3.

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3.1 Practice Questions

Solve the problems and indicate the best of the answer choices given.
Numbers: All numbers used are real numbers.
Figures: A figure accompanying a problem-solving question is intended to provide useful
information for solving the problem.
Figures are drawn as accurately as
Exceptions will be clearly noted. Lines shown as straight are straight, andpossible.
lines that
appear jagged are also straight. The positions of points, angles, regions, etc., exist in the
order shown, and angle measures are greater than zero. All figures lie in a plane unless
otherwise indicated.

1 Number Properties (C) 67%

D) 83%
(E) 88%
1. Which of the following is equal to
4. Company H distributed Rs. 4,000 and 180 pens
evenly among its employees, with each employee
getting an equal integer number of Rupees and an
equal integer number of pens. What is the highest
number of employees that could work for Company H?
(A)
12 (A)9
1 (B) 10
(B)
C) 20
(D) 40
C)
E) 180

(D) 5. ftis divisible by 12, what is the least possible

2
integer value of a for whichmight not be an
(E) 2
2 integer?
2. Express 7.583 as a fraction: (A) 2
91 B) 3
A)
12 (C) 5
(B) 44 (D)6
6 E) 40
99
(C) 6. If 5k l =2,000, what is 5+ 1?
14
(A) 399
(D)
(B) 401
(E) 148 (C) 1,996
21 (D) 2,000
3. Prakash bought a bag of 15 magic pencils for Rs. 60.
E) 2,001
One-third of the pencils cost Rs. 2 each and the rest
cost Rs. 5 each. If there was a hole in the bag and all
of the more expensive pencils fell out, the lost pencils
7. Which of the following is equal to x)x?
represented approximately what percentage of the (A)
money Prakash paid for all the pencils?
(B) x
(A) 7%
C)
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(A)-575
(D) (B) -475
(C) 225
E)
(D) 475
8. If 1251448 is written as an integer, how many E) 575
consecutive zeroes will that integer have at the end? Find the smallest 4-digit number which, when
14.
(A) 22 increased by 8, is divisible by 12, 18, 30 and 45
(B) 32 (Real NMAT Question)

(C) 42 (A) 1,072

(D) 50 (B) 1,080
E) 112 (C) 1,088
9 If n is the smallest of three consecutive positive (D) 1,096
integers, which of the following must be true? (E) 1,120
(A) n is divisible by 3
(B) n is even
15. The sum of the last digits of the numbers of the form
22n+1, for n = 0,1, 2, 3 and 4, when divided by 7
C) n is odd gIves a remainder
(D) (nXn+2) is even
(A) 1
(E) n(n+1Xn + 2) is divisible by 3
(B) 2
17 (C) 3
10. 105T
1 0 3 S expressed as a terminating decimal,
(D) 4
how many zeroes are located to the right of the (E) 5
decimal point before the first non-zero digit?
16. If 'a' and 'b' are prime numbers, then what is the
(A) 10
H.C.F. of the numbers (a2 + b), (a +b + 1) and
(B) 12 (a+b2- 1?
(C) 13
(A) 1
(D) 15
(B 2
(E) 17
(C)
11. If 25546 = 10* +a, and x is an integer, what could be (D) 4
the minimum positive value of a?
(E) Cannot be determined
(A) 0
17. A three digit number is such that its hundredth digit
(B) 30,000
IS equal to the product of the other two digits which
(C) 30,000,000 are prime numbers.
Also, the difference between
(D) 10,000,000,000 the number and its reverse is 297. Then, what is the
(E) 30,000,000,000 ten's digit of the number?
12. What is the unit digit of 7386 (A) 2
(A) 0 (B) 3
(B) 1 C) 5
3 D) 6
D) 7 E) 7
(E) 9 18. When a two digit number is divided by the sum ofIs
13. What is the difference between the sum of all even digit the quotient is 4. If the digits are reversed, u
new number is 6 less than twice the
positive integers between 1 and 100 (inclusive) and original num
the sum of all odd positive integers between The number is
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(A) 12
(D) 20
(B) 21
E) 25
(C) 24
(D) 42
24. Simplitot (6x3)-(31)}
(E) Both (C) and (D)

19. A five-digit number is formed using the (Real NMAT Question)

digits 1, 3,
5, 7 and 9 without repetition. What is the sum of all
such possible numbers?
(A)
(A) 6666600
(B) 6666660
C) 6666666
(D) 6666000 C) 25
E) None of these

