1. What is the angle subtended by the hands of a clock when it is quaterpast one

Answer : 52.5

2. The contract for painting three houses is given to three people.a canpaint each house in 6 days,b in 8 days & c in 12 days.a starts the work &continues for 8 days,b continues the work for 6 days then in how many days ccan finish the work?

Answer :  11

3. From its total income, A sales company spent Rs.20,000 for advertising, half of the remainder on commissions and had Rs.6000 left. What was its total income?

Answer : 32000

4. If a salesman's average is a new order every other week, he will break the office record of the year. However, after 28 weeks, he is six orders behind schedule. In what proportion of the remaining weeks does he have to obtain a new order to break the record?

Answer : 3/4

5. In a certain company, 20% of the men and 40% of the women attended the annual company picnic. If 35% of all the employees are man, what percent of all the employees went to the picnic?

Answer : 33%

6. If Rs20/- is available to pay for typing a research report & typist A produces 42 pages and typist B produces 28 pages.How much should typist A receive?

Answer : Rs12/-

7. A company installed 36 machines at the beginning of the year. In March they installed 9 additional machines and then disconnected 18 in August. How many were still installed at the end of the year.

Answer :  27

8. A train passes a point in 20 secs and crosses a bicycle moving inopposite direction with a speed of 8 m/s in 15 secs. What is the length ofthe train?

Answer :  480m

9. If right to left operation is done instead of left to right then find the value of 7-(16/(3+1)*2)-4

Answer :  9

10. A clerk multiplied a number by ten when it should have been divided by ten.The Answer : he got was 100. What should the Answer have been?

Answer : 1

11. The cost of four dozen proof machine ribbons and five dozen accouting machine ribbons was Rs.160/-. If one dozen accounting machine ribbons cost Rs.20/-, what is the cost of a dozen proof machine ribbons?

Answer : Rs.15

12. There are 12 persons seated in a room. If one half of the people belong to group A, one third belong to group B and one forth belong to both the groups. How many dont belong to any group.

13. Difference of ages of 2 persons is 9 and difference of squares of the ages is 459. What is the age of the older person?

Answer :  30

14. Two computers each produced 48000 public utility bills in a day. One computer printed bills at the rate of 9600 an hour and the other at the rate of 7800 an hour. When the first computer finished its run, how many bills did the other computer still have to print?

Answer : 9000

15. The dimensions of a certain machine are 48" X 30" X 52". If the size of the machine is increased proportionately until the sum of its dimensions equals 156", what will be the increase in the shortest side?

Answer :  6"