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Practice Test - 02 53 For Detailed Solution of Practice Tests Log on : www.prepmasters.in FACTORIALS & LAST DIGIT Ref. No.: A1/P1/P2 1. Find the highest power of 2 in the product 1005 × 1006 × 1007 × ……….. × 2009 (a) 993 (b) 995 (c) 1004 (d) 1008 2. The highest power of 9 dividing 99! completely is: (a) 20 (b) 24 (c) 22 (d) 11 3. Find the number of zeroes at the end of 1090! (a) 270 (b) 268 (c) 269 (d) None of these 4. Given N is a positive integer less than 31, how many values can n take if (n + 1) is a factor of n!? (a) 18 (b) 16 (c) 12 (d) 20 5. The digit at the tens place in the sum of the expression : (1!) + (2!)2 +(3!)3 +(4!)4+(5!)5 +….(111!)111 is: (a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 8 (d) 9 6. A number n! is written in base 6 and base 8 notation. Its base 6 representation ends with 10 zeroes. Its base 8 representation ends with 7 zeroes. Find the smallest n that satisfies these conditions. Also find the number of values of n that will satisfy these conditions. (a) 22 and 4 (b) 32 and 2 (c) 24 and 3 (d) 25 and 4 7. The number of digits in the product of 572 x 827 is : (a) 77 (b) 75 (c) 99 (d) none of (a), (b), (c) 8. What is the value of the unit’s digit in 18+28+38+ ..........+............ 998. (a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) None of these 9. What is the highest power of 12 that divides 54!? (a) 25 (b )26 (c) 30 (d) 4 10. When 40! is expressed in base 8 form, what is the last non–zero digit in the base 8 expansion? (a) 2 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 2 or 6 11. Let K be the largest number with exactly 3 factors that divide 25! How many factors does (k – 1) have? (a) 16 (b) 12 (c) 9 (d) 14 12. What are the last two digits of the number 745? (a) 07 (b) 23 (c) 49 (d) 43 13. N is an 80-digit positive integer (in the decimal scale). All digits except the 44th digit (from the left) are 2. If N is divisible by 13, find the 26th digit? (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 1 (d) 2 14. How many pairs of integers (x, y) exist such that the product of x, y and HCF (x, y) = 1080? (a) 8 (b) 7 (c) 9 (d) 12 15. Find the smallest number that leaves a remainder of 4 on division by 5, 5 on division by 6, 6 on division by 7, 7 on division by 8 and 8 on division by 9? (a) 2519 (b) 5039 (c) 1079 (d) 979 16. How many pairs of positive integers x, y exist such that HCF (x, y) + LCM (x, y) = 91? (a) 10 (b) 8 (c) 6 (d) 7 17. Find the G.C.D of 12x2y3z2, 18x3y2z4, and 24xy4z3 (a) 6xy2z2 (b) 6x3y4z3 (c) 24xy2z2 (d) 24xy3z2 (e) 18x2y2z3 18. What is the highest power of 7 that will divide 5000! without leaving a remainder? (5000! means factorial 5000) (a) 4998 (b) 714 (c) 832 (d) 816 [3] Ref. No.: A1/P2/P2 19. The highest power of 99 that divides 99! completely is (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 9 (d) None of these 20. There are 35 steps in a temple. By the time Chithra comes down two steps, Madhu goes up one step. If they start simultaneously and keep their speed uniform, then at which step from the bottom will they meet? (a) 9th step (b)12th step (c)13th step (d) 8th step (e) None of the above 21. How many zeroes will be there at the end of the product 2! 2! x 3!3! x 7!7! X 9! 9! X 10! 10! ? (a) 2(10!) + 9! + 7! (b) 7! + 9! 10! (c) 2! (10!) (d) 10 + 9 + 7 22. K = 1272239 x 976511 -27910241 what will be the last digit of K? (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) None of these 23. How many zeroes will be there at the end of the product 2! 2! x 3!3! x 7!7! X 9! 9! X 10! 10! ? (a) 2(10!) + 9! + 7! (b) 7! + 9! 