20. A positive integer A' is a multiple of 180 and it has

40 factors. If 'A' is less than 3000, then the value of
A
IS
E) 42
40
(A) 54 25. What is the remainder when 1!+ 2! +.. + 600!is
(B) 60 divided by 6? (Real NMAT Question)
C) 240 (A) 1
(D) 270 )2
(E) Cannot be determined (C) 3
D) 4
21. If the number 5237ab is completely divisible by 3,
fhind the possible values of a + b. E) 5

(A) 2 26. What is the digit in the unit place of

(9843 x12222)+72959+2543? (Real NMAT
(B) 5
Question)
(C) 8
A) 5
(D) 15
(B) 6
(E) 16
C) 7
22. Anumber A gives a remainder of 7 when divided by D) 8
9. Find the remainder when 2A is divided by 9.
9
(A) 1
27. Which of the following numbers is divisible by 9?
(B) 2 (Real NMAT Question)
(C) 5
(A) 1,203
(0) 8
(B) 2,256
E) 14
C) 42,651
23. At a nature trail camp, one-ffth of the total members (D) 71,623
went rock climbing; twice the square root of the
E) 92,423
total members went hiking up a mountain trail. The
remaining 10 were exploring in caves. How many 28. What is the LCM of "C and "C2, where n is odd?
members went hiking? (Real NMAT Question) (Real NMAT Question)
(A) n
(A) 5
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If 09.12.2001 happens to be a Sunday, then

34 09.12.1971 would have been a
C)
(A) Saturday
(B) Monday
(C) Wednesday
(E) (n 1)
bank is 7
(D) Friday
29. The number of female employees in a
bank. E) Thursday
times the number of male employees in the
annot be the total number of If log102 0.3010, what is the value oflog,2562
Which ofthe following 35.
employees in the bank? (Real NMAT Question) (Real NMAT Question)
(A) 40
(A) 3.11
(B) 48
(B) 3.26
C)54 (C) 3.44
(D) 64
(D) 3.67
E) 128
E) 3.82
30. lf August 15, 1947 was a Friday, then, what was the
day on January 26, 1950? 36. Find the value of 'x' if 62508s+12o,49=11os,169
(A) Thursday 625o+ 12lo8,49 = 11og 169
(B) Friday
(A) 10
(C) Saturday (B) 11
(D) Sunday
(C) 13
E) Monday (D) 17
31 What was the day on April 20, 1984? (E) 19
(A) Thursday 37. If log30 3 = x and log30 5 = y, then find the value of
(B) Friday loge 30.
(C) Saturday
(D) Sunday (A) 3(1-x -y)
(E) Monday 1

32 If in a certain year, the month of January had exactly 31-x-y)

4 Wednesdays and 4 Sundays, then January 1 of that
3
year was a (C) (1-x-y)
(A) Saturday
(D)-Xy)
(B) Monday 3
(C) Wednesday
(E) None of these
(D) Friday
E) Thursday 38. If aP = b = C = d, then find the value of loga (bcd.

33. Puja born in 1900s realised that in 1980 his age was A Pl
the square root of the year of her birth. When was
Puja born? (B) 1
(A) 1929
(B) 1936
(C) 1940
(D) 1946
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(E)
P

39. If logy X = 10, then find the value of log,, y

1
(A) 6

1
(B)
5
(C) 5
(D) 6
E) Both and
2 5
40. IfP = 625 2 +25 2+5,125, then find the
value of P.

(A) 90
(B) 92
(C) 122
(D) 136
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(A) 250%
2 Arithmetic (B) 280%
(C) 285%
1. The number that is 50% greater than 80 is what
percent less than the number that is 25% less than (D) 290%
200? (E) 295%

(A) 5% 6. Ankur bought 5 Pizzas, 7 Samosas and4

(B) 10% ice-creams. Sanjeev bought 6 Pizzas, 14 Samosas
(C) 15% and 8 Ice creams for an amount which was 50%
more than what Ankur paid. What percentage of
(D) 20% the total amount spent by Ankur was spent on the
(E) 25% Pizzas?
2. Aakash spends 50% of his income on rent, utilities, (A) 37.5%
and insurance, and 20% on food. If he spends 30%
(B) 45%
of the remainder on video games and has no other
expenditure, what percent of his income is left after (C) 50%
all the expenditure? (D) 56.5%

