Quantitative questions and answers

Sample quantitative questions and answers- Directions for next 2 Quantitative questions: Answers the quantitative questions on the basis of the information given below.

In an examination, there are 100 questions divided into three groups A, B and C such that each group contains at least one question. Each question in group A carries 1 mark, each question in group B carries 2 marks and each question in group C carries 3 marks.
It is known that the questions in group A together carry at least 60% of the total marks.

1. If group B contains 23 questions, then how many questions are there in group C?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. Cannot be determined
Answer: e) cannot be determined
Group A carries 1 mark
Group B carries 2 marks
Group C carries 3 marks
Now group A carries at least 60% that means group B and C carry at the most 40% but since we don’t know the actual breakup of B and C we cannot Predict the no. of questions in C.

2. If group C contains 8 questions and group B carries at least 20% of the total marks, which of the following best describes the number of questions in group B?
a. 11 or 12
b. 12or 13
c. 13or 14
d. 14or 15

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Sample Verbal Questions For CAT

Verbal Questions For CAT: Direction for next 5 verbal questions for cat: The sentences given in each verbal question for cat, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. A. Surrendered, or captured, combatants cannot be incarcerated in razor wire cages; this ‘war’ has a dubious legality.
B. How can then one characterize a conflict to be waged against a phenomenon as war?
C. The phrase ‘war against terror’, which has passed into the common lexicon, is a huge misnomer.
D. Besides, war has a juridical meaning in international law, which has confided the laws of war, imbuing them with a humanitarian content.
E. Terror is a phenomenon, not an entity – either State or non-State.
a. ECDBA
b. BECDA
c. EBCAD
d. CEBDA
e. ABCDE

2. A. I am much more intolerant of a human being’s shortcomings than I am of an animal’s, but in this respect I have been lucky, for most of the people I have come across have been charming.
B. Then you come across the unpleasant human animal – the District Officer who drawled, ‘We chaps are here to help you chaps,’ and then proceeded to be as obstructive as possible.
C. In these cases of course, the fact that you are an animal collector helps; people always seem delighted to meet someone with such an unusual occupation and go out of their way to assist you.
D. Fortunately, these types are rare, and the pleasant ones I have met more than compensated for them – but even so, I think I will stick to animals.
E. When you travel round the world collecting animals you also, of necessity, collect human beings.
a. EACBD
b. ABDCE
c. ECBDA
d. ACBDE
e. ABCDE

3. A. Four days later, Oracle announced its own bid for PeopleSoft, and invited the firm’s board to a discussion.
B. Furious that his own plans had been endangered, PeopleSoft’s boss, Craig Conway, called Oracle’s offer “diabolical”, and its boss, Larry Ellison, a “sociopath”.
C. In early June, PeopleSoft said that it would buy J .D. Edwards, a smaller rival.
D. Moreover, said Mr. Conway, he “could imagine no price nor combination of price and other conditions to recommend accepting the offer.”
E. On June 12th, PeopleSoft turned Oracle down.
a. CABDE
b. CADBE
c. CEDAB
d. CAEBD
e. None of these.

4. A. A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young people who are going to be running our country in a few decades are like.
B. I would go to sleep in my hotel room around midnight each night, and when I awoke, my mailbox would be full of replies—sent at 1:15 a.m., 2:59 a.m., 3:23 a.m.
C. One senior told me that she went to bed around two and woke up each morning at seven; she could afford that much rest because she had learned to supplement her full day of work by studying in her sleep.
D. Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and I sent them emails, inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups.
E. As she was falling asleep she would recite a math problem or a paper topic to herself; she would then sometimes dream about it, and when she woke up, the problem might be solved.
a. DABCE
b. DACEB
c. ADBCE
d. AECBD
e. None of these.

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Logical questions and answers

Sample Logical Questions And Answers: Directions for next 3 logical questions: Answers the logical questions on the basis of the information given below. A, B, C, D, E, and F are a group of friends. There are two housewives, one professor, one engineer, one accountant and one lawyer in the group. There are only two married couples in the group. The lawyer is married to D, who is a housewife. No woman in the group is either an engineer or an accountant. C, the accountant, is married to F, who is a professor. A is married to a housewife. E is not a housewife.

