GAT-A Business and Engineering Quantitative MCQ's Test Preparation for Pakistani Students

Which of the following operations has same effect as multiplying by 0.5?

• Multiplying by 1/2 A
• Multiplying by 2 B
• Dividing by 1/2 C
• Dividing by 3 D

If three times of a number is 6 more than twice the number, What is the value of the number?

• 2 A
• 4 B
• 6 C
• 8 D

When I arrived at the college last week, the behavior of the students was so poor that I was shocked. The student population is completely lacking in good social skills.

Q:Which of the following, if true, would weaken the above conclusion?

• Students on boarding are often rude A
• Students of sciences are often rude B
• Social skills should not be expected of college students C
• The enrolment in an ordinary college is more than 10,000, even in a small city in Pakistan D

Direction:In the following type of question,each consists of two quantities,one in column A and one in column B.You must compare two quantities and on the answer sheet fill in.

A.If the quantity in column A is greater.

B.If the quantity in column B is greater.

C.If the two quantities are equal.

D.If the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

Notes:Sometimes,in certain question,information concerning one or both the quantities to be compared is centered above the two columns.A symbol that in both columns represents the same thing in column A as it does in column B.

Column A

P

Column B

0

(pq = 0)

• A A
• B B
• C C
• D D

If P²+ 5 = 22, then P²- 5 =

• 12 A
• 17 B
• 39 C
• 144 D

Each man contributed dollars equal to the number of women and each woman contributed dollars equal to the number of men in a group of 120 group of 120 people, the total amount collected was Rs. 7200. How many men were there in the group?

• 72 A
• 60 B
• 40 C
• 80 D
• None of these E

The product of √24a and √6a is:

• 12a A
• 6a² B
• 12a² C
• 3a√8 D

If the height of a cylinder is double to its circumference, what is the volume of the cylinder in terms of its circumference, C ?

• C/π A
• C³/π B
• C³/4π² C
• C³/2π D

If 12 pounds of fudge are placed in boxes that each holds 8 ounces, how many boxes will be filled? (1 pound = 16 ounces)

• 1 1/2 A
• 96 B
• 6 C
• 24 D

The greatest number which divides 2400 and 3600 leaving 48 and 60 respectively, as remainder is:

• 9 A
• 7 B
• 17 C
• 10 D

If C is the circumference of a circular disk in centimeters, and A is the area of the same circular disk in square centimeter. Then C/A = A/C, iff r =

• 1 A
• 2 B
• 3 C
• 4 D

If 6 - a > 7, then

• a > 1 A
• a > -1 B
• a < -1 C
• a < 1 D

• 24 A
• 30 B
• 35 C
• 36 D

Direction:In the following type of question,each consists of two quantities,one in column A and one in column B.You must compare two quantities and on the answer sheet fill in.

A.If the quantity in column A is greater.

B.If the quantity in column B is greater.

C.If the two quantities are equal.

D.If the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

Notes:Sometimes,in certain question,information concerning one or both the quantities to be compared is centered above the two columns.A symbol that in both columns represents the same thing in column A as it does in column B.

Column A

3√16/4

Column B

2√18/2

• A A
• B B
• C C
• D D

Direction:In the following type of question,each consists of two quantities,one in column A and one in column B.You must compare two quantities and on the answer sheet fill in.

A.If the quantity in column A is greater.

B.If the quantity in column B is greater.

C.If the two quantities are equal.

D.If the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

Notes:Sometimes,in certain question,information concerning one or both the quantities to be compared is centered above the two columns.A symbol that in both columns represents the same thing in column A as it does in column B.

Column A

The number of primes between 40 and 50.

Column B

The number of primes between 60 and 70

• A A
• B B
• C C
• D D

Many people especially the experts in the field of forestry are against all forest fires. They demand that all forest fires should be extinguished and let the forest die out by their own. The study of forest fires show that in the long run, forest fires may in fact, be beneficial to the ecology as a whole.

Q:Among the following, which statement would logically follow from one of the observations referred to in the passage above?

• The reason of almost all forest fires is natural A
• Human beings try to extinguish the fire for gaining heat B
• Studies indicate that forest fires regularly occurred in the times prior to human occupation of forest areas C
• The animal and plant life destroyed by forest fires seldom represents endangered species D
• Occasionally, the small fire prevents a large scale fire by the accumulation of flammable materials E

If 10 tractors are needed to plow a field in 4 hours, how many tractors are needed to plow the field in 5 hours?

• 32 A
• 4 B
• 16 C
• 8 D

The product of 313 with itself is:

• 97969 A
• 17.69 B
• 5536.97 C
• 195938 D

A recipe requires 13 gram of sugar and 18 gram of flour. If only 100 gram of sugar is used, how much flour, to the nearest gram, should be used ?

