Quantitative Aptitude - Arithmetic Ability Questions

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The height of a light house is 20 mts above sea level. The angle of depression (from the top of the lighthouse) of a ship in the sea is 30 deg. What is the distance of the ship from the foot of the light house?

A) 16 m B) 20√3 m
C) 20 m D) 30 m
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 20√3 m

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What is the value of 12 + 3(-2 x 3) - (18 / 6) ?

A) -5 B) 9
C) -9 D) 5
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) -9

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The point of the intersection of three medians is known as the ____________.

A) circum-centre B) in-center
C) centroid D) orthocenter
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) centroid

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The base and hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is 12 cm and 5 cm respectively. Find the circum-radius (in cm) of the triangle.

 

A) 5 B) 6
C) 6.5 D) 7
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 6.5

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Two pipes A and B can fill an empty cistern in 18 and 27 hours, respectively. Pipe C can drain the entire cistern in 45 hours when no other pipe is in operation. Initially, when the cistern was empty Pipe A and Pipe C were turned on. After a few Pipe A was turned off and Pipe B was turned on instantly. In all, it took 55 hours to fill the cistern. For how many hours was Pipe B turned on?

A) 50 B) 45
C) 27 D) 30
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 45

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The product of two numbers is 20. One of them is 1.25. What is the other number?

A) 12 B) 14
C) 16 D) 15
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 16

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The two roots of an quadratic equation are given as x = 2/3 and x = -1/2. The equation can be written as

A) (2x - 1) (3x + 2) = 0 B) (2x + 1) (3x + 2) = 0
C) (2x + 1) (3x - 2) = 0 D) (2x - 1) (3x - 2) = 0
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) (2x - 1) (3x - 2) = 0

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In the following question, four groups of three numbers are given. In each group the second and third number are related to the first number by a Logic/Rule/Relation. Three are similar on basis of same Logic/Rule/Relation. Select the odd one out from the given alternatives.

 

A) (4, 12, 16) B) (5, 15, 20)
C) (6, 18, 30) D) (9, 27, 36)
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) (6, 18, 30)

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