1. Find the next number in the series 4 8 12 16 20 - 2.20% of the total cost of a plot with an area of 395sqft is Rs 78,210.

What is the rate of per sq ft of the plot? 3. If every batsman in a cricket team is bowled out first ball, which number is 'not out' at the end of the innings? 4. R, T, P, R, N, P, _? 5. HCL prototyping machine can make 10 copies every 4 seconds. At this rate, how many copies can the machine make in 6 min.? 6.1360 is divided into A, B, C. A gets 2/3 rd of B, B gets th of C. What is B share? 7.The cost of one pencil, two pens and four erasers is Rs.22 while the cost of five pencils, four pens and two erasers is Rs.32.How much will three pencils, three pens and three erasers cost 8. If you can lay one coconut tree between every 8 feet, how many trees can be there in total 80 feet? 9. A contractor agreeing to finish a work in 150 days employed 75 men each working 8 hours daily. After 90 days, only 2/7 of the work was completed. Increasing the number of men by ________ each working now for 10 hours daily, the work can be completed in time. 10. What next? 8.9, 18.7, 25.88, 114.13, 127.244,? 11. a is greater than b by 2 and b is greater than c by 10. If a + b + c = 130, then (b +c) a =? 12. A solves 10 pages in 5 minutes; B solves 5 pages in 10 minutes. How many pages they can solve in 30 minutes? 13. If VXUPLVH is written as SURMISE, what is SHDVD,? 14. If a rectangular block that is 4 inches by 4 inches by 10 inches is placed inside a right circular cylinder of radius 3 inches and height 10 inches, the volume of the unoccupied portion of the cylinder is how many cubic inches? 15. A basket contains 3 blue, 3 black and 3 red balls. If two balls are drawn at random, what is the probability that one is black and one is red? 16. If you can lay one coconut tree between every 8 feet, how many trees can be there in total 80 feet? 17. A and B run a kilometer and A wins by 25 Seconds. A and C run a kilometer and A wins by 275 m. When B and C run the same distance B wins by 30 seconds. The time taken by A to run a kilometer is 18. If a light flashes every 6 seconds, how many times will it flash in of an hour? 19. Worker W produces n units in 5 hours. Workers V and W, workers independently but at the same time, produce n units in 2 hours. How long would it take V alone to produce n units? 20. Car X covers a distance of 385 kms in 7 hours and car Y covers a distance of 715 kms in 13 hrs. What is the difference in the speed of the two cars? 21. Which of the following fractions is the largest in value? 2/3, 3/5, 5/7, 7/9, 9/11 ? 22. The product of two successive positive integers is 462. Which is the smaller integer? 23.82, 97, 114, 133, _? 24. Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes by him.What is the length of faster train? 25. A certain type of mixture is prepared by mixing brand A at Rs.9 a kg. with brand B at Rs.4 a kg. If the mixture is worth Rs.7 a kg., how many kgs. of brand A are needed to make 40kgs. of the mixture? 26. Im chaising a thief. The theif has a head start of 10 miles over me.i have a speed 1 mile/hr greater than the theif. My dog has a speed of 10km/hr. My dog runs to and fro between me and the thief. How many miles does my dog run, before i catch the thief? 27.52,51,48,43,34,27,18 this sequence is wrong . Could you tell because of which no it is going wrong? 28. Can you find out what day of the week was January 12, 1979? 29. A train travels a certain distance taking 7 hrs in forward journey, during the return journey increased speed 12km/hr takes the times 5 hrs.What is the distance traveled 30. There are two mugs, a 7ltr mug, a 3 ltr mug. What would be the steps to fill 5ltr water in the 7 ltr jug?? a) fill the 3 ltr mug, pour its 3 ltrs water into 7ltr mug b) fill the 3 ltr mug, pour its 3 ltrs water into 7ltr mug c) fill 3 ltr mug and pour 1 ltrs water into the 7 ltr mug d) empty the 7 ltr mug, pour the remaining 2 ltrs water in 3ltrs jug, into the 7 ltr jug. e) Fill the 3 ltr mug; pour its 3 ltrs water into 7ltr mug 31. The Lake in Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee situated in Uttarakhand, India has 1 lily on the first day of the first month of the summer season. By the time Summer Season ends, the Lake is completely filled with white lilies and this mark is achieved on 59th day of the last day of the summer season doubling the figure each day. Based on this data, on which day the Lilies cover half of the Lake. 32. There are 30 socks in a drawer. 60% of the socks are red and the rest are blue. What is the minimum number of socks that must be taken from the drawer without looking in order to be certain that at least two blue socks have been chosen? 33. Three pipes, A, B, & C are attached to a tank. A & B can fill it in 20 & 30 minutes respectively while C can empty it in 15 minutes. If A, B & C are kept open successively for 1 minute each, how soon will the tank be filled? 34. While withdrawing an amount of Rs 49,350 a customer by mistake collects Rs 48,150. The remaining amount is deposited back to his account by the bank, which shows the balance of Rs 25,376. What will be the customers balance after depositing the remaining amount? 35.f the Arithmetic mean is 34 and geometric mean is 16 then which is the greatest number in that series of numbers? 36. Working independently, Tina can do a certain job in 12 hours. Working independently, Ann can do the same job in 9 hours. If Tina Works independently at the job for 8 hours and then Ann works independently, how many hours will it take Ann to complete the remainder of the jobs? 37. Vivek travelled 1200km by air which formed 2/5 of his trip. One third of the whole trip , he travelled by car and the rest of the journey he performed by train. The distance travelled by train was? 38. If on an item a shop gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give 10% discount then what is the profit percentage? 39. Some xyz has to fence his field, he planned to do it by putting the fences 5 ft apart, but when he actually started putting fences he found that he has got 4 no. of pole less so he put those 7ft apart to cover the whole boundary. What is the total length of the boundary to be fenced?

