Averages

Question 1 – Average of first 5 multiples of 3 is

Question 2 - The average income of X for 12 days is Rs.4560.The average for

first 6 days is Rs. 3340 and that of last five days is Rs. 2260.Calculate the

income for seventh day?

Question 3 - The average of 50 numbers is 30. If two numbers, 35 and 40 are

discarded, then what is the approximate average of the remaining numbers?

Question 4 - The average score of a cricketer for ten matches is 38.9 runs. If

the average for the first six matches is 42, then find the average for the last four

matches.

Question 5 - Nine persons went to a hotel for taking their meals. Eight of them

spent Rs.12 each on their meals and the ninth spent Rs.8 more than the average

expenditure of all the nine. What was the total money spent by them.

Question 6 - The average temperature on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

was 250. The average temperature on Thursday, Friday and Saturday was 240. If

the temperature on Saturday was 270, what was the temperature on

Wednesday?

Question 7 - The average age of a group of 12 students is 20 years. If 4 more

students join the group, the average age increases by 1 year. The average age

of the new students is

Question 8 - The average weight of a class of 24 students is 36 kg. When the

weight of the teacher is also included, the average weight increases by 1 kg.

What is the weight of the teacher?

Question 9 – A class had 9 students. In one test, the class average was 61.

One student's paper was scored incorrectly, and the resulting score was raised

18 points. What is the corrected class average?

Question 10 - Average weight of 25 boys in a class is 48 kgs. The average

weight of the class of 40 students is 45 kgs. What is the average weight of the

15 girls in the class?

Time, Speed & Distance

Question 1 - Walking at the rate of 4 kmph a man cover certain distance in 2 hr

45 min. Running at a speed of 16.5 kmph the man will cover the same distance

in

Question 2 – Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including

stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?

Question 3 – A train covers a distance in 50 min, if it runs at a speed of 48

kmph on an average. The speed at which the train must run to reduce the time of journey to 40 min will be.

Question 4 – A passenger train takes two hours less for a journey of 300 km if its speed is increased by 5 km/hr from its normal speed. The normal speed is?

Question 5 – A train covers a distance in 100 min, if it runs at a speed of 48kmph on an average. The speed at which the train must run to reduce the

time of journey to 40 min will be ?

Question 6 – Myra drove at an average speed of 30 miles per hour for T hours and

then at an average speed of 60 miles/hr for the next T hours. If she made no stops

during the trip and reached her destination in 2T hours, what was her average speed

in miles per hour for the entire trip?

Question 7 - Myra drove at an average speed of 30 miles per hour for the first 30

miles of a trip & then at an average speed of 60 miles/hr for the remaining 30 miles

of the trip. If she made no stops during the trip what was her average speed in

miles/hr for the entire trip?

Question 8 - John drove for 3 hours at a rate of 50 miles per hour and for 2 hours at 60 miles per hour. What was his average speed for the whole journey?

Question 9 - A train running at 54 km/hr crosses a telegraph post in 16

seconds and a platform in 40 seconds. Find the length of the train and length of

the platform.

Question 10 - A train 270 m long takes 20 seconds to cross a bridge 330 m

long. Find: speed of the train. Also find time taken by it to cross an electric pole.

Time & Work

Question 1:

A can do a work in 15 days and B in 20 days. If they work on it together for 4 days, then the fraction of the work that is left is :

A.

1

4

B.

1

10

C.

7

15

D.

8

15

Question 2:

A can lay railway track between two given stations in 16 days and B can do the same job in 12 days. With help of C, they did the job in 4 days only. Then, C

alone can do the job in:

A. 9 1

days 5

B. 9 2

days 5

C. 9 3

days 5

D. 10

Question 3: A and B complete a work in 6 days. A alone can do it in 10 days. If both

together can do the work in how many days?

A. 3.75 days

B. 4 days

C. 5 days

D. 6 days

Question 4:

A can do a piece of work in 4 days. B can do it in 5 days. With the assistance of C they completed the work in 2 days. Find in how many days can C alone do it?

A. 10 days

B. 20 days

C. 5 days

D. 4 days

Question 5:

A can do a piece of work in 30 days. He works at it for 5 days and then B finishes it in 20 days. In what time can A and B together it?

A. 16 2/3 days

B. 13 1/3 days

C. 17 1/3 days

D. 16 1/2 days

Question 6:

A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days and 16 days respectively. Both work

for 3 days and then A goes away. Find how long will B take to complete the remaining work?

A. 15 days

B. 12 days

C. 10 days

D. 9 days

Question 7:

A and B can do a piece of work in 3 days, B and C in 4 days, C and A in 6 days. How long will C take to do it?

