XAT 2025 QA & DI practice questions & answers can be one of the most effective resources to prepare for the XAT exam. These will further improve candidates' overall XAT preparation. In addition to helping candidates assess their readiness, these practice questions will increase their accuracy, speed, and time management abilities. Furthermore, there's a good chance that the XAT QA & DI sample questions mentioned here will show up in the actual XAT exam. Check some common XAT Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation sample questions for aspirants mentioned below!

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Find the XAT Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation practice questions & answers mentioned below:

Two lighthouses located at points A and B on the earth are 60 feet and 40 feet tall respectively. Each lighthouse is perfectly vertical and the land connecting A and B is perfectly flat. The topmost point of the lighthouse at A is A’ and of the lighthouse at B is B’. Draw line segments A’B and B’A, and let them intersect at point C’. Drop a perpendicular from C’ to touch the earth at point C. What is the length of CC’ in feet?

1. 20
2. 30
3. 24
4. The distance between A and B is needed to solve this problem.
5. 25

Ans: 24

If AⵙB = (A+B) x B, then what is (5 ⵙ 2) ⵙ 5?

1. 95
2. 275
3. 125
4. 74
5. 200

Ans: 95

Nalini has received a total of 600 WhatsApp messages from four friends Anita, Bina, Chaitra, and Divya. Bina and Divya have respectively sent 30% and 20% of these messages, while Anita has sent an equal number of messages as Chaitra. Moreover, Nalini finds that of Anita’s, Bina’s, Chaitra’s, and Divya’s messages, 60%, 40%, 80% and 50% respectively are jokes. What percentage of the jokes received by Nalini have been sent neither by Divya nor by Bina?

1. 65.12
2. 61.4
3. 57
4. 38.6
5. 34.88

Ans: 61.4

A man is laying stones, from start to end, along the two sides of a 200 meter walkway. The stones are to be laid 5 meter apart from each other. When he begins, all the stones are present at the start of the walkway. He places the first stone on each side at the walkway’s start. For all the other stones, the man lays the stones first along one of the walkway’s start. For all the other stones, the man lays the stones first along one of the walkway’s sides, then along the other side in an exactly similar fashion. However, he can carry only one stone at a time. To lay each stone, the man walks to the spot, lays the stone, and then walks back to pick another stone, which marks the end of his work. What is the total distance that the man walks in executing this work if you assume that the width of the walkway is negligible?

1. 16200 meters
2. 8200 meters
3. 8050 meters
4. 16400 meters
5. 4100 meters

Ans: 16400 meters

Two friends, Ram and Shyam, start at the same point, at the same time. Ram travels straight north at a speed of 10 km/hr, while Shyam travels straight east at twice the speed of Ram. After 15 minutes, Shyam messages Ram that he is just passing by a large telephone tower, and after another 15 minutes Ram messages Syam that he is just passing by and old banyan tree. After some more time elapsed, Ram and Shyam stop. They stop at the same point of time. If the straight-line distance between Ram and Syam now is 50 km, how far is Shyam from the banyan tree in km assuming Ram and Shyam travel on a flat surface?

1. 20√5+5
2. 20√5-5
3. 5√21
4. 45
5. 115√3

Ans: 45

A rectangular swimming pool is 50 meters long and 25 meters wide. Its depth is always the same along its width but linearly increases along its length from 1 meter at one end at 4 meters at the other end. How much water (in cubic meters) is needed to completely fill the pool?

1. 3750
2. 2500
3. 1250
4. 1874
5. 3125

Ans: 3125

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What is the remainder if 1920 - 2019 is divided by 7?

1. 5
2. 1
3. 6
4. 0
5. 3

Ans: 5

190 students have to choose at least one elective and at most two electives from a list of three electives: E1, E2, and E3. It is found that the number of students choosing E1 is half the number of students choosing E2, and one third the number of students choosing E3. Moreover, the number of students choosing two electives is 50. Which of the following cannot be obtained from the given information?

1. Number of students choosing exactly one elective.
2. Number of students choosing E1
3. Number of students choosing E3
4. Number of students choosing both E1 and E2
5. Number of students choosing either E1 or E2 or both, but not E3

Ans: Number of students choosing both E1 and E2

The area of a square is 196 sq. cm. whose side is half the radius of a circle. The circumference of the circle is equal to the breadth of a rectangle. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 712 cm, then the length of the rectangle is:

1. 160
2. 170
3. 180
4. 192
5. 200

Ans: 192

Radhesyam is an alcohol bootlegger. He wants to make an extra profit on the alcohol, hence he tries to dilute the alcohol. He does this in a unique way. He takes 625 litrs of alcohol in a tank that has a large capacity. He replaces 20% of the content with water. After this, he doubles the quantity of alcohol in the tank by adding pure alcohol and then doubles the percentage of water in the mixture by adding pure water. His manager found this process tiresome and confusing. Therefore he suggested Radheshyam to mix the original 625 litre of alcohol with a solution B of alcohol and water so that the resulting solution is the same as that derived from the initial process. What is the overall quantity and concentration of the suggested solution B?

1. 675.81 litre and 63.63% alcohol
2. 675.81 litre and 71.42% alcohol
3. 660.71 litre and 56.75% alcohol
4. 785.71 litre and 71.42% alcohol

Ans: 660.71 litre and 56.75% alcohol

Two swimmers Michael Phelps and Matt Biondl started swimming towards each other from opposite ends of a river across the width. They first met at a point 1500m away from one shore. They crossed each other, touched the opposite end and returned immediately. They met each other again at 900m from the other shore. Find the width of the river in meters?

1. 3600 meters
2. 4000 meters
3. 3000 meters
4. 2000 meters

Ans: 3600 meters

Mr Cooper has 3 spirit solutions, A, B, and C. A has 25% spirit concentration, B has a% spirit concentration and C has b% spirit concentration. He mixes 40 ml of A, 60 ml of B, and 100 ml of C to get a new solution with a concentration of 56%. Now he mixes 100 ml of D, 40 ml of B and 60 ml of C to get a solution with 59.5% concentration. Find the difference between a and b.

1. 30
2. 40
3. 25
4. 15

Ans: 30

A wire which was used to form a square of side 30 cm is divided into 3 parts such that the length of the longest part is 25% more than the length of the second longest part. If the shortest part is 20 cm shorter than the longest part, then the area (in cm2) of the triangle formed by these parts is:

1. 540
2. 480
3. 800
4. 600

Ans: 600

When opening his fruit shop for the day a shopkeeper found that his stock of apples could be perfectly arranged in a complete triangular array: that is every row with one apply more than the other row immediately above, going all the way up ending with a single apply at the top. During any sales transaction, apples are always picked from the uppermost row, and going below only when that row is exhausted. When one customer walked in the middle of the day she found an incomplete array in display having 126 apples totally. How many rows of apples (complete and incomplete) were seen by this customer? (Assume the initial stock did not exceed 150 apples)

1. 15
2. 14
3. 13
4. 11
5. 12

Ans: 12

John takes twice as much time as Jack to finish a job. Jack and Jim together take one thirds of the time to finish the job than John takes working alone. Moreover, in order to finish the job, John takes three days more than that taken by the three of them working together. In how many days will Jim finish the job working alone? 

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

Ans: 4 days

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