Quantitative Aptitude - Arithmetic Ability Questions

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The length of the diagonal of a square is 10 cm. What is area of this square?

A) 50 sq cm B) 100 sq cm
C) 200 sq cm D) 25 sq cm
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 50 sq cm

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In a mixture of milk and water, there is 19% milk. If the quantity of milk in the mixture is 437 mililitres, then what is the total quantity (in millilitres) of mixture?

A) 2300 B) 2200
C) 2350 D) 2400
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 2300

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50 litre mixture of water and alcohol contains 10% alcohol. How much more alcohol must be added to make the strength of alcohol 40% in the new mixture?

A) 25 B) 30
C) 20 D) 23
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 25

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ABC inscribed in a circle so that BC is a diameter. The tangent at a point C intersects BA when produced at a point D. If ABC=36° then the value of ADC is 

A) 36° B) 44°
C) 48° D) 54°
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 54°

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The reciprocal of the sum of the reciprocals of 8/7 and 5/6 is:

A) 83/40 B) 42/83
C) 83/42 D) 40/83
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 40/83

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19 personswentto a hotel for a combineddinner party. 13 of them spent Rs 79 each on their dinner and the rest spent Rs 4 more than the average expenditure of all the 19. What was the total money spent by them?

A) 1628.4 B) 1534
C) 1492 D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) None of these

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Let the average expenditure of 19 people be x

⇒19x = 13 X 79 + 6 X (x+4)⇒19x = 13 X 79 + 6x +24

⇒x = 80.84

So, total money spent by them = 1536.07

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In a cricket match, the scores of the players are considered such that coefficient of variation of scores is 16 and mean is 25 then the variance is

 

A) 12 B) 8
C) 16 D) 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 16

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A merchant changed his trade discount from 25% to 15%. This would increase selling price by

A) 313% B) 616%
C) 1313% D) 1613%
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 1313%

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