MOCK TEST

No. of Questions: 55 Duration: 1 Hr

1. What is the probability of throwing two dice in one toss so that they total is 11?
(a) 1/6 (b) 1/11 (c) 1/18 (d) 1/20 (e) 1/36

2. How many combinations are possible if a person has 4 sports jackets, 5 shirts and 3 pairs of
slacks?
(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 12 (d) 60 (e) 120

3. If a store purchases several items for $1.80 per dozen and sells them at 3 for $0.85, what is
the store’s profit on 6 dozen of these items?
(a) $4.20 (b) $5.70 (c) $9.60 (d) $10.60 (e) $20.40

4. Gasoline varies in cost from $0.96 to $1.12 per gallon. If a car’s mileage varies from 16 to 24
miles per gallon, what is the difference between the most and the least that the gasoline for a
480-mile trip will cost?
(a) $5.12 (b) $7.04 (c) $11.52 (d) $14.40 (e) $52.80

5. If a number is divisible by 7 but is not divisible by 21, then the number cannot be divisible by:
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 5 (d) 8 (e) 10

6. The average of three numbers is 55. The second is 1 more than twice the first, and the third
is 4 less than three times the first, what is the largest number?
(a) 165 (b) 88 (c) 80 (d) 57 (e) 28

7. If m and n are integers and √mn = 10, which of the following cannot be a value of m + n?
(a) 25 (b) 29 (c) 50 (d) 52 (e) 101

8. George scored an average of 80% on three tests. What score must he get on the fourth test
to bring his average to 85%?
(a) 85% (b) 88% (c) 90% (d) 95% (e) 100%

9. The amount of time it takes to consume a buffalo carcass is inversely proportional to the
number of vultures. If it takes 12 vultures 3 days to consume a buffalo, how many fewer hours
will it take if there are 4 more vultures?
(a) 6 hours (b) 12 hours (c) 18 hours (d) 24 hours (e) 54 hours
10. At the beginning of 2005, the population of Rockville was 204,000 and the population of
Springfield was 216,000. If the population of each city increased by exactly 20% in 2005, how
many more people lived in Springfield than in Rockville at the end of 2005?
(a) 2400 (b) 10,000 (c) 12,000 (d) 14,400 (e) 43,200

11. There are four prime numbers written in ascending order of magnitude. The product of first
three is 385 and that of the last three is 1001. Find the first number?
(a) 5 (b) 7 (c) 11 (d) 13 (e) 17

12. The students in three classes are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 5. If 20 students are increased in each
class, the ratio changes to 4 : 5 : 7. The total number of students before the increase was:
(a) 90 (b) 100 (c) 120 (d) 160 (e) 80

13. In a hotel, 60% had vegetarian lunch while 30% had non-vegetarian lunch and 15% had both
types of lunch. If 96 people were present, how many did not eat either lunch?
(a) 20 (b) 24 (c) 25 (d) 76 (e) 26

14. The next number of the sequence 2, 16, 54, ? is

(a) 96 (b) 116 (c) 128 (d) 134 (e) 144

15. If a, b, c, ……….z are assigned values 1, 2, 3, ……….26 respectively, what is the value of the sum
“(x – a) + (x – b) + (x – c) + ………..+ ( x – z)”?
(a) 273 (b) 0 (c) 624 (d) 26 (e) 312

16. A baseball team won 3 matches more than they lost. If a win gives them 2 points and a loss
( - 1) point, how many matches, in all, have they played, if their scores is 23?
(a) 17 (b) 20 (c) 37 (d) 40 (e) 32

17. The marks scored in an examination are converted from 50 to 10 for the purpose of internal
assessment. The highest marks were 47 and the lowest were 14. The difference between the
maximum and minimum internal assessment scores is:
(a) 4.8 (b) 5.2 (c) 6.6 (d) 7.4 (e) 8

18. The sum of the ages of 5 children, born at intervals of 3 years each, is 50 years. What is the
age of the youngest child?
(a) 2 years (b) 4 years (c) 8 years (d) 10 years (e) 12 years
19. A clock strikes once at 1 o’ clock, twice at 2 o’ clock, thrice at 3 o’ clock and so on. How many
times will it strike in 24 hours?
(a) 78 (b) 136 (c) 156 (d) 196 (e) 312

20. Instead of dividing $ l117 among P, Q, R in the ratio (1/2) : (1/3) : (1/4), by mistake it was
divided in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Who gained in the transaction?
(a) Only P (b) Only Q (c) Only R (d) Both Q and R (e) Both P and R

21. The Binary Ice Cream Shoppe sells two flavors, vanilla and chocolate. On Friday, the ratio of
vanilla cones sold to chocolate cones sold was 2 to 3. If the store had sold 4 more vanilla
cones, the ratio of vanilla cones sold to chocolate cones sold would have been 3 to 4. How many
vanilla cones did the store sell on Friday?
(a) 32 (b) 35 (c) 42 (d) 48 (e) 54