40. A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 750 meters width. A cable is made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river and 1500mts away from the power unit. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 15/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.12/- per meter. Find the total of laying the cable. 41. Mr Sharma takes loan of Rs 25,000 and repays an amount of Rs 31,000 at the end of 2 years. What is the rate of simple interest at which repays the loan? 42. The Acme Rent-a-Car agency charges $10.00 per day and $0.10 per mile to rent a car. The Super Rent-a-Car agency charges $20.00 per day and $0.05 per mile to rent a car. If a car is rented for 1 day, at how many miles would the rental charges of the two agencies be equal? 43. Daal is now being sold at Rs. 20 a kg. During last month its rate was Rs. 16 per kg. By how much percent should a family reduce its consumption so as to keep the expenditure fixed? 44. The difference between th of th of a number and th of th of the same number is 9. What is the number ? 45. A person walking 5/6 of his usual rate is 40 minutes late. What is his usual time? 46. A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days, when given at a rate of 850 grams per head. At the end of 7 days reinforcement arrives and it was found that now the provisions will last 8 days less, when given at the rate of 825 grams per head. How, many more men can it feed? 47. One dog tells the other that there are two dogs in front of me. The other one also shouts that he too had two behind him. How many are they? 48. A student scores 55% marks in 8 papers of 100 marks each. He scores 15% of his total marks in English. How much does he score in English? 49. Can you tender a one rupee note in such a manner that there shall be total 50 coins but none of them would be 2 paise coins? 50. Given that A, B, C, D, E each represent one of the digits between 1 and 9 and that the following multiplication holds: A B C D E X 4 -------------- E D C B A -------------- What digit does E represent? 51. If a = 2, b = 4, c = 5 then a + b c - ---- = c a + b ? 52. A 5 cm cube is cut into as many 1 cm cubes as possible. What is the ratio of the surface area of the larger cube to that of the sum of the surface areas of the smaller cubes? 53. If you can lay one coconut tree between every 8 feet , how many trees can be there in total 80 feet? 54. A monkey starts climbing up a tree 20ft. tall. Each hour, it hops 3ft. and slips back 2ft. How much time would it take the monkey to reach the top? 55. When the square of smaller number and the cube of a larger number are added, the answer is 778. If the square of the bigger number is greater than the smaller number by 74, what is the sum of these numbers? 56. A basket contains seven apples and fourteen oranges. If we select two at random then what is the probability that both are different? 57. The ratio of the present ages of Sunita and vinita is 4:5. Six years hence the ratio of their ages will be 14:17. What will be the ratio of their ages 12 years hence? 58. A railway half ticket costs half the full fare and the reservation charge is the same on half ticket as on full ticket. One reserved first class ticket from Chennai to Trivandrum costs Rs. 216 and one full and one half reserved first class tickets cost Rs. 327. What is the basic first class full fare and what is the reservation charge? 59. If p is an integer and q = 9p + 13, what is the greatest value of p for which q is less than 0? 60. Out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words can be made each containing 3 consonants and 2 vowels? 61. A bag contains 25 cent, 10 cent and 5 cent coins in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3. If the total value of these is $ 36, the number of 25 cent coins is ? 62. In the repeating decimal 0.0526105261 , the 69th digit to the right of the decimal point is ? 63. A boat travels 20 kms upstream in 6 hrs and 18 kms downstream in 4 hrs.Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the water current? 64.10 ^ 2(10 ^ 8 + 10 ^ 8) = -------------- 10 ^ 4 65. The diameter of the driving wheel of a bus is 140cm. How many revolutions per minute must the wheel make in order to keep a speed of 66 kmph? 66. The monthly salary of a person gets increased by 5%, thereby becoming Rs. 15120 per annum. What was his earlier salary per month? 67. Three containers A, B and C have volumes a, b, and c respectively; and container A is full of water while the other two are empty. If from container A water is poured into container B which becomes 1/3 full, and into container C which becomes 1/2 full, how much water is left in container A? 68. The sides of a triangle measure 72, 75 and 21, what is the measure of its in radius? 69. Find the area of the sector covered by the hour hand after it has moved through 3 hours and the length of the hour hand is 7cm. 70. If p is an integer and q = 9p + 13, what is the greatest value of p for which q is less than 0? 71. If one of the two parties of knights consists of P and U and two other knights and travels by the southern route, the other members of this party besides P and U must be ? 72. Meena is 24 years old today. Eight years ago, Anju was half the age of that of Meena then. How old is Anju today? 73. A wizard named Nepo says "I am only three times my son's age. My father is 40 years more than twice my age. Together the three of us are a mere 1240 years old." How old is Nepo? 74. If the sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon measures up to 1440 degrees, how many sides does the polygon have? 75. What is the measure of the circum radius of a triangle whose sides are 9, 40 and 41? 76. A number of cats got together and decided to kill between them 999919 mice. Every cat killed an equal number of mice. Each cat killed more mice than there were cats. How many cats do you think there were? 77. What is the circum radius of a triangle whose sides are 7, 24 and 25 respectively?

