NLC Non-Tech Quiz 16 for ESE & GATE ME Exams

Question 1

John purchased an item for Rs. 52,000 and sold it at loss of 25 percent. With that amount he purchased another item and sold it at a gain of 40 percent. What was his overall gain/loss ?

Question 2

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of idiom/proverbs by choosing the correct option given.

After your long _________, I am happy to see you _______________.

Question 3

The weights of 4 boxes are 90, 30, 40 and 60 kilograms. Which of the following cannot be the total weight, in kilograms, of any combination of these boxes and in a combination a box can be used only once?

Question 4

Direction: In the question below are given three statements followed by three conclusions number I, II and III. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the entire conclusion and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements:
All ruby are diamond.
Some ruby are gold.
No diamond is silver.
Conclusions:
I. Some ruby are not silver.
II. All gold can be silver is a possibility.
III. Some silver can be gold is a possibility.

Question 5

A, B, C, D and E there are five friends. The average age of A, B and C was fifty year. If five year ago the age of D is seventy five year and the present average age of A, B, C, D and E is sixty year. Then what is the age of E ?

Question 6

Direction: The following line graph gives the percentage of the number of candidates who qualified an examination out of the total number of candidates who appeared for the examination over a period of seven years from 2010 to 2016.

Percentage of Candidates Qualified to Appeared in an Examination Over all these years.

If the number of students appeared in the examination in 2012 and 2013 were in the ratio 5 : 7, then find the ratio of qualified students from these years?

Question 7

Ram got married 8 years ago. His present age is 6/5 times his age at the time of his marriage. Ram’s brother was 10 years younger to him at the time of his marriage. What is the present age (in years) of his brother?

Question 8

Samir spends 52% of his monthly salary on education expenditure and 23% on miscellaneous expenditure. If he is left with Rs. 4500, what is the monthly salary?