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BASIC NUMERACY
SECTION TEST
WITH SOLUTIONS

This section test is taken from :

ISBN : 9789385846663
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Max. Marks : 20 No. of Qs. : 20 Time : 20 min. Date : ........./......../................

1. If the price of a television set is increased by 25%, then by 8. A club has 108 members. Two-thirds of them are men and
what percentage should the new price be reduced to bring the rest are women. All members are married except for 9
the price back to the original level? women members. How many married women are there in the
(a) 15% (b) 25% club ?
(c) 20% (d) 30%
(a) 20 (b) 24
2. The average monthly income of person in a certain family of
(c) 27 (d) 30
5 is ` 1000. What will be monthly average income of person
in the same family if the income of one person increased by 9. The monthly income of Komal and Asha are in the ratio of
4 : 3. Their monthly expenses are in the ratio of 3 : 2. However,
` 12000 per year?
(a) ` 1200 (b) ` 1600 both save ` 600 per month. What is their total monthly
(c) ` 2000 (d) ` 3400 income?
3. There are 50 students admitted to a nursery class. Some (a) ` 8,400 (b) ` 5,600
students can speak only English and some can speak only (c) ` 4,200 (d) ` 2,800
Hindi. 10 students can speak both English and Hindi. If the 10. Water is filled in a container in such a manner that its volume
number of students who can speak English is 21, then how doubles after every five minutes. If it takes 30 minutes for
many can speak Hindi, how many can speak only Hindi and the container to be full, in how much time will it be
how many can speak only English? one-fourth full?
(a) 21, 11 and 29 respectively
(a) 7 minutes and 30 seconds
(b) 28, 18 and 22 respectively
(b) 10 minutes
(c) 37, 27 and 13 respectively
(c) 20 minutes
(d) 39, 29 and 11 respectively
4. A man purchases two clocks A and B at a total cost of ` 650. (d) 25 minutes
He sells A with 20% profit and B at a loss of 25% and gets 11. Amit started a business by investing ` 30,000. Rahul joined
the same selling price for both the clocks. What are the the business after some time and invested ` 20,000. At the
purchasing prices of A and B respectively? end of the year, profit was divided in the ratio of 2 : 1. After
(a) ` 225; ` 425 (b) ` 250; ` 400 how many months did Rahul join the business?
(c) ` 275; ` 375 (d) ` 300; ` 350 (a) 2 (b) 3
5. If 15 pumps of equal capacity can fill a tank in 7 days, then (c) 4 (d) 5
how many extra pumps will be required to fill the tank in 5 12. Left pan of a faulty weight weighs 100 gram more than its
days? right pan. A shopkeeper keeps the weight measure in the
(a) 6 (b) 7 left pan while buying goods but keeps it in the right pan
(c) 14 (d) 21 while selling his goods. He uses only 1 kg weight measure.
6. In a family, a couple has a son and daughter. The age of the If he sells his goods at the listed cost price, what is his gain?
father is three times that of his daughter and the age of the
200 100
son is half of his mother. The wife is nine years younger to (a) % (b) %
her husband and the brother is seven years older than his 11 11
sister. What is the age of the mother? 1000 200
(a) 40 years (b) 45 years (c) % (d) %
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(c) 50 years (d) 60 years
13. A person has to completely put each of three liquids: 403
7. Amar, Akbar and Anthony are friends, being looked after by litres of petrol, 465 litres of diesel and 496 litres of Mobile Oil
a matron Farah, Amar weighs 50% more than Akbar and in bottles of equal size without mixing any of the above
Anthony weighs 25% less than Amar. Farah weighs 1/3rd of three types of liquids such that each bottle is completely
the combined weight of the three boys. All four together filled. What is the least possible number of bottles required?
weigh 232kg. The correct arrangement of the persons in the (a) 34 (b) 44
ascending order of their weights, is : (c) 46 (d) None of these
(a) Anthony, Akbar, Farah, Amar 14. The average salary of 100 employees in an office is ` 16,000
(b) Anthony, Akbar, Amar, Farah per month. The management decided to raise salary of every
employee by 5% but stopped a transport allowance of ` 800
(c) Akbar, Anthony, Amar, Farah
per month which was paid earlier to every employee. What
(d) Akbar, Anthony, Farah, Amar will be the new average monthly salary?
