Question 1

The students of Vidya Mandir Secondary school, Jalpaiguri went for an excursion. It was seen
that a boat travels at 14.5 km per hour when it goes along with the stream. By the time he starts
returning the speed of the river doubled than its original value due to a sudden storm. The speed
of the boat is 7 km per hour when it goes against the river stream. What is the speed of boat per
hour?
a) 10 km b) 8 km c) 12 km d) 7 km
Answer : c) 12 km
Solution :
Let the speed of the boat be B and the speed of stream be S.
Equation for travel along with Stream : B + S = 14.5 ----> eq 1
During the travel against the stream, the speed of the stream temporarily doubled.
Therefore, Equation for travel against the stream = B - 2S = 7 ----> eq 2 (NOTE: We are using
2S instead of S in the equation as speed of the stream has temporarily doubled when he travelled
against the stream)
eq 1 - eq 2 => 3S = 7.5
or S = 2.5 kph
Substitute S = 2.5 in eq 1
B = 14.5 - 2.5 = 12
Question 2
A boat man was driving a boat during a cyclonic storm during which time the speed of the river
was considerably high than normal times. He found that the boat travelled 222 km in three hours
when he was driving along with the river. But when he drove the boat against the river the boat
travelled 100 km in two hours. What is the speed of the river per hour during cyclonic storm?
a) 10 km b) 12 km c) 8 km d) 9 km
Answer : b) 12 km
Solution :
Let the speed of the boat be B and the speed of the river be S.
B + S = 222/3 ----> eq 1
B - S = 100/2 ----> eq 2
Adding equations 1 and 2 we get : 2B = 300 + 444 / 6
2B = 744/6
2B = 124
B = 62
Substituting B = 62 in eq 2 we get,
S = B - 100/2 = 62 - 50 = 12
Question 3
Maruti Cruisers sailed 132 km along with the river in six hours. Suddenly the boat had to return
to the starting point and it started returning against the river and this time the Cruiser travelled at
128 km in eight hours. By how much percentage Cruiser's speed exceeds the speed of the River ?
a) 533.33% b) 444.44% c) 267.67% d) none of these.
Answer : a) 533.33%
Solution :
Speed of boat along with the river per hour = 22 km (132 divided by 6)
Speed of boat against the river per hour = 16 km (128 divided by 8)
B + S = 22 ----> eq 1
B S = 16 ----> eq 2
Adding equations 1 and 2, we get : B+S-B+S = 22 -16 = 6 =2S
S = 3 km/hour
Substituting S= 3, in eq 1 we get : B + 3 = 22
B = 22 - 3 = 19 km /hour
Cruiser's speed exceeds the speed of the River By : Cruiser's Speed - River Speed / River Speed
x 100 = B - S / S X 100% = 19 - 3/ 3 X 100 = 16/3 X 100 = 533.33%
Question 4
In a radio Station, the songs database contains songs from 2 Tamil movies, 1 Hindi movie and 1
Telugu movie. Each movie has 5 songs.They can play only 3 songs.If they want to play 3 tamil
songs then what will be the probability?
a) 10C3 / 20C3 b) 5C3 / 15C3 c) 5C3 / 20C3 d) 20C3 / 10C3
Answer : a) 10C3 / 20C3
Solution :
Since each movie has 5 songs, the total number of songs is 20.
Out of 20 songs, they have to play 3 songs.
Therefore, number of ways of selecting 3 songs = 20C3.
Number of ways of selecting 3 Tamil songs = 10C3.
Probability of playing three tamil songs = Number of ways of selecting 3 Tamil songs / Number
of ways of selecting 3 songs (any language) = 10C3 / 20C3.

Question 5
There are two cricket teams namely Team A and Team B. Each has 15 players (including
substitutes). Now a new team of playing 11 has to be formed by pulling players from both the
teams. In how many ways 11 players can be selected such that at least 5 players are picked from
each team?
a) 15C5 x 15C6 b) 2(15C5 x 15C6) c) (15C5)
2
d) 15C6
Answer : b) 2(15C5 x 15C6)
Solution :
Since at least 5 players from each team should be pulled up the possible ways of selection are
5 players from Team A and 6 players from Team B (OR)
6 players from team A and 5 players from Team B.
Case I : Therefore, the number of way of selecting 5 players from Team A AND 6 players from
Team B = 15C5 x 15C6.
Case II : Similarly, the number of way of selecting 6 players from Team A AND 5 players from
Team B = 15C6 x 15C5.
Hence, the number of ways of selecting 11 players such that at least 5 players in each team =
Case I OR Case II = 15C5 x 15C6 + 15C6 x 15C5
= 2(15C5 x 15C6)
P.S : In probability equations like those employed in the above question, AND's need to be
replaced by 'x' (multiply) and OR needs to be replaced by '+' (addition).
Question 6
In a College, there are 10 students in Maths department, 12 Students in Computer Science
department and 8 students in Physics department. A recruiting company wants to select 4
students out of these 30 students with at least 1 student from each department. In how many
ways the company can achieve this ?
a) 12960 b) 12690 c) 19260 d) 16920
Answer :
Solution:
Since there should be at least 1 student from each department, the possible ways of selection are
1 Student from Maths, 1 student from computer science and 2 students from physics (OR)
1 Student from Maths, 2 students from computer science and 1 student from physics (OR)
2 Students from Maths, 1 student from computer science and 1 student from physics.
Note : Applying a very similar logic as that of the previous question,
Therefore, the number of ways of selecting 4 students such that at least 1 student from each
department = 10C1 x 12C1 x 8C2 + 10C1 x 12C2 x 8C1 + 10C2 x 12C1 x 8C1
= (10 x 12 x 8 x 7)/2 + (10 x 12 x 11 x 8)/2 + (10 x 9 x 12 x 8)/2
= (10 x 12 x 8)(7+11+9)/2
= 10 x 12 x 8 (27/2)
= 480 x 27
= 12960
Question 7
Priya wanted to mail 120 messages to her friend Banu. She mailed 1 message on the first day, 2
messages on the second day, 3 messages on the third day and so on. How many days she
required to send all messages to Banu?
a)16 days b) 17 days c) 15 days d) 14 days.
Answer : c) 15 days.
Solution:
Total number of messages = 120
On the 1
st
day, Priya mailed 1 message to Banu.
On the 2
nd
day, she mailed 2 messages to Banu and so on.....
Let X denote the number of messages send on the X
th
day.
Therefore, 1
st
day messages + 2
nd
day messages + ....... + X
th
day messages = 120.
1 + 2 + 3 + ...... + X = 120
X ( X + 1) / 2 = 120
X
2
+ X = 240
X
2
+ X - 240 = 0
By factoring the above eqn. we get
X
2
- 15 X + 16 X - 240 = 0 ( the middle term is obtained by the multiplicants of last term i.e 15
x 16 =240 and the subtracted value is 1 which is the middle term)
X(X - 15) + 16 ( X - 15) = 0 or (X + 16)(X-15)
X = 15 0r X = -16
X = 15 ( since number of days cannot be negative).
So Priya required 15 days to send all messages.
Question 8
An IT company conducted interview for B.E Students. On the first day, they selected one
student. On the second day, they selected 8 students and on the third day, they selected 27
students and so on. How many students will be selected if they conduct interview for 10 days?
a) 6050 b) 2530 c) 3025 d) 6025
Answer : c) 3025
Solution:
On the first day, they selected 1 student.
On the second day, they selected 8 students.
On the third day, they selected 27 students and so on.
Since they conduct interview for 10 days, the number of students selected on the 10
th
day is 103
= 1000 students.
Total number of students selected = No. of students selected on 1
st
day + No. of students selected
on 2
nd
day + ..... + No. of students selected on 10
th
day.
Therefore, Total number of students selected = 1 + 8 + 27 + ..... + 1000.
= 1
3
+ 2
3
+ 3
3
+ .... + 10
3
.
By using the formula,
1
3
+ 2
3
+ 3
3
+ .... + n
3
= (n (n+1) / 2)
2
, we get
Number of students selected = (10 (10+1) / 2)
2
.
= (10 *11*10*11) / 4
= 3025.
Hence, the company has selected 3025 students in 10 days.
Question 9
Jeeva has a story book of 2047 pages. He read 1 page on the first day, 2 pages on the second day,
4 pages on the third day, 8 pages on the fourth day and so on. How many days it took for Jeeva
to complete the book?
a)10 days b) 12 days c) 11days d) 13 days
Answer : c) 11 days
Solution:
Total number of Pages = 2047
On the 1
st
day, Jeeva read 1 page.
On the 2
nd
day, he read 2 pages
On the 3
rd
day, he read 4 pages and so on.....
Let X denote the number of pages read on the X
th
day.
Therefore, 1 + 2 + 4 + .... + X = 2047
Then by using the formula, the sum of X numbers in G.P = a ( r
X
-1)/(r-1) where a First term &
r Common ratio, we get
1 (2
x
- 1) / (2 - 1) = 2047
2
X
-1 = 2047
2
X
= 2048
2
X
= 2
11

X = 11.
Question 10
Trisha and Priya talked over certain important issues for nearly one hour. After that they went to
Coffee Day shopTrisha had cold coffee and Priya asked for hot coffee. Both the drinks were
charged at the same rate of Rs.75 per cup. Trisha started walking at 6 kmph towards eastern
direction and Priya started walking at 5 kmph towards western direction. They started at 11 am.
At what time will they be 44 km apart ?
a) 3 am b) 2 pm c) 3pm d) 4 pm
Answer : c) 3 pm
Solution :
Trisha and Priya started walking in eastern and western direction respectively at 11 am.
Trisha walked at 6 kmph and Priya started walking at 5 kmph. So the relative speed is 11 kmph.
Time required to be 44 Kms apart when the relative speed is 11 Km/hr = Distance Between
Them / Relative Speed = 44/11 = 4.
They will be 44 km apart after four hours from the time of starting. i.e. 3 pm. (candidates must
be alert to not to mark a) 3 am as answer)
Question 11
Sundaramurthy can row at 8.5 kmph in still water and he finds it takes him thrice as long to row
up as to row down the river. Find the speed of river in kmph.
a) 3.25 km/hr b) 5.25 km/hr c) 2.75 km/hr d) 4.25 km/hr
Answer : d) 4.25 km/hr
Solution :
Let the speed of the river be c.
His speed when rowing down = 8.5 + c
His speed when rowing up = 8.5 - c
In the question it has been given that "it takes him thrice as long to row up as to row down the
river". This means the time taken for him to row up is 3 times the time taken for him to row
down. In other words, his overall speed when rowing down will be 3 times greater than his
overall speed when rowing up.
Let the time taken for upstream be Tup and for downstream be Tdown.
Tup = 3 x Tdown
Tdown / Tup = 1 / 3
Speed Up = Distance / Time Up
Speed Down = Distance / Time Down
Speed Up / Speed Down = Time Down / Time Up
8.5 - c / 8.5 + c = 1 / 3
8.5 + c = (8.5 - c) 3
8.5 + c = 25.5 - 3c
c + 3c = 25.5 8.5 = 17
4c = 17
c = 4.25 km/hr
Question 12
In a software company employees arranged for a picnic. At the planning stage it was found that
per employee share of the total cost would be same as the number of enlisted employees.
However, on the day of picnic the number of employees who were present was 20 less than the
enlisted number. Consequently, per employee share shot up by 20%. What was the number of
employees who had enlisted initially? How much did each employee pay finally?
a) 120, Rs.172.80 b) 100, Rs.172.80 c) 120, Rs.144 d) none of these.
Answer : c) 120, Rs.144
Solution :
Let the number of employees initially be n
From the question, the Cost per Employee = n (as it is given that "employee share of the total
cost would be same as the number of enlisted employees")
Hence total cost = Cost per Employee x Number of Employees = n x n = n
2

Twenty employees did not turn up and hence those participating in picnic = (n 20). Hence the
cost of n
2
has to be shared by the present (n - 20) employees.
Total cost per employee will be n
2
/ (n-20)
This is to be given to be 20% more than the original figure.
So, n
2
/ (n-20) = (120/100) n
n
2
= 1.20 n (n-20)
Dividing by n on both sides,
n = 1.2 (n - 20)
n = 1.2n - 24
24 = 0.2n
120 = n
Initial amount planned to be paid by each employee = n = Rs.120
Final and actual amount paid by each employee = n
2
/ (n-20) = 14400/100 = Rs. 144.
Question 13
Vijay, a shop owner was running a shop near IEFS Engineering College, Warangal. The shop is
patronised by students, teachers, other staff members of the College besides to tourist public.
One day Rehamana a tourist bought a new wrist watch from Vijay for Rs. 2480. Rehamana was
not having sufficient money in cash and then issued a cheque for Rs.2800. Vijay paid the
difference amount to Rehamana . Vijay gave the cheque to his cousin brother and took money
from him. Vijays cousin found that there was no balance in the bank account of Rehamana and
the cheque was returned unpaid. Vijay had to reimburse the cheque amount to his cousin and
take back the cheque. The cost price of wrist watch was Rs. 2120. What is the gain or loss made
by Vijay in this transaction?
a) Gain of Rs. 2440 b) loss of Rs. 2440 c) gain of Rs.5240 d) Loss of Rs. 5240
Answer : b) loss of Rs. 2440/.
Solution :
Transaction I (involving Vijay and Rehamana)
Rehamana gave a cheque for Rs. 2800 for the watch worth Rs. 2480. The difference amount =
2800 - 2480 = Rs. 320 was given by Vijay to Rehamana.
Transaction II (check realization by Vijay with the help of his brother)
Vijay when tried to realize the cheque, the cheque bounced. Though he got the money in advance
from his brother, at the end, he had to return that money as cheque was not valid. Since he had
returned the money that he got from his brother, his net gain or loss in transacton II (with his
brother is 0).
Summing Up :
Total Loss To Vijay = Loss In Transaction I + Loss in Transaction II + Cost Price of Watch (as
he has now given the watch to Rehamana which he cannot collect back)
= 320 + 0 + 2120
= Rs. 2440
Question 14
A leading seller of Vegetables in Koyambedu converted a loss of 20% into a profit of 25% when
the selling price of potatoes was increased by Rs.225 per tonne. . Find the cost price of potato per
tonne?
a) Rs.600 b) Rs. 800 c) Rs. 500 d) None of these.
Answer : c) Rs. 500
Solution :
Let the cost price per tonne = CP.
Initial Selling Price SP1 when he was making a loss of 20% = SP1 = 80% of CP = .8CP
Selling Price SP2 when he was making a profit of 25% = SP2 = 125% of CP = 1.25CP
Increase in selling price = SP2 - SP1 = 225
1.25 CP - 0.80 CP = 225
0.45CP = 225
CP = Rs. 500
Question 15
A toy vendor has four toys each costing Rs.100 with him. He plans to make an overall profit of
25% by spreading the profit equally across all the toys. There comes a buyer who wants three
toys but at a discount of 5% on the SP. He accepts and sells three toys at a discount of 5% from
the marked selling price. Now, if another buyer comes to his shop, by how much percentage the
selling price needs to be increased from the cost price so that still he manages to make an overall
profit of 25% with all 4 toys.
a) 43.25% b) 43.75% c) 43.55% d) 43.65%
Answer : b) 43.75%
Solution :
CP of each of the toys - Rs. 100.
According to his initial plan, he would had thought to sell each of the toys at Rs. 125 so that he
would make a net profit of 25% by selling all the toys.
But the first buyer wants a discount of 5% on the selling price of Rs. 125.
Therefore, his discount per toy = 5/100 x 125 = Rs. 6.25.
Thus by selling three toys at a discount of Rs. 6.25 he would had lost 3 x 6.25 = 18.75.
Now he has to make up for this amount by increasing the selling price of the 4th toy. Therefore
his new selling price on the 4th toy = Rs. 125 (his planned selling price) + 18.75 = 143.75
Therefore his new marked price 143.75 is greater than the cost price of Rs.100 by, (143.75 - 100)
/ 100 % = 43.75%.
Question 16
There are nine different toppings in Merry Brown Pizza shop. They have to make pizzas with
different toppings. In how many ways can the shop keeper make pizzas with 2 different
toppings?
a) 36 b) 48 c) 72 d) none of these.
Answer : a) 36


Solution :
The question deals with choosing 2 toppings from 9 available toppings REGARDLESS of the
ORDER in which we pick. In cases, where the order of choice doesn't matter we need to use
Combination Formula of nCr (formula to choose r options from n available options regardless of
order).
Number of ways to choose 2 different toppings from available 9 toppings = nCr = 9C2 = 9 X 8 /
1 x 2 = 36
Question 17
In a toy shop there are seven different varieties of toys. The shopkeeper wants to make a
selection of different toys of 3 different varieties?
a) 28 b) 35 c) 56 d) none of these.
Answer : b) 35
Solution :
This question is similar to the 1st question.
Number of ways to select 3 varieties from 7 available varieties = nCr = 7C3 = 7 x 6 x 5 / 1 x 2 x
3 = 35
Question 18
In how many different ways can a group of 4 boys and 2 girls be made out of a total of 8 boys
and 4 girls?
a) 240 b) 360 c) 280 d) 420
Answer : d) 420
Solution :
N1 = Number of ways to choose 4 boys from 8 boys = nCr = 8C4
N2 = Number of ways to choose 2 girls from 4 girls = nCr = 4C2
Number of ways to choose 4 boys and 2 girls out of a total of 8 boys and 4 girls = N1 X N2 =
8C4 x 4C2 = 70 x 6 = 420
Question 19
A typist was appointed in Correct technology services and she was asked to prepare 23 letters
addressed to different people and prepare 23 covers addressed to them. She inserts these letters at
random into the envelopes. (one letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly one
letter is inserted to the wrong envelope?
a) 7/23 b) 9/23 c) 0 d) 11/23
Answer : c) 0.
Solution :
There are 23 letters and 23 covers with addresses.
By mistake if the typist puts one of the letters in wrong address, there is no way but another letter
has to be put in wrong cover. Hence, there is NO CHANCE that ONLY ONE of the letter is
inserted in wrong envelope. Hence probability of such occurrence is 0.
For example, let the letters be L1, L2, L3..... L23 and let the respective covers with addresses be
C1,C2,C3..... C23.
Lets say, if L2 is placed in C4 instead of C2 then L4 has left with no option but to be placed in
C2. Hence, if one letter is misplaced, another letter has to be misplaced. Hence probability of
ONLY ONE misplacement is zero as chances of ONLY ONE misplacement is zero.
Question 20
Ansar can do a work of making a sofa set in 40 hours and with the help of Nayeem, he can
complete the same work in 24 hours. If they get Rs.1200 for the work, then what could be
Nayeems share?
a) Rs. 360 b)Rs.420 c)Rs.480 d) Rs.540
Answer : c) Rs.480
Solution :
Ansar can do in one hour 1/40 of the sofa set work
Both Ansar and Nayeem perform in one hour 1/24 of the sofa set work.
Nayeems one hour work = One hour work of Both Ansar and Nayeem - One hour work of
Ansar = 1/24 - 1/40 = 1/60
So, Nayeem will finish the work in 60 hours.
Ansars revenue share / Nayeems revenue share = Time taken for Ansar to complete the work /
Time taken for Nayeem to complete the work = 60 / 40 = 3 / 2
Ansars revenue share : Nayeems revenue share = 3 : 2
Let Ansar's share be 3X and let Nayeem's share be 2X. Therefore 3X + 2X = 1200 (Total
revenue of both)
Or X = 1200/5 = 240.
Therefore Nayeems share = 2X = 2 x (240) = Rs. 480


