List of top Mathematics Questions asked in MAT

What percent of selling price would be 34% of cost price if gross profit is 26% of the selling price?
The sum of two numbers, one of which is one-third of the other, is 36. The smaller number is:
A can hit a target 4 times in 5 shots, B hits 3 times in 4 shots, and C hits twice in 3 shots. They fire together. Find the probability that at least two shots hit the target.
The odds that A agrees with the truth are 3 : 2 and the odds that B agrees with the truth are 5 : 3. In what percent of cases are they likely to agree with each other on an identical point?
Fill pipe A is 3 times faster than second Fill pipe B and takes 32 minutes less than Fill pipe B. When will the cistern be full if both pipes are opened together?
Shiva invested a certain sum of money in a simple interest bond whose value grew to ₹300 at the end of 3 years and to ₹400 at the end of another 5 years. What was the rate of interest at which he invested his sum?
Three taps A, B and C can fill a tank in 12, 15 and 20 hours respectively. If tap A is open all the time and tap B and tap C are open for one hour each alternately, the tank will be filled in
A sum was put at simple interest at a certain rate for 3 years. Had it been put at 1% higher rate, it would have fetched ₹5,100 more. The sum is _______.
Two times a two-digit number is 9 times the number obtained by reversing the digits and the sum of the digits is 9. The number is _____.
In measuring the sides of a rectangular plot, one side is taken 5% in excess and the other 6% in deficit. The error percent in area calculated, of the plot, is ______.
The ratio of the ages of Anjali and Smita is 2 : 3. After 6 years the ratio of their ages becomes 5 : 7. What is the present age of Smita?
There are two squares one of whose diagonal is double that of the other. The ratio of area of the bigger one to that of the smaller one is
One-fifth of the boys and one-fourth of the girls in a class exclusively joined a swimming camp. Two-thirds of boys and three-fifths of girls exclusively joined a sports camp. If the total number of boys and girls in the class is 65, how many girls joined the sports camp?

If a sum of money is divided equally among n children, each child will receive \(\$ 60\). If another child is added to the group, and the sum is divided equally among all the children, each child receives a \(\$50\) share. What is the sum of money?

The average age of boys and girls in a class is 10.5 years; that of the boys is 10.6 years and that of the girls is 10.1 years. If there are 60 boys in the class, how many girls are there in the class?
The interior angles of a polygon are in A.P. The smallest angle is 1200 and the common difference is 5. Then the number of sides of the polygon are
A large cube is formed from the material obtained by melting three smaller cubes of sides 3 cm, 4 cm and 5 cm.What is the ratio of the total surface area of the smaller cubes to the large cube?
The average age of 40 boys of a class is 12 years. When 10 new boys are admitted, the average is increased by 0.1 year. What is the average age of new boys?
In a group of 7 people, the average age is found to be 17 years. TWO more people joined with an average age 19 years. One person left the group whose age was 25 years. What is the new average age of the group?
In what proportion should one variety of oil at Rs. 9.50 per kg be mixed with another at Rs. 10 per kg to get a mixture worth Rs. 9.60 per kg?
An egg-seller purchases 6 dozen eggs at 3 per Re. 1. Half a dozen eggs break during transportation. At what rate must he sell each egg to still make a profit of 10%?
x is a whole number. If the only common factors of x and x² are 1 and x, then x is
A set of goods together cost Rs. 1,000. One-fourth of it was sold at a loss of 10%. At what per cent must the remainder be sold to gain 20% on the whole investment?
To complete a piece of work, A and B take 30 days, B and C take 24 days and C and A take 20 days. They all workfor 10 days, and then B and C leave. How many more days will A take to finish the work?
A shopkeeper has two alternatives:
I Giving 2 successive discounts of 20% and 30%.
II. Giving 2 successive discounts of 39% and 15%.
Which of the following is true?