List of top Arithmetic and Mental Ability Questions

A shopkeeper sold an article for Rs 3750. If he had charged 24% less, even then he would have earned a profit of 14%. What is the original cost of the article?
Average ages of Ram and Manohar is 15, average ages of Manohar and Shyam is 12 and average ages of Ram and Shyam is 13, then the age of Manohar is?
John has 12 red pencils and 15 blue pencils. He wants to bundle them into groups of the same size, with no pencils left over. What is the largest number of pencils that can be in each bundle?
A shoe seller has 1000 shoes in his shop. He wants to arrange them in a rack in such a way that the number of rows and columns remains the same. What is the minimum number of shoes he needs more for this purpose?
In a class of 40 students and 5 teachers, each student got sweets that are 15% of the total number of students and each teacher got sweets that are 20% of the total number of students. How many sweets were there?
Arjun and Kiran, friends, receive a bonus of Rs 2000 each in their bank accounts. They already have Rs. 47,000 and Rs. 54,000 in their respective bank accounts. What is the ratio of the amounts in their bank accounts after the bonus?
Find the missing number in the series 2, 6, 14, 30, ?, 126
Manohar told his friend pointing to a photograph: "Her father is the only son of my mother". The photograph is of Manohar's:
Given that 25 February 2008 is Monday, what day is 2 March 2008?
A clock with only dots marking 3,6,9 and 12 positions has been kept upside down in front of a mirror. A person reads the time in the reflection as 9:50. What is the actual time?
A man drove east for 5 kms, then drove north 3 kms, then turned to his left and drove for 2 kms and again turned to his left. Which direction was he going now?
Five boys A, B, C, D, and E are in a row. A is on the right of B, E is on the left of B but on the right of C, and A is on the left of D. Who is second from the left?
From the given alternatives, select the word which cannot be formed using the letters of the given word "CHARACTERISTIC".
In the following question, some statements followed by conclusions are given. Read all the conclusions and decide which logically follows the statements. Statements:
  • No tap is nozzle.
  • Some valves are taps.
Conclusions:
  • All nozzles are valves.
  • All valves are nozzles.
In the following question below are given some statements followed by some conclusions. Taking the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts, read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusion logically follows the given statements? Statements:
  • All dogs are cats
  • Some monkeys are cats
Conclusions:
  • Some monkeys are cats
  • No dog is cat
Read the given statements and conclusions carefully and decide which of the conclusions logically follow(s) from the statements. Statements:
  • People who live in the big city crowd into jammed buses
  • They cross the street in competition with high powered motor cars
Conclusions:
  • Traffic jam is inevitable in big cities
  • Traveling is very difficult for city people
A can do a piece of work in x days and B can do the work in 3x days. To finish the work together, they take 12 days. What is the value of x?
There are two tanks A and B to fill up a water tank. The tank can be filled in 40 min together by A and B, if the tank can be filled in 60 min when tap A alone is on. How much time will tap B alone take to fill up the tank?
Select the option that is related to the third word in the same way as the second word is related to the first word.
Pilot : Cockpit :: Surgeon : ?
Which one of the given responses would be a meaningful order of the following?
  • Seed
  • Flower
  • Fruit
  • Tree
Select the letter cluster from among the given options which can replace the question (?) mark: BMRG, DLTF, FKVE, HJXD, ?
Two cities A and B are 360 km apart. A car goes from A to B with a speed of 40 km/h and returns to A with a speed of 60 km/h. What is the average speed of the car?
Ratio of milk and water in a mixture is 4:3 respectively. If 6 Litres of water is added to this mixture, the respective ratio of milk and water becomes 8:7. What is the quantity of milk in the original mixture?
A gardener has 36562 plants. He wants to arrange them in the form of a square with equal number of columns and rows. After arranging, he found some of the plants unused. The remaining plants are?
The average score of a batsman after his 30th match was 25.5. After the 40th match, his average score increased by 3.2. What is his average score in the last ten matches?