Question 21
8 men and 12 women together can complete construction of a house in 8 days. 6 men and 14
women can complete the construction of the same house in 10 days. Suppose 20 women alone
work for construction of this house, how many days will they take to complete the same?
a) 36 days b)40 days c)32 days d)24 days
Answer : b) 40 days
Solution :
Work done by 8 men and 12 women for 8 days is equal to
Work done by 6 men and 14 women in 10 days.
Let m be the amount of work done by one man and let w be the amount of work done by one
woman. Then
(8m + 12 w) 8 = (6m + 14 w) 10
64 m + 96 w= 60 m + 140 w
64 m - 60 m = 140 w - 96 w
4 m = 44 w
1 m = 11 w
Construction of the house requires
(8 x 11w + 12 w)8 = 800 women days.
So if the construction is to be done by 20 women only
It will take - 800/20 = 40 days.
Question 22
Bharath and Rajani together can complete a piece of work in 12 days and Rajani and Kamal
together in 15 days. If Bharath is twice as good a workman as Kamal, then in how many days
will Rajani along complete the same work?
a) 30 b)24 c)25 d) 20
Answer : d) 20
Solution :
Assume Bharath completes in B days
Rajani completes in R days
Kamal completes in K days
Then 1/B + 1/R = 1/12 -->eq 1 (Bharath and Rajani take 12 days to complete the work)
1/R + 1/K = 1/15 --> eq 2
eq 1 - eq 2 gives, 1/B - 1/K = 1/12 - 1/15 = 1/60 --> eq 3
From the question it is given that Bharath is twice as efficient as Kamal. That is, if Bharath takes
B days Kamal will take 2B days to complete the work. Therefore eq 3 becomes,
1/B - 1/2B = 1/60
1/2B = 1/60
B = 30 days
1/R = 1/12 - 1/30
= 3/60 = 1/20
So Rajani will take 20 days to complete the work.
Question 23
Adhvaith can do a certain work in 30 days. Kashyap can do same work in 25 days. Adhvaith
started the work and worked for 9 days. Kashyap came and joined to do the work from the 10th
day. How many more days would they have taken together to complete the work?
a)10 3/11 days b)11 2/11 days c) 9 6/11 days d) 8 2/11 days
Answer : c) 9 6/11 days.
Solution:
Adhvaith can do 1/30 of the work in one day
In 9 days he would have completed - 9 x 1/30 = 3/10 of the work
Balance work = 1 - 3/10 = 7/10
Kashyap can do 1/25 of the work in one day
Work that can be done by Adhvaith and Kashyap in one day = (1/30 + 1/25) = 11/150 of the
work.
So Adhvaith and Kashyap can complete 7/10 of the work in
7/10 x 150/11 = 105/11 = 9 6/11 days.
Question 24
A private limited company entrusts works to 20 men, working 12 hours a day. This group can
complete the work in 24 days. The company now wants to entrust twice the work to 60 men
working 4 hours a day. Assume that 2 men of the first group do as much work in one hour as 3
men of second group do in 1 hours. How many number of days will the second group of men
take to complete this work?
a) 108 days b)120 days c)124 days d)81 days
Answer : a)108 days
Solution :
Let efficiency of men in I group be E1 and that of second group be E2.
Ratios of efficiency of men in I group to that of II group can be found by using the formula,
E1/E2 = Time taken by men in II group to do certain amount of work / Time taken by men in I
group to do the same amount of work as that of men in II goup
= (3 x 1.5) : (2 x 1)
= 4.5 : 2
Now, M1D1T1E1W2 = M2D2T2E2W1 --> 1
(where M1 = number of men in I group, M2 = number of men in II group. D1 = number of days
required to complete work by group I, D2 = number of days required to complete work by group
II. T1 = working hours per day by group I. T2 = working hours per day by group II. w2 =
amount of work by group II, w1 = amount of work by group I.)
Since we are to calculate the time taken by group II to complete twice the amount of work as that
of group I, W2 = 2 x W1.
We had earlier calculated E1/E2 = 4.5/2.
Also from the question we can infer that,
M1 = 20, M2 = 60.
T1 = 12, T2 = 4.
D1 = 24 and D2 is what we need to find.
Substituting all the values in eq 1, we can find D2 as follows.
D2 = (20 X 24 X 12 X 4.5 X 2)/(60 X 4 X 2 X 1)
= 108 days.
Question 25
Three persons Manmohan, Anna And Sushma working together, can do a job in X hours. When
working alone, Manmohan needs an additional six hours to do the job; Anna, working alone
needs an additional hour and Sushma working along needs X additional hours. What is the value
of X?
a)2/3 b)3/2 c)11/12 d)2
Answer : a)2/3
Solution :
In this type of problems where answers cannot be easily found out using equations, it is
advisable to go from the given answer choices.
Based on information given one hour work done by all the three together =
1/ X+6 + 1/ X+1 + 1/2X = 1/X
X is not known.
Using the data given
1/ (2/3) +6 + 1/(2/3) +1 + 1/(4/3) = 1/ ( 2/3)
This comes out correctly. Whereas other values given in b), c) and d) do not get the result
properly. Hence a) is correct.
Question 26
If 40% of the people read newspaper X, 50% read newspaper Y and 10% read both the papers.
What percentage of the people read neither newspaper?
a) 10%. b) 15%. c) 20%. d) 25%.
Answer : c) 20%.
Reason :

40% read newspaper X
50% read newspaper Y and out of this 10% read both X and Y
That means X alone is read by 30%,
Y alone is read by 40%
Both are read by 10%
People who read X alone + People who read Y alone + People who read both X and Y = 30% +
40% + 10% = 80%
This means the balance 20% don't read either of the newspapers.
Question 27
In a metropolitan city 25% neither watch TV news nor read newspaper, 35% read a newspaper
and 20% read a newspaper and watch the news on television also. What percent of people watch
Television?
a)55% b) 60% c) 50% d) 40%
Answer : b) 60%.
Reason :

Let X% of people watch television.
People who read Newspaper 35%
People who watch TV as well as read newspaper 20%
From Venn diagram, we can infer that people who watch Television alone = (X-20)%
People who read Newspaper alone = 35% - 20% = 15%
People who neither watch TV nor newspaper is given as 25%. This means, people who watch
either TV or Newspaper or Both = 100 - 25 = 75%
Also this 75% will be equal to People who watch TV alone + People who read Newspaper alone
+ People who watch TV and read Newspaper
Or 75% = (X-20)% + 15% + 20%
Or X = 60%

Question 28
Out of the total of 200 musicians in Rehman Music club, 10% can play all the three instruments-
guitar, violin and flute. The number of musicians who can play any two and only two of the
above instruments is 70. The number of musicians who can play the guitar alone is 80. What is
the total number of those who can play violin alone or flute alone?
a) 20 b) 30 c) 40 d) 50
Answer : b) 30
Reason :

Number of people who can play all the three instruments = 10% of 200 = (10/100)200 = 20
(people in pink colored area)
Musicians who can play any two and only two of the three instruments - 70 (Sum of people in
grey colored areas)
Number of musicians who can play Guitar alone = 80
Number of musicians who can play violin alone or flute alone = Sum of people in blue areas =
200 -170 = 30

Question 29
In a college of arts and science 96 students are seated in rows and columns in such a way that the
number of students in each row is 50 % more than the number of students in each column. How
many students are there in each row?
a) 7 b) 9 c) 12 d) 11
Answer : c) 12
Reason :
(These kinds of questions can be answered in two ways. Either by applying pure mathematical
calculations or by applying pure logic considering the options given. But logical answering may
not yield correct answers all the time as some questions may require mathematical solving for
accurate answers when options are close to each other.)
In each row there are 50 % more students than that of the columns. This means the number of
students in each row should be divisible by 2 (Because 50 % of any number can be found by
dividing it by 2.)
Of the given choices c) alone satisfies this condition (As simple as that!)
Question 30
A secondary school student scored 31 marks in Science, 39 marks in mathematics, 28 marks in
Hindi, 26 marks in Social studies and 36 marks in English. The maximum marks a student can
score in each subject is 80. How much percentage did the student get in this examination?
a ) 30% b) 50% c) 40% d) 44%
Answer : c). 40%
Reason :
Student's total marks in all the subjects = 160. This is in five subjects.
Each subject carries 80 marks . Total maximum marks = 400
Hence, his percentage in the examination = (Student's total marks in all the subjects / Total
maximum marks) X 100
160/400 x 100 = 40%

Question 31
In a class of certain number of students, Kamals rank is tenth from the top. Ram is seven ranks
below Kamal. Also Ram ranks 30th from bottom. What is the strength of the class.
a)47 b)57 c)28 d)46
Answer : a). 47
Reason :
Kamal is tenth rank from the top. Ram is seven ranks below Kamal. This means he is 17th rank
from the top.
Let the number of students be x.
Ram's rank from bottom = Strength - Ram's Rank from top
Or 30 = x - 17
Or x = 47
Hence, strength of the class = 47.
Question 32
In a class of 50 students 26% students play only cricket, 18% students play only badminton, 10%
students play only football. 20% students play only badminton and cricket, 12% students play
only cricket and football and 8% students play only football and badminton, 6% students play all
the three games. Totally how many students play cricket?
a)32 b) 24 c) 14 d)12
Answer : a)32
Reason :
Below Venn diagram represents percentage of students playing Cricket, Badminton and Football

You will find cricket is played by
26% + 20% + 6% + 12% = 64%
64% of 50 = 50 x 64/100 = 32.
Question 33
Consider three people A,B and C. Let A and B can finish a job in 21 days, B and C in 14 days
and A and C in 28 days. Who will take the least time when working independently ?
Options : 1) A 2) B 3) C 4) Can't be determined
Answer 1
Correct answer is B
Consider WA, WB and WC be the work done per day by A,B and C respectively. Then
WA + WB = 1/21 -- eq 1
WB + WC = 1/14 -- eq 2
WA + WC = 1/28 -- eq 3
Eq 2 - Eq 3 will give
WB - WA = 1/14 - 1/28 = 1/28 -- eq 4
Eq 1 + Eq 4 will give
2WB = 1/21 + 1/28 = 7/84
WB = 7/168
Sub value of WB in eq 1, we get
WA = 1/21 - 7/168 = 1/168.
Sub value of WA in eq 3, we get
wc = 1/28 - WA = 1/28 - 1/168 = 5/168
Since WB (work done by B per day) is greater when compared to WA and WB clearly B will be
able to the maximum work on any given day and hence he should consume least amount of time
when working independently.
Question 34
Consider two postmen A and B respectively. A is young and can deliver 20 parcels in 3 hours
while B is older than A and can deliver only 15 parcels in 4 hours. If the total number of parcels
to deliver is 60, how long they will take working together.
a. 121/12 hours b. 144/36 hours c. 144/25 hours d. 121/25 hours
Answer 2
Correct ans is option c. 144/25 hours.
A can deliver 20 parcels in 3 hours. Hence for 1 hour he can deliver 20/3 parcels.
B can deliver 15 parcel in 4 hours. Hence for 1 hour B needs 15/4 parcels.
When A and B work together, for 1 hour they can deliver, 20/3 + 15/4 parcles = 80 + 45 /12 =
125/12 parcels.
Hence to deliver 60 parcels they would require : 60 X 12/125 = 720/125 = 144/25 hours
Question 35
Consider a courier company A which can deliver 100 parcels in 5 days with 5 men working for 8
hours a day. Consider another courier company B where every employee is equally effecient as
that of company B. Company B is short of one man when compared to A and has a policy of
asking its workers to work only for 6 hours a day. How long (in days) company B will take to
deliver 100 parcels.
Options : a. 8.3 b. 24 c. 12 d 6.6
Answer
Correct answer is a. 8.3 days
Total amount of work W = N x D X W
where N = number of men, D = number of days, W = amount of work per day
Applying the above formula for company A we get,
Work done by company A to deliver 100 parcels = 5 X 5 X 8 = 200 -- eq 1
Work done by company B to deliver 100 parcels = 4 X D x 6 = 24D -- eq 2
Since the work to be done is same in both the cases, eq 1 = eq2
or 200 = 24D or D = 8.3
Question 36
In software applications, especially in JAVA based applications, how design patterns help after a
problem/requirement is identified ?
Answer 1
Design pattern can be treated as a way or template to solve a problem depending upon the nature
of the problem/requirement. Though they themselves cannot solve a problem, they provide
greater insights into the best possible ways to solve them.
Question 37
Say two programs essentially dealing with solving same problem through similar algorithms. Let
A be written using pointers and B be written using arrays. Which one will be memory efficient
and which will be more readable.
Answer 2
A will be more memory efficient than B and B will be more readable than A. Reason : generally
pointers are more memory efficient when used by an experienced programmer. And arrays are
generally easily readable and can be easily understood by even beginner level programmer.
Question 38
What is the integrity constraint in SQL which when used ensures that values in a column of a
table have a corresponding member on another column of another table.
Answer 3
Question 39
Tell one good programming requirement that illustrates the fact that C is a strongly typed
language ?
Answer 1
C involves variable declarations before their usage. This makes it clear that C is strongly typed.
Question 40
Consider a weather report application in C where any change in temperature by +- 2 degrees will
be constantly reported to the system and the application should store the times of the day when
these changes took place. Which is a better data structure to be used in this scenario - an array or
a linked list ?
Answer 2
Linked List would handle dynamically growing data very well when compared to arrays. Hence
it would be a better choice.
Question 41
Can one use arrays to implement stacks or queues over linked lists ? Is it feasible ?
Answer 3
Thought linked lists are commonly used for implementing stacks or queues, with good
programming logic, arrays can also be used to implement those. However, as you would expect,
linked lists are far more efficient in this scenario.
Question 42
1) Unnikrishnan is a famous singer from South India. One should never miss to hear his
mellifluous melodies. Question : Pick an appropriate synonym for mellifluous.
a) Sad b) Nostalgic c) Pleasant d) Priceless
Answer: Based on the choices, the appropriate synonym would be c) Pleasant.
Question 43
2) One should know when to be evasive. It is the way the prudent overcome difficulties due to
overwork. Question : Pick an appropriate synonym for evasive.
a) leave the place b) avoid commitment c) struggle d) fight
Answer: Evasive means to avoid commitment so that one would not be held responsible for an
incomplete work. Hence correct answer is b) avoid commitment .
Question 44
3) John alluded in a way that he did not like Annie's friendship. Question : Pick an appropriate
synonym for allude.
a) Argued b) Refer Indirectly c) Fought d) Shouted
Answer: Correct synonym for allude from the options is "Refer Indirectly".
Question 45
A bacteria doubles itself each single day. It totally takes 15 days for the bacteria to fill a test
tube. Find an approximate number of days for the bacteria to fill 1/3 of the jar.
Answer:
Though the question looks like a tough one, it is actually a simple question. If it takes 15 days for
the bacteria to fill the entire test tube, on 14th day it would had filled half of the tube, on 13th
day it would had filled a quarter of the tube and so on. Now 1/3th comes somewhere in middle
between quarter and half filling of the tube. Hence the bacteria would need somewhere between
13 to 14 days to fill 1/3th of the jar.
Question 46
Pick the odd man out from the following : a) elation b) frenzy c) enthusiasm d) despair
Answer:
"despair" would be the obvious answer. All the other options are synonyms with ecstasy while
despair is a clear antonym of ecstasy.You should have reasonably good vocabulary to tackle any
placement question of this kind.
Question 47
Ram travels by car from city A to city B heading towards north in 4 hours. From there he travels
west to City C in 3 hours. Say his average speed is same during both the courses. Now from C he
travels back to A in shortest path possible. How much time he would had taken to reach A from
C.
Answer:
Again this is a very simple question which appears difficult. The entire course of Ram takes the
form of a right angled triangle. Hence the time taken for him to travel back to A would be
sqrt(3^2 + 4^2) = sqrt(25) = 5 hours.
Questions 48
Below are few sample questions compiled on the basis of latest recruitment papers of the
company. These are technical questions and have been solved for you. You can expect questions
of similar nature in the placement tests.
Expansion of CDMA ?
a) Code Division Multiple Access
b) Cell Data Multiple Access
c) Code Data Multiple Access
d) None of the above.
Solution:
The above aptitude question is from communication systems. However this question is a basic
one which
everyone should remember. The answer is a)Code Division Multiple Access. You could expect
similar
questions like expansion of GSM, GPS etc in wipro placement papers.
Which of the following layers are not in TCP / IP?
a) Application Layer
b) Network Layer
c) Bridging Layer
d) Data Link Layer
Solution:
Answer is c) Bridging Layer. You can always expect one or two questions from computer
networks in
Wipro papers.
What will printf(++i) in C will do?
a) Print i and then increment i by 1
b) Increment i by 1 and then print i
c) Print i and then increment i by i
d) Increment i by i and then print i
Solution:
This is one common question which you can expect in Wipro Papers. These kinds of questions
dealing with
basics of C statements are common in other company placemente papers as well. This includes
TCS,
Accenture, HCL, HP etc.
What is the function of assembler?
a) Converts assembly to binary code
b) Converts high level language code into assembly code
c) Interprets and executes assembly code
d) Noe of the above
Answer a) Assembly to binary code
Questions 49
1) My friend collects antique stamps. She purchased two, but found that she needed to raise
money urgently. So she sold them for Rs. 8000 each. On one she made 20% and on the other she
lost 20%. How much did she gain or lose in the entire transaction?
Answer
She lost Rs 666.67

2) 12 members were present at a board meeting. Each member shook hands with all of the other
members before & after the meeting.How many hand shakes were there?
Answer
132

3) An emergency vehicle travels 10 miles at a speed of 50 miles per hour.How fast must the
vehicle travel on the return trip if the round-trip travel time is to be 20 minutes?
Answer
75 miles per hour

4) All of the students at a college are majoring in psychology, business, or both. 73% of the
students are psychology majors, & 62% are business majors. If there are 200 students, how many
of them are majoring in both psychology & business?

