Quant Questions | NICL AO 2017 | 25.04.2017

                                             

1. A shopkeeper declared 20% discount on an item a customer bought the item from the shop for Rs. 9600 after getting discount. If the person sells the item to another person in such a way that he earned a profit of 18% on the mark price then what is the cost price for second person?

A – 11460

B- 11640

C- 14160

D- 14610

E – 16410

2. Shivam, Harshit and Anupam invested some amount in a business. Shivam received 1/10 of the profit and remaining is divided between Harshit and Anupam in the ratio of 1.25: 1. If the difference between the shares of Anupam and Shivam is Rs. 8340, then what is the share of Harshit?

1. 13900

2. 19300

3. 16300

4. 16900

5. None of these

3. Time taken by Naimish to travel a distance upstream is 7 times of the time which he takes to travel the same distance downstream. If the distance between the destinations is 60 Km which he can travel in 5 hours in still water, then find the rate of the stream.

1. 3 Km/hr

2. 5 km/hr

3. 7.5 km/hr

4. 9 km/hr

5. Data inadequate

4. Deepak has Rs.12615 a part of which he gave to Puneet for 6 years and remaining to Shashank for 8 years, at 5% rate of interest compounded annually. If both Puneet and Shashank gave him same amount at the end of their duration. Find the share of Shashank.

1. 6615

2. 6200

3. 6400

4. 6415

5. 6000

6. A blacksmith has to make an iron box, he takes the dimension of the box 16 feet, 12 feet and 10 feet, but the box he formed is half of the required capacity. If he takes the height of the box correctly and has to increase the length and the breadth equally to get the required capacity. Find the approx. percentage change in the area of the base of the box?

1. 50%

2. 60%

3. 75%

4. 80%

5. 100%

6. Rahul gave 1500 Rs to Arun for 5 years. Arun return him the money with a simple interest at a rate of 14% per annum. Rahul invested this amount with his saving in a bank for 2 years which gives him 20% rate of interest per annum at compound interest. If after 2 years he receive an interest of Rs. 1408. Find the savings which Rahul add in the amount?

1. 600

2. 625

3. 650

4. 675

5. 700

6. 20 men can finish a work in 30 days. After 10 days 10 men leave the work,reamining men work for the next 10 days .How many more men will be required after 20 days from the start of the work to complete the work in time?

1. 10

2. 15

3. 20

4. 25

5. 30

7. While travelling a distance of 48 km, Ballu covers it two hours faster than he had planned to. This he achieved by travelling 1 km more every hour than he intended to cover in every 1 hour 15 minutes. What the speed at which Ballu is travelling?

1. 8 km/hr.

2. 12 km/hr.

3. 9 km/hr.

4. 10.5 km/hr.

5. 7.5 km/hr.

8. An insurance company insures 50,000 Boys, 25000 girls and 40,000 adult. The probability of death within 5 years of a boys, girl and adult are 0.03, 0.05 and 0.125 respectively. One of the insured person dies. Find the probability that the dead person is a Boy ?

1. 6/33

2. 6/31

3. 1/5

4. 3/31

5. 4/33

9. A vessels contains mixture of 3 types of milk A, B, C. The ratio of their quantity is 3 : 4 : 9 respectively. If 10 litres of the mixture is taken out and 3 litres of A, B, C each are filled in the vessels due to which the quantity of C became twice that of B. Find the initial quantity of mixture?

1. 48

2. 58

3. 40

4. 50

5. 68