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Q. Find the odd one out from the given set of numbers.
14, 28, 35, 46, 56, 84
Q. Find the odd one out from the given set of numbers. 
16, 81, 100, 256, 2401
Q. Find the odd one out from the given set of numbers.
2, 4, 8, 11, 14, 18
Q. Find the error part: 
Gold(A)/ is (B)/ an useful(C)/ metal(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
My uncle (A)/is(B)/ a(C)/ SP(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
Parul(A)/ was also invited(B)/ to the lunch hosted by the queen at her cottage yesterday(C)/ No error (D).
Q. Find the error part: 
Shatabdi Express(A)/ runs(B)/ very(C)/ fast(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
Here is a red(A)/ shirt(B)/ which Sapna gave me(C)/yesterday(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
The boy(A)/is(B)/ swimming(c)/ on the pool(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
I(A)/ saw(B)/ an one rupee note(C)/ on the road(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
The Sapna(A)/ is a very(B)/ beautiful(C)/ girl(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
Ritika(A)/ helps(B)/ poor and(C)/ the sick people(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
Rome(A)/ was(B)/ not built in a day(C)/ No error
Q. What time will be taken by a boat to cover a distance of 128 km along the stream, if speed of a boat in still water is 24 km/h and speed of stream is 8 km/h?
Q. Keshav can row 60 km downstream and 36 km upstream, taking 10 h each time. What is the velocity of the current?
Q. A boatman rows 1 km in 5 min along the stream and 6 km in 1 h against the stream. The Speed of the stream is
Q. A swimmer's speed downstream is 11 km/h and speed of the stream is 1.5 km/h. Find the upstream speed of swimmer.
Q. Ravi can row downstream at 9 km/h and upstream at 5 km/h. Find the speed of Ravi in still water and speed of current.
Q. If the speed of a swimmer in still water is 9 km/h. Find the downstream speed of the swimmer, when the river is flowing with the speed of 6 km/h.
Q. When the speed of a boat in still water is 4 km/h and the rate of stream is 2 km/h, find upstream speed of the boat.
Q. A motorboat takes 2 hours to travel a distance of 9 km down the current and it takes 6 hours to travel the same distance against the current. What is the speed of the boat in still water in kmph?
Q. Speed of a boat in still water is 7 km/hr and speed of the stream is 1.5 km/hr . How much time will it take to move up is stream of a distance 7.7 km?
Q. A man can row 5 km per hour in still water. If the river is flowing at 1km per hour, it takes him 75 minutes to row to a place and back. How far is the place?
Q. A boat moves down the stream at the rate of 1 km in 6 minutes and up the stream at the rate of 1 km in 10 minutes. The speed of the current is
Q. A boat can be rowed 6 km/hr along the current and 4 km/hr against the current. Speed of the current and speed of the boat in still water, respectively will be
Q. A man takes 3 hours and 45 minutes to boat 15 km with the current in a river and 2 hours 30 minutes to cover a distance of 5 km against the current. Speed of the boat in still water and speed of the current respectively will be
Q. A boat against the current of water goes 9 km/hr and in the direction of the current 12 km/hr. The boat takes 4 hours and 12 minutes to move upwared and downward direction from A to B. What is the distance between A and B?
Q. A man can row a certain distance down stream in 6 hours and return the same distance in 9 hours. If stream flows at the rate of 2 km/hr, then what will be man's speed if he rows in still water?
Q. A man can row upstream a distance of 2/3 km in 10 minutes and returns the same distance downstream in 5 minutes. Ratio of man's speed in still water and that of the stream will be
Q. A man goes by motor boat a certain distance upstream at 15 km/hr and return the same downstream at 20 kin/hr. The total time taken for the journey was 7 hrs. Find how far did he go.
Q. A boat travels 10 km in 1 hr downstream and 14 kms in 2 hrs upstream. How much time this boat will take to travel 17 kms in still water?
Q. A boat goes 20 km upstream in 2 hours and downstream in 1 hour. How much time this boat will take to travel 30 km in all still water?
Q. During the first year, the population of a Village is increased by 5% and the second year, it is diminished by 5%. At the end of the second year. its population was 47880. What was the population at the beginning of the first year?
