Monday, June 26, 2017

Maths Questions from HSSC Exams. 2017

Q1. What is the difference between the largest five digit number and the smallest four digit number? A. 100,999 B. 99,999 C. 98,999 D. 10,000 Correct Ans: C 
Q2. How many times is 1728 divisible by 12? 
A. 20736 B. 150 C. 144 D. 0.6944
Correct Ans: C 
Q3. If 7 3 is added to the square of a number the answer is 539. What is the number? 
A. 16 B. 14 C. 12 D. 18 
Correct Ans: B 
Q4. What is the square root of 256/144? 
A. 4/3 B. 3/4 C. 16/9 D. 1 
Correct Ans: A 
Q5. In 2009, a school had 1500 students. In 2010 it experienced a 12% growth in student’s enrollment and it is expecting a further growth of 5% in 2011. Based on these figures, how many students can the school expect to enroll in 2011? 
A. 1680 B. 1755 C. 1700 D. 1764 
Correct Ans: D
Q6. A dress available for Rs. 1500 is now available for Rs. 1200. What is the discount that the shop is offering on the dress? 
A. 20% B. 25% C. 30% D. 15% 
Correct Ans: A
Q7. What is the probability that when a coin is tossed three times successively the outcome would be three tails? 
A. 15% B. 16.66% C. 12.5% D. 33.33% 
Correct Ans: C 
Q8. When two dice are thrown what is the probability that a total of 5 will not appear? 
A. 7/9 B. 8/9 C. 6/9 D. 5/9 
Correct Ans: B
Q9. Ram buys 25 books at Rs. 10 each. If he sells the books at Rs. 300, how much profit does he make on each book? 
A. 25% B. 30% C. 15% D. 20% 
Correct Ans: D 
Q10. From a bag of 100 balls, Ridhi takes one tenth of the balls and Siddhi takes one third of what is remaining. How many balls did Siddhi take? 
A. 10 B. 33 C. 30 D. 35 
Correct Ans: C
Q11. What is the product of the largest four digit number and the smallest three digit number? 
A. 99,900 B. 99,000 C. 999,990 D. 999,900 
Correct Ans: D 
Q12. If 4 3 is subtracted from 5 3 and added to the square root of 144, we will get: 
A. 61 B. 77 C. 21 D. 73 
Correct Ans: D
Q13. What is the value if the largest two digit prime number is subtracted from the smallest three digit prime number? 
A. 6 B. 7 C. 5 D. 4 
Correct Ans: D
Q14. can also be written as 
A. 4 B. 9 C. 3 D. 2 
Correct Ans: D 
Q15. A store offered a 25% discount on a shirt costing Rs. 1500. Since Ram purchased clothing worth Rs. 5000, he got a further discount of 1%. What was the final price that he paid for the shirt? 
A. 1113.75 B. 1110.75 C. 1125.75 D. 1075.75 
Correct Ans: A 
Q16. Rajesh took a loan at 9% per annum simple interest and invested in a project where he got a return of 13%. At the end of 5 years he made a profit of Rs 15,000. What was the original amount that he had loaned? 
A. 60,000 B. 75,000 C. 90,000 D. 80,000 
Correct Ans: B
Q17. Amongst a group of 700 students, 210 have opted for science, 150 have opted for arts, while 340 have opted for commerce. If a student is randomly selected from this group, what is the probability that this student would have opted for science? 
A. 0.25 B. 0.48 C. 0.45 D. 0.30 
Correct Ans: D
Q18. What is the probability that when a coin is tossed twice successively the outcome would be one heads and one tails? 
A. 1/4 B. 1/2 C. 2/3 D. 1 
Correct Ans: B
Q19. A stationery shop is offering a set of stationery for Rs. 352, which is 12% discount of the original sale price. What is the original sale price? 
A. Rs. 400 B. Rs. 310 C. Rs. 375 D. Rs. 385 
Correct Ans: A
Q20. A trader deals in three types of products ­ apparels, cosmetics and stationery which are in the ratio 2:4:5. If he sold a total of 110 items, how many cosmetics did he sell? 
A. 20 B. 40 C. 50 D. 60 
Correct Ans: B

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