Mercantile Bank Ltd MCQs

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Mercantile Bank Ltd #201

A time study specialist has set the production rate for each worker on a job at 22 units every three hours. At this rate, what is the minimum number of workers that should be put on the job, if at least 90 units are to be produced per hour?

A: 5
B: 8
C: 12
D: 13
Mercantile Bank Ltd #202

In a room, all except 18 of the people are over 50 years of age. 15 of the people in the room are under 50 years of age. If 10% of the people are at the age of 50 years, how many people are in the room>

A: 27
B: 30
C: 33
D: 36
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #203

The study or activity of growing garden plants ----

A: Agriculture
B: Apiculture
C: Horticulture
D: Viniculture
Mercantile Bank Ltd #204

A man has 72 green marbles and 108 red marbles. He decides to pack them into packets of the same size, each containing either all red of all green marbles. What is the maximum number of marbles he can put in each packet?

A: 36
B: 24
C: 18
D: 12
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #205

How many students can sit in a room with n single chairs and b doubleseated benches?

A: nb
B: 2nd
C: 2(b+n)
D: 2b + n
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #206

Molasses cost Tk. x for the first 1.5 kg at 'Prabartana'. All amount in addition to first 1.5 kg cost Tk. 50 per kg. How much does it cost to buy 5 kg molasses from 'prabartana'?

A: Tk. (x+150)
B: Tk. (1.5x+150)
C: Tk. (x+175)
D: Tk. (1.5x+175)
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #207

Very confident in behaviour, or intended to de noticed, especially by being brightly coloured -----

A: Flamboyant
B: Charlatan
C: exhibitionist
D: Novice
Mercantile Bank Ltd #208

Someone who enjoys or is good at talking with people ----

A: Loudmouth
B: Commentator
C: Conversationalist
D: Orator
Mercantile Bank Ltd #209

An item is sold for $65.00 giving the retailer a profit of 30% of the cost. What will be the new retail price if the retailer cuts his profit to 10% of costs?

A: $55
B: $50
C: $400
D: $140
Mercantile Bank Ltd #210

If ab-2cd = p; 6cd-3ab=1; what is the value of p?

A: -3
B: -1/3
C: 1/3
D: 3
Mercantile Bank Ltd #211

How many tiles each of 1 square foot are necessary to form a 1 foot border around the inside of a 24 feet by 14 feet room?

A: 36
B: 37
C: 72
D: 74
Mercantile Bank Ltd #212

Finding the Alien one from a list of words.

A: Honor
B: Commemorate
C: Observe
D: Delicate
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #213

Someone who attempts to be united with God through prayer -----

A: Pious
B: Saint
C: Honorary
D: Mystic
Mercantile Bank Ltd #214

The tailoring of globally produced products to make them suitable to local tastes and needs ----

A: Globalization
B: Glocalization
C: Commoditization
D: Localization
Mercantile Bank Ltd #215

If b<2 and 2x-3b = 0, which of the following must be true?

A: x > -3
B: x < 2
C: x = 3
D: x < 3
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #216

If x+y>4 and x<3, then y>1 is true.

A: always
B: only if x
C: only if x>0
D: only if x = 0
Mercantile Bank Ltd #217

In a group of 15 high school students, 7 study Latin, 8 study French and 3 study neither Latin nor French. How many students study both Latin and French?

A: 3
B: 4
C: 6
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #218

If point P is on line AB, which of the following is always true?

A: AP = PB
B: AP > PB
C: PB>AP
D: AB > AP
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #219

Choose the correct sentence quotation part : Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies almost always kills "its victims unless inoculated" in the earliest stages of the disease.

A: its victims unless inoculated
B: its victims unless inoculation is done
C: its victims unless they are inoculated
D: the victims unless inoculated
Mercantile Bank Ltd #220

Increasing the original price of an item by 15 percent and then increasing the new price by another 15 percent is equivalent to increasing the original price by

A: 32.25%
B: 31.00%
C: 30.25%
D: 35.54%
Mercantile Bank Ltd #221

If 4x-7 <2x+13, then which of the following must be true?

A: x < 7
B: x < 13
C: x>9
D: x>10
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #222

If x+y>4 and x<3 then y>1 is true

A: always
B: only if x
C: x>9
D: only if x = 0
Mercantile Bank Ltd #223

A hawker takes 1.25 hours to deliver newspapers on his route. Another hawker takes 15 minutes longer to deliver these papers on the same route. How long would it take to deliver the papers if both of them worked together?

A: 22.25 min
B: 37.5 min
C: 40 min
D: 65 min
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #224

Lines joining points (-4, 0), (0, 5) and (4, 0) will form

A: a circle
B: a right triangle
C: a rectangle
D: an isosceles triangle
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #225

ICC Champions Trophy 2006 was held in ---

A: England
B: West Indies
C: India
D: Australia
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #226

Who is the author of the novel 'Merchant of Venice'?

A: William Shakespeare
B: P.B Shelly
C: Charles Dickens
D: Humayun Ahmed
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #227

Which one is the world's largest island?

