1.

The 260th term of the series a, b, b, c, c, c, d, d, d, d, e, e, e, e, e, f, f, f, f, f, f,

....is?
1. U
2. W
3. T
4. V

2. In the IT department of backrub, the administrator password is changed

every month. The team of administrator, spread across the globe, receive an
8 digits number via email. This number is to be prefixed with a single digit
number and suffixed with a single digit number to get the actual password.
The password is divisible by 11 and 8. If the team received 54218345 this
month. Then which of the following pairs give valid prefix and suffix
respectively?
1. 3,7
2. 1,6
3. 2,4
4. 4,2

3. 32 times of a two digit number is 23 times the number obtained by

reversing its digit. The sum of its digit is 15. Find the number.
1. 96
2. 69
3. 87
4. Insufficient information

4. Let N be the greatest number that will divide 148, 246 and 623 leaving
remainders 4, 6 and 11 respectively. What is the remainder if N is divided by
7?
  0
  1
  5

 6

5. How many of the integers from 1 to 86 (inclusive) contain the digit 4 or
have the digit sum divisible by 4?
1. 40
2. 41
3. 24
4. 34

6. The numbers from 5 to 26 are written side-by-side as follows 567..2526.

What is the remainder when resulting number gets divided by 9?
1. 1
2. 3
3. 8
4. 5

7. Which of the following represents the largest 4 digit number which can be
added to 7855 in order to make the derived number divisible by each of the
following numbers: 12, 14, 21, 33 and 54?
1. 461
2. 8777
3. 9953
4. 9965

8. In the sample subtraction problem below, single digits are replaced by

letters, Find the values of 4 * A + 3 * B + 7 * C * D = ?

A3C3
-1B87
--------
615D
  203
  196
  206


 199

9. The addition 742586 + 829430 = 1212016 is incorrect. It can be corrected

by changing one digit d, wherever it occurs, to another digit e. Find sum of
d and e.
 4
6
10
8

10. The greatest common divisor of two numbers A and B is 22. The least
common multiple of A and B is 2002, if A has fewer divisors B, what is A +
B?
1. 220
2. 110
3. 320
4. 440

11. If all the numbers between 114 and 400 are written on a piece of paper,
how many times will the number ‘5’ be used?
  55
  56
  59


 60

12. Three blocks of cheese weighs 690 kg, 710 kg, 750 kg, for packing the
cheese is cut in to pieces of equal weight with no waste. What will be the
minimum number of pieces?
  12
  215
  430


 None of these

13. An airplane has 4 emergency exits. In an emergency, it requires 8 seconds

per passenger to evacuate the plane through one emergency exit. If no hand
baggage is carried by the passenger. How long will it take to evacuate 53
passengers during an emergency (when hand baggage is not allowed to be
carried)?
7 min 4 sec
1 min 52 sec
 1 min 44 sec
None of the above

14. In this question a^b means a raised to the power of b. What is the
remainder when 48^565 is divided by 7?
4
5
1
6

15. Which of the following numbers must be added to 5678 to give

remainder of 35 when divided by 460?
980
797
955
618

16. a, b, c, d, and e are five consecutive integers in increasing order of size.

Which one of the following expressions is not odd?
a+b+c
ab + c
ab + d
ac + e

17. a, b, c, chosen randomly and with replacement from the set {1,2,3,4,5}.
The probability that a*b + c is even is:
1/2
64/125
59/125
2/5

18. There are 1000 ice cream vending machines in school. The 1st student
goes to all ice cream vending. The 2nd student visits every alternate vending
machine. The 3rd student visits every 3rd vending machine and same pattern
follows, then to which vending machine will the most student visit?
560
840
 680
640

19.

Permutations and combinations

2. How many positive integer numbers not more than 4300 can be formed
with the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 if repetitions are allowed?
560
565
575
625
3. A owes B Rs. 50. He agrees to pay B over a number of consecutive days
starting on a Monday, paying note of Rs. 10 or Rs. 20 on each day. In how
many different ways can A repay B. (Two ways are said to be different if at
least on one day a note with a different denomination is given.)
5
6
7
8
4. Two decks of cards are there. Each deck contains 20 cards, with numbers
from 1 to 20 written on them. A card is drawn of random from each deck,
getting the numbers x and y. What is the probability that log x + log y is a
positive integer logs are taken to the base 10.
3/200
29/200
7/400
1/50

5. How many 6 digit even numbers can be formed from digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

7 so that the digit should not repeat and the second last digit is even?
6480
320
2160
720
6. A five digit number is formed using digits 1, 2, 3, 7 and 9 without
repeating any one of them. What is the sum of all such possible numbers?
5688860
5977708
5866680
5866608