Answer
70 students are majoring in both, psychology & business
Questions 50
1) Grass in lawn grows equally thickand in a uniform rate. It akes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 for
30 cows . How many cows can eat away the same in 96 days.?
Ans : 18 or 19
2) There is a certain four digit number whose fourth digit is twise the first digit.Third digit is
three more than second digit.Sum of the first and fourth digits twise the third number.What was
that number ?
Ans : 2034 and 4368
3) A theif steals half the total no of loaves of bread plus 1/2 loaf from a backery. A second theif
steals half the remaing no of loaves plus 1/2 loaf and so on. After the 5th theif has
stolen there are no more loaves left in the backery. What was the total no of loaves did the
backery have at the biggining?
Ans: 31
4) A person needs 6 steps to cover a distance of one slab. if he increases his foot length(step
length) by 3 inches he needs only 5 steps to cover the slabs length. what is the length
of the each slab?
Ans : 31 inches
1) There is one lily in the pond on 1st june. There are two in the pond on 2nd june . There are
four on 3rd june and so on. The pond is full with lilies by the end of the june. i)On which date the
pond is half full.ans. 29th. --the june has 30 days) (ii)if we start with 2 lilies on 1st june when
will be the pond be full with lilies?
Ans: 29th june
2) A lorry starts from Banglore to Mysore at 6.00 A.M,7.00am.8.00 am.....10 pm. Similarly one
another starts from Mysore to Banglore at 6.00 am,7.00 am, 8.00 am.....10.00pm. A lorry takes 9
hours to travel from Banglore to Mysore and vice versa.
(i) A lorry which has started at 6.00 am will cross how many lorries.
(ii)A lorry which had started at 6.00pm will cross how many lorries.
Ans:
(i)10 lorries
(ii)14 lorries

3) There is an element which triplicates in every hour. Each of these 3 items inturn reproduce
exactly 3 other items. If a single compund is kept in a container at noon and the container is full
by midnight. After how many hours is the container 1/3 full?
Ans:11:00pm
4) A person goes to a bank and Quotes x Rs and y paise on a cheque. The cashier misreads it and
gives y Rs and x paise. The man comes out and donates 5 paise to a begger. Now, the man has
exactly double the amount he has quoted on the cheque.
Ans: 31 Rs. and 63 paise.
Questions 51
1) A 2 mb PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) has
a)32 voice channels
b)30 voice channels & 1 signalling channel
c)31 voice chanels & 1 signalling channel
d)32 channels out of which 30 voice channels, 1 signalling channel and 1 syncronization
channel.
Answer is :31 voice chanels & 1 signalling channel
2) Word alignment is
a)alligning the address to the next word boundary of the machine
b)alligning to even boundary
c)alligning to word boundary
d)none of the above

The correct answer is : alligning the address to the next word boundary of the machine
3) To send a packet data using datagram, connection will be established..
a)before data transmission
b)connection is not establshed before data transmission
c)no connection required
d)none of the above
The correct answer is : no connection required
4) The status of the kernel is?
a)task
b)process
c)not defined
d)none of the above
The correct asnwer is : Process
Questions 52
1) Explain the use of the WHERE clause.
Answer: I t directs SQL to extract data from rows where the value of the column is the same as
the current value of the WHERE clause variable.
2) What technique is used to retrieve data from more than one table in a single SQL statement?
Answer:The J oin statement combines data from more that two tables
3) What is a foreign key?
Answer: I t identifies a related row in another table and establishes a logical relationship
between rows in two tables.
4) What are the reasons for adding an index to a table ?
Answer: To increase lookup performance. For a unique key to guarantee the uniqueness of
the values for a column on a table.
Questions 53
1) What is PL/SQL ?

Answer: A programming language available in Oracle. I t is a way of wrapping SQL with 3GL
constructs such as IF..THEN..ELSE, WHI LE etc.
2) What is locking and what is it used for ?
Answer: Locking is a mechanism to restrict access to data. I t prevents one user updating data
whilst another user is looking at it.
3) What types of locking are available with Oracle?
Answer: Row locking and table locking.

4) What happens if a tablespace clause is left off of a primary key constraint clause?
Answer: This results in the index that is automatically generated being placed in the users
default tablespace. Since this will usually be the same tablespace as the table is being created
in, this can cause serious performance problems.
Questions 54
1) A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days, when given at a rate of 850 grams per
head. At the end of 7 days a reinforcement
arrives and it was found that now the provisions will last 8 days less, when given at the rate of
825 grams per head.How, many more men
can it feed?
Ans. 1700 men.
2) From 5 different green balls, four different blue balls and three different red balls, how many
combinations of balls can be chosen
taking at least one green and one blue ball?
Ans. 3720.

3) Three pipes, A, B, & C are attached to a tank. A & B can fill it in 20 & 30 minutes
respectively while C can empty it in 15 minutes.
If A, B & C are kept open successively for 1 minute each, how soon will the tank be filled?
Ans. 167 minutes.
4) A person walking 5/6 of his usual rate is 40 minutes late. What is his usual time?
Ans. 3 hours 20 minutes.
Question 55
The students of Vidya Mandir Secondary school, Jalpaiguri went for an excursion. It was seen
that a boat travels at 14.5 km per hour when it goes along with the stream. By the time he starts
returning the speed of the river doubled than its original value due to a sudden storm. The speed
of the boat is 7 km per hour when it goes against the river stream. What is the speed of boat per
hour?
a) 10 km b) 8 km c) 12 km d) 7 km
Answer : c) 12 km
Solution :
Let the speed of the boat be B and the speed of stream be S.
Equation for travel along with Stream : B + S = 14.5 ----> eq 1
During the travel against the stream, the speed of the stream temporarily doubled.
Therefore, Equation for travel against the stream = B - 2S = 7 ----> eq 2 (NOTE: We are using
2S instead of S in the equation as speed of the stream has temporarily doubled when he travelled
against the stream)
eq 1 - eq 2 => 3S = 7.5
or S = 2.5 kph
Substitute S = 2.5 in eq 1
B = 14.5 - 2.5 = 12
Question 56
A boat man was driving a boat during a cyclonic storm during which time the speed of the river
was considerably high than normal times. He found that the boat travelled 222 km in three hours
when he was driving along with the river. But when he drove the boat against the river the boat
travelled 100 km in two hours. What is the speed of the river per hour during cyclonic storm?
a) 10 km b) 12 km c) 8 km d) 9 km
Answer : b) 12 km
Solution :
Let the speed of the boat be B and the speed of the river be S.
B + S = 222/3 ----> eq 1
B - S = 100/2 ----> eq 2
Adding equations 1 and 2 we get : 2B = 300 + 444 / 6
2B = 744/6
2B = 124
B = 62
Substituting B = 62 in eq 2 we get,
S = B - 100/2 = 62 - 50 = 12
Question 57
Maruti Cruisers sailed 132 km along with the river in six hours. Suddenly the boat had to return
to the starting point and it started returning against the river and this time the Cruiser travelled at
128 km in eight hours. By how much percentage Cruiser's speed exceeds the speed of the River ?
a) 533.33% b) 444.44% c) 267.67% d) none of these.
Answer : a) 533.33%
Solution :
Speed of boat along with the river per hour = 22 km (132 divided by 6)
Speed of boat against the river per hour = 16 km (128 divided by 8)
B + S = 22 ----> eq 1
B S = 16 ----> eq 2
Adding equations 1 and 2, we get : B+S-B+S = 22 -16 = 6 =2S
S = 3 km/hour
Substituting S= 3, in eq 1 we get : B + 3 = 22
B = 22 - 3 = 19 km /hour
Cruiser's speed exceeds the speed of the River By : Cruiser's Speed - River Speed / River Speed
x 100 = B - S / S X 100% = 19 - 3/ 3 X 100 = 16/3 X 100 = 533.33%
Question 58
1) The minute hand of a clock overtakes the hour hand at intervals of 64 minutes of correct time.
How much a day does the clock gain or lose?
Ans. 32 8/11 minutes.
2) Solve for x and y: 1/x - 1/y = 1/3, 1/x2 + 1/y2 = 5/9.
Ans. x =3/2 or -3 and y =3 or -3/2.
3) Daal is now being sold at Rs. 20 a kg. During last month its rate was Rs. 16 per kg. By how
much percent should a family reduce its
consumption so as to keep the expenditure fixed?
Ans. 20 %.
4) Find the least value of 3x + 4y if x2y3 = 6.
Ans. 10.
Question 59
1) What is an appropriate synonym for Bifid ?
a) Divided
b) Divided in two
c) Timid
Answer is Divided
2) Find the antonym for gaurish .
a) Cheap
b) Flashy
c) Costly
Answer is Cheap
3) Choose an appropriate antonym for the word deliberate.
a) Unintended
b) Targeted
c) Focussed
Answer is Unintended
4) Which of the following is an appropriate synonym for the word Debauch ?
a) Demoralize
b) Encourage
c) Cultivate
Answer is Demoralize
Question 60
1)Find the sum of the first 14 terms for a sequence starting with 2, ending with 120 and common
difference 2
a)845
b)854
c)800
Answer is 854
2) Find the 10th element in the series 5,15,35,45.....
a)85
b)95
c)Cannot be determined

Answer is Cannot be determined
3) Find the difference between last and last but one term in the Sequence 1, 9, 17, 25 which
has 40 terms in total
a)8
b)16
c)24
Answer is 8
4) Find the 7th term in the series 4,8,16
a)512
b)256
c)64
Answer is 256
Question 61
Here are some worked sample questions from WIPRO Placement Papers
1) In 8085 microprocessor READY signal does.which of the following is incorrect statements
[a] It is input to the microprocessor
[b] It sequences the instructions

Answer: I t sequences the instructions
2) int zap(int n)
{
if(n<=1)then zap=1;
else zap=zap(n-3)+zap(n-1);
}
then the call zap(6) gives the values of zap

[a] 8
[b] 9
[c] 6
[d] 12
[e] 15

Answer : 9
3) Virtual memory size depends on
[a] address lines
[b] data bus
[c] disc space
[d] a & c
[e] none

Answer :8
4) load a
mul a
store t1
load b
mul b
store t2
mul t2
add t1
then the content in accumulator is

Answer : a**2+b**4
Question 62
1) A 12 address lines maps to the memory of
[a] 1k bytes
[b] 0.5k bytes
[c] 2k bytes
[d] none

Answer : 0.5k bytes
2) In a processor these are 120 instructions . Bits needed to impliment this instructions
[a] 6
[b] 7
[c] 10
[d] none
Answer :7
3) In a compiler there is 36 bit for a word and to store a character 8bits are needed. IN this to
store a character two words are appended .Then for storing a K characters string,
How many words are needed.
[a] 2k/9
[b] (2k+8)/9
[c] (k+8)/9
[d] 2*(k+8)/9
[e] none
Answer :2k/9
4) n=7623
{
temp=n/10;
result=temp*10+ result;
n=n/10
}

Answer : 3267
Question 63
Wipro Placement Papers will carry three to four questions from computer networks and other
basic computer science concepts. The sample placement questions list contains five questions
from computer networks.
1) A device can operate without Application layer in a network. State True or False.
True. Routing devices like bridges need not necessarily have application layer.
2) OSI stands for
Open Systems Interconnection
Open Systems Integration
Open Servers Interconnection
Correct Answer: Open Systems Interconnection
3) Find the odd man out
HTTP, FTP, MPEG, SNMP
Correct Answer: MPEG - This is a file format and not a Protocol like other options.
4) Amount of work a computer can do in a given period is called
a)Throughput b)Job c)Process d)None of the above
Correct Answer Throughput
5) Which of the following addresses is always unique and unchanged for a machine
a)IP Address, b)MAC Address, c)Both of the above
Answer MAC Address

Wipro Placement Papers give importance to concepts from Computer Science like OS,
Databases, File Systems etc.
Below you can find four technical sample questions from OS concepts. Correct answer is shown
in bold
I) What is a running program under execution called?
a) Task b) Job c) Process d) Any of the above
II) CPU Scheduling is a function of OS under
a) Process Management b) Memory Management c) I/O Management d) None of the above
III) Background running processes are typically called
a) Daemons b) Tasks c) Processes d) None of the above
IV) The process in which OS saves all data associated with current process and switches over to
the next is
called

a) Process Switching b) Task Switching c) Context Switching
Question 64
1) Find the 10th element in the series 5,15,35,45.....
Choices : a) 95 b) 85 c) Cannot be determined
Correct Answer: c) Cannot be determined
Reason: The given sequence is not in arithmetic progression. The difference between third and
second elements is 20 whereas between second and first element is 10.
Hence correct answer is "Cannot be determined"
2) Find the odd man out
Choices : a)3,6,9,12 b)2,4,8,16 c)12,24,36,48 d)10,13,16,19
Correct Answer: b) 2,4,8,16
Reason: The second sequence 2,4,8,16 is in geometric progression and not in arithmetic
progression.
Hence the answer is 2,4,6,8
3)Find the sum of the first 14 terms for a sequence starting with 2, ending with 120 and
common difference 2
Choices : a)845 b)854 c)800
Correct Answer: b)854
Reason: By applying the formula Sum to n no of terms = Sn = n/2(a + l) where a is the first
number and l is the last number of the series, we can get the answer 854.
4) Find the difference between last and last but one term in the Sequence 1, 9, 17, 25
which has 40 terms in total
Choices: a)8 b)16 c)24
Correct Answer: a)8
Reason: Since the sequence is in an arithmetic progression the difference between any two
successive terms is always the same as the difference between any other two successive terms.
Hence correct answer is 8.
5) Find the 7th term in the series 4,8,16
Choices: a)512 b)256 c)64
Correct Answer: b)256
Reason: n th term of a geometric progression can be found by using the formula Tn = ar
n-1
. In
the given series a = 4, r = 2 and n = 2. Hence T7 = 4 X 26 = 256
The correct answer is 256
6) Find the sum of the first 5 terms in 3,9,27
Choices: a)363 b)121 c)242
Correct Answer: a)363
Reason: Sum to n no of terms in a geometric progression is S
n
= a(1 - r
n
)/(1-r) . Applyting a =
3, n = 5 and r = 3 we get S
5
= 3(1 - 3
5
)/(1 - 3) = 363. Hence the correct answer is 363.
7) Find the odd man out
3,9,27
2,4,8
10,20,40
1,1//2,1/4
Choices: a)3,9,27 b) 2,4,8 c)10,20,40 d)1,1//2,1/4
Correct Answer: d)1,1/2,1/4
Reason: All the four sequences are in geometric progression.However the last series 1,1//2,1/4 is
an infinite series.This is because the common ratio for this series, which is 1/2 is lesser than 1.
Hence the correct answer is 1,1//2,1/4
Question 65
A tourist from USA wanted to experiment different types of travel. He travelled 1/4 of the
distance by car. He travelled by train 50% of the balance left. From out of the present balance
1/4
th
was covered by him in his motor cycle. Thereafter he covered the balance of 108 km by
boat. What is the total distance travelled by him?
a) 468 km b) 728 km c) 546 km d) 384 km
Answer : d) 384 km
Solution :
1/4
th
distance covered by car.
Out of the balance i.e. 3/4
th
distance , 50% was covered by train.
i.e. 3/8
th
of distance was covered by train.
Balance left was 3/8. Out of this 1/4
th
of distance was covered by motor cycle.
Distance covered by motorcycle = 3/8 x 1/4
th
of distance = 3/32
th
of distance.
Remaining Distance left out for boat = 3/8 - 3/32 = 9/32 = 9/32
th
of distance
This portion 9/32 was covered by him in boat which is given as 108 km
Let total distance be D. Then 9/32 x D = 108. Or D = 384 km.

Question 66
A tourist company arranged 3/7
th
of total travel by train. Of the balance half the distance was
covered by Volvo luxury bus. The balance distance of 70 km was covered by call taxi. What is
the total distance of travel arranged by the tourist company?
a) 145 km b) 245 km c) 345 km d) 445 km
Answer : b) 245 km
Solution :
3/7
th
of distance covered by train , Balance - 4/7
th
of distance
Out of 4/7
th
balance , 1/2
th
of distance was covered by luxury bus.
i.e.4/14
th
of distance was covered by luxury bus. Balance left = 4/14 = 2/7 th of distance
This 2/7
th
of distance is covered by call taxi i.e. 70 km
Let total distance be D. Then 2/7 x D = 245. Or D = 245 km
Question 67
An enterprising traveller covered 22% of the total distance by race car. Out of the balance he
covered 50% by train. Now with the remaining balance he covered half of it by motor cycle and
the balance of 156 km by cycle. What is the total distance travelled by him?
A) 600 km b) 900 km c) 700 km d) 800 km
Answer : d) 800 km
Solution :
By race car he travelled 22% of total distance
Balance distance to cover is 78% and out of this 1/2 that is 39% is covered by train.
In the remaining 50% i.e. 39% , he had covered half by motor cycle i.e. 19.5% of the distance.
Distance covered by cycle is 156 km which is the remaining 19.5% of the distance.
Hence 19.5% covers 156 km , then for 100% i.e. 15600 / 19.5 = 800
The total distance travelled will be 800 km
Question 68
1) At University of Probability, there are 375 freshmen, 293 sophomores, 187 juniors, &
126 seniors. One student will randomly be chosen to receive an award.
What percent chance is there that it will be a junior? Round to the nearest whole percent.
2) Answer
19%

Question 69
1) A man can row 5 kmph in still water. If the river is running at 1kmph, it takes him 75 minutes
to row to a place and back. How far is the place?
(i) 3km
(ii) 2.5 km
(iii) 4 km
(iv) 5 km

Solution:
Question 70
1) The average weight of a class of 30 students is 40 kgs. If the teacher's weight is included then
average increases by 2 kgs. Find the weight of the teacher?
a) 102
b) 100
c) 98
Answer is 102
Question 71
1) Find the average height of five students with heights 142,147,153,165,157 in cms?
a) 152
b) 152.2
c) 152.4
d) 152.8

Answer is 152.8
Question 72
1) Semaphore used to?
a)Avoid deadlocks
b)Communicate messages
c)Synchronice the access to shared resources
d)none of the above
Answer is Synchronice the access to shared resources
2) The number of address lines required to address 1MB memory are?
a)10
b)24
c)16
Question 73
1) Piggy backing is a technique for ?
a)Flow control
b)Sequence
c)Acknowledgement
d)Retransmission
Answer is Acknowledgement
2) Virtual address are translated to physical address by?
a)The process
b)The MMU
c)The operating system
Question 75

1) A millionaire bought a job lot of hats 1/4 of which were brown. The millionaire sold 2/3 of the
hats including 4/5 of the brown hats. What fraction of the unsold hats were brown.

a)1/60
b)1/15
c)3/20
d)3/5
e)3/4

Answer is 3/20

2) 10 in 4 seconds, ? in 6 minutes

a)800
b)900
c)650

Answer is 900

3) Mohan earned twice as much as Deep.Yogesh earned rs.3/- more than half as much as deep. If
the amounts earned by Mohan,Deep,Yogesh are M,D,Y respectively, Which of the following is
the correct ordering of these amounts?

a)M< D < Y
b)M< Y < D
c)D < M < Y
d)It cann't be determined from the information given
e)D < Y < M

Answer is M< D < Y

4) At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets.
If 5 tickets are purchased at the sale, the amount saved will be
What percent of the original price of the 5 tickets?

a)20%
b)33.3%
c)40%
d)60%
e)66.6%

Answer is 40%
Question 75
1)Next number in the series 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 ?
a) 1/25
b) 1/16
c) 1/36
Answer is 1/16
2) In 6 seconds a light flashes once. In one hour how many times it will flash?
a) 569 times
b) 601 times
c) 499 times
Answer is 601 times
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Question 76
Dhanush Kumar Raja came across a jar containing pure milk in full. He removed 9 litres
of milk and refilled with water. This action is performed three more times. The ratio of
left out milk after operations to the original quantity of milk that was present is 16:81.
How much milk did the jar contained initially?

a) 24 b) 81 c) 108 d) 27

Answer : d) 27 litres.
Solution :
Formula To Remember :
In problems on mixtures, you often would use the below formula.
Consider a vessel containing x litres of liquid from which
y litres are replaced by water. After n such
operations / replacements the quantity of liquid would be x (1 y/x)
n
litres.
Let the quantity of milk originally that was present in the jar be x litres.
Then, quantity of milk left in the jar after four operations = [ x ( 1 - 9/x)4] litres
Ratio of left out milk after operations to the original quantity of milk = [ x ( 1 - 9/x)
4
] / x
litres = [1 - 9/x]
4
litres.
But the above ratio is given to be 16/81. Therefore,
[1 - 9/x]
4
= 16/81 = [2/3]
4

(x - 9)/x = 2/3
x = 27 litres
Question 77
Saravana Kumar Drinks shop has a jar filled with wine fully. In order to satisfy the
customers the following procedure was adopted. 12 litres of wine is removed from the
jar and filled with water. This process is repeated two more times. The ratio of left out
wine after operations to the original quantity of wine present is 27/64. How much wine
was there in the jar originally?
a) 48 b) 27 c) 81 d) 40
Answer : a) 48 litres
Solution :
Let the quantity of wine in the jar initially be x litres.
Then, quantity of wine left in the jar after three operations = [ x ( 1 - 12/x)
3
] litres
Ratio of left out wine after operations to the original quantity of wine = [ x ( 1 - 12/x)
3
] / x
litres = [1 - 12/x]
3
litres.
[1 - 12/x]
3
= 27/64 = [3/4]
3

(x - 12)/x = 3/4
x = 48 litres
Question 78
Bhairavi Hoteliers has a vessel filled with liquid, 4 parts of which is filled with water and
5 parts filled with milk. How much of the mixture must be drawn out and filled with water
so that the mixture may contain half milk and half water?
a) 1/9 b) 1/10 c) 3/10 d) 2/9
Answer : b) 1/10
Solution :
Note : It is given that, initially, the liquid had 4 parts of water and 5 parts of milk. Adding
gives 9 parts. For such problems, assuming the initial quantity to be multiple of sum of
the parts of the two liquids will make the calculations much easier. In this case, let us
assume the initial composite liquid (milk + water) quantity be 9 litres. ( One can also
assume this to be 18,27,36 litres etc as each of these are multiples of 9)
Suppose the vessel initially contained 9 litres of liquid. Therefore, there would be 4 litres
of water and 5 litres of milk as per the question.
Let x be the litres of liquid replaced with water.
When x litres of composite liquid is removed, 4x/9 liters of water would had got removed
and 5x/9 litres of milk would had got removed. (as the original ratio is given to be 4/5)
Initial quantity of water in liquid = 4
Quantity of water removed = 4x / 9
Quantity of water in new mixture = [ 4 - 4x/9 + x]
Note : we are adding x to the quantity of water in new mixture because
the entire new replacement (x) is completely water as well.
Initial quantity of milk in liquid = 5
Quantity of milk removed = 5x/9
Quantity of milk in new mixture = [ 5 - 5x/9]
Note : Here we are not adding x as entire replacement x is water and not milk.
But it is given that quantity of milk in new mixture is same as that of water.
Therefore, [ 4 - 4x/9 + x] = [ 5 - 5x /9]
36 - 4x + 9x = 45 m - 5x
36 + 5x = 45 - 5x
10x = 9
x = 9/10.
Ratio of liquid that was removed = removed mixture volume / original mixture volume =
(9/10) / 9 = 1/10
Question 79
A tourist from USA wanted to experiment different types of travel. He travelled 1/4 of the
distance by car. He travelled by train 50% of the balance left. From out of the present
balance 1/4
th
was covered by him in his motor cycle. Thereafter he covered the balance
of 108 km by boat. What is the total distance travelled by him?
a) 468 km b) 728 km c) 546 km d) 384 km
Answer : d) 384 km
Solution :
1/4
th
distance covered by car.
Out of the balance i.e. 3/4
th
distance , 50% was covered by train.
i.e. 3/8
th
of distance was covered by train.
Balance left was 3/8. Out of this 1/4
th
of distance was covered by motor cycle.
Distance covered by motorcycle = 3/8 x 1/4
th
of distance = 3/32
th
of distance.
Remaining Distance left out for boat = 3/8 - 3/32 = 9/32 = 9/32
th
of distance
This portion 9/32 was covered by him in boat which is given as 108 km
Let total distance be D. Then 9/32 x D = 108. Or D = 384 km.
Question 80
A tourist company arranged 3/7
th
of total travel by train. Of the balance half the distance
was covered by Volvo luxury bus. The balance distance of 70 km was covered by call
taxi. What is the total distance of travel arranged by the tourist company?
a) 145 km b) 245 km c) 345 km d) 445 km
Answer : b) 245 km
Solution :
3/7
th
of distance covered by train , Balance - 4/7
th
of distance
Out of 4/7
th
balance , 1/2
th
of distance was covered by luxury bus.
i.e.4/14
th
of distance was covered by luxury bus. Balance left = 4/14 = 2/7 th of distance
This 2/7
th
of distance is covered by call taxi i.e. 70 km
Let total distance be D. Then 2/7 x D = 245. Or D = 245 km
Question 81
An enterprising traveller covered 22% of the total distance by race car. Out of the
balance he covered 50% by train. Now with the remaining balance he covered half of it
by motor cycle and the balance of 156 km by cycle. What is the total distance travelled
by him?
A) 600 km b) 900 km c) 700 km d) 800 km
Answer : d) 800 km
Solution :
By race car he travelled 22% of total distance
Balance distance to cover is 78% and out of this 1/2 that is 39% is covered by train.
In the remaining 50% i.e. 39% , he had covered half by motor cycle i.e. 19.5% of the
distance.
Distance covered by cycle is 156 km which is the remaining 19.5% of the distance.
Hence 19.5% covers 156 km , then for 100% i.e. 15600 / 19.5 = 800
The total distance travelled will be 800 km
Question 82
What is the technical term used to denote the problem of a program failing to release
the consumed memory back to other programs ?
Answer 1
Memory Leakage is the technical term used to denote the problem in question.
Can you tell the primary difference between two static and dynamic testing methods ?
Answer 2
Static testing is basically a passive testing when program is not run. One may check
algorithm, program logic etc. Dynamic testing is done by executing the program for
different inputs.
Name any two implementations of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
Answer 3
Waterfall model and prototyping can be considered as few real time implementations of
SDLC
Question 83
1) The letters P, Q, R, S, T, U and V, not necessarily in that order represents seven
consecutive integers from 22 to 33.
U is as much less than Q as R is greater than S.
V is greater than U.
Q is the middle term.
P is 3 greater than S.
Can you find the sequence of letters from the lowest value to the highest value?

Answer
The sequence of letters from the lowest value to the highest value is TUSQRPV.

2) Because cigars cannot be entirely smoked, a Bobo who collects cigar butts can make
a cigar to smoke out of every 3 butts that he finds.Today, he has collected 27 cigar
butts. How many cigars will he be able to smoke?
Answer
13

3) A boy found that he had a 48 inch strip of paper. He could cut an inch off every
second.How long would it take for him to cut 48 pieces? He can not fold the strip and
also, can not
stack two or more strips and cut them together.
Answer
47 seconds.
Question 84
1) At University of Probability, there are 375 freshmen, 293 sophomores, 187 juniors, &
126 seniors. One student will randomly be chosen to receive an award.
What percent chance is there that it will be a junior? Round to the nearest whole
percent.
Answer
19%

2) If you were to dial any 7 digits on a telephone in random order, what is the probability
that you will dial your own phone number? Assume that your telephone number is 7-
digits.
Answer
1 in 10,000,000

3) An anthropologist discovers an isolated tribe whose written alphabet contains only six
letters (call the letters A, B, C, D, E and F). The tribe has a taboo against
using the same letter twice in the same word. It's never done.If each different sequence
of letters constitues a different word in the language, what is the maximum number of
six-letter words that the language can employ?
Answer
The language can employ maximum of 720 six-letter words.

4) Kate, Demi, Madona, Sharon, Britney and Nicole decided to lunch together in a
restaurant. The waiter led them to a round table with six chairs. How many different
ways can they seat?

Answer
There are 120 different possible seating arrangments.
Question
1) e(int n)
{
if(n>0)
{
(not clear)
printf("%d",n);
e(--n);
}
return
}
Ans:0,1,2,0
2) a=5,b=3,c=a,b
d=(a,b)
printf(c,d)

Ans:c=5,d=3
3) char s1[20]="hello world";
s1[5]="\0";
printf("%d",strlen(s1));
printf("%%.%...(not clear)",s1);
}
Ans:bad format specifier
4) func(int i)
{
static int count;
count=count+i;
}

Ans: 1+2+3...(counts values does not go after funtion call)

Question 85
1) Atomicity is _____

a)Either all actions are carried out or none are. Users should not have to worry about
the effect of incomplete transactions. DBMS ensures this by undoing the actions of
incomplete transactions.
b)A concept which is used to model a relationship between a collection of entities and
relationships. It is used when we need to express a relationship among relationships.
Asnwer is:
Either all actions are carried out or none are. Users should not have to worry
about the effect of incomplete transactions. DBMS ensures this by undoing the
actions of incomplete transactions.
2) The phase that identifies an efficient execution plan for evaluating a query that has
the
least estimated cost is referred to as___.
a) Query optimization
b) Query String
Answer is: Query optimization
3) Expansion of DDL is _____.
a) Data Description Language
b) Data Definition Language
c) Data Degree Language
Answer is: Data Definition Language
4) A collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships data semantics
and
constraints is called as_____.
a) Data base
b) Table
c) Data model
Answer is: Data model
Question 86
1) ______ is copying the three sets of files (database files, redo logs, and control file)
when the instance is shut down. This is a straight file copy, usually from the disk directly
to tape. You must shut down the instance to guarantee a consistent copy.
a) cold backup
b) hot backup
c) Armstrong Rules
Answer is cold backup
2) _______ is a program module, which ensures that database, remains in a
consistent state despite system failures and concurrent transaction execution proceeds
without conflicting.
a) Transaction manager
b) File manager
c) None of these
Answer is : Transaction manager
3) _______ is a program module that provides the interface between the low-level data
stored in database, application programs and queries submitted to the system.
a) Buffer manager
b) Storage manager
C) None of these
Answer is: Storage manager
4) A _____ with respect to DBMS relates to user commands that are used to interact
with a data base.
a) Connection string b) Query String
c) Query
answer is: Query

Question 87
1) #include<stdio.h>
main()
{
struct xx
{
int x=3;
char name[]="hello";
};
struct xx *s=malloc(sizeof(struct xx));
printf("%d",s->x);
printf("%s",s->name);
}
Answer:
Compiler Error
Explanation:
Initialization should not be done for structure members inside the structure declaration
2) main()
{
int *j;
{
int i=10;
j=&i;
}
printf("%d",*j);
}

Answer:
10
Explanation:
The variable i is a block level variable and the visibility is inside that block only.
But the lifetime of i is lifetime of the function so it lives upto the exit of main
function. Since the i is still allocated space, *j prints the value stored in i since j
points i.
3) int i,j;
for(i=0;i<=10;i++)
{
j+=5;
assert(i<5);
}
Answer:
Runtime error: Abnormal program termination. assert failed (i<5), ,
Explanation:
asserts are used during debugging to make sure that certain conditions are satisfied. If
assertion fails, the program will terminate reporting the same. After debugging use,
#undef NDEBUG and this will disable all the assertions from the source code. Assertion
is a good debugging tool to make use of..
4) main()
{
int i;
printf("%d",scanf("%d",&i)); // value 10 is given as input here
}
Answer:
1
Explanation:
Scanf returns number of items successfully read and not 1/0. Here 10
is given as input which should have been scanned successfully. So
number of items read is 1.
Question 89
1) main()
{
static char names[5][20]={"pascal","ada","cobol","fortran","perl"};
int i;
char *t;
t=names[3];
names[3]=names[4];
names[4]=t;
for (i=0;i<=4;i++)
printf("%s",names[i]);
}
Answer:
Compiler error: Lvalue required in function main
Explanation:
Array names are pointer constants. So it cannot be modified.
2) main( )
{
void *vp;
char ch = g, *cp = goofy;
int j = 20;
vp = &ch;
printf(%c, *(char *)vp);
vp = &j;
printf(%d,*(int *)vp);
vp = cp;
printf(%s,(char *)vp + 3);
}
Answer:
g20fy
Explanation:
Since a void pointer is used it can be type casted to any other type pointer. vp =
&ch stores address of char ch and the next statement
prints the value stored in vp after type casting it to the proper data type pointer.
the output is g. Similarly the output from second printf is 20. The third printf
statemen t type casts it to print the string from the4th value hence the output is
fy.

3) main()
{
main();
}
Answer:
Runtime error : Stack overflow.
Explanation:
main function calls itself again and again. Each time the function is called its return
address is stored in the call stack. Since there is no condition to terminate the function
call, the call stack overflows at runtime. So it terminates the program and results in an
error.
4) main()
{
show();
}
void show()
{
printf("I'm the greatest") ;
}
Answer:
Compier error: Type mismatch in redeclaration of show.
Explanation:
When the compiler sees the function show it doesn't know anything
about it. So the default return type (ie, int) is assumed. But when
compiler sees the actual definition of show mismatch occurs since it is
declared as void. Hence the error.
The solutions are as follows:
1. declare void show() in main() .
2.define show() before main().
3.declare extern void show() before the use of show()
Question 90
1) A man can row 5 kmph in still water. If the river is running at 1kmph, it takes him 75
minutes to row to a place and back. How far is the place?
(i) 3km
(ii) 2.5 km
(iii) 4 km
(iv) 5 km

Solution:
Speed downstream = (5+1)km/hr = 6 km/hr Speed upstream = (5-1)km/hr = 4 km/hr
Let the required distance be x km x/6 + x/4 = 75/60 2x+3x = 15 x = 3km
2) 729 ml of a mixture contains milk and water in ratio 7:2. How much of the water is to
be added to get a new mixture containing half milk and half water?
(i) 79 ml
(ii) 81 ml
(iii) 72 ml
(iv) 91 ml
Solution:
Milk =(729 * (7/9))=567ml
Water =(729-567)=162ml
Let water to be added be x ml 567/(162+x) =7/3 1701 =1134 +7x x =81ml
3) If log 0.317=0.3332 and log 0.318=0.3364 then find log 0.319 ?
(i)0.3396
(ii)0.3369
(iii)0.3368
(iv)0.3338
Solution: log 0.317=0.3332 and log 0.318=0.3364, then
log 0.319=log0.318+(log(0.318-0.317)) =0.3396
4) A box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg packets. Total weight of box is
264kg. How many 2kg packets are there ?
(i)36
(ii)114
(iii)120
(iv)50
Solution:
x=2 kg Packs
y=1 kg packs
x +y =150 .......... Eqn 1
2x +y =264 .......... Eqn 2
Solve the Simultaneous equation; x =114
so, y =36
ANS : Number of 2 kg Packs =114.
Question 91
1) The average weight of a class of 30 students is 40 kgs. If the teacher's weight is
included then average increases by 2 kgs. Find the weight of the teacher?
a) 102
b) 100
c) 98
Answer is 102
2) In a group the average income of 6 men is 500 and that of 5 women is 280, then
what is average income of the group?
a) 400
b) 100
c) 200
Answer is 400
3) The average marks of a marks of a student in 4 Examination is 40.If he got 80 marks
in 5th Exam then what is his new average?
a) 48
b) 84
c) 40
Answer is 48
4) Find the average of first 50 natural numbers.
a) 16
b) 15.5
c) 14
Answer is 15.5
Question 92
1) Find the average height of five students with heights 142,147,153,165,157 in cms?
a) 152
b) 152.2
c) 152.4
d) 152.8

Answer is 152.8
2) The average marks of girls in a class is 62.5. The average marksof 4 girls among
them is 60.The average marks of remaining girls is 63,then what is the number of girls
in the class?
a) 11
b) 10
c) 9
Answer is 10
3) The average price of 10 books is increased by 17 Rupees when one of them whose
value is Rs.400 is replaced by a new book.What is the price of new book?
a) 570
b) 750
c) 600

Answer is 570
4) The average age of Mr and Mrs Sharma 4 years ago is 28 years .If the present
average age of Mr and Mrs Sharma and their son is 22 years. What is the age of their
son?
a) 2
b) 1
c) 4
Answer is 2
Question 93
1) Semaphore used to?
a)Avoid deadlocks
b)Communicate messages
c)Synchronice the access to shared resources
d)none of the above
Answer is Synchronice the access to shared resources
2) The number of address lines required to address 1MB memory are?
a)10
b)24
c)16
d)20
Answer is 20
3) In signed magnitude notation what is the minimum value that can be represented with
8 bits
a)-128
b)-255
c)-127
d)0
Answer is -128
4) Bit parity check can performed on a byte can catch
a)Any number of errors
b)Odd number or errors
c)Even number of errors
d)None of the above
Answer is Odd number or errors
Question 94
1) Piggy backing is a technique for ?
a)Flow control
b)Sequence
c)Acknowledgement
d)Retransmission
Answer is Acknowledgement
2) Virtual address are translated to physical address by?
a)The process
b)The MMU
c)The operating system
d)All the above
Answer is The MMU
3) With a 25MHZ processor how long will an instruction, requiring 3 clock cycles,take to
execute?
a)75 nano seconds
b)120 nano seconds
c)120 micro seconds
d)75 micro seconds
Answer is 120 nano seconds
4) Which of the following involve the context switch?
a)All the above
b)System call
c)Privileged instruction
d)floating point exception
Answer is System call
Question 95
1) A millionaire bought a job lot of hats 1/4 of which were brown. The millionaire sold 2/3
of the hats including 4/5 of the brown hats. What fraction of the unsold hats were brown.

a)1/60
b)1/15
c)3/20
d)3/5
e)3/4

Answer is 3/20

2) 10 in 4 seconds, ? in 6 minutes

a)800
b)900
c)650

Answer is 900

3) Mohan earned twice as much as Deep.Yogesh earned rs.3/- more than half as much
as deep. If the amounts earned by Mohan,Deep,Yogesh are M,D,Y respectively, Which
of the following is the correct ordering of these amounts?

a)M< D < Y
b)M< Y < D
c)D < M < Y
d)It cann't be determined from the information given
e)D < Y < M

Answer is M< D < Y

4) At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets.
If 5 tickets are purchased at the sale, the amount saved will be
What percent of the original price of the 5 tickets?

a)20%
b)33.3%
c)40%
d)60%
e)66.6%

Answer is 40%
Question 96
1)Next number in the series 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 ?
a) 1/25
b) 1/16
c) 1/36
Answer is 1/16
2) In 6 seconds a light flashes once. In one hour how many times it will flash?
a) 569 times
b) 601 times
c) 499 times
Answer is 601 times
3) A clock is late by 1 minute 27 seconds in a month. Then how much will it be late in 1
day?
a) 3.0 sec
b) 2.9 sec
c) 2.8 sec
Answer is 2.9 sec
4) A ship started from port and moving with 'I' miles/hour and other ship started From L
and moving with 'H' miles/hour . At the place where these two ships will meet?.
a)( L*I*H)/(H+I)
b)(L+I+H)/(H*I)
c)(L/I/H)*(H/I)
Answer is ( L*I*H)/(H+I)
Question 97
1. X = 2, Y = 3, Z = 6 Find the value of Z/(X + Y)-(X + Y)/Z
Answer: 11/30
2. What does the hexadecimal number F80 in radix 8.
(a) 7600
(b) 6400
(c) 4000

3. In a murder case there are four suspects A,B,C,D. Each of them makes a
statement. They are A:
"I had gone to the theatre with S at the time of the murder".B: "I was playing
cards with A at the time
of the murder".C: "Q didn't commit the murder".D: "C is not the
murderer".Assuming the only one of the
above statement is false and that one of them is the murderer, who is the murderer?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D

4. Q != 0 and k = (Q X n - s)/2.What is the value of n?
(a) (2 x k + s)/Q
(b) (2 x s x k)/Q
(c) (2 x k - s)/Q
(d) (2 x k + s x Q)/Q
(e) (k + s)/Q
5 Rahim earned twice as much as Deeptha. Yogi earned rs.3/- more than half as much
as Deeptha.
If the amounts earned by Raheem,Deeptha,Yogi are R,D,Y respectively, Which of
the following is
the correct ordering of these amounts?
a) R< D < Y
b) R< Y < D
c) D< R < Y
d) Cannot be determined
e) D< Y < R
Question 98
1) In a hotel, rooms are numbered from 101 to 550. A room is chosen at random. What
is the probability that room number starts with 1, 2 or 3 and ends with 4, 5 or 6?
Answer
There are total 450 rooms.
Out of which 299 room number starts with either 1, 2 or 3. (as room number 100
is not there) Now out of those 299 rooms only 90 room numbers end with 4, 5 or
6.So the probability is 90/450 i.e. 1/5 or 0.20.

