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Problems On Numbers-1
1: If a 10-digit number 1230x558y2 is divisible by 88, then the value of (5x + 5y) is:
A) 40 B) 20
C) 50 D) 30
Answer : A) 40
2: If an 8-digit number 30x558y2 is divisible by 88, then the value of (6x +6y) is:
A) 30 B) 35
C) 42 D) 66
Answer : C) 42
3: If the seven digit number 54x29y6 (x > y)is divisible by 72, what is the value of (2x + 3y)?
A) 38 B) 13
C) 32 D) 23
Answer : D) 23
6: The ten-digit number 2x600000y8 is exactly divisible by 24. If x ≠ 0 and y ≠ 0, then the least value
of (x + y) is equal to:
A) 5 B) 8
C) 9 D) 2
Answer : A) 5
7: The 10-digit number 79x00001y6 is exactly divisible by 88. What is the value of (x + 3)?
A) 5 B) 9
C) 6 D) 7
Answer : B) 9
8: Divide 27 into two parts so that 5 times the first and 11 times the second together equals to 195.
Then ratio of the first and second parts is
A) 17 : 10 B) 3 : 2
C) 2 : 7 D) 5 : 4
Answer: A) 17 : 10
9: If the sum of two numbers is 11 and the sum of their squares is 65, then the sum of their cubes
will be:
A) 407 B) 576
C) 355 D) 615
Answer: A) 407
12: If the number 59a44b is divisible by 36, then the maximum value of a + b is:
A) 16 B) 14
C) 12 D) 10
Answer: B) 14
14: The sum of 17 consecutive numbers is 289. The sum of another 10 consecutive numbers, whose
first term is 5 more than the average of the first set of consecutive numbers, is:
A) 300 B) 285
C) 265 D) 315
Answer : C) 265
15: If the 8-digit number 1a765b12 is to be divisible by 72, the least value of (2a + 3b)is:
A) 11 B) 10
C) 9 D) 12
Answer : A) 11
21: What number must be added to each of the numbers 8, 13, 26 and 40 so that the numbers
obtained in this order are in proportion?
A) 3 B) 2
C) 1 D) 4
Answer : B) 2
22: If a positive integer ‘n’ is divisible by 3, 5 and 7, then what is the next larger integer divisible by
all these numbers?
A) n + 21 B) n + 110
C) n + 105 D) n + 35
Answer : C) n + 105
23: If a 10-digit number 1330x5582 is divisible by 88, then the value of (x + y) is:
A) 8 B) 7
C) 9 D) 6
Answer : C) 9
24: The difference between two numbers is 43 and their product is 50. Find the sum of their
squares.
A) 1947 B) 1949
C) 1946 D) 1948
Answer: B) 1949
25: If the 10-digit number 897359y7x2 is divisible by 72, then what is the value of(3x-y), for the
possible greatest value of y ?
A) 3 B) 8
C) 7 D) 5
Answer: C) 7
26: If 10-digit number 67127y76x2 is divisible by 88, then the value of (7x- 2y) is:
A) 10 B) 7
C) 5 D) 3
Answer: B) 7
27: If a number is divided by 3, the remainder will be 2. If the number is added by 5 and then
divided by 3, then what will be the remainder?
A) 0 B) 1
C) 2 D) 3
Answer: B) 1
29: If one-fifth of one-fourth of a number is 35, then what is seven-eighth of that number?
A) 624.5 B) 612.5
C) 723.5 D) 715
Answer: B) 612.5
30: The sum of two numbers is 59 and their product is 840. Find the sum of their squares.
A) 2961 B) 1801
C) 1875 D) 1754
Answer: B) 1801
31: If the difference between two numbers is 6 and the difference between their squares is 60,
what is the sum of their cubes ?
A) 894 B) 945
C) 678 D) 520
Answer : D) 520
34: The difference between a number and one-third of that number is 228. What is 20% of that
number?
A) 72.5 B) 68.4
C) 58.9 D) 61.8
Answer: B) 68.4
35: If the six digit number 6x2904 is divisible by 88, then the value of x is:
A) 5 B) 8
C) 7 D) 6
Answer : D) 6
36: Which of the following numbers is divisible by 2, 5 and 10?
A) 7,20,345 B) 149
C) 19,400 D) 1,25,372
Answer: C) 19,400
37: If a positive integer n is divided by 7, the remainder is 2. Which of the numbers in the options
yields a remainder of 0 when it is divided by 7?
