List of top Quantitative Aptitude Questions asked in CAT

The manufacturer of a table sells it to a wholesale dealer at a profit of 10%. The wholesale dealer sells the table to a retailer at a profit of 30%. Finally, the retailer sells it to a customer at a profit of 50%. If the customer pays Rs 4290 for the table, then its manufacturing cost (in Rs) is

Let ABCDEF be a regular hexagon with each side of length 1 cm. The area (in sq cm) of a square with AC as one side is

From a triangle ABC with sides of lengths 40 ft, 25 ft and 35 ft, a triangular portion GBC is cut off where G is the centroid of ABC. The area, in sq ft, of the remaining portion of triangle ABC is

A solid metallic cube is melted to form five solid cubes whose volumes are in the ratio 1 : 1 : 8: 27: 27. The percentage by which the sum of the surface areas of these five cubes exceeds the surface area of the original cube is nearest to

Let P be an interior point of a right-angled isosceles triangle ABC with hypotenuse AB. If the perpendicular distance of P from each of AB, BC, and CA is 4 (√2 - l) cm, then the area, in sq cm, of the triangle ABC is

In a 10 km race. A, B, and C, each running at uniform speed, get the gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively. If A beats B by 1 km and B beats C by 1 km, then by how many metres does A beat C?

A man leaves his home and walks at a speed of 12 km per hour, reaching the railway station 10 minutes after the train had departed. If instead he had walked at a speed of 15 km per hour, he would have reached the station 10 minutes before the train's departure. The distance (in km) from his home to the railway station is

A motorbike leaves point A at 1 pm and moves towards point B at a uniform speed. A car leaves point B at 2 pm and moves towards point A at a uniform speed which is double that of the motorbike. They meet at 3:40 pm at a point which is 168 km away from A. What is the distance, in km, between A and B?

A man travels by a motor boat down a river to his office and back. With the speed of the river unchanged, if he doubles the speed of his motor boat, then his total travel time gets reduced by 75%. The ratio of the original speed of the motor boat to the speed of the river is

The base of a vertical pillar with uniform cross section is a trapezium whose parallel sides are of lengths 10 cm and 20 cm while the other two sides are of equal length. The perpendicular distance between the parallel sides of the trapezium is 12 cm. If the height of the pillar is 20 cm, then the total area, in sq cm, of all six surfaces of the pillar is

The points (2, 5) and (6, 3) are two end points of a diagonal of a rectangle. If the other diagonal has the equation y = 3x + c, then c is

If the top left and the top right entries of the grid are 6 and 2, respectively, then the bottom middle entry is

If the product of three consecutive positive integers is 15600 then the sum of the squares of these integers is

If \(f_1 (x) = x^2 + 11x + n\) and \(f_2 (x) = x,\) then the largest positive integer n for which the equation \(f_1 (x) = f_2 (x)\) has two distinct real roots, is

The minimum possible value of the sum of the squares of the roots of the equation x2 + (a + 3)x - (a + 5) = 0 is

An infinite geometric progression a1 , a2 , a3 ,... has the property that an = 3(an+ l + an+2 +….) for every n ≥ 1. If the sum a1 + a2 + a3 +….... = 32, then a5 is

If log (2a × 3b × 5C) is the arithmetic mean of log (22 × 33 × 5), log (26 × 3 × 57 ), and log (2 × 32 × 54 ), then a equals

Let ABC be a right-angled isosceles triangle with hypotenuse BC. Let BQC be a semi-circle, away from A, with diameter BC. Let BPC be an arc of a circle centered at A and lying between BC and BQC. If AB has length 6 cm then the area, in sq cm, of the region enclosed by BPC and BQC is

The shortest distance of the point \((\frac{1}{2},1)\) from the curve \(y = |x -1| + |x + 1|\) is

In how many ways can 7 identical erasers be distributed among 4 kids in such a way that each kid gets at least one eraser but nobody gets more than 3 erasers?

If \(f(x)=\frac{5x+2 }{3x-5}\) and \(g(x)=x^2-2x-1\),then the value of \(g(f(f(3)))\) is 

Suppose, \(log_3 \ x = log_{12} \ y = a\), where x, y are positive numbers. If G is the geometric mean of x and y, and \(log_6\) G is equal to

In how many ways can 8 identical pens be distributed among Amal, Bimal, and Kamal so that Amal gets at least 1 pen, Bimal gets at least 2 pens, and Kamal gets at least 3 pens?

If 9x-1/2-22x-2=4x-32x-3, then x is

Let ABC be a right-angled triangle with BC as the hypotenuse. Lengths of AB and AC are 15 km and 20 krn, respectively. The minimum possible time, in minutes, required to reach the hypotenuse from A at a speed of 30 km per hour is