10! (c) 2! (10!) (d) 10 + 9 + 7 24. What is the total no of factors of 16!? (a) 5376 (b) 6048 (c) 4320 (d) none of these 25. If 146! Is divisible by 5n, and then find the maximum value of n. (a) 34 (b) 35 (c) 36 (d) 37 26. The highest power of 990 that will exactly divide 1090! is (a) 101 (b) 100 (c) 108 (d) 109 27. Find the number of zeroes in the product: 11×22×33×44×…×9898×9999×100100 (a) 1200 (b) 1300 (c) 1050 (d) None of these 28. The sum of the last 10 digits of the sum of the expression: (11x22x33x44x55) + (16x27x38x49x510) + (111x212x313x414x515) +…+ (196x297x398x499x5100) is: (a) 16 (b) 18 (c) 20 (d) none of these 29. Sum of two numbers x, y = 1050. What is the maximum value of the HCF between x and y? (a) 350 (b) 700 (c) 1050 (d) 525 30. The sum of two non co–prime numbers added to their HCF gives us 91. How many such pairs are possible? (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 6 [4] REMAINDER & FACTORS Ref. No.: A2/P1/P2 1. What is the remainder when 13577 is divided by 7? (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) none of a,b,c 2. (392)n – (392)n-1 is not divisible by : (a) 49 (b) 23 (c) 13 (d) 17 3. What is the total number of divisors of 600? (a) 32 (b) 21 (c) 24 (d) 40 4. What is the remainder left after dividing (1! + 2!+ 3!+ ..... + 100!) by 7 ? (a) 0 (b) 5 (c) 21 (d) 14 5. A number is divided by a divisor, which is 18 times the quotient. If the remainder is 42, then find the dividend, it being given that the divisor is 9 times the remainder. (a) 7980 (b) 7880 (c) 42 (d) None of these 6. When two different numbers are divided by a certain divisor the remainders are 147 and 192. When the sum of the two numbers is divided by the same divisor the ‘remainder is 38: Find the divisor. (a) 311 (b) 301 (c) 291 (d) 201 7. The number 3p725q8 leaves respective remainders of 4 and zero when divided by 16 and 11. What is the value of p? (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 3 8. If n is a natural number, then 3(2n+2) - 8n - 9 is always divisible by . (a) 72 (b) 64 but not 128 (c) 32 but not by 64 (d) 128 9. If p is a prime number greater than 3, then (p2 - 1) is always divisible by: (a) 6 but not 12 (b) 24 (c) 12 but not 24 (d) None of these 10. The sum of the digits of a number N is 23. The remainder when N is divided by 11 is 7. What is the remainder when N is divided by 33? (a) 7 (b) 29 (c) 16 (d) 13 11. A number when divided by 18 leaves a remainder 7. The same number when divided by 12 leaves a remainder n. How many values can n take? (a) 2 (b) 0 (c) 1 (d) 3 12. N leaves a remainder of 4 when divided by 33, which of the following can be a possible remainder when N is divided by 55? (a) 3 (b) 15 (c) 24 (d) 27 13. What is the remainder when we divide 390 + 590 by 34? (a) 0 (b) 17 (c) 33 (d) 1 14. N2 leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by 24. What are the possible remainders we can get if we divide N by 12? (a) 1, 5, 7 and 11 (b) 1 and 5 (c) 5, 9, and 11 (d) 1 and 11 15. A prime number p greater than 100 leaves a remainder q on division by 28. How many values can q take? (a) 8 (b) 12 (c) 9 (d) 15 16. How many positive integers are there from 0 to 1000 that leave a remainder of 3 on division by 7 and a remainder of 2 on division by 4? (a) 32 (b) 36 (c) 24 (d) 19 17. Three numbers leave remainders of 43, 47 and 49 on division by N. The sum of the three numbers leaves a remainder 9 on division by N. What are the values N can take? (a) 65 (b) 96 (c) 125 (d)More than one value is possible 18. A number leaves a remainder 3 on division by 14, and leaves a remainder k on division by 35. How many possible values can k take? (a) 3 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 4 [5] Ref. No.: A2/P2/P2 19. How many factors of the number 28 * 36 * 54 * 105 are multiples of 120? (a) 540 (b) 660 (c) 594 (d) 792 20. How many factors of 1080 are perfect squares? (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 5 21. The sum of the