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SBI Clerk 2016 Quantitative Aptitude Practice Test

1) A military camp has a food reserve for 250 personnel for 40 days. If after 15 days 50 more personnel
are added to the camp, find the number of days the reserve will last for?

a. 20
b. 36
c. 25
d. 42

2) If a quarter kg of onions costs 80 paise, how many paise will 100 gm cost?

a. 32 paise
b. 44 paise
c. 56 paise
d. 63 paise

3) 34 men can complete a piece of work in 18 days. In how many days will 17 men complete the same
work?

a. 12
b. 18
c. 24
d. 36
e. None of these

4) If 36 men can do a piece of work in 25 hours, in how many hours will 10 men do it?

a. 100 hours
b. 90 hours
c. 60 hours
d. 30 hours

5) If 15 toys cost Rs. 545, what do 37 toys cost ?

a. Rs. 1344
b. Rs. 1200
c. Rs. 1668
d. Rs. 1542

6) For a road work, a contractor was given a deadline to complete the work in 25 days. Hence, he
employed a certain number of workers to accomplish the job. But from the very first day 9 workers were
absent and the remaining workers could finish the work in 40 days. What number of workers did the
contractor hired in the beginning?

a. 20
b. 30
c. 24
d. 16

7) If a certain number of people can dig earth 100m deep, 25m long, and 30m broad in 12 days, then find
the number of days the same number of people will require to dig earth 75m deep, 20m long and 50m
broad.

a. 12
b. 18
c. 6
d. 1

8) If a carpenter completes 3/8th of his work in 6 days, then how many more days will he require
completing his remaining work?

a. 10
b. 12
c. 6
d. 16

9) A group of 55 adults and 70 children go for trekking. If there is meal for either 70 adults or 90
children and if 28 adults have their meal, find the total number of children that can be catered with the
remaining food.

a. 42
b. 54
c. 90
d. 70

10) If a cloth merchant sells ‘a’ metres of cloth for Rs.x, then what is the selling price of ‘b’ metres of
cloth?

a. Rs.(b*x)
b. Rs.{(b*x)/a}
c. Rs.{(a*b)/x}
d. None of these

11) 3 pumps, working 8 hours a day, can empty a tank in 2 days. How many hours a day must 4 pumps
work to empty the tank in 1 day?

A.9 B. 10
C. 11 D.12

12) If the cost of x metres of wire is d rupees, then what is the cost of y metres of wire at the same rate?
xy
A.Rs. B. Rs. (xd)
d
C. Rs. (yd) D.Rs. yd
 x
13) Running at the same constant rate, 6 identical machines can produce a total of 270 bottles per minute.
At this rate, how many bottles could 10 such machines produce in 4 minutes?
A.648 B. 1800
C. 2700 D.10800

14) A fort had provision of food for 150 men for 45 days. After 10 days, 25 men left the fort. The number
of days for which the remaining food will last, is:
1 1
A.29 B. 37
5 4
C. 42 D.54

15) 39 persons can repair a road in 12 days, working 5 hours a day. In how many days will 30 persons,
working 6 hours a day, complete the work?
A.10 B. 13
C. 14 D.15

16) A man completes of a job in 10 days. At this rate, how many more days will it takes him to finish the
job?
A. 5 B. 6
1
C. 7 D. 7
2

17) If a quarter kg of potato costs 60 paise, how many paise will 200 gm cost?
A.48 paise B. 54 paise
C. 56 paise D.72 paise

18) In a dairy farm, 40 cows eat 40 bags of husk in 40 days. In how many days one cow will eat one bag of
husk?
1
A.1 B.
40
C. 40 D.80

19) A wheel that has 6 cogs is meshed with a larger wheel of 14 cogs. When the smaller wheel has made 21
revolutions, then the number of revolutions mad by the larger wheel is:
A.4 B. 9
C. 12 D.49

20) If 7 spiders make 7 webs in 7 days, then 1 spider will make 1 web in how many days?
7
A.1 B.
2
C. 7 D.49