Verbal Reasoning - Mental Ability Questions

Q:

Find the correct sentence from the following options ?

A) The dacoits having stopped to divide the booty, the police had overtaken them B) The dacoits being stopped to divide the booty, the police overtook them.
C) The dacoits having been stopped for dividing the booty, the police overtook them D) The dacoits having stopped for dividing the booty, the police overtook them
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) The dacoits having stopped for dividing the booty, the police overtook them

Explanation:

As it is the past continuous sentence.

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Q:

What is the distance around a shape called?

A) Volume B) Area
C) Mass D) Perimeter
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Perimeter

Explanation:

The distance around a shape or figure I called Perimeter. A perimeter is a path that surrounds a two-dimensional shape.

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Q:

Which of the following interchanges in signs will make the given equation correct?
17- 15 x 5 = 250

A) = and x B) + and -
C) = and - D) x and -
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) x and -

Explanation:
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Q:

"Compounding frequency" refers to

A) What type of interest your account earns B) How often your interest is calculated and added back into your account
C) What interest rate you can expect from your account D) How easily you can add money into your account
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) How often your interest is calculated and added back into your account

Explanation:

Compounding frequency :

The time periods when interest will be calculated on top of the original loan amount (or) The number of compounding periods in one year.

 

The greater the compounding frequency, the more often your interest is calculated and added back into your account.

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Q:

On sport’s day, if 12 children were made to stand in each column, 98 columns could be formed. After a certain music being played the plan was that the children have to stand in concentric circles such that the innermost circle will have one student, the next circle will have two students, the third circle will have 3 students and so on. How many circles will be formed in this manner ?

A) 44 B) 46
C) 48 D) 49
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 48

Explanation:

No. of students will be 98 x 12 = 1176
let us consider n circles then 1 + 2 + 3 + ....+ n = 1176
n(n+1)/2 = 1176
n = 48 circles.

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Q:

What would be the next number in the sequence 52, 56, 48, 64, 32, ?

A) 96 B) 48
C) 54 D) 81
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 96

Explanation:

The given number series is 52, 56, 48, 64, 32, …

It follows a pattern that,

52

52 + 4 = 56

56 - 8 = 48

48 + 16 = 64

64 - 32 = 32

32 + 64 = 96

Therefore, the required next number in the given number series is 96.

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Q:

The compound interest accrued on an amount of Rs.25,500 at the end of three years is Rs.8,440.5. What would be the simple interest accrued on the same amount at the same rate in the same period?

A) Rs.4,650 B) Rs.5,650
C) Rs.6,650 D) Rs.7,650
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Rs.7,650

Explanation:
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Q:

A is father of X; B is mother of Y. The sister of X and Z is Y. which of the following statements is definitely not true?

A) B is the Mother of Z B) X is the Sister of Z
C) Y is the Son of A D) B is the Wife of A
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Y is the Son of A

Explanation:

A is the father of X and Y is the sister of X. So, Y is the daughter of A.

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