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(a) ` 16,000 18. In a group of five persons A, B, C, D and E, there is a professor,
(b) ` 16,500 a doctor and lawyer. A and D are unmarried ladies, and do
(c) ` 16,800 not work. Of the married couple in the Group, E is the
(d) Cannot be known since data are insufficient husband. B is the brother of A and is neither a doctor nor a
15. There are four persons A, B, C, D; and A has some coins. A
lawyer. Who is the professor?
gave half of the coins to B and 4 more besides. B gave half
of the coins to C and 4 more besides. C gave half of the (a) B (b) C
coins to D and 4 more besides. Both B and D end up with (c) A (d) None of these
same number of coins. How many coins did A have
19. A man fills a basket with eggs in such a way that the number
originally?
(a) 96 (b) 84 of eggs added on each successive day is the same as the
(c) 72 (d) 64 number already present in the basket. This way the basket
16. Four metal rods of lengths 78 cm, 104 cm 117 cm and 169 cm gets completely filled in 24 day. After how many days the
are to be cut into parts of equal length. Each part must be as 1
basket was th full?
long as possible. What is the maximum number of pieces 4
that can be cut? (a) 6 (b) 12
(a) 27 (b) 36
(c) 17 (d) 22
(c) 43 (d) 400
20. Three persons start walking together and their steps measure
17. There are 240 balls and n number of boxes B1, B2, B3, ......
40 cm, 42 cm and 45 cm respectively. What is the minimum
Bn. The balls are to be placed in the boxes such that B1 distance each should walk so that each can cover the same
should contain 4 balls more than B2, B2 should contain 4 distance in complete steps ?
balls more than B3, and so on. Which one of the following (a) 25 m 20 cm (b) 50 m 40 cm
cannot be the possible value of n? (c) 75 m 60 cm (d) 100 m 80 cm
(a) 4 (b) 5
(c) 6 (d) 7
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HINTS & Solutions

1. (c) Let the original price be x. 6. (d) Let the mother’s age be y years.
25 The age of father = (y + 9) years
5x
Increased price = x 1 = y
100 4
The age of son = years
Reduction in price to bring it back to its original value 2
5x x y
= x= The age of daughter = 7 years
4 4 2
x/4 Now according to the given condition,
% Reduction = 5 x / 4 100 = 20%
y
(y + 9) = 3 7
2. (a) Total income of the family per month 2
= 5 × 1000 = ` 5000 per month 3 y 42
y+9 =
12000 2
Increased amount = = ` 1000 per month
12 2y + 18 = 3y – 42
Now total amount of the family per month y = 60 years
= ` 6000 7. (d) Let weight of Akbar = x kg.
So the average income of the family per month
3x
6000 then weight of Amar = kg
(after increasing) = = ` 1200 2
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3. (d) Number of students who speak only English 3x 3x 9x
and weight of Anthony = = kg.
= (Number of students who speak English – Number 2 4 2 8
of students who speak both Hindi and English)
= 21 – 10 = 11 1 3x 9x 29 x
Hence weight of Farah = x = kg
Number of students who speak Hindi = (Total no of 3 2 8 24
students – No. of students who speak only English) According to question
= 50 – 11 = 39
3x 9x 29 x
Number of students who speak only Hindi = (Number x = 232
of Hindi speaking students – no. of students who speak 2 8 24
both languages) = 39 – 10 = 29 29 x 29 x
4. (b) Let the cost price of clocks A and B be ‘a’ and (650–a) = 232
8 24
respectively.
Selling price for A=Selling price for B 116x = 5568
x = 48
20 25
a 1 = (650 – a) 1
100 100 3
Amar’s weight = (48) = 72 kg
2
120a 75
= (650 – a) 3 1
100 100 Anthony’s weight = (48) 1 = 54 kg
2 4
a = 250
Cost price for B =650 – 250 = 400 Akbar’s weight = 48 kg
5. (a) No. of pumps required to fill a tank in 7 days = 15 29
No. of pumps required to fill a tank in 1 day and Farah’s weight = (48) = 58 kg
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= 15 × 7 = 105 ......(i)
Arrangement of persons in the ascending order :
Let the extra pumps required be n.
Akbar, Anthony, Farah, Amar.