Q. A sum of RS. 11000 was taken as loan. This is to be paid in two equal annual instalments.If the rate of interest be 20% compounded annually, then the value of each instalment is
Q. An amount is invested in a bank at compound rate of interest. The total amount, including interest, after first and third year is RS. 1200 and RS.1587, respectively. What is the rate of interest ?
Q. SBI lent RS. 1331 lakh to the TATA group at compound interest and got RS. 1728 lakh after 3 yr. What is the rate of interest charged, if compounded annually?
Q. The population of a town is 126800. It increases by 15% in the first year and decreases by 20% in the second year. What is the population of the town at the end of 2 yr?
Q. The principal amount which yields a compound interest of RS. 208 in the second year at 4% is
Q. The height of a tree increases every year 1/8 times. If the present height of the tree is 64 cm, then what will be its height after 2 yr?
Q. The simple interest on a certain sum for 2 yr is RS. 120 and compound interest is RS. 129. Find the rate of interest.
Q. A sum invested for 3 yr compounded at 5%, 10% and 20% respectively. In 3 yr, if the sum amounts to RS. 16632, then find the sum.
Q. Find the compound interest for a sum of RS. 9375 in 2 yr, if the rate of interest for the first year is 2% and for the second year is 4%.
Q. What will be the principal, if the rate of 5% per annum can yield RS. 410 as compound interest in 2 yr?
Q. At what per cent annual compound interest rate, a certain sum amounts to its 27 times in 3 yr?
Q. A sum amounts to RS. 2916 in 2 yr and RS. 3149.28 in 3 yr at compound interest. The sum is
Q. A certain sum at compound interest amounts to RS. 12960 in 2 yr and RS. 13176 in 3 yr. Find the rate per cent per annum.
Q. The compound interest is RS. 6.40 more than the simple interest, if a sum is lent for 2 yr at 8% compound interest. Find the sum.
Q. The simple interest for certain sum in 2 yr at 4% pa is RS. 80. What will be the compound interest for the same sum, if conditions of rate and time period are same?
Q. If the difference between the compound interest and the simple interest on a certain sum for 2 yr at 8% per annum is RS. 32, then the sum is
Q. What is the difference between the compound interest and simple interest calculated on an amount of RS.16200 at the end of 3 yr at 25% pa? (Rounded off to two digits after decimal)
Q. The difference between compound and simple rates of interest on RS. 10000 for 3 yr at 5% per annum is
Q. What is the difference between compound interest and simple interest for 2 yr on the sum of RS. 1250 at 4% pa? 
Q. A sum, at the compound rate of interest, becomes 2 1/2 times in 6 yr. The same sum becomes what times in 18 yr?
Q. A sum of RS. 400 amounts to RS. 441 in 2 yr. What will be its amount, if the rate of interest is increased by 5%?
Q. The population of a country is 10 crore and it is the possibility that the population will become 13.31 crore in 3 yr. What will be the the annual rate per cent on this growth?
Q. The population of a city increases at the rate of 5% pa. If the present population of the city is 185220, then what was its population 3 yr ago?
Q. The compound interest on a sum of RS. 4000 becomes RS. 630.50 in 9 months. Find the rate of interest, if interest is compounded quarterly
Q. What amount will be received on a sum of Rs. 15000 in 1 1/4 yr at 12% pa, if interest is compounded quarterly?
Q. What amount will be received on a sum 0f Rs. 1750 in 2 1/2 Yr, if the interest is compounded at the rate of 8% pa?
Q. What will be the present worth of RS. 169 due in 2 yr at 4% pa compound interest?
Q. A sum amounts to Rs. 1352 in 2 yr at 4% compound interest. The sum is
Q. Which one of the following types of coal is difficult to light in the open air?
Q. Who invented 'safety pin'?
Q. For which invention is Otto Hahn famous?
Q. 'Gunpowder' was invented by
Q. he first 'thermionic value' was invented by
Q. Who developed the first 'automatic automobile'?
Q. Who built the first “modern motor car'?
Q. Who introduced the use of artificial heart for surgery?
Q. Consider the following statements:
1. Kyoto Protocol came into force in the year 2005.
2. Kyoto Protocol deals primarily with the depletion of the Ozone layer.
3. Methane as a greenhouse gas is more harmful than carbon dioxide.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q. Which one of the following is the secondary source of light in a fluorescent lamp?
