Sunday, April 3, 2011

APTITUDE 6




1)      There are 729 cubes and from the edges the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th pieces are removed and the remaining are painted in black.
§         Find the number not coloured black
§         Find the number with 2 sides Black
§         Find the number with 1 side black
§         Find the number with 3 sides black
§         Find the number with more than 3 sides black

2)      A teacher has 120 sweets with him. If there were 4 students less then each of the students will get one more each. Find the number of students

3)      54 27 30 15 18 9  _____

4)      3 eat 3 rasogulas in 3 minutes, how many minutes it will take for 12 to eat 12 rasagula

5)      Flow in a pipe is three times that of the other. If it takes 24 hours for the slower pipe to fill a tank. Find the time if both works together

6)      A tank is one fifth full and after one liter is added it becomes one fourth full. Find the capacity.

7)      If Meena’s age was twice of her present age, when subtracted from four times three years from hence, with three times the three years before her present age. What will be her age after one year?

8)      What is the maximum no. of 4 digit numbers formed from the digits 0,1,2,3 without the repetitions of numbers in the digits?

9)      If X and Y are positive integers and if X-Y is always even , then which of the following is always true?

10)  A man was given certain number of machines, through which he was able to complete a job in 3 days. If three more machines were given to the man, then he could complete the job in 2 days. If all the machines work on the same rate, then 1 machine will take how many days to complete a work?

11)  An officer kept files on his table at various times in the order 1,2,3,4,5,6 .Typist can take file from top whenever she has time and type it. What order she can’t type.?

12)  4 weights are weighed in pairs. Weights of pairs are determined as 103,105,106,106,107,109.  What is the minimum weight?
13)  Out of 32 books the cost of 10 books is Rs. 50 each and he got a profit of 4%. He sells 15 books at a profit of 3.8461% on the selling price of  Rs 70. The remaining cost is 576. The remaining books are sold at Rs 74. What is his total profit.

14)  Three men A, B, C plays Cards. If one loses the game he have to give Rs.3. If he wins the game he will gain Rs.6. If A has won 3 Games, B loses Rs.3, C wins Rs.15.What is the total no. of games played?

15)  A group of students are made to stand around in a circle. Starting from one student, they were asked to call number from 1 onwards. One after the other. The  rule  was that the  student calling  a number which is either  a multiple  of 7 or that has a digit sum of 7