(A) 0% (E) 62.5%

(B) 9% 7. By selling the burger at Rs. 260 per piece, Sameer

(C) 20% gains 30%. Find the cost price of the burger per
(D) 21% piece?
(E) 30% (A) Rs. 150
3 In a class of 40 students, exactly 90% had lower marks (B) Rs. 200
than Varun's marks. 60 new students join Varun's class. (C) Rs. 250
If Varun's marks were higher than those of 80% of the
(D) Rs. 300
new arrivals, what percent of the combined class now
had higher marks than Varun's marks? (E) Rs. 350

(A) 86% 8. Ghosh Babu, a trader, marked up his goods 30%

(B) 85% over the cost price and then he gave the discount of
5%. What was the profit percentage of Ghosh Babu in
(C) 16%
the whole transaction?
(D) 15%
(A) 19.5%
(E) 14%
(B) 21.5%
Machines X and Ypack books continuously, each
C) 23.5%
working at a constant rate, but Machine Y works 50%
faster than Machine X. f Machine Y packs 48,00 (D) 25.5%
more books in a 24hour period than Machine X (E) None of these
does, what is Machine X's packing rate in books per
hour? 9. The value of (p % q+ q% of p) is:

(A) 4,000 (A) p% of q

(B) 6,000 (B) q% of p
(C) 8,000 (C) 2% of pq
(D) 12,000 (D) pq% of 3
E) 16,000 (E) None of these
5. The production of rice increased by 75% from 1990 10. 'p' is five times as large as 'q. By what percent is a
to 1995. From 1995 to 2000, there was a 100% less than p?
increase. What is the percentage increase in the
production of rice from 1990 to 2000? (Real NMAT A 16%
Question)
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(C) 60% (A) Rs. 28,485

(D) 80% (B) Rs. 28,985
(E) 90% C) Rs. 29,485
(D) Rs. 29,985
11. A 735 gm sample of a 16% (by weigh) solution of
iodine in alcohol is kept for three days. Some of the (E) Rs. 30,485
alcohol gets evaporated and the concentration of the
solution becomes 20% (by weight). What amount of 16. The value of a car depreciates at the rate of 10% per
annum. If its present value is Rs. 121500, then what
alcohol gets evaporated?
was the value of the car two years ago?
(A) 135 gm
(A) Rs. 100000
(B) 140 gm
(B) Rs. 150000
(C) 147 gm
(C) Rs. 200000
(D) 150 gm
(D) Rs. 250000
(E) 215 gm
(E) Rs. 300000
12. The interest rate, compounded annually, that would
bring a principal of Rs. 1,200 to a final value of Rs. 17. Ram lent Rs. 800 to a friend for 2 years and
1,650 in 2 years is approximately: one-fourth of this amount to another friend for
3 years. He received Rs. 275 in total as simple
(A) 17% interest. What was the rate of interest?
(B) 18%
(A) 10.5%
(C) 19%
(B) 12.5%
(D) 20%
(C) 15.5%
(E) 21%
(D) 17.5%
13 An amount becomes 3 times in 6 years on a certain (E) 19.5%
rate of simple interest. In how many years it will
become 24 times? 18. At what interest rate per annum will a sum of money
double itself in 8 years?
(A) 48 Years
(B) 50 Years
A) 12%
C) 69 Years (B) 13%
(D) 70 Years (C) 15%
(E) 72 Years (D) 17%
14. What is the value of the rate of interest if the (E) 19%
difference between the compound interests of the 19. Parikshit invests Rs. 1546 in BNP bank at a certain
first and the second year is 4 times that of the
rate of compound interest per annum. At the end of
principal? 8 years, he finds that his money has doubled. What
(A) 50% approximately is the rate of interest BNP bank paid
(B) 100% him?

