a suitcase with 15 percent discount on the labelled price and sold it with 10 percent profit on the labelled price. Approximately, what was his percentage profit on the price he bought?

(1)25        (2)28        (3)26       (4)30      (5)32

Q.7.   A shopkeeper bought 16 dozen of toys at the rate of Rs. 703.20 per dozen. He sold them with 20 per cent profit on the price he bought. Approximately, at what price did he sell each toy?

(1)Rs. 70/-       (2)Rs. 75/-      (3) Rs. 65/-         (4) Rs. 80/-      (5) Rs. 85/-

Q.8.   Ramesh bought 12 kg. of sugar at the rate of Rs. 9.50 per kg. and 18 kg. of Suggar @ of 12.50 per Kg. He mixed the two varieties and sold the mixture at Rs.12.00 per kg. Approximately what was his percentage gain in this transaction?

(1)6        (2)8        (3)4       (4) Data inadequate       (5) None of these

Q.9.   Two-third of Ria's money is equal to one-fifth of Shobha's money. What is the ratio between their share of money?

(1)10:3        (2)3:8       (3)3:1        (4)3:10       

(5) None of these

Q.10.   The average runs scored by eleven players in a cricket team is 24. When the runs scored by the captain is subtracted, the average increases by 2. How many runs were scored by the captain?

(1)8          (2)24       (3)4        (4)18        (5) None of these


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Verbal maths - Speed Test 3

Q.1.    The difference of digits of a two digit number is 7 and their product is 18. If the digit at the unit place is larger than the digit in the tenth place, what is the number?

(1)92    (2)29  . (3)18    (4) Data inadequate      (5) None of these

Q.2.   An amount of money is to be distributed among P,Q and'R in the ratio of 2 : 7 : 9. The total of P's and Q's share is equal to that of R's share. What is the difference between P's and Q's share ?

(1)Rs. 50007-       (2)Rs. 7500/-       (3) Rs. 9000/-     (4) Data inadeuqate       (5) None of these

Q.3.   Subodh's marks in History is 20 more than the average marks obtained by him in Geography and English. If his marks in English are 60, what are his marks in Geography ?

(1)40   (2)60     (3)80       (4) Data inadequate       (5) None of these

Q.4.   The ratio between the length and breadth of a rectangular plot is 7 :4. If the perimeter of that field is 88 cm. What is the difference between the length and the breadth?

(1)28 cm     (2) 16 cm     (3) 12 cm      (4) Data inadequate       (5) None of these

Q.5.   The ratio between the present age of Navin and Samir is 5 : 3. If the difference between their ages is 6 years. What will be Samir's age after 5 years ?

(1)23 Years         (2) 20 Years         (3) 28 Years       (4) 24 Years .    (5) None of these

Q.6.   A sum of money fetches its one-fourth as simple interest at the end of five years. What is the rate of interest per centper annum?

(1)5     (2)2.5     (3)4      (4) Data inadequate       (5) None of these

Q.7.    If three-fourth of two-third of one fifth of a number is 24. What is the number?

(1)250     (2)240    (3)120     (4)480    

(5) None of these

Q.8.   What should come in place of both the question marks (?) in the following equation?

128     ? 

?      32 

(1)54   (2)68   (3)64    (4)48    (5) None of these

Q.9.   What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series?

2 13       76       377       1504     ?

(1)4507    (2)3002    (3)1498    (4)

6010    (5) None of these

Q.10.   A shirt costs Rs. 426/- and a trouser costs Rs. 638/- what will be the total price of 6 shirts and 8 trousers?

(1)Rs. 7236/-       (2)Rs. 7660/-       (3) Rs. 7720/-     (4) Rs. 7740/- (5) None of these

Q.11.    In the following number series a wrong number is given. Find out that number.

3 4     8      17       32      58     94

(1)17   (2)8    (3)4   (4)58    (5)32

Q.12.   The sum of the two numbers is 25 times the difference between these two numbers. If 75 percent of smaller number is 18, What is the other number?

(1)20    (2)22     (3)26     (4)24     (5) None of these

Q.13.    Prakash is as much younger than Tarun as he is older than Ashok. If the difference between the present ages of Tarun and Ashok is 27 years, what will be Prakash's age after six years?

(1)32 years (2) 30 years (3) 36 years (4) Data inadequate (5) None of these

Q.14.   Which of the following set of fractions is in the ascending order?

(1)3/5,5/7,7/9      (2)7/9,5/7,3/5      (3)7/9,3/5,5/7    (4)5/7,3/5,7/9     (5) None of these

Q.15.   A train running at an uniform speed of 48 kmph crosses a 140 metre long platform in 18 seconds. What is the length of the train?

(1) 90 metres (2) 120 metres (3) 100 metres (4) Data inadequate (5) None of these


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