Mathematics Quiz

MATHEMATICS QUIZ

1.Various shops offer discount on a particular brand of Jeans. Which of them offers you the best deal?

A.      Shop A offers a discount of 40 % flat off

B.      Shop B offers a discount of 20 % and 25 % after the previous discount.

C.      Shop C offers first a discount of  30 % and 12% after  the previous discount.

D.     The offer by Shop A and B are the same.

2. A cylindrical vessel of radius 4 cm and height 24 cm is available.  A cone with height  8 cm and diameter 8 cm is available. How many cones of water are needed to fill the cylinder.

A. 18                B.  12               C. 8                  D. 9

3. A bacteria divides every 15 minutes. With one bacteria at 1000 Hrs how many bacteria will be there at 1300 hrs on the same day.

A. 2048                        B.  4092                       C. 8192                        D. 16384­

4. Nobitha asked his grandmother what her  age was .She told him that 5 years back she was ten times older than him and 5 years from now she would be four time older than him. What are their present age?

5. An airline found that in a particular route only 60 % of the seats of the airplane was occupied. The director board  found that the tickets are a bit expensive .They offered the first 10 % tickets at 40% rate . Next 70 % ticket at 70% rate and the remaining tickets at full rate. They found 95 % of the seats  occupied .By what percent did their revenue increase?

6. A polygon is divided into 5 triangles , what will be the total of the five triangles ?

 7. In  a particular school 1200 students avail the school bus facility. The school  charges Rs. 500 per student. It pays the bus operator  Rs 400 per student. The bus operator has been operating 30 seated bus for the students. The school is not concerned whether the bus operator operates 30 seated bus or 50 seated bus. The school is particular that every student gets a  seat in the bus. The bus operator is at  present operating 40 buses with 30 seats and makes a profit  of Rs 50 per student. The cost of operating a 30 seated bus  comes to about 80% of the 50 seated bus. If the bus operator operates minimum number of 50 seated bus how much expenditure will he be able to  reduce ?

What are the other benefits the community is going to get due to this shift in policy.

8.  The following are marks secured by various students. Who has scored the highest percentage?

A. Reena – 455/500

B. Anita -  547/600

c. Rima -  630/700

D. Monica – 361/400

9. Bullet trains are successful in moderate sized countries with moderate to high density of population like  France, Germany , Italy , Spain etc . In these countries you can travel by bullet train  between the farthest corners in  three to four hours. Bullet trains are able to give competition to Air lines in these countries. But in vast countries like Canada, USA , Brazil and Russia bullet trains face stiff competition from airlines.( note : In china the bullet train service is mainly concentrated in the eastern coastal areas where there is dense urban cluster) Can you give some reasons why in vast countries bullet trains face stiff competition from airlines.

10 . Consider the above situations and tell me which of the following is correct in the case of India ?

A.     Low cost airlines have a great future in India

B.      Bullet  train has a great future in all regions of India

C.      Bullet train has a future only in some economically well off sectors in India.

D.      Situation A and C are correct.