factors of a number is 124. What is the number? (a) Number lies between 40 and 50 (b) Number lies between 50 and 60 (c) Number lies between 60 and 80 (d) More than one such number exists 22. Find the smallest number that has exactly 18 factors. (a) 180 (b) 216 (c) 240 (d) None of these 23. A number N2 has 15 factors. How many factors can N have? (a)5 or 7 factors (b) 6 or 8 factors (c) 4 or 6 factors (d) 9 or 8 factors 24. If a three digit number ‘abc’ has 2 factors (where a, b, c are digits), how many factors does the 6- digit number ‘abcabc’ have? (a) 16 (b) 24 (c) 18 (d) 30 25. Find the largest five digit number that is divisible by 7, 10, 15, 21 and 28. (a) 99,840 (b) 99,900 (c) 99,960 (d) 99,990 26. Anita had to multiply two positive integers. Instead of taking 35 as one of the multipliers, she incorrectly took 53. As a result, the product went up by 540. What is the new product? (a) 1050 (b) 540 (c) 1590 (d) 1520 27. Let x, y and z be distinct integers. x and y are odd and positive, and z is even and positive. Which one of the following statements cannot be true? (a) (x - z)2 y is even (b) (x - z) y2 is odd (c)(x - z) y is odd (d) (x - y)2 z is even 28. When a number is divided by 36, it leaves a remainder of 19. What will be the remainder when the number is divided by 12? (a) 10 (b) 7 (c) 19 (d) 192 29. The sum of the first 100 natural numbers, 1 to 100 is divisible by ____ (a)2, 4 and 8 (b) 2 and 4 (c) 100 (d) 2 30. How many different factors does 48 have, excluding 1 and 48? (a) 12 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 10 ANSWER KEY 1 A 2 C 3 C 4 B 5 A 6 B 7 A 8 B 9 B 10 B 11 A 12 B 13 A 14 A 15 B 16 B 17 D 18 C 19 C 20 A 21 D 22 A 23 B 24 A 25 C 26 C 27 A 28 B 29 D 30 C [6] PERCENTAGE Ref. No.: A3/P1/P1 1. If the price of petrol increases by 25% and Raj intends to spend only an additional 15% on petrol, by how much % will he reduce the quantity of petrol purchased? (a) 10% (b) 12% (c) 8% (d) 6.67% 2. A shepherd has 1 million sheeps at the beginning of Year 2000. The numbers grow by x% (x > 0) during the year. A famine hits his village in the next year and many of his sheeps die. The sheep population decreases by y% during 2001 and at the beginning of 2002 the shepherd finds that he is left with 1 million sheeps. Which of the following is correct? (a) x > y (b) y > x (c) x = y (d) Cannot be determined 3. In an election contested by two parties, Party D secured 12% of the total votes more than Party R. If party R got 132,000 votes and there are no invalid votes, by how many votes did it lose the election? (a) 300,000 (b) 168,000 (c) 36,000 (d) 24,000 4. A candidate who gets 20% marks fails by 10 marks but another candidate who gets 42% marks gets 12% more than the passing marks. Find the maximum marks. (a) 50 (b) 100 (c) 150 (d) 200 5. When processing flower - nectar into honeybees’ extract, a considerable amount of water gets reduced. How much flower - nectar must be processed to yield 1kg of honey, if nectar contains 50% water, and the honey obtained from this nectar contains 15% water? (a) 1.5 kgs (b) 1.7 kgs (c) 3.33 kgs (d) None of these 6. A vendor sells 60 percent of apples he had and throws away 15 percent of the remainder. Next day he sells 50 percent of the remainder and throws away the rest. What percent of his apples does the vendor throw? (a) 17 (b) 23 (c) 77 (d) None of these 7. If the cost price of 20 articles is equal to the selling price of 16 articles, what is the percentage profit or loss made by the merchant? (a) 20% Profit (b) 25% Loss (c) 25% Profit (d) 33.33% Loss 8. 