A: Maldives
B: Greenland
C: Singapore
D: Hawaii
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #228

Eskimos hunt using a dog-driven vehicle called ---

A: Cart
B: Sledge
C: Bus
D: Snow Cart
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #229

The name Tom Daschle relates to ---

A: Information Technology
B: Politics
C: Book
D: Space technology
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #230

The Richter scale is used for measuring ---

A: Tsunami
B: Flood
C: Hurricane
D: Earthquake
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #231

Which is the following is a computer operating system?

A: Oracle
B: Unix
C: SPSS
D: Java
Mercantile Bank Ltd #232

The shortest day is in the month of ---

A: January
B: December
C: November
D: February
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #233

The movie 'Pather Pyachali' was directed by ---

A: Zahir Raihan
B: Hrishikesh Mukharjee
C: Satyajit Roy
D: Mrinal Sen
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #234

Sentence Correction: Choose the answer that should replace the quotation part. The psychologist William James believed that facial expressions not only provide a visible sign of an "emotion, actually contributing to the feeling itself."

A: emotion, actually also is contributing to the feeling itself
B: emotion but also actually contributing to the feeling itself
C: emotion but also actually contribute to the feeling itself
D: emotion, they also actually contribute to the feeling of it
Mercantile Bank Ltd #235

Sentence Correction: Choose the answer that should replace the quotation part. Of all the possible disasters that threaten our agriculture, the possibility of an adverse change in climate "is may be the more difficult for analysis."

A: is may be the more difficult to analysis
B: is probably the most difficult to analyze
C: is may be the more difficult for analysis
D: is probably the more difficult to analyze
Mercantile Bank Ltd #236

Sentence Correction: Choose the answer that should replace the quotation part. "When one eats in this restaurant, you often find" that the prices are high.

A: When one eats in this restaurant, you often find
B: When you eat in this restaurant, one often finds
C: When you eat in this restaurant, one often find
D: If you eat in this restaurant, you often find
Mercantile Bank Ltd #237

Sentence Correction: Choose the answer that should replace the quotation part. In addition to having more protein than wheat does, "the protein in rice is higher quality than that in" wheat, with more of the amino acids essential to the human diet.

A: the protein in rice is of higher quality than that of
B: rice has protein of higher quality than that in
C: the protein in rice is higher in quality than it is in
D: rice protein in rice is higher in quality than it is in
Mercantile Bank Ltd #238

Sentence Correction: Choose the answer that should replace the quotation part. Delighted by the reported earnings for the first quarter of the fiscal year, "it was decided by the company manager to give her staff a raise."

A: it was decided by the company manager to give a raise to her staff
B: the decided of the company manager was to give her staff a raise
C: the company manager decided to give her staff a raise
D: the staff was given a raise by the company manager
Mercantile Bank Ltd #239

Choose the most appropriate replacement from the options given for the quotation word/words of the following sentences. He quickly "looked" at his watch.

A: searched
B: reached
C: glanced
D: sobbed
Mercantile Bank Ltd #240

Mr. Ramzan, owner of a departmental store, decided to raise the price of a particular item by exactly 10%. Of the following which cannot be the new price?

A: Tk. 11.00
B: Tk. 8.80
C: Tk. 57.30
D: Tk. 78.10
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #241

Jony weighs twice as much as Suzan's. Suzan's weight is 60% of Sami's weight. Manik's weight is 50% of Lynda's weight. Lynda weight 190% of Jony's weight. Which of these 5 people weight the least?

A: Suzan
B: Manik
C: Lynda
D: Sami
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #242

Choose the most appropriate replacement from the options given for the quotation word/words of the following sentences. The opposite meaning of APOSTATE is

A: laggard
B: loyalist
C: martinet
D: predecessor
Mercantile Bank Ltd #243

Choose the most appropriate replacement from the options given for the quotation word/words of the following sentences. The waiter "put" mango juice into my glass.

A: filled
B: poured
C: reached
D: threw
Mercantile Bank Ltd #244

Choose the most appropriate replacement from the options given for the quotation word/words of the following sentences. When her dog died, she "cried" very hard for half an hour.

A: yelled
B: screamed
C: sobbed
D: raced
Mercantile Bank Ltd #245

Choose the most appropriate replacement from the options given for the quotation word/words of the following sentences. The similar meaning of CHASTE is

A: Loyal
B: Timid
C: Curt
D: Pure
Mercantile Bank Ltd #246

The sum of the non-prime numbers between 40 and 50, non-inclusive, is ---

A: 131
B: 176
C: 405
D: 274
Mercantile Bank Ltd #247

During a sale, a furniture shop gives 50% off on the retail price of a desk. On Friday, it gives an additional 20% off on all furniture. The desk's retail price was Tk. 320. How much will the desh cost on Friday?

A: Tk. 118
B: Tk. 128
C: Tk. 96
D: Tk. 115
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Mercantile Bank Ltd #248

Choose the most appropriate preposition to fill the gaps to complete the sentence : The Buriganga is ------the south of Dhaka city.

A: in
B: at
C: to
D: around
Mercantile Bank Ltd #249

Choose the most appropriate preposition to fill the gaps to complete the sentence : He came -------a noble family.

A: out
B: from
C: by
D: through
Mercantile Bank Ltd #250

Choose the most appropriate preposition to fill the gaps to complete the sentence : He made ----my mind to go there.

A: into
B: up
C: out
D: in