APTITUDE TEST

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Dr.C.Sekar
1) If 102101=210212 then
112112=?
2) If 102101=200111 then
112112=?
3) If 102101=101201 then
112112=?
4)A four digit number when
multiplied by 4 gets reversed . Find
that number .
5)A five digit number when
multiplied by 4 gets reversed . Find
that number.
6) Three types of tea a,b,c costs
Rs.95/kg ,100/Kg and 70/Kg
respectively. How many Kgs of
each should be blended to
produce 100 Kg of mixture worth
Rs.90/Kg , given that the
quantities of b and c are equal?
a)70,15,15 b)50,25,25
c)60,20,20 d)40,30,30
7) 3 , 6 , 13 , 26 , 33 , 66 , ____

a)73 b)43 c)63 d)86

8) 4 , 9 , 25 , 49 , ______
a)64 b)121 c)42 d)145
9)In a two dimensional array ,
X(9,7) with each element
occupying 4 bytes of memory ,
with the address of the first
element X(1,1) is 3000 ,find the
address of X(8,5).
a)3040 b)3216 c)3212 d)3124
10) There are 150 weights . Some
are 1 Kg weights and some are 2
Kg weights . The sum of the
weights is 260 Kg . What is the
number of 1 Kg weights?
a)40 b)60 c)48 d)80
11)5 men or 8 women do equal
amount of work in a day . A
job requires 3 men and 5
women to finish the job in 10
days. How many women are
required to finish the job in 14
days?
(a) 7 days (b) 9 days
(c) 6 days (d) 8 days
12) In an objective test , for a
correct answer 4 marks are
added and for a wrong answer 2
marks are subtracted. A student
scores 480 marks from 150
questions . How many answers
are correct?
13) What number should be
added to or subtracted from
each term of the ratio 17:24 so
that it becomes 1:2?
14) 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been replaced by a young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 than
the old member?
15)A farmer has a square plot
which he wants to fence . This
plot requires 29 poles for each
side . Then what is the total
number of poles used for the
entire plot?
16)Three containers A , B and C have volumes
a , b and c respectively; and container A is
full of water while the other two are empty
. If from container A water is poured into
container B which becomes 1/3 full , and
into container C which becomes 1/2 full ,
how much water is left in the containerA?
17)I ate 100 apples in the last 5
days . Each day I ate 5 more than
the day before . How many did I
eat 2 days ago?
18)A and B can finish a piece of
work in 20 days . B and C in 30
days and C and A in 40 days . In
how many days will A alone can
finish the work?
19)The difference of a number
and its square is 1260 . What
is that number?
20)If the letters of the word rachit
are arranged in all possible ways
and these words are written out as
in a dictionary, what is the rank of
the word rachit?
21)How long will a train 100 metre
long , travelling at 72Kmph take
to overtake another train 200
metre travelling at 54Kmph?
 2 @ @ ! 7 does not
3 @ @ !occur in this multiplic-
----------------- !ation . Complete the
5 @ @ !multiplication
@ 6 @ !
@ @ 3 !
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@ @ @ @ @ !
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 23)A beggar collects cigarette
stubs and makes one full
cigarette with every 7 stubs.
Once he gets 49 stubs. How
many cigarettes can he smoke
totally ?
24)The seven digits in this subtraction problem
are 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 and 6. Each letter
represents the same digit whenever it occurs.
D A D C B
E B E G
--------------------------
B F E G
---------------------------
What digit does each letter represent?
25)One monkey climbs a pole at
the rate of 6metre/minute and
slips down 3metre in the
alternate minute . Length of the
pole is 60 metre . How much
time it will take to reach the top?
26)A person is travelling from A to B and
his friend is travelling from B to A. The
person started at noon from A to B
and his friend started at 2.00 p.m from
B to A. They both met at five minutes
past 4.00 p.m. They both reach the
destination at the same time . At what
time will they reach the destination?
27)A train after running for one hour
blasted something and runs with 3/5th
of its original speed and reaches the
destination two hour late . If the blast
had occurred 50 miles ahead it would
have reached the destination 40
minute sooner . Determine the total
distance travelled.
28)The diameter of the driving
wheel of a bus is 1.40 metres .
How many revolutions per minute
must the wheel make in order to
keep a speed of 66 Kmph?
29)What is the number of
ending zeros in the product of
numbers from 1 to 100?
30)The length of a rectangle is
reduced by 4 meter and the
breadth is increased by 3 meter.
Then the resultant squares area
is equal to the area of the
rectangle . Find the perimeter of
the rectangle.
31)A person tells a secret to
two other persons in 5
minutes . How long will it take
to tell the secret to 728
people?
32)Mr. A meets Mrs. B .Mr. B has a
daughter and a son . Son is Moti
and is married and has a son .
Mrs. Moti is Mr. As mother .
How is Mr. A related to Mr. B?
33)Which is greater 1000 to
the power 1001 or 1001 to the
power 999?
34)A beats B by 20 meters ,
