Verbal Arithmetical Reasoning Test Online 1

1. A group of 1200 persons consisting if captains and soldiers is travelling in a train. For every 15 soldiers there is one captain. The number of captains in the group is

2. The number of boys in a class is three times the number of girls. Which one of the following numbers cannot represent the total number of children in the class?

3. What is the smallest number if ducks that could swim in this formation – two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a ducks between two ducks?

4. A placed three sheets with two carbons to get two extra copies of the original. Then he decided to get more carbon copies and folded the paper in such a way that the upper half of the sheets were on top of the lower half. Then he typed. How many carbon copies did he get?

5. In a class, there are 18 boys who are over 160 cm tail. If these constitute three- fourths of the boys and the total number of boys is two-thirds of the total number of students in the class, what is the number of girls in the class?

6. In a class of 60 students, the number of boys and girls participating in the annual sports is in the ratio 3 : 2 respectively. The number of girls not participating in the sports in 5 more than the number of boys not participating in the sports. If the number of boys participating in the sports is 15, then how many girls are there in the class?

7. A man wears socks of two colours – Black and brown. He has altogether 20 block socks in a drawer. Supposing he has to take out the socks in the dark, how many must he take out to be sure that he has pair?

8. Aruna cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of the small pieces is twenty grams in weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake in all with her, how heavy was the original cake?

9. What is the product of all the numbers in the dial of a telephone?

10. At the end of a business conference the ten people present all shake hands with each other once. How many handshakes will there be altogether?

11. A shepherd had 17 sheep. All but nine died. How many was he left with?

12. A bird shooter was asked how many birds he had in the bag. He replied that there were all sparrows but six, all pigeons but six, and all ducks but six. How many birds he had in the bag in all?

13. A student got twice as many sums wrong as he got right. If he attempted 48 sums in all, how many did he solve correctly?

14. First bunch of bananas has ¼ again as many bananas as a second bunch. If the second bunch has 3 bananas less than the first bunch, then the number of bananas in the first bunch is

15. The 30 members of a club decided to play a badminton singles tournament. Every time a member loses a game he is out of the tournament. There are no ties. What is the minimum number of matches that must be played to determine the winner?