List of top Questions asked in CMAT

Arrange the following numbers in increasing order : 
A. \(\sqrt{59} - \sqrt{51}\)
B. \(\sqrt{37} - \sqrt{29}\)
C. \(\sqrt{87} - \sqrt{79}\)
D. \(\sqrt{79} - \sqrt{71}\)
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Given below are two statements :
A number of distinct 8-letter words are possible using the letters of the word SYLLABUS. If a word in chosen at random, then
Statement I: The probability that the word contains the two S's together is \(\frac{1}{4}.\)
Statement II : The probability that the word begins and ends with L is \(\frac{1}{28}.\)
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

If the selling price of 320 Web Cameras is equal to the cost price of 400 Web Cameras, then the percentage profit is :

Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Ravi walks from his house at a speed of 5 km per hour and reaches the college 10 minutes late. If he increases the speed by 1 km per hour next day, he reaches the college 4 minutes earlier than the scheduled time. If the college is P km far from his house, then P = 7.5 km.
Statement II: Amit runs \(2\frac{1}{3}\) times as fast as Babita. If Amit gives Babita a start of 80 meters, then the winning post must be 140 meters far so that Amit and Babita might reach it at the same time.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Given below are two statements :
Statement I: The ratio of the son's age to the father's age is 1 : 5. The product of their ages is 245. The ratio of the son's age to the father's age after 9 years will be 3 : 5.
Statement II: A milkman adds 30 litres of water to 70 litres of milk. After selling 1/5th of the total quantity, he adds water equal to the quantity he sold. The proportion of water to milk he sells now would be 28 : 72. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

The number of all integers n for which n2+36 is a perfect square, is

If \(x > 0\), then which of the following expressions are equal to 3.6% of \(\frac{5x}{12}\) ? 
A. 3 percent of 20x 
B. x percent of \(\frac{3}{2}\)
C. 3x percent of 0.2 
D. 0.05 percent of 3x
E. \(\frac{3x}{200}\)
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A train running at 18 km per hour crosses a mark on the platform in 9 seconds and takes 25 seconds to cross the platform. If P is the length of the train and Q is the length of the platform in meters, then (P, Q) = ___ .

Three pipes P, Q and R can fill a tank in 6 hours. After working at it together for 2 hours, R is closed and both P and Q can fill the remaining part in 7 hours. The number of hours that will be taken by R alone to fill the tank is

Let a, b and c be the ages of three persons P, Q and R respectively where \(a≤b≤c\) are natural numbers. If the average age of P, Q, R is 32 years and if the age of Q is exactly 6 years more than that of P, then what is the minimum possible value of c?

A certain sum of money earns a simple interest of ₹ 800 over 2-year period. The same sum of money invested at the same rate of interest and same period on a compound interest basis earns an interest of ₹ 900. What is the sum?

What is the probability of getting a sum of 22 or more when four dice are thrown?

What is the 95th term of the following letter series?
A, A, B, B, B, B, C, C, C, C, C, C, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, E, ...

The cost of the three components A, B and C of an electronic machine worth ₹12,000 in 2020 is given as a Pie-chart as shown below :

In the following year, the cost of these three components A, B, and C increased by 10%, 20%, and 10% respectively. The cost of the three components A, B, and C respectively in 2021, was

Abhishek, Bineeta, Manisha, Hari, Vaishali, and Gaurav are sitting around a circular table not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing the centre and the remaining are facing away from the centre.
(i) Gaurav sits immediate left of Bineeta
(ii) Only Abhishek and Bineeta face away from the centre
(iii) Vishali and Hari are sitting next to each other
(iv) There are two people between Hari and Gaurav
(v) Abhishek is the neighbour of both Manisha and Guarav
If Hari and Abhishek interchange their places (having same facing direction) then who among the following sits to the immediate left of Abhishek?

Choose the most appropriate option to complete the sentence:
A person who does not eat any animal product is called _________.

Choose the most appropriate option to correct the given sentence:
Radha is as cleverer as Sudha.

If% means 'is less than', $ means' is greater than and# means 'is equal to' and given that a%b, c#d and c$b then which is true?

Complete the sentence in List I by choosing the appropriate phrase from List II

	List I		List II
A	He succeed…preservation and sheer hard work	I	In Lieu of
B	He died fighting ….his country	II	In spite of
C	He preserved…difficulties.	III	On behalf of
D	He accepted the car …his calm of Rs. 3,25,000,	IV	By dint of

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Complete the series 564, 152, 48, 21,_? from the following options :

One statement and two assumptions for the statement are given. Read the statement, think about the assumptions and mark the correct option which is implicit in the statement.
Statement I : Some people believe in the existence of god.
Arguments II : Not everything in this world is created by humans.
Arguments III : Human beings are imperfect.
A. Only argument I is implicit
B. Only argument II is implicit
C. Both arguments I and II are implicit
D. Neither I nor II are implicit
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Out of 400 students who attended a seminar, 240 opted for written exam, 200 opted for presentations, 160 opted for assignments and 20 did not opt for giving any of the three methods of test. 200 students had exactly one of the three methods of test. How many students opted for exactly two of the three testing methods?