• 16 A
• 13 B
• 14 C
• 17 D

Traveling by cars is safer than traveling by planes. Eighty percent of plane accidents result in death of all passengers, while only one percent of car accidents result in death.

Q:Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the argument above?

• Planes are inspected by experienced engineers before flying A
• The number of car accidents is several thousand times higher than the number of plane accidents B
• Pilots are more trained than car drivers are C
• Speed of car is lesser than that of plans nj D

Direction:In the following type of question,each consists of two quantities,one in column A and one in column B.You must compare two quantities and on the answer sheet fill in.

A.If the quantity in column A is greater.

B.If the quantity in column B is greater.

C.If the two quantities are equal.

D.If the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

Notes:Sometimes,in certain question,information concerning one or both the quantities to be compared is centered above the two columns.A symbol that in both columns represents the same thing in column A as it does in column B.

Column A

x

Column B

y

x and y are positive

1/x = 1 + 1/y

• A A
• B B
• C C
• D D

The volume of a cube is 216, its surface area is:

• 64 A
• 216 B
• 25 C
• 96 D

Stock analyst: "We believe Company A's stock will appreciate at 35% a year for the next 5 to 7 years. Company A just became the leader in its industry and we expect its sales to grow at 8% a year." Commentator: "But how can the stock's price be expected to grow more quickly than the company's underlying sales?"

Q:Which of the following, if true, would best support the stock analyst's prediction?

• The company's expenses will be declining over the next 5 to 10 years A
• The company just won a patent on a new product B
• The 5 to 7 year time frame is too long for anyone to accurately forecast C
• Company A's industry peer group is expected to experience stock appreciation rates of 30% over the same time horizon D

Shockwave lithotripsy can be used to remove painful kidney stones. In contrast to surgery - the invasive procedure customarily used, extracorpreal shockwave lithotripsy poses little risk to patients. Thus, to guarantee patient safety in the attempt treat kidney stones, extracorpreal shockwave lithotripsy should replace kidney stone surgery in all cases.

Q:Which of the following, if true, would most support the recommendation above?

• Kidney surgery can be used to treat other ailments of the kidneys other than kidney stones. A
• Extracorpreal shockwave lithotripsy was designed primarily in order to diagnose kidney stones. B
• Kidney surgery can reveal more information about the cause of a stone than an extracorpreal shockwave lithotripsy can. C
• An extracorpreal shockwave lithotripsy is just as likely as kidney surgery to successfully remove a kidney stone D

• 50 A
• 75 B
• 25 C
• 65 D

What is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius ?

• π A
• π/2 B
• 2πr C
• 2π D

Ayesha and Bisma together have $20. Bisma and Adnan together have $16. Ayesha and Adnan together have $24. What is the smallest number of dollars that any girl has alone?

• 4 A
• 6 B
• 10 C
• 24 D

In a screeening process of 5600 candidates, 20% of the candidates were disqualified in the first test. In the second test 40% of the first test qualifiers were disqualified. How many candidates qualified the test?

• 2688 A
• 1344 B
• 3600 C
• 5000 D

A small furniture store uses a software program called Blaze to do its basic bookkeeping. There is good reason to believe that the accounting it provides is inaccurate. Several times when the accounts were carefully calculated by a bookkeeper using an adding machine, the resulting total differed from the total the computer gave.

Q:The furniture store manager's reasoning relies on which of the following assumptions?

• The criteria that the computer uses in determining what items are included in the accounting of a particular month differ from the criteria the bookkeeper uses
  A
• The inaccuracy of the computer's accounting does not result from a malfunction of the computer itself
  B
• It would be possible to modify the computer so that it calculated the store's accounts more accurately.
  C
• A careful calculation by the bookkeeper using an adding machine is unlikely to be less accurate than the computer's accounting
  D

The cost of manufacturing sports shoes in Macao is 25% less than the cost of manufacturing them in the Philippines. Even after transportation fees and tariff charges are added, it is still cheaper for a company to import sport shoes from Macao to the Philippines than to manufacture sports shoes in the Philippines.

Q:The statements above, if true, best support which of the following assertions?

• Labor costs in Macao are 25% below those in the Philippines A
• Importing sports shoes from Macao to the Philippines will eliminate 25% of the manufacturing jobs in the Philippines B
• The tariff on sports shoes imported from Macao to the Philippines is less than 25% of the cost of manufacturing sports shoes in the Philippines C
• The fee for transporting a pair of sports shoes fromMacao to the Philippines is more than 25% of cost of manufacturing the shoes in Macao
  D