2) What is the four-digit number in which the first digit is 1/3 of the second, the third is
the sum of the first and second, and the last is three times the second?
Answer
The 4 digit number is 1349.

3) Difference between Bholu's and Molu's age is 2 years and the difference between
Molu's and Kolu's age is 5 years. What is the maximum possible value of the sum of the
difference in their ages, taken two at a time?
Answer
The maximum possible value of the sum of the difference in their ages -
taken two at a time - is 14 years.

4) A 3 digit number is such that it's unit digit is equal to the product of the other two
digits which are prime. Also, the difference between it's reverse and itself is
396.What is the sum of the three digits?
Answer
The required number is 236 and the sum is 11.

Question 99
1) Pepsi, Fanta, Cola order either coffee or tea after dinner. a)If pepsi orders coffee,
Fanta orders the drink that is ordered by cola. b)If fanta orders coffee, pepsi do not
order the drink that is ordered by cola. c)If cola orders tea, pepsi orders the same drink
ordered by fanta. Who take the same drink every day.

Ans:Pepsi.
2) Boat A leaves shore P and Boat B leaves shore Q.(P and Q are opposite shores of a
river.) A and B travel at constant speed.But the speeds are not same. Both boats meet
at 600m from P for the first time. In their return journeys (ie after touching the shores),
they meet agian at 200m from Q. Find distance between P and Q.
Ans:1600m
3) There are two glasses A and B. A contains orange juice and B contains apple juice in
same quantity.Some amount orange juice from glass A is transfered to glass B. The
juice in glass B is mixed well. Then again the same amount of juice from B is transferred
to A. Compare the quantities of apple juice in A and orange juice in B.
Ans:Equal.
4) 100 Kg. Potatoes with 98% water content are dried in an oven. The percentage of
water decreases to 50 %. What is the weight of potatoes now.
Ans:4Kg.
Question 101
1) A 31" x 31" square metal plate needs to be fixed by a carpenter on to a wooden
board. The carpenter uses nails all along the edges of the square such that there are 32
nails on each side of the square. Each nail is at the same distance from the neighboring
nails. How many nails does the carpenter use?

Solution:
32*2 +30*2=124
2) It was vacation time, and so I decided to visit my cousin's home. What a grand time
we had! In the mornings, we both would go for a jog. The evenings were spent on the
tennis court. Tiring as these activities were, we could manage only one per day, i.e.,
either we went for a jog or played tennis each day. There were days when we felt lazy
and stayed home all day long. Now, there were 12 mornings when we did nothing, 18
evenings when we stayed at home, and a total of 14 days when we jogged or played
tennis. For how many days did I stay at my cousin's place?

Solution :
Use sets and venn diagram to solve such questions.a,b ,aub,anb etc.
12=tennis+leave
18=jog+leave
so jog-tennis=6
again jog+tennis=14.so solve and get jog=10,leave=8,tennis=4.so tot=22

3) Glenn and Jason each have a collection of cricket balls. Glenn said that if Jason
would give him 2 of his balls they would have an equal number; but, if Glenn would give
Jason 2 of his balls, Jason would have 2 times as many balls as Glenn. How many balls
does Jason have?
Solution:
R 14
1. G+2=j-2
2. 2(G-2)=J +2.
solve these 2 to get
J =14
4) How many even integers n, where , are divisible neither by seven nor by nine?

Solution:
There are 101 integers in all, of which 51 are even.From 100 to 200, there are 14
multiples of 7, of which 7 are even. There are 11 multiples of 9, of which 6 are
even.But there is one integer (i.e. 126) that is a multiple of both 7 and 9 and also
even.Hence the answer is (51 7 6 +1) =39

Question 102
1) Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. Each person has one card, laid down
on the table below him, which has two different colours on either side.
No card has the same color on both sides. The colours visible on the table are Red,
Green, Red and Blue respectively. They see the color on the reverse side and give the
following comment.
A: Yellow or Green
B: Neither Blue nor Green
C: Blue or Yellow
D: Blue or Yellow
Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the cards each
person.
ANSWER:
Try all possible combinations. Keep in mind two things. THE combination
obtained should
satisfy the conditions
1.Two are lying and two are telling the truth
2.Neither two cards are similar nor are two sides of a card are of same color
A YELLOW
B YELLOW
C GREEN
D RED
2) Four tourists A,B,C,D and four languages English, German, French and Italian.
They are not able to converse among themselves in one language.
Though A does not know English he can act as an interpreter between B and C.
No one spoke both French and German. A knows German and was able to converse
with D
who doesnt know a word in German. Only one language was spoken by more than two
persons.Each
spoke two languages. Find who spoke what.

ANSWER:
A B C D
GERMAN FRENCH GERMAN ITALIAN
ITALIAN ITALIAN ENGLISH ENGLISH
3)Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate.
It takes 40 days for 40 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass.
How many days does it take for 20 cows to do the same?
ANSWER:
g - grass at the beginning
r - rate at which grass grows, per day
y - rate at which one cow eats grass, per day
n - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days
g +40*r =40 * 40 * y------- 1
g +60*r =30 * 60 * y------- 2
g +n*r =20 * n * y-------- 3
from 1 and 2
r=10y g=120r
from 3
nr=120r
Solving, n =120
4) Lucia is a wonderful grandmother. Her age is between 50 and 70.Each of her sons
have as
many sons as they have brothers. Their combined number gives Lucias age. What is
the age?
ANSWER
Let the no. of Lucias sons = n
No. of brothers for each son =n-1
No. of sons for each of Lucias son = n-1
Lucias age =n-1 * n-1
=a perfect square between 50 and 70
=64

Question 103
1) If one-seventh of a number exceeds its eleventh part by 100 then the number is
(i) 770
(ii) 1100
(iii) 1825
(iv) 1925
Solution:
Let the number be x. Then X/7 - x/11 =100 11x-7x = 7700 x=1925.
2) The ratio of Rita's age to her mother's age is 3:8. The difference of their ages is 35
years. The ratio of their ages after 4 years will be:
(i) 7:12
(ii) 5:12
(iii) 38:43
(iv) 42:47
Solution:
Let their ages be 3x and 8x
8x - 3x =35
x =7
Their present ages are 21 and 56 years.
Ratio of their ages after 4 years are 25:60 =5:12
3) Gold is 19 times as heavy as water and copper is 9 times as heavy as water. In what
ratio should these be mixed to get an alloy 15 times as heavy as water?
(i) 1:1
(ii) 2:3
(iii) 1:2
(iv) 3:2
Solution:
Let 1gm of gold be mixed with x gm of copper to give (1+x)gm of the alloy.
1G=19W, 1C =9W and alloy =15W 1gm gold +x
4) A tap can fill the tank in 15 minutes and another can empty it in 8 minutes. If the tank
is already half full and both the taps are opened together, the tank will be:
(i) filled in 12 min
(ii) emptied in 12 min
(iii) filled in 8 min
(iv) emptied in 8 min
Solution:
Rate of waste pipe being more the tank will be emptied when both taps are
opened.
Net emptying workdone in 1min =(1/8 -1/16)=1/16
So full tank will be emptied in 16 min
Half tank will be emptied in 8 minutes.
Question 104
1) What is not a part of OS ?
a)swapper
b)compiler
c)device driver
d)file system
Answer is compiler
2) Which is the protocol used by PING?
a)ICMP
b)HTTP
c)SMTP
d)RTSP
Answer is ICMP
3) Hotmail was founded by?
a)Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith
b)Sabeer Bhatia alone
c)Sabeer Bhatia and Bill Gates
d)Sabeer Bhatia and Hang Sen
Answer is Sabeer Bhatia and J ack Smith
4) Which is an Internet standard that extends the format of e-mail to support
* non ASCII text
* Non-text attachments
* Message bodies with multiple parts
* Header information in non-ASCII character sets
a)Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
b)Multivariant Internet Mail Extensions
c)Multi Internet Mail Extensions
d)None of the above
Answer is Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
Question 105
1) An application program that is used by the users to get the information from the
backend of some application like databases.
a)application server
b)database server
c)proxy server
d)mail server

Answer is database server

2) Why is the synchronize used?
a)to initialize multiple objects
b)to lock an object
c)to release an object
Answer is to lock an object
3) IRC stands for
a)Intranet Relay chat
b)Internet Relay chat
c)Intranet subnet Relay chat
Answer is Internet Relay chat
4) VPN stands for
a)Virtual private network
b)Virtual public network
c)Virtual path network
Answer is Virtual private network
1) A person with some money spends 1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of the remaining for food and
1/4 of the remaining for travel. He is left with Rs 100/-
How much did he have with him in the begining?
Answer
Rs. 250/-

2) Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 24 days for 70 cows
and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass.
How many cows are needed to eat the grass in 96 days?
Answer
20 cows

3) There is a safe with a 5 digit number as the key. The 4th digit is 4 greater than the
second digit, while the 3rd digit is 3 less than the 2nd digit. The 1st digit
is thrice the last digit. There are 3 pairs whose sum is 11. Find the number.
Answer
65292

4) Consider a number 235, where last digit is the sum of first two digits i.e. 2 + 3 =
5.How many such 3-digit numbers are there?
Answer
There are 45 different 3-digit numbers.
Question 106
1) There are 4 parties A,B,C,D. Ram told that either A or B will win. Shyam told C will
never win. Hari told either B or C or D will win. Only one of them was Correct. Which
party won?
Ans: C
2) A colck takes 33 seconds to complete the pendulum sound when it is 12:00 noon.
How long one can hear the pendulum sound it is 6:00 a.m. ie the the differrence
between 1st sound and last sound.
Ans:15 Secs
3) There are 111 players participating in a singles tennis tournament. The player who is
loosing will be out of the tournament. For each and every match, One new ball is taken.
Find
the no. of balls required for the entire tournament.
Ans:110
4) I have got some money in my bag .(which is stolen after shopping I and II). I spent
10% of my money for shopping (I) For second time,10% of the remaining money is
spent for shopping (II) The total bill amount=Rs.18. Find the amount which will be
remaining in the bag?
Answer: Rs.81
Question 107
1) Three cards are drawn at random from an ordinary pack of cards.Find the probability
that they will consist of a king,
a queen and an ace.
Ans. 64/2210.

3) A number of cats got together and decided to kill between them 999919 mice.
Every cat killed an equal number of
4) mice. Each cat killed more mice than there were cats. How many cats do you
think there were ?

Ans. 991.
3) If Log2 x - 5 Log x + 6 = 0, then what would the value / values of x be?
Ans. x =e2 or e3.
4) The square of a two digit number is divided by half the number.After 36 is added to
the quotient, this sum is then divided by 2.
The digits of the resulting number are the same as those in the original number, but
they are in reverse order. The ten's place of
the original number is equal to twice the difference between its digits. What is the
number?
Ans. 46
Question 108
1) Mr. Shah decided to walk down the escalator of a tube station. He
found that if he walks down 26 steps, he requires 30 seconds to
reach the bottom. However, if he steps down 34 stairs he would only
require 18 seconds to get to the bottom. If the time is measured from
the moment the top step begins to descend to the time he steps off
the last step at the bottom, find out the height of the stair way in
steps?
Ans.46 steps.
2) The average age of 10 members of a committee is the same as it was
4 years ago, because an old member has been replaced by a young
member. Find how much younger is the new member ?
Ans.40 years.
3) ABCE is an isosceles trapezoid and ACDE is a rectangle. AB = 10
and EC = 20. What is the length of AE?
Ans. AE =10.
4) In the given figure, PA and PB are tangents to the
circle at A and B respectively and the chord BC is parallel to
tangent PA. If AC = 6 cm, and length of the tangent AP is 9 cm, then what
is the length of the chord BC?
Ans. BC =4 cm.
Question 109
1) Find the Missing Number 1, 5, 13, 25, ?
a)41
b)44
c)23
Answer is 41
2) Find the odd man out 3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 17, 19
a)7
b)12
c)17
Answer is 12
3) Find the Missing Number 6, 24, 60,120, 210, ?
a)331
b)336
c)333
Answer is 336
4) Find the Missing Number 1, 2, 4, 10, 16, 40, 64 (Successive terms are related)
a)100
b)200
c)90
Answer is 200
Question 120
Saikumar, Varun and Prasanth start from one of the points X and Y and move in their
vehicles towards the other point. The distance between X and Y is 550 km. Saikumar
and Varun start at 7 am from X and Y respectively whereas Prasanth starts from X at 8
am. Saikumar, Varun and Prasanth maintain constant speed of 60 km, 50 km and 70
km respectively. Which pair Saikumar-Varun or Varun-Prasanth or Prasanth-Saikumar
would meet first.
a) Saikumar Varun b)Varun-Prasanth c) Prasanth-Saikumar d) cannot be determined
Answer : a) Saikumar Varun
Solution :
Saikumar and Varun start at the same time, the initial distance between them is the
distance XY = 550 km
They are moving towards each other i.e. in opposite directions and hence the relative
speed = sum of the speeds = 60 + 50 = 110 km.
Hence the time taken for meeting = 550/110 = 5 hours.
i.e. Saikumar and Varun would meet 5 hours from 7 am or at 12 noon.
Saikumar and Prasanth starting from the same point begin their travel at different points
of time. Since Prasanth is the late starter, the initial distance between them is the
distance between them when Prasanth starts, namely at 8 am.
From 7 to 8 am Saikumar would have travelled 60 km and hence the distance between
them at 8 am is 60 km.
Since they are moving in the same direction the relative speed is the difference between
their
Speeds --- 70 60 = 10 km/hr.
Therefore, time taken for meeting = 60/10 = 6 hours. This implies that Saikumar and
Prasanth would meet 6 hours after 8 am. i.e. 2 pm
Varun and Prasnath start from opposite points at different points of time.
At 8 am. The distance between them is 540-50 = 490 km . Since they are moving in
opposite directions, the relative speed = 50 + 70 = 120 kmph
The time taken for meeting = 4.08 from 8 am i.e. 12.08 hrs.
Thus, Saikumar and Varun meet first at 12 noon, Varun and Prasanth meet at 12.08 pm
and the last pair to meet Sai Kumar and Prasanth at 2 pm.
Question 122
Anna Salai, Madurai has 1100 buildings. A painter was engaged by the Madurai
Corporation ( after calling for sealed tenders fixing the last date for receipt of tenders
and the tender was opened in the presence of representatives of tenderers). How many
zeros will he need to paint.?
a) 212 b) 192 c) 213 d) none of these.
Answer : a) 212.
Solution :
Divide 1100 building numbers into groups of 100 each as follow:
1) [(1..100)],
2) [(101..200), (201..300), ...to (801...900) also (1101-1100)] ...
3) [ (901..1000)]
For the first group, sign-maker will need 11 zeroes.
For group numbers 201 to 900 and 1101 to 1100 , he will require 20 zeroes each.
And for group number 10 (from 901 to 1000), he will require 21 zeroes.
The total numbers of zeroes required are
= 11 + (9 x 20) + 21 = 212
Question 123
St. Xavier Matriculation School, Salem conducted sports meet and awarded prizes. In
the sports contest there were m medals awarded on n successive days (n > 1).
1. On the first day 1 medal and 1/6 of the remaining m - 1 medals were awarded.
2. On the second day 2 medals and 1/6 of the now remaining medals was awarded; and
so on.
3. On the nth and last day, the remaining n medals were awarded.
How many days did the contest last, and how many medals were awarded altogether?
a) 6 days , 36 medals b) 7 days, 49 medals c) 5 days, 25 medals d) none of these.
Answer : c) 5 days , 25 medals.
Solution :
For this question, we have to go by options. Only for option c) all the conditions in
questions will be met as given below. (We recommend you to try with other options, to
prove that they are wrong.)
On day 1: Medals awarded = (1 + 24/6) = 5 : Remaining 20 medals
On day 2: Medals awarded = (2 + 18/6) = 5 : Remaining 15 medals
On day 3: Medals awarded = (3 + 12/6) = 5 : Remaining 10 medals
On day 4: Medals awarded = (4 + 6/6) = 5 : Remaining 5 medals
On day 5: Medals awarded = 5

Question 124
Arun got a new mobile number. The first five digits are 99445. Find the next 5 digits, if
the fourth digit from the right is twice the last digit from the left, the second digit from the
left is two greater than the second digit from the right, the sum of last two digit from the
left is same as the middle digit, the second digit from left is one less than third digit from
the right and the second digit from the left is three times the first digit from the left?
a) 26734 b) 26752 c) 26743 d) 24752
Answer : c) 26743
Solution :
Let the five digit be abcde.
From the question, we can infer that b = 2e, b = d+2, c = d+e, c = b+1 ( b = c - 1)and b =
3a.
Substitute c = d + e for c in c = b + 1 we get ,
d + e = b + 1
Now Substitute b = 2e we get,
d + e = 2e + 1
d - e = 1 ----------- eqn 1
Substitute b = 2e in b = 2 + d we get,
2e - d = 2 ------------ eqn 2
By Solving eqn 1 & 2 we get e = 3
Substituting e value we get,
d = 4, b = 6 , a = 3, c = 7
Hence the remaining 5 digits are 26743
Question 125
Age of Kamal is a two digit number. If the sum of age and the reverse of his age is 110
and if the ten's digit is 4 less than the unit digit, then the age of Kamal is?
a) 73 b) 28 c) 82 d) 37
Answer : d) 37
Solution :
Let the age of Kamal be 10a + b
Then the reversed age is 10b + a
Given that 10a + b + 10b + a = 110
11a + 11b = 110 ----- (1)
Also given that a = b 4 ---- (2)
Solving (1) and (2), we get a = 3 and b = 7
So, the age of Kamal is 37
Question 126
If a five digit number 526ab is divisible by 40, then find a and b.
a) 8, 0 b) 1, 6 c) 4, 0 d) 2, 0
Answer : c) 4, 0
Solution :
L.C.M of 40 = 5 x 8
Since 526ab is divisible by 5 and 8, b = 0
And since 526a0 is divisible by 8, the last three digits must be divisible by 8.
i.e. 6a0 must be divisible by 8.
This will happen only when a = 4.
Hence, the last two digits are 4 and 0.
Question 127
In a conference hall, 56 members are seated by the following arrangements. After the
first women, one man seated. After the second women, two men are seated. After the
third women, three men are seated and so on. How many numbers of men are seated
in the second half of the arrangements?
a) 27 b) 25 c) 24 d) 26
Answer : b) 25
Solution :
The seating arrangement will be

