Naan Mudhalvan & AICSCC UPSC Prelims Test Series 2023-24

General Studies (P)- TEST BOOKLET

Test - 12
CSAT - 03

Time Allowed: 1 Hr 30 Min Maximum Marks: 125

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1. 1/(1 × 2) + 1/(2 × 3) + 1/(3 × 4) ........ (a) N + 20
+1/(n(n+1)) = 99/100, then what is the (b) N + 10
value of n? (c) N+4
(a) 98 (d) N+5

(b) 99 6. The average of 50 consecutive natural

(c) 100 numbers is x. What will be the new
average when the next four natural
(d) 101 numbers are also included?
2. The perimeter of a right-angled triangle (a) x+1
is k times the shortest side. If the ratio (b) x+2
of the other side to hypotenuse is 4 : 5, (c) x+4
then what is the value of k? (d) x + (x/54)
(a) 2 7. Consider two-digit numbers which
(b) 3 remain the same when the digits
interchange their positions. What is
(c) 4
the average of such two-digit numbers?
(d) 5
(a) 33
3. The monthly incomes of A and B are in (b) 44
the ratio 4 : 3. Each saves 600. If their (c) 55
expenditures are in the ratio 3 : 2, then (d) 66
what is the monthly income of A? 8. A library has an average number of 510
(a) 1800 visitors on Sunday and 240 on other
days. What is the average number of
(b) 2000
visitors per day in a month of 30 days
(c) 2400 beginning with Saturday?
(d) 3600 (a) 276
(b) 282
4. If a : b = c : d = 1: 6, then what is the
(c) 285
value of (a2 + c2) / (b2 + d2)
(d) 375
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(a)
600 9. Suppose a, b, c, d and e are five
1 consecutive odd numbers in ascending
(b) order.
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1 Consider the following statements:
(c) 1. Their average is (a + 4).
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1 2. Their average is (b + 2).
(d) 3. Their average is (e – 4).
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Which of the statements given above
5. A student on her first 3 tests received
is/are correct?
an average score of N points. If she
exceeds her previous average score (a) 1 only
by 20 points on her fourth test, then (b) 2 and 3 only
what is the average score for the first 4 (c) 1 and 3 only
tests? (d) 1, 2 and 3
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10. The average age of the boys in a class (a) 5
is 12 years. The average age of the girls (b) 10
in the class is 11 years. There are 50%
(c) 15
more girls than boys in the class. Which
one of the following is the average age (d) 20
of the class (in years)? 15. A person has a total of 100 coins
(a) 11.2 years consisting of Rs. 2 and Rs. 5 coins. If
(b) 11.4 years the total value of the coins is Rs. 320,
(c) 11.6 years then the number of Rs. 2 coins is

(d) 11.8 years (a) 40

11. The ratio of monthly incomes of (b) 50

A and B is 7 : 10. The ratio of their (c) 60
expenditures is 2 : 3. If each of A and B
(d) 70
saves 1,000 per month, then what will
be the monthly income of B? Directions for the following 2 (two) items:
(a) 9,000 Read the following information and answer
(b) 10,000 the two items that follow.
(c) 15,000 The plan of an office block for six offers A,
(d) 12,000 B, C, D, E and F is as follows: Both B and C
12. The tree is at present 9 feet tall. If every occupy offies to the right of the corridor (as
year it grows 1/9th of its height, what one enters the office block) and A occupies
will be the height of the tree after three on the left of the corridor. E and F occupy
years? offices on opposite sides of the corridor but
(a) 12 feet their offices do not face each other. The
(b) 12.34 feet offices of C and D face each other. E does not
(c) 13 feet have a corner office. F’s office is further down

(d) 13.10 feet the corridor than A’s, but on the same side.