1. Which of the following is one of the married couples?
a. A & B
b. B & E
c. D & E
d. A & D
e. D & B
Ans.d.
A & D

2. What is E’s profession?
a. Engineer
b. Lawyer
c. Professor
d. Accountant
e. Housewife
Ans.a.
Engineer

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Data Interpretations

Data Interpretations: Directions for next 4 data interpretations questions: Answer the data interpretations questions on the basis of the table given below:

A factory produces A, B, C, D and E which is made from spare parts manufactured by machines M1, M2, M3, M4, M5 and M6.A week is considered from Monday to Saturday. Each machine works for a certain number of hours on four to five days of the week as shown in the following table.

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All products do not need spare parts made by all the machines. The production of spare parts of A, B, C, D and E is done by all the machines independently in that order only.

The following table gives the number of hours required by each machine to product a spare part of each product.

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Note: One unit each of all parts of a specific product after assembling from a set of that product.

1. How many working days in a week are required to manufacture form a set of product B?
a. 2days
b. 3 days
c. 4 days
d. 5 days.
e. 6 days

2. What is the minimum number of working days required to manufacture three sets of product A?
a. 15 days
b. 16 days
c. 17 days
d. 18 days
e. 12 days

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Verbal Questions

Sample Verbal Questions: Directions for next 5 Verbal questions: For each verbal question in this section, select the best of the answer choices given.

1. Recent statistics make it seem unlikely that the total consumption of electricity determines its cost to individual consumers. Recent increases in total consumption, especially during the hot summer months, have sometimes been accompanied by a decrease in the cost per unit and at other times by an increase.
Which of the following positions is best supported by the information presented above?
(A) It must be the case that the cost of electricity to consumers is what determines the total consumption.
(B) Even though a correlation exists between the total consumption of electricity and its cost to consumers, no causal relation exists.
(C) Further investigation into the way these statistics were gathered is certainly called for.
(D) The cost of electricity depends upon something other than the total consumption of electricity.
(E) The cost-per-unit of electricity to consumers is dependent on the total electricity consumption.

2. In a nature reserve in India, people are sometimes attacked by tigers. It is believed that the tigers will only attack people from behind. So for the past few years many workers in the reserve have started wearing masks depicting a human face on the back of their heads. While many area residents remain skeptical, no worker wearing one of these masks has yet been attacked by a tiger.
Which of the statements below, if true, would best support the argument of those who advocate the use of the mask?
(A) Many workers in the nature reserve who do not wear the masks have been attacked recently by tigers.
(B) Workers in other nature reserves who wear similar masks have not been attacked recently by tigers.
(C) No tigers have been spotted on the nature reserve in recent years.
(D) Many of the workers who wear the masks also sing while they work in order to frighten away any tigers in the area.
(E) The tigers have often been observed attacking small deer from in front rather than from behind.

3. Since Arlene Hodges was installed as president of the Caralis corporation, profits have increased by an average of 11 percent per year. During the tenure of her predecessor, the corporation’s profits averaged a yearly increase of only 7 percent. Obviously Ms. Hodges’ aggressive marketing efforts have caused the acceleration in the growth of Caralis’ profits.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the conclusion drawn above?
(A) The corporation’s new manufacturing plant, constructed in the past year, has resulted in a 15 percent increase in production capacity.
(B) For each year of Ms. Hodges’ presidency, the corporation’s financial records show an increase in profits over the previous year.
(C) During the tenure of Ms. Hodges’ predecessor, the corporation began an advertising campaign aimed at capturing consumers between the ages of 24 and 35.
(D) Since Ms. Hodges became president, the corporation has switched the primary focus of its advertising from print ads to radio and television commercials.
(E) Just before he was replaced, Ms. Hodges’ predecessor directed the acquisition of a rival corporation, which has nearly doubled the corporation’s yearly revenues.

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Logical Questions for CAT, MAT, XAT & Bank PO Exams

Logical Questions: Directions for next 4 logical questions: Read the following information carefully, and answer the logical questions that follow.

I. Harsh and Sushila are good at dramatics and computer science.
II. Anju and Harsh are good at computer science and physics.
III. Anju, Jyoti and Namrata are good at physics and history.
IV. Namrata and Anju are good at physics and mathematics.
V. Jyoti and Sushila are good at history and dramatics.