while C beats B by 40 meters
in a 100 meters race . By how
much can C beat A?
35)A cube is of size 5*5*5 . Every face
has been coloured . It is divided into
125 equal parts .
a)what is the number of parts
having only one face coloured?
b)what is the number of parts
having two faces coloured?
c)what is the number of parts
having no face coloured?
36)If you start your journey 30
minutes late you have to
increase your speed by 250
Kmph to cover up 1500 Kms in
the same time . What is your
usual speed?
37)A rectangle has a length 100
meters and breadth 60 meters .
There is a road 5 meters wide on
each side of the rectangle . Find
the area of the road.
38)A man sells a product at 10%
discount and still earns a profit
of 10% . If the marked price of
the product is Rs.330/- what is
his buying price?
39)There is a five digit number .
The fifth digit is one fourth of the
third digit and one half of the
fourth digit . Third digit is one half
of the first digit . Second digit is 5
more than the fifth digit . What is
that five digit number?
40)A cyclist got his tyre punctured
when he had covered two third
of the distance to be covered .
Finishing on foot , he takes twice
the time taken before to reach
the destination . How fast does
he ride than walking?
41)The quarter of the time from
midnight to present time added
to the half of the time from the
present to midnight gives the
present time . What is the
present time?
42)There is a number when
divided by 5 gives a remainder
3 and when divided by 7 gives
a remainder 5 . Find the least
such number .
43)Find the number in the
series 1 , 2 , 3 , 8 , __, 224.
44)A bag contains 20 yellow balls ,
10 green balls , 5 white balls , 8
black balls and 1 red ball . What
is the minimum number of balls
one should take, to make sure
that he gets at least two balls of
the same colour ?
45)Two trains each 1/6 mile in
length run in opposite directions
to each other with equal speed
of 60 miles/hour . What is the
time taken to completely cross
over the two trains?
46)Each alphabet stands for one digit in the
multiplication.
T H I S
I S
----------------------------
X F XX
X X UX
-----------------------------
X X NX X
------------------------------
What is the maximum value T can take?
47)How many squares with
sides 1/2 inch long are
needed to cover a rectangle
that is 4 ft long and 6 ft wide?
48)Two boats start from opposite
banks of river perpendicular to the
shore . One is faster than the other .
They meet at 720 yards from one of
the ends . After reaching opposite
ends they rest for 10 minutes each .
After that they start back . This time
on the return journey they meet at
400 yards from the other end of the
river . Calculate the width of the
river .
49)There are 12 consecutive flags
at an equal interval of distance .
th
A man passes the 8 flag in 8
seconds . How many more
seconds he will take to pass the
remaining 4 flags?
50)A man covered 28 steps in 30
seconds . Next time he decided
to move fast and covered 34
steps in 18 seconds . How many
steps are there on the escalator
when it is stationary?
51) How old are your three daughters? Fred asked
a friend one day.
The product of their ages is 36, replied his friend.
You are not giving me enough information
protested Fred.
The sum of their ages is the age of your oldest
son
I still need more information
All right, then, I can tell you that the eldest
daughter, who is atleast a year older than the
other two, is a very fine pianist.
Ah! Now I know how old your daughters are.
What are the ages of Freds friends daughters?
52) Four athletes Ann, Bea, Carol and Dorothy went
out one morning and ran a race.
At the end of the race, the following statements were
made:
Ann : I didnt come in first or last.
Bea : I didnt come in last.
Carol : I was first.
Dorothy : I was last.
It is known that one, and one only, of the four
athletes is lying. Who won the race?
53) Four brothers go to a dance.
As they leave, each one of the brothers accidentally
takes a hat belonging to another brother and a coat
belonging to another different brother.
Maurice takes the coat belonging to the brother
whose hat got taken by Phil, while Phils coat got
taken by the brother who took Maurices hat.
Serge took Johns hat. Whose coats and hats were
taken by Maurice and Phil?
54) An international school has 250
students, each of whom speaks several
languages. For any pair of students, say
A and B, there is one language that A
speaks that B doesnt and another
language that B speaks but A doesnt.
What is the minimum number of
different languages spoken in the
school?
55) Eleven theatre groups took part in a
festival. Everyday some of the groups
put on their plays while the others
watched. When the festival was over it
was possible to affirm that each one of
the groups had been able to attend,
atleast once, the performance of each of
the other groups. What is the minimum
number of days that the festival lasted?
56) Three sisters Marcia, Jan and Cindy
went into a shop.
Marcia bought four pastries, a
chocolate bar and ten mints all for
$1.69.
Jan bought three pastries, a chocolate
