Quantitative Reasoning CUET General Test MCQs

Consider the following information and answer the questions based on it. In a group of 75 students, 12 like only cabbage, 15 like only cauliflower, 21 like only carrot, 12 like both carrot and cabbage, 13 like only capsicum and 2 like both capsicum and cauliflower.

Question: The difference between the people who like carrot and cauliflower is
a) 6
b) 18
c) 16
d) 4

Answer: c

Question: What is the percentage of students that do not like cabbage?
a) 16
b) 32
c) 24
d) 68

Answer: d

Question: How many students like only one vegetable?
a) 60
b) 61
c) 65
d) 71

Answer: b

Question: The sum of all the 3-digit numbers which are formed by the digits 1, 2 and 3 without repetition of digits, is
a) 1233
b) 1321
c) 1323
d) 1332
e) None of these

Answer: d

Question: A florist had 133 roses. She sold 5/7 of them. How many roses had she left?
a) 58
b) 38
c) 57
d) 19

Answer: b

Question: ‘4 is even and 8 is odd’. What is the truth value of this?
a) Given statement is true
b) Given statements is false
c) 32
d) Cannot be determined

Answer: b

Question: At a party, the number of girls is half the number of boys. After an hours, five boys leave the party and three girls join the party. How many people were present at the party an hour before?
a) 16
b) 8
c) 24
d) 22

Answer: c

Question: There are some balls of Red, Green and Yellow colour lying on a table. There are as many Red balls as there are Yellow balls. There are twice as many Yellow balls as there are Green ones. The number of Red balls is
a) is equal to the sum of Yellow and Green balls
b) is double the number of Green balls
c) is equal to Yellow balls minus Green balls
d) Cannot be ascertained

Answer: b

Question: Two horses A and B run at a speed of 3 : 2 ratio in the first lap; during the second lap the ratio differs by 4 : 7; during the third lap the ratio differs by 8:9. What is the difference in ratio of speed altogether between the two horses?
a) 4
b) 1
c) 3
d) 2

Answer: c

Question: The number of students in an art class is increasing month after month as follows. Find the number of students in June from the following information.

a) 16
b) 13
c) 15
d) 14

Answer: a

Question: The heights of three towers are in the ratio 5 : 6 : 7. If a spider takes 15 min to climb the smallest tower, how much time will it take to climb the highest one?
a) 15 min
b) 18 min
c) 21 min
d) 54 min

Answer: c

Question: The weights of 4 boxes are 80, 60, 90 and 70 kg. Which of the following cannot be the total weight, in kilograms, of any combination of these boxes and in a combination a box can be used only once.
a) 300
b) 230
c) 220
d) 290

Answer: d

Question: The price of onions is shown below for every fiftheen days. Find the price in the 3rd week of February.

a) 140
b) 300
c) 180
d) 320

Answer: b

Question: 8 people are present in a meeting. In the end of meeting all people shake hand to each other. Find the number of handshakes at the end of a meeting?
a) 56
b) 28
c) 48
d) 64

Answer: b

Question: A person is given 1 rupee for shooting at the target and if he misses, then he has to give 1 rupee. If he gets 30 rupees for 100 chances then how many chances did he miss?
a) 25
b) 35
c) 40
d) 45

Answer: b

Question: There were a total of 10 bicycles and tricycles. If the total number of wheels was 24, how many tricycles were there?
a) 2
b) 6
c) 18
d) 4

Answer: d

Question: P is greater than Q by 60% and greater than R by 30%. The ratio of Q and R is
a) 1 : 2
b) 2 : 1
c) 13 : 16
d) 16 : 13

Answer: c

Question: In a group of cows and hens, the number of legs are 14 more than twice the number of heads. Find the number of cows?
a) 5
b) 7
c) 10
d) 12

Answer: b

Question: If it takes two workers, working separately but at the same speed, 2 h and 40 min to complete a particular task about how long will it take one worker, working at the same speed, to complete the same task alone?
a) 1 h 20 min
b) 4 h 40 min
c) 5 h
d) 5 h 20 min

Answer: d

Question: Sonu and his friend Rahul went for shopping. Sonu had Rs 500 with him while Rahul had Rs 240. Sonu spent twice as much as Rahul on shopping. Now, Sonu has three times as much money as is left with Rahul. How much money did Sonu spend?
a) Rs 220
b) Rs 60
c) Rs 440
d) Rs 120

Answer: c

Question: A man has Rs 480 in the denominations of one-rupee notes, five-rupee notes and ten-rupees notes. The number of notes of each denomination is equal. What is the total number of notes that he has?
a) 45
b) 60
c) 75
d) 90

Answer: d

Question: In a company, 60% workers are males. If the number of female workers in the company is 800, what is the number of male workers in the company?
a) 1600
b) 1400
c) 1900
d) 1200

Answer: d

Question: The flowers kept in a basket doubles in every one minute. If the basket gets completely filled by flowers in 30 min, then in how many minutes 1/4 th of the basket was filled with flowers?
a) 15 min
b) 28 min
c) 15/2 min
d) 45/2 min

Answer: b

Question: Some birds are sitting on two branches A and B. If one bird of the branch A fly away and sit on branch B, then the number of birds on both the branches will become equal. But if a bird from branch B flies and sits on the branch A then the number of birds on branch A is double of branch B. What number of birds were sitting on branch A at the beginning?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
d) 7

