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

Which of the following is the average of x⁴ - 20, 40 - x⁴, and 3x + 4 ?

• x⁴ - 24 A
• x + 8 B
• x⁴ + 3x + 24 C
• x + 24 D

My neighbor's dogs bark and howl every time their owner lets them outside. My CPA told me that dogs tend to bark and howl when they see birds resting in the top branches of their favorite trees. I personally believe they bark and howl because they enjoy disrupting my meditations.

Q:Which of the following conclusions can be properly drawn from the preceding passage?

• The dogs must be abused by their owners A
• There are many pedestrians who walk by this neighbor's house, and the dogs are starving for attention B
• The dogs frequently see birds In the tops of their favorite trees C
• The dogs will bark and howl at 3 a.m. if they are outside at that time D

The length of a rectangle is 3 more than the side of a square, and the width of the rectangle is 3 less than the side of the square. If the area of the square is 58, what is the area of the rectangle ?

• 40 A
• 20 B
• 39 C
• 49 D

• x only A
• y only B
• x and y only C
• y and z only D

• 2 A
• 4 B
• 2√2 C
• 4√2 D

If (p - 3)(p + 5) > (p - 3)(p + 8), what is the best description of p?

• p = 3 A
• -8 < p < -5 B
• p = { } C
• p < 3 D

• 12 cm² A
• 25 cm² B
• 9 cm² C
• 17.23 cm² D

If (5^a)(5^b) = 5^c/5^d , what is d in terms of a, b and c ?

• a + b -c A
• a - b + c B
• a + b + c C
• c - a - b D

How many tens are equal to the number whose hundreds, tens, and units digits are a, b, and c respectively?

• b A
• a+1/10 b + 1/100 c B
• 10a + b + c C
• 10a+b+c/10 D

The average of the first 35 positive integers is:

• 13 A
• 17 B
• 18 C
• 19 D

How many three-digit number have only even digits ?

• 48 A
• 58 B
• 500 C
• 300 D

If a = 1 and 1 > b > 0, then which of the following statement is true ?

• a = b A
• b > a B
• 1/b > a C
• 1/a < b D

There are 20 boys in a class. Five of them are left-handed. What fraction of the class is left handed ?

• 1/5 A
• 1/2 B
• 1/4 C
• 2/11 D
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What is the probability of getting all six in a single throw of three unbiased dice?

• 1/6 A
• 125/216 B
• 1/36 C
• 1/216 D

If 3y = 7, the value of 6y - 3 is:

• 39 A
• 13 B
• 11 C
• 10 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

If 3x + 17 = 9 - x, what is the value of x ?

• 2 A
• 3 B
• -2 C
• -3 D

If P is a negative integer and p²+ 11p =t, a value of t could be

• 12 A
• 18 B
• -18 C
• 11 D

Between 1990 and 1998, boarding in Muslim Degree College averaged 79 percent of capacity, while admission rates remained constant, at an average of 9 admissions per 100 rooms per year. Between 1998 and 2002, however, boarding rates increased to an average of 85 percent of capacity, while admission rates declined to 8 per 100 rooms per year.Q:Which of the following conclusions can be most properly drawn from the info given above?

• The average stay for Muslim degree College residents rose between 1998 and 2002 A
• The proportion of young student staying in the college hostel was greater in 2002 than in 1990 B
• College admission rates tend to decline whenever boarding rates rise C
• College built prior to 1998 generally had fewer rooms than did college built between 1998 and 2002 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