PROBATIONARY OFFICERS ARITHMETIC

     PROBATIONARY OFFICERS ARITHMETIC

Directions (Q.1-2) :Answer the following questions

on the basis of the information given

below :

(i) Trains A and B are travelling on the same route

heading towards the same destination.

Train B as already covered a distance of 440 km before

trainA started.

(ii) The two trains meet each other 22 hours after

the start of train A.’

(iii) Had the trains been travelling towards each other

(from distance of 440 km), they would have met

after two hours.

1. What is the speed of train B in kmph?

1) 100 2) 180 3) 116 4) Data inadequate

5) None of these

2. What is the speed of train A in kmph?

1) 102 2) 118 3) 80.5 4) Data inadequate

5) None of these

3. Free note books were distributedd equally among

children of a class.The number of notebooks each

child got was one-eighth of the number of children.

Had the number of children been half, each child

would have got 16 notebooks. How many notebooks

were distributed in all ?

1) 432 2) 640 3) 256 4) 512 5) none of these

4. Twenty times a positive integer is less than its square

by 96. What is the integer?

1) 24 2) 20 3) 30 4) Cannot be determined

5) None of these

5. The speed of a car increases by 2 km after every

hour. If the distance travelled in the first hour was 40

km, what was the total distance travelled in 12 hours?

1) 518 km 2) 612 km 3) 512 km 4) Can’t be

determined 5) None of these

6. The income of a company increases 20% per annum.

If its income is Rs.1332000 in the year 2006

what was its income in the year 2004?

1) Rs.1850000 2) Rs.92500 3) Rs.92335

4) Rs.18500 5) None of these

7. If A and B are positive integers such that 9A2= 12A

+ 96 and B2 = 2B + 3, then which of the following is

the value of 5A + 7B?

1) 31 2) 41 3) 36 4) 43 5) 27

8. The ratio of the number of students appearing for

examination in the year 2005 in the states A, B andC

was 3 : 5 : 6. Next year if the number of students in

these states increases by 20%, 10% and 20% respectively,

the ratio in statesA and C would be 1 : 2.

What was the number of students who appeared

for the examination in the State A in 2005?

1) 7200 2) 60003 3) 7500

4) Data inadequate 5) None of these

9.Find the approximate value of the question mark(?) in the following question.

756 of 309.25% + 1189 of 52.04% - ? = 1455.86

1) 1500 2) 1495 3) 1490 4) 1505 5) 1510

10.When a discount of 10% is given on an item being

sold at a profit of 20% on the cost price, the sales

volume tables. What is the ratio of the new profit to

the original profit?

1) 8 : 3 2) 3 : 4 3) 3 : 2 4) 4 : 3   5) None of these

ANSWERS

 1. 1

 2. 5

 3. 4

 4. 1

 5. 2

 6. 5

 7. 2

 8.4

 9.1

10.5