Mental Ability/Quantitative Reasoning

 Ability Practice

Solve the following

1. Twelve football teams are playing in a league. Each team played each of the other teams exactly once. How many matches were played in the league?

a. 72 c. 11

b. 66 d. 32

2. A class of girls walked to the Tuck shop in rows of four. Tash, Anna, Camille and Donna noticed that they were the third row from the front and the seventh row from the back. How many students were in the Tuck shop?

a. 28 c. 36

b. 32 d. 40

Read the passage carefully then answer items 3 to 5

Mr. Brown went to the supermarket on the way home from work. It took him several minutes to find an empty parking space once inside, he walked through the aisles trying to decide what to have for dinner. He knew his wife would like to cook mutton, but his children would rather eat chicken. He decided to get fish instead, which is his favourite.

3. How many persons could be in Mr. Brown’s family?

a. 1 c. 3

b. 2 d. 4

4. How did Mr. Brown get to the supermarket?

a. He walked c. He took a Taxi

b. He drove his car d. He run

5. What did the family had for dinner?

a. Chicken c. cook mutton

b. Fish d. all of the above

6. George is reading a book. On Monday he reads 1/3 of the book. On Tuesday he reads three-tenth of the remaining pages. He has 35 pages left to read.

How many pages are in the book?

a. 65 c. 15

b. 75 d. 45

7. A boy has y dollars. His father gave him 4 times the amount of money he has. Now he has $80. How much money did the boy have before?

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8. Four men took 6 days to dig a hole. How long would 12 men take to dig the same hole working at the same pace?

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9. Four students shared 50 marbles so that one gets 10, one gets 12 and another gets 20, what percentage of the set of marbles did the 4th child gets?

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10. If a clock loses 20 seconds every hour, how many seconds will it lose in one day?

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11. A certain movie is 105 minutes long. It started at 6:15pm. During the movie, there were two commercial breaks, one lasted 9 minutes and one lasted 6 minutes. At what time did the movie finish?

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12. If 8 poles are 3m apart, what is the distance in metres between the first and the eight pole?

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