78. A certain type of mixture is prepared by mixing brand A at Rs.9 a kg. with brand B at Rs.4 a kg. If the mixture is worth Rs.7 a kg., how many kgs. of brand A are needed to make 40kgs. of the mixture? 79. What is the missing number in this series? 8 2 14 6 11 ? 14 6 18 12 80.If taxi fares was Rs 1.00 for the first 1/5 mile and Rs. 0.20 for each 1/5 miles thereafter. The taxi fare for a 3-mile ride was? 81. What is the area of a circle with the circumference of 88cms? 82. Which of the following fractions is the greatest of all? 7/8 , 6/7, 5/6, 4/5 83. If + sign is represented as /, - as *, * as - and / as + then what will be the value of (480+20*20)-16 /12 ? 84. Anand is ten years older than ram.after 5 years anand is twice than the age of ram. find anand's age after 3 years 85. If 2x-y=4 then 6x-3y=? 86.1360 is divided into A,B,C. A gets 2/3 rd of B, B gets th of C. What is B share? 87. Who endorsed the shaving product 'Erasmic', a brand owned by Hindustan Lever Limited, in 1970s? 88. The boys and girls in a college are in the ratio 3:2. If 20% of the boys and 25% of the girls are adults, the percentage of students who are not adults is:? 89. A man drives at a speed of 40 miles/hr. His wife left 30 mins. late with 50 miles/hr speed. When will they meet? 90.5 men or 9 women can do a piece of work in 19 days. How long will take to complete the same work with 3 men and 6 women? 91. A solid cube of each side 8 cm, has been painted red, blue and black on pairs of opposite faces. It is then cut into cubical blocks of each side 2 cm. How many cubes have two faces painted red and black and all other faces unpainted? 92. If in a certain code RANGE is coded as 12345 and RANDOM is coded as 123678. Then the code for the word MANGO would be? 93. If A speaks the truth 80% of the times, B speaks the truth 60% of the times. What is the probability that they tell the truth at the same time? 94. 3,5,7,13,11,21,15,? 95. A three digit number consists of 9,5 and one more number . When these digits are reversed and then subtracted from the original number the answer yielded will be consisting of the same digits arranged yet in a different order. What is the other digit? 96. Find the next number in the series 1, 3, 7, 13, 21, 31 ? 97. In a rectangle length = twice that of breadth, cost of grounding is 60 rupees per meter,total cost is 3600/- what is the length in meter? 98. One person meets his friend on 12:30 then on 1:20 on second day. When he will meet on third day? 99. Which of the following will come next in the series IAR, GET, EIV, COX 100. In a class puspa ranks 8th from top and 28th from bottom.how many students are there in the class? 101. Last year pandit was thrice his sister's age.Next year he is only twice her age.After 5 years what is pandit's age. 102. Who is the first Asian women to become a mayor of Britain? 103. One person says his only daughter is my sons mother , what is the relationship between 1st &2nd person 104.Pipe A can fill in 20 minutes and Pipe B in 30 mins and Pipe C can empty the same in 40 mins.If all of them work together, find the time taken to fill the tank 105. A man is running around a rectangle it takes time 2 time in travelling lenth than travelling width. Total perimeter = 300m find area 106. If x=y=2z and xyz=256 then what is the value of x? 107. All men are vertebrates. Some mammals are vertebrates. Which of the following conclusions drawn from the above statement is correct. 108. Thirty men take 20 days to complete a job working 9 hours a day.How many hour a day should 40 men work to complete the job? 109. A bottle and the wine in it(XYZ Brand) costs Rs.100. But it was found from the Statistical Data of the Organization that the Wine in the Bottle is Rs.99 more than the Bottle itself. Based on the data above, what is the price of the bottle. 110. Split 45 into 4 parts. In such a way that when 2 is added to first part,when 2 is subtracted from second part,when 2 is multiplied with third part, and fourth part divided by 2 gives the same result. What is the result? 111. Find the smallest number in a GP whose sum is 38 and product 1728 112.Consider the following statements about Jose Ramos Horta (1) He is president of East Timur (2) He is Nobel Peace Laurate (3) He is former Prime Minister of East Timor (4) He is founder of Revolutionary Front for Independent East Timor Which of there statement/s is / are correct? 113. A man bought a horse and a cart. If he sold the horse at 10 % loss and the cart at 20 % gain, he would not lose anything; but if he sold the horse at 5% loss and the cart at 5% gain, he would lose Rs. 10 in the bargain. The amount paid by him was Rs._______ for the horse and Rs.________ for the cart. 114. Five boys were climbing a hill. J was following H. R was just ahead of G. K was between G & H. They were climbing up in a column. Who was the second? 115.If the word 'CODING' is represented as DPEJOH , then the word 'CURFEW' can be represented 116.There are two kind of professonal in a company software & personal.if the personal are 15% of the total .a party is going .in a party if 50% of the total professonal left and all are s/w then what is the ratio of the s/w professonal left to total software professonal. 117. When 8% of 630 is added to 12% of 315, what would be the sum? 118.2 persons start from a pt. and go in opposite directions. After going 3 km they turn left and walk 4 km .how far r they now? 119. What is a percent of b divided by b percent of a? 120. The ratio of number of boys and girls in a school of 720 students is 7 : 5. How many more girls should be admitted to make the ratio 1 : 1? 121. A three digit number consists of 9, 5 and one more number . When these digits are reversed and then subtracted from the original number the answer yielded will be consisting of the same digits arranged yet in a different order. What is the other digit? 122. The boys and girls in a college are in the ratio 3:2. If 20% of the boys and 25% of the girls are adults, the percentage of students who are not adults is:??

123. On the first test of the semester, kiran scored a 60. On the last test of the semester, kiran scored 75% by what percent did kiran's score improve? 124. Vivek travelled 1200km by air which formed 2/5 of his trip.One third of the whole trip , he travelled by car and the rest of the journey he performed by train. The distance travelled by tain was??? 125. A farmer built a fence around his 17 cows,in a square shaped region.He used 27 fence poles on each side of the square. How many poles did he need altogether??? 126. On sports day,if 30 children were made to stand in a column,16 columns could be formed. If 24 children were made to stand in a column , how many columns could be formed? 127. A group consists of equal number of men and women. Of them 10% of men and 45% of women are unemployed. If a person is randomly selected from the group. Find the probability for the selected person to be an employee. 128. In a college ,1/5 th of the girls and 1/8 th of the boys took part in a social camp.What of the total number of students in the college took part in the camp? 129. Randy's chain of used car dealership sold 16,400 cars in 1998. If the chain sold 15,744 cars in 1999, by what percent did the number of cars sold decrease 130. From height of 8 mts a ball fell down and each time it bounces half the distnace back. What will be the distance travelled 131. Two trains 200mts and 150mts are running on the parallel rails at this rate of 40km/hr and 45km/hr.In how much time will they cross each other if they are running in the same direction 132. A radio when sold at a certain price gives a gain of 20%. What will be the gain percent, if sold for thrice the price? 