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SSC CGL level Question Set 3, Arithmetic Number System

Number system questions for SSC CGL with answers set 1

Number system questions for SSC CGL Set 1

Solve the 10 selected number system questions for SSC CGL Set 1 in 12 mins. Know your performance from answers. Learn to solve the questions from solutions.

The 10 questions are of different types and include problems on Unit digit, Indices, perfect square, place value mechanism, LCM, Factors and multiples and Euclid's division lemma. As you can see, the problems are on a wide variety of subtopics.

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10 problems of Number system questions for SSC CGL - time to solve 12 mins

Q1. If $3^{4x}\times{9^{6x}} = 81^8$, $x=?$,

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 8

Q2. Which one of the following is a perfect square as well as a cube?

  1. 81
  2. 125
  3. 343
  4. 64

Q3. If the digits of a two digit number are interchanged in position, the absolute value of the difference of the two numbers would be always divisible by,

  1. 5
  2. 7
  3. 9
  4. 11

Q4. If two bells chime at intervals of 4 mins and 15 mins, after how long would they chime together first if they had chimed together in the beginning?

  1. 26 mins
  2. 52 mins
  3. 1 hour 18 minutes
  4. 1 hour

Q5. How many numbers from 20 to 50 have no number from 2 to 10 as factors?

  1. 0
  2. 14
  3. 7
  4. 4

Q6. $\displaystyle\frac{256\times{256} - 144\times{144}}{112}$ is,

  1. 420
  2. 400
  3. 360
  4. 360

Q7. If the digits in the unit's and ten's places of a three digit number are interchanged, the new number formed is found to be larger than the original by 63. All possible values that the unit's digit of the original number can take are,

  1. 7, 8, 9
  2. 2, 7, 9
  3. 0, 1, 2
  4. 1, 2, 8

Q8. The sum of all the three digit numbers, each of which on division by 5 leaves a remainder 3 is,

  1. 180
  2. 1550
  3. 6995
  4. 99090

Q9. Unit's digit in $264^{102} + 264^{103}$ is,

  1. 0
  2. 4
  3. 6
  4. 8

Q10. Unit's digit of $2137^{754}$ is,

  1. 1
  2. 3
  3. 7
  4. 9

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SSC CGL level Solution Set 3 on Arithmetic Number system.


Answers to the 10 questions on Number system for SSC CGL Set 1

Problem 1. Answer: Option a: 2.

Problem 2. Answer: Option d : 64.

Problem 3. Answer: Option c: 9.

Problem 4. Answer: Option d: 1 hour.

Problem 5. Answer: Option c: 7.

Problem 6. Answer: Option b : 400.

Problem 7. Answer: Option a: 7, 8, 9.

Problem 8. Answer: Option d: 99090.

Problem 9. Answer: Option a: 0.

Problem 10. Answer: Option d: 9.


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