Now, no. of pumps required to fill the tank in 1 day
= (n + 15) 5 ......(ii) 1
8. (c) No. of women = (108) = 36
From (i) and (ii), 3
(n + 15) 5 = 105 No. of married women = No. of women – No. of
n + 15 = 21 unmarried women = 36 – 9 = 27
n =6
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9. (c) Let monthly income of Komal and Asha be 4x and 3x New average monthly salary
Also, let Monthly expenses of Komal and Asha be 3y
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and 2y. = 16000 1 16800
Now, 4x – 3y = 600 ......(i) 100
3x – 2y = 600 .....(ii) As transport allowance is not a part of the salary, so
Solving (i) and (ii), x = 600 and y = 600 deduction of ` 800 will have no effect on the new
Total monthly income = (4 + 3)(600) = ` 4200 average salary.
10. (c) Container is filled in 30 min. 15. (c) Let A contains x coins.
Container is half-filled in (30 – 5) = 25 min x
Hence, time taken for the container to be one-fourth B= 4
2
filled = (25 – 5) = 20 min.
11. (b) Let after ‘t’ months Rahul joined the business. Hence 1 x
C 4 4
Amit does business for 1 year and Rahul for (12 – t) 2 2
months.
They will share the profit in ratio x 1 x
Bleft = coins left with B = 4 – 4 –4
30000 × 12 : 20000 × (12 – t) = 2 : 1 2 2 2
360000 2
240000 20000 t = 1
1 x x
4 –4 –2
2 2 4
40000 t = 480000 – 360000
40000 t = 120000 1 1 x x
D 4 4 4 7
t = 3 months 2 2 2 8
12. (a) Let the purchased amount be 1100 kg and the cost
Now, Bleft = D
price of 1100 kg be ` x.
Therefore, he pays for 1000 kg and buys 1100 kg. x x
–2 7
10 4 8
Cost price of 1000 kg = ` x
11 x
9 x = 72
x 8
Therefore, net profit = ` 16. (b) Since each rod must be cut into parts of equal length
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and each part must be as long as possible, so HCF
Similarly while selling, if he sells 1000 kg. He would
should be taken.
actually be selling 900 kg at the price of 1000 kg.
HCF of 78, 104, 117 and 169 = 13.
x
Similarly, once again the profit would be ` 78
11 No. of parts from 78cm. rod = 6
13
2x
Therefore, total profit = ` 104
11 No. of parts from 104 cm. rod = =8
13
200
In terms of percentage, this would be % 117
11 No. of parts from 117 cm. rod = 9
13. (b) Maximum capacity of each bottle can be found by
13
taking the H.C.F of the three given liquids. 169
Maximum capacity of each bottle = HCF of 403, 465 No. of parts from 169 cm. rod = 13 .
13
and 496 = 31
Maximum no. of pieces = 6 + 8 + 9 + 13 = 36
403 17. (d) Since, common difference between no.of balls in box
Number of bottles for 403 of petrol = =13
31 is 4, so it can be taken as an A.P. series.
B1 – B2 = B2 – B3 ............ = 4
465 Total no. of balls = 240
Number of bottles for 465 of diesel = = 15
31 B1 + B2 + ....... + Bn = 240
496 n
Number of bottles for 496 of mobil oil = = 16 [2a (n –1)d ] 240 ( d B2 – B1 – 4)
31 2
Hence, total number of bottles = 13 + 15 + 16 = 44 n[2a – (n –1) 4] 480
14. (c) Since, salary of each employee is increased by 5%, so
net average increase in salary = 5%. 480
2a – ( n – 1)4
n
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As L.H.S of this equation given an integer value so 20. (a) Required minimum distance = L.C.M of 40,42 and 45.
R.H.S must be an integer and thus 480 should be
divisible by n. Out of the given options, 480 is not 2 40, 42, 45
divisible by 7 only. 2 20, 21, 45
18. (a) As, A and D do not work, so any of B, C or E could be
2 10, 21, 45
the professor, doctor or lawyer. Now, B is neither a
doctor or lawyer, so clearly B is the professor. 5 5, 21, 45
19. (d) Let x be the no. of eggs already present in the basket. 3 1, 21, 9
Then, no. of eggs on each successive days: 3 1, 7, 3
x, 2x, 4x, 8x, ............ upto 24 days.
7 1, 7, 1
From here, we can see that number of eggs are getting
doubled on each successive days. 1, 1, 1
On 24th day basket was filled completely. L.C.M = 2 2
1 Required distance = 2520 100
On 23rd day basket was filled = = 25 m 20 cm
2
1 1 1
Hence, on 22nd day basket was filled = =
2 2 4