133.5/9 part of the population in a village are males. If 30% of the males are married, the percentage of unmarried females in the total population is: 134. If the Arithmetic mean is 34 and geometric mean is 16 then what is greates number in that series of numbers? 135. Complete the sequence A, E, I, M, Q, U, _ , _ ? 136. First day of 1999 is sunday what day is the last day 137. The diameter of the driving wheel of a bus is 140cm. How many revolutions per minute must the wheel make in order to keep a speed of 66 kmph? 138. If a man walks at the rate of 5kmph, he misses a train by only 7min. However if he walks at the rate of 6 kmph he reaches the station 5 minutes before the arrival of the train.Find the distance covered by him to reach the station. 139. Increase area of a square by 69% by what percent should the side be incresed 140. How many of the integers between 25 and 45 are even? 141. If 11 subtracted from 15 and the difference is multiplied by 504, what will be the number? 142. Ten years ago, chandrawathis mother was four times older than her daughter. After 10years, the mother will be twice older than daughter. The present age of Chandrawathi is: 143.100 m race: one covers it 45 second and the other at 36 sec then for how much distance winner will defeat the looser? 144. A man sells an article at a profit of 25%. If he had bought it at 20 % less and sold it for Rs.10.50 less, he would have gained 30%. Find the cost price of the article? 145. A man is standing on a railway bridge which is 180m long. He finds that a train crosses the bridge in 20seconds but him in 8 seconds. Find the length of the train and its speed. 146. A train running at 54 kmph takes 20 seconds to pass a platform. Next it takes 12 seconds to pass a man walking at 6 kmph in the same direction in which the train is going. Find the length of the train and the length of the platform. 147. Walking 5/6 of its usual speed, a train is 10min late. Find the usual time to cover the journey? 148. One tap can fill a cistern in 2 hours and another tap can empty the cistern in 3 hours. How long will they take to fill the cistern if both the taps are opened? 149. A grosser purchased 80 kg of rice at Rs.13.50 per kg and mixed it with 120 kg rice at Rs. 16 per kg. At what rate per kg should he sell the mixture to gain 16%? 150. Ben can have a piece of work done in 8 days, Joe can work three times faster than the Ben, and Ram can work five times faster than Ben. How many days will they take to do the work together? 151. A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days ; B and C can do it in 20 days. In how many days will A, B and C finishes it working all together? 152. Two persons A and B working together can dig a trench in 8 hrs while A alone can dig it in 12 hrs. In how many hours B alone can dig such a trench? 153. A solid cube of each side 8 cm, has been painted red, blue and black on pairs of opposite faces. It is then cut into cubical blocks of each side 2 cm. How many cubes have two faces painted black? 154. A person travels 12 km in the southward direction and then travels 5km to the right and then travels 15 km toward the right and finally travels 5km towards the east, how far is he from his starting place? 155. Product of two numbers is 900. the sum of two numbers is 30 greater than the difference of two numbers 156. A is twice as good a workman as B and together they finish a piece of work in 18 days.In how many days will A alone finish the work? 157. If A : B :: 3 : 4, B : C :: 5 : 9, C : D :: 3 : 5. A : D = ? 158.8 pencils cost Rs 5. Then how many pencils can be bought for rs 50? 159. Find out the greatest possible number for which 30% of that number is less than 100? 160.2 men and 3 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 3 men and 2 boys can do the same work in 8 days. In how many days can 2 men and 1 boy do the work? 161.7/4-4/?=1(5/28)

162 Mike has $20 more than Todd. How much does each have given that combined they have $21 between them? You can't use fractions in the answer. 163. How many times a day a clock's hands overlap? 164. What will be the resultant of 1/loga abc +1/logb abc+1/logc abc? 165. There are 150 weights .Some are 1 kg weights and some are 2 kg weights. The sum of the weights is 260.What is the number of 1kg weights? 167. Why are beer cans tapered at the top and bottom? 168.10220*19=? 169. Who founded e-bay.com? 170. An ice compartment of a Refrigerator is 4 cm wide, 8 cm deep and 5 cm high. The number of 2 cm. ice cubes that it will be able to accommodate is: 171. In how many ways can 5 persons sit on 8 chairs in a row? 172. What new feature would you add to MS WORD if you were hired? 173.10.2*0.8=? 174. There are 3 ants at 3 corners of a triangle, they randomly start moving towards another corner. What is the probability that they don't collide? 175. What is the value of 20C in Fahrenheit? 176. Y catches 5 times more fishes than X. If total number of fishes caught by X and Y is 42, then number of fishes caught by X? 177. What are the values printed by the following program? #define dprint(expr) printf(#expr "=%d\n",expr) main() { int x=7; int y=3; dprintf(x/y); } 178. A moves 3 kms east from his starting point . He then travels 5 kms north. From that point he moves 8 kms to the east.How far is A from his starting point? 179. A millionaire bought a job lot of hats 1/4 of which were brown. The millionaire sold 2/3 of the hats including 4/5 of the brown hats. What fraction of the unsold hats were brown. 180. A digital wristwatch was set accurately at 8.30 a.m and then lost 2 seconds every 5 minutes. What time was indicated on the watch at 6.30 p.m of the same day if the watch operated continuously that time ? 181. Randy's chain of used car dealership sold 16,400 cars in 1998. If the chain sold 15,744 cars in 1999, by what percent did the number of cars sold decrease? 182.80.40/20+(-4.02)=? 183. If you had an infinite supply of water and a 5 quart and 3 quart pail, how would you measure exactly 4 quarts? 184. During the first test of the semester, kiran scored 60%. During the last test of the semester, kiran scored 75%. By what percent did kiran's score improve? 185. What is the abbreviation for mac? 186. 9, 8, 7, 0, 19, 56, ? 187. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When 18 is added to the number, the digits are reversed. Find the number? 188.0.011+0.19*0.5=? 189. What is the greatest integer that will always evenly divide the sum of three consecutive even integers? 190. 7-3*5+12/12*3+2-32=? 191. 36-? =3*4-2*5 192. Decorative ribbon is cut into three equal parts. The resulting segments are then cut into 4, 6 and 8 equal parts, respectively. If each of the resulting pieces has an integer length, what is the minimum length of the ribbon? 193. Anand, Basant, Chetan and Diganto are married to Alka, Bharati, Chhaya, and Divya not necessarily in that order. Basant and Diganto are not married to Divya or to Bharati. Anand is not married to Bharati nor Basant to Chhaya. Bharati is married to 194. Two poles x and y each 16 cm high are planted parallel to each other on a level piece of ground. Spider A is positioned on top of pole x, whereas spider B at ground level near pole y. Spider A comes 2 cm down pole x during the day and goes up 1 cm during the night whereas spider B goes 2cm up the pole y during the day and steps down 1 cm during the night. After how much time will the two spiders be at the same height above the ground level? 195. Let? ( 1) be a complex cube root of unity. Then, the least value of n N for which (1 + ? 2) n = (1 + ? 