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Directions Q 1 to 3: Use the following information:

Ghoshbabu is staying at Ghosh Housing Society, Aghosh
Colony, Dighospur, Calcutta. In Ghosh Housing Society, 6 persons daily read Ganashakti
and 4 read Anand Bazar Patrika; in his colony there is no person who reads
both. Total number of persons who read these two newspapers in Aghosh Colony
and Dighospur is 52 and 200 respectively. Number of persons who read Ganashakti
in Aghosh Colony and Dighospur is 33 and 121 respectively; while the persons
who read Anand Bazar Patrika in Aghosh Colony and Dighospur are 32 and 117
respectively.

1. Number of persons in Dighospur who read only
Ganashakti is

(a) 121                   (b) 83                    (c) 79                      (d) 127

2. Number of persons in Aghosh Colony who read both of
these newspapers is

(a) 13                     (b) 20                       (c) 19                    (d) 14

3. Number of persons in Aghosh Colony who read only
one paper

(a) 29                      (b)
19                      (c) 39                     (d) 20

4.  Two towns A
and B are 100 km apart. A school is to be built for 100 students of town B and
30 students of Town A. Expenditure on transport is Rs. 1.20 per km per student.
If the total expenditure on transport by all 130 students is to be as small as
possible, then the school should be built at?

(a) 33 km from Town A.      (b) 33 km from Town B     (c)TownA                (d) Town
B

5.  A water tank
has three taps A, B, and C. A fills four buckets in 24 minutes, B fills 8
buckets in 1 hour and C fills 2 buckets in 20 minutes. If all the taps are
opened together a full tank is emptied in 2 hours. If a bucket can hold 5
litres of water, what is the capacity of the tank?

(a) 120 litres                (b)
240 litres                  (c) 180
litres                 (d) 60 litres

6. Shyam went from Delhi to Shimla via Chandigarh by
car. The distance from Delhi to Chandigarh is ¾ times the distance from
Chandigarh to Shimla. The average speed from Delhi to Chandigarh was half as
much again as that from Chandigarh to Shimla. If the average speed for the
entire journey was 49 kmph. What was the average speed from Chandigarh to
Shimla?

(a) 39.2 kmph             (b)
63 kmph       (c) 42 kmph         (d) None of these

7. Fourth term of an arithmetic progression is 8. What
is the sum of the first 7 terms of the arithmetic progression?

(a) 7                 (b)
64               (c) 56           (d) Cannot be
determined

8.  It takes the
pendulum of a clock 7 seconds to strike 4 o’clock. How much time will it take
to strike 11 o’clock?

(a) 18 seconds         (b)
20 seconds            (c) 19.25
seconds                 (d) 23.33 seconds

9.  What is the
smallest number which when increased by 5 is completely divisible by 8, 11 and
24?

(a) 264             (b) 259             (c) 269            (d) None of these      

10. A man buys spirit at Rs. 60 per litre, adds water
to it and then sells it at Rs. 75 per litre. What is the ratio of spirit to water
if his profit in the deal is 37.5%?

(a) 9 : 1            (b) 10
: 1           (c) 11 : 1           (d) None of these

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Answers

1(b)    2(a)    
3(c)    4(d)     5(b)    
6(c)   7(c)    8(d)    
9(b)    10(b)