List of practice Questions

Which one is different from the remaining three?
ABCD is related to OPQR in the same way as WXYZ is related to
The letters skipped between adjacent letters are the order of . . Which altemative follows this rule?
A boy goes to see a film and finds a man who is his relative. The man is the husband of the sister of his mother. How is the man related to the boy?
I am facing west. I turn 450 in the clockwise direction and then 1800 in the same direction and then 2700 anticlockwise. Which direction am I facing now?
In a month of 31 days, the third Wednesday falls on the 15th. What will be the last day of that month?
When Ranjeev was born, his father was 32 years older than his brother and his mother was 25 years older than his sister. If Ranjeev's brother is 6 years older than Ranjeev and his mother is 3 years younger than his father, how old was Ranjeev's sister when he was born?
After a get-together every person present shakes the hand of every other person. If there were 105 handshakes in all, how many persons were present in the party?
Four friends were playing a game of cards sitting in a circle. Shankar was on the right of Ram and Gopal was on the left of Arvind. Which of the following pairs were partners?
Four girls (G1, G2, G3, G4) and three boys (B1, B2, B3) are to sit for a dinner such that no two boys should sit together nor two girls. If they are successively sitting, what is the position of B2 and G3?
There are 30 plants of Chiku, Guava, Sitafal and Mango in a row. There is one pair of Mango plants after Chiku and Guava and Mango plants are followed by one Chiku and one Sitafal plant and so on. If the row begins with a plant of Chiku, then which of the following will be the last in the row?
The angles of elevation of the top of a tower, from the top and the foot of a pole of height 10 m, are 300 and 600 respectively. The height of the tower is
A person standing on the bank of a river finds that the angle of elevation of the top of a tower on the opposite bank is 450. Then which of the following statements is correct?
A person standing on the bank of a river observes that the angle of elevation of the top of a tree on the opposite bank of the river is 600 and when he walks 40 metres away from the tree the angle of elevation becomes 300. The breadth of the river is
A class consists of 100 students; 25 of them are girls and 75 boys; 20 of them are rich and the remaining poor; 40 of them are fair-complexioned. The probability of selecting a fair- complexioned rich girl is
A box contains 5 brown and 4 white socks. A man takes out two socks. The probability that they are of the same colour is
India plays two matches each with West Indies and Australia. In any match the probabilities of India getting points 0, 1 and 2 are 0.45, 0.05 and 0.50 respectively. Assuming that the outcomes are independent, the probability of India getting at least 7 points is
Out of 13 applications for a job, there are 5 women and 8 men. It is desired to select 2 persons for the job. The probability that at least one of the selected persons will be a woman is
At a college entrance examination each candidate is admitted or rejected according to whether he has passed or failed the tests. Of the candidates who are really capable, 80% pass the tests and of the incapable, 25% pass the tests. Given that 40% of the candidates are really capable, then the proportion of capable college students is about
In an examination, there were 2000 candidates, out of which 900 candidates were boys and the rest were girls. If 32% of the boys and 38% of the girls passed, then the total percentage of failed candidates is
From the salary of an officer, 10% is deducted as house rent, 15% of the rest he spends on children's education and 10% of the balance he spends on clothes. After this expenditure he is left with Rs 1377. His salary is
If the price of gold increases by 30%, find by how much the quantity of ornaments must be reduced so that the expenditure may remain the same as before.
A monthly return railway ticket costs 25 per cent more than a single ticket. A week's extension can be had for the former by paying 5 per cent of the monthly ticket's cost. If the money paid for the monthly ticket (with extension) is Rs 84, the price of the single ticket is
A papaya tree was planted 2 years ago. It increases at the rate of 20% every year. If at present, the height of the tree is 540 cm, what was its height when the tree was planted?
A mixture of 40 litres of milk and water contains 10% water. How much water should be added to this so that water may be 20% in the new mixture?