4) n is 196. A invests $12000, B invests $8000, C invests $6000 and they got a profit of $1200. How much share A got more than B and C? 197. A stock decreases in value by 20 percent. By what percent must the stock price increase to reach its former value? 198. The value of x satisfying sin(cot -1(1 + x)) = cos(tan -1x) is 199. C is 25 cm to the west of B. A is 30 cm to the east of C, whereas D is 35 cm to the west of B. They are standing in one straight line. D moves 30 cm towards south. How far is he from A ? 200. A basket contains 3 blue, 5 black and 3 red balls. If two balls are drawn at random, what is the probability that none of them is blue? 201. If 2x-y=4 then 6x-3y=? (a)15 (b)12 (c)18 (d)10 202. If Log2 x - 5 Log x + 6 = 0, then what would the value / values of x be? 203. A certain type of mixture is prepared by mixing brand A at Rs.9 a kg. with brand B at Rs.4 a kg. If the mixture is worth Rs.7 a kg., how many kgs. of brand A are needed to make 40kgs. of the mixture? 204. A wizard named Nepo says I am only three times my sons age. My father is 40 years more than twice my age. Together the three of us are a mere 1240 years old. How old is Nepo? 205. A goat is tied to one corner of a square plot of side 12m by a rope 7m long.Find the area it can graze? (a) 38.5 sq.m (b) 155 sq.m (c) 144 sq.m (d) 19.25 sq.m

206. In june a baseball team that played 60 games had won 30% of its game played. After a phenomenal winning streak this team raised its average to 50% .How many games must the team have won in a row to attain this average? 207. A boat travels 20 kms upstream in 6 hrs and 18 kms downstream in 4 hrs.Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the water current? (a) 1/2 kmph (b) 7/12 kmph (c) 5 kmph (d) none of these 208. What is the missing number in this series? 8 2 14 6 11 ? 14 6 18 12 209. One dog tells the other that there are two dogs in front of me. The other one also shouts that he too had two behind him. How many are they? 210. A number of cats got together and decided to kill between them 999919 mice. Every cat killed an equal number of mice. Each cat killed more mice than there were cats. How many cats do you think there were? 211. If it takes five minutes to boil one egg, how long will it take to boil four eggs? 212. Three cards are drawn at random from an ordinary pack of cards. Find the probability that they will consist of a king, a queen and an ace. 213. A man ate 100 bananas in five days, each day eating 6 more than the previous day. How many bananas did he eat on the first day? 214. A monkey starts climbing up a tree 20ft. tall. Each hour, it hops 3ft. and slips back 2ft. How much time would it take the monkey to reach the top? 215. The minute hand of a clock overtakes the hour hand at intervals of 64 minutes of correct time. How much a day does the clock gain or lose? 216..Can you tender a one rupee note in such a manner that there shall be total 50 coins but none of them would be 2 paise coins.? 217. Mr. Shah decided to walk down the escalator of a tube station. He found that if he walks down 26 steps, he requires 30 seconds to reach the bottom. However, if he steps down 34 stairs he would only require 18 seconds to get to the bottom. If the time is measured from the moment the top step begins to descend to the time he steps off the last step at the bottom, find out the height of the stair way in steps? 218. If x=y=2z and xyz=256 then what is the value of x? (a)12 (b)8 (c)16 (d)6 219. Find the least value of 3x + 4y if x2y3 = 6. 220. Daal is now being sold at Rs. 20 a kg. During last month its rate was Rs. 16 per kg. By how much percent should a family reduce its consumption so as to keep the expenditure fixed? 221. Solve for x and y: 1/x - 1/y = 1/3, 1/x2 + 1/y2 = 5/9. 222. Find the smallest number in a GP whose sum is 38 and product 1728 (a) 12 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) none of these 223. A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days, when given at a rate of 850 grams per head. At the end of 7 days a reinforcement arrives and it was found that now the provisions will last 8 days less, when given at the rate of 825 grams per head. How, many more men can it feed? 224. In choosing between the use of the bridge and the tunnel the chief factor(s) would be: I. Traffic and road conditions II. Number of passengers in the car III. Location of ones homes in the center or outskirts of one of the cities IV. Desire to save $0.25 (a) I only (b) II only (c) II and III only (d) III and IV only (e) I and II only 225. The letters A, B, C, D, E, F and G, not necessarily in that order, stand for seven consecutive integers from 1 to 10, D is 3 less than A, B is the middle term F is as much less than B as C is greater than D, G is greater than F, The fifth integer is (a) A (b) C (c) D (d) E (e) F 226. From 5 different green balls, four different blue balls and three different red balls, how many combinations of balls can be chosen taking at least one green and one blue ball? 227. The average age of 10 members of a committee is the same as it was 4 years ago, because an old member has been replaced by a young member. Find how much younger is the new member? 228. Three pipes, A, B, & C are attached to a tank. A & B can fill it in 20 & 30 minutes respectively while C can empty it in 15 minutes. If A, B & C are kept open successively for 1 minute each, how soon will the tank be filled? 229. Can you find out what day of the week was January 12, 1979? 230. Three containers A, B and C have volumes a, b, and c respectively; and container A is full of water while the other two are empty. If from container A water is poured into container B which becomes 1/3 full, and into container C which becomes 1/2 full, how much water is left in container A? 231. For a motorist there are three ways going from City A to City C. By way of bridge the distance is 20 miles and toll is $0.75. A tunnel between the two cities is a distance of 10 miles and toll is $1.00 for the vehicle and driver and $0.10 for each passenger. A two-lane highway without toll goes east for 30 miles to city B and then 20 miles in a northwest direction to City C. . Which is the shortest route from B to C (a) Directly on toll free highway to City C (b) The bridge (c) The Tunnel (d) The bridge or the tunnel (e) The bridge only if traffic is heavy on the toll free highway 232. A person walking 5/6 of his usual rate is 40 minutes late. What is his usual time? 233. (1/10)18 - (1/10)20 = ? (a) 99/1020 (b) 99/10 (c) 0.9 (d) none of these 234. Jim usually drives alone from City C to City A every working day. His firm deducts a percentage of employee pay for lateness. Which factor would most influence his choice of the bridge or the tunnel ? (a) Whether his wife goes with him (b) scenic beauty on the route (c) Traffic conditions on the road, bridge and tunnel (d) saving $0.25 in tolls (e) price of gasoline consumed in covering additional 10 miles on the bridge 235. In the given figure, PA and PB are tangents to the circle at A and B respectively and the chord BC is parallel to tangent PA. If AC = 6 cm, and length of the tangent AP is 9 cm, then what is the length of the chord BC? 236. The most economical way of going from City A to City B, in terms of toll and distance is to use the (a) tunnel (b) bridge (c) bridge or tunnel (d) toll free highway (e) bridge and highway 237. Thirty men take 20 days to complete a job working 9 hours a day.How many hour a day should 40 men work to complete the job? (a) 8 hrs (b) 7 1/2 hrs (c) 7 hrs (d) 9 hrs 238. ABCE is an isosceles trapezoid and ACDE is a rectangle. AB = 10 and EC = 20. What is the length of AE?

