Sreedhar’s CCE PROBLEMS ON NUMBERS
PROBLEMS ON NUMBERS
1. The sum of three consecutive even numbers is 132. What is the smallest number ?
1) 44 2) 46 3) 48 4) 40 5) 42
2. The difference between the squares of two consecutive numbers is 35. The numbers
are ?
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1) 18 & 17 2) 17 & 20 3) 17 & 18 4) 16&18 5) 19 & 20
3. The sum of five consecutive even numbers is equal to 260. What is the sum of the
largest number amongst them and the half the square of the smallest number
amongst them ?
1) 1644 2) 1208
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4. The product of two consecutive even numbers is 2208. What is the greater number ?
1) 46 2) 52 3) 54 4) 48 5) 56
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The sum of five consecutive odd numbers is equal to 245. What is the difference
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between twice the largest odd number and the smallest odd number ?
1) 61 2) 71 3) 51 4) 65 5) 64
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6. The digit at the unit’s place of a two-digit number is increased by 50%. And the
digit at the ten’s place of the same number is increased by 100%. Now, we find
the new numbers is 33 more than the original number. Find the original number.
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1) 36 2) 35 3) 62 4) 64 5) 63
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7. The sum of two digits of a number is 15. If 9 is added to the number, the digits are
reversed. The number are
1) 78 2) 87 3) 80 4) 82 5) 85
8. The difference between the digits of a two digit number is 4 and the digit in the
unit's place is one-third of the digit in the tenth's place. What is the two-digit number ?
1) 26 2) 31 3) 93 4) 62 5) Cannot be determined
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9. The difference between a two-digit number and the number obtained by
interchanging the two digits of the number is 18. The sum of the two digits of the
number is 12. What is the product of the two digits of the two digit number ?
1) 35 2) 27 3) 32 4) Cannot be determined 5) 34
10. A number consists of two digits and the digit in the ten’s place exceeds that in
the unit’s place by 5. If 5 times the sum of the digits be added from the number,
the digits of the number are reversed. Then the sum of digits of the number is ?
1) 11 2) 7 3) 9 4) 13 5) 16
11. A certain number when divided by 45 leaves a remainder 31. What is the remainder
if the same number be divided by 15 ?
1) 13 2) 11 3) 9 4) 1 5) 5
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12. Two different numbers when divided by a divisor left remainder 11 and 21
respectively. When their sum was divided by the same divisor remainder was 4
what is the divisor.
1) 35 2) 28 3) 15 4) 9 5) 8
13. A number when divided by a divisor left remainder 23. When twice of the number
was divided by the same divisor, remainder was 11. What is the divisor
1) 12 2) 34 3) 35 4) 25 5) 20
14. Find the least number when successively divided by 2, 3 and 7 it leaves remainder
1, 2 and 3 respectively.
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1) 67 2) 65 3) 75 4) 61 5) 63
15. A certain number when successively divided by 3 and 5 leaves remainder 1 and 2.
What is the remainder if the same number be divided by 15?
1) 8 2) 7 3) 5 4) 4 5) 3
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A positive number when decreased by 4 is equal to 21 times the reciprocal of the
number. Find the number
1) 10 2) 7 3) 8 4) 9 5) 12
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The product of two natural numbers is 17. What is the sum of the squares of their
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reciprocals ?
7 11 113 1 1
1) 1 2) 2 3) 1 4) 1 5) 9
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289 17 289 289 289
18. A student was asked to find the value of 3/8 of a sum of money. The student
made a mistake by dividing to sum by 3/8 and thus got an answer which exceeded
the correct answer by Rs. 55 The correct answer was
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1) 9 2) 18 3) 24 4) 64 5) 56
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19. Of the two numbers, 3 times the bigger is greater than 5 times the smaller one by
5. If the sum of the numbers is greater than three times their difference by 2,
what is the bigger number ?
1) 8 2) 18 3) 21 4) 14 5) 15
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20. The sum of 3 numbers is 198. If the first number is 3 rd of the second number
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and the third number is 7 th of the first number, then what is the difference
between the first number and second number ?
1) 84 2) 96 3) 108 4) 118 5) 76
21. A certain number of capsules were purchased for Rs. 192/-. 8 more capsules
could have been purchased in the same amount if each capsule was cheaper by
Rs 4/-. What was the number of capsules purchased ?
1) 24 2) 12 3) 16 4) 8 5) 18
22. A man engaged a servant on the condition that he would pay him Rs. 900 and a
uniform after one year service. He served only for 9 months and received uniform
and Rs. 650. Find the price of the uniform ?
1) Rs. 80 2) Rs. 85 3) Rs. 90 4) Rs. 100 5) Rs. 125
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23. An employer pays Rs. 26/- for each day a worker works and forfeits Rs 7/- for
each day he is idle. At the end of 56 days, if the worker got Rs. 829/- for how
many days did the worker remain idle ?
1) 15 2) 13 3) 21 4) 19 5) 17
24. 2160 chocolates were distributed equally among children in such a way that
number of chocolates received by each child is 15% of the total number of chil-
dren. How many chocolates did each child get ?
1) 16 2) 20 3) 14 4) 24 5) 18
25. The ratio of the sum and the difference of two numbers is 7 : 1. Find the ratio of
those two numbers
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1) 3 : 4 2) 4 : 3 3) 5 : 4 4) 4 : 5 5) 2 : 3
26. What fraction is that which if 1 be added to the numerator becomes 1 and if 1 be
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added to denominater becomes
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1)
3
2)
4
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2
4)
4
5)
5
2 3 3 5 7
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If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 150% and the denominator of the
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fraction is increaed by 300%, the result becomes . What is the original frac-
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tion?
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4 3 5 7 3
1) 2) 3) 4) 5)
9 7 9 9 5
28. How many numbers from 100 to 300 are divisible by 11 ?
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1) 22 2) 21 3) 20 4) 18 5) 24
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29. How many numbers from 300 to 700 are divisible by 2,3 and 7 together?
1) 9 2) 8 3) 10 4) 11 5) 12
30. The rational number representing the number 7. 124 is
7124 7124 6896 7117 7117
1) 2) 3) 4) 5)
999 1000 999 999 990
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31. A boy multiplied 423 by a certain number and obtained 65589 as his answer. If
both the fives are wrong, but the other figures are right, find the correct answer.
1) 60489 2) 60948 3) 60984 4) 60498 5) 60495
32. By what number less than 1000 must 43259 be multiplied so that the last three
figures to the right of the product may be 437?
1) 743 2) 746 3) 741 4) 750 5) 749
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33. The unit's digit of 23 is
1) 1 2) 3 3) 7 4) 9 5) 10
34. What is the smallest number that should multiply 2000 to make it a perfect
square
1) 6 2) 10 3) 5 4) 8 5) 9
35. What is the least number is should be subtracted from 5640 to make it a perfect
square ?
1) 15 2) 25 3) 35 4) 45 5) 65