From the above diagram, we can see that the second half arrangement is :
M M M M M M M W M M M M M M M M W M M M M M M M M M W M
Here, there are 25 men in the above arrangement.
Question 128
In a bank, there are two counters namely counter1 and counter2. They will call the
customers by a token number. If counter1 calls the token numbers from 40 in
descending order and the counter2 calls only the token numbers which are prime
numbers in ascending order. What token number will they call out at the same time if
they were calling in the same speed?
a) 29 b) 31 c) 23 d) never call out the same number
Answer : d) never call out the same number
Solution :
Both counters will call in the following manner

So, both will never call out the same token number at a time.
Question 129
If the numbers from 1 to 100 which are exactly divisible by 4 and 6 are arranged in
descending order, maximum number being on the top, which would come at the
seventh place from the top?
a) 24 b) 12 c) 36 d) 18
Answer :a) 24
Solution :
From 1 to 100, the number which is divisible by 4 are 100, 96, 92, 88, 84, 80, 76, 72, 68,
64, 60, 56, 52, 48, 44, 40, 36, 32, 28, 24, 20, 16, 12, 8 and 4.
From 1 to 100, the numbers which is divisible by 6 are 96, 90, 84, 78, 72, 66, 60, 54, 48,
42, 36, 30, 24, 18, 12 and 6.
Therefore, the numbers which are divisible by 4 and 6 are 96, 84, 72, 60, 48, 36, 24 and
12.
Hence, the seventh place from the top is 24.
Question 130
If Jeya celebrated her 18th birthday on 28 February 2009, Saturday. Then what day will
come on her 25th birthday?
a)Monday b) Sunday c) Friday d) Saturday
Answer : b) Sunday.
Solution:
Jeya Celebrated her 18
th
birthday on 28 February 2009, Saturday.
Then her 19
th
birthday will be on 28 February 2010, Sunday. (This is because 2010 is
not a leap year and hence contains 365 days. 365 divided by 7 gives remainder 1 which
means any date on 2009 corresponds to the same date on 2010 advanced by one day.)
Her 20
th
birthday will be on 28 February 2011, Monday.
Her 21
st
birthday will be on 28 February 2012, Tuesday.
Her 22
nd
birthday will be on 28 February 2013, Thursday. (Since, 2012 is a leap year
hence contains 366 days. 366 divided by 7 gives remainder 2 which means any date on
2013 corresponds to the same date on 2012 advanced by two days.)
Her 23
rd
birthday will be on 28 February 2014, Friday.
Her 24
th
birthday will be on 28 February 2015, Saturday.
Her 25
th
birthday will be on 28 February 2016, Sunday.
So, her 25
th
birthday will be on Sunday.

Question 131
Ravi went to the hospital on Monday. Doctors made some check up and they asked to
come three days before the two days after the next day of day after tomorrow. When will
Ravi go to Hospital?
a) Friday b) Saturday c) Tuesday d) Wednesday
Answer : d) Wednesday
Solution:
Ravi went to hospital on Monday.
Then, three days before Monday is Friday and the two days after Friday is Sunday.
And the next day of Sunday is Monday and the day after tomorrow of Monday is
Wednesday.
So, Ravi will go to hospital on Wednesday.
Question 132
The Calendar for the year 2013 is the same as for the year?
a) 2020 b) 2018 c) 2017 d) 2019
Answer : d) 2019
Solution:
For calendar to repeat exactly, the dates and days have to match perfectly.
Consider 2014 :
Any date on 2014 will correspond to same date on 2013 advanced by one day. (same
logic used in first question.) For example if Jan 1 is Tuesday on 2013, then Jan 1 will be
Wednesday on 2014.
Year 2014 2015 2016 (leap year) 2017 2018 2019
Advanced days 1 1 2 1 1
1
In 2019 the total number of advancements will be 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 7 . Any week
has seven days. Hence advancement of 7 days also means the days are going to be
the same for any dates. That is if 1
st
Jan on 2013 is Tuesday, then 1
st
Jan on 2019 will
also be Tuesday.
Hence the calendar for the year 2013 and 2019 is the same.
Question 133
Narain Karthikeyans friend participated in a cycling feat and he drove through the lap at
the rate of 6 kmph, 12 kmph, 18 kmph and 24 kmph. What is the average speed of his
friends cycling ?
a) 15 kmph b) 18 kmph c) 14.25 kmph d) 11.52 kmph
Answer : d) 11.52 kmph
Solution :
Assume the length of the lap is 72 kmph (LCM 6,12,18 and 24)
Then his friend will take 12 hours, 6 hours, 4 hours and 3 hours respectively at the rate
of 6,12,18 and 24 kmph. Total time taken 25 hours. Total distance 288 km
288/25 = 11.52 kmph
(We will get this same answer irrespective of whatever we assume the lap length.
However, taking the LCM of the speeds has made the solution much easier.)
Question 134
Krishnakumar bought an acid bottle quite evaporative in nature. He bought acid
containing 24 litres of concentrated acid. He paid at the rate of Rs.2452 per litre since
he could not get them at a cheaper price. On the first day 1/8 of the acid got
evaporated. On the second day 2/3 of the balance got evaporated. He forgot to close
the container and on the third day 1/7 of the balance acid got evaporated . How many
litres of acid is left in the container?
a) 12 litres b)6 litres c)3 litres d) 18 litres
Answer : b) 6 litres.
Solution :
In this problem rate at which the acid was bought is given only to distract the attention of
the reader.
On the first day 1/8 got evaporated means for the second day balance left is 7/8.
On the second day 2/3 of the balance got evaporated means 7/8 x 2/3 = 7/12 got
evaporated
Balance acid left out = 7/8 - 7/12 = 7/24
On the third day 1/7 got evaporated means what is left in the container is 6/7 of the
balance at the end of second day.
Quantity of acid left in the container = 7/24 x 6/7 = 1/4
1/4 x 24 = 6 litres
Question 135
Ramesh and Rahul were making joint-study for their semester examinations and the
lights went off. It was around 10.00 pm . They lighted two uniform candles of equal
length but one thicker than the other. The thick candle is supposed to last six hours and
the thin one two hours less. When they finally went to sleep, the thick candle was thrice
as long as the thin one. Approximately at what time did they go to sleep?
a) 1.00 am b) 1:24 am c) 11.00 pm d) none of these.
Answer : b) 1:24 am
Solution :
Assume that the initial length of both the candle was L and they studied for X hours.
Consider thick candle :
In 6 hours the entire length would be burnt. Therefore in 1 hour L/6th of the candle
would be burnt. Similarly in X hours, XL/6 th of the candle would be burnt.
Applying same logic to thin candle, length of thin candle burnt in X hours = XL/4
After X hours, total thick candle remaining = L - XL/6
After X hours, total thin candle remaining = L - XL/4
Also, it is given that the thick candle was thrice as long as the thin one when they finally
went to sleep.
(L - XL/6) = 3(L - XL/4)
(6 - X)/6 =(12 - 3X)/4
24 - 4X = 72 - 18X
X = 3.4 (approximately) = 3 hours and 24 minutes (as .4 hours = 4/10 x 60 = 24
minutes)
So they slept 3 hours and 24 minutes after 10.00 p.m i.e. at 1.24 am.
Question 136
Anantharama Iyer and Gopalakrishna Gandhi two friends were meeting after a long
time. Gandhi told he has two kids and their age is less than 10. The sum of the squares
of their age is 130.Anantharama Iyer told that he has three kids and first two of them are
of the age of Gandhis two children and the sum of the squares of their age is 139. What
is the age of the third child of Anantharama Iyer?
a) 4 b)5 c)3 d)cannot be determined
Answer : c) 3.
Solution :
The age of the two kids of Anantharama Iyer is same as that of Gandhis children. The
sum of the squares of age of Gandhis children is 130. The sum of squares of age of
Anantharama Iyers children is 139. That means the square of the age of the third child
is 9. Age is 3 years.
Question 137
Skilled Men, skilled women and unskilled men are employed to do a road construction
work in the proportion of 1:2:3 and their wages in the proportion of 6:3:2. When 50
skilled men are employed total daily wages of all the hands amount to Rs. 45000. Find
the total weekly wages to be paid to a skilled man, a skilled woman and an unskilled
man.
a) Rs.3850 b) Rs.4850 c)Rs.5850 d)Rs.6850
Answer : a) Rs. 3850
Solution :
Number of men, women and unskilled men are 1: 2: 3.
But the skilled men are 50 in number. Therefore number of skilled women workers = 50
x 2 = 100 and the number of unskilled men = 50 x 3 = 150
Their wages are in the ratio 6:3:2.
Assuming a man gets paid Rs.6, woman will get Rs.3 and an unskilled man will get Rs.
2
Total wages paid to all the employees - 50 x 6 + 100 x 3 + 150 x 2 = Rs.900
If the total wages are Rs. 900, a skilled man gets Rs.6
If the total wages are Rs.45000, a skilled man gets (45000 /900 ) x 6 = Rs. 300
Weekly wage of a skilled man = daily wage x 7 = 300 x 7 = Rs.2100
The ratio of wages between men and women is 6:3. i.e Each woman will earn half as
that of a skilled man.
Total weekly wages of a woman = 2100/2 = Rs.1050
The ratio of wages between skilled men and unskilled men is 6:2. i.e Each unskilled
man will earn 1/3rd of that of a skilled man.
Total weekly wages of an unskilled man = 2100/3 = Rs.700
Total weekly wages of a man, a woman and an unskilled man = 2100 + 1050 + 700 =
Rs.3850
Question 138
Fill the Sequence DI,MR,VA, ?
a) EJ b) SZ c) BK d) FR
Answer : a) EJ
Solution :
In the sequence M is the 9th letter from D and V is the 9th letter from M. So the next
letter will be the 9th character from V i.e E.
In DI, I is the 5th letter from D. In MR, R is the 5th letter from M and in VA and so on.
The fifth character from E will be J. So the next sequence letters will be EJ
Question 139
In a certain code RELATED to written as EFUBKDQ. How is RETAINS written in that
code?
a) SDQBTOJ b) JOTBQDS
C) JOTBSDQ d) TOJBSDQ
Answer : d) TOJBSDQ
Reason :
Inspecting how RELATED was written as EFUBKDQ, we can easily find that,
RELATED is first written as DETALER
DETALER becomes EFUBKDQ (+1,+1,+1, +1,-1,-1,-1 alphabetically)
Applying the same logic to RETAINS we get,
RETAINS is first written as SNIATER
SNIATER becomes TOJBSDQ (applying the above rule)
Question 140
If AEGI is encoded as CH how CEDH will be encoded.
a) GF b) AC c) DF d) DI
Answer : c) DF
Reason :
Inspecting the encoding of AEGI :
Pairing two-two letters we have AE GI.
The middle letter between A and E is C and the middle letter between G and I is H.
Similarly applying the same logic to ACDF we get
Pairing two-two letters, we have CE DH
The middle letter between C and E is D while the middle letter between D and H is F
Hence the answer is DF.
Question 141
Six people A,B,C,D, E and F are standing in a straight line facing north not necessarily
in the same order. B is standing to the right of D. A is standing fourth to the left of F and
F is not standing on the extreme end of the line. D is standing second to the left of B.
In the above arrangement, which of the following pair represents the people standing at
the extreme ends of the line?
a) DF b) AC c) BC d) AF
Answer : b) AC
Reason :
Based on information given seating arrangement is as follows:
north
A D E B F C
south
Question 142
Aravamudhan gives Babu as many rupees as Babu has and Chiranjeevi as many
rupees as Chiranjeevi has. Similarly, Babu then gives Aravamudhan and Chiranjeevi as
many rupees as each of them has. Chiranjeevi, similarly gives Aravamudhan and Babu
as many rupees as each of them has. Now finally each of them has Rs.32, with how
many rupees does Aravamudhan start?
a)52 b)56 c)60 d)62
Answer : a)52
Solution :
We have to take a bottom up (reverse) approach to tackle these kinds of problems.
Below are the steps to solve this problem.
Aravamudhan Babu Chiranjeevi
Finally 32 32 32
Before Chiranjeevi gives 16 16 64
Before Babu gives 8 56 32
Before Aravamudhan gives 52 28 16
Hence, Aravamudhan start with Rs 52.
Question 143
Fifty one books are arranged from left to right in order of increasing prices. The price of
each book differs by Rs. 2 from that of each adjacent book. For the price of the book at
the extreme right a buyer can buy the middle book and an adjacent one. Then, which of
the following statements is correct ?
a) The adjacent book referred to is at the left of the middle magazine.
b) The middle book sells for Rs. 56
c) The most expensive book sells for Rs.116
d) None of the above statements is correct.
Answer : a) The adjacent book referred to is at the left of the middle magazine.
Solution :
Let the price of the first book be B
Price of the last book (51st) will be B + (2 x 50)
= B + 100
Price of the middle book = B + (2 x 25) = B + 50
Price of the book to the left of middle book = Price of the middle book 2 = B + 48
But, from the question, we can infer that,
Price of the middle book + Price of the book to the left of middle book = Price of the last
book.
B + 50 + B + 48 = B + 100
B = 2
Instead if the buyer buys the middle book and the book adjacent right side
B + 50 + B + 52 = B + 100
B = -2 (not possible)
Cost of middle book = 2 + 50 = 52
Price of the Most expensive book (i.e last book) = B + 100 = 2 + 100 = Rs.102.
Hence a) is correct.
Question 144
A group of six friends are sitting around a hexagonal table, each one at one corner of
the hexagon. (facing the centre inside) Raman is sitting opposite to Ramesh. Jolly is
sitting next to Seema. Neeta is sitting opposite to Seema, but not next to Ram. Amit has
a person sitting between Ramesh and himself. If Neeta sits to the right of amit, then who
is sitting to the left of Amit?
a)Ramesh b)Raman c)Jolly d) Seema
Answer : b) Raman
Solution :

Based on the information provided, seating pattern will be drawn as above
Clockwise = AMIT RAMAN - SEEMA - JOLLY- RAMESH - NEETA
Question 145
Statement : Some watches are hens. All hens are wall clocks.
Conclusions :
I. All watches are wall clocks
II. some wall clocks are hens.
Options.
a) Only I can be true always
b) Only II can be true always
c) Both I and II can be true always
d) Both I and II cannot be true always
Answer 1
Option b is the correct answer.
Reason : Conclusion I cannot be true as only some watches could be wall clocks.
However, conclusion II is true always as some wall clocks have to be hens.
Question 146
All animals are monkeys. All monkeys are reptiles.
Conclusions :
I. All reptiles are animals.
II. All animals are reptiles.
Options.
a) Only I can be true always
b) Only II can be true always
c) Both I and II can be true always
d) Both I and II cannot be true always
Answer 2
Option b is the right answer.
Reason : Though all animals are reptiles from the two statements, there is no indication
that all reptiles are monkeys (and in turn animals). Hence option I cannot be true
always. But second conclusion is always true which is straightforward to interpret.
Question 147
Some Red Boxes are Green Boxes. All Red Boxes are Yellow Boxes.
Conclusions :
I. Some Yellow Boxes are Green Boxes.
II. All Green Boxes are Red Boxes.
Options.
a) Only I can be true always
b) Only II can be true always
c) Both I and II can be true always
d) Both I and II cannot be true always
Answer 3
Option a is the right answer.
Question 148
1) What could be a possible arrangement of 10 points in space so that five lines could
be drawn with a condition that every line has four points on it.
Answer :
This is a question which you would had come across in several puzzle books and
previous questions. Answer is a "star". You could try drawing a star and count the
number of intersections which should be 10.
2) Ram has 30 Rupees with him. He has two Rupee notes. One of the rupee notes is
not a 20 Rupee note. Then find out the notes he has with him ?
Answer:
These kinds of questions are the simplest of the simpler ones. But one could tend to
miss out due to nervousness.Here is the answer : One of the rupee notes is not a 20
Rupee note. So the other one can be a 20 Rupee :). And the first one should be a 10
Rupee note.
3) In a dark room with no equipments other than a clock, you are given a pendulum.
How can you measure your height now ?
Answer:
This is a bit difficult one. Time period of pendulum is given by 2 X 3.14 X (sqrt(height of
rope/gravity)). Now, gravity = g = 9.18.
Using stop clock you can find the Time Period of pendulum.(average time for one
oscillation). Using the formula for time period you can measure the height of the rope.
Then using the rope you can measure your own height.
Question
1) An elephant fell into a well of depth 20mts. Everyday it climbs 4 mts but at the end
falls by 2 mts. Find the number of days it would take for the elephant to get out of the
well ?

Solution :
Since it climbs 4 mts and falls by 2 mts everyday, effectively it climbs 2 mts everyday. In
8 days it climbs 16mts. Then on 9th day it climbs by 4 mts and can get out without
having to fall back. Hence it takes 9 days for the elephant to be safe.
Question 149
2) Ramu was driving to a city full of mathematicians. There was a distance board
reading the number of Kms he has to travel further. It stated that the distance when
divided by 2,3,4,5 and 6 leaves a remainder 1. But when divided by 11 it leaves a
remainder 0. Help Ramu in knowing the exact distance.

Solution :
LCM of 2,3,4,5 and 6 is 60. LCM and its multiples are perfectly divisible by all the
numbers 2,3,4,5 and 6.
i.e, 60,120,180... are perfectly divisible by 2,3,4,5 and 6.
Then 61,121,181.... would leave a remainder 1 when divided by any of the numbers
2,3,4,5 or 6.
Among these 121 is perfectly divisible by 11. Hence Ramu has to travel 121 Kms to
reach the city of mathematicians.
Question 150
3) Brothers Ramu ,Raju and Rahul are given ropes of equal lengths. They are given a
chance by their ailing father that they can own the land that they manage to fence
around in father's common land. Ramu fences in the shape of a triangle, Raju fences in
the shape of a circle and Rahul fences in a star shaped manner. At the end, who will
manage to acquire most land ??

Solution:
Raju would be the clear winner. This is because for a given perimeter, circle takes the
maximum area.
Question
Hard work --------- with smart preparation can help a long way in passing your exams.
a) Coupled b) Attached c) Adjoined with d) None
Answer: a) Coupled
Explanation & Inference: Coupled is the work that fits well the given blank. Though
"attached" and "adjoined with" look almost similar, you could easily make out that
"Coupled" is the correct answer by reading the sentence filled with each of the options.