A) n + 3 B) n + 5
C) n + 2 D) n + 1
Answer: B) n + 5
38: If the 8-digit number 43A5325B is divisible by 8 and 9, then the sum of A and B is equal to:
A) 15 B) 14
C) 12 D) 18
Answer: B) 14
39: If the six digit number 15x1y2 is divisible by 44, then (x + y) is equal to:
A) 8 B) 7
C) 6 D) 9
Answer: B) 7
41: The difference of two positive numbers is 1020. If 7.6% of the greater number is 12.4% of the
smaller number, then the sum of the two numbers is equal to
A) 3250 B) 4520
C) 3520 D) 4250
Answer: D) 4250
42: If 4M37094267N is divisible by both 8 and 11, where M and N are single digit integers, then the
values of M and N are
A) M = 5, N = 6 B) M = 5, N = 4
C) M = 5, N = 2 D) M = 2, N = 5
Answer : C) M = 5, N = 2
43: The product of two number is 24 and the sum of their squares is 52.Find their sum.
A) 5 B) 10
C) 15 D) 20
Answer : B) 10
44: What number should be deducted from 1265 to make it divisible by 29 exactly?
A) 15 B) 16
C) 18 D) 17
Answer : C) 18
45: If a nine-digit number 1263487xy is divisible by both 8 and 5, then the greatest possible values
of x and y, respectively, are
A) 6 and 5 B) 2 and 0
C) 6 and 0 D) 2 and 5
Answer : C) 6 and 0
46: In a question on division, the divisor is 6 times the quotient and 3 times the remainder. If the
remainder is 40, then find the dividend.
A) 2445 B) 2440
C) 2455 D) 2450
Answer: C) 2455
47: The sum of two numbers is 59 and their product is 1150. Find the sum of their squares.
A) 1183 B) 1178
C) 1176 D) 1181
Answer : D) 1181
48: If the difference between two numbers is 5 and the difference between their cubes is 1850,
then the difference between their squares is:
A) 3% B) 4%
C) 1% D) 2%
Answer: D) 2%
49: If the number A9257B684 is divisible by 11, then what is the least value of
A) 14 B) 0
C) -8 D) 3
Answer : C) -8
51: In Fibonacci series each number is defined as Fn = Fn - 1 + Fn + 2. If the first two numbers in the
sequence are 0 and 1 i.e. F0 = 0 and F1 = 1, then find out the 10th number in the sequence?
A) 22 B) 55
C) 34 D) 57
Answer
52: Find the three prime numbers such that product of the first two is 1147 and the product of the
last two numbers is 1517?
A) 21,47,61 B) 31,37,61
C) 21,37,41 D) 31,37,41
Answer : D) 31,37,41
53: What is the product of the largest and the smallest possible values of m for which a number
5m83m4m1 is divisible by 9?
A) 80 B) 10
C) 40 D) 16
Answer : D) 16
54: What is the least value of x such that 517x324 is divisible by 12?
A) 3 B) 2
C) 1 D) 0
Answer : B) 2
55: For what value of x is the seven digit number 46393x8 divisible by 11?
A) 3 B) 2
C) 7 D) 5
Answer: A) 3
56: If the six digit number 4x573y is divisible by 72 then the value of (x + y) is:
A) 4 B) 6
C) 8 D) 9
Answer : C) 8
57: What is the value of x so that the seven digit number 6913x08 is divisible by 88?
A) 6 B) 4
C) 2 D) 8
Answer: D) 8
58: What is the value of x so that the seven digit number 91876x2 is divisible by 72?
A) 7 B) 3
C) 2 D) 5
Answer: B) 3
59: What is the value of x so that the seven digit number 5656x52 is divisible by 72?
A) 8 B) 4
C) 5 D) 7
Answer : D) 7
60: What should replace * in the number 94*2357, so that number is divisible by 11?
A) 1 B) 7
C) 8 D) 3
Answer : D) 3
61: When 200 is divided by a positive integer x , the remainder is 8. How many values of x are there?
A) 7 B) 5
C) 8 D) 6
Answer : C) 8
62: If the number 1005x4 is completely divisible by 8, then the smallest integer in place of x will be:
A) 0 B) 1
C) 4 D) 2
Answer : A) 0
63: When 200 is divided by a positive integer x , the remainder is 8. How many values of x are there?
A) 7 B) 5
C) 8 D) 6
Answer : C) 8
34: When an integer n is divided by 8, the remainder is 3. What will be the remainder if 6n-1 is
divided by 8 ?
A) 2 B) 0
C) 4 D) 1
Answer: D) 1
65: What is the value of x so that the seven digit number 8439x53 is divisible by 99?