(C) 150% (A) 9%

(D) 200% (B) 12%
(E) 400% (C) 15%
15. (D) 16%
Some amount was divided into two equal parts. The (E) 18%
hrst part was invested at 10% per annum at simple
interest for 4 years. The second part was invested
20. Giri divided his property between his children Suma
at 10% per annum at compound interest for 3 years.
and Dev. Suma invested her share at 10% per
the difference in the interests earned from the two
annum simple interest and Dev invested his share
investments is Rs. 1000, find the approximate value Compounded at 8% per annum. At the end of 2
of the total initial amount.
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more than the interest received by Dev. What was (A) 25 and Rs. 1,800
Suma's share if the total amount divided was (B) 25 and Rs. 2,900
Rs. 2,50,000? (Real NMAT Question) (C) 25 and Rs. 3,125
(A) Rs. 50,000 (D) 30 and Rs. 3,900
(B) Rs. 63,360 E) 34 and Rs. 4,000
(C) Rs. 1,13,360
25. A person purchased a smartphone for Rs. 8,000
(D) Rs. 1,50,000 and sold it at a proft of 25%. From that amount
(E) Rs. 1,63,360 purchased another phone and sold it at a loss of e
20%. What is his overall profit or loss? (Real NMAT
21 fRs. 23,579 triples itself in 3 years when invested
Question)
in a bond for which the investment interest rate is
compounded annually, then in how many years will it (A) profit of Rs. 2,000
become 27 times of itself? (Real NMAT Question)
(B) profit of Rs. 1,000
(A) 6 (C) loss of Rs. 2,000
(B) 9 (D) loss of Rs. 1,000
(C) 18 E) neither profit nor loss
(D) 27
26. A shopkeeper claims a loss of 4% on his goods, but
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uses weight equal to 840 gm instead of 1 kg. The
22. Arvind sells clothes at a roadside market for which shopkeeper actually makes a:
he pays Rs. 150 per day to rent a table plus Rs. 10
per hour to his salesman. He sells an average of A) 11%gain
Rs. 78 worth of clothes per hour. Assuming no other
costs, which of the functions below best represents
proft per day P in terms of hours h that Arvind 8) 145%gain
Works for?
(C) 4% loss
(A) Ph) = 238- 10h
(D) 4% gain
(B) Ph) 72 -10h
E) 2% loss
(C) Ph) = 68h -150
(D) Pth) = 78h 160 27. A product priced at Rs. 1000 would earn a
(E) Pth) = -160h + 78 shopkeeper a profit of 15%. Find the profit
percentage earned by him if he decides to sell the
23. A batch of clips costs Rs. (p + 15) for a company to product at a discount of Rs. 50 during the festivals.
produce and each batch sells for Rs. p (9-p). For
which of the following values of p does the company (A) 3.34%
make a profit? B) 9.15%
(A) 3 (C) 9.25%
(D) 9.30%
(B) 4
(E) 9.50%
(C) 5
(D) 6 28. On selling 630 pens, a shopkeeper makes a
(E) 7 profit equal to the selling price of 90 pens. Find
the approximate profit percentage. (Real NMAT
24 In a school exhibition, hand-made crafts are displayed Question)
for sale. Some students are assigned the work
of selling crafts. The overall proft p depends on (A) 12.5%
the number of students x seling the crafts on that (B) 14.28%
particular day and is given by the equation C) 16.67%
p 250x - 5x. The school manager claims to have
made a maximum pront. Find the number of students
(D) 20%
engaged in selling the crafts and the maximum profit (E) 22.22%
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The capital of a company, Estyle, is made of 75,000

29. resulting mixture of 15 kg for Rs. 146.40?
Dreferred shares with a dividend of 15% and 20,000 (Real NMAT Question)
Common shares, with the par value of each type
of share as Rs. 10. The total profit of Estyle was (A) 6 kg
Rs. 2,40,000 of which Rs. 40,000 was kept in a (B) 7 kg
reserve fund. The remaining profit was distributed (C) 8 kg
to the shareholders. What would be the difference
in the dividend percentage given to the common
(D) 9 kg
shareholders if the amount kept away in the reserve (E) 10 kg
fund was reduced to Rs. 25,000? (Real NMAT
34. A chemist is mixing a solution of ink and water. She
Question)
currently has 30 litres of mixture solution, of which 10
(A) 5.75% litres are ink. How many litres of ink should the chemist
(B) 7.5% add to her current mixture to attain a 50:50 mixture of
ink and water if no additional water is added?
(C) 10%
(D) 12.75% (A) 2.5
(E) 15% (B) 5

