General Awareness Questions 31

1. If the radius of a circle is diminished by 10%, then its area is diminished by:

2. A clock is set right at 8 a.m. The clock gains 10 minutes in 24 hours. What will be the true time when the clock indicates 1 p.m. on the following day?

3. What is the missing number in this series? 8 2 14 6 11 ? 14 6 18 12

4. A train which travels at a uniform speed due to some mechanical fault after traveling for an hour goes at 3/5th of the original speed and reaches the destination 2 hrs late.If the fault had occurred after traveling another 50 miles the train would have reached 40 min earlier. What is distance between the two stations.

5. A shop keeper sold a T.V set for Rs.17,940 with a discount of 8% and earned a profit of 19.6%.What would have been the percentage of profit earned if no discount was offered?

6. A boat travels 20 kms upstream in 6 hrs and 18 kms downstream in 4 hrs.Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the water current?

7. Dinesh travelled 1200 km by air which formed 2/5 of his trip. One third of the whole trip, he travelled by car and the rest of the journey he performed by train. What was the distance travelled by train?

8. If (2x-y)=4 then (6x-3y)=?

9. At what time after 4.00 p.m. is the minutes hand of a clock exactly aligned with the hour hand?

10. The largest copper producing country in the World is