25th December IBPS Clerk Mains Quant Quiz

Quantitative Aptitude is the most dreaded subject among the aspirants. If one has to sail through any prestigious exam, quant is the ineluctable hitch. Due to the rising difficulty bar and complexity of questions, it has become necessary for students to be ahead of the examination pattern. Practicing from a different variety of questions can help you sail through any competitive exam. As IBPS Clerk Mains exam is approaching shortly, to help you tackle this section, Adda247 is providing you daily quizzes of Quantitative Ability with the number of updated questions on a daily basis to keep you updated with the difficulty level and types of questions that may be asked in the exam. So practice with the different types of questions to be in the race.

Directions (1-3): Working efficiency of A is 20% more than that of B. B can alone complete a work ‘X’ in 36 days.
B and C together started to complete the work ‘X’ and after 10 days they both left the work and then remaining work is done by A alone in 15 days.
A and C together started to complete another work ‘Y’ and after working for 12 days they both left the work. Remaining work is done by B alone in 16 days. D first completed work ‘X’ and then completed work ‘Y’ in total 38 days.
It is given that efficiency of all, in completing work ‘X’ and work ‘Y’ is same.

Q1. A, B and C working together completed of work ‘X’, and then A and C are replaced by D. Now remaining of work ‘X’ is completed by B and D together. For how many days B worked?
(a) 12 days
(b) 10 days
(c) 15 days
(d) 4 days
(e) 7 days

Q2. A, C and D working simultaneously completed work ‘X’ in ‘n’ days and A, B, C and D working simultaneously completed work ‘Y’ in ‘m’ days. Find the value of (m+n).
(a) 15 days
(b) 10 days
(c) 12 days
(d) 8 days
(e) None of these

Q3. A person E starts the work ‘X’ and leave after 12 days, then B and C together complete the remaining work in 8 days. What is the ratio of number of days taken by A and E together to complete the work ‘X’ to the number of days taken by D, B and C together to complete the both work ‘X’ and ‘Y’ .
(a) 3 : 5
(b) 5 : 3
(c) 8 : 7
(d) 1 : 2
(e) 4: 5

Q4. Ajay, Vijay and Sanjay are employed to do a piece of work for Rs. 529. Ajay and Vijay together are supposed to do 19/23 of the work and Vijay and Sanjay together are supposed to do 8/23 of the work. How much should Ajay be paid for his share of his work?
(a) Rs. 245
(b) Rs. 295
(c) Rs. 300
(d) Rs. 345
(e) Rs. 296

Q5. X takes 4 days to complete one-third of a job, Y takes 3 days to complete one-sixth of the same work and Z takes 5 days to complete half the job. If all of them work together for 3 days and X and Z quit, how long will it take for Y to complete the remaining work done.
(a) 6 days
(b) 8.1 days
(c) 5.1 days
(d) 7 days
(e) None of these

Q6. A job has to be completed by A, B and C in 10 days in such a way that all starts the work together but C left after 3 days. When C left the job 37/100 of the job is completed. Also, the work done by A in 5 days is equal to the work done by B in 4 days. How many days would be required by the fastest worker to complete the entire work alone?
(a) 20 days
(b) 25 days
(c) 30 days
(d) 40 days
(e) 54 days

Q7. There are two auto closed pipes A and B which get closed if there is any disturbance can fill a tank in 20 and 30 hrs. respectively. Both the pipes are opened to fill the tank but when the tank is full, a leak develops in the tank which results in closing of both pipes. Through the leak one-third water supplied by both the pipes goes out & after it the leak was get closed by some means and both filling pipes again start filling the tank. The total time taken to fill the tank is
(a) 12 hr
(b) 14 hr
(c) 16 hr
(d) 18 hr
(e) 20 hr.

Q8. A tank of 3600 cu m capacity is being filled with water. The delivery of the pump discharging the tank is 20% more than the delivery of the pump filling the same tank. As a result, twelve minutes more time is needed to fill the tank than to discharge it. Determine the rate of delivery of the pump filling the tank.
(a) 40 m3 / min
(b) 50 m3 / min
(c) 60 m3 / min
(d) 80 m3/ min
(e) 58 m3/ min

Q9. Two pipes can fill a cistern in 14 hours and 16 hours respectively. The pipes are opened simultaneously and it is found that due to leakage in the bottom of the cistern, it takes 32 minutes extra for the cistern to be filled. When the cistern is full, in what time will the leak empty it?
(a) 114 h
(b) 112 h
(c) 100 h
(d) 80 h
(e) 60 h

Q10. A tank of capacity 25 litres has an inlet and an outlet tap. If both are opened simultaneously, the tank is filled in 5 minutes. But if the outlet flow rate is doubled and taps opened the tank never gets filled up. Which of the following can be outlet flow rate in liters/min?
(a) 2
(b) 6
(c) 4
(d) 3
(e) 1

Directions (11-15): In each of these questions a number series is given only one number is wrong in each series. You have to identify the wrong number.

Q11. 1.375, 1.25, 2.625, 3.875, 6.575, 10.375, 16.875
(a) 6.575
(b) 1.25
(c) 10.375
(d) 2.625
(e) 16.875

Q12. 18, 72, 36, 150, 72, 288
(a) 72
(b) 288
(c) 150
(d) 36
(e) 18

Q13. 25, 31, 44, 63, 93, 135
(a) 31
(b) 44
(c) 93
(d) 63
(e) 135

Q14. 15, 27, 51, 87, 135, 196
(a) 87
(b) 27
(c) 15
(d) 51
(e) 196

Q15. 47, 57, 81, 130, 211, 332
(a) 57
(b) 130
(c) 211
(d) 332
(e) 81

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