CUET 2025 Arithmetic Reasoning MCQs for Entrance exams

Arithmetic Reasoning MCQ Quiz- Practice Arithmetic Reasoning – Verbal Reasoning MCQ Question suitable for various Competitive Exams. Here we have compiled Arithmetic Reasoning with solutions for those students who are preparing for various competitive exams. Practice these Arithmetic Reasoning MCQ questions to increase your confidence and mental ability.

1. A group of 1200 persons consisting of captains and soldiers is travelling in a train. For every 15 soldiers there is one captain. The number of captains in the group is?
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2. I have a few sweets to be distributed. If I keep 2, 3 or 4 in a pack, I am left with one sweet. If I keep 5 in a pack, I am left with none. What is the minimum number of sweets I have to pack and distribute?
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3. In a garden, there are 10 rows and 12 columns of mango trees. The distance between the two trees is 2 meters and a distance of one meter is left from all sides of the boundary of the garden. The length of the garden is
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4. Ramesh, Kamal, Mohit, Amit and Rohit are standing in a row in the order of their heights. Ramesh is shorter than Kamal but taller than Rohit. Mohit is the tallest. Amit is a little shorter than Kamal but a little taller than Ramesh. Who is the shortest?
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5. 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 ?
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6. In a class of 60 students, the number of boys and girls participating in the annual sports is in the ratio 3 : 2 respectively. The number of girls not participating in the sports is 5 more than the number of boys not participating in the sports. If the number of boys participating in the sports is 15, then how many girls are there in the class?
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7. 17 tens in unit form?
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8. How many rectangles can be drawn with 36 cm as the perimeter, given that the sides are positive integers in cm?
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9. 12 year old Manick is three times as old as his brother Rahul. How old will Manick be when he is twice as old as Rahul?
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10. A is three times as old as B. C was twice-as old as A four years ago. In four years' time, A will be 31. What are the present ages of B and C?
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11. What is the value of a two–digit number?
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12. Five farmers have 7,9,11,13 & 14 apple trees respectively in their orchards. Last year each of them discovered that every tree in their own orchard yields exactly the same number of apples. Further, if the 3rd farmer gives one apple to the 1st and the 5th gives 3 to each of the 2nd & d 4th, they would all exactly have the same number of apples, what were the yields per tree in the orchards of the 3rd & 4th farmers?
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13. In a chess tournament each of six players will play every other player exactly once. How many matches will be played during the tournament ?
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14. It takes five minutes to pass a rumour from one person to two other persons. The tree of rumor continues. Find how many minutes it takes to spread the rumour to 729 persons?
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15. An institute organized a fete and 1/5 of the girls and 1/8 of the boys participated in the same. What fraction of the total number of students took part in the fete?
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16. Answer the questions based on the following information.
Six colleagues are sitting in a circle and are facing the center of the circle. Diana is between Puskar and Padma. Priyanka is between Mahesh and Lucky. Puskar and Mahesh are opposite to each other.
Who is just right to Padma?
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17. If the LCM and HCF of two numbers are equal, then the numbers must be
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19. A, B, C, D and E play a game of cards. A says to B, "If you give me three cards, you will have as many as E has and if I give you three cards, you will have as many as D has." A and B together have 10 cards more than what D and E together have. If B has two cards more than what C has and the total number of cards is 133, how many cards does B have ?
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21. A cow was standing on a bridge, 5m away from the middle of the bridge. A train was coming towards the bridge from the ends nearest to the cow. Seeing this cow ran towards the train and managed to escape when the train was 2m away from the bridge. If it had run in the opposite direction, it would have been hit by the train 2m before the end of the bridge. What is the length of the bridge in meters assuming the speed of the train is 4 times that of a cow ?
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22. In a family, each daughter has the same number of brothers as she has sisters and each son has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many sons are there in the family ?
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23. The total age of Amar, Akbar and Anthony is 80 years. What was the total of their ages three years ago ?
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24. The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is twice the sum of its exterior angles. How many sides does the polygon have ?
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25. In the given numbers, if in each number first digit is replaced by the third digit, second digit is replaced by the first digit and third digit is replaced by the second digit then which number will be the biggest ?
653 749 872 933 541
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