13. The average age of Raj and his father is 16. If E sits in his office and faces the
45 years. If the ages of the father and corridor, whose office is to his Right?
the grandfather of Raj are respectively (a) A
two and three times that of Raj, then
(b) B
the age of Raj’s grandfather is
(c) C
(a) 75 years
(d) D
(b) 90 years
(c) 81 years 17. Who is/are A’s immediate neighbour/
(d) 84 years neighbours?
14. If the average of the first four of five (a) A only
numbers in decreasing order is 25 and (b) F and D
the average of the last four numbers is
(c) C only
20, then what is the difference between
the first and the last number? (d) B and C

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18. The population of the two villages is 21. Anu was born 4 years after her parents’
1525 and 2600 respectively. If the ratio marriage. Her mother is 3 years
of male to female population in the first younger than her father and 24 years
village is 27 : 34 and the ratio of male older than Ena, who is 13 years old.
to female population in the second What is the age of Ena when her father
village is 6 : 7, then what is the ratio of is 50 years old?
male to female population of these two (a) 25 years
villages taken together?
(b) 24 years
33 (c) 23 years
(a)
41
(d) 22 years
85
(b)
82 22. Mahesh is 60 years old. Ram is 5 years
71 younger to Mahesh and 4 years elder
(c)
90 to Raju. Babu is a younger brother of
5 Raju and he is 6 years younger. What
(d) is the age difference between Mahesh
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and Babu?
19. In a classroom the ratio of number of
girls to that of boys is 3 : 4. The average (a) 18 years
height of students in the class is 4.6 (b) 15 years
feet. If the average height of the boys (c) 13 years
in the class is 4.8 feet, then what is the (d) 11 years
average height of the girls in the class?
23. The ages of 7 family members are 2, 5,
(a) Less than 4.2 feet 12, 18, 38, 40 and 60 years respectively.
(b) More than 4.2 feet but less than After 5 years a new member aged x
years is added. If the mean age of the
4.3 feet
family now goes up by 1.5 years, then
(c) More than 4.3 feet but less than what is the value of x?
4.4 feet
(a) 1
(d) More than 4.4 feet but less than
(b) 2
4.5 feet
(c) 3
20. Three persons start a business with
(d) 4
capitals in the ratio 1/3 : 1/4 : 1/5.
The first person withdraws half his 24. The mean weight of 100 students in a
capital after 4 months. What is his class is 46 kg. The mean weight of boys
is 50 kg and that of girls is 40 kg. The
share of profit if the business fetches
number of boys exceeds the number of
an annual profit of ` 96,800 ?
girls by
(a) ` 32,000
(a) 10
(b) ` 34,500
(b) 15
(c) ` 36,000 (c) 20
(d) ` 36,800 (d) 25

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25. The incomes of A, B and C are in the (a) 35 years
ratio 7:9:12 and their expenditures (b) 38 years
are in the ratio 8 : 9 : 15. If A’s saving (c) 39 years
is one-fourth of his income, then the
(d) 45 years
ratio of savings of A, B and C is
30. How much water is to be added to
(a) 56 : 99 : 69
75 ml of alcohol so that the mixture
(b) 99 : 56 : 69 contains 25% of alcohol?
(c) 69 : 56 : 99 (a) 100 ml
(d) 99 : 69 : 56 (b) 225 ml

26. In a class of 100 students, the average (c) 250 ml

weight of the class is 30 kg. If the (d) 125 ml
average weight of the girls is 24 kg and 31. Radha and Rani are sisters. Five years
that of 25 girls in the class. What is the back, the age of Radha was three times
average weight of the boys in the class? that of Rani, but one year back the age
(a) 32 of Radha was two times that of Rani.
What is the age difference between
(b) 26
them?
(c) 27
(a) 8
(d) 28
(b) 9
27. The ratio of ages of a man and his son (c) 10
is 3 : 1. After 15 years, the age ratio will (d) 11
be 2 : 1. What is the age of the man?
32. A 60-page book has n lines per page.
(a) 45 years If the number of lines were reduced by
(b) 40 years 3 in each page, the number of pages
would have to be increased by 10 to
(c) 35 years
give the same writing space. What is
(d) 30 years the value of n?
28. A, B and C can complete a work in x, (a) 18
1.5x and 2x days respectively. If they (b) 21
complete the work together, in what (c) 24
ratio should they be paid? (d) 30
(a) 2:3:4
33. The average age of father and elder son
(b) 6:4:3 is 35 years, the average age of father
(c) 3:2:1 and younger son is 32 years and the
average age of the two sons is 17 years.
(d) 4:3:2
What is the average age of the father
29. The age of Q exceeds the age of P by 3 and his two sons?
years. The age of R is twice the age of P (a) 30 years
and the age of Q is twice the age of S.
(b) 27 years
Further, the age difference of R and S
is 30 years. What is the sum of the (c) 28 years
ages of P and Q ? (d) 29 years