239.A is as much greater than F as which integer is less than G (a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E 240.Pipe A can fill in 20 minutes and Pipe B in 30 mins and Pipe C can empty the same in 40 mins.If all of them work together, find the time taken to fill the tank (a) 17 1/7 mins (b) 20 mins (c) 8 mins (d) none of these 241.If A = 7, the sum of E and G is (a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 14 (e) 16 242. There is 24% increase in Income tax rate. It leads to 1% decrease in overall income. What is the rate? 243. What is the difference between 8087 and 8086? 244. What is the full form of WindowsNT? 245. Replace the letters with numbers and solve the equation 4(ABCDE) = EDCBA. A. 87978 B. 98765 C. 56789 D. 246. A - F =? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4 (e) Cannot be determined 247. The greatest possible value of C is how much greater than the smallest possible value of D? (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5 (e) 6 248. Find the next term in this series 9,28,65,126,217,344, ___ 249. First microprocessor was A. 8085 B. 8088 C. 8086 D. 80487 250. If after B every alternate alphabet is in small letters how will you write the day coming two days Monday 251. Expand WAN 252. How many squares with sides 1/2 inch long are needed to cover a rectangle that is 4 ft long and 6 ft? 253An integer T is as much greater than C as C is greater than E. T can be written as A + E. What is D? (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5 (e) Cannot be determined 254. Can you divide one rupee exactly half without using 2 ? 255. (1/10)18 - (1/10)20=? A. 99/1020 B. 99/10 C. 0.9 D. none of these 256. Can u find the condition in mathematics like a*b=0, where(a!=0,b!=0) 257. If n=10, divide with 4/8 to get i value,add 1to i to get j,if j > 97 print j. 258. Expand FDD 259. Expand FAT 260. In a certain code language, '851' means 'good sweet fruit'. '783' means 'good red rose' and '341' means 261. Successive discounts of 20% and 15% are equal to a single discount of A. 30% B. 32% C. 34% D. 35% E. 262. If 2x-y=4 then 6x-3y=? A. 15 B. 12 C. 18 D. 10 263. If x=y=2z and xyz=256 then what is the value of x? A. 12 B. 8 C. 16 D. 6 264. If x/y=4 and y is not '0' what % of x is 2x-y A. 150% B. 175% C. 200% D. 250% 265. Find the smallest number in a GP whose sum is 38 and product 1728 A. 12 B. 20 C. 8 D. none of these 266. If a=2/3b, b=2/3c, and c=2/3d what part of d is b A. 8/27 B. 4/9 C. 2/3 D. 75% E. 4/3 267. If 3 persons can do work in 12 days then how much can 9 workers do in 2 days? 268. A goat is tied to one corner of a square plot of side 12m by a rope 7m long. Find the area it can graze? 269. If x + y = 3 and y/x= 2 then y =? A. 0 B. 1/2 C. 1 D. 3/2 E. 2 270. A Brown female could have had I. a grandfather born Red II. a grandmother born Red III. two grandfathers 271. A male born into the Brown group may have A. an uncle in either group B. a Brown daughter C. a Brown 272. A 25' x 45' lawn. A 2-foot lawn cutter. How much does the person covers by moving the lawn cutter 1-1/2 273. Two persons A and B move in the opposite directions from the same point with 10 miles in 2 hrs, and 6 274. There are 3 green, 4 white and 5 blue balls in a box. What is the probability of drawing a single blue? 275. Who is the father of computers? 276. Expand HTML 277. Expand DMA 278. Expand LAN 279. Which was Intel's first microprocessor? 280. Thirty men take 20 days to complete a job working 9 hours a day. how many hour a day should 40 men work 281. Convert 1024 (in decimal) to octa and hexadecimal form 282. Three pipes, A, B, & C are attached to a tank. A & B can fill it in 20 & 30 minutes respectively while C can empty it in 15 minutes. If A, B & C are kept open successively for 1 minute each, how soon will the tank be filled? 283. If a and b are positive integers and (a-b)/3.5 = 4/7, then 284. M men agree to purchase a gift for Rs. D. If three men drop out how much more will each have to contribute towards the purchase of the gift 285. In june a baseball team that played 60 games had won 30% of its game played. After a phenomenal winning streak this team raised its average to 50% .How many games must the team have won in a row to attain this average? 286. Question Category A company contracts to paint 3 houses. Mr.Brown can paint a house in 6 days while Mr.Black would take 8 days and Mr.Blue 12 days. After 8 days Mr.Brown goes on vacation and Mr. Black begins to work for a period of 6 days. How many days will it take Mr.Blue to complete the contract? 287. Give the name of a processor produced by Motorola? 288. A person walking 5/6 of his usual rate is 40 minutes late. What is his usual time? 289. What is the difference between communication and transmission? 290. From 5 different green balls, four different blue balls and three different red balls, how many combinations of balls can be chosen taking at least one green and one blue ball? 291. What is Netbeui protocol? 292. How ROUTER works. Why it is needed? 293. Can you find out what day of the week was January 12, 1979?

