Arithmetical Reasoning Questions and Answers
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Q1
In a chess tournament each of six players will play every other payer exactly once. How many matches will be played during the tournament ?
Answer: Option B
Q2
A man has a certain number of small boxes to pack into parcels. If he packs 3, 4, 5, or 6 in a parcel, he is left with one over; if he packs 7 in a parcel, none is left over. What is the number of boxes, he may have to pack ?
Answer: Option B
Q3
A, B, C and D play a game of cards, A says to B, "If I give you 8 cards, you will have as many as C has and I shall have 3 less than wht C has.Also if I take 6 cards from C, I shall have twice as many as D has," I B and D together have 50 cards, how many cards has A got /
Answer: Option A
Q4
In a group of cows and has hens, the number of legs are 14 more than twice the number of heads, The number of cows is
Answer: Option B
Q5
A worker may claim Rs 15 for each km which he travels by taxi and Rs 5 for each km which he drives his own car. if in one week he claimed Rs 500 for travelling 80 km how many kms did he travel by taxi ?
Answer: Option A
Q6
A shepherd had 17 sheep. All but nine died. How many was he left with ?
Answer: Option C
Explanation: All but nine died means All except nine died i.e. nine sheep remained alive.
Q7
A bird shooter was asked how many birds he had in the bag. He replied that there were all sparrows but six, all pigeons but six, and all docks but six. How many birds had he in all ?
Answer: Option A
Explanation: There were all sparrows but six means that six birds were not sparrows but only pigeons and docks.
Similarly, number o sparrows + number of docks = 6
and number of sparrows + number of pigeons = 6.
This is possible when there are 3 sparrows, 3 pigeons and 3 docks i.e. 9 birds in all.
Q8
What is the smallest numbe of ducks tht could swim in this formation - two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck between two ducks ?
Answer: Option A
Q9
A group of 1200 pesons consisting of captains and soliders is travelling in a train. For every 15 soldiers there is one captain. the number of captains in the group is
Answer: Option C
Explanation: Clearly, out of every 16 persons, there is one captain. So, number of captains = 1200/16 = 75.
Q10
Arun cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of the small pieces is twenty grams in weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake in all with her, how heavy was the original cake ?
Answer: Option C
Explanation: The seven pieces consist of 6 smaller equal pieces and one half cake piece. Weight of each small piece = 20 g.
So, total weight of the cake = 2 * (20 * 6) = 240 g.