1) A man buys a house for Rs 100000 and rents it. He puts 12.5% of each month’s rent aside for upkeep & repairs, pays Rs 325 per year as taxes and realizes 5.5% annually on his investment. Find the monthly rent.

• (a) 550
• (b) 554.76
• (c) 654.76
• (d) 1620.45

2) A obtains 33¹⁄₃% of the marks in a paper for which the maximum was 300. B is ahead of A by 40% of A’s marks, while C is ahead of B by two-ninths of his own marks. How many marks does C get?

• (a) 180
• (b) 140
• (c) 150
• (d) 210

3) In a city, 35% of the population is composed of migrants, 20% of whom are from rural areas. Of the local population, 48% is female while this figure for rural and urban migrants is 30% and 40% respectively. If the total population of the city is 728400, what is its female population?

• (a) 324138
• (b) 349680
• (c) 509940
• (d) None of these

4) The digit at unit place of a two-digit number is increased by 100% and the digit at tens place of the same number is increased by 50%. The new number thus formed is 19 more than the original number. What is the original number?

• (a) 22
• (b) 63
• (c) 24
• (d) None of these

5) In a factory, producing parts of an automobile, the parts manufactured on the shop floor are required to go through quality checks, each conducted after a specific part of the processing on the raw material is completed. Only parts that are not rejected at one stage are put through subsequent stages of production and testing. If average rejection rates at these three testing stages during a month are 10%, 5% and 2% respectively, then what is the effective rejection rate for the whole plant?

• (a) 17%
• (b) 15.20%
• (c) 84.80%
• (d) 16.21%

6) In a market survey, 20% opted for product A whereas 60% opted for product B. The remaining individuals were not certain. If the difference between those who opted for product B and those who were uncertain was 720, how many individuals were covered in the survey?

• (a) 1440
• (b) 1800
• (c) 3600
• (d) Data inadequate

7) In the month of January, the Railway Police caught 4000 ticketless travellers. In February, the number rose by 5%. However, due to constant vigil by the Police and the Railway staff, the number reduced by 5% and in April it further reduced by 10%. The total number of ticketless travellers caught in the month of April was:

• (a) 3125
• (b) 3255
• (c) 3575
• (d) 3591

8) The ratio of Jim’s salary for October to his salary for November was 1.5 : 1.333 and the ratio of the salary for November to that for December was 2 : 2.6666. The worker got 40 rupees more for December than for October and received a bonus constituting 40% of the salary for three months. Find the bonus. (Assume that the number of workdays is the same in every month.)

• (a) Rs 368.888
• (b) Rs 152.5555
• (c) Rs 222.22
• (d) Rs 265.6

9) King Dashratha, at his eleventh hour, called his three queens and distributed his gold in the following way: He gave 50% of his wealth to his first wife, 50% of the rest to his second wife and again 50% of the rest to his third wife. If their combined share is worth 1,30,900 kilograms of gold, find the quantity of gold King Dashratha was having initially?

• (a) 1,50,000 kg
• (b) 1,49,600 kg
• (c) 1,51,600 kg
• (d) 1,52,600 kg

10) In an assembly election at Surat, the total turnout was 80% out of which 16% of the total voters on the voting list were declared invalid. Find which of the following can be the percentage votes got by the winner of the election if the candidate who came second got 20% of the total voters on the voting list. (There were only three contestants, only one winner and the total number of voters on the voters’ list was 20000.)

• (a) 44.8%
• (b) 46.6%
• (c) 48%
• (d) None of these

11) In an assembly election at Surat, the total turnout was 80% out of which 16% of the total voters on the voting list were declared invalid. Find which of the following can be the percentage votes got by the winner of the election if the candidate who came second got 20% of the total voters on the voting list. (There were only three contestants, only one winner and the total number of voters on the voters’ list was 20000.)

• (a) 44.8%
• (b) 46.6%
• (c) 48%
• (d) None of these

12) In an election of 3 candidates A, B and C, A gets 50% more votes than B. A also beats C by Rs 1,80,00 votes. If it is known that B gets 5 percentage more votes than C, find the number of voters on the voting list (given 90% of the voters on the voting list voted and no votes were illegal).

• (a) 72,000
• (b) 81,000
• (c) 90,000
• (d) 1,00,000

13) Arushi’s project report consists of 25 pages each of 60 lines with 75 characters on each line. In case the number of lines is reduced to 55 but the number of characters is increased to 90 per line, what is the percentage change in the number of pages? (Assume the number of pages to be a whole number.)

• (a) +10%
• (b) +5%
• (c) −8%
• (d) −10%

14) After three successive raises, Aftab’s salary became equal to ³⁷⁸⁄₁₂₅ of his initial salary. By what percentage was the salary raised the first time if the third rise was twice as high (in percentage) as the second rise was twice as high (in percentage) as the first rise?

• (a) 10%
• (b) 15%
• (c) 20%
• (d) 25%