VELAMMAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

ASSESSMENT TEST 4 (CLOCKS,SI,CI,TIME &
DISTANCE,TRAINS,BOATS&STREAMS,AVERAGES,NUMBERS,PERMUTATION&COMBINATION)
1.The reflex angle between the hands of a clock at 10.25 is:
2. At what time between 7 and 8 o'clock will the hands of a clock be in the same straight line but, not
together?
3. At what time between 5.30 and 6 will the hands of a clock be at right angles?
4. If the average marks of three batches of 55, 60 and 45 students respectively is 50, 55, 60, then the
average marks of all the students is:
5. A pupil's marks were wrongly entered as 83 instead of 63. Due to that the average marks for the class
got increased by half (1/2). The number of pupils in the class is:
6. The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If
the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the
average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team?
7. Reena took a loan of Rs. 1200 with simple interest for as many years as the rate of interest. If she paid
Rs. 432 as interest at the end of the loan period, what was the rate of interest?
8. A person borrows Rs. 5000 for 2 years at 4% p.a. simple interest. He immediately lends it to another
person at 6

p.a for 2 years. Find his gain in the transaction per year.

9. If the simple interest on a sum of money for 2 years at 5% per annum is Rs. 50, what is the compound
interest on the same at the same rate and for the same time?
10. The compound interest on a certain sum for 2 years at 10% per annum is Rs. 525. The simple interest
on the same sum for double the time at half the rate percent per annum is:
11. A box contains 2 white balls, 3 black balls and 4 red balls. In how many ways can 3 balls be drawn
from the box, if at least one black ball is to be included in the draw?
12. How many 4-letter words with or without meaning, can be formed out of the letters of the word,
'LOGARITHMS', if repetition of letters is not allowed?
13. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'MATHEMATICS' be arranged so that the
vowels always come together?
14. If one-third of one-fourth of a number is 15, then three-tenth of that number is:

15. A number consists of two digits. If the digits interchange places and the new number is added to the
original number, then the resulting number will be divisible by:
16. What is the sum of two consecutive even numbers, the difference of whose squares is 84?
17. If a person walks at 14 km/hr instead of 10 km/hr, he would have walked 20 km more. The actual
distance travelled by him is:
18. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For how
many minutes does the bus stop per hour?
19. A man covered a certain distance at some speed. Had he moved 3 kmph faster, he would have taken
40 minutes less. If he had moved 2 kmph slower, he would have taken 40 minutes more. The distance
(in km) is:
20. Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the platform in 27 seconds and 17
seconds respectively and they cross each other in 23 seconds. The ratio of their speeds is:
21. A train 800 metres long is running at a speed of 78 km/hr. If it crosses a tunnel in 1 minute, then the
length of the tunnel (in meters) is:
22. Two trains are running at 40 km/hr and 20 km/hr respectively in the same direction. Fast train
completely passes a man sitting in the slower train in 5 seconds. What is the length of the fast train?
23. A boatman goes 2 km against the current of the stream in 1 hour and goes 1 km along the current in
10 minutes. How long will it take to go 5 km in stationary water?
24. Speed of a boat in standing water is 9 kmph and the speed of the stream is 1.5 kmph. A man rows to
a place at a distance of 105 km and comes back to the starting point. The total time taken by him is:
25. A man rows to a place 48 km distant and come back in 14 hours. He finds that he can row 4 km with
the stream in the same time as 3 km against the stream. The rate of the stream is: