A bonus of Rs. 1000 is to be divided among three people so that Rohit receives twice as much as Sachin, who receives one-fifth as much as Gagan. How much money should Gagan receive?
ISRO Junior Personal Assistant 2010 Paper-II
For the following questions answer them individually
The batting average for 40 innings of a cricket player is 50 runs. His highest score exceeds his lowest score by 172 runs.If these two innings are excluded, the average of the remaining 38 inningsis 48 runs. The highest score of the player is:
After replacing an old member by a new member, it was found that the average age of five members of a club is the same as it was 3 years ago. What is the difference between the ages of the replaced and the new member?
A man bought a house for Rs. 5 lakhs and rents it. He puts $$12 \frac{1}{2}%$$ of each month’s rent aside for repairs, pays Rs.1660 as annual taxes and realizes 10% on his investment thereafter. The monthly rent of the house is:
Two ships are sailing in the sea on the two sides of a light house. The angles of elevation of the top of the light house as observed from the two ships are 30 deg and 45 deg respectively. If the light house is 100 meter high, the distance between the two ships is:
A student was asked to divide a number by 3. But, instead of dividing it, he multiplied it by 3 and got 29.7.what was the correct answer?
A man bought 5 shirts at Rs 450 each, 4 trousers at Rs 750 each and 12 pairs of shoes at Rs 750 each. What is the average expenditure per article?
Ramlal purchased 120 reams of paper at Rs.100 per ream and the expenditure on transport was Rs 480. He had to pay an octroi duty of 50 paise per ream and the coolie charges were Rs 60.What should be charge per ream to gain 20%.
An 85 cm long wire is to be cut into two pieces such that one piece will be two-third as long as the other. How many centimeters will the shorter piece be?
Ajay, Keshav and Vijay invested Rs.8000, Rs.4000 and Rs.8000 respectively in a business. Ajay left after six months. If after 8 months there was a profit of Rs.4005, then what will be the share of Keshav?
The ratio of the prices of three different types of cars is 4 : 5 : 7. If the difference between the prices of costliest and the cheapest cars is Rs.60,000, what is the price of the car of moderate price?
The average weight of 29 students in a class is 48 kg. If the weight of the teacher is included, the average weight rises by 500 g. Find out the weight of the teacher.
A cricketer has a certain average of 9 innings. In the tenth innings, he scores 100 runs, thereby increasing his average by 8 runs. His new average is
There are two candidates Ramesh and Ramgopal for an election. Ramesh gets 65% of the total valid votes. If the total votes were 6000, whatis the valid votes that the other candidate Ramgopal gets if 25% of the total votes were declared invalid?
In a group of buffaloes and ducks, the number of legs are 24 more than twice the number of heads. What is the number of buffaloes in the group?
The traffic light at three different roads change after every 48 sec., 72 sec. and 108 second respectively. If they all change simultaneously at 8:20:00 hours, when will they change again simultaneously?
How many $$\frac{1}{8}$$ are there in 37$$\frac{1}{2}$$ ?
A library has an average of 510 visitors on Sundays and 240 on other days. The average number of visitors per day in a month of 30 days beginning witha Sundayis .........
If $$\frac{a}{3} = \frac{b}{4} = \frac{c}{7},$$ then $$\frac{a + b + c}{2}$$ is equal to .....
Which of the following fractions are in descending order?
The mean of 200 items was 50. Later on, it was discovered that 2 items were misread as 92 and 8 instead of 192 and 88. Then the correct mean is:
A tank is filled with $$\frac{1}{5}$$ part of it with water. 8 litres of water is taken from it. If the tank is filled with $$\frac{1}{6}^{th}$$ part of it water now, How many liters of water can the tank hold?
Arrange the following in ascending order of magnitude:
$$\frac{3}{4}, \frac{53}{72}, \frac{89}{116}$$
The difference of two numbers is $$11$$ and $$\frac {1}{5}^{th}$$ of their sum is 9. The numbers are
3 men can do as much work as 5 women and 1 woman can do as much work as 2 children. If 20 women can finish work in 14 days, in how many days will the same work be finished by 6 men, 5 women and 5 children?
A team of 8 persons joins in a shooting competition. The best marks man scored 85 points. If he had scored 92 points the average score for the team would have been 84. The number of points, the team scored was:
Profit earned by selling an article for Rs.1060/- is 20% more than the loss incurred by selling the article for Rs.950/-. At what price should the article be sold to earn 20% profit?
The area of a rectangle is thrice that of a square. If the length of the rectangle is 40cm and its breadth is $$\frac{3}{2}$$ times that of the sides of the square, then the side of the square is:
A man rows upstream 8 km and downstream 220 km taking 4 hrs each time. Find the speed of the man in still water?
An aeroplane travels distances 2500 kms, 1200 kms and 500 kms at the rate of 500 km/hr, 400 km/hr and 250 km/hr respectively. The average speed in km/hr is:
Sound travels at 330m/sec. How many kms away is a thundercloud when its sound follows the flash after 10 secs?
A walks at a uniform rate of 4 km an hour and 4 hours after his start, B bicycles after him at the uniform rate of 10 km an hour. How far from the starting point will B catch A?
Two guns are fired from the same place at an interval of 6 minutes. A person approaching the place observes that 5 minutes 52 seconds have elapsed between the hearing of the sound of the two guns. If the velocity of the sound is 330 m/sec, the man was approaching that place at what speed?
A person has to make a journey of 72 km. He rides a cycle at 12 km/hr. After going a certain distance the cycle is punctured and he walks the remaining distance at 4 1/2 km/hr. Find where the cycle is punctured if the total time for the journey is 81/2 hours.
A shopkeeper advertises for selling cloth at 4% loss. However by using a false metre scale he actually gains 25%. What is the actual length of the scale?
The marked price of a shirt and trousers are in the ratio of 1:2. The shopkeeper gives 40% discount on the shirt. If the total discount on the set of the shirt and trousers is 30%, the discount offered on the trousers is:
A contractor undertakes to dig a canal 12 km long in 350 days and employs 45 men. He finds after 200 days of working that only 4 1/2 km of canal have been completed. How many extra men must be employed to finish the work in time?
The sales of a business in 1987 were 30% less than sales in 1986. By what percent must the sales in 1988 be increased to bring to the level of 1986?
Suresh has some cows and hens. If the total number of heads be 48 and that of legs be 140, then find the number of hens?
To a certain number 7 is added. The sum is multiplied by 5, the product is divided by 9 and 3 is subtracted from the quotient. If the remainder is 12, whatis the number?
The electricity bill of a certain establishment is partly fixed and partly varies as the number of units of electricity consumed. When in a certain month 540 units are consumed,the bill is Rs.1800. In another month 620 units are consumed and the bill is Rs.2040. In yet another month, 500 units are consumed, the bill for that month will be
A man sells Rs.4000, 10% stock at 150 and invests the proceeds partly in 6% stock at 80 and 7% stock at 96. He thereby increases his income by Rs.50. How much of the proceeds were invested in each stock?
There are 20 workers and one manager in a factory and their average monthly salary was Rs.1600. The manager whose salary was Rs.3000, retired and his place was taken by another. The average salary of all the 21 people became Rs.1750 per month. What was the salary of the new manager?
A screwdriver and a hammer currently have the same price.It the price of a screwdriver raises by 5% and the price of hammer goes up by 3% how much more will it cost to buy 3 screwdrivers and 3 hammers?
Ganesh invested 40% of his salary on food, 50% of the remaining on education and 10% of the remaining on other requirements. Now he is left with Rs.540. What is his salary?
A carpenter prepared 14 more toys on Tuesday than what he had prepared on Monday. Then on Wednesday he prepared 50% of the toys that were prepared on the previous two days together. If he had prepared 75 toys in the three days, how many toys did he prepare on Wednesday?
The average temperature of thefirst three days of a week is $$27^\circ$$ and of the next three days is $$29^\circ$$. If the average of the whole of the week is $$28.5^\circ$$ the temperature of the last day of the week is
If 8 students are seated on each bench, 3 benches are left over. If 5 students are seated on each bench, 12 students are left over. How many benches and students are there?
Two towers are 35 mtrs and 50 mtrs high and 20 mtr apart on level ground. Find the length of the rope connecting their tops?
If B is 10% heavier than A and C is 10% lighter than B, then what can you say about the relative weights of A & C?
A businessman sold two TV sets for Rs. 9,900 each, making 10% profit on one and losing 10% on the other. His gain or loss percentage on the two TV sets is
A monkey ascends a greased pole 12 metres high. He ascends 3 metres in the first minute and slips down by 1 metre in the alternate minute. In which minute, did he reach the top of the pole?
A gardener planted total 6561 plants in such a way that there are as many rows as there are trees in each row. How many rows were there?
Three bells toll at intervals of 36 seconds, 40 seconds and 48 seconds, respectively. They start ringing together at particular time. They will toll next time together after
The price of commodity X increases by 40 paise every year, while the price of commodity Y increases by 15 paise every year. If in 2001, the price of commodity X was Rs. 4.20 and that of Y was Rs. 6.30, in which year commodity X will cost 40 paise more than the commodity Y?
Study the following information to answer the given questions.
Percentage of students in various courses (A, B, C, D, E, F) and percentage of girls out of these.
Total Students :1200 Total girls = 800
(800 girls + 400 boys)
For course D whatis the respective ratio of boys and girls?
For which pair of courses is the numberof boys the same?
For course E, the number of girls is how much percent more than the boys for course E?
For which course is the numberof boys the minimum?
How many girls are in course C?
For the following questions answer them individually
Which of the following writs literally means ‘whatis your authority’?
India’s first Atomic Reactor was
The first ‘Earth Summit’ was held at
Name the Plant that is used in Ayurveda for improving memory.
The term ‘butterfly’ in sports is associated with
National income estimates in India are prepared by........
Which waterway separates India from Srilanka?
The leaders of G20 countries metfor the first time in Washington in
Which of the following award was given to Dr.G.Madhavan Nair recently?
Which of the following is a chemical fertilizer?
Which one of the following pairs of cities has recently been connected by a six lane express way?
Now the latest CRR as declared by RBI w.e.f January 19, 2009 is _______________
Which of the following parts of the sunlight makes the solar cooker hot?
The colour of the human skin is due to:
A small weight put on a pressure cooker increases the pressure of the steam because
Which is the smallest country (in population)?
Who said the famous quotation ‘A Government of the people, by the people and for the people?
To whom should the President tenderhis resignation if he wants to resign from his office?
Who wrote the book “Satyartha Prakash”?
Who is the present Chairman of ISRO?
Which of the following is not a version of BASIC ?
Which of the following is not a numeric constant ?
Which of the following commands helps to insert comments that enable one to understand what the programe is all about ?
To make your document password protected, you use __________
Typical data transfer rate in LAN are of the order of
A large number of computers in a wide geographical area can be efficiently connected by
A floppy disk is made up of flexible plastic coated with
In word, what combination of keys do you press to delete an entire word?
A file which contains transient data to be processed in combination with a master file is called _________.
Reusable Optical Storage will typically have the acronym
RAM stands for
What does IMEI stand for?
Which of the following is not the goal of a computer network?
PPP stands for
File name with extension as VXD represents
Which of the following can be used as universal gate?
Which of the following is the feature of operating system that is machine dependant?
Files that store data in the same format as used in program are called
Which of the following is true:
The unit “Kilo instructions per second” is used to measure the speed of
