Number System Questions for the CAT exam are part of the Quantitative Aptitude section in the CAT exam. Through number system questions, aspirants are tested on concepts related to Factors, Factorials, HCF and LCM, base system & remainders. The difficulty level of the number system questions can be easy to moderate.
Tips to improve Number System Questions for CAT?
- Know all the number types
- Learn all the basic formulas to make accurate calculations
- Practice more and more Problems as it can be tricky sometimes.
Number System Questions Tricks for the CAT Exam
- Identify Prime numbers
- LCM and HCF are important factor in Number System
- Understanding and using Properties of numbers at right places
Number System Questions Concepts for the CAT Exam
- Know the types of numbers. for ex- Natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, rational and irrational numbers etc.
- Breaking a number into its Prime Factor: example- 100= 22 x 52
- Divide by the smallest numbers first
Number System Practice Questions for CAT exams
Q1. Jay has 3 types of boxes: Large, medium and small. He first puts 10 large boxes on a table. He leaves some of these boxes empty and in all the other boxes puts 7 empty medium-sized boxes. He then leaves some of the medium-sized boxes empty and places 7 empty small boxes in the other medium-sized boxes. If 82 boxes on the table were empty, then what is the total number of boxes he used? (All large boxes are of the same size, all medium boxes are of the same size and all small boxes are of the same size)
A. 88
B. 90
C. 94
D. 98
Level: Difficult
Answer: Option C
Q2. The sum of all two-digit numbers that give a remainder of A when they are divided by 7 is 654. What is the value of A?
Level: Difficult
Answer:2
Q3. 207 people who attend "Bold Gym" in Kondapur take four types of juices Apple, Orange, Pomegranate and Mango. There are a few people who do not take any of the juices. It is known that for every person in the Gym who takes atleast 'N' types of juices there are 2 persons who take atleast 'N-1' juices for N = 2, 3 and 4. If the number of people who take all four types of juices is equal to the number of people who do not take any juice at all, what is the number of people who take exactly 2 types of juices?
A. 23
B. 46
C. 69
D. 92
Level: Easy
Answer: Option C
Q4. Aron bought some pencils and sharpeners. Spending the same amount of money as Aron, Aditya bought twice as many pencils and 10 less sharpeners. If the cost of one sharpener is ₹ 2 more than the cost of a pencil, then the minimum possible number of pencils bought by Aron and Aditya together is
A. 33
B. 27
C. 30
D. 36
Level: Easy
Answer: Option A
Q5. Students in a college have to choose at least two subjects from chemistry, mathematics and physics. The number of students choosing all three subjects is 18, choosing mathematics as one of their subjects is 23 and choosing physics as one of their subjects is 25. The smallest possible number of students who could choose chemistry as one of their subjects is
A. 22
B. 21
C. 20
D. 19
Level: Easy
Answer: Option C
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Q6. The mean of all 4-digit even natural numbers of the form 'aabb', where a > 0, is
A. 4466
B. 5050
C. 4864
D. 5544
Level: Easy
Answer: Option D
Q7. Among 100 students, have birthdays in January, have birthdays in February, and so on. If , then the smallest possible value of is
A. 8
B. 9
C. 10
D. 12
Level: Easy
Answer: Option B
Q8. How many 3-digit numbers are there, for which the product of their digits is more than 2 but less than 7?
Level: Easy
Answer: 21
Q9. A gentleman decided to treat a few children in the following manner. He gives half of his total stock of toffees and one extra to the first child, and then the half of the remaining stock along with one extra to the second and continues giving away in this fashion. His total stock exhausts after he takes care of 5 children. How many toffees were there in his stock initially?
Level: Easy
Answer: 62
Q10. In a school, every student likes one of the three sports - Cricket, Football, Rugby. 65% of the students like Cricket, 86% like Football and 57% of the students like Rugby. What is the maximum percentage of students who like exactly two sports?
A. 92%
B. 80%
C. 54%
D. 46%
Level: Easy
Answer: Option A
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Q 11. 9 × 25, where 9 and 25 are co-primes.
Clearly, a number is divisible by 225 if it is divisible by both 9 and 25.
Now, a number is divisible by 9 if the sum of its digits is divisible by 9 and a number is divisible by 25 if the number formed by the last two digits is divisible by 25.
The smallest number which is made up of digits 1 and 0 and divisible by 225 = 11111111100.
Hence, number of digits = 11. -7m -[3n -{8m -(4n - 10m)}]
A. 11m - 5n
B. 11m - 7n
C. 11n - 7m
D. 13n - 11m
Level: Easy
Answer: Option B
Q 12. What is the number of zeros at the end of the product 55 × 1010 × 1515 × ........ × 125125?
Level: Easy
Answer: Required number of zeros = 1520
Solution. Clearly, the highest power of 2 is less than that of 5 in N.
So, the highest power of 2 in N shall give us the number of zeros at the end of N.
