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A question is given followed by Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements and mark the correct option.

Question:

What is the smallest 1 -digit number having exactly 4 distinct factors?

Statement I: 2 is one of the factors.

Statement II: $\mathbf{3}$ is one of the factors.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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2

A question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements and mark the correct option.

Question:

Let $\mathrm{P}, \mathrm{Q}, \mathrm{R}, \mathrm{S}$ be distinct non-zero digits. If $\mathrm{PP} \times \mathrm{PQ}=$ RRSS, where $\mathrm{P} \leq 3$ and $\mathrm{Q} \leq 4$, then what is Q equal to ?

Statement I: $\mathbf{R = 1}$.

Statement II: $\mathrm{S}=2$.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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3

A question is given followed by two Statements I and

II. Consider the Question and the Statements and mark the correct option.

Question:

How is Q related to P?

Statement I: P has two sisters, R and S.

Statement II: R's father is the brother of Q.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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4

A question is given followed by two Statements I and

II. Consider the Question and the Statements and mark the correct option.

Question: In a football match, team P playing against Q was behind by 3 goals with 10 minutes remaining. Does team P win the match?

Statement I: Team P scored 4 goals in the last 10 minutes.

Statement II: Team Q scored a total of 4 goals in the match.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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5

A question is given followed by two Statements I and

II. Consider the Question and the Statements and mark the correct option.

Question:

Is $(p+q)^2-4 p q$, where $p, q$ are natural numbers, positive?

Statement I: $\mathrm{p}<\mathrm{q}$.

Statement II: p>q.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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6

A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements.

Question:

What are the values of m and n, where m and n are natural numbers?

Statement-I:

m + n > mn and m > n.

Statement-II:

The product of m and n is 24.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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7

A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements.

Question:

What is the time required to download the software?

Statement-I:

The size of the software is 12 megabytes.

Statement-II:

The transfer rate is 2.4 kilobytes per second.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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8

A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements.

Question :

What are the unique values of $x$ and $y$, where $x, y$ are distinct natural numbers?

Statement-I : $x / y$ is odd.

Statement-II : $x y=12$

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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9

A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements.

A certain amount was distributed among $X, Y$ and $Z$.

Question :

Who received the least amount?

Statement-I :

$X$ received $4 / 5$ of what $Y$ and $Z$ together received.

Statement-II :

$Y$ received $2 / 7$ of what $X$ and $Z$ together received.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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10

A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements.

There are three distinct prime numbers whose sum is a prime number.

Question:

What are those three numbers?

Statement-I:

Their sum is less than 23.

Statement-II:

One of the numbers is 5.

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11

A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements.

A person buys three articles p, q and r for ₹50. The price of the article q is ₹16 which is the least.

Question : What is the price of the article p?

Statement-I : The cost of p is not more than that of r.

Statement-II : The cost of r is not more than that of p.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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12

A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements.

P, Q, R and S appeared in a test.

Question : Has P scored more marks than Q?

Statement-I : The sum of the marks scored by P and Q is equal to the sum of the marks scored by R and S.

Statement-II : The sum of the marks scored by P and S is more than the sum of the marks scored by Q and R.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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13

A question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements.
The age of each of P and Q is less than 100 years but more than 10 years. If you interchange the digits of the age of P, the number represents the age of Q.

Question:
What is the difference of their ages?

Statement-I:
The age of P is greater than the age of Q.

Statement-II:
The sum of their ages is 11/6 times their difference.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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14

Question: Is p greater than q?

Statement-1: p × q is greater than zero.

Statement-2: p2 is greater than q2.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?

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15

Consider the Question and two Statements given below :

Question : Is x an integer?

Statement-1 : x / 3 is not an integer.

Statement-2 : 3x is an integer.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the Question and the Statements?

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16

Consider the Question and two Statements given below in respect of three cities P, Q and R in a State :

Question : How far is city P from city Q?

Statement1 : City Q is 18 km from city R.

Statement2 : City P is 43 km from city R.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the Question and the Statements?

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17

Consider the Question and two Statements given below:

Question : What is the age of Manisha?

Statement-1: Manisha is 24 years younger than her mother.

Statement-2 : 5 years later, the ages of Manisha and her mother will be in the ratio 3 : 5.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the Question and the Statements?

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18

Consider two Statements and a Question:

Statement 1: Each of A and D is heavier than each of B, E and F, but none of them is the-heaviest.

Statement 2: A is heavier than D, but is lighter than C.

Question: Who is the heaviest among A,B,C, D and E?

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the Statements and the Question ?

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