This document contains 20 multiple choice questions testing banking exam skills. The questions cover a range of math topics including percentages, averages, ratios, time/work problems, and interpreting graphs. For each question, test-takers must select the correct option to replace a question mark in an equation or identify a number, percentage, or year based on data in a graph or word problem.

1. Awash bank exam questions and answers
Q1 .Direction: What should come in place of the question mark (?) in each of the following
questions?
12 + 22 + 32 + … + 102 =?
1. 400
2. 625
3. 380
4. 385
Answer: Option 4
Q2 .Direction: What should come in place of the question mark(?) in each of the following questions
?
a2 – b2/(a + b)2 (?)= (a – b)2
1. (a + b)(a – b)
2. (a – b)2
3. (a + b)2
4. a3 + b3
Answer: Option 1
Q3 .Direction: What should come in place of the question mark(?) in each of the following
questions ?
9C(?) + 8C5 + 8 = 100
1. 5
2. 6
3. 7
4. 8
Q4. Direction: What should come in place of the question mark(?) in each of the following
questions ? 6% of 350+ (?)% of 200 = 75% of 40
1. 5

2. 2. 5
3. 5
4. 7
Answer: Option 2
Q5 .Direction: What should come in place of the question mark(?) in each of the following
questions ?
6 1/36 + 7 2/5 -8 9/15 = ?
1. 6 3/15
2. 7 9/15
3. 4 2/15
4. 5 2/15
Answer: Option 4
Q6 .Direction: What approximate value should come in place of the question mark
(?) in each of the following equations ?
(9.009)1/2 + (16.0001)1/4 = (?)% of 50.5
1. 7
2. 8
3. 5
4. 10
Answer: Option 4
Q7. Direction: What approximate value should come in place of the question mark
(?) in each of the following equations?
27.874 x 15.01 3 =?
1. 135
2. 137
3. 139

3. 4. 28
Answer: Option 3
Q8 . Direction: What approximate value should come in place of the question mark
(?) in each of the following equations ?
52.861 + 0.2563 + 8.1 + 57.35 + 0.0087 = ?
1. 119
2. 116
3. 121
4. 115
Answer: Option 1
Q9. Direction: What Approximate Values should comein place of the question mark
(?) in each of the following equations?
85% of 225 + 56% of 450 + 32.98 x 5.001
= ?
1. 600
2. 625
3. 608
4. 605
Answer: Option 3
Q10. Direction: What Approximate Value should come in place of the question mark
(?) in each of the following equations?
(59.96)2 + (81.009)1/4 – 3 = ?
1. 3625
2. 3300
3. 3600
4. 3455

4. Answer: Option 3
Q11 . A path all around the inside of a rectangular park 60m by 45m occupies 2000
sq m. What is the width of the path?
1. 8 m
2. 5 m
3. 15 m
4. 5 m
Answer: Option 2
Q12 .A train covers a certain distance. Had it moved 4 kmh”1 faster, it would have taken 1.5 hrs less.
If it had moved 6 kmh’1 slower, it would have taken 3 hrs more. What is the distance the train
covers?
1. 750 km
2. 600 km
3. 540 km
4. 500 km
Answer: Option 3
Q13 .If 7 men and 4 boys can earn Rs. 10275 in 15 days and 8 men and 11 boys can earn Rs. 7280 in
7 days, in what time can 5 men and 9 boys earn Rs. 8820 ?
1. 8 days
2. 12 days
3. 10 days
4. 12 days
Answer: Option 2
Q14 .A contractor decided to build a bridge in 35 days. He employed 60 men in the beginning and
40 more after 17 days and completed the work on time. If he had not employed the additional men,
how many days behind schedule would it have been finished ?
1. 6 days
2. 8 days

5. 3. 9 days
4. 13 days
Answer: Option 4
Q15 .The average age of all the students of a class is 15 years. The average age of the boys of the
class is 17 years and that of the girls is 12 years. If the number of girls in the class is 3 6 then what is
the number of boys in the class ?
1. 45
2. 48
3. 50
4. 54
Answer: Option 4
Q16 .Direction (Q. 6-10): In the following graph, total items produced (in thousand), total items
rejected (in thousand) and percentage of items sold by a company in different years are shown. For
which of the following years is the percentage rise/fall in the number of items sold from the
previous year the highest?
1. 1981
2. 1982
3. 1983
4. 1984
Answer: Option 4
Q17 .What is the difference between the average number of items produced and average number of
items rejected in all six years together? (Answer in thousand)
1. 5
2. 5
3. 5
4. 5
Answer: Option 3
Q18 . What is the percentage rise or fall in the number of items rejected fromyear 1980 to 1982?

6. 1. 5% (fall)
2. 75% (rise)
3. 5% (rise)
4. 5% (rise)
Answer: Option 4
Q19. The total items sold is what percentage of the total items produced in all the six years
together? (approximate)
1. 67%
2. 70%
3. 73%
4. 75%
Answer: Option 3
Q20. In which of the following years the percentage of items rejected over the items produced is the
lowest?
1. 1981
2. 1982
3. 1983
4. 1984
Answer: Option 3