Basic mathematics mcqs for NTS, PPSC and FPSC

1. A man is 5 times as old as his son. 2 years ago the sum of the squares of their ages was 114. Find the present age of son.

2. The number, whose 5% is 10, is

3. What is the series of 56,58,60 ?

4. Which number will come next? 2,4,7, 11, 16,

5. Six men working 8 hours a day earn Rs. 720 per week. 8 men working 6 hours a day will earn per week

6. Which number will come next? 1,1,8,4, 27, 9,-

7. A can do a piece of work in 10 days and B can do it in 15 days. The number of days required by them to finish it, working together is

8. What approximate amount of compound interest can be obtained on an amount of Rs. 9650_at the rate of 6 p.c.p.a. at the end of 3 years ?

9. Which number will come next? 5, 14, 27, 44, 65,

10. A man owns 2/3 of the market research bureau business and sells 3/4 of his shares for Rs.75000. What is the value of Busies

11. The smallest prime number greater than 48 is ?

12. The average of x, y, and z is 8 and the average of y and z is 4. What is the value of x ?

13. A man buys Rs.20 shares paying 9% dividend .The man wants to have an interest of 12% on his money. The market value of each share is?

14. If the ratio of two numbers is 6 and their sum is 21, what is the value of the larger number?

15. Son’s age is 1/4 of the age of fathers. Two years hence father’s age would be 7/2 of son’s age. The age of the father is:

16. Sum of three consecutive odd numbers is 51. The least of the three numbers is:

17. Price of sugar is increased by 25%. The percentage of consumption to be decreased so that there would be no increase in the expenditure is ?

18. If 12 file cabinets require 18 feet of wall space, how many feet of wall space will 30 cabinets require?

19. The number, whose 7% is 21, is

20. (4863+1174 + 2829)  / 756 = ?

21. A father is 30 years older than his son however he will be only thrice as old as the son after 5 years what is father’s present age?

22. The original price of a gift pack is Rs.80. A discount of 15% is allowed in shop. What is the sale price?

23. A car runs at the speed of 50 kms per hour when not serviced and runs at 60 kms/hr. when serviced. After servicing the car covers a certain distance in 6 hours. How much time will the car take to cover the same distance when not serviced ?

24. If 23 be added. to 4 times a number, the result is 87. The number is

25. Three families, P, Q and R, share 480 kg of rice, Q receives twice as much rice as P and R receives half as much rice as Q. How much rice does family Q gets?

26. Difference of the two numbers is 36. If one is 4 times the other, then the smaller number will be:

27. Sum of three consecutive even numbers is 60. The greatest number is:

28. A man bought a flat for Rs. 8,20,000. He borrowed 55% of this money from a bank. How much money did he borrow from the bank?

29. A man pays 10% of his income for his income tax. If his income tax amounts to Rs. 1500, what is his income?

30. Aftab bought a compact disc from a manufacturer for Rs. 200; he paid a 15% sales tax. If he sold the disc to a customer for Rs. 260, calculate the cash profit.

31. The difference of two numbers is 3, and their sum is 99. The smaller number is:

32. The difference between simple and compound interest on Rs. 1625 for 3 years at 4 % per annum in rupees is

33. Which number will come next? 1, 0, 3, 2, 5, 6,

34. The number, whose 13% is 52, is

35. What sum of money will amount to Rs.1800 In 5 years at 12% per annum simple interest?

36. A milkman sells 120 liters of milk for Rs. 3360 and he sells 240 litres of milk for Rs. 6120. How much concession does the trader give per litre of milk, when he sells 240 litres of milk?

37. A computer printer produced. 176,400 lines in a given day. If the printer was in operation for seven hours during the day, how many lines did it print per minute?

38. The difference of two numbers is 8. If three times the smaller number is 26 more than the greater number, the smaller number will

39. Insert the missing number 5? 14 10 9 7

40. A cyclist covers 660 feet in 66 seconds. How many yards ill he cover in the same time?

41. Father is twice as old as his son but twenty five years ago, father was twenty seven times as old as his son. The present age of the son is:

42. Sum of four consecutive numbers is 50. The least number is

43. The sum of the two digits of a two digit number is 14. The difference between the first digit and the second digit of the two digit number is 2. What is the product of the two digits of the two digit number?

44. If 3 x + 9 = 15, then x +2

45. If the average of 2x and 4x is 12, then x =

46. A primary school had an enrollment of 850o pupiis in January 1970. In January 1980 the enrollment was 1,120. What was the percentage increase for the enrollment?

47. In how many different ways can the letters of the word ‘ARISE’ be arranged?

48. When 3626 is divided by the square of a number and the answer so obtained is multiplied by 32, the final answer obtained is 2368. What is the number ?

49. What is the smallest number by which 2880 must be divided in order to make it into a perfect square?

50. Which number will come next? 212 179 146 113,