List of top Mathematics Questions asked in Management Aptitude Test

A man can row 4.5 km/hr in still water and he finds that it takes him twice as long to row up as to row down the river. Find the rate of the stream.
A team of workers was employed by a contractor who undertook to finish 360 pieces of an article in a certain number of days.Making four more pieces per day than was planned, they could complete the job a day ahead of schedule. How many days did they take to complete the job ?
Two vessels contain mixtures of milk and water in the ratio of 8 : 1 and 1 : 5 respectively. The contents of both of these are mixed in a specific ratio into a third vessel. How much mixture must be drawn from the second vessel to fill the third vessel (capacity 26 gallons) completely in order that the resulting mixture may be half milk and half water ?
The work done by a woman in 8 hours is equal to the work done by a man in 6 hours and by a boy in 12 hours.If working 6 hours per day 9 men can complete a work in 6 days then in how many days can 12 men 12 women and 12 boys together finish the same work working 8 hours per day ?
Rahul can row a certain distance downstream in 6 hours and return the same distance in 9 hours.If the speed of Rahul in still water is 12 km/hr find the speed of the stream.
In a class with a certain number of students, if one student weighing 50 kg is added then the average weight of the class increases by 1 kg. If one more student weighing 50 kg is added then the average weight of the class increases by 1kg. If one more student weighing 50kg is added then the average weight of the class increase by 1.5 kg over the original average. What is the original average weight (in kg) of the class. ?
An aeroplane flying at a height of 300 metres above the ground passes vertically above another plane at an instant when the angles of elevation of the two planes from the same point on the ground are \(60^\circ\) and \(45^\circ\), respectively. Then the height of the lower plane from the ground, in metres, is
A metallic sheet is of rectangular shape with dimensions 48 cm \(\times\) 36 cm. From each one of its corners, a square of 8 cm is cut off. An open box is made of the remaining sheet. Find the volume of the box.
Profits of a business are distributed among three partners A, B and C in such a way that 4 times the amount received by A is equal to 6 times the amount received by B and 11 times the amount received by C. The ratio in which the three received the amount is
A can do \(50\%\) more work as B can do in the same time. B alone can do a piece of work in 20 hours. A, with help of B, can finish the same work in how many hours?
A shopkeeper marks up his goods to gain \(35\%\). But he allows \(10\%\) discount for cash payment. His profit on the cash transaction therefore, in percentage, is
Population of a district is 2,96,000 of which 1,66,000 are males. \(50\%\) of the population is literate. If \(70\%\) males are literate, then the number of women who are literate, is
A school has 4 sections of Chemistry in Class X having 40, 35, 45 and 42 students. The mean marks obtained in Chemistry test are 50, 60, 55 and 45 respectively for the 4 sections. Determine the overall average of marks per student.
A part of monthly expenses of a family is constant and the remaining varies with the price of wheat. When the rate of wheat is Rs 250 a quintal, the total monthly expenses of the family are Rs 1000 and when it is Rs 240 a quintal, the total monthly expenses are Rs 980. Find the total monthly expenses of the family when the cost of wheat is Rs 350 a quintal.
A plane left 30 minutes later than the scheduled time and in order to reach the destination 1500 km away in time, it had to increase the speed by 250 km/hr from the usual speed. Find its usual speed.
A train covered a certain distance at a uniform speed. If the train had been 6 km/hr faster, then it would have taken 4 hours less than the scheduled time. And, if the train were slower by 6km/hr, then the train would have taken 6 hours more than the scheduled time. The length of the journey is
Speed of a speedboat when moving in the direction perpendicular to the direction of the current is 16 km/hr. Speed of the current is 3 km per hour. So the speed of the boat against the current will be (in km/hr)
Students of a class are made to stand in rows. If 4 students are extra in each row, then there would be 2 rows less. If 4 students are less in each row, then there would be 4 more rows. The number of students in the class is
R and S start walking each other at 10 AM at the speeds of 3 km per hour and 4 km per hour respectively. They were initially 17.5 km apart. At what time do they meet?
In a certain laboratory, chemicals are identified by a colourcoding system. There are 20 different chemicals. Each one is coded with either a single colour or a unique twocolour pair. If the order of colours in the pair doesn't matter, then what is the minimum number of differentcolours needed to code all the 20 chemicals with either a single colour or a unique pair of colours?
The average score of boys in an examination of a school is 71 and that of girls is 73. The average score of the school in that examination is 71.8. Find the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls that appeared in the examination.
A sink contains exactly 12 litres of water. If water is drained from the sink until it holds exactly 6 litres of water less than the quantity drained away, then how many litres of water were drained away?
A train covers 180 km distance in 4 hours. Another train covers the same distance in 1 hour less.What is the difference in the distances covered by these trains in one hour?
Company C sells a line of 25 products with an average retail price of Rs 1,200. If none of these products sells for less than Rs 420 and exactly 10 of the products sell for less than Rs 1,000, then what is the greatest possible selling price of the most expensive product?
A company received two shipments of ball bearings. In the first shipment, 1 per cent of the ball bearings were defective. In the second shipment, which was twice as large as the first, 4.5 percent of the ball bearings were defective. If the company received a total of 100 defective ball bearings, then how many ball bearings were there in the first shipment?