Highest power of 2
= Number of multiples of 2 + Number of multiples of 4 (i.e. 22) + Number of multiples of 8 (i.e. 23) + Number of multiples of 16 (i.e. 24)
= [(10 + 20 + 30 +....... + 120) + (20 + 40 + 60 +........ + 120) + (40 + 80 + 120) + 80] = (780 + 420 + 240 + 80)
= 1520. Hence, required number of zeros = 1520
Q 13. A number when divided by 114, leaves remainder 21. If the same number is divided by 19, find the remainder.
Level: Easy
Answer: Remainder = 2.
Solution. On dividing the given number by 114, let k be the quotient and 21 the remainder.
Then, number = 114 k + 21 = 19 × 6k + 19 + 2 = 19 (6k + 1) + 2.
The given number when divided by 19 gives remainder = 2.
Q 14. What is the place value of 5 in 3254710?
(a) 5
(b) 10000
(c) 50000
(d) 54710
Level: Difficult
Answer. Option (C)
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Q 15. The face value of 8 in the number 458926 is
(a) 8
(b) 1000
(c) 8000
(d) 8926
Level: Difficult
Answer. Option (A)
Q 16. The sum of the place values of 3 in the number 503535 is
(a) 6
(b) 60
(c) 3030
(d) 3300
Level: Difficult
Answer. Option (C)
Q 17. What is the sum of all natural numbers from 1 to 100?
(a) 5050
(b) 6000
(c) 5000
(d) 5052
Level: Difficult
Answer. Option (A)
Q 18. If the sum of two numbers is 14 and their difference is 10, find the product of these two numbers.
(a) 18
(b) 20
(c) 24
(d) 22
Level: Difficult
Answer. Option (C)
Q 19. If the sum of two numbers is 14 and their difference is 10. Find the product of these two numbers.
(a) 24
(b) 22
(c) 20
(d) 18
Level: Easy
Answer. Option (B)
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Q 20. Two consecutive even positive integers, sum of the squares of which is 1060, are
(a) 12 and 14
(b) 20 and 22
(c) 22 and 24
(d) 15 and 18
Level: Easy
Answer. Option (C)
Q 21. The number of three digit numbers which are multiples of 9 are
(a) 100
(b) 99
(c) 98
(d) 101
Level: Easy
Answer. Option (A)
Q 22. The least number of five-digit is exactly divisible by 88 is
(a) 10032
(b) 10132
(c) 10088
(d) 10023
Level: Easy
Answer. Option (A)
Q 23. What minimum value should be assigned to *, so that 2361*48 is exactly divisible by 9? (a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 9
(d) 4
Level: Easy
Answer. Option (B)
Q 24. Every rational number is also
(a) an integer
(b) a real number
(c) a natural number
(d) a whole number
Level: Easy
Answer. Option (B)
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Q 25. The difference between the place values of 7 and 3 in the number 527435 is
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 45
(d) 6970
Level: Easy
Answer. Option (D)
Q 26. What are the five rational numbers between 1 and 2?
Level: Moderate
Answer: The required rational numbers between 1 and 2 are: 6/6, 7/6, 8/6, 9/6, 10/6, 11/6, 12/6
Solution: We need to find 5 rational numbers between 1 and 2
Divide and multiply both the numbers by (5+1)
Hence,
6/6 and 12/6 are rational numbers now.
Therefore, the required rational numbers between 1 and 2 are:
6/6, 7/6, 8/6, 9/6, 10/6, 11/6, 12/6
Q 27. Show that 0.3333…, can be expressed in the form of a rational number, i.e. p/q.
Level: Moderate
Answer: x=â…“
Solution: Let x = 0.33333
10 x = 10 × (0.333…) = 3.333…
We can write,
3.3333… = 3 + 0.3333… = 3 + x
Thus,
10 x = 3 + x
9x = 3
x=â…“
Q 28. The difference between the greatest and the least four-digit numbers that begin with 3 and ends with 5 is
(a) 900
(b) 909
(c) 999
(d) 990
Level: Moderate
Answer. Option (D)
Q 29. Consider the following statements for the sequence of numbers given below: 11, 111, 1111, 11111, …. 1. Each number can be expressed in the form (4m + 3), where m is a natural number. 2. Some numbers are squares. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) neither 1 nor 2
Level: Difficult
Answer. Option (A)
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Q 30. The number of three-digit numbers which are multiples of 9 are
(a) 100
(b) 99
(c) 98
(d) 101
Level: Difficult
Answer. Option (B)
Q 31. The least number of five-digit is exactly divisible by 88 is
(a) 10032
(b) 10132
(c) 10088
(d) 10023
Level: Difficult
Answer. Option (A)
Q 32. When a number is divided by 13, the remainder is 11. When the same number is divided by 17, the remainder is 9. What is the number?remainder 1. What will be the remainder when the number is divided by 6?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
Level: Difficult
Answer. Option (B)
Q 33. If the sum of two numbers is 14 and their difference is 10. Find the product of these two numbers.
(a) 24
(b) 22
(c) 20
(d) 18
Level: Easy
Answer. Option (A)
Q 34. The sum of the perfect squares between 120 and 300 is
(a) 1204
(b) 1024
(c) 1296
(d) 1400
Level: Difficult
Answer. Option (D)
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