Question 151
The anti riot force was asked not to resort to lathi charge but to -------- restraint till a final
command.
a) Exercise b) Commit c) Undertake d) None
Answer: a) Exercise
Explanation & Inference: This question is a much simpler one when compared to the
first question. Other than the word "Exercise" all the other words can potentially alter the
meaning of the sentence.
Question 152
-------- of parents is a most important factor when deciding partner in Indian weddings.
a) Agreement b) Consent c) Selection d) None
Answer : b) Consent
Explanation & Interference:
Consent is the correct answer. "Consent" gives the apt meaning for the sentence.
"Agreement" is a formal term while "Selection" should not have followed by "of" (instead
"by" should had come).
Question 153
Ramu is a ------ singer.
a) Skilled b) Bright c) Clever d) None
Answer: a) Skilled.
Explanation & Interference: Bright and Clever do not fit well for the context of the
sentence.
Question 154
1) A man has Ten Horses and nine stables as shown here.
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
The man wants to fit Ten Horses into nine stables. How can he fit Ten horses
into nine stables?
Answer
The answer is simple. It says the man wants to fit "Ten Horses" into nine stables.
There are nine letters in the phrase "Ten Horses". So you can put one letter each
in all nine stables.
[T] [E] [N] [H] [O] [R] [S] [E] [S]
2) To move a Safe, two cylindrical steel bars 7 inches in diameter are used as
rollers.How far will the safe have moved forward when the rollers have made one
revolution?
Answer
The safe must have moved 22 inches forward.

3) If a rook and a bishop of a standard chess set are randomly placed on a chessboard,
what is the probability that one is attacking the other? Note that both are different
colored pieces.
Answer
The probability of either the Rook or the Bishop attacking the other is 0.3611

4) If three babies are born every second of the day, then how many babies will be born
in the year 2001?
Answer
9,46,08,000 babies
Question 155
1) A man is visited by his 7 friends in the following pattern.The first friend visited every
day.The second visited every second day.The third visited every third day and so on
upto 7th friend on every 7th day.When will they all meet together.
Ans:420
2) Every man dances with 3 women and every woman dances with 3 men.And also 2
men have 2 women in common in the party. How many people attended the party?
Ans: 8
3) Two girls go to a shopping. In the first shop they spend half of what they had in their
purse + 2 rupees.Next half of remaining + 5 rs.Next half Of whatremained.The
remaining
5 rs spent on coffee.How much did they start with?
Ans: 64.
4) A man spent 1/5 of his life as young boy...,1/7,1/12, and then 5 years upto his sons
birth his son was chosen alderman 4 years ago when he was half the age of the man
now.
Find the mans age. ( refer shakuntala devi - puzzles to puzzle u- problem from that - we
dont remember exact figures ).
Ans : 84yrs
Question 156
1) I have 3 rs. and the types of stamps are 2,7,10,15,20 parse. I should buy 6 each of
2 types and 5 each of remaining 3 types exactly.What should be the types of stamps in
the 5
each lot and 6 each lot?
Ans :
5 each lot: 2,7,15
6 each lot : 10,20

2) A,B,C,D,E denote diff digits.* means multiply. AB * CD = EEE (CD * E)-AB = CC
.Then find the digits.
Ans: A,B,C,D,E =3,7,1,2,4
3) There r some chickens and some chicken field. If we sell 75 chickens Then the feed
will last 20 days longer.If we buy 100 chickens more, then the feed will get over before
15
days.What is the present number of chickens?

Ans: 300

4) What is the next number in the series:
A : 3,6,13,26,33,66,__
Ans: 73

Question 157
1) Let S be a Set of some positive integral numbers ; with an average of 47 ; and
containing the number 83 . The numbers may or maynot be distinct .However ; when
the number 83 is removed ; the Avg drops to 46 .What is the largest number that can be
possibly contained in that Set ?
Solution:
Let S be the sum of that set of n positive integers.
S/n =47
(S - 83)/(n - 1) =46
Solving the above 2 equations, we get S =1739; n =37.
This set of 37 positive integers contain 83. To get to the expected answer, we
have to suppose that 35 of the remaining 36 integers has a value of 1 each (least
+ve integer).
Thus, the largest possible interger in the set =1739 - 83 - 35*1 =1621
2) Sum of squares of two numbers 'x' and 'y' is less than or equal to 100 . How many
sets of integer solutions of 'x', 'y' is possible ?

Solutions:
x = 0, |y| <=10 ->21 solutions
|x| = 1, |y| <= 9 ->38 solutions
|x| = 2, |y| <= 9 ->38 solutions
|x| = 3, |y| <= 9 ->38 solutions
|x| = 4, |y| <= 9 ->38 solutions
|x| = 5, |y| <= 8 ->34 solutions
|x| = 6, |y| <= 8 ->34 solutions
|x| = 7, |y| <= 7 ->30 solutions
|x| = 8, |y| <= 6 ->26 solutions
|x| = 9, |y| <= 4 ->18 solutions
|x| =10, y = 0 -> 2 solutions
Total 317 solutions

3) There is a unique number of which the square and the cube together use all ciphers
from 0 up to 9 exactly once. Which number is this?
Solution:
The number is 69.
69^2=4761 and 69^3=328509..
4) You are standing next to a well, and you have two jugs. One jug has a content of 3
litres and the other one has a content of 5 liters. How can you get just 4 liters of water
using only these two jugs?

Solution:
Fill 3 liter jug pour to 5 liter jug
Fill again 3 liter jug and add to 5 liter jug then 1 liter
will be there in 3 liter jug
Pour all water outside from 5 liter jug
Fill 1 liter water from 3
liter jug to 5 liter jug
Fill 3 liter jug and add to 5 liter jug making it 4 liters of water.
Question 158
1) Eight friends Harsha, Fakis, Balaji, Eswar, Dhinesh, Chandra, Geetha, and Ahmed
are sitting in a circle facing the center. Balaji is sitting between Geetha and Dhinesh.
Harsha is third to the left of Balaji and second to the right of Ahmed. Chandra is sitting
between Ahmed and Geetha and Balaji and Eshwar are not sitting opposite to each
other. Who is third to the left of Dhinesh?

Answer:
Ahmed

Fakis Chandra
Harsha Geetha
Eswar Balaji
Dhinesh

2) A fast typist can type some matter in 2 hours and a slow typist can type the same in 3
hours. If both type combinely, in how much time will they finish?
Answer : 1 hr 12 min
Explanation : The fast typist's work done in 1 hr =1/2
The slow typist's work done in 1 hr =1/3
If they work combinely, work done in 1 hr =1/2+1/3 =5/6
So, the work will be completed in 6/5 hours. i.e., 1+1/5 hours =1hr 12 min
3) 3)1, ? , 9, 7, 7, 9, 13, 10, 9, 1, 4, 9, 16, 16, .....
What number comes at '?' at the second place from the start ?
Answer:
THE SERIES IS THE SUM OF THE DIGITS IN THE SQUARE OF NATURAL
NUMBERS :
1^2 - 1 - 1
2^2 - 4 - 4
3^2 - 9 - 9
4^2 - 16 - 1+6 - 7
5^2 - 25 - 2+5 - 7
............
Answer is 4.
4) Today is 4.11.09. keeping that figure 41109 in mind, i have arrived at the following
sequence : 2, 1, 9, 5, ? which of the following four numbers suits '?'
a) 7
b) 65
c) 4563
d) 262145
Answer is:
41109
1^4 +1 =2
1^1 +0 =1
0^1 +9 =9
9^0 +4 =5
So next is 4^9 +1 =262145
Question 159
1) In a race Andrew beats Jim. Jack is not the last. Dennis loses to both Jack and Lucia.
Jim beats Jack. Who won the race?

ANSWER:
The possible positions in the race are,
Andrew Andrew
Jim Jim
Jack Lucia
Lucia Jack
Dennis Dennis
In either case Andrew is the winner.
2) Find the digits X,Y,Z
X X X X
Y Y Y Y +
Z Z Z Z
-----------------
Y X X X Z
-----------------
ANSWER:
x+y+z =z ==>x+y =10
max value for y =1
hence x =1
also, (carry)1+x+y+z =x ==>1+y+z =10
hence z=8
X Y Z
9 1 8
3) A 1 k.m. long wire is held by n poles. If one pole is removed, the length of the gap
becomes 12/3m. What is the number of poles initially?
ANSWER:
Let the no. of poles originally =n
After taking away one pole
(n-1)*12/3 =1000
n =251
4) A + B + C +D = D + E + F + G = G + H + I =17.
IF A = 4 WHAT ARE THE VALUES OF D AND G. EACH LETTER
TAKEN ONLY ONE OF THE DIGIT FROM 1 TO 9.
Answer: A =4 ,B =2, C =6, D =5, E =3, F =8, G =1,H =7, I =9.
Question 160
1) The L.C.M. (Lowest (or Least) Common Multiple) of two numbers is 45 times to their
H.C.F (Highest Common Factor). If one of the numbers is 125 and sum of L.C.M. and
H.C.F. is 1150, the other number is:
a) 215
b) 220
c) 225
d) 235
Solution: Let L.C.M. be l and H.C.F. be h. Then l =45h
l +h =1150
This gives h =25 and l =1125
Thus the second number =(25 * 1125)/125 =225
2) Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals 2,4,6,8,10 and 12 seconds
respectively. In 30 minutes how many times they toll together.
a) 4
b) 10
c) 15
d) 16

Solution: L.C.M. of 2,4,6,8,10,12 =120
So they toll together after every 120 seconds i.e. 2 minutes. So in 30 minutes they
toll together 30/2 +1 =16 time
3) The value of (0.625 * 0.0729 * 28.9)/(0.0017 * 0.025 * 8.1) is
a) 0.3825
b) 3.825
c) 38.25
d) 382.5
Solution: The sum of decimal places in numerator and denominator being the
same, decimal point can be removed
(625*729*289) / (17*25*81) =3825
4) Linear equations are part of all math aptitude tests. They can be age related
problems, upstream, downstream problems etc
I am three times as old as my son. Five years later I shall be two and a half times as old
as my son. What is my age?
Solution:
Let my age be x years and age of my son be y years.
(i) x =3y
Five years later
(ii) x+5 =5/2(y+5)
From (i) and (ii)
y=15 and x=45
Question 161
1) Can you find out what day of the week was January 12, 1979?
Ans. Friday.
2) Find x+2y
(i). x+y=10
(ii). 2x+4y=20
Ans: (b)
3) Is angle BAC is a right angle
(i) AB=2BC
(2) BC=1.5AC
Ans: (e)
4) Is x greater than y
(i) x=2k
(ii) k=2y
Ans: (e)

Question 162
1) If x and y are the two digits f the number 653xy such that this number is divisible by
80, then x+y is equal to:
(i) 2
(ii) 3
(iii) 4
(iv) 6
Answer is :
Since 653xy is divisible by 2 as well as by 5, so y =0
Now 653x0 is divisible by 8 so 3x0 is also divisible by 8.
By hit and trial x=6 and x+y =6
2) The smallest number which when diminished by 3 is divisible by 21,28,36 and 45 is...
(i) 869
(ii) 859
(iii) 4320
(iv) 427
Answer is The required number = l.c.m. of (21,28,36 ,45)+3=1263
3) If 1.5x=0.04y then the value of (y-x)/(y+x) is
(i) 730/77
(ii) 73/77
(iii) 7.3/77
(iv) None
Answer is: x/y = 0.04/1.5 = 2/75
So (y-x)/(y+x) = (1 - x/y)/(1 + x/y) = (1 - 2/75)/ (1 + 2/75) = 73/77
4) The average age of a class is 15.8 years. The average age of boys in the class is
16.4 years while that of girls is 15.4 years. What is the ratio of boys to girls in the class?
(i) 1:2
(ii) 3:4
(iii) 3:5
(iv) None of these
Answer is :
Let the ratio be k:1.
Then k*16.4+1*15.4 +(k+1)*15.8 (16.4-15.8)k =15.8 - 15.4 k=0.4/0.6 =2/3 so
required ratio =2:3

Question 163
1) Which is the smallest addressable unit of memory?
a) 1 bit
b) 1 byte
c) 1 word
Answer is 1 bit
2) What is the size of the memory unit, WORD ?
a) CPU specific
b) 1 byte
c) 2 bytes
Answer is CPU specific
3) How many bytes make one Octet ?
a) 2
b) 1
c) 8
Answer is 1

4) Which layer of OSI is responsible for Modulation and Demodulation?
a) Physical layer
b) Data link layer
c) Network layer
Answer is Physical layer
Question164
1) Two people enter a race in whick you run to a point and back. Person A runs 20 mph to and
from the point. Person B runs to the point going 10 mph and 30 mph going back. Who came in
first?
Answer
Person A came in first.

2) Mark ate half of a pizza on Monday. He ate half of what was left on Tuesday and so on. He
followed this pattern for one week. How much of the pizza would he have eaten during the
week?
Answer
Mark would have ate 127/128 (99.22%) of the pizza during the week.
3) In the General meeting of "Friends Club", Sameer said, "The repairs to the Club will come to
a total of Rs 3120 and I propose that this amount should be met by the members, each paying an
equal amount." The proposal was immediately agreed. However, four members of the Club
chose to resign, leaving the remaining members to pay an extra Rs 26 each.How many members
did the Club originally have?
Answer
The Club originally had 24 members.

4) If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15.What is the angle between the hour and the minute
hands? ( The answer to this is not zero!)

Answer
7.5 degrees
Question 165
1) Mrs. Watsherface had a garage sale. A custmer named Gina bought an old lamp and a rug.
She paid a total of $5.25 for everything. The rug cost 25 cents more than the lamp. How much
did each cost?

Answer
The lamp cost $ 2.50 and the rug cost $ 2.75
2) SlowRun Express runs between Bangalore and Mumbai, For the up as well as the down
journey, the train leaves the starting station at 10:00 PM everyday and reaches the destination at
11:30 PM after three days.Mr. Haani once travelled by SlowRun Express from Mumbai to
Bangalore. How many SlowRun Express did he cross during his journey?
Answer
Mr. Haani crossed 7 SlowRun Expresses during his journey.

3) In a certain year, the number of girls who graduated from City High School was twice the
number of boys. If 3/4 of the girls and 5/6 of the boys went to college immediately after
graduation, what fraction of the graduates that year went to college immediately after
graduation?
Answer
Assume that number of boys graduated from City High School =B
Therefore, number of girls graduated from City High School =2*B
I t is given that 3/4 of the girls and 5/6 of the boys went to college immediately
after graduation.
Hence, total students went to college
=(3/4)(2*B) +(5/6)(B)
=B * (3/2 +5/6)
=(7/3)B
Fraction of the graduates that year went to college immediately after graduation
=[(7/3)B] / [3*B]
=7/9
Therefore, the answer is 7/9
4) A mule and a donkey were carrying full sacks on their backs.The mule started complaining
that his load was too heavy. The donkey said to him "Why are you complaining? If you gave me
one of your sacks I'd have double what you have and if I give you one of my sacks we'd have an
even amount."How many sacks were each of them carrying? Give the minimal possible answer.
Answer
The mule was carrying 5 sacks and the donkey was carrying 7 sacks.
Question 166
1) There are 6561 balls out of them 1 is heavy.Find the min. no. of times the balls have to be
weighed for finding out the haevy ball?
Ans. 8
2) If i walk with 30 miles/hr i reach 1 hour before and if i walk with 20 miles/hr i reach 1 hour
late.Find the distance between 2 points and the exact time of reaching destination is 11
am then find the speed with which it walks.
Ans: 120miles and 24 miles/hr
3) No. of animals is 11 more than the no. of birds. If the no. of birds were the no. of animals
and no. of animals were the no. of birds( ie., interchanging no.s of animals and birds.), the total
no. of legs get reduced by one fifth (1/5). How many no. of birds and animals were there?
Ans: birds:11,animals:22
4) Complete the series:5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, ?

Ans: 12
(as 5*4=20, 20+4=24, 24/4=6, 6-4=2, 2*4=8, 8+4=12).
Question167
1) Which one of the following conditions must p, q and r satisfy so that the following system of
linear simultaneous equations has at least one solution, such that p + q + r not=0?
x+ 2y 3z = p
2x + 6y 11z = q
x 2y + 7z = r
a) 5p 2q r = 0
b) 5p + 2q + r = 0
c) 5p + 2q r = 0
d) 5p 2q + r = 0

Solution:
I t is given that , if we consider the first option, and multiply the first equation by 5, second by
2 and third by 1, we see that the coefficients of x, y and z all add up-to zero.
Thus, 5p 2q r =0. No other option satisfies this.
2) In a 4000 meter race around a circular stadium having a circumference of 1000 meters, the
fastest runner and the slowest runner reach the same point at the end of the 5th minute, for the
first time after the start of the race. All the runners have the same staring point and each runner
maintains a uniform speed throughout the race. If the fastest runner runs at twice the speed of the
slowest runner, what is the time taken by the fastest runner to finish the race?
a) 20 min
b) 15 min
c) 10 min
d) 5 min
Solution:
The ratio of the speeds of the fastest and the slowest runners is 2 : 1. Hence they should meet
at only one point on the circumference i.e. the starting point (As the difference in the
ratio in reduced form is 1). For the two of them to meet for the first time, the faster should
have completed one complete round over the slower one. Since the two of them meet for the
first time after 5 min, the faster one should have completed 2 rounds (i.e. 2000 m) and the
slower one should have completed 1 round. (i.e. 1000 m) in this time. Thus, the faster one
would complete the race (i.e. 4000 m) in 10 min.
3) Dealer sold a radio at a loss of 2.5 %. Had he sold for Rs. 100 more, he would have gained 7
%.In order to gain 12 %, he should sell it for:
a) 850
b) 1080
c) 925
d) 1120
Solution:
Let c.p be c
let s.p be s
s =0.975c
Had he sold for Rs. 100 more, he would have gained 7 %
(100+0.975c-c)/c*100=7
(100-0.025c)*100 =7c
10000-2.5c=7c
c=1000
The answer should be 1120.
4) At the end of the year 1998, shepard bought nine dozen goats.Henceforth, every year he had
P% of goat at the beginning of the year and sold q% at the end of the year where p>0 and q>0.If
the shepard had nine dozen goat at end of the year 2002, after making the sales for the year,
which of the following is true??
a) p=q
b) p>q
c) p<q
d) p=q/2

Solution:
The number of goats remain the same.I f the percentage that is added every time is equal to the
percentage that is sold, then there should be a net decrease. The same will be the case if the
percentage added is less than the percentage sold.The only way, the number of goats will
remain the same is if p >q.
Question168

1) Who among the following won the men?s singles title of the French Open 2004 ?

(a) Guillermo Coria
(b) Roger Federer
(c) Andy Roddick
(d) Gaston Gaudio
Ans: Gaston Gaudio
2) The Lingaraja Temple built during the medieval period is at
(a) Bhubaneswar
(b) Khajuraho
(c) Madurai
(d) Mount Abu
Ans: Bhubaneswar
3) During the Mughal period, which one of the following were the first to come to India as
traders ?
(a) Portuguese
(b) Dutch
(c) Danish
(d) English
Ans: Portuguese
4) Who among the following Delhi Sultans is known for introducing market control mechanism
?

