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 ½ hours after the first, and reaches Pune ½ hour earlier. What is the ratio of the speed of the motorcycle and the car?
Options:
(A) 1:2
(B) 1:8
(C) 1:1
(D) 1:6
(E) 1:3
answer: Stream of consciousness: T = 192/32 = 6 h
T = 6 - 3 = 3
Time Ratio = 6:3 = 2:1
Speed Ratio = 1:2 The answer is (A).


q: If there are 4 seats and two students, in how many ways can they be seated?
Options:
(A) 12
(B) 6
(C) 8
(D) 16
(E) 10
a: Stream of consciousness: No. of ways of choosing 2 chairs out of 4 chairs on which two students will sit = 4C2 = 6
No. of ways of 2 people sitting on selected chairs = 2!
Total ways of making 2 people sit on 2 of 4 chairs = 4C2*2! = 6*2 = 12 The answer is (A).


question: The H.C.F. of two numbers is 12 and their L.C.M. is 600. If one of the numbers is 480, then the other is:
Options:
(A) 11
(B) 10
(C) 8
(D) 15
(E) 12
answer: Stream of consciousness: Other number = (12 x 600)/480 = 15. The answer is (D).


q: What is the least number should be added to 1056, so the sum of the number is completely divisible by 27?
Options:
(A) 21
(B) 22
(C) 23
(D) 24
(E) 25
a: Stream of consciousness: (1056 / 27) gives remainder 3
24 + 3 = 27, So we need to add 24 The answer is (D).


question: A no. x when divided by 221 gives a remainder 43, what remainder will beobtained by dividingthe same no.17?
Options:
(A) 1
(B) 4
(C) 9
(D) 11
(E) 13
answer: Stream of consciousness: 221 + 43 = 264/17 = 9 (Remainder) The answer is (C).


question: Rohith,who works in a parcel service, has a certain number of small plastic boxes to pack into parcels. If he packs 3,4,5 or 6 in a parcel, he is left with one over; if he packs 7 in a parcel, none is left over. What is the number of boxes, he may have to pack?
Options:
(A) 223
(B) 301
(C) 377
(D) 1368
(E) 222
answer:

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Stream of consciousness: The required number of boxes is such that it leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by 3, 4, 5 or 6 and no remainder of 1 when divided by 3, 4, 5 or 6 and no remainder when divided by 7. Such a number is 301. The answer is (B).