22. Patrick reads twice as much as Bob but only 1/2 as much as Amy and Doug read as much as all
three others put together. How many books did Bob read last week if Doug read 7 books?
(a) 1/4 book (b) 1/2 book (c) 1 book (d) 2 books (e) 4 books

23. If x – y = 5 and ‘x’ and ‘y’ are both less than 100 and greater than 1, how many sets of ‘x’ and ‘y’
are there such that both ‘x’ and ‘y’ are prime?
(a) 0 (b) 21 (c) 19 (d) 1 (e) 3

24. Today is 1st August. The day of the week is Monday. This is a leap year. The day of the week on
this day after 3 years will be:
(a) Wednesday (b) Thursday (c) Friday (d) Saturday (e) Monday

25. In a party every person shakes hands with every other person. If there was a total of 45 hand
shakes in the party, find the no. of persons who were present in the party?
(a) 9 (b) 10 (c) 11 (d) 12 (e) 23

26. A car travels the straight road from A to B at the speed of 40 km ph and then travels the
straight road back at 60 km ph. What is the average speed for the round trip?
(a) 48 (b) 52 (c) 56 (c) 64 (e) 72

27. If a six-faced unbiased die is rolled, what is the likelihood that 6 is not on the top face?
(a) 1/6 (b) 1/3 (c) 1/2 (d) 2/3 (e) 5/6
28. Each man contributed dollars equal to the number of women and each woman contributed
dollars equal to the number of men in a group of 120 people. The total amount collected was
$7200. How many men were there in the group?
(a) 80 (b) 72 (c) 60 (d) 50 (e) 48

29. If Dennis is 1/3rd the age of his father Keith now, and was 1/4th the age of his father 5
years ago, how old will his father Keith be 5 years from now? (in years)
(a) 40 (b) 45 (c) 50 (d) 60 (e) 65

30. In his wardrobe, Timothy has 3 trousers. One of them is black, the second blue, and the third
brown. In his wardrobe, he also has 4 shirts. One of them is black and the other 3 are white.
He opens his wardrobe in the dark and picks out one shirt-trouser pair, without examining the
color. What is the likelihood that neither the shirt nor the trouser is black?
(a) 1/12 (b) 1/6 (c) 1/4 (d) 1/3 (e) 1/2

31. An iron water-tank with a capacity of 10,000 gallons has a water-supply inlet, which feeds
water at the rate of 300 gallons per hour. This water inlet starts automatically when the
water level goes below the 5000-gallon mark. There is a hole formed at the bottom of the
tank due to rusting. When the water-tank is full, how long will take for the whole tank to be
emptied if the water goes out of the hole at the rate of 500-gallons per hour? Assume that
there is no other loss/usage of water?
(a) 20 hours (b) 10 hours (c) 25 hours (d) 35 hours (e) 50 hours

32. A number a when divided by 75 leaves a remainder 30. What will be the remainder if 5a is
divided by 75?
(a) 30 (b) 0 (c) 15 (d) 45 (e) 60

33. In a class room, there are 6 students. We need to divide them into 3 pairs for the purpose of
assigning home work. In how many ways can we make such pairs?
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 15 (d) 24 (e) 36

34. A finishes a task in a certain number of days. He gets 2 assistants, each of who work
3/4th as fast as he does. If all three work together, in what fraction of the time that A
takes to finish the task, would they finish the task?
(a) 5/3 (b) 3/5 (c) 2/3 (d) 2/5 (e) 1/2
35. What is the third term in a sequence of numbers that leave remainders of 1, 2 and 3 when
divided by 2, 3 and 4 respectively?
(a) 11 (b) 17 (c) 19 (d) 23 (e) 35

36. The average of 8 numbers is 12. When one number is discarded and 12 is added, the average
becomes 13. What is the number that is discarded?
(a) 12 (b) 8 (c) 4 (d) 6 (e) 10

37. If the length and breadth of rectangle increases by the same percentage and if this
causes the area to increase by 21%, what is the increase in the perimeter of the rectangle?
(a) 10% (b) 20% (c) 22% (d) 21% (e) 40%

38. If operation a* = 2a – 1 and a** = 2a + 1, then what is (9*)** ?

(a) 33 (b) 37 (c) 39 (d) 35 (e) 36

39. In a class of 60 students, boys constitute 40% of the total. If (1/3) of the boys and 2 girls
drop out of the class, what percent of the remaining students in the class would be
girls?
(a) 60% (b) 50% (c) 32% (d) 68% (e) 70%

