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1. The sum of first 10 natural numbers is
1. Basic
A. 40 B. 45
C. 50 D. 55
2. The sum of the squares of the first 10 natural numbers is
A. 300 B. 285
C. 200 D. 385

3. The sum of the cubes of the first 10 natural numbers is

A. 3025 B. 3000
C. 2075 D.2025

4. The sum of the first 10 even natural numbers is

A.100 B. 110
C. 120 D. 125

5. The sum of the first 24 odd natural numbers is

A. 479 B. 745 C. 579 D.
576
6. Find the sum of all odd number up to 250.
A. 15345 B. 15645 C. 15625 D. 15342
7. In a division, dividend is 689, divisor is 36 and quotient is 19.
Find the remainder.
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2
D. 5
8. When a number divided by 288, the remainder is 47. Find
the remainder when the same number is divided by 24.
A. 24 B. 21 C. 23 D.
25

9. In a division sum, the divisor is 5 times the quotient and two

times the remainder. If the remainder is 40, then the dividend
is
B. 1320 B. 1380 C. 1395
D. None

10. A number when divided by a divisor leaves a remainder of

24. When twice the original number is divided by the same
divisor, the remainder is 11. What is the value of the divisor?
A. 13 B. 59 C. 35 D.
37
11. A number when divided by 342 gives a remainder 47.
When the same number is divided by 19, what would be the
remainder?
A. 5 B. 9 C. 4
D. 0

12. When 242 is divided by a certain divisor the remainder

obtained is 8. When 698 is divided by the same divisor the
remainder obtained is 9. However, when the sum of the two
numbers 242 and 698 is divided by the divisor, the remainder
obtained is 4. What is the value of the divisor?
A. 11 B. 17 C. 13 D.
23
13. Which of the following is not a rational number?
(a) 2/3 (b) 5/7 (c) 7/9 (d)

14. Which of the following is a prime number?

(a) 121 (c) 171 (b) 78 (d) 181

15. How many prime numbers are there from 1 to 50?

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

16. Zero (0) is a

(a) positive integer (b) negative integer
(c) neither + nor - integer (d) None of these

17. Which of the following is not a prime number?

(a) 137 (b) 181 (c) 173 (d) 183

18. Half the product of two consecutive natural numbers is 105. Sum=?
(a) 24 (c) 27 (b) 29 (d) 25
19. N is the smallest number greater than 600 which gives a
remainder of 5 when divided by both 6 and 9. Find the remainder
when N is divided by 5.
(a) 2 (c) 5 (b) 0 (d) None
of these

20. How many numbers from 1 to 100 can be expressed as a product

of their factors in more than one way?
(a) 25 (c) 75 (b) 74 (d) 26

21. If the numbers 2/3, 3/8, 5/6 and 3/4 are arranged in the
descending order, which will be the second number?
(a) 2/3 (c) 5/6 (b) 3/8 (d) 3/4
 2. Factors
22. If N=x, M=×3×5, then find the number of factors of N that are common with the factors of
M.
A. 8 B. 6 C. 18 D. 20

23. Find the number of total factors, even factors and odd factors of 1200 respectively.
A. 30, 24, 6 B. 30, 6, 24 C. 24, 12 , 6 D. 30, 12, 6

24. Find the number of factors of 8085?

A. 16 B. 18 C. 22 D. 24

25. Find the sum and product of all the factors 180 respectively.
A. 546, B. 546, C. 532, D. 532,

26. Find the sum and the product of all factors of 8085?
A. 16416, B. 537711, C. 16614, D. 16614,

27. Find the total number of factors of 72.

(a) 12 (c) 8 (b) 10 (d) 6
 3. LCM & HCF
28. Find the HCF and LCM of, and respectively.
A. , B. ,
C. , D.,

29. The HCF of two numbers is 7 and their LCM is 15. Find the
product of the numbers
B. 105 B. 90

C. C. 150 D. cannot be
determined

30. Two numbers are in the ratio 5:8 and their H.C.F is 4. Find the
numbers.
D. 25 and 40
B. 20 and 32
C. 30 and 48
D. 15 and 24
31. If the sum of two numbers is 55 and the HCF & LCM of
these two numbers are 5 and 120 respectively, then the sum of
reciprocals of the numbers will be
A. 55/601B. 601/55C. 11/120D. 120/11

32. Find the greatest possible length which can be used to

measure exactly the lengths 4m 95cm, 9 m and 16 m 65 cm.
A. 45 cm B. 44 cm C. 43 cm D.
42 cm

33. What is the second smallest number which when increased

by 7 is completely divisible by 8, 11 and 24?
A. 535 B. 528 C. 521 D.
257
34. L.C.M of two numbers = . How many possible values of b
exist?
A. 21 B. 20 C. 22
D. 0