30% of the men are more than 25 years old and 80% of the men are less than or equal to 50 years old. 20% of all men play football. If 20% of the men above the age of 50 play football, what percentage of the football players are less than or equal to 50 years? (a) 15% (b) 20% (c) 80% (d) 70% 9. If the price of petrol increases by 25%, by how much must a user cut down on his petrol consumption so that his expenditure on petrol remains unchanged? (a) 25% (b) 16.67% (c) 20% (d) 33.33% 10. Peter got 30% of the maximum marks in an examination and failed by 10 marks. However, Paul who took the same examination got 40% of the total marks and got 15 marks more than the passing marks. What was the passing marks in the examination? (a) 35 (b) 250 (c) 75 (d) 85 11. 40% of 70 is x% more than 30% of 80. Find x. (a) 33.33% (b) 40% (c) 16.67% (d) 25% 12. John weighs twice as much as Maria. Marcia’s weight is 60% of Bob’s weight. Dave weighs 50% of Lee’s weight. Lee weighs 190% of John’s weight. Which of these 5 persons weighs the least? (a) Bob (b) Dave (c) John (d) Lee 13. Tina, Mina, Gina, Lina and Bina are 5 sisters, aged in that order, with Tina being the eldest. Each of them had to carry a bucket of water from a well to their house. Their buckets’ capacities were proportional to their ages. While returning, equal amount of water got splashed out of their buckets. Who lost maximum amount of water as a percentage of the bucket capacity? (a) Tina (b) Mina (c) Gina (d) Bina 14. Joan started work 2 years ago. Her starting salary was half of Mike’s salary at that time. Each year since then Joan and Mike have received a rise of 10% in their respective salary. What percentage (to the nearest percent) of Mike’s current salary is Joan’s current salary? (a) 45 (b) 46 (c) 48 (d) 50 15. If S is 150 percent of T, then T is what percent of S + T? (a) 33.33% (b) 40% (c) 75% (d) 80% 16. An alloy of copper and aluminum has 40% copper. An alloy of Copper and Zinc has Copper and Zinc in the ratio 2: 7. These two alloys are mixed in such a way that in the overall alloy, there is more aluminum than Zinc, and copper constitutes x% of this alloy. What is the range of values x can take? (a) 30% < x < 40% (b) 32.5% < x < 42% (c) 33.33% < x < 40% (d) 32.5% < x < 40% 17. A earns 25% more than B. C earns 25% more than A. A earns 20% more than D. E earns 20% more than A. A, B, C, D, and E earn integer amounts less than Rs. 100. What is the total amount earned by all five of them put together? (a) Rs. 300 (b) Rs. 245 (c) Rs. 305 (d) Rs. 480 18. A, B, C and D share a loot. A gets a% of the total. B gets b% of the remaining (after A has taken his share). C gets c% of the remaining and D gets the rest. D gets a% less than what A gets, B and C get equal amounts. b = 2a. 1. What percentage of what A got did C get? 2. If the total amount is equal to Rs. 1000, what is the difference between what A got and what D got? (a) 160% (b) 80% (c) 175% (d) 150% 19. A is x% less than B, A is y% less than C. C is k% more than B. Express k in terms of x and y. (y-x)100 (y+x)100 (y-x)100 (y-x)100 (a) (b) (c) (d) 100 - y 100 - y 100 - x 100+y 20. In a class, if 50% of the boys were girls, then there would be 50% more girls than boys. What percentage of the overall class is girls? (a) 25% (b) 33.33% (c) 40% (d) 20% [7] PROFIT & LOSS Ref. No.: A4/P1/P2 1. On selling an article for Rs. 240, a trader loses 4%. In order to gain 10%, he must sell that article for: (a) Rs. 264 (b) Rs. 273.20 (c) Rs. 275 (d) Rs. 280 2. A man loses Rs. 20 by selling some toys at the rate of Rs. 3 per piece and gains Rs. 30, if he sells them at Rs. 3.25 per piece. The number of pieces sold by him are: (a) 100 (b) 120 (c) 200 (d) 300 3. The per cent profit made when an article is sold for Rs. 78 is twice as when it is sold for Rs. 69. The cost price of the article is: (a) Rs. 51 (b) Rs. 60 (c) Rs. 57 (d) Rs. 49 4. A vendor buys oranges at Rs. 2 for 3 oranges “and sells them at a rupee each. To make a profit of Rs. 10, he must sell: (a) 10 