A. 18 days

B. 20 days

C. 24 days

D. 30 days

Question 8:

X can do a piece of work in 40 days. He works at it for 8 days and then Y finished it in 16 days. How long will they together take to complete the work?

A. 13 1/3 days

B. 15 days

C. 20 days

D. 26 days

Data Arrangements

Question 1:

Each of the four different games was played on a different day from Monday to

Thursday. Hockey and Cricket were not played on two consecutive days. Ludo was

played after Hockey but before Chess. Which game was played on Tuesday?

Question 2:

Five Lectures of one hour each are scheduled from 1pm to 6pm in a day. L1 and L2 are

scheduled just after L3. L4 is scheduled after L5. Exactly two lectures are scheduled

between L2 and L5. Which Lecture was scheduled from 3pm to 4pm?

Question 3:

Each of the five students – A, B, C, D, E – appeared for at least one of the five MBA

entrance tests. At least one among them appeared for each test. B appeared for only

MAT and CAT. D did not appear for ATMA and XAT. A did not appear for XAT and CMAT.

B and A did not appear for any common test and the same is true for A and E. Each

student appeared for a different number of tests. How many students appeared for CAT?

Question 4:

Four friends – Gopal, Kishan, Madhav and Vishnu – own different cars among – I - 10, I

– 20, Ritz and Getz – in no particular order. The cars are of different colours – Yellow,

Blue, Green and Red. It is also known that:

(i) I – 20 is either a red or a green coloured car.

(ii) Kishan owns either Ritz or Getz.

(iii) Gopal owns I – 10 and Vishnu owns a yellow coloured car.

(iv) Neither is I – 10 nor Getz a blue coloured car.

Who owns I – 20 Car?

Question 5:

There are four relatives – Ram, Shyam, Ajay and Vivek. Ram is four times as old as

Shyam. Vivek is twice as old as Ajay. Shyam is older than Ajay. Find out whether Ram is

younger than Vivek?

Question 6:

There are four ladies – Abha , Beena, Chandra and Dolly. Abha is twice as old as Beena.

Chandra is younger than Abha and thrice as old as Dolly. Which among the following is

youngest?

Question 7:

Each of the five children - R, S, T, U, V – plays a different game - Cricket, Football, lawn

tennis, snooker and chess – on a different day of a week from Monday to Friday not

necessarily in that order. It is also known that:

- V plays neither snooker nor on Tuesday

- S plays Chess but neither on Monday nor on Friday

- The person who plays cricket, plays on Thursday

- T, who plays on Wednesday, does not play snooker

- The lawn tennis is played on Friday

- R plays on Monday and U does not play lawn tennis.

Which sports is played on Wednesday?

Question 8:

Answer the question on the basis of following information:

Five Boys – Amar, Amareesh, Akbar, Amit and Ankur – are getting married in five

different months of a year viz. January, March, June, November and December (not

necessarily in the same order. The brides are - Uma, Vinita, Anita, Rani and Kavita.

Each of these marriages are in different cities of India viz. Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai,

Jaipur and Raipur (not necessarily in the same order).

i. Akbar is getting married in January.

ii. Vinita is getting married in Delhi

iii. Rani is Amar’s bride.

iv. The marriage in June was held in Mumbai.

v. Kavita is getting married in March.

vi. Amit’s marriage was in Jaipur.

vii. Vinita’s marriage followed Anita’s marriage.

viii. Kavita is Ankur’s bride.

a). In Which city the marriage was held in December?

b). In which city was Akbar’s marriage held?

c). Whom did Vinita marry?

d). When did Uma’s marriage take palce?

e). In which city was Anita’s marriage held?

Question 9:

Five politicians namely Anand Tripathi, Balwant Rana, Chandu Ram, Dinkar Prajapati and

Egnesh Alwin – holding five different portfolios – HRD, Home, Finance, Education and

health – in a cabinet – paid a visit to Chennai to meet victims of Tsunami on five

different dates – 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th of the March – not necessarily in that

order. It is known that:

- The home minister paid visit after HRD minister but before the Finance minister.

- The health minister did not pay his visit on 25th .

- Dinkar Prajapati was Finance minister.

- Balwant Rana was not Education minister.

- Both Balwant Rana and Chandu Ram paid their visit after Finance Minister.

a). On which date did Balwant Rana paid his visit?

b). If Anand tripathy paid his visit on 22nd, then who was the HRD minister?

c). Find out the ministry of Anand tripathi?

d). Who paid visit immediately after the Home minister?

