List of top Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation Questions

Study the pie chart and answer the questions that follow
Note: The value of exports represents the angle corresponding to each country in the pie chart.

Find out the missing number in the following number series.
483, 500, 581, 711, 877, ?

A’s income is 120% of B’s income and C’s income is 80% of A’s income. If the average income of A, B and C is Rs.3950, what is C’s income?

Average weight of five persons is 51 kg and each of them in different weights. If the average weight of heaviest and lightest persons is 52 kg and the average weight of second heaviest and fourth heaviest persons is 48 kg, then find the weight of the third lightest person?

A box contains 3 red, 4 yellow and \((x+1)\) green balls. If two balls are taken out, then the probability that both the balls being green is \(\frac {5}{33}\). Find the value of x?

175 m long train crosses another train of length 100 m in 15 sec, running in same direction. If the speed of the first train is 90 km/hr, then find the speed of the second train (in km/hr)?

Directions : Based on the given passage, answer the questions that follow.
A invested Rs. 50000 in a company in the beginning of the year. After few months, B invested Rs. 40000 in the same company. At the end of the year, A received Rs. 12000 as his share of profit for the year. In the next year, A and B again invested the same amount as they did in the previous year for the whole year. After 3 months, C invested Rs. 60000 and received Rs. 4500 as his share of profit at the end of second year.
In the third year, if A, B and C invested the same amount as before in the second of the year, what is C’s share in a profit of Rs. 60000?

A can do a piece of work in 25 days, B can do it in 20 days. They started the work together but A left 5 days before the completion of the work. The work has finished in?

Five students are to be arranged on five chairs for a photograph. Three of these are girls and the rest are boys. Find out the total number of ways in which three girls are together.

360 sweet boxes are distributed among A, B and C. If the ratio of the number of sweet boxes distributed to A and C is 12:11 and the number of sweet boxes distributed to B is 8.33% more than that of A, then find the difference between the number of sweet boxes distributed between B and C?

Ratio of the income of A and B is 6:5 and the ratio of the savings of A and B is 3:1. If the expenditure of A and B is Rs.12000 and Rs.16000 respectively, then find the difference between the income of A and B?

Ratio of the number of male employees to the total number of employees in a company is 5:8. If 200 female employees joined the company, then now the number of male employees in the company is 25% more than that of female employees, then find the number of female employees in the company finally?

Total number of students in class B is 25% less than that of class A and the ratio of the number of boys in class A and B is 5:4 respectively. If the number of girls in class A and B is 60 and 40 respectively, then find the total number of students in class A?

Find out the missing number in the following number series.
18, 21, 48, 153, 624, ?

What value should come in place of (?) in the following number series?
28, 29, 60, 183, 736, ?

What value should come in place of (?) in the following number series?
19, 33, 62, 121, ?, 479

In a certain town, 40% of people have brown hair, 30% of people have brown eyes and 12% have both brown hair and brown eyes.
How many people in town have neither brown hair nor brown eyes?

X and Y are running towards each other from their houses. X can reach Y's house in 25 minutes which is half the time taken by Y to run from his house to X's house.
If the two start to run towards each other at the same time, then how much more time it will be required by Y to reach the middle of houses?

25,000/- is borrowed at compound interest at the rate of 3% for first year, 4% for 2nd year and 5% for 3rd year. Find the amount to be paid after 3 years.

Find the smallest number by which 2400 should be divided to make it a perfect cube.

Brother and Sister both appear for an interview. The probability of the selection of brother is \(\frac{1}{8}\) while the probability of rejection of sister is \(\frac{4}{5}\). What is the probability that only one of them is selected?

When expressed in a decimal form, which of the following numbers will be non - terminating as well as non- repeating?

A box contains 6 cricket balls, 5 tennis balls and 4 rubber balls. Of these, some balls are defective. The proportion of defective cricket balls is more than the proportion of defective tennis balls but less than the proportion of defective rubber balls.
Moreover, the overall proportion of defective balls is twice the proportion of defective tennis balls. What BEST can be said about the number of defective rubber balls in the box?

Consider the four variables A, B, C and D and a function Z of these variables, Z=15A\(^2\)-3B\(^4\)+C+0.5D It is given that A, B, C and D must be non-negative integers and that all of the following relationships must hold:
i) \(2A+B\leq2\)
ii) \(4A+2B+C\leq12\)
iii) \(3A+4B+D\leq15\)
If Z needs to be maximised, then what value must D take?

Nalini has received a total of 600 WhatsApp messages from four friends Anita, Bina, Chaitra and Divya. Bina and Divya have respectively sent 30% and 20% of these messages, while Anita has sent an equal number of messages as Chaitra. Moreover, Nalini finds that of Anita’s, Bina’s, Chaitra’s and Divya’s messages, 60%, 40%, 80% and 50% respectively are jokes. What percentage of the jokes, received by Nalini, have been sent neither by Divya nor by Bina?