oranges (b) 20 oranges (c) 30 oranges (d) 40 oranges 5. Two-third of a consignment was sold at a profit of 5% and the remainder at a loss of 2%. If the total profit was Rs. 400, the value of the consignment (in rupees) was: (a) 20000 (b) 15000 (c) 12000 (d) 10000 6. The manufacturer of a certain item can sell all he can produce at the selling price of Rs. 60 each. If costs him Rs. 40 in materials and labour to produce each item and he has overhead expenses of Rs. 3000 per week in order to operate the plant. The number of units he should produce and sell in order to make a profit of at least Rs. 1000 per week is: (a) 400 (b) 300 (c) 250 (d) 200 7. A trader sells goods to a customer at a profit of k% over the cost price; besides it he cheats his customer by giving 880 g only instead of 1 kg. Thus his overall profit percentage is 25%. Find the value of k? (a) 8.33% (b) 8.25% (c) 10% (d) 12.5% 8. Kamal bought a house in Sushant city, whose sale price was Rs. 8 lakh. He availed 20% discount as an early bird offer and then 10% discount due to cash payment. After that he spent 10% of the cost price in interior decoration and lawn of the house. At what price should he sell the house to earn a profit of 5%? (a). Rs. 9 lakh (b) Rs. 7.99 lakh (c). Rs. 7.92 lakh (d). none of these 9. A car mechanic purchased four old cars for Rs. 1 lakh. He spent total 2 lakh in the maintenance and repairing of these four cars. What is the average sale price of the rest three cars to get 50% total profit if he has already sold one of the four cars at Rs. 1.2 lakh? (a). 1.5 lakh (b) 1.1 lakh (c). 1.2 lakh (d). 1.65 lakh 10. Akram Miaya has two types of grapes. One is the fresh grapes containing 80% water and dry grapes containing 25% water. he sells 20 kg dry grapes, by adding eater to the dry grapes, at cost price. What is the total profit percentage when after adding water the weight of 20 kg dry grapes increased in the proportion of water in fresh grapes? (a). 275% (b) 200% (c). 80% (d). 125% 11. Anjuli, Bhoomika and Chawla went to market to purchase the rings whose costs were same. But each ring was available with two successive discount. Anjuli availed two successive discounts of 5% and 20%. Bhoomika availed two successive discounts 10% and 15% while Chawla availed two successive discounts of 12% and 13%. Who gets the maximum possible discount? (a). Anjuli (b) Bhoomika (c). Chawla (d). all of these 12. A merchant earns 25% profit in general. Once his 25% consignment was abducted forever by some goondas. Trying to compensate his loss he sold the rest amount by increasing his selling price by 20%. What is the new percentage profit or loss? (a). 10% loss (b) 12.5% loss (c). 12.5% profit (d). 11.11% loss 13. Profit on selling 10 candles equals selling price of 3 bulbs. While loss on selling 10 bulbs equals selling price of 4 candles. Also profit percentage equals to the loss percentage and cost of a candle is half of the cost of a bulb. What is the ratio of selling price of candle to the selling price of a bulb? (a). 5: 4 (b) 3: 2 (c). 4: 5 (d). 3: 4 14. Cost price of two motorcycles is same. One is sold at a profit of 15% and the other for Rs. 4800 more than the first. If the net profit is 20%. Find the cost price of each motorcycle: (a). Rs. 48000 (b) Rs. 52000 (c). Rs. 36000 (d). Rs. 4250 15. 125 toffees cost Rs. 75. Find the cost of one million toffees if there is a discount of 40% on the selling price for this quantity. (a). Rs. 3, 00,000 (b) Rs. 3, 20,000 (c). Rs. 3, 60,000 (d). Rs. 4, 00,000 16. A dozen pairs of gloves quoted at Rs. 80 are available at a discount of 10%. Find how many pairs of gloves can be bought for Rs. 24. (a). 4 (b) 5 (c). 6 (d). 8 17. Find a single discount equivalent to the discount series of 20%, 10%, and 5%. (a). 30% (b) 31.6% (c). 