Answer: d

Question: A factory produced 1858509 cassettes in the month of January, 7623 more cassettes in the month of February and owing to short supply of electricity produced 25838 less cassettes in March than in February. Find the total production in all?
a) 5557312
b) 5983245
c) 5564935
d) 5608988

Answer: c

Question: Which number will be in the middle if the following numbers are arranged in descending order? 4456, 4465, 4655, 4665, 4565
a) 4456
b) 4465
c) 4565
d) 4655

Answer: c

Question: Two persons A and B get the same salary. Their basic pay are different. The allowances of A and B are 65% and 80% of the basic pay respectively. What is the ratio of the basic pay?
a) 17 : 15
b) 7 : 5
c) 11 : 10
d) 12 : 11

Answer: d

Question: A train is running 3 min late and further being late 3 s/min. Find how long this train will be delayed one hour?
a) 1140 min
b) 1150 min
c) 1160 min
d) 1200 min

Answer: a

Question: A machine cuts the wooden log into 10 m pieces and take 6 s to cut a 10 m piece. Find the time to cut the 3 km long wooden log into pieces?
a) 174 s
b) 180 s
c) 1794 s
d) 1800 s

Answer: c

Question: A tailor has to cut 10 shirt pieces of equal length from a roll of fabric. He cuts at the rate of 45 shirt pieces in a minute. How many rolls would be cut in 24 min?
a) 120
b) 108
c) 84
d) 72

Answer: b

Question: In a zoo, there are rabbits and pigeons. If heads are counted, there are 200 heads and if legs are counted there are 580 legs. How many pigeons are there?
a) 90
b) 100
c) 110
d) 120

Answer: c

Question: In a plane, line X is perpendicular to line Y and parallel to line Z, line U is perpendicular to both lines V and W, line X is perpendicular to line V.Which one of the following statement is correct?
a) Z, U and W are parallel
b) X, V and Y are parallel
c) Z, V and U are all perpendicular to W
d) Y, V and W are parallel

Answer: d

Question: Marry said, ‘‘a number which I am thinking is divisible by 2 or 3.’’ This statement is false, if the number which I am thinking.
a) 6
b) 8
c) 11
d) 15

Answer: c

Question: A father invites some boys and girls on his son’s birthday. The number of boys is less than 2 the number of girls. Father gives Rs 10 to boys and Rs 20 to girls as a gift. If total amount spent is Rs 280, find the number of boys.
a) 8
b) 10
c) 12
d) 14

Answer: a

Question: 5 students A, B, C, D and E are present in an examination. If C got 5 marks less than B, D got 10 marks more than B and 20 marks less than A and E got 22 marks more than B and B got 40 marks. Then, how many marks did A get?
a) 52
b) 60
c) 64
d) 70

Answer: d

Question: A group has some cows, bulls and 45 hens. Every 15 animals are herded by a herdsman. The number of bulls are twice the number of cows. If total numbers of heads is 186 less than total number of legs (with herdsman). Find the number of herdsmen?
a) 6
b) 8
c) 10
d) 12

Answer: a

Question: Consider the following venn-diagram.

500 candidates appeared in an examination comprising of tests in English, Hindi and Mathematics. The diagram gives the number of candidates who failed in different tests. What is the percentage of the candidates who failed in atleast two subject?
a) 0.078
b) 1.0
c) 6.8
d) 7.8

Answer: d

Question: According to a survey report, 62% people watch news on doordarshan, 44% people read newspaper and 24% people read newspaper and watch doordarshan both. How many percentage of people neither read newspaper nor watch doordarshan.
a) 8%
b) 18%
c) 10%
d) 0%

Answer: b

Read the following information and answer the following questions. In a class of 40 students, 28 can speak Tamil and 30 can speak Telugu. All students can speak at least one of the two languages.

Question: Find the number of students who can speak only Tamil.
a) 8
b)10
c) 12
d) 14

Answer: b

Question: Find the minimum number of students who can speak both Tamil and Telugu.
a) 12
b) 15
c) 18
d) 22

Answer: c

Question: Find the number of persons who can speak only Telugu?
a) 8
b) 10
c) 12
d) 14

Answer: c

Question: A travel agent surveyed 100 people to find out how many of them had visited the cities of Mumbai and Bengaluru. 31 people had visited Mumbai, 26 people had visited Bengaluru and 12 people had visited both cities. Find the number of people who had visited neither Mumbai nor Bengaluru.
a) 12
b) 55
c) 19
d) 45

Answer: b

Question: A survey of 500 TV viewers produced the following information. 285 viewers watch football games, 195 viewers watch hockey games, 115 viewers watch basketball game, 45 viewers watch football and basketball games, 70 viewers watch football and hockey games, 50 viewers watch hockey and basketball games and 50 viewers do not watch any of three games. How many viewers watch exactly one of the three games?
a) 440
b) 365
c) 205
d) 325

Answer: d

Question: In an airline, hot drinks and iced tea were served to 120 passengers. 75 passengers enjoyed hot drinks and 62 enjoyed iced tea. If 40 enjoyed both, then how many passengers enjoyed none of the beverages?
a) 15
b) 12
c) 23
d) 25

Answer: c