30. Yalda sold two MP3 players using two different online (C) 10
sites. She sold one for Rs. 1,710 at a loss of 5% (D) 15
and the other for Rs. 2,520 at a profit of 20%. What (E) 20
is her total proft or loss percentage? (Real NMAT
35. A full glass of lemonade is a mixture of 20% lime
Question) juice and 80% soda. The contents of the glass are
(A) gain of 4.8% poured into a pitcher that is 200% bigger than the
(B) loss of 5.1% glass. The remainder of the pitcher is filled with 16
litres of water. What was the original volume of lime
(C) loss of 6.4%
juice in the mixture?
(D) gain of 8.5%
(A) 1.6 litres
(E) loss of 9.2%
(B) 3.2 litres
31. Satish works on 15% commission on the total cost (C) 4.8 litres
of the book sets he sells. He sold 10 book sets at
Rs. 850 each, 5 at Rs. 750 each, and 10 at Rs. 700 (D) 6.4 litres
each. How much more commission would he have E) 8 litres
made had he sold all the book sets at Rs. 850 each? 36. In a college dramatics team, the ratio of boys to girls
(Real NMAT Question) is 6:7. If there are 2 more girls than boys in the
(A) Rs. 100 team, how many boys are in the team?
(B) Rs. 150 (A) 12
(C) Rs. 300 (B) 18
(D) Rs. 350 (C) 24
(E) Rs. 4000 (D) 30
32 The ratio of the cost price to the selling price of an (E) 36
item is 4: 5. The item is sold at a profit of Rs. 500. 37. X cornflake is 55% fibre and Y cornflake is 70%
What is the selling price of the item? (Real NMAT fibre. Sharad combines a certain amount of the wo
Question) cereals in a single bowl, creating a mixed cereal
(A) Rs. 1,000 that is 65% fibre. If the bowl contains 120 grams of
cereal, how much of the cereal, in grams, is X?
(B) Rs. 1,500
(C) Rs. 2,000 (A) 30
(D) Rs. 2,500 (B 40
(E) Rs. 4,500 (C) 60
33. (D) 80
How much tea selling at Rs. 10.40 per kg should be
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38. If a:b=b:C=C:d=3, then find the value of (D) 1:5

(E) 1:6
d+cbfc (Real NMAT Question)
cd+bc +abc the same quantity of a
43. Two jars P and Q contain
mixture of milk and water. The milk and water in p
(A) and Q are inthe ratio 5:2 and 4 :I respectivel
What will be the ratio in which these two mixtures
have to be blended to obtain a new mxture of milk
(B) and water in the ratio of 3:
1?
(Real NMAT Question)
C) 3
(D) 6 (A) 5:6
E) Cannot be determined
(B) 1:1
In what ratio, solution X which contains 50%
milk and (C) 4:3
39.
milk be mixed so that
solution Y which contains 30% (D) 7:5
the obtained solution contains 45% milk?
(E) 3:2
(A) 1:3 6, what is the
44. If the average of a,b, c, 5, and 6 is
B) 2:3 and 13?
average of a, b, c,
(C) 3:2
(A) 8
(D) 3:5
(B) 8.5
(E) 3:1
9
40. A tank has a solution consisting of milk and water in
(D) 9.5
equal proportion. This solution is transferred into a E) 10.5
vessel having 100 ml pure water at the rate of 10 ml
per second. In how much time from the start of the 45. Average weight of 37 students is 42 kg. When their
transfer, will the ratio of milk to water in the vessel teacher joined them, their average weight increased
be 1:3? by 2 kg. What is the weight of the teacher?
(A) 5 seconds (A) 112 kg
(B) 10 seconds (B) 114 kg
(C) 15 seconds (C) 116 kg
D) 20 seconds (D) 118 kg
(E) 25 seconds E) 120 kg
41. The sum of the ages of the six members in a family 46. Two persons of average age 40 years leave a group
is 130 years. f the age of the children is in the ratio and hence the average age of the remaining group
1:2:6:7 while the combined age of their parents is increases from 50 to 52 years. Find the number ot
82 years, find the age of the eldest child. persons originally in the group.
(A) 7 years (A) 5
(B) 14 years (B) 7
C) 21 years (C) 8
(D) 28 years (D) 10
(E) 35 years
(E) 12
42. A rectangular playground has a length that is twice
as great as its width. If its length is halved while its 47. If the average weight of 8th, 9th and 10th class is
width is quadrupled, what is the ratio of its original the ratio of a:b:c and the number of students india
area to its new area? (Real NMAT Question) 8th, 9th and 10th is in the ratio of x:y:z, then tne
average weight of all the three classes considereu
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a+b+C (A) 51 minutes

