📏 Arithmetic Aptitude Solved MCQs with Answers

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3559 solved MCQs

What percentage of numbers from 1 to 70 have 1 or 9 in the unit's digit?Answer: 20 If A = x% of y and B = y% of x, then which of the following is true?Answer: None of these If 20% of a = b, then b% of 20 is the same as:Answer: 4% of a In a certain school, 20% of students are below 8 years of age. The number of students above 8 years of age is 2/3 of the number of students of 8 years of age which is 48. What is the total number of students in the school?Answer: 100 Two numbers A and B are such that the sum of 5% of A and 4% of B is two-third of the sum of 6% of A and 8% of B. Find the ratio of A : B.Answer: 4 : 3 In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was:Answer: 2700 Three candidates contested an election and received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get?Answer: 57% Two tailors X and Y are paid a total of Rs. 550 per week by their employer. If X is paid 120 percent of the sum paid to Y, how much is Y paid per week?Answer: Rs. 250 Gauri went to the stationers and bought things worth Rs. 25, out of which 30 paise went on sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 6%, then what was the cost of the tax free items?Answer: Rs. 19.70 Rajeev buys good worth Rs. 6650. He gets a rebate of 6% on it. After getting the rebate, he pays sales tax @ 10%. Find the amount he will have to pay for the goods.Answer: Rs. 6876.10 The population of a town increased from 1,75,000 to 2,62,500 in a decade. The average percent increase of population per year is:Answer: 5% The sum of ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the age of the youngest child?Answer: 4 years A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth". If the father's age is 38 years now, the son's age five years back was:Answer: 14 years A is two years older than B who is twice as old as C. If the total of the ages of A, B and C be 27, then how old is B?Answer: 10 Present ages of Sameer and Anand are in the ratio of 5 : 4 respectively. Three years hence, the ratio of their ages will become 11 : 9 respectively. What is Anand's present age in years?Answer: 24 A man is 24 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his son. The present age of his son is:Answer: 22 years Six years ago, the ratio of the ages of Kunal and Sagar was 6 : 5. Four years hence, the ratio of their ages will be 11 : 10. What is Sagar's age at present?Answer: 16 years The sum of the present ages of a father and his son is 60 years. Six years ago, father's age was five times the age of the son. After 6 years, son's age will be:Answer: 20 years At present, the ratio between the ages of Arun and Deepak is 4 : 3. After 6 years, Arun's age will be 26 years. What is the age of Deepak at present ?Answer: 15 years Sachin is younger than Rahul by 7 years. If their ages are in the respective ratio of 7 : 9, how old is Sachin?Answer: 24.5 years The present ages of three persons in proportions 4 : 7 : 9. Eight years ago, the sum of their ages was 56. Find their present ages (in years).Answer: 16, 28, 36 Ayesha's father was 38 years of age when she was born while her mother was 36 years old when her brother four years younger to her was born. What is the difference between the ages of her parents?Answer: 6 years A person's present age is two-fifth of the age of his mother. After 8 years, he will be one-half of the age of his mother. How old is the mother at present?Answer: 40 years Q is as much younger than R as he is older than T. If the sum of the ages of R and T is 50 years, what is definitely the difference between R and Q's age?Answer: Data inadequate The age of father 10 years ago was thrice the age of his son. Ten years hence, father's age will be twice that of his son. The ratio of their present ages is:Answer: 7 : 3 An aeroplane covers a certain distance at a speed of 240 kmph in 5 hours. To cover the same distance in 1 hours, it must travel at a speed of:Answer: 720 kmph A car travelling with 5/7 of its actual speed covers 42 km in 1 hr 40 min 48 sec. Find the actual speed of the carAnswer: 35 km/hr A man covered a certain distance at some speed. Had he moved 3 kmph faster, he would have taken 40 minutes less. If he had moved 2 kmph slower, he would have taken 40 minutes more. The distance (in km) is:Answer: 40 A can do a work in 15 days and B in 20 days. If they work on it together for 4 days, then the fraction of the work that is left is :Answer: 8/15 A can finish a work in 18 days and B can do the same work in 15 days. B worked for 10 days and left the job. In how many days, A alone can finish the remaining work?Answer: 6