Q. Which one of the following is the first geostationary telecommunication satellite of India?
Q. For which one of the following is Planimeter used?
Q. The sun is visible a little before the actual sunrise because of which one of the following?
Q. Stem Cell Therapy (SCT) is not useful for the treatment of which one of the following ailments?
Q. Which one of the following is not required for the formation of photochemical smog?
Q. Consider the following pairs
Mineral : Composition
1. Amphibole : Calcium-magnesium - iron silicate
2. Mica : Magnesium - iron - aluminium silicate
3. Quartz : Silicon dioxide
Which of the above pair/pairs is/are correctly matched?
Q. How much is one barrel of oil approximately equal to?
Q. Synonym of Mollify
Q. Synonym of Coy
Q. Synonym of Denounce
Q. Synonym of Affluent
Q. Synonym of Bewail
Q. Synonym of Dogma
Q. Synonym of Fatigue
Q. Synonym of Kemp
Q. Synonym of Esculent
Q. Synonym of Extricate
Q. Synonym of Dodge
Q. Synonym of Impertinent
Q. Synonym of Zany
Q. Synonym of Hiatus
Q. Synonym of Sloppy
Q. Synonym of Interrogate
Q. Synonym of Brook
Q. Synonym of Moving
Q. Synonym of Terrific
Q. Synonym of Ferry
Q. Synonym of Venture
Q. Synonym of Perfidy
Q. Who is the father of email ?
Q. What symbol is used to enter number as text?
Q. A(n) .......... is a small group of computers and peripherals linked together in a small geographic area.
Q. What kind of attempts is made by individuals to obtain confidential information from a person by falsifying their identity?
Q. A modem _____
Q. The digital computer was developed primarily in
Q. Who are the primary users of SCM systems?
Q. In Microsoft Excel , Ctrl+ down arrow key leads to _____________ cell movement on spreadsheet.
Q. In context of computing, what is the full form of URL?
Q. ALU stands for in computer?
Q. In a worksheet, you can select
Q. What is the most common way to get a virus in your computers hard disk?
Q. A person who used his or her expertise to gain access to other people's computers to get information illegally or do damage is a _____
Q. A button that makes characters either upper or lower case and numbers to symbols___
Q. What is "Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator" (BESK), created in 1953?
Q. The symbols used in an assembly language are called?
Q. Antonym of - primed
Q. Antonym of - pilferer
Q. Antonym of - Generous
Q. Antonym of - Barren
Q. Antonym of - Profound
Q. Antonym of - Flippant
Q. Antonym of - Cautious
Q. Antonym of - Lethal
Q. Antonym of - Tranquility
Q. Antonym of - Dormant
Q. Antonym of - Dwindle
Q. Antonym of - Wary
Q. Find the error part: 
An European(A)/ dish(B)/ is(C)/ very famous(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
An horse(A)/ is (B)/ running(C)/ in the ground(D)
Q. Find the error part: 
Bible(A)/ said that(B)/ the sun(C)/ goes round the earth(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
The Taj mahal(A)/is (B)/ situated(C)/ at the Agra(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
Kashmiri (A)/shawls (B)/ are made of (C)/ the hair of sheep (D).
Q. Find the error part: 
I (A)/ go (B)/ to cinema(C)/ every Sunday(D).
Q. Find the error part: 
He (A)/ always speaks(B)/ truth/(C)/No error (D).
Q. Find the error part: 
He (A)/ went there (B)/ a hour (C)/ ago (D).
Q. Find the error part: 
Mr Gaurav Sharma (A)/ is (B)/ coming to dinner(C)/ No error.
Q. Find the error part: 
It is (A) / a most (B) / beautiful (C) painting of the gallery (D).
Q. Find the error part: 
In the meeting, Mr Mehta's (A)/ suggestions with regard for (B)/ certain administrative reforms were (C)/ hailed by all the members (D)
Q. Find the error part: 
Myself and Ganesh (A)/ will take care of (B)/ the function (C)/ on Sunday (D)
Q. Change the voice: His hard work satisfied me.
Q. Change the voice: I don’t know his whereabouts.
Q. Change the voice: You need to clean your shoes properly. 
Q. Change the voice: The boys were playing cricket.