A) 9 B) 4
C) 3 D) 6
Answer : B) 4
66: What is the value of x so that the seven digit number 55350x2 is divisible by 72?
A) 1 B) 8
C) 7 D) 3
Answer : C) 7
67: When 732 is divided by a positive integer x, the remainder is 12. How many values of x are there?
A) 19 B) 18
C) 20 D) 16
Answer : C) 20
68: If the 6-digit numbers x35624 and 1257y4 are divisible by 11 and 12, respectively, then what is
the value of (5x - 2y ) ?
A) 26 B) 12
C) 10 D) 13
Answer : A) 26
69: In a group of 1300 students, every student reads 5 subjects and every subject is read by 65
students. The number of subjects are:
A) exactly 100 B) may be 250
C) at the most 70 D) at least 10
Answer : A) exactly 100
70: Find the least number which should be subtracted from 9999 so that the difference is exactly
divisible by 16?
A) 15 B) 12
C) 14 D) 13
Answer : A) 15
71: A positive number when decreased by 4, is equal to 21 times the reciprocal of this number. The
number is
A) 3 B) 7
C) 5 D) 9
Answer : B) 7
72: How many numbers are there from 200 to 800 which are neither divisible by 5 nor by 7?
A) 407 B) 410
C) 413 D) 411
Answer : D) 411
73: How many natural numbers less than 500, when divided by 35 and 49, will leave a remainder of
30 in each case?
A) 4 B) 3
C) 1 D) 2
Answer : C) 1
74: If the nine-digit number 708x6y8z9 is divisible by 99, then what is the value of x + y + z?
A) 5 B) 27
C) 16 D) 9
Answer: C) 16
75: If the given number 925x85 is divisible by 11, then the smallest value of x is:
A) 1 B) 2
C) 3 D) 4
Answer : D) 4
76: What x is added to each of 10, 16, 22 and 32, the numbers so obtained in this order are in
proportion? What is the mean proportional between the numbers (x + 1) and (3x + 1)?
A) 12 B) 9
C) 15 D) 10
Answer: C) 15
77: When a positive integer is divided by d, the remainder is 15. When ten times of the same
number is divided by d. the remainder is 6.
The least possible value of d is:
A) 9 B) 16
C) 18 D) 12
Answer : B) 16
78: The greatest number which should be replace '*’ in the number 146*48 to make t divisible by 8
is:
A) 8 B) 9
C) 2 D) 0
Answer: A) 8
79: Solve the following equation:
11÷3+19−5×6 (1×16)=?
A) -19 B) 119
C) 118 D) -119
Answer : D) -119
80: If 7 divided a positive integer n, the remainder is 2. Which of the following numbers gives a
remainder of 0 when divided by 7?
A) n - 5 B) n + 5
C) n + 2 D) n + 1
Answer: B) n + 5
81: Find the greatest number which is such that when 76, 151, and 226 are divided by it, the
remainders are all alike.
A) 60 B) 70
C) 75 D) 69
Answer : C) 75
83: The largest number which should replace * in the number 2365*4 to make the number divisible
by 4 is:
A) 9 B) 2
C) 0 D) 8
Answer : D) 8
84: 43÷16×2−1=?
A) 3 B) -2
C) 8 D) 15
Answer: D) 15
86: Sum of four consecutive odd numbers is 328. Find the largest number.
A) 85 B) 98
C) 79 D) 97
Answer: A) 85
88: If the mean of the numbers 27 + x, 31 + x, 89 + x, 107 + x and 156 + x is 82.then the mean of 130
+ x, 126 x, 68 + x, 50 + x 1 + x is :
A) 80 B) 75
C) 50 D) 70
Answer: B) 75
90: 2/5 of a number exceeds 2/7 of the same number by 42. Find the number.
A) 250 B) 280
C) 320 D) 350
Answer : D) 350
96: The square root of which of the numbers below will be rational?
A) 16848 B) 41872
C) 49883 D) 43264
Answer : D) 43264
97: When 2 is subtracted from each of the given n numbers, then the sum of the numbers so
obtained is 102. When 5 is subtracted from each of them, then the sum of the numbers so obtained
is 12. What is the average of the given n numbers?
A) 6.2 B) 6.6
C) 5.8 D) 5.4
Answer : D) 5.4
98: If integer n is divided by 5, the remainder is 2. What will be the remainder if 7n is divided by 5?
A) 4 B) 1
C) 3 D) 2
Answer : A) 4
103: Which of the following numbers will have an even number of factors?