bar and seven mints and paid $1.26.
How much did Cindy pay in total for
one pastry, one chocolate bar and one
mint?
57) A barrel is full of water. All the water
in a barrel is put in equal quantities
into three buckets of different sizes.
When the operation has been
completed it is noted that the first
bucket is half-full, the second is two-
thirds full, while the third is three-
quarters full. If the capacity in gallons
of the barrel and each of the buckets is
a whole number, what is the minimum
capacity of the barrel?
58) How to express
64 using only two
fours and any
combination of
arithmetical signs?
59) In a school there are 158
students. Although there are
more girls than boys, only 1/11 of
the girls wear glasses, while 1/7
of the boys wear them. How
many boys and how many girls
are there in the school?
60) What is the smallest
pair of consecutive whole
numbers such that the
sum of the digits in each
of them is divisible by 17?
61) I have twelve envelopes
numbered 1 through 12 and
twelve cards numbered 110
through 121. Can I place one
card inside each envelope so
that the number in the envelope
divides the number on the card
inside it?
62) Take any positive whole number not
greater than 50. If the number is even,
divide by 2. If the number is odd multiply
it by 3 and add 1 to the result. Apply the
same method to the resulting number, and
continue in this way forming a chain of
numbers until you finally arrive at the
number 1. Of the numbers not greater
than 50, which takes the longest to reach
the number 1?
63) A certain whole number
whose last digit is 7, has the
curious property that in order
to multiply it by 7, all that
needed is to take the 7 from its
right end and place it at the
beginning. What is the number?
64) The number of digits used to
number the pages of a book is
exactly a multiple of the
number of pages in the book.
The book contains over 1000
pages but fewer than 10,000.
Exactly how many pages does it
contain?
65) There are 100 marbles in five bags.
If the first and second bag contains
between them 52 marbles, the second
and third together contains 43, the
third and fourth contain 34, and the
fourth and fifth contain 30 marbles,
how many marbles are there in each
bag?
66) I had some Coconuts in a basket
for sale. A customer came and
asked half of the coconuts plus
half a coconut with the condition
that no coconut should be broken
or cut. I gave him. The second
customer came and he also bought
coconuts in the same manner.
Altogether six customers came
and they bought coconuts in the
same manner. Two coconuts were
left in the basket. How many
coconuts did I have for sale?
67) A group of boys and girls are
playing. 15 boys leave. There
remain two girls for each boy.
Then 45 girls leave. There
remain five boys for each girl.
How many boys were there in
the original group?
68) Zita, her brother, her daughter and her
son are tennis players. As a game of
doubles is about to begin:
Zitas brother is directly across the net
from her daughter.
Her son is diagonally across the net from
the worst players sibling.
The best player and the worst player are
on the same side of the net.
Who is the best player?
69) A father had three sons. He brought some
apples. He ate one apple and divided the
remaining into three equal parts and placed it
on the dining table . The first son took one
share and kept it in his room. Further he took
one apple from the two shares and ate it. He
then divided the remaining into three equal
parts. The second son came, took one share for
him, ate one apple from the two shares and
divided the remaining apples into three equal
parts. The third son also acted like the first
two sons. Again the father came. He took one
share. He ate an apple from the remaining two
shares. But he could not divide the
remaining into three equal parts. Find the
minimum number of fruits that the father first
brought to home.
70) Four men- Aaron, Barry, Colin and David and
four women- Marie, Norma, Olive and Pearl
attended a wedding. One of the four men married
one of the four women.
If Aaron did not get married and if Marie did not
get married, then Olive got married.
If Aaron did not get married and if Norma did
not get married, then Barry got married.
If Barry did not get married and if Olive did not
get married, then Colin got married.
If Colin did not get married and if Norma did not
get married, then Marie got married.
Who got married?
71) The owner of the mansion has been murdered.
The visitors to the mansion were Allen, Bixby and Crain.
The murderer, who was one of the three visitors, arrived
at the mansion later than atleast one of the other two
visitors.
A detective, who was one of the three visitors, arrived at
the mansion earlier than atleast one of the other two
visitors.
The detective arrived at the mansion at midnight.
Neither Allen nor Bixby arrived at the mansion after
midnight.
The earlier arriver of Bixby and Crain was not the
detective.
The later arriver of Allen and Crain was not the
murderer.
Who was the murderer?
72) A says to B, on the occasion of
their common birthday:

When I reach your age you will be

three times as old as I was, when
you were my age now. But dont
feel too bad about it; we really are
the youngest we could be under the
circumstances.

How old are A and B?

73) A says to B, If I were your
age, I would be three times as
old as I am. B replies, Yes,
and if I were as old as you are, I
would have to wait 15 years to
be half as old as I am now

How old are they?

74) The combined ages of reena
and seena are 64 years and
reena is twice as old as seena
was when reena was half as old
as seena will be when seena is
three times as old as reena was
when reena was three times as
old as seena.
How old is reena?
75) The hour hand and the
minute hand of a clock are
exactly on minute divisions of
the clock face and the minute
hand is exactly 13 minute
divisions ahead of the hour
hand.

What is the exact time?

76) Write down a ten digit number
satisfying the following:

The digit in the highest place

value is equal to the number of
zeros in the whole number. The
next digit is equal to the number of
ones in the number. Continue in
this manner until you have filled in
the complete ten digit number.
77) A magician has one hundred cards
numbered 1 to 100. He puts them into three
boxes a red one, a white one and a blue one,
so that each box contains atleast one card. A
member of the audience selects two of the
three boxes, chooses one card from each and
announces the sum of the numbers on the
chosen cards. Given this sum, the magician
identifies the box from which no card has
been chosen.
How many ways are there to put all the cards
into the boxes so that this trick always work?
78) A says, The horse is not
black
B says, The horse is either
brown or grey.
C says, The horse is
brown.
Atleast one is telling truth
and atleast one is lying. Tell
the colour of the horse.
79) There are some fruits in a
basket. The first customer
buys half of the fruits. The
second customer buys one-third
of the remaining, the third
customer buys one fourth of
the remaining and so on and the
nineth customer buys one-tenth
of the remaining. There are
252 fruits remaining in the
basket. How many fruits are
there in the beginning?
80) Four persons A,B,C,D are sitting around
a round table. Each has some money.
They play a three round game. A starts the
game. He gives to B,C, and D, the same
amount that each has. Then B gives to A,C
and D, the same amount that each has
now. Then C gives to A,B and D, the same
amount that each has now. At the end of
this game each member has Rs.32. How
much money does each have at the
beginning?
81) A pilgrim wants to offer 5
coconuts to the main deity of a large
temple. To reach the main deity at
the sanctum sanatorium, the pilgrim
has to pass through 10 gates. At
each gate he has to offer one
coconut for each bag he carries.
Each bag can hold only ten
coconuts. How many coconuts
should he carry from the main gate?
82) A test has 50 questions. A
student scores 1 mark for a
correct answer, -1/3 for a wrong
answer and 1/6 for not
attempting a question. If the
net score of a student is 32, the
number of questions answered
wrongly, by that student cannot
be less than______
83) My house has a number. If
my house number is a
multiple of 3, then it is a
number from 50 through 59.
If my house number is not a
multiple of 4, then it is a
number from 60 through 69.
If my house number is not a
multiple of 6, then it is a
number from 70 through 79.
What is my house number?
84) I live in a long street. Numbered
on the side of my house are the
houses one, two, three and so on.
All the numbers on one side of my
house add up to exactly the same as
all the numbers on the other side of
my house. There are more than 50
houses on that side of the street but
not so many as 500.
find my house number.
85) There are 100 ballot boxes in a
room and there are 100 men. All the
boxes are closed. The first man
opens all the boxes. The second
man closes every second box. The
third man changes the state of every
third box and so on. Finally the
100th man changes the state of the
100th box. How many ballot boxes
are opened?
86)You are given 100 coins of
which one is having less
weight and all others are of
equal weight.You are given a
balance without standard
weight. In how many
weighing can the false coin
be taken out?
87)Find the least number of standard
weights necessary to weigh any
integral weight from 1 to 121 kg,
a)When the weights are put in one
pan only
and
b)When the weights can be placed in
either pan.
88) There is a false balance. When a
standard weight of 1 kg is placed in the
left pan, we have to place 12 apples in
the right pan to balance it. When the
standard weight of 1 kg is placed in the
right pan, we have to place 8 apples in
the left pan to balance it. If each apple
is of the same weight, what is the
weight of each apple?
89) Sam and Mala have a
conversation. Sam says, I am
certainly not over 40. Mala says,
I am 38 and you are atleast 5
years older than me. Now Sam
says, You are atleast 39. All the
statements by the two are false.
How old are they really?
90) A certain number of small
cubes are put together to
make a larger cube. All the
six faces of the larger cube
are painted with red colour.
The larger cube is then broken.
If the number of cubes having
three faces painted and those
having two faces painted are
in the ratio 2:15, then find the
total number of small cubes.
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