294. Find the smallest number in a GP whose sum is 38 and product 1728 (a) 12 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) none of these 295. Find the least value of 3x + 4y if x2y3 = 6. 296. What are the basics of artificial intelligence? 297. What is the difference between microprocessor and microcontroller? 298. Daal is now being sold at Rs. 20 a kg. During last month its rate was Rs. 16 per kg. By how much percent should a family reduce its consumption so as to keep the expenditure fixed? 299. If 2x-y=4 then 6x-3y=? (a)15 (b)12 (c)18 (d)10 300. Three cards are drawn at random from an ordinary pack of cards. Find the probability that they will consist of a king, a queen and an ace. 301. Solve for x and y: 1/x - 1/y = 1/3, 1/x2 + 1/y2 = 5/9. 302. The minute hand of a clock overtakes the hour hand at intervals of 64 minutes of correct time. How much a day does the clock gain or lose? 303. A boat travels 20 kms upstream in 6 hrs and 18 kms downstream in 4 hrs.Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the water current? (a) 1/2 kmph (b) 7/12 kmph (c) 5 kmph (d) none of these 304. If it takes five minutes to boil one egg, how long will it take to boil four eggs? 305. A man ate 100 bananas in five days, each day eating 6 more than the previous day. How many bananas did he eat on the first day? 306. If x=y=2z and xyz=256 then what is the value of x? (a)12 (b)8 (c)16 (d)6 307. The average age of 10 members of a committee is the same as it was 4 years ago, because an old member has been replaced by a young member. Find how much younger is the new member? 308. A wizard named Nepo says "I am only three times my son's age. My father is 40 years more than twice my age. Together the three of us are a mere 1240 years old." How old is Nepo? 309. One dog tells the other that there are two dogs in front of me. The other one also shouts that he too had two behind him. How many are they? 310. A monkey starts climbing up a tree 20ft. tall. Each hour, it hops 3ft. and slips back 2ft. How much time would it take the monkey to reach the top? 311. In the given figure, PA and PB are tangents to the circle at A and B respectively and the chord BC is parallel to tangent PA. If AC = 6 cm, and length of the tangent AP is 9 cm, then what is the length of the chord BC? 312. What is the missing number in this series? 8 2 14 6 11 ? 14 6 18 12 313. A certain type of mixture is prepared by mixing brand A at Rs.9 a kg. with brand B at Rs.4 a kg. If the mixture is worth Rs.7 a kg., how many kgs. of brand A are needed to make 40kgs. of the mixture? 314. Three containers A, B and C have volumes a, b, and c respectively; and container A is full of water while the other two are empty. If from container A water is poured into container B which becomes 1/3 full, and into container C which becomes 1/2 full, how much water is left in container A? 315. (1/10)18 - (1/10)20 =? (a) 99/1020 (b) 99/10 (c) 0.9 (d) none of these 316. The square of a two digit number is divided by half the number. After 36 is added to the quotient, this sum is then divided by 2. The digits of the resulting number are the same as those in the original number, but they are in reverse order. The ten's place of the original number is equal to twice the difference between its digits. What is the number? 317. ABCE is an isosceles trapezoid and ACDE is a rectangle. AB = 10 and EC = 20. What is the length of AE? 318. A number of cats got together and decided to kill between them 999919 mice. Every cat killed an equal number of mice. Each cat killed more mice than there were cats. How many cats do you think there were? 319. If Log2 x - 5 Log x + 6 = 0, then what would the value / values of x be? 320.Pipe A can fill in 20 minutes and Pipe B in 30 mins and Pipe C can empty the same in 40 mins.If all of them work together, find the time taken to fill the tank (a) 17 1/7 mins (b) 20 mins (c) 8 mins (d) none of these 321. If 13 = 13w/(1-w) ,then (2w)2 = 322. If a patient doesn't receive treatment for a certain injury within 2 hours after injury, the patient's chance of survival starts decreasing by 15% each hour. If no treatment has been given within 4 hours after injury, roughly, what chance of survival will the patient have? 323. If DPYGP is coded as BRAIN then EMXCT is coded as ____________? 324.25% of 400 is equal to ? 325. Complete the series. 5,9,11,15, __, 21,23 326. At a Restaurant, one-fourth of the peoples are male and one-fifth of the people are from out of town. What proportion would you expect to be male and out of town? 327. In a group of 15,7 have studied Latin, 8 have studied Greek, and 3 have not studied either.How many of these studied both Latin and Greek 328. What is the estimated Result when 620 and 374 are rounded to the nearest hundred and multiplied? 329. In a class composed of x girls and y boys what part of the class is composed of girls 330. A person walking 5/6 of his usual rate is 40 minutes late. What is his usual time? 331. Find out the missing numbers: 17,....,19,23,31,40,67 332. Find out the missing number: ....,14,12,18,13,22 333. A car is filled with four and half gallons of fuel for a round trip. If the amount of fuel taken while going is 1/4 more than the amount taken for coming, what is the amount of fuel consumed while coming back? 334. 2/3 of people read newspaper A, 3/4 read newspaper B. If 38 read both and 8 didn't read any of the 2.how many read A? 335. There are 112 Boys and 78 girls studying in a class room. What percentage of the girls strength is female? 336. Find out the missing number: 100,121,....,169,196

337.There are 200 questions on a 3 hr examination.Among these questions are 50 mathematics problems.It is suggested that twice as much time be spent on each maths problem as for each other question.How many minutes should be spent on mathematics problems 338. Find out the missing number: 6,42,7,63,9,...2 339. A bus started from the bus stand at 8 AM and after staying 30 minutes at a destination returns back to the bus stand. The estination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The Speed of the bus is 18mph. In the return journey the bus travels with 50% fast speed. At what time it is returns to the bus stand. 340. A plane goes from Chicago to Columbus and then comes back. It takes the same time to travel in either ways. It leaves Chicago early in the morning 0644 LOCAL TIME and reaches the destination Columbus at 0849 LOCAL TIME. In the same evening it leaves Columbus at 1625 hrs LOCAL TIME and reaches the destination at 1638 LOCAL TIME. Find the time that the plane takes to travel either way? 341. A building with height D shadows up to G. A neighbor building with what height shadows C feet. 342. One year ago Pandit was three times his sister's age. He will be only twice her age next year. How old will Pandit be after five years? 