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