Mathematics Question and Answers – Maths Question

Q. 1 What is the average of the numbers ; 0, 0, 4, 10, 5 and 5 ?

(A) 2
(B) 4
(C) 5
(D) 3
Answers : (B) 4

Q. 2 What is the highest common factor of the numbers 30 and 132?

(A) 6
(B) 4
(C) 8
(D) 10
Answers : (A) 6

Q. 3 Sum of three consecutive integers is 51. The middle one is :

(A) 15
(B) 14
(C) 16
(D) 17
Answers: (D) 17

Q. 4 Which number is the equivalent to 3^(4)/3^(2)?

(A) 8
(B) 9
(C) 4
(D) 10
Answers: (B) 9

Q 5. The average of 35, 45 and x is equal to five more then twice x. Find x.

(A) 20
(B) 16
(C) 13
(D) 11
Answers: (C) 13

Q. 6 What is next in the following number series: 256, 289, 324, 361 . . . ?

(A) 800
(B) 400
(C) 600
(D) 200
Answers: (B) 400

Q. 7 What is the average of first 150 natural numbers?

(A) 75.5
(B) 75
(C) 90.5
(D) 85
Answers: (A) 75.5

Q. 8 At a Christmas party, everyone shook hands with everyone else. There were a total of 66 handshakes that happened during the party. How many people were present?

(A) 14
(B) 16
(C) 12
(D) 10
Answers: (B) 16

Q. 9. The difference in the measures of two supplementary angles is 102°. Find the two angles.

(A) 78
(B) 98
(C) 68
(D) 76
Answers: (A) 78

Q. 10 20% of 20% of 100 is:

(A) 5
(B) 4
(C) 80
(D) 20
Answers: (B) 4

Q. 11 The average of three odd successive numbers is equal to 129. What is the largest of the three numbers ?

(A) 125
(B) 122
(C) 131
(D) 125
Answers: (C) 131

Q. 12 Two numbers are such that one number is 42 more that the second number and their a average is equal to 40. What are two numbers ?

(A) 50, 130
(B) 76, 15
(C) 60, 20
(D) 61, 19
Answers: (D) 61, 19

Q. 13 Which is greater than 4?

(A) -5
(B) 5
(C) 1/2
(D) -25
Answers: (B) 5

Q. 14 A car is traveling at the rate of 75 kilometers per hour. How many meters is the car traveling in one minute?

(A) 1350 meters per minute.
(B) 1450 meters per minute.
(C) 1250 meters per minute.
(D) 1150 meters per minute.
Answers: (C) 1250 meters per minute.

Q. 15 Solve the following equation: -15 + (-5x)=0.

(A) 3
(B) -2
(C) -3
(D) -4
Answers: (C) -3

Q. 16 Multiply : (x – 4 ) ( x + 5 )

(A) x² + 5x – 20
(B) x² +4x – 20
(C) x² + x – 20
(D) x² + x – 20
Answers: (D) x² + x – 20

Q. 17 8 is 1/3 of which number?

(A) 6400
(B) 2400
(C) 2800
(D) 4000
Answers: (B) 2400

Q. 18 Combine terms: 12a + 26b -4b – 16a.

(A) -28a + 30b,
(B) 4a + 22b,
(C) -4a + 22b,
(D) 28a + 30b.
Answers:(C) -4a + 22b,

Q. 19 What does 6 raise to the power of 0 equal?

(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4
Answers(A) 1

Q. 20 Solve for x: 2x – y = (3/4)x + 6.

(A) (y + 6),
(B) (y + 6)/5,
(C) 4(y + 6)/5,
(D) 4(y – 6)/5
Answers:(D) 4(y – 6)/5

Q. 21 The number, whose 7% is 42, is

(A) 200
(B) 300
(C) 600
(D) 500
Answers: (C) 600

Q. 22 What will be 60% of a number, whose 80% is 320.

(A) 450
(B) 250
(C) 400
(D) 240
Answers: (D) 240

Q. 23 How many vertices are present on a cube?

(A) 6
(B) 10
(C) 8
(D) 4
Answers: (C) 8

Q. 24 Factor: 3y(x – 3) -2(x – 3).

(A) 3y(x – 3).
(B) (x – 3)(x – 3),
(C) (x – 3)2,
(D) (x – 3)(3y – 2),
Answers: (D) (x – 3)(3y – 2),

Q. 25 What percent pf 10/3 is 5/3.

(A) 50
(B) 40
(C) 30
(D) 20
Answers: (A) 50

Q. 26 Adding the numbers between 1 to 100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+…) gives you what final answer?