343. Given the length of the 3 sides of a triangle. Find the one that is impossible? a) 5i+3j b) i+j c) 3i-5j d) -7i+j 344. Which of the following set of numbers has the highest Standard deviation? 345. The size of a program is N and the memory occupied by the program is given by M = 4000sqr_root (N). If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much % increase is there in the memory? 346. A coffee shop blends 2 kinds of coffee,putting in 2 parts of a 33p. a gm. grade to 1 part of a 24p. a gm.If the mixture is changed to 1 part of the 33p. a gm. to 2 parts of the less expensive grade,how much will the shop save in blending 100 gms. 347. Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube 348. Find out the missing numbers: 16,17,20,29,....,137 349. If g (0) =1,g (1)=1 and g (n)= g (n-1) + g (n 2). Find g (6). 350. Can you find out what day of the week was January 12, 1979? 351. Find out the missing numbers. 22,12,14,32,118,? 352. Find out the missing number: 2,6,...,30,62 353. A plane moves from 9N60E to 9N60W. If the plane starts at 2 AM and takes 10 hours to reach the destination, find the local arrival time. 354. If M denotes modulus operation, R denotes round-off, T denotes truncation Find the value of the following expression :(373,5)+R (3.4)+T (7.7)+R (5.8) 355. If the operation,^ is defined by the equation x ^ y = 2x + y,what is the value of a in 2 ^ a = a ^ 3 356. If M denotes modulus operation, R denotes round-off, T denotes truncation Find the value of the following expression :(373,5)+R (3.4)+T (7.7)+R (5.8) 357. A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers in 10 hours. Then for how many hours required for B to copy 26 papers? 358. Which of the following are orthogonal pairs? a) 5i+3j b) i+j c) 3i-5j d) -7i+j 359. What is the maximum number of half-pint bottles of cream that can be filled with a 4-gallon can of cream (2 pt. =1 qt. and 4 qt. =1 gal) 360. A basket contains 3 blue, 5 black and 3 red balls. If 3 balls are drawn at random what is the probability that all are black? 361. A basket contains 3 blue, 5 black and 3 red balls. If 2 balls are drawn at random, what is the probability that one is black and one is red? 362. The population of a certain town increases by 50 percent every 50 years. If the population in 1950 was 810, in what year was the population 160? 363.92111-1999=? 364. For x > 0, lim x? 0 [(1 / x) tanx] is equal to 365. If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer to this is not zero!) 366. A is driving on a highway when the police fines him for overspeeding and exceeding the limit by 10 km/hr.At the same time B is fined for overspeeding by twice the amount by which A exceeded the limit.If he was driving at 35 km/hr what is the speed limit for the road? 367. For x > 0, lim x ? 0 [ (1 / x) tanx] is equal to 368 22*5=? % of 22 369. A car travels 12 kms with a 4/5th filled tank.How far will the car travel with 1/3 filled tank? 360. The angle between the two tangents to the parabola y 2 = 4x drawn from the point (1, 4) is 371. 112*12-443=? 372. x(x - y) - z(x - y) = 373. Why did you pick the school you graduated from? 374. In 6 seconds a light flashes once. In one hour how many times it will flash? 375. A group consists of equal number of men and women. Out of them 10% of men and 45% of women are unemployed. If a person is randomly selected from the group. Find the probability for the selected person to be an employee. 376. If the degree measures of two angles of an isosceles triangle are in ther ratio 1:3, what is the degree measure of the largest angle if it is not a base angle? 377. At 20% discount, a cycle is sold at a selling price of 2500 Rs. What is the actual price? 378.72+679+1439+537+?=4036 379. How would you weigh a plane without using scales? 380.0.0095/0.05=? 381. Which of the following about the following two declaration is true i ) int *F() ii) int (*F)()

382. Find sum of digits of D. Let A= 19991999 B = sum of digits of A C = sum of digits of B D = sum of digits of C 383. Which of the following is the odd one? 384. How would you move Mt. Everest? 385.3298+2572+4099+? =13366-1232 386. Here are four dogs, each at the counter of a large square. Each of the dogs begins chasing the dog clockwise from it. All of the dogs run at the same speed. All continuously adjust their direction so that they are always heading straight towards their clockwise neighbor. How long does it take for the dogs to catch each other? Where does this happen? (Hint: Dog's are moving in a symmetrical fashion, not along the edges of the square) 387.If taxi fares were Rs 1.00 for the first 1/5 mile and Rs 0.20 for each 1/5 miles thereafter. The taxi fare for a 3-mile ride was 388. The ratio between the rates of traveling of A and B is 2:3 and therefore A takes 10 minutes more than the time taken by B to reach a destination. If A had walked at double the speed he would covered the distance in : 389. 1, 8, 7, 8, 27, 19, 27, ?, ?, 64, 125 390. --, 97, 167, 257, 367, 497, 647. 391. If w is 10% less than x, and y is 30% less than z, they wy is what percent less than xz? 392. 7509*1001+709=? 393. On an average, how many times would you have to open the Seattle phone book to find a specific name? 394. In the repeating decimal 0.097531097531...., what is the 44th digit to the right of the decimal point? 395. A merchant sells an item at a 20 percent discount. but still makes a gross profit of 20 percent of the cost. What percent of cost would be gross profit on the item have been if it had been sold without the discount? 396. Why the hot water in a hotel comes out instantly but at home it takes time? 397. The average (mean) of six numbers is 6. If 3 subtracted from each of four of the numbers, what is the new average? 398. A 5 litre jug contains 4 litres of a salt water solution that is 15 percent salt. If 1.5 litres of the solution spills out of the jug, and the jug is then filled to capacity with water, approximately what percent of the resulting solution in the jug is salt? 399. If you are on a boat and you throw out a suitcase, will the level of water increase? 400. If chocolate, nuts and caramel are to be mixed in the ratio 3:5:7 respectively, and 5 tons of chocolate are available, how many tons of the mixture can be made? (Assume there is enough nuts and caramel to use all the chocolate.)