List of top Quantitative Aptitude Questions

In a market, the price of medium quality mangoes is half that of good mangoes. A shopkeeper buys 80 kg good mangoes and 40 kg medium quality mangoes from the market and then sells all these at a common price which is 10% less than the price at which he bought the good ones. His overall profit is

If Fatima sells 60 identical toys at a 40% discount on the printed price, then she makes 20% profit. Ten of these toys are destroyed in fire. While selling the rest, how much discount should be given on the printed price so that she can make the same amount of profit?

If a and b are integers of opposite signs such that \((a+3)^2:b^2= 9:1\) and \((a -1)^2:(b - 1)^2=4:1\),then the ratio \(a:b\) is

A class consists of 20 boys and 30 girls. In the mid-semester examination, the average score of the girls was 5 higher than that of the boys. In the final exam, however, the average score of the girls dropped by 3 while the average score of the entire class increased by 2. The increase in the average score of the boys is

The area of the closed region bounded by the equation \(| x | + | y | = 2\) in the two-dimensional plane is

Let ABC be a right-angled isosceles triangle with hypotenuse BC. Let BQC be a semi-circle, away from A, with diameter BC. Let BPC be an arc of a circle centered at A and lying between BC and BQC. If AB has length 6 cm then the area, in sq cm, of the region enclosed by BPC and BQC is

A solid metallic cube is melted to form five solid cubes whose volumes are in the ratio 1 : 1 : 8: 27: 27. The percentage by which the sum of the surface areas of these five cubes exceeds the surface area of the original cube is nearest to

A ball of diameter 4 cm is kept on top of a hollow cylinder standing vertically. The height of the cylinder is 3 cm, while its volume is \(9 \pi cm^3\) . Then the vertical distance, in cm, of the topmost point of the ball from the base of the cylinder is

Let ABC be a right-angled triangle with BC as the hypotenuse. Lengths of AB and AC are 15 km and 20 krn, respectively. The minimum possible time, in minutes, required to reach the hypotenuse from A at a speed of 30 km per hour is

Suppose, \(log_3 \ x = log_{12} \ y = a\), where x, y are positive numbers. If G is the geometric mean of x and y, and \(log_6\) G is equal to

If \(x + 1 = x^2\) and \(x > 0\), then \(2x^4\) is

The value of \(\text {log}_{0.008}\sqrt{5}+\text{log}_{\sqrt{3}}81-7\) is equal to

If \(9^{2x – 1} – 81^{x-1} = 1944\), then x is

The number of solutions \((x, y, z)\) to the equation \(x\ –\  y \ –\ z = 25\), where x, y, and z are positive integers such that \(x ≤ 40, y ≤ 12\), and \(z ≤ 12\) is

For how many integers n, will the inequality \((n – 5) (n – 10) – 3(n – 2) ≤ 0\) be satisfied?

If \(f_1 (x) = x^2 + 11x + n\) and \(f_2 (x) = x,\) then the largest positive integer n for which the equation \(f_1 (x) = f_2 (x)\) has two distinct real roots, is

If a, b, c, and d are integers such that \(a + b + c + d = 30\), then the minimum possible value of \((a - b)^2 + (a - c)^2 + (a - d)^2\) is

Let AB, CD, EF, GH, and JK be five diameters of a circle with center at O. In how many ways can three points be chosen out of A,B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, and O so as to form a triangle?

The shortest distance of the point \((\frac{1}{2},1)\) from the curve \(y = |x -1| + |x + 1|\) is

If the square of the 7th term of an arithmetic progression with positive common difference equals the product of the 3rd and 17th terms, then the ratio of the first term to the common difference is

In how many ways can 7 identical erasers be distributed among 4 kids in such a way that each kid gets at least one eraser but nobody gets more than 3 erasers?

If \(f(x)=\frac{5x+2 }{3x-5}\) and \(g(x)=x^2-2x-1\),then the value of \(g(f(f(3)))\) is 

Let \(a_1 , a_2 ,……..a_{3n}\) be an arithmetic progression with \(a_1 = 3\) and \(a_2 = 7.\) If \(a_1 + a_2 + ….+a_{3n} = 1830\), then what is the smallest positive integer m such that m \((a_1 + a_2 + …. + a_n ) > 1830?\)

The numbers 1, 2,..., 9 are arranged in a 3 X 3 square grid in such a way that each number occurs once and the entries along each column, each row, and each of the two diagonals add up to the same value.

If the top left and the top right entries of the grid are 6 and 2, respectively, then the bottom middle entry is