Sunday, April 3, 2011

Aptitude 15



1)         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 woman are required to finish the job in 14 days.

2)         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 were correct?

3)         What number should be added to or subtracted from each term of the ratio 17: 24 so that it becomes equal to 1: 2?

4)         The average age of 10 members of a committee is the same as it was 4 years ago, because an old member has been replaced by a young member.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?

5)         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 container A?

6)         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?

7)         I ate 100 apples in the last five days. Each day I ate 5 more than the day before. How many did I eat 2 days ago?

8)         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 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 have arrived?

9)         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"?

10)       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 finish the job?
11)       How long will a train 100 meter long, traveling at 72kmph take to overtake another train 200 meter long traveling at 54kmph?

12)       A four digit number when multiplied by 4 gets reversed. Find that number?

13)       The difference of a number and its square is 870.What is the number?

14)       A trader has 100 Kg of wheat, part of which he sells at 5% profit and the rest at 20% profit. He gains 15% on the whole. Find how much is sold at 5% profit?

15)       A dog takes four leaps for every five leaps of hare but three leaps of the dog is equal to four leaps of the hare. Compare speed?

16)       There is six letter word VGANDA. How many ways you can arrange the letters in the word in such a way that both the A's are together?

17)       The ratio of Boys to Girls is 6:4. 60% of the boys and 40% of girls take lunch in the canteen. What % of class takes lunch in canteen?

18)       A son and father go for boating in river upstream. After rowing for 1 mile. Son notices that the hat of his father is falling in the river. After 5 min. he tells his father that his hat has fallen. So they turn around and are able to pick the hat at the point from where they began boating after 5 min. What is the speed of river?

19)       2 Oranges, 3 Bananas and 4 Apples cost Rs.15. 3 Oranges 2 Bananas and 1 Apple costs Rs. 10. What is the cost of 3 Oranges, 3 Bananas and   3 Apples?

20)       A company rented a machine for Rs.700/- a month.  Five years later the treasurer calculated that if the company had purchased the machine and paid Rs.100/- monthly maintenance charge, the company would have saved Rs.2000/-. What was the price of the machine?

21)       On a given day, a bank had 16000 cheques returned by customers. Inspection of the first 800 cheques indicated that 100 of those 800 had errors and were therefore not available immediately for data processing. On this basis, how many cheques would be available immediately for data processing on that day?

22)       A company figured it needed 37.8 sq. feet of carpet for its reception room. To allow for waste, it decided to order 20% more material than needed.  Fractional parts of sq. feet cannot be ordered.  At Rs.9/- sq. feet, how much would the carpet cost?
23)       What percentage of the candidates passed both in science and mathematics? If 52 percent of the candidates failed in science and  42% of the candidates failed in mathematics ?

24)       One person starts from A towards B and at the same time another person starts from B in the opposite direction. When they meet the first person had traveled 18 miles more than the second person. After meeting they reach their destinations in 13.5 minutes and 24 minutes respectively. What is the distance between A and B?

25)       A frog jumps 3 ft comes back 2 ft in a day. In how many day it will come out of 30ft deep well

26)       Product of three consecutive numbers is 210.  What is the sum of two least numbers?

27)       A B C D E
         * 4
   ----------  
 E D C B A     find E  

28)       A’s place is 7th from left .B’s position is 9th from the right. After interchanging their position A’s position is 11th from the left. How many candidates are there?

29)       In a journey of 15 miles two third distance was traveled with 40 mph and remaining with 60 mph. How much time the journey takes?

30)       A started at 9.00 AM with 6 mph and B started at 9.30 AM with 8mph in the same direction.  At what time they will meet?

31)       There are n urns and m balls. If we put 3 balls in each urn 3 balls will be excess. If we put 4 balls in each urn, 1 urn will be excess. Find no. of Urns and Balls?

32)       A can swim & cross 50m(the length of swimming pool) in 2 min. B can swim & cross 50m in 2min 15sec. Every time when they meet a bell gong is struck. For 2000 m how many bell sounds might be produced?

33)       Find out the total numbers between 1 to 999 that are neither divisible by 8 nor by 12?

34)       A car journeyed a certain distance in 7 hrs in forward journey and in the return journey increased its speed by 12km/hr and covers the distance in 5 hrs. What is the distance?

35)       One watch is showing 30 past 3 .What is the angle between minutes & hours hand?

36)       One ship goes along the stream direction 28 km and in opposite direction 13 km in 5 hrs for each direction. What is the velocity of stream?

37)       Find the result of the following expression if, M denotes modulus operation, R denotes round-off, T denotes truncation: M(373,5)+R(3.4)+T(7.7)+R(5.8)

38)       b g b d q m b g d m g b g g b q m b g q b g d g b a m g b g m
How many b 's are such that each b is followed by g next to it, and the g is not followed by d next to it.

A causes B or C, but not both
F occurs only if B occurs
D occurs if B or C occurs
E occurs only if C occurs
J occurs only if E or F occurs
D causes G, H or both
H occurs if E occurs
G occurs if F occurs
   
39)       If A occurs which of the following must occur
I. F & G
II. E and H
III. D
(a) I only   (b) II only  (c) III only  (d) I,II, & III
(e) I & III (or) II & III but not both            

40)       If B occurs which must occur
(a)  D   (b) D and G  (c) G and H  (d) F and G  (e) J  

41)       If J occurs which must have occurred
(a)E  (b) either B or C  (c) both E & F  (d) B  (e) both B & C 

42)       Which may occur as a result of cause not mentioned
                  (1) D   (2) A   (3) F
    (a) 1 only  (b) 2 only  (c) 1 & 2  (d) 2 & 3  (e) 1,2,3
  
43)       E occurs which one cannot occur
a) A   (b) F   (c) D   (d) C   (e) J




44)       A family, planning a weekend trip, decides to spend not more than a total of 8 hours driving. By leaving early in the morning, they can average 40 miles per hour on the way to their destination. Due to the heavy Sunday traffic, they can average only 30 miles per hour on the return trip. What is the farthest distance from home they can plan to go?

45)       Sum of ages of a father & his 8 sons is 186. Father’s age is 50 & his youngest son’s age is 3. Find the age of elder son if all the sons are born at equal intervals?

46)       There were 3 vacancies in a company which are cashier, clerk and accountant. And there were 3 people namely Nelson, Miller and Clarke. You have to find the Position of each of 3 candidates based on following conditions.

1.      If nelson is cashier, miller is clerk
2.      If nelson is clerk, miller is accountant
3.      If miller is not accountant, Clarke is clerk
4.      If Clarke is accountant, nelson is cashier

47)       The perimeter of a square is 44m more than that of another and 187 sq. m more in area then the side of the larger square is?

48)       The least integer n for which the sum 1+3+5+---+ (2n+1) exceeds 9999 is?

49)       Two pumps fill a tank in 20 hrs. One pump fills the same tank 10 hrs faster than the other pump. In what time the other pump fills the tank?

50)       Six swimmers A B C D E F  compete in a race. There are no ties. The out comes are as follows.
 1. B does not win.
       2. Only two swimmers seperate E & D
       3. A is behind D & E
       4. B is ahead of E , with one swimmer intervening
       5. F is a head of D
                  a)  who is fifth
                  b) How many swimmers separate A and F
                  c) The swimmer between C & E is
d) If the end of the race, swimmer D is disqualified by the Judges  then swimmer B finishes in which place

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