40. 100 kg of rice $90 and if one person consumes $27 worth of a rice in a month, for how many
people will 150 kg of rice be enough for a month?
(a) 5 (b) 10 (c) 3 (d) 7 (e) 6

41. Franklin is given the digits 2, 4, 9and asked to make a three digit number using these digits,
without repeating any of them. What is the likelihood that the number he makes will be
greater than 450 but lesser than 900?
(a) 1/12 (b) 1/6 (c) 1/4 (d) 1/3 (e) (1/2)

42. A certain number of people were supposed to complete a work in 24 days. The work, however,
took 32 days, since 9 people were absent throughout. How many people were supposed to be
working originally?
(a) 32 (b) 27 (c) 36 (d) 30 (e) 24

43. A one-litre can is filled with a mixture of water and alcohol. The alcohol content is 20% of
the total mixture. If 10% of this liquid is taken out and pure alcohol is added to fill the can,
what will be the percentage of alcohol in the new mixture?
(a) 30% (b) 40% (c) 28% (d) 26% (e) 34%
44. A person split his property amongst his three sons. The third one got 50% of the entire
property. The second got $10,000 and the first got 20% less than the youngest did. How much
did the first son get?
(a) $20,000 (b) $40,000 (c) $50,000 (d) $30,000 (e) $60,000

45. How much water is to be added to 65 liters of an alcohol-water mixture (alcohol : water =
12 : 1) so that the mixture has 20% water?
(a) 15 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 9 (e) 13

46. A lake has a rare breed of lotuses that triple in number every minute. If one-third of the lake
is full of flowers in 30 minutes, what is the total time taken for the whole lake to be full?
(in minutes)
(a) 1 (b) 31 (c) 90 (d) 60 (e) 30

47. The length of a rectangular plot is increased by 25%. To keep its area unchanged, the
width of the plot should be:
(a) kept unchanged (b) increased by 25% (c) reduced by 25%
(d) increased by 20% (e) reduced by 20%

48. A sequence of numbers is such that multiplying the previous term by 2 and adding 1
obtains each term, except the first term. If the fourth term in the series is 31, what is the
first term?
(a) 63 (b) 15 (c) 3 (d) 7 (e) 4

49. If a + b + c = 110, a = 4b and 3a = 2c, then b =

(a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 9 (d) 10 (e) 14

50. Last year Edna’s annual salary was $20000. This year’s raise brings her to an annual
salary of $25000. If she gets a raise of the same percentage every year, what will her
salary be next year?
(a) $27500 (b) $30000 (c) $31250 (d) $32500 (e) $35500
Directions: (Q. 51 – 54):
A train started from Patna Railway junction for Bhagalpur junction. Twelve persons boarded the
train. There are five stations between Patna Jn and Bhagalpur Jn. These stations are #1, #2, #3,
#4 and #5 and are in the same order. Station #1 is the nearest to Patna.
M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are the persons who boarded the train from the above mentioned five
stations.
On each station only two persons boarded the train. Each person used the train once. Nobody
alighted on stations #1 and #2. Two persons alighted from the train on stations #3, #4 and #5
each. Persons boarding at stations #1 or #2, alighted on consecutive stations.
R and S boarded at station #2, the second station after Patna. K boarded the train with L while O
boarded the train with Q. U boarded at station #4. V did not board the train with M, N or U. T
boarded on the same station where K alighted. O and R alighted stations #3 and #4 respectively. K
alighted before S. M did not board where Q alighted.
When the train reached Bhagalpur L, N, P, T, U and V got down from the train.

51. Who boarded the train at station #3?

(a) T and M (b) U and M (c) U and N (d) T and N (e) None

52. Who boarded the train at station #4?

(a) U and N (b) U and M (c) T and N (d) T and U (e) None

53. Who left the train at station #5?

(a) S and M (b) R and Q (c) O and K (d) U and M (e) None

54. K alighted at which station?

(a) Cannot say (b) #3 (c) #4 (d) Either #3 or #4 (e) None

55. In a row of boys and girls there are less than 50 students. Ravi is at 26th from one end while
Sima is 22nd from another end. If there are 19 students between Ravi and Sima then how many
students are there in the row?
(a) Cannot say (b) 26 (c) 27 (d) 28 (e) 25
KEY
1.c 2.d 3.c 4.d 5.b 6.c 7.c 8.e 9.c 10.d 11.a 12.b 13.b 14.c 15.a 16.c
17.c 18.b 19.c 20.d 21.a 22.c 23.d 24.b 25.b 26.a 27.e 28.c 29.c 30.e 31.d 32.b
33.c 34.d 35.e 36.c 37.a 38.d 39.c 40.a 41.b 42.c 43.c 44.b 45.b 46.b 47.e 48.c
49.d 50.c 51.a 52.a 53.a 54.b 55.c