35. If L.C.M of different two numbers is 91. How many pairs of

these two numbers exist?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

36. The sum of two numbers is 136 and their HCF is 17. The
numbers of pairs of such numbers satisfying the given
condition is
A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8

37. Find the greatest number of the five digits which is exactly
divisible by 16, 25, 28 and 32.
A. 95200 B. 99550 C. 999560 D. 99200
38. IBM-Daksh observes that it gets a call at an interval of every 10 minutes
from Seattle, at every 12 minutes from Arizonia, at the interval of 20 minutes
from New York and after every 25 minutes it gets the call from Newark. If in
the early morning at 5:00 a.m. it has received the calls simultaneously from all
the four destinations, then at which time it will receive the calls at a time from
all places on the same day?
A. 10:00 am B. 3:00 am C. 5:00 am D. Both (A) and (B)

39. Three lights change after 48, 72 and 108 seconds. At 9:20:00 they all
changed together. At what time will again change together 3rd time?

A. 9:41:36 B. 9:41:00 C. 9:40:36 D. 9:20:24

40. At world trade center, a meeting was organized by USA. USA invited 4
countries India, Russia, China and Japan in the meeting. There were 36, 72, 81
and 108 members respectively attended the meeting from the above 4
countries. At the time of dinner the seating arrangement is such that only the
members of same country are allowed at one dining table. The number of
members in each table should be same. What is the minimum number of
tables should be arranged to meet all these conditions?
A. 32 B. 33 C. 40 D. 432
41. Three gold coins of weight 780gm, 840gm and 960gm are cut into small pieces, all of which
have the equal weight. Each piece must be heavy as possible. If one such piece is shared by two
persons, then how many persons are needed to give all the pieces of gold coins?
A. 86 B. 70 C. 43 D. 35

42. A teacher when distributed certain number of chocolates to 4 children, 5 children, 7

children, he always left with 1 chocolate. Find the least number of chocolates the teacher
brought to the class.
A. 140 B. 141 C. 280 D. 281

43. Find the greatest number, which will divide 260, 281 and 303, leaving 7, 5 and 4 as
remainders respectively.
A. 30 B. 32 C. 34 D. 23

44. Find the greatest number by which if we divide 740, 838 and 985, then in each case the
remainder is the same.
A. 29 B. 27 C. 49 D. 37
45. Largest 3 digit number div by both 5 and 7.

46. What is the smallest number greater than 500 which gives a reminder of 3
when div by 4 and 7?

47. How many numbers up to 360 will give a reminder 3 when div by 4 and 9?

48. What will be the smallest 3 digit number when div by 4, 5 and 6 the
reminders are2, 3 and 4?

49. What will be the smallest 3 digit number when div by 6 and 5 the reminders
are 5 and 3 respectively?
50. The LCM of two numbers is 96 and the HCF is 8. One is 32,
other number=?
(a) 48 (b) 24 (c) 16
(d) 28

51. What is the LCM of 2/3, 4/8 and 4/5?

(a) 1/30 (c) 1/60 (b) 1/120 (d)

2/35

52. Buses to city A arrive at the bus stop every 7 min while
buses going to city B arrive at the bus stop every 5 min. If buses
to both the cities arrived at the bus stop together at 7.30 am,
when will they again arrive at the bus stop together?
(a) 7.55 am (c) 8.05 am (b) 8.15 am (d)
None of these
53. If the LCM of 2 numbers a and b is same as their HCF, then what is the
relation between a and b?
(a) a> b (c) a < b (b) a = b (d) No definite
relation exists

54. What is the length of the longest scale that will be able to completely
measure lengths of 0.96 m, 1 m and 44 cm, and 1 m and 92 cm?
(a) 48 cm (c) 24 cm (b) 12 cm (d) None of these

55. If a and b are consecutive even numbers, then the LCM of the numbers will
be
(a) n x b (c) (a x b)/2 (b) (a x b)2 (d) None

56. The LCM of two numbers is 105 and their HCF is 7. If one of the numbers is
21, find the difference between the two numbers.
(a) 35 (c) 5 (b) 14 (d) 21
57. Find the LCM of 2/3, 6/5 and 4/7.
(a) 12 (c) 2/105 (b) 6/105 (d) 6

58. The largest scale to measure 1m and 5 cm, 2 m and 40 cm

and 75 cm?
(a) 7 cm (c) 15 cm (b) 5 cm (d) 3
cm

59. Find the HCF of 3/15, 9/8 and 3/4.

(a) 3/120 (c) 3/40 (b) 1/40 (d)
None of these