(A) 2020
(B) 5050
(C) 4040
(D) 5505
Answers: (B) 5050

Q. 27 What was the original price of a radio that sold for $70 during a 20% off sale?

(A) $87.50
(B) $92
(C) $84
(D) $56
Answers: (C) $84

Q. 28 What is the place value of 2 in 6234567?

(A) 2000
(B) 20000
(C) 200
(D) 200000
Answers: (D) 200000

Q. 29 if 60% of x is 1200, then the value of x is .

(A) 1000
(B) 3000
(C) 2000
(D) 4000
Answers: (C) 2000

Q. 30 The area of a right-angled isosceles triangle having hypotenuse 16√2 cm is

(A) 128 cm²
(B) 110 cm²
(C)144 cm²
(D) 155 cm²
Answers: (A) 128 cm²

Q. 31 10 million = …… lakhs.

(A) 1 lakh
(B) 10 lakh
(C)100 lakh
(D) 1000 lakh
Answers:(C)100 lakh

Q. 32 A man walking at the rate of 5 km/hr. crosses a bridge in 15 minutes. The length of the bridge (in metres) is :

(A) 750
(B) 1250
(C) 1350
(D) 1450
Answers: (B) 1250

Q. 33 When (2²⁴ – 1) is divided by 7 , the remainder is:

(A) 2
(B) 1
(C) 3
(D) 0
Answers: (D) 0

Q. 34 What is the greatest five-digit number that is completely divisible by 8, 15, 16, 21 and 5 ?

(A) 99120
(B) 92650
(C) 99220
(D) 95760
Answers:(A) 99120

Q. 35 The sum of two numbers is 36 and their H.C.F and L.C.M. are 3 and 105 respectively. The sum of the reciprocals of two numbers is

(A) 3/25
(B) 2/25
(C) 4/25
(D) 5/25
Answers: (A) 3/25

Q. 36 A speed of 30.6 km/.hr is the same as

(A) 9 m/sec
(B) 8.5 m/sec
(C) 10 m/sec
(D) 12 m/sec
Answers: (B) 8.5 m/sec

Q. 37 The sum of two numbers is 75 and their difference is 25. The product of the two number is ?

(A) 1325
(B) 1225
(C) 1250
(D) 1350
Answers: (C) 1250

Q. 38 I have x marbles. My elder brother has 3 more than mine, while my younger brother has 3 less than mine. If the total number of marbles is 15, then the number of marbles that I have is ?

(A) 7
(B) 8
(C) 6
(D) 5
Answers: (D) 5

Q. 39 A number when divided by 136 leaves remainder 36. If the same number is divided by 17, then the remainder will be ?

(A) 7
(B) 9
(C) 4
(D) 2
Answers: (D) 2

Q. 40 One dozen notebooks quoted at 125 are available at 20% discount. How many notebooks can be bought for 75 ?

(A) 8
(B) 10
(C) 6
(D) 9
Answers: (D) 9

Q. 41 When n is divided by 6, the remainder is 4. When 2n is divided by 6, the remainder is

(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 0
(D) 3
Answers: (B) 2

Q. 42  A tree increases annually by 1/8th of its height. By how much will it increase after 2 years, if it stands 64 cm high today?

(A) 81 cm
(B) 72 cm
(C) 82 cm
(D) 80 cm
Answers:(A) 81 cm

Q. 43  A train is moving with the speed of 180 km/hr. Its speed (in metres per second) is :

(A) 45
(B) 50
(C) 40
(D) 5
Answers:(B) 50

Q. 44 Gautam goes to office at a speed of 12 kmph and returns home at 10 kmph. His average speed is :

(A) 22 kmph
(B) 10.9 kmph
(C) 11 kmph
(D) 12.50 kmph
Answers: (B) 10.9 kmph

Q. 45 A train running at the speed of 84 km/hr passes a man walking in opposite direction at the speed of 6 km/hr in 4 seconds. What is the length of train (in metre) ?

(A) 155
(B) 120
(C) 100
(D) 145
Answers: (C) 100

Q. 46 A train 300 metres long is running at a speed of 25 metres per second. It will cross a bridge of 200 metres in

(A) 5 seconds
(B) 20 seconds
(C) 10 seconds
(D) 22 seconds
Answers:(B) 20 seconds

Q. 47  In an office, there are 108 tables and 132 chairs. If 1/6 of the tables and 1/4 of the chairs are broken. How many people can work in the office if each person requires one table and one chair?

(A) 99
(B) 90
(C) 97
(D) 92
Answers: (B) 90

Q. 48 The difference between the greatest and the least prime numbers which are less than 100 is ?

(A) 95
(B) 97
(C) 99
(D) 92
Answers: (A) 95

Q. 49 From a point in the interior of an equilateral triangle, the length of the perpendiculars to the three sides are 6 cm, 8 cm and 10 cm respectively. The area of the triangle is.

(A)  192√3 cm²
(B) 192 cm²
(C) 48cm²
(D) 48cm²
Answers: (A)  192√3 cm²

Q. 50 By selling an article for Rs. 200 shopkeeper loses 20%. What is cost price of the article?

(A) 250
(B) 225
(C) 220
(D) 240
Answers:(D) 240