A) 16900 B) 52900
C) 30000 D) 36100
Answer : C) 30000
104: The smallest number which may replace * in the number 1190*6 to make the number divisible
by 9 is:
A) 1 B) 9
C) 3 D) 0
Answer: A) 1
105: Which of the following numbers is divisible by 9?
A) 87654 B) 56765
C) 47862 D) 54321
Answer : C) 47862
109: In a 3-digit number, the hundreds digit is 4 times the units digit and the tens digit is thrice the
units digit. The sum of the digits is 8. What is the tens digit in the number?
A) 6 B) 3
C) 4 D) 9
Answer : B) 3
116: What is the sum of the reciprocals of the values of zeroes of the polynomial 6×2 + 3×2 − 5×+1 ?
A) 2 B) 3
C) 4 D) 5
Answer: D) 5
119: The square of a natural number (other than 1) is either a multiple of 3 or exceeds a multiple of
3 by:........
A) 3 B) 2
C) 4 D) 1
Answer: D) 1
122: By which least number should 1568 be divided so that the resultant number is a perfect square?
A) 2 B) 3
C) 6 D) 5
Answer: A) 2
123: What is the sum of the first 16 terms of the given series.
6, 13/2, 7, 15/2,...
A) 157 B) 313/2
C) 156 D) 311/2
Answer: C) 156
127: Which of the fractions given below, when added to 5/7, gives 1?
A) 6/14 B) 6/21
C) 5/3 D) 4/2
Answer : B) 6/21
128: What is the least natural number which when divided by 8, 12, 15 or 16 leaves a remainder of
7?
A) 247 B) 548
C) 257 D) 614
Answer: A) 247
129: What number, from the following should be deducted from 1184 to make it exactly divisible by
21?
A) 15 B) 12
C) 8 D) 7
Answer: C) 8
131: Average of 9 consecutive natural numbers is 41. What is the largest among these numbers?
A) 37 B) 44
C) 46 D) 45
Answer: D) 45
132: If doubling a number and adding 16 to the result gives the same number as multiplying the
number by 6 and taking away 4 from the product, then find the number.
A) 4 B) 5
C) 6 D) 7
Answer: B) 5
134: The average of first three out of four numbers is 18. The average of last three numbers is
14.The sum of first and last number is 16. The last number is
A) 17 B) 13
C) 9 D) 5
Answer : D) 5
135: The product of two even consecutive numbers is 168. Find the sum of numbers.
A) 20 B) 22
C) 24 D) 26
Answer: D) 26
137: The sum of the numbers is 437 and their product is 21982. Find the numbers.
A) 399 and 38 B) 295 and 142
C) 58 and 379 D) 323 and 114
Answer: C) 58 and 379
138: Find the difference between the place value and face value of the digit 9 in the number
229301?
A) 9292 B) 8991
C) 0 D) 220
Answer : B) 8991
140: What is the square root of the sum of first 36 odd natural numbers?
A) 27 B) 28
C) 30 D) 32
Answer : C) 30
141: If the sum of two numbers is 25 and their product is 156. Find the larger number.
A) 11 B) 12
C) 13 D) 15
Answer : C) 13
143: The sum of the digits of a 2 digit number is 9. When 27 is added to the number, the digits get
interchanged. Find the number.
A) 45 B) 36
C) 18 D) 27
Answer : B) 36
144: The product of two consecutive odd numbers is 399. Find the lower of them.
A) 17 B) 19
C) 21 D) 23
Answer : B) 19
145: What is the smallest number of 5 digits which is exactly divisible by 12, 24, 48, 60 and 96?
A) 10000 B) 10024
C) 10160 D) 10080
Answer : D) 10080
146: The smallest number by which 72 must be multiplied to obtain a perfect square is
A) 4 B) 6
C) 8 D) 2
Answer : D) 2
147: What is the least number that should be added to the product 7 × 8 × 9 × 10 to make it a
perfect square?
A) 144 B) 1
C) 289 D) 3
Answer : B) 1
148: A positive integer, which when added to 1000, gives a sum which is greater than 10.06 when it
is multiplied by 100. This positive integer is
A) 1 B) 7
C) 3 D) 5
Answer : B) 7
150: The Sum of three consecutive numbers is 126. Find the highest number.
A) 41 B) 42
C) 43 D) 44
Answer : C) 43
151: Twice the difference between two numbers is equal to their sum. If one number is 15, find the
other number.
A) 15 B) 10
C) 5 D) 20
Answer : C) 5
152: How many times does the number 3 occur in unit's place for numbers ranging from 1 to 100?
