GAT Subject General Aptitude MCQs

The word 'happily' describes how the children played.
A word that modifies a verb in this way functions as an adverb.

The successive increases are 3, 4, 5, and 6.
The next increase is 7, so 28 + 7 = 35.

In this sentence, 'light' names a thing that can be turned off.
Therefore, it functions as a noun rather than a verb or adjective.

'Under' shows the spatial relationship between the keys and the cushion.
Words that express such relationships are prepositions.

The common factors of 36 and 48 include 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12.
The greatest of these is 12.

Multiples of 8 are 8, 16, 24, and so on.
The first multiple also divisible by 12 is 24.

A number is divisible by 9 when the sum of its digits is divisible by 9.
For 5,832, the digit sum is 18.

Since 12 × 13 = 156, subtracting gives 157 - 156 = 1.
Thus, the remainder is 1.

Division and multiplication have equal priority and are performed left to right.
So 48 ÷ 6 = 8, and 8 × 3 = 24.

Multiplication is performed before addition.
Thus, 3 × 4 = 12 and 5 + 12 = 17.

The operation inside parentheses is completed first.
Then 12 ÷ 3 = 4.

Every term is multiplied by 2.
Therefore, 56 × 2 = 112.