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34. Average age of a family of 6 members is 38. The price of kerosene is Rs. 48 per litre
22 Years. The youngest is 7 years old. and the price of spirit is Rs. 30 per
What is the average age of a family at litre. In what ratio should the kerosene
the birth of the youngest member? and spirit be mixed such that the profit
(a) 12 after selling the mixture at Rs. 60 per
litre will be 50%?
(b) 18
(a) 1:1
(c) 16
(b) 3:4
(d) 14
(c) 5:4
35. There were 5 subjects in an exam. The
(d) 2:3
average score of Selvan in the first 3
subjects was 76 and the average of the 39. A cricket batsman has an average of 55
last three subjects was 98. The average runs in his first 120 innings. He wants
of all the subjects was 89. So, his score to make it 100 at the end of his 300th
in the third subjects was: innings. What is the average he should
maintain in the remaining innings?
(a) 56
(a) 85
(b) 66
(b) 95
(c) 77
(c) 120
(d) 86
(d) 130
36. A cistern contains 50 litres of water.
40. In the class there are 18 boys who
5 litres of water is taken out of it
are over 160 cm tall. If these boys
and replaced by wine. The process is
constitute three fourths of the boys
repeated again. Find the proportion
and the total number of boys is two-
of wine and water in the resulting
third of the number of students in the
mixture.
class, then what is the number of girls
(a) 1:4
in the class?
(b) 41 : 50 (a) 6
(c) 19 : 81 (b) 12
(d) 81 : 19 (c) 18

37. A milkman sold 40 literes of Milk and (d) 24

water solution. Now he has a mixture 41. The average score of a batsman after his
of milk and water ratio at 5 : 3, then he 50th innings was 52 Runs. After 60th
adds up 15 litres of pure water. Now innings, his average Score increases by
the ratio of milk and water is 5 : 4. 3 Runs. What was his average score in
What is the new quantity of mixture? the last ten innings?
(a) 72 litres (a) 55
(b) 270 litres (b) 91
(c) 135 litres (c) 70
(d) Data insufficient (d) 49
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42. X said to Y, “At the time of your birth I In what ratio should both alloys be
was twice as old as you are at present.” mixed so as to make a new alloy
If the present age of X is 42 years, then containing 50% of metal X?
consider the following statements : (a) 2:1
1. 8 years ago, the age of X was five (b) 3:1
times the age of Y. (c) 3:4
2. After 14 years, the age of X would (d) None of these
be two times the age of Y.
46. Two years ago, the age of A was three
Which of the above statements is/are
times the age of B. If B is currently 9
correct?
years old, then after how many years,
(a) 1 only
the age of A will be double of the age of
(b) 2 only B?
(c) Both 1 and 2 (a) 2 years
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 (b) 3 years
(c) 4 years
43. In an entrance examination Seema
scored 56% marks, Nitya scored (d) 5 years
92% marks and Meena scored 634 47. Identify the figure that completes the
marks. The maximum marks of the pattern.
examination are 875. What are the
average marks scored by all the girls
together?
(a) 939
(a) 3
(b) 817
(b) 2
(c) 680
(c) 1
(d) 643
(d) 4
44. The average daily income of Asha,
48. Four Airplanes A, B, C and D started
Lata and Diya’s is Rs. 50. If Lata earns
flight towards the east. After flying 125
Rs. 30 more than Diya and Asha earns
km planes A and D flew towards right
double of what Diya earns, what is the
while planes B and C flew towards left.
daily income of Diya?
After 115 km, planes B and C flew
(a) Rs. 30 towards their left while planes A and D
(b) Rs. 52 also turned towards their left. In which
(c) Rs. 45 directions are the airplanes A, B, D, C
respectively flying now?
(d) Rs. 60
(a) North, South, East, West
45. An alloy contains a mixture of two
(b) East, West, West, East
metals X and Y in the ratio of 2 : 3.
(c) East, West, East, West
Second alloy contains a mixture of
the same metals in the ratio of 7 : 3. (d) South, North, North, South

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49. One evening Arun and Guna were
talking to each other face to face at a
crossing. If Guna’s shadow was exactly
to his left, which direction was Arun
facing?
(a) North
(b) South
(c) South-East
(d) West
50. Kabir is facing north. He turns 45°
in the clockwise direction and then
another 90 in the same direction
and then again 180° in the clockwise
direction. Which direction is he facing
now?
(a) North East
(b) North West
(c) South East
(d) South West

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