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

If it takes 4 days for 3 machines to do a certain job, how many days are required to complete the job by two machines?

• 6 days A
• 2 days B
• 5 days C
• 3 days D

• 30 A
• 45 B
• 40 C
• 35 D

If the ratio of boys and girls in a class is 3 : 5 and the class contains 24 students, how many additional boys would have to enroll to make the ratio of boys to girls 1 : 1 ?

• 9 A
• 15 B
• 6 C
• 12 D

• 125 sq.cm A
• 150.72 sq.cm B
• 64 sq.cm C
• 56 sq.cm 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

A and B can do a job in 6 days. If A do the job alone he takes 10 days. What will be the time required by B to complete the job alone?

• 8 A
• 6 B
• 15 C
• 3 D

When two dice are thrown simultaneously, what is the probability that the sum of the two numbers that turn up is less than 11?

• 5/6 A
• 11/12 B
• 1/6 C
• 1/12 D

Ali purchased some goldfish. During the first week, 1/5 of them died, and during the second week, 3/8 of those still alive at the end of the first week died. What is the fraction of the original goldfish still alive after two weeks ?

• 1/2 A
• 3/2 B
• 5/2 C
• 4/3 D

Bus Company President: A city councilman has stated his objection to the claim that the city buses are dangerous. This is clearly untrue. None of the new buses in use has ever crashed or even had a serious malfunction. City councilman: The problem with the new buses is not that they malfunction, but that they are no flamboyantly painted that other drivers on the road are distracted and this may cause accidents.

Q:The councilman responds to the bus company president by doing which of the following?

• Characterizing the bus company president's assertion as stemming from subjective interest rather than from objective evaluation of the facts A
• Drawing attention to the fact that the bus company president's interpretation of the word "dangerous" is too narrow B
• Invoking evidence that the bus company president has explicitly dismissed as irrelevant the point at issue C
• Citing statistical evidence that refutes the bus company president's claim D

• 20 A
• 40 B
• 60 C
• 30 D

A worker is paid R rupees per hours for the first 8 hours daily. For every hour after the first 8 hours, she is paid S rupees per hour. If she works 12 hours in one day, what is her average hourly for the day ?

• 8R + S A
• 8R + 4S/4 B
• 12R - 8S/4 C
• 2R + S/3 D

A village has 5860 voters, of whom 7% usually forget to vote. In order to win an election, a candidate must gain at least 50% of the remaining votes. How many votes does he need in order to win ?

• 2725 A
• 410 B
• 5450 C
• None of these 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

A dealer bought an ornamental jar for Rs. 7,000 and after some days sold it for Rs. 21,000. By what percent did the value of jar increase ?

• 300 A
• 200 B
• 150 C
• 20 D

If 3x + 9 = 18, what is the value of x + 3 ?

• 3 A
• 6 B
• -3 C
• 36 D

The tanneries claim that chemical waste dumps pose no threat to people living near them. If this is true, then why do they locate the plants in sparsely populated regions? By not locating the chemical dumps in densely populated areas the tanneries tacitly admits that these chemicals are potentially dangerous to the people living nearby.

Q:Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the author's argument?

• Funding through the environmental Super Fund to clean up poorly run waste dumps is reserved for rural areas only A
• Until chemical dumps are proven 100% safe, it would be imprudent to locate them were they could potentially do the most harm. B
• Locating the dumps in sparsely populated areas is less expensive and involves less government red tape C
• The potential for chemicals to leach into the water table has in the past been underestimated D
• People in cities are more likely to site the industry if their health is harmed by the drumps E

The least number which when divided by 35, leaves remainder of 25; when divided by 45 leaves a remainder of 35 and when divided by 55 leaves 45 as remainder, is:

• 3455 A
• 3465 B
• 3475 C
• 10 D

Out of the 44 boys in a class, 9 are of the age of 10, 15 at the age of 9, and the rest are at the age of 5. Find the average age of the entire class.

• 7.85 A
• 8.75 B
• 12.2 C
• 14.35 D

Wheat has more nutritional value than rye. But since oats have more nutritional value than rice, it follows that wheat has more nutritional value than rice.

Q:Any of the following, if introduced into the argument as an additional premise, makes theargument above logically correct EXCEPT:

• Wheat and oats have the same nutritional value A
• Rye has more nutritional value than oats B
• Rye has more nutritional value than rice C
• Oats have more nutritional value than whea D

Reporter: H & B Co. has misled its clients by promoting some Egyptian porcelain figurines as rare; in fact those pieces are relatively commonplaceH & B Representative: That is absurd! H & B is the largest antique dealer in the country. We authenticate the figurines we sell through a nationally recognized firm.

Q:The H & B Representative's reply is most vulnerable to the criticism that it .

• exaggerates the H & B Representative's claims in order to make them appear absurd A
• accuses the H & B Representative of bias but presents no evidence to support that accusation B
• fails to establish that other antique dealers do not also authenticate the figurines those dealers sell C
• lists strengths of H & B while failing to address the representative's charge D