TCS NQT Arithmetic Topics model Questions and Website link

TCS NQT Arithmetic Topics:

One can give higher priority to topics on Arithmetic such as Numbers, Percentages, Ratios, Time, Distance & Work, Averages, Mixtures & Alligations. Following are some of the Topic-Wise important models that the students should focus on:

Topic	Models
Numbers	Remainders, LCM & HCF, Finding Units Digit, Prime Numbers, etc.
Percentages	Percentage Calculation, Venn-diagram based Problems, Percentage increase/decrease  etc.
Ratios	Distribution Model, Income-Expenditure model, Proportion etc.
Time, Distance & Work	Trains Problems, Average speed, Races, Boats & Streams, etc.
Averages, Mixtures & Allegations	Allegation model, Replacement Model, Average calculation, Error /missing numbers, etc.

Question 1: There is a shop that sells cylindrical cans containing peanut butter. All the cylindrical cans are uniform with diameter of each being 16 cm and height being 24 cm. You are planning to buy 50 such cans and place your company's label around the surface of each can at a uniform spacing of 2 cm from both the top and the bottom of the can. The ends of the label just join together. What is the area of paper, in cm², that is required to print such labels for the cans that you are planning to buy?

1. 16000_TT
2. 2400_TT
3. 1600
4. 320_TT  

_{Answer: 1}

Question 2: From a point X that is external to a circle, tangents are drawn to the circle. What is the angle between the radius of the circle that is drawn from the point of contact to the centre, O and the straight line that joins X to O? Given that the tangents drawn from X are inclined at an angle of 80 degrees.

45 degrees

50 degrees

25 degrees

Such an angle is not possible

Answer: (2)

Question 3: A fair dice is cast. A represents the probability of an even number appearing on the face and B represents the probability of a composite number appearing on the face. Are A and B independent events? ____

Answer: No

Question 4:  John is faster than Peter. John and Peter each walk 24 km. Sum of the speeds of John and Peter is 7 km/h. Sum of time taken by them is 14 hours. Find John’s speed.

a.    5 km/h
 b.    4 km/h
 c.    7 km/h
 d. 8 km/h

Answer: (2)

Q 5:  There is a city where all 100% votes are registered. Among this 60% votes for Congress and 40% votes for BJP. Ram, gets 75% of congress votes and 8% of BJP votes. How many votes did Ram get?

a.      42.8 %
 b.      56.6 %
 c.      48.2 %
 d.      64.4 %

Answer: c

Q 6  There are two bags containing white and black marbles. In the first bag there are 8 white marbles and 6 black marbles and in the second bag, there are 4 white marbles and 7 black marbles. One marble is drawn at random from any of these two bags. Find the probability of this marble being black.

a.      7/154
 b.      22/77
 c.      7/54
 d.      41/77

Answer : D

Q7: 4. A team of 11 is needed to be formed who are to be selected from 5 men and 11 women, with the restriction of selecting not more than 3 men. In how many ways can the selection be done?

a.      2256
 b.      1543
 c.      1444
 d.      1245

Answer: a

Given 0.006, 1.2, and 6/25, what is the fourth proportional?

48 

4.8

36

3.6

Answer: option a

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