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A certain number of horses and an equal number of men are going somewhere. Half of the owners are on their horses' back while the remaining ones are walking along leading their horses. If the number of legs walking on the ground is 70, how many horses are there ?

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

Let number of horses = number of men = x.

Then, number of legs = 4x + 2 x (x/2) = 5x.

So, 5X = 70 or x = 14.

1. Aruna cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of the small pieces is twenty grams in weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake in all with her, how heavy was the original cake ?

240 gm
220 gm
225 gm
250 gm

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

Seven pieces consist of 6 smaller equal pieces and one half cake piece.

Weight of each small piece = 20 gm
So, total weight of the cake = 2 (20 * 6) = 240 gm

2. If 100 cats kill 100 mice in 100 days, then 4 cats would kill 4 mice in how many days ?

4 day
10 day
40 day
100 day

Answer: Option D

3. First bunch of bananas has (1/4) again as many bananas as a second bunch. If the second bunch has 3 bananas less than the first bunch, then the number of bananas in the first bunch are

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

Let the number of bananas in the second bunch be x.
Then, the number of bananas in the first bunch
= x + 1/4 x
= 5/4 x
So,
5/4 x - x = 3
=> 5x - 4x = 12
x = 12

Number of bananas in first bunch
= 5/4 * 12 = 15

4. In a class, there are 18 boys who are over 160 cm tall. If these constitute three-fourths of the boys and the total number of boys is two-thirds of the total number of students in the class, what is the number of girls in the class ?

Answer: Option B

Explanation:

Let the number of boys be x.
Then, 3/4 x = 18
=> x = 24

If total number of students is y, then
2/3 y = 24
=> y = 36

Number of girls in class = y - x
= 36 - 24 = 12

5. In a caravan, in addition to 50 hens, there are 45 goats and 8 camels with some keepers. If the total number of feet be 224 more than the number of heads in the caravan, the number of keepers is

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

Let the number of keepers be x.
Then, total number of feet = 2*50+4*45+4*8+2x
= 2x + 312

Total number of heads = 50+45+8+x = 103 + x
Now, (2x+312) = (103+x)+224
=> x = 15