GAT-B Arts, Humanities and Social Science Quantitative MCQ's Test Preparation for Pakistani Students

For which values of p is p² - 5p + 6 negative ?

• p < 0 A
• 2 < p < 3 B
• x > 3 C
• x < 2 D

Four people are asked to stand in a straight line. In how many different orders can they line up?

• 12 A
• 16 B
• 24 C
• 6 D

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When 42 is added to twice a number, the result is 346, the number is:

• 304 A
• 242 B
• 152 C
• 265 D

• Zero A
• 9 B
• 5 C
• 14 D

A greater number of computers are sold in Sahiwal thanin Burewala. Therefore, the people of Sahiwal are better informed about world events than are the people of Burewala.

Q:Each of the following, if true, weakens the conclusion above EXCEPT:

• Sahiwal has a larger population than Burewala A
• Most people of Burewala work in Sahiwal B
• Bandwidth usage of Burewala is more than that in Sahiwal C
• The internet bandwidth is 128 kbps in both towns D

What is the value of the function k(x) = x²-2 when x = 7?

• 5 A
• 9 B
• 45 C
• 47 D
• 51 E

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

If 20x + 20y = 70, what is the average of x and y ?

• 7/2 A
• 7 B
• 7/4 C
• 4/7 D

If the base of a rectangle is increased by 40% and its altitude is decreased by 20% then its area is:

• decreased by 20% A
• increased by 12% B
• decreased by 12% C
• increased by 16% D

If 15 workers can paint a certain number of houses in 24 days, how many days will 40 workers take, working at the same rate, to do the same job ?

• 12 days A
• 18 days B
• 15 days C
• 9 days D

A bag has 7 marbles, one of each of colours, green, blue, brown, yellow, red, white and pink. If 6 marbles are removed from the bag, what is the probability that the red one was removed ?

• 1/7 A
• 4/3 B
• 2/7 C
• 6/7 D

• 22.9π A
• 22.4π B
• 60π C
• 62.3π D

If x/y = -1, then x + y =

• 0 A
• 1 B
• y C
• 2x D

• 70 A
• 45 B
• 40 C
• 65 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

Although most of the lucrative jobs in Pakistan willequire a college degree, many of the new jobs require knowledge other than that gained in college or university. For workers in those jobs, good basic skills in reading, communication, and mathematics play an important role in getting a job and developing a career.

Q:From the information given above it can be validly concluded that, in today's economy.

• Employment agencies should conduct communication and mathematics classes A
• All colleges and universities are worthless B
• People should train their children for technical work C
• Skills in reading, communication, and mathematics play an important role in developing a successful career D

Ahmed has a rectangular garden measuring 4.32m by 3.36m. He wants to divide it into square plots of equal size. What is largest sized square the can use?

• 0.24 A
• √3 B
• 0.48m C
• 0.16 D

The average of four consecutive even integers is T. The second of these integers can be represented in terms of T as:

• T - 1 A
• T + 1 B
• T + 2 C
• 4T - 8 D

Jafer drew a square. He then erased it and drew a second square whose sides were 3 times the sides of the first square. By what percent was the area of the square increased ?

• 300% A
• 800% B
• 400% C
• 200% D