📏 Arithmetic Aptitude Solved MCQs with Answers

Practice 3559 approved 📏 Arithmetic Aptitude questions with verified answers from the 🧠 Aptitude Mastery subject for Pakistan exams.

3559 solved MCQs

The value of log₂ 16 is:Answer: 4 In order to obtain an income of Rs. 650 from 10% stock at Rs. 96, one must make an investment of:Answer: Rs. 6240 Which is the better investment: 11% stock at 143 or 9% stock at 117?Answer: 9 ³⁄₄% stock at 117 A man buys Rs. 20 shares paying 9% dividend. The man wants to have an interest of 12% on his money. The market value of each share is:Answer: Rs. 15 By investing in 16% stock at 64, one earns Rs. 1500. The investment made is:Answer: Rs. 5760 A 6% stock yields 8%. The market value of the stock is:Answer: Rs. 75 A man invested Rs. 4455 in Rs. 10 shares quoted at Rs. 8.25. If the rate of dividend be 12%, his annual income is:Answer: Rs. 648 Rs. 9800 are invested partly in 9% stock at 75 and 10% stock at 80 to have equal amount of incomes. The investment in 9% stock is:Answer: Rs. 5000 A man invests some money partly in 9% stock at 96 and partly in 12% stock at 120. To obtain equal dividends from both, he must invest the money in the ratio:Answer: 16 : 15 By investing Rs. 1620 in 8% stock, Michael earns Rs. 135. The stock is then quoted at:Answer: Rs. 96 A man invested Rs. 1552 in a stock at 97 to obtain an income of Rs. 128. The dividend from the stock is:Answer: 8% A 12% stock yielding 10% is quoted at:Answer: Rs. 120 The market value of a 10.5% stock, in which an income of Rs. 756 is derived by investing Rs. 9000, brokerage being 1/4%, is:Answer: Rs. 124.75 The cost price of a Rs. 100 stock at 4 discount, when brokerage is 1/4% is:Answer: Rs. 96.25 Sakshi invests a part of Rs. 12,000 in 12% stock at Rs. 120 and the remainder in 15% stock at Rs. 125. If his total dividend per annum is Rs. 1360, how much does he invest in 12% stock at Rs. 120?Answer: Rs. 4000 Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?Answer: 9/20 A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that none of the balls drawn is blue?Answer: 10/21 In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is the probability that it is neither red nor green?Answer: 1/3 What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two throws of a dice?Answer: 1/9 Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most two heads?Answer: 7/8 Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting two numbers whose product is even?Answer: 3/4 In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three students are selected at random. The probability that 1 girl and 2 boys are selected, is:Answer: 21/46 Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is:Answer: 5/12 From a pack of 52 cards, two cards are drawn together at random. What is the probability of both the cards being kings?Answer: 1/221 In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the probability of getting a prize?Answer: 2/7 Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one is a spade and one is a heart, is:Answer: 13/102 A bag contains 4 white, 5 red and 6 blue balls. Three balls are drawn at random from the bag. The probability that all of them are red, is:Answer: 2/91 A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The probability of getting a queen of club or a king of heart is:Answer: 1/26 One card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that the card drawn is a face card (Jack, Queen and King only)?Answer: 3/13 A bag contains 6 black and 8 white balls. One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ball drawn is white?Answer: 4/7