Quant Quiz on Miscellaneous Section for PO, Clerk, SO, Insurance Exams

Question 1

There are six boxes numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Each box is to be filled up either with a white ball or a black ball in such a manner that at least one box contains a black ball and all the boxes containing black balls are consecutively numbered. The total number of ways in which this can be done equals.

Question 2

In a stockpile of products produced by three machines M1, M2 and M3, 40% and 30% were manufactured by M1 and M2 respectively. 3% of the products of M1 are defective, 1% of products of M2 are defective, while 95% of the products of M3 are not defective. What is the percentage of defective in the stockpile?

Question 3

Gopal went to a fruit market with certain amount of money. With this money he can buy either 50 oranges or 40 mangoes. He retains 10% of the money for taxi fare. If he buys 20 mangoes, then the number of oranges he can buy is

Question 4

A square is drawn by joining the mid-points of the sides of a given square. A third square is drawn inside the second square in the same way and this process is continued indefinitely. If side of the first square is 8 cm, then the sum of the areas (in sq.cm.) of all the squares such formed is:

Question 5

If equal numbers of people are born on each day, find the approximate percentage of the people whose birthday will fall on 29th February. (If we are to consider people born in 20th century and assuming no deaths).

Question 6

A, B and C decide to have a 'x' m race. C completes the race 14 m ahead of A. B finishes 20 m ahead of C and 32 m ahead of A. What is A’s speed?

Question 7

Amitabh, Abhisekh & Jaya working alone can complete a job in 10, 20, 25 days respectively. Calculate the minimum total time required if at most 2 of them work together at a time on a single day and no two identical pair of persons work on two consecutive days.

Question 8

A dealer deals only in colour TVs and VCRs. He wants to spend up to Rs.12 lakhs to buy 100 pieces. He can purchase a colour TV at Rs. 10,000 and a VCR at Rs. 15,000. He can sell a colour TV at Rs. 12,000 and a VCR at Rs. 17,500. His objective is to maximize profits. Assume that he can sell all the items that he stocks.

For the maximum profit, the number of colour TVs and VCRs that he should respectively stock are

Question 9

A dealer deals only in colour TVs and VCRs. He wants to spend up to Rs.12 lakhs to buy 100 pieces. He can purchase a colour TV at Rs. 10,000 and a VCR at Rs. 15,000. He can sell a colour TV at Rs. 12,000 and a VCR at Rs. 17,500. His objective is to maximize profits. Assume that he can sell all the items that he stocks.

If the dealer would have managed to get an additional space to stock 20 more items, then for maximizing profit, the ratio of number of VCRs and number of TVs that he should stock is

Question 10

A dealer deals only in colour TVs and VCRs. He wants to spend up to Rs.12 lakhs to buy 100 pieces. He can purchase a colour TV at Rs. 10,000 and a VCR at Rs. 15,000. He can sell a colour TV at Rs. 12,000 and a VCR at Rs. 17,500. His objective is to maximize profits. Assume that he can sell all the items that he stocks.

The maximum profit, in rupees lakh, the dealer can earn from his original stock if he can sell a colour TV at Rs. 12200 and VCR at Rs.18300 is