List of top Questions asked in MAT- 2006

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The average score of boys in an examination of a school is 71 and that of girls is 73. The average score of the school in that examination is 71.8. Find the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls that appeared in the examination.
The number of ways in which a committee of 3 ladies and 4 gentlemen can be appointed from a meeting consisting of 8 ladies and 7 gentlemen, if Mrs X refuses to serve in a committee if Mr Y is its member, is
A metallic sheet is of rectangular shape with dimensions 48 cm \(\times\) 36 cm. From each one of its corners, a square of 8 cm is cut off. An open box is made of the remaining sheet. Find the volume of the box.
Population of a district is 2,96,000 of which 1,66,000 are males. \(50\%\) of the population is literate. If \(70\%\) males are literate, then the number of women who are literate, is
A can do \(50\%\) more work as B can do in the same time. B alone can do a piece of work in 20 hours. A, with help of B, can finish the same work in how many hours?
A rectangular tank is 225 m by 162 m at the base. With what speed must water flow into it through an aperture 60 cm by 45 cm that the level may be raised 20 cm in 5 hours?
The probability that a certain electronic component fails when first used is 0.10. If it does not fail immediately, then the probability that it lasts for one year is 0.99. The probability that a new component will last for one year is
A shopkeeper marks up his goods to gain \(35\%\). But he allows \(10\%\) discount for cash payment. His profit on the cash transaction therefore, in percentage, is
A circular grassy plot of land, 42 m in diameter, has a path 3.5 m wide running around it outside.The cost of gravelling the path at Rs 4 per square metre is
Students of a class are made to stand in rows. If 4 students are extra in each row, then there would be 2 rows less. If 4 students are less in each row, then there would be 4 more rows. The number of students in the class is
In a certain laboratory, chemicals are identified by a colourcoding system. There are 20 different chemicals. Each one is coded with either a single colour or a unique twocolour pair. If the order of colours in the pair doesn't matter, then what is the minimum number of differentcolours needed to code all the 20 chemicals with either a single colour or a unique pair of colours?
The number of ways in which 6 men and 5 women can dine at a round table if no two women are to sit together is given by
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A part of monthly expenses of a family is constant and the remaining varies with the price of wheat. When the rate of wheat is Rs 250 a quintal, the total monthly expenses of the family are Rs 1000 and when it is Rs 240 a quintal, the total monthly expenses are Rs 980. Find the total monthly expenses of the family when the cost of wheat is Rs 350 a quintal.
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A well 22.5 deep and of diameter 7m has to be dug out. Find the cost of plastering its inner curved surface at Rs 3 per sq metre.
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is located at which of the following places?
Company C sells a line of 25 products with an average retail price of Rs 1,200. If none of these products sells for less than Rs 420 and exactly 10 of the products sell for less than Rs 1,000, then what is the greatest possible selling price of the most expensive product?
The difference between a bank and a nonbanking financial institution (NBFI) is that
A sink contains exactly 12 litres of water. If water is drained from the sink until it holds exactly 6 litres of water less than the quantity drained away, then how many litres of water were drained away?
Out of 13 applicants for a job, there are 5 women and 8 men. It is desired to select 2 persons for the job. The probability that atleast one of the selected persons will be a woman is
A metal cube of edge 12 cm is melted and formed into three smaller cubes. If the edges of two smaller cubes are 6 cm and 8 cm, then find the edge of the third smaller cube.
Water flows out through a circular pipe whose internal diameter is 2 cm, at the rate of 6 metres per second into a cyclindrical tank, the radius of whose base is 60 cm. By how much will the level of water rise in 30 minutes?
An iron pipe 20 cm long has exterior diameter equal to 25 cm. If the thickness of the pipe is 1 cm, then the whole surface of the pipe is