Verbal Reasoning - Arithmetic Reasoning

Verbal Reasoning - Arithmetic Reasoning
11.  A is 3 years older to B and 3 years younger to C, while B and D are twins. How many years older is C to D?
  • 2
  • 3
  • 6
  • 12
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12.  The 30 members of a club decided to play a badminton singles tournament. Every time a member loses a game he is out of the tournament. There are no ties. What is the minimum number of matches that must be played to determine the winner ?
  • 15
  • 29
  • 61
  • None of these
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13.  In a garden, there are 10 rows and 12 columns of mango trees. The distance between the two trees is 2 metres and a distance of one metre is left from all sides of the boundary of the garden. The length of the garden is
  • 20 m
  • 22 m
  • 24 m
  • 26 m
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14.  12 year old Manick is three times as old as his brother Rahul. How old will Manick be when he is twice as old as Rahul ?
  • 14 years
  • 16 years
  • 18 years
  • 20 years
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15.  A tailor had a number of shirt pieces to cut from a roll of fabric. He cut each roll of equal length into 10 pieces. He cut at the rate of 45 cuts a minute. How many rolls would be cut in 24 minutes ?
  • 32 rolls
  • 54 rolls
  • 108 rolls
  • 120 rolls
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16.  In a class of 60 students, the number of boys and girls participating in the annual sports is in the ratio 3 : 2 respectively. The number of girls not participating in the sports is 5 more than the number of boys not participating in the sports. If the number of boys participating in the sports is 15, then how many girls are there in the class ?
  • 20
  • 25
  • 30
  • Data inadequate
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17.  There are deer and peacocks in a zoo. By counting heads they are 80. The number of their legs is 200. How many peacocks are there ?
  • 20
  • 30
  • 50
  • 60
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18.  A man wears socks of two colours - Black and brown. He has altogether 20 black socks and 20 brown socks in a drawer. Supposing he has to take out the socks in the dark, how many must he take out to be sure that he has a matching pair ?
 
  • 3
  • 20
  • 39
  • None of these
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19.  A motorist knows four different routes from Bristol to Birmingham. From Birmingham to Sheffield he knows three different routes and from Sheffield to Carlisle he knows two different routes. How many routes does he know from Bristol to Carlisle ?
 
  • 4
  • 8
  • 12
  • 24
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20.  Mac has £ 3 more than Ken, but then Ken wins on the horses and trebles his money, so that he now has £ 2 more than the original amount of money that the two boys had between them. How much money did Mac and Ken have between them before Ken's win ?
 
  • £ 9
  • £ 11
  • £ 13
  • £ 15
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