68.4% (d). 35% 18. A dishonest trader marks up his goods by 80% and gives discount of 25%. Besides it he gets 20% more amount per kg from wholesaler and sells 10% less per kg to customer. What is the overall profit percentage? (a). 80% (b) 60% (c) 70% (d) none of these 19. A man buys two cycles for a total cost of Rs. 900. By selling one for 4/5 of its cost and other for 5/4 of its cost, he makes a profit of Rs. 90 on the whole transaction. Find the cost price of lower priced cycle. (a). Rs. 360 (b) Rs. 250 (c) Rs. 300 (d) Rs. 420 20. A manufacturer makes a profit of 15% by selling a colour TV for Rs. 5750. If the cost of manufacturing increases by 30% and the price paid by the retailer is increased by 20%, find the profit percent made by the manufacturer. (a) 6(2/13) % (b) 4(8/13) % (c) 6(1/13) % (d) 7(4/13) % [8] Ref. No.: A4/P2/P2 21. Two dealers X and Y selling the same model of refrigerator mark them under the same selling price. X gives successive discounts of 25% and 5 % and Y gives successive discounts of 16% and 12%. From whom is it more profitable to purchase the refrigerator? (a) From Y (b) From X (c) Indifferent between the two (d) Cannot be determined 22. An article costs Rs. 700 to a manufacturer who lists its price at Rs. 800. He sells it to a trader at a discount of 5%. The trader gets a further discount of 5% on his net payment for paying in cash. Calculate the amount the trader pays to the manufacturer (a) Rs. 722 (b) Rs. 720 (c) Rs. 725 (d) None of these 23. A shopkeeper allows a discount of 12.5% on the marked price of a certain article and makes a profit of 20%. If the article cost the shopkeeper Rs. 210, what price must be marked on the article? (a) Rs. 280 (b) Rs. 288 (c) Rs. 300 (d) None of these 24. A shopkeeper buys an article for Rs. 400 and marks it for sale at a price that gives him 80% profit on his cost. He, however, gives a 15% discount on the marked price to his customer. Calculate the actual percentage profit made by the shopkeeper. (a) 62% (b) 64% (c) 53% (d) 54% 25. A trader purchases apples at Rs. 60 per hundred. He spends 15% on the transportation. What should be the selling price per 100 to earn a profit of 20%? (a) Rs. 72 (b) Rs. 81.8 (c) Rs. 82.8 (d) Rs. 83.8 26. A merchant can buy goods at the rate of Rs. 20 per good. The particular good is part of an overall collection and the value is linked to the number of items that are already on the market. So, the merchant sells the first good for Rs. 2, second one for Rs. 4, third for Rs. 6…and so on. If he wants to make an overall profit of at least 40%, what is the minimum number of goods he should sell? (a) 24 (b) 18 (c) 27 (d) 32 27. Traders A and B buy two goods for Rs. 1000 and Rs. 2000 respectively. Trader A marks his goods up by x%, while trader B marks his goods up by 2x% and offers a discount of x%. If both make the same non-zero profit, find x. (a) 25% (b) 12.5% (c) 37.5% (d) 40% 28. A trader professes to sell his goods at a loss of 8% but uses a weight of 900 grams in place of a 1 kg weight. What is his real loss or gain per cent? (a) 2% loss (b) 2.22% gain (c) 2% gain (d) None of these 29. A merchant buys two articles for Rs.600. He sells one of them at a profit of 22% and the other at a loss of 8% and makes no profit or loss in the end. What is the selling price of the article that he sold at a loss? (a) Rs.404.80 (b) Rs.440 (c) Rs.536.80 (d) Rs.160 30. A trader makes a profit equal to the selling price of 75 articles when he sold 100 of the articles. What % profit did he make in the transaction? (a) 33.33% (b) 75% (c) 300% (d) 150% 31. If a merchant makes a profit of 20% after giving a 20% discount, what should be his mark-up? (a) 20% (b) 40% (c) 50% (d) 60% (e) 48% 32. The Maximum Retail Price (MRP) of a product is 55% above its manufacturing cost. The product is sold through a retailer, who earns 23% profit on his purchase price. What is the profit percentage (expressed in nearest integer) for the manufacturer who sells his product to the retailer? The retailer gives 10% discount on MRP. (a) 31% (b) 22% (c) 15% (d) 13% (e) 11% [9] AVERAGES -MIXTURES - ALLIGATIONS Ref. No.: A5/P1/P2 Directions for questions 1 to 35: Select the correct alternative from the given choices. 