(a) Iltutmish
(b) Balban
(c) Alauddin Khalji
(d) Firoze Tughlaq
Ans: Alauddin Khalji
Question169
1) Which of the following cricketers holds the world record of maximum number of sixes in
Tests ?
(a) Chris Carins (New Zealand)
(b) Viv Richards (West Indies)
(c) Sachin Tendulkar (India)
(d) Wasim Akram (Pakistan)
Ans:Chris Carins (New Zealand)
2) Who among the following has been appointed the new Chief Justice of India ?
(a) Justice Rajendra Babu
(b) Justice V. N. Khare
(c) Justice R. C. Lahoti
(d) None of these
Ans:J ustice R. C. Lahoti
3) Who among the following sports persons got the honour of lighting the Olympic flame at the
Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi recently ?
(a) Anjali Bhagwat
(b) Abhinav Bindra
(c) Viswanathan Anand
(d) K. M. Beenamol
Ans: Anjali Bhagwat
4) Who among the following has been appointed new chairman of the National Commission for
Farmers ?
(a) Ajit Singh
(b) K. C. Pant
(c) Dr. M. S. Swaminathan
(d) Sharad Pawar

Ans: Dr. M. S. Swaminathan
Question 170
1) 1.A boy walks 40 km north and then walks 50km towards east. Then turns right and walks
30km and then turns right and walks 50km.Now what is the distance between this point and the
starting place?

Answer is 10km
2) A boy walks some distance towards north and then turns right, walks some distance. After
walking some time he turns left and walks some distance and then walks some dist and then he
walks at an angle of 45degree towards right and then turns to his left and walks. Towards Which
direction was he walking finally?
Answer is North-west
3) A man walks 10km towards west. Then which of the combinations will take him to
the original starting position?
a) left, left, right
b)left, right, right
c)right, left, right
d)right, right, right
Answer is right, right, right
4) My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed 10 Hrs later at a place with
coordinates 36N70W. What is the local time when my plane landed?
a)6:00 am
b) 6:40am
c) 7:40
d) 7:00
e) 8:00
Answer is
The destination place is 80 degree west to the starting place. Hence the time difference
between these two places is 5 hour 20 min. (=24hr*80/360).
When the flight landed, the time at the starting place is 12 noon (2 AM + 10 hours).
Hence, the time at the destination place is 12 noon - 5:20 hours = 6: 40 AM
1) A contractor agreeing to finish a work in 150 days, employed 75 men each working 8 hours
daily. After 90 days, only 2/7 of the work was completed. Increasing the number of men by
a)150 mens
b)200 mens
c)100 mens
Answer is 150 mens
2) A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell pulses at the cost price, but he uses a false weight of
950gm. for a kg. His gain is?
a)6.2%
b)5.3%
c)3.9%

Answer is 5.3%
3) A student divided a number by 2/3 when he required to multiply by 3/2. Calculate the
percentage of error in his result.
a)0%
b)2%
c)1%
Answer is 0%
4) What is the sum of the first 25 natural odd numbers?
a)575
b)600
c)625
Answer is 625
Question 171
1) It was calculated that 75 men could complete a piece of work in 20 days. When work was
scheduled to commence, it was found necessary to send 25 men to another project. How much
longer will it take to complete the work?
a)27 days
b)30 days
c)25 days
Answer is 30 days
2) Five boys were climbing a hill. J was following H. R was just ahead of G. K was between G &
H. They were climbing up in a column. Who was the second?
a)R
b)K
c)G
d)H
e)J
Answer is G
3) Five farmers have 7, 9, 11, 13 & 14 apple trees, respectively in their orchards. Last year, each
of them discovered that every tree in their own orchard bore exactly the same number of apples.
Further, if the third farmer gives one apple to the first, and the fifth gives three to each of the
second and the fourth, they would all have exactly the same number of apples. What were the
yields per tree in the orchards of the third and fourth farmers?
a)13 & 9 apples per tree.
b)11 & 10 apples per tree.
c)11 & 9 apples per tree.
Answer is 11 & 9 apples per tree.
4) A man bought a horse and a cart. If he sold the horse at 10 % loss and the cart at 20 % gain, he
would not lose anything; but if he sold the horse at 5% loss and the cart at 5% gain, he would
lose Rs. 10 in the bargain. The amount paid by him was Rs?
a)Cost price of horse = Rs. 100 & the cost price of cart = 200.
b)Cost price of horse = Rs. 400 & the cost price of cart = 200.
c)Cost price of horse = Rs. 500 & the cost price of cart = 300.
Answer is Cost price of horse =Rs. 400 & the cost price of cart =200.
Question 172
1) A building with height D shadows up to G. A Neighbour building with what height shadows C
feet.?
a) CD/G
b) C/DG
c) CG/G
d) DG/C
Answer is CD/G
2)A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10mph. Another person was also fined for
exceeding the speed limit by twice the same. If the second person was travelling at speed of
35mph . Findthe speed limit ?
a) 25 mph
b) 15 mph
c) 28 mph
Answer is 15 mph
3) A bus started from the bus stand at 8 Am and after staying 30 minutes at a destination return
back to the bus stand. The Destination is 27 miles from the bus stand . The Speed of the bus is
18mph . In the return journey the bus travels with 50% fast speed. At what time it is return to the
bus stand?
a) 1.30 p.m.
b) 1.45 p.m.
c) 1.00 p.m.
Answer is 1.00 p.m.
4) Two lemons cost 10 cents. Then one and a half dozen cost
a) 60 cents
b) 55 cents
c) 90 cents
Answer is 90 cents
Question 173
1) A car is filled with 4.5 gallons of fuel for a round trip . Car is taken 1/4 more than in going
than com ing up. What is the fuel consumed in coming up ?
a) 2.5 gallon
b) 2.25 gallon
c) 2.0 gallon
Answer is 2.0 gallon
2) A work is done by two people in 24 minutes. One of them alone can do it in 40 minutes. How
much time will the other person wiil take to complete it?
a) 45 min
b) 50 min
c) 60 min
Answer is 60 min
3)Low temperature at the night in a city is more than 1/2 high as higher temperature are 100.
Then What is low temperature?
a) 40 degree
b) 29 degree
c) 35 degree
Answer is 40 degree
4) A sales person multiplied by a number and get the answer 3. Instead of that number divided
by What is the answer she actually has to get.?
a) 1/5
b) 1/3
c) 1/4
Answer is 1/3
Question 174
The perimeter of a square and a rectangle is the same. If the rectangle is 12 cms. by 10 cms., then
by what percentage is the area of the square more than that of the rectangle?
a) 1 b) 3 c) 5/6 d) 1/2
Answer : c) 5/6
Reason :
Given that Perimeters of square and rectangle are the same.
Perimeter of rectangle of size 12 cms and 10 cms is 2(Length + Breadth) = 2(12+10) = 44
Perimeter of square = 44. (4 x side of square)
Length of each side of the square = 44/4 =11
Area of the square = Side
2
= 11 x 11 = 121 sq. meter
Area of the rectangle = Length X Breadth = 12 x 10 = 120 sq. meter
Percentage Increase of area of the square to that of the rectangle = (Area of Square - Area of
Rectangle) / Area of Rectangle X 100 % = (121 - 120)/120 X 100 % = 5/6 %
Question 175
Capacity of a cylindrical vessel is 25,872 litres. If the height of the cylinder is 200% more than
the radius of its base, what is the area of the base in square cms?
a) 336 b) 1232 c) 616 d) cannot be determined
Answer : c)616
Reason :
Let the radius be R and height be H
Height is 200% more than its radius.
This means H = R + 200% R = R (1 + 200/100) = 3 R
Volume of the cylinder (formula) = R
2
H
It has been mentioned that volume of the cylinder is 25,872 cm
3

22/7 R
2
H = 25,872 cm
3

Substituting H = 3R we get
R = 14 cm
Area of the base = R
2
= 22/7 x 142 = 616 cm
2

Question 176
If the radius of a circle is increased by 12%, then the area of the circle
a) decreases by 25.44%
b) increases by 25.44%
c) no change in area
d) decreases by 12%
Answer : b) increases by 25.44%
Reason :
Area of circle r
2
where r is the radius
Assume initially the radius was 10. Then area becomes 22/7x10x10 = 314.28 --> eq 1
Now if the radius is increased by 12%, it will become 10+(12/100)10 = 10+1.2=11.2
New area = 22/7 x 11.2x 11.2 = 394.24 --> eq 2
Increase in area in our case = eq 2 - eq 1 = 79.96
Percentage increase in area when radius is increased by 12% = Increase in Area / Original Area
X 100% = 79.96 / 314.28 X 100 =25.44%
Question 177
Pointing to the woman in the picture, Govind said, Her mother has only one grand child whose
mother is my wife. How is the woman in the picture related to Govind?
a) Sister b) Wife c) cousin d) data inadequate
Answer : b) Wife
Woman in the picture is told as Her mother has one only one grand child. Mother of that grand
child is Govinds wife. So woman in the picture is wife of Govind.
Question 178
Anand is the uncle of Bimala, who is the daughter of Cauvery and Cauvery is the daughter in law
of Palani. How is Anand related to Palani?
a) Son b) son in law c) Brother d) newphew
Answer : a) Son
Palanis daughter in law is Cauvery.Cauverys daughter is Bimala. Anand is uncle of Bimala.
Cauvery and Anand are siblings. Therfore Anand is son of Palani.
Question 179
Pointing to a man, Lakshmi says, This mans sons sister is my mother-in-law. How is the
Lakshmis husband related to the man?
a) son b) son-in-law c) grandson d)nephew
Answer : c) grandson
Mans sons sister = Mans daughter. Mans daughter is the mother of Lakshmis husband.
Question 180
A cylinder of diameter 14 and height 7 is converted into a cone of radius 6. Now, what could be
the percentage height of the new shape ?
a. 308% b. 32% c. 2150% d. 215%
Answer: a. 308%
Reason:
Volume of cylinder = pi X r
2
X h = pi X 49 X 7 = 343pi
Volume of the cone = Volume of cylinder = 343pi -> eq 1
Volume of cone is given by formula = 1/3 (pi X r
2
X h) = 36/3(pi)(h) = 12(pi)(h)--> eq 2 (here h
is the height of the cone)
From eq 1 and eq 2 we get 343pi = 12(pi)(h)
Therefore, height of the cone = 343/12
Percentage increase in height = ((height of the cone - height of the cylinder )/ height of the
cylinder) X 100%
= (343/12 - 7)/7 X 100
= 259/84 X 100
= 308% approximately.
Question 181
Find the largest number which gives out reminders 2 and 5 when used to divide 80 and 122.
a. 19 b. 17 c. 13 d. infinite number of solutions
Answer: c. 13.
Reason:
This is a very simple question where finding out the HCF of 80 - 2 and 122 - 5 will give the
answer.
The HCF of 78 and 117 is 13
Hint : In case you are confused about HCF, LCM stuff, you can very well do a trial and error
with options which is not a difficult task but could consume a little more time than the direct
method.
Question 182
Find the ratio of the volumes of a sphere and cone of same radius. Also the height of the cone is
twice its radius.
a. 3 : 1 b. 4 : 3 c. 4 : 1 d. 2 : 1
Answer : d. 2 : 1
Reason:
This is again a simple question that can be answered by knowing formulas.
Volume of a cone = 1/3 pi r
2
h where r is the radius and h is the height of the cone.
Now, h = 2r as per the question.
Hence volume of the cone = 2/3 pi r
3

Volume of a sphere = (4/3) pi r3 where r is the radius which is the same as that of the cone.
Ratio of volume of sphere to that of cone = (4/3) pi r
3
/ 2/3 pi r
3
= 2 : 1
Question 183
Find the missing number in the sequence 504 , _ , 990, 1320, 1716
a. 720 b. 1000 c. 721 d. 790
Answer : a. 720
The given sequence is of the form n
3
-n where n starts from 8. Hence the blank should be filled by
9
3
-9 which is 720.
Question 184
Consider a group of working men. If 1/10th of the workers are absent then work of each person
would be increased by.
a. 20% b. 22.22% c. 10% d. 11.11%
Answer 1
Answer is d. 11.11%
Let us assume 100 units of work is divided among 10 men.
When no one is absent, each member have to do 100/10 = 10 units of the work
With 1/10th of men absent, there would be 9 men present.
Now, if 100 units of work is to be done by the 9 men present, each should do 100/9 units of
work.
Extra work required from each member when only 9 men are present = 100/9 - 10 = 10/9 units.
Percentage of increase of work for each member = (Extra work required from each member
when only 9 men are present)/ (Original amount of work when everyone is present) X 100 % =
((10/9)/10)X 100% = 11.11%
Question 185
Consider the following statements,
All members of team A are good tall guys with an average height of 6 feet.
Average of the height of members of team B is lesser than that of team A.
Which could be true among the below options.
a) Every member of team B is shorter than each member of team A.
b) Few members of team B could be over 6 feet.
Answer 2
Answer is Option b) Few members of team B could be over 6 feet.
Reason : The statement says that there is a possibility that few members of team B can actually
be taller than few members of team A.
Question 186
John is supposed to walk from his house to park every morning. One morning, he is in real hurry
and wants to save at least 1/3rd of the time. By how much percentage he should increase his
speed.
a. 100% b. 33% c. 66% d. 50%
Answer 3
Answer is d. 50%
Let the distance between his house and park be 100 metres.
Lets assume he takes 30 mins daily. Hence his speed would be 100/30.
One day, if he wishes to save 1/3rd of 30 minutes, that is 10 minutes, he should cover the
distance in 20 minutes in which case his speed would be 100/20.
Required increment in speed = 100/20 - 100/30
Percentage of increase in speed = (Required increment in speed / Original speed) X 100 % =
((100/20 - 100/30) / 100/30 )X100 % = 50%.
Question 187
Consider the following three statements. P is shorter than R, Q is taller than R, S is taller than Q.
Based on the above statements, state which of the following is true.
a) S is the tallest of all b) R is taller than S c) None of the above
Answer 1
Option a) S is the tallest of all, is the correct answer. The second option is not true because S is
taller than Q who in turn is taller than R.
Question 189
Ravi describes his relationship with Raju as follows. "Raju is the eldest son of his grand father's
only daughter in law". So, how Raju is related to Ravi?
a) elder brother b) brother in law c) younger brother
Answer 2
Option a) is the right answer. Ravi's grandfather's only daughter in law has to be Ravi's mother.
Hence, the eldest son of Ravi's mother should be his elder brother.
Question 190
Say a C union has two members one requiring 2 bytes of memory and the other requiring 4 bytes
of memory? What would be the memory allocated to this data type ?
a) 4 bytes b) 2 bytes c) 6 bytes
Answer 3
Option a) 4 bytes is the right answer. Union memory allocation is based on the member that
occupies the maximum data size. Hence the answer would be 4 bytes.

Question 191
Consider the following three statements. P is shorter than R, Q is taller than R, S is taller than Q.
Based on the above statements, state which of the following is true.
a) S is the tallest of all b) R is taller than S c) None of the above
Answer 1
Option a) S is the tallest of all, is the correct answer. The second option is not true because S is
taller than Q who in turn is taller than R.
Question192
Ravi describes his relationship with Raju as follows. "Raju is the eldest son of his grand father's
only daughter in law". So, how Raju is related to Ravi?
a) elder brother b) brother in law c) younger brother
Answer 2
Option a) is the right answer. Ravi's grandfather's only daughter in law has to be Ravi's mother.
Hence, the eldest son of Ravi's mother should be his elder brother.
Question 193
Say a C union has two members one requiring 2 bytes of memory and the other requiring 4 bytes
of memory? What would be the memory allocated to this data type ?
a) 4 bytes b) 2 bytes c) 6 bytes
Answer 3
Option a) 4 bytes is the right answer. Union memory allocation is based on the member that
occupies the maximum data size. Hence the answer would be 4 bytes.
Question 195
1) Total number of boys and girls in a class is A. The total number of girls subtracted from the
total number of boys is B. Now please express the portion of girls to the total strength in terms of
'A' and 'B'.
Let x denote the number of boys. Let y denote the number of girls.
A = x + y -> equation 1
B = x - y -> equation 2
Subtracting equation 2 from equation 1 we will get y = (A - B)/2 -> equation 3
Ratio of total number of girls to the total strength will be y / x + y.
Now substituting A for x + y as per equation 1 and (A - B)/2 for y as per equation 3 we will get
the answer as
(A - B)/(2*(A + B))
Question 196
2) Find the ratio of weights of 1 gram of cotton to 1.5 gram of rubber if their densities are in the
ratio of 1 : 2.
This is a very simple question. Since the ratio of weights is the question, one need not care about
their densities.
Hence 1 gram of cotton : 1.5 gram of rubber will be in the ratio 1/1.5 = 2/3 (as simple as that :))
Question 197
3) Ravi had got twice as much as marks as Ramu. His teacher had made him a promise that, for
every mark he scores above Ramu, he would be awarded 50% of those marks as bonus. Find the
ratio of his bonus marks to the total marks of Ravi and Ramu.
Lets say Ramu has got x marks.
Then Ravi would had got 2x marks initially. But his teacher has promised a bonus of 50% of
marks from the extra marks he got more than Ravi.
Hence he would be awarded x/2 marks as bonus. Total marks of Ravi = 2x + x/2 = 5x/2.
Total marks of both the students = Total marks of Ramu + Total marks of Ravi
= x + 5x/2 = 7x/2.
Ratio of Ravi's bonus mark to the Total marks of Ravi and Ramu would be (x/2) divided by
(7x/2) = 1/7.
Question 198
1) A person with some money spends 1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of the remaining for food and 1/4 of the
remaining for travel. He is left with Rs 100/-
How much did he have with him in the begining?
Answer
Rs. 250/-

2) Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60
days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass.
How many cows are needed to eat the grass in 96 days?
Answer
20 cows

3) There is a safe with a 5 digit number as the key. The 4th digit is 4 greater than the second
digit, while the 3rd digit is 3 less than the 2nd digit. The 1st digit
is thrice the last digit. There are 3 pairs whose sum is 11. Find the number.
Answer
65292

4) Consider a number 235, where last digit is the sum of first two digits i.e. 2 + 3 = 5.How many
such 3-digit numbers are there?
Answer
There are 45 different 3-digit numbers.
Question 199
1) There are 4 parties A,B,C,D. Ram told that either A or B will win. Shyam told C will never
win. Hari told either B or C or D will win. Only one of them was Correct. Which party won?
Ans: C
2) A colck takes 33 seconds to complete the pendulum sound when it is 12:00 noon. How long
one can hear the pendulum sound it is 6:00 a.m. ie the the differrence between 1st sound and last
sound.
Ans:15 Secs
3) There are 111 players participating in a singles tennis tournament. The player who is loosing
will be out of the tournament. For each and every match, One new ball is taken. Find
the no. of balls required for the entire tournament.
Ans:110
5) I have got some money in my bag .(which is stolen after shopping I and II). I spent 10%
of my money for shopping (I) For second time,10% of the remaining money is spent for
shopping (II) The total bill amount=Rs.18. Find the amount which will be remaining in
the bag?
6) Answer: Rs.81
Question 200
1) Three cards are drawn at random from an ordinary pack of cards.Find the probability that they
will consist of a king,
a queen and an ace.
Ans. 64/2210.

2) A number of cats got together and decided to kill between them 999919 mice. Every cat killed
an equal number of
mice. Each cat killed more mice than there were cats. How many cats do you think there were ?

Ans. 991.
3) If Log2 x - 5 Log x + 6 = 0, then what would the value / values of x be?
Ans. x =e2 or e3.
4) The square of a two digit number is divided by half the number.After 36 is added to the
quotient, this sum is then divided by 2.
The digits of the resulting number are the same as those in the original number, but they are in
reverse order. The ten's place of
the original number is equal to twice the difference between its digits. What is the number?
Ans. 46