(A) X+y+Z (B) 52 minutes
(C) 53 minutes
(B)y Z (D) 54 minutes
ax +by + CZ E) 55 minutes
(C x+y+Z 52. A ski resort has enough wood to keep 20 rooms
heated for 14 days. If the resort decides to save
ax+by +CZ
(D) a+b+C wood by turning off the heat in 5 unoccupied rooms,
and each room requires the same amount of wood
(E) Cannot be determined to heat it, how many extra FULL days will the wood
Supply last?
The average age of a husband and wife who were
48 married 5 years ago, was 25 years then. The (A) 3
average age of the family including the husband,
(B) 4
the wife and two children who were born during the
interval is 16 years now. How old are the children (C) 5
now? [All of them have diferent ages with integral (D) 18
values. E) 19
(A) 1 year, 3 years 53. Working alone at their respective constant rates, Ajay
(B) 4 years, 1 year can compilete a certain job in 4 hours, while Firoz can
do the same job in 3 hours. Ajay and Firoz worked
(C) 2 years, 3 years
together on the job and completed it in 2 hours, but
(D) 2 years, 2 years while Ajay worked this entire time, Firoz worked for
E) None of these some of the time and took 3 breaks of equal length.
How many minutes long were each of Firoz' breaks?
49. In a group of students, if a student aged 19 years is
(A) 5 minutes
replaced by a student aged 25 years, the average
age of the group increases by 0.4 years. Find the (B) 10 minutes
number of students in the group. (Real NMAT C) 15 minutes
Question) (D) 20 minutes
(A) 12 (E) 25 minutes
(B) 13 54. A machine can manufacture 20 pens per hour, and
(C) 14 exactly 10 such pens fit into every box. Mahesh
packs pens in boxes at a constant rate of 3 boxes
(D) 15
per hour. If the machine ran for 2 hours and was then
E) 16 turned off before Mahesh started packing the pens
50. The average age of three people living in a house in boxes, how many minutes would it take Mahesh to
woman and child, is 24 years. If the man
pack all the pens that the machine had made?
-man,
leaves and his mother stays in his place, then the
(A) 40 minutes
How
average age in the house becomes 34 years. (B) 45 minutes
much older is the mother than her son? (Real NMAT
(C) 80 minutes
Question)
(D) 160 minutes
(A) 20
E) 800 minutes
(B) 25
55. Two taps can separately fill a tank in 4 minutes and
C) 30
5 minutes respectively. Due to a small hole at the
(D) 32 bottom of the tank, the two taps together take 30
E) 36 seconds more time to fill the tank. The hole can
empty the completely flled tank in
51. The time it takes to construct a hut is inverselythe
proportional to the number of workers doing 980
each to (A) minutes
Work. If it takes 40 workers giving 3 hours
workers to
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980 (B) 5 minutes

(B) minutes
81
980 minutes C) 6 minutes
(C)
91
980 (D) 7 minutes
(D) minutes
61
981 E) None of these
(E minutes
51
Three taps P, Q and R when filling together can fill a 60. There are 12 workers who have been recruited to
56 cistern in 3 hours. After 1 hour tap P is closed and dig a 20 km long tunnel. t takes one worker to d
the cistern is flled in 4 more hours. Find the time in 250 m of tunnel in a week. How many more work
are needed to complete the work in 2 weeks? ers
which tap P alone can fill the cistern?
(A) 3 hours (A) 12
(B) 4 hours (B) 18

(C) 5 hours (C) 20

(D) 6 hours (D) 24

E) 7 hours E) 28

57. Pipes P and Q can fill a tank in 12 minutes and 61. If 33 unskilled workers can do a work in 15 days of
16 minutes respectively. Both are kept open for X 12 hours each, how many skilled workers can do
minutels) and then Q is closed and P fills the rest of 50% more work in 11 days of 9 hours each? (Assume
the tank in 5 minutes. The time X after which Q was that it takes 2 skilled workers to do the work of 5
closed is unskilled workers.)
(A) 2 minutes (A) 36
(B) 3 minutes B) 42
(C) 4 minutes (C) 64
(D) 90
(D) 6 minutes
(E) 100
E) 7 minutes

58. Pipe X pours a mixture of acid and water, and pipe 62. Ajay finishes a work in certain number of days. He
Y pours pure water into a bucket. After 1 hour, the
bucket got filled and the concentration of acid in the gottwo assistants who workas fast as him.
bucket was noted to be 8%. If pipe Y was closed If all three work together, then in what fraction of
after 30 minutes and pipe X continued to pour the time would they finish the job as compared to Ajay
mixture, concentration of acid in the bucket after 1
working alone?
hour would have been 10%. What is the ratio of acid
to the water in the mixture coming out of pipe X?
(A)
A) 13: 2
(B) 2:15 3
(B)
(C) 3:20
(D) 1:5
C)
(E) 2:13 3

Two taps P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 minutes and 2

59. (D)
18 minutes respectively. If both the taps are opened 5
together, how long it take to fill the cistern?
(E)

A) 36
minutes

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63. A and B can do a piece ofwork in 22 days, B and 67. Sanya, Babli and Jhanvi started a new business.
Sanya's capital was invested for a period which was
C can do it in 16 days, A and C can do the work in equal to four times Jhanvi's period of investment
whereas Sanya and Babli invested for the same
15days. Arrange the three in decreasing order period. Als0, twice Sanya's investment is equal to
Jhanv's investment, and Babli's investment is equal
of productivity. toof Sanya's investment. If the total year-end proft
2
(A) C>A>B
from this business yielded Rs. 4,40,000, then what
(B) B C>A
was the total share of Sanya and Babli in this
proft?
C) A>C>B (Real NMAT Question)
(D) C>B>A
(E) B>A>C
(A) Rs. 2,40,000
(B) Rs. 2,50,000
64. Nishit works twice as fast as Pradeep. Nishit and (C) Rs. 2,55,000
Pradeep together can work three times faster than (D) Rs. 2,60,000
Bhuvan. If Nishit, Pradeep and Bhuvan together
E) Rs. 3,30,000
work on a job, in what ratio should they share the
earnings? (Real NMAT Question) 68. Tina, Ishan, Abhishek and Fatima jointly started a
Note: The ratio of individual share of earnings business and invested a total of Rs. 80. If Tina's
for all 3 workers is the same as the ratio of their share increas by Rs. 3, Ishan's share increases by
relative eficiencies. one-third of his share, Abhishek's share decreases by
20% and Fatima's share decreases by Rs. 4, all of
(A) 2:1:1
them would have equal amounts of money. What is
(B) 2:3:1 Fatima's original share?
(C) 4:2:1 (A) Rs. 20.25
(D) 4:2:3 (B) Rs. 23. 50
E) 4:3:2 (C) Rs. 23.75
65. FDB Builders was awarded the contract to construct (D) Rs. 24.25
a bridge. The company employed 100 workers E) Rs. 24.75
to finish the work in 120 days. When four-fifths of 69. Mukesh, Manish, Lalu and Jaggi bought a MOKIA
the work was completed in 80 days, the company mobile for £60. Mukesh paid one-half of the sum
wanted to reduce the number of workers. How of the amounts paid by the other persons. Manish
many workers can be let go without affecting the paid one-third of the sum of the amounts paid by the
completion schedule of the construction of the other persons. Lalu paid one-fourth of the sum of the
bridge? (Real NMAT Question) amounts paid by the other persons. How much did
Jaggi have to pay?
(A) 25
(B) 40 (A) &13
C) 50 (B) £15
(C) £17
(D) 65
(D) &23
(E) 75 (E) None of these
66. Atank can be flled by a pipe in 10 minutes and can
be emptied by another pipe in 8 minutes. If both
70. Yogesh and Mohan, two business partners, invest Rs.
21000 and Rs. 17500 respectively in their garment
pipes are opened when the tank is full, then how long business and at the end of the year both of them
will t take for the tank to be empty? (Real NMAT make a profit of Rs. 26400. Find their individual
Question) shares in the proft.
(A) 1 hours (A) Rs. 14400 and Rs. 12000
(B) 1.5 hours (B) Rs. 12000 and Rs. 14400
(C) 30 minutes C) Rs. 14000 and Rs. 12400
(D) 40 minutes (D) Rs. 14200 and Rs. 12200
E) 45 minutes E) none of these

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