1. The average weight of the students of two classes 8. An educational institution runs six branches. The A and B with 20 and 30 students respectively number of students in each of the branches and are 40 kg and 50 kg respectively. Find the average the average scale of the students in each branch weight of the students in both the classes put an tabulated below. What is the approximate together weighted average scale of the students of the (a) 50kg (b) 55kg (c) 35kg institution?’ (d) 46 kg (e) 48 kg 2. There are 5 consecutive integers in ascending . Branch Number of Average mark order. The average of the first and twice the last is number students equal to the average of the other three. Find the 1. 225 60 first integer. 2. 205 56 (a) -5 (b) -4 (c) -3 3. 180 55 (d) -2 (e) -6 4. 195 70 5. 220 65 3. The average weight of a group of boys is 30 kg. 6. 250 80 After 1 more boy, weighing 62 kg, joins the group, the average weight of the group goes up by 2 kg. Find the original number of boys in the group. (a) 55.2 (b) 56.1 (c) 64.96 (a) 11 (b) 12 (c) 15 (d) 70.1 (e) 60.1 (d) 19 (e) 14 9. The total number of runs given by a bowler in a 4. The average monthly expenditure of Arun in the first certain number of innings was 900. In the next 10 months of a year is Rs.4500. What should be match, he took 4 wickets and gave 256 runs. As a his average monthly expenditure over the next two result, his average (runs conceded/number of months so that his average -monthly expenditure wickets taken) went up by 4. How many wickets over the year is Rs.5000? did the bowler totally take before the last match? (a) Rs.6000 (b) Rs.6500 (c) Rs.7000 (a) 30 (b) 60 (c) 45 (d) Rs.8500 (e) Rs.7500 (d) 50 (e) 40 5. Raju went to the market to purchase three pens. 10. The average age of the 25 students of a class is The cost of the first pen was more than that of the 20 years. If the teacher’s age is also included, the second by 25%, which was more than that of the average goes up by 0.5 years. Find the age of the third by 20%. If the average cost of the first two teacher. pens was Rs.15 more than that of the last two pens, (a) 30 years (b) 31 years (c) 33 years find the cost of the costliest pen. (d) 35 years (e) 36 years (a) Rs.60 (b) Rs.45 (c) Rs.50 (d) Rs.90 (e) Rs.75 11. Two varieties of rice costing Rs.20 per kg and Rs.25 per kg are mixed. If the mixture costs Rs.23 per 6. There are 11 numbers written, in increasing kg and the quantity of the cheaper variety used for order. The average of the first 6 numbers is 40. The mixing is 12 kg, find the quantity of the dearer average of the last 6 numbers is 50. Find the variety used for mixing. average of the 11 numbers if the 6th number is 45. (a) 19kg (b) 20kg (c) 21kg (a) 41 (b) 42 (c) 46 (d) 24kg (e) 18kg (d) 44 (e) 45 12. The average age of a couple when they got married 7. The average age of a group of children increases was 30 years. Three years after their marriage, a by 1 year if a 9 year old child joins the group. The child was born to them. The present average age average age of the group decreases by 2 years, if of the couple and the child is 34 years. Find the a 11 year old child leaves the group. Find the present age of the child number of children in the group. (a) 16 years (b) 15 years (c) 12 years (a) 8 (b) 6 (c) 5 (d) 10 years (e)14 years (d) 7 (e) 4 [10]