Role-specific Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) Interview Questions & Answers:

1. Ram, who is half as efficient as Krish, will take 24 days to complete a work if he worked alone. If Ram and Krish worked together, how long will they take to complete the work?

1. 16 days
2. 12 days
3. 8 days
4. 18 days

Ans : C

2. Ram starts working on a job and works on it for 12 days and completes 40% of the work. To help him complete the work, he employs Ravi and together they work for another 12 days and the work gets completed. How much more efficient is Ram than Ravi?

1. 50%
2. 200%
3. 60%
4. 100%

Ans : D

3. A, B and C can do a work in 5 days, 10 days and 15 days respectively. They started together to do the work but after 2 days A and B left. C did the remaining work (in days)

1. 1
2. 3
3. 5
4. 4

Ans : D

4. A and B working together can finish a job in T days. If A works alone and completes the job, he will take T + 5 days. If B works alone and completes the same job, he will take T + 45 days. What is T?

1. 25
2. 60
3. 15
4. None of these

Ans : C

5. If the wheel of a bicycle makes 560 revolutions in traveling 1.1 km, what is its radius?

1. 31.25 cm
2. 37.75 cm
3. 35.15 cm
4. 11.25 cm

Ans : A

6. When an object is dropped, the number of feet N that it falls is given by the formula N = ½gt2 where t is the time in seconds from the time it was dropped and g is 32.2. If it takes 5 seconds for the object to reach the ground, how many feet does it fall during the last 2 seconds?

1. 64.4
2. 96.6
3. 161.0
4. 257.6

Ans : D

7. A man driving his bike at 24 kmph reaches his office 5 minutes late. Had he driven 25% faster on an average he would have reached 4 minutes earlier than the scheduled time. How far is his office?

1. 24 km
2. 72 km
3. 18 km
4. Data Insufficient

Ans : C

8. A man moves from A to B at the rate of 4 km/hr. Had he moved at the rate of 3.67 km/hr, he would have taken 3 hours more to reach the destination. What is the distance between A and B?

1. 33 kms
2. 132 kms
3. 36 kms
4. 144 kms

Ans : B

9. A train travels at an average speed of 90 km/hr without any stoppages. However, its average speed decrease to 60km/hr on account of stoppages. On an average, how many minutes per hour does the train stop?

1. 12 minutes
2. 18 minutes
3. 24 minutes
4. 20 minutes

Ans : D

10. Two trains, 200 and 160 meters long take a minute to cross each other while traveling in the same direction and take only 10 seconds when they cross in opposite directions. What are the speeds at which the trains are traveling?

1. 21 m/s; 15 m/s
2. 30 m/s; 24 m/s
3. 18 m/s; 27 m/s
4. 15 m/s; 24 m/s

Ans : A

11. Ram covers a part of the journey at 20 kmph and the balance at 70 kmph taking total of 8 hours to cover the distance of 400 km. How many hours has been driving at 20 kmph?

1. 2 hours
2. 3 hours 20 minutes
3. 4 hours 40 minutes
4. 3 hours 12 minutes

Ans : D

12. Yana and Gupta leave points x and y towards y and x respectively simultaneously and travel in the same route. After meeting each other on the way, Yana takes 4 hours to reach her destination, while Gupta takes 9 hours to reach his destination. If the speed of Yana is 48 km/hr, what is the speed of Gupta?

1. 72 kmph
2. 32 mph
3. 20 mph
4. None of these

Ans : C

13. A passenger train covers the distance between stations X and Y, 50 minutes faster than a goods train. Find this distance if the average speed of the passenger train is 60 kmph and that of goods train is 20 kmph.

1. 20 kms
2. 25 kms
3. 45 kms
4. 40 kms

Ans : B

14. By walking at 3/4th of his usual speed, a man reaches office 20 minutes later than usual. What is his usual time?

1. 30 min
2. 60 min
3. 70 min
4. 50 min

Ans : B

15. I travel the first part of my journey at 40 kmph and the second part at 60 kmph and cover the total distance of 240 km to my destination in 5 hours. How long did the first part of my journey last?

1. 4 hours
2. 2 hours
3. 3 hours
4. 2 hours 24 minutes

Ans : C

16. The speed of a motor boat itself is 20 km/h and the rate of flow of the river is 4 km/h. Moving with the stream the boat went 120 km. What distance will the boat cover during the same time going against the stream?

1. 80 km
2. 180 km
3. 60 km
4. 100 km

Ans : A

17. A man and a woman 81 miles apart from each other, start traveling towards each other at the same time. If the man covers 5 miles per hour to the women 4 miles per hour, how far will the woman have traveled when they meet?

1. 27
2. 36
3. 45
4. None of these.

Ans : B

18. Two boys begin together to write out a booklet containing 535 lines. The first boy starts with the first line, writing at the rate of 100 lines an hour; and the second starts with the last line then writes line 534 and so on, backward proceeding at the rate of 50 lines an hour. At what line will they meet?

1. 356
2. 277
3. 357
4. 267

Ans : C