(Paper) CSAT: General Mental Ability

General mental ability section includes the topics like Average, Percentage, Profit loss, Time speed & distance, Time & work, Venn Diagram, Problem on ages, Clocks, Simple & Compound interest, Ratio proportion & Mixtures, Partnership, Mensuration, Permutation & Combination, Probability, Logarithm, Linear equations, Quadratic equations.

Level of Difficulty-I

1. A one rupee coin is placed on a table. The maximum number of one rupee coins which can be placed around it with each one of them touching it and two others is
(a) 8
(b) 6
(c) 10
(d) 4

Level of Difficulty-II

2. At a certain fast food restaurant, Brian can buy 3 burgers, 7 shakes, and one order of fries for Rs. 120 exactly. At the same place it would cost Rs. 164.5 for 4 burgers, 10 shakes, and one order of fries. How much would it cost for an ordinary meal of one burger, one shake, and one order of fries?
(a) Rs. 31
(b) Rs. 41
(c) Rs. 21
(d) Cannot be determined

3. Three pencils, four erasers and two sharpeners together cost Rs. 10.50. Two pencils, one eraser and three sharpners together cost Rs. 9.50. How much does each one eraser, one pencil, one sharpener cost?
(a) Rs. 3
(b) Rs. 4
(c) Rs. 5
(d) Can’t be determined

4. How many three-digit numbers can be generated from 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 such that the digits are in ascending order ?
(a) 80
(b) 81
(c) 83
(d) 84

Level of Difficulty-III

5. Four friends start from four towns, which are at the four corners of an imaginary rectangle. They meet at a point which falls inside the rectangle, after travelling the distance of 40 m, 50 m and 60m. The maximum distance that the fourth could have travelled is approximately:
(a) 67 m
(b) 52 m
(c) 22.5 m
(d) Can’t be determined