7. A number plate can be formed with two alphabets followed by two digits,
with no repetition. Then how many possible combinations can we get?
58500
67600
65000
64320

8. Two dice are thrown. Find the probability of getting a multiple of 3 or 4

as the sum.
5/9
4/9
2/9
1/9

9. What is the sum of all 4-digit numbers that can be formed using the
digits 1, 2, 3, 4 where repetition of digits is not allowed?
42785
38742
34533
66660

10. Oranges can be packed in sets of 10 oranges in box type A or 25

oranges in box type B. A carton comprising of 1000 oranges of type A and
type B is packed. How many different combinations are possible in the
number of type A and type B boxes while organizing the oranges?
18
19
21
20
 11.Sixteen football teams play in a tournament. They are first divided into
four group, each of four teams. In each group each team plays each other
once. The best two teams from each group then play in a knockout
tournament (when a team loses a game, it is eliminated) to decide the
overall winner. How many matches must be played?
16
15
31
25

12. There are two bags containing white and black balls. In the first bag
there are 8 white and 5 black balls and in the second bag there are 4 white
and 7 black balls. One ball is drawn at random from one of the bags chosen
at random. Find the probability of that ball being black.
72/140
2/10
73/143
145/246

13. There is a set of 36 distinct points on a plane with the following

characteristics:

 There is a subset A consisting of fourteen collinear points.

 Any subset of three or more collinear points from the 36 are a subset of A.

How many distinct triangles with positive area can be formed with each of
its vertices being one of the 36 points? (Two triangles are said to be distinct
is at least one of the vertices is different)
7140
4774
1540
67776

14. How many number plates can be made if the number plates have two
letters of the English alphabet (A-Z) followed by two digits (0-9)? (The
repetition of digits or alphabets is not allowed)
56800
56500
 52500
58500

15. A certain number of teams took part in a competition. Each team in the
competition. Each team in the competition must play one game with each
of the other teams. How many teams took part in the competition if they
played 55 games in all?
10
12
7
11

16. How many words of 11 letters could be formed with all the vowels
present only in the even places, and the consonants only in the odd places,
using letters of the English alphabet? Each letter may appear only once. The
vowels are A, E, I, O, U and the consonants are the remaining letters of the
alphabet. In answer, n! Denotes n factorial (or 1*2*...*n)
21!
26!/5!
(21! * 5!)/15!
21!(5! * 5!)

17. George walks 36 Kms partly at a speed of 4 kmph and partly at 3 kmph. If he had walked at a
speed of 3 kmph when he had walked at 4 kmph and 4 kmph when he had walked at 3 kmph he
would have walked only 34 km. The time (in hours) spent by George walking was:

18. In how many ways a team of 11 must be selected from 5 men and 11 women such that the
team comprises of not more than three men?

19. A play school has chocolates which can supply 50 students for 30 days. For the first ten
days only 20 students were present. How many more students can be accommodated into the
earlier group such that the entire chocolates get consumed in 30 days. Assume each student
takes the same number of chocolates.

20. Roshan is proud of his Swiss Watch that he got as birthday gift from his father. Roshni like
teasing her brother and on one occasion she said “what is there with a costly watch. The reflex
angle between the hands are the same in yours and mine.” If the time was 11:20, then what was
the reflex angle (in degrees)?

21. A circle is circumscribed by the rhombus which in turn is made up by joining the mid-points
of a rectangle whose sides, 12 cm and 16 cm respectively. What is the area of the circle?
22. A train with 120 wagons crosses Arjun who is going in the same direction, in 36 seconds. It
travels for half an hour from the time it starts overtaking the Arjun (he is riding on the horse)
before it starts overtaking Srikrishna (who is also riding on his horse) coming from the opposite
direction in 24 seconds. In how much time (in seconds) after the train has crossed the Srikrishna
do the Arjun meets to Srikrishna?

23. In the figure shown, a triangle is divided into nine stripes of equal height each parallel to
the same side of the triangle. The shaded stripes have a total area of 135 square units. What is
the area of the triangle in square units?

24. 123 typists typed 984 papers in 1/15 hour.

The number of papers typed per minute by an average typist is :

25. Amitabh’s average expenditure for the January to June is Rs. 4200 and he spends Rs. 1200 in
January and Rs 1500 in July. The average expenditure for the months of February to July is :

26. A sonata watch is sold for Rs. 440 cash or for Rs. 200 cash down payment together with Rs.
244 to be paid after one month. Find the rate of interest charged in the installment scheme :

27. The difference between simple and compound interest for the fourth year is Rs. 7280 at
20% p.a. What is the principal sum?

28. Write numbers from 146 to 395 in a sequence like 146147148149150………394395. How
many times does the digit 4 appears in the sequence?