Question: If 4 men can color 48 m long cloth in 2 days, then 6 men can colour 36 m long cloth in
Options:
(A) 1 day
(B) 2 days
(C) 3 days
(D) 4 days
(E) 5 days
Answer: The length of cloth painted by one man in one day = 48 / 4 2 = 6 m
No. of days required to paint 36 m cloth by 6 men = 36/ 6 6 = 1 day.
The answer is (A).

Question: If 5 spiders can catch five flies in five minutes, how many flies can hundred spiders catch in 100 minutes?
Options:
(A) 100
(B) 1000
(C) 500
(D) 2000
(E) None
Answer: 5 5 x = 100 100 5 x = 2000.
The answer is (D).

Question: 10 books are placed at random in a shelf. The probability that a pair of books will always be together is
Options:
(A) 1/6
(B) 1/9
(C) 1/5
(D) 1/6
(E) 1/3
Answer: 10 books can be rearranged in 10! ways consider the two books taken as a pair then number of favourable ways of getting these two books together is 9! 2!
Required probability = 1/5
The answer is (C).

Question: A motorcyclist goes from Bombay to Pune, a distance of 192 kms at an average of 32 kmph speed. Another man starts from Bombay by car 2 hours after the first, and reaches Pune hour earlier. What is the ratio of the speed of the motorcycle and the car?
Options:
(A) 1:2
(B) 1:9
(C) 1:1
(D) 1:9
(E) 3:2
Answer:
T = 192/32 = 6 h
T = 6 - 3 = 3
Time Ratio = 6:3 = 2:1
Speed Ratio = 1:2
The answer is (A).