List of top Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation Questions on Arithmetic

There are 25 rooms in a hotel. Each room can accommodate at most three people. For each room, the single occupancy charge is Rs. 2000 per day, the double occupancy charge is Rs. 3000 per day, and the triple occupancy charge is Rs. 3500 per day. If there are 55 people staying in the hotel today, what is the maximum possible revenue from room occupancy charges today?

There are nine humans in a ship. Each human has nine cages and each cage has nine huge lions, and each lion has nine cubs. How many legs are there in the ship? (Humans have two legs, lions have four legs, cubs have four legs.)

Mr. Suresh went into a restaurant and had a lunch worth Rs. 162. He paid using a 500 rupee note. Happy with the meal, he then bought a mini snack box for Rs. 37 and paid using a 100 rupee note. In both cases, Suresh collected his balance change from the cashier, and he did not pay any tips. The next day, when the cashier deposited the money in the bank, the banker found that only the two currency notes given by Suresh were counterfeit. As per policy, the bank tore up both notes on the spot. What is the total loss to the restaurant in this transaction?

Sangeeta and Swati bought two wristwatches from Jamshedpur Electronics at 11:40 AM IST. After buying them, they found that when 60 minutes pass on a correct clock (IST), Sangeeta's wristwatch registers 62 minutes, while Swati's wristwatch registers 56 minutes. Later that day, Sangeeta's wristwatch reads 10:00 PM. What time does Swati's wristwatch show at that moment?

In an examination there are 30 questions. 1 mark is given for each correct answer and 0.25 is deducted for every incorrect answer. Ankur attempted all the questions and scored 13.75. How many incorrect answers did he have?

Each of the following questions is followed by two statements, I and II. Decide whether the data given in the statements is sufficient to answer the question.

For each rupee in monthly advertising expenditure, KUMAR & Co. experiences a Rs. 6 increase in sales. How much does KUMAR & Co. have to spend on advertising to attain Rs. 1,000,000 in sales revenue for the month?

I. Without advertising, KUMAR & Co. earns Rs. 200,000 sales revenue per month.
II. When KUMAR & Co. spends Rs. 15,000 on advertising, it earns Rs. 290,000 as sales revenue.

Each of the following questions is followed by two statements, I and II. Decide whether the data given in the statements is sufficient to answer the question.

Geetanjali Express, which is 250 metres long, crosses the Subarnarekha bridge in 30 seconds while moving from Howrah to Tatanagar. What is the speed of Geetanjali Express?

I. Bombay Mail, which runs at 60 km/hour, crosses the Subarnarekha bridge in 30 seconds.
II. Bombay Mail, running at 90 km/hour, crosses a lamp post in 10 seconds.

From a book, a number of consecutive pages are missing. The sum of the page numbers of these pages is 9808. Which pages are missing?

A train left station X at A hour B minutes. It reached station Y at B hour C minutes on the same day, after travelling C hours A minutes (the clock shows time from 0 hours to 24 hours). The number of possible value(ss) of A is:

DIRECTIONS for questions 42 and 43: Read the information below and answer the question that follows.
A truck travelled from town A to town B over several days. During the first day, it covered \(\frac{1}{p}\) of the total distance, where p is a natural number. During the second day, it travelled \(\frac{1}{q}\) of the remaining distance, where q is a natural number. During the third day, it travelled \(\frac{1}{p}\) of the distance remaining after the second day, and during the fourth day, \(\frac{1}{q}\) of the distance remaining after the third day. By the end of the fourth day, the truck had travelled \(\frac{3}{4}\) of the distance between A and B.

42. The value of p + q is:

DIRECTIONS for questions 42 and 43: Read the information below and answer the question that follows.
A truck travelled from town A to town B over several days. During the first day, it covered \(\frac{1}{p}\) of the total distance, where p is a natural number. During the second day, it travelled \(\frac{1}{q}\) of the remaining distance, where q is a natural number. During the third day, it travelled \(\frac{1}{p}\) of the distance remaining after the second day, and during the fourth day, \(\frac{1}{q}\) of the distance remaining after the third day. By the end of the fourth day, the truck had travelled \(\frac{3}{4}\) of the distance between A and B.

43. If the total distance is 100 kilometres, the minimum distance that can be covered on day 1 is ____ kilometres.

Which of the following is the lowest?