A) 20 B) 11
C) 10 D) 19
Answer : C) 10
153: 10 Consecutive numbers are given. If the average of the two numbers given in the middle is
13.5, then what is the sum of the first 6 numbers?
A) 65 B) 59
C) 69 D) 80
Answer : C) 69
157: Find the least number to be added to 1739 so that it is exactly divisible by 11.
A) 11 B) 2
C) 1 D) 10
Answer: D) 10
160: If the sum of digits is 9 and the difference between the digit in the ten's place and unit's place
is 1, then the two-digit number is?
A) 45 B) 63
C) 54 D) 72
Answer : C) 54
163: How much does one need to add to 4/5 to obtain 5/4?
A) 16/20 B) 1/-1
C) 1.25/0.8 D) 9/20
Answer : D) 9/20
168: Find the least number that must be subtracted from 98534, to get a number exactly divisible
by 824.
A) 484 B) 478
C) 422 D) 375
Answer : B) 478
170: The sum of the square of three consecutive odd numbers is 2195. Find the numbers.
A) 21, 23, 25 B) 23, 25, 27
C) 25, 27, 29 D) 27, 29, 31
Answer : C) 25, 27, 29
171: The sum of a fraction and its reciprocal is 113/56. Find the fraction.
A) 7/8 B) 5/8
C) 8/9 D) 3/7
Answer: A) 7/8
175: The least number that must be subtracted from 202 to make it a perfect square is
A) 10 B) 8
C) 14 D) 6
Answer : D) 6
176: Find the greatest number which on dividing 391 and 318 leaves remainders 7 and 6
respectively.
A) 20 B) 23
C) 24 D) 32
Answer: C) 24
177: The smallest of the fractions among 5/8, 3/4, 13/16, 7/12 is ___.
A) 5/8 B) 3/4
C) 13/16 D) 7/12
Answer: D) 7/12
178: ____ are twin prime numbers.
A) (4,9) B) (2,3)
C) (4,6) D) (3,5)
Answer : D) (3,5)
184: The sum of two positive integers is 34 and their difference is 8. Find their product.
A) 308 B) 273
C) 209 D) 345
Answer : B) 273
185: How many prime numbers are there between the positive integers 60 and 100?
A) 9 B) 6
C) 7 D) 8
Answer : D) 8
186: The sum of two fractions is 3/4. One of them is 2/3. What is the other fraction?
A) 1/12 B) 1/1
C) 1/10 D) 1/5
Answer : A) 1/12
188: If the number x3451 is divisible by 3, where x is a digit, what can be the sum of all such values
of x?
A) 15 B) 16
C) 11 D) 14
Answer: A) 15
190: In a number system, on dividing 11509 by a certain number, Mukesh gets 71 as quotient and 7
as remainder. What is the divisor?
A) 132 B) 172
C) 182 D) 162
Answer: D) 162
191: Three numbers are given in which the second is triple the first and is also double the third. If
the average of the three numbers is 66. Find the first number.
A) 36 B) 54
C) 108 D) 72
Answer : A) 36
192: In a fraction when 3 is added to its numerator and denominator it becomes 4/5. And it
becomes 1/2 when 2 is subtracted from both the numerator and denominator. Find the fraction.
A) 15/16 B) 14/16
C) 11/16 D) 9/16
Answer: C) 11/16
193: A number was divided in the ratio 3:2. When 8 was was added to each of the numbers the
ratio changed to 7:5. The greater of the two numbers was
A) 48 B) 42
C) 27 D) 69
Answer : A) 48
194: Which of the following is the prime number series from 1 to 20?
A) 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19 B) 3, 5, 7, 11, 13,17, 19
C) 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17, 19 D) 2, 3, 5, 7,11, 13, 17, 19
Answer : D) 2, 3, 5, 7,11, 13, 17, 19
196: What is the fraction which, when taken away from 1/2, gives 2/3?
A) 1/3 B) -1/3
C) -1/6 D) 1/6
Answer : C) -1/6
198: Which of the given options is the pattern of the sequence 1, 5, 11, 19, 29?
A) x2 + x - 1 B) x2 + x + 1
C) x2 + x - 2 D) x2 - x - 1
Answer : A) x2 + x - 1
199: The product of two numbers is 20. One of them is 1.25. What is the other number?
A) 12 B) 14
C) 16 D) 15
Answer : C) 16
200: In a fraction when 3 is added to its numerator and denominator it becomes 4/5. And it
becomes 1/2 when 2 is subtracted from both the numerator and denominator. Find the fraction.
A) 15/16 B) 14/16
C) 11/16 D) 9/16
Answer: C) 11/16