1. Who is good at physics, history and mathematics, but not in computer science?
a. Anju
b. Harsh
c. Namrata
d. Jyoti
e. Sushila.

2. Who is good at history, physics, computer science and mathematics?
a. Harsh
b. Namrata
c. Jyoti
d. Anju
e. Sushila

3. Who is good at physics, history and dramatics?
a. Namrata
b. Jyoti
c. Sushila
d. Anju.
e. Harsh

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Quantitative questions for CAT, MAT, XAT and Bank PO Exams

CAT Quantitative Questions-Directions for next 2 quantitative questions for cat: These quantitative questions are based on the data given below.

A bird starts flying from a place O towards B via. These is no wind resistance from O to A. But these is wind resistance (in the form of uniform wind velocity) between A and B. To travel from O to B, the bird takes 12 minutes, whereas to travel from B to O (via A), the bird takes 14 minutes. Had these been wind resistance between O and A also (which equals, that between A and B), the bird would have taken only 11 minutes to travel from O to B. O, A and B are in straight line.

1. If these was the same wind resistance between O and A as between A and B, what would be the time taken by the bird to travel from B to O?
a. 15 minutes
b. 15.4 minutes
c. 16.2 minutes
d. None of these

2. What is the ratio of the distance OA to the distance AB?
a. 5:4
b. 7:6

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CAT 2010 Questions

CAT 2010 Questions-Directions for next 2 CAT 2010 Questions: Answer the CAT questions on the basis of the information given below.

In an examination, there are 100 questions divided into three groups A, B and C such that each group contains at least one question. Each question in group A carries 1 mark, each question in group B carries 2 marks and each question in group C carries 3 marks. It is known that the questions in group A together carry at least 60% of the total marks.

1. If group B contains 23 questions, then how many questions are there in group C?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. Cannot be determined

2. If group C contains 8 questions and group B carries at least 20% of the total marks, which of the following best describes the number of questions in group B?
a. 11 or 12

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CAT, MAT, XAT and Bank PO Exam Logical Questions

Logical Questions: Direction for next 3 CAT logical questions: Answer the cat logical questions based on the following information.

Each of the four friends Ms A, Mr. B, Ms C and Mr. D vacationed at one of the four places (each person vacationed at only one place) – Japan, Nepal, Egypt and Spain (not necessarily in this order). Each visited the places in one of the following months: January, March, May and November, and everyone went in a different month.

I. C vacationed immediately before A but after the man who went for a vacation to Japan.
II. The person who left in March did not go to Egypt and his friend vacationed in May.
III. The person who went to Nepal vacationed immediately after D did.
IV. A and B visited the friend, who went to Spain, to see his pictures.

1. Where did Ms C spend her vacations?
a. Japan
b. Nepal
c. Egypt
d. Spain
e. Cannot be determined

2. Who vacationed in the month of March?
a. Ms A
b. Mr B
c. Ms C
d. Mr D
e. Both Mr. B and Mr. C

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CAT, MAT, XAT and Bank PO Exam Data Interpretation Questions

Data Interpretation Questions: Directions for next 4 CAT data interpretation questions: Answer the data interpretation questions based on the following data.
The number of mobile phones sold in India was 24 lakhs in 2001. The mobile phone market has been growing at the rate of 25% per annum every year since 2001.

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1. If Samsung sold 62,000 units in November 2002, by how much is its sales above the average monthly sales for the year 2002?
a. 16,500
b. 17,000
c. 17,500
d. 18,000
e. 18,000

2. If instead of the normal growth rate, the mobile phone market experiences a rapid growth of 40% for the year 2003 over the previous year and the total market is worth Rs, 3,600 crore in that year, then what is the average value of a mobile phone in 2003?
a. Rs. 8,900
b. Rs. 8,400
c. Rs. 8,600
d. Rs. 8,700
e. Cannot be determined

3. If the total market of Nokia phones is worth Rs. 1,000 crore in 2001, then what is the average value of a Nokia mobile in 2003?
a. Rs. 19,800
b. Rs. 14,600
c. Rs. 17,200
d. Rs. 16,800
e. cannot be determined

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