Question 10:

Out of six friends – Anil, Billu, Champa, Deepak, Ferhan and Ganga – Anil and Billu

speak English and Hindi; Billu and Champa speak Hindi and Bengali; Ganga and Deepak

speak French and German; Ferhan and Champa speak Bengali; Anil and Deepak speak

Bengali; and Ganga and Billu speak Tamil.

a). Who among the following does not speak Bengali?

b). Who among the six definitely speaks at least four languages?

c). the common language spoken by Billu, Ferhan and Deepak?

Seating Arrangement

Question 1:

Siva, Sathish, Amar and Praveen are playing cards. Amar isto the right of Sathish, who

is to the right of Siva.

Who is to the right of Amar?

Question 2:

Five girls are sitting on a bench to be photographed. Seema is to the left of Rani and to

the right of Bindu. Mary is to the right of Rani. Reeta is between Rani and Mary.

a. Who is sitting immediate right to Reeta?

A. Bindu

B. Rani

C. Mary

D. Seema

b. Who is in the middle of the photograph?

A. Bindu

B. Rani

C. Reeta

D. Seema

c. Who is second from the right?

A. Mary

B. Rani

C. Reeta

D. Bindu

Question 3:

Directions to Solve

P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting round the circle and are facing the centre:

1. P is second to the right of T who is the neighbour of R and V.

2. S is not the neighbour of P.

3. V is the neighbour of U.

4. Q is not between S and W. W is not between U and S.

5.

a. Which two of the following are not neighbours ?

A. RV

B. UV

C. RP

D. QW

b. Which one is immediate right to the V ?

A. P

B. U

C. R

D. T

c. Which of the following is correct ?

A. P is to the immediate right of Q

B. R is between U and V

C. Q is to the immediate left of W

D. U is between W and S

d. What is the position of S ?

A. Between U and V

B. Second to the right of P

C. To the immediate right of W

D. Data inadequate.

Question 4:

Directions to Solve

Six friends are sitting in a circle and are facing the centre of the circle. Deepa is

between Prakash and Pankaj. Priti is between Mukesh and Lalit. Prakash and Mukesh are opposite to each other.

a. Who is sitting right to Prakash ?

A. Mukesh

B. Deepa

C. Pankaj

D. Lalit

b. Who is just right to Pankaj ?

A. Deepa

B. Lalit

C. Prakash

D. Priti

c. Who are the neighbours of Mukesh ?

A. Prakash and Deepa

B. Deepa and Priti

C. Priti and Pankaj

D. Lalit and Priti

d. Who is sitting opposite to Priti ?

A. Prakash

B. Deepa

C. Pankaj

D. Lalit

Blood Relations

Question 1:

Pointing to a man, Akshay said that this man is the only son of my sister’s father- in-

law. How is this man related to Akshay?

a). Son-in-Law b). Brother-in-law c). Father d). Cousin

Question 2:

Pointing to a woman in the photograph, Deepti said that she is the only child of my

brother-in-law’s father’s sister. How is that woman related to Deepti?

a). Sister-in-Law b). Daughter c). Mother d). Cousin

Question 3:

Pointing to a man in the photograph, Om said that is my daughter’s father’s only

brother. How is Om related to that man?

a). Son b). Brother c). Father d). Cousin

Question 4:

Pointing to a man, a lady says that his father is the third son of her grandmother. How is

the lady related to that man?

a). Sister or Cousin b). Brother c). Sister d). Cousin

Question 5:

Pointing to a boy, a lady says that his mother is the only sister of her mother. How is the

boy related to that lady?

a). Uncle b). Brother c). Nephew d). Cousin

Question 6:

Seeta said, Mohan’s father is the only son of my father. How is Seeta related to Mohan?

a). Grandmother b). Mother c). Sister d). Aunt

Question 7:

Introducing a woman, a man said, Her mother’s husband’s sister is my aunt. How is man

related to that woman?

a). Either brother or cousin b). Brother c). Nephew d). Cousin

Question 8:

While walking with his friend, Mahesh meets another man whose mother is wife of

Mahesh’s father’s only son. How is the man related to Mahesh?

a). Uncle b). father c). Nephew d). Cousin e) Son

Question 9:

Pointing to Snehal, Jeevan said, Her mother’s only daughter is my daughter. How is

Jeevan related to Snehal?

a). Uncle b). Brother c). Father d). Brother-in-law e) Son

Question 10:

A is sister of B, C is the father of B, D is the wife of C and E is the father of D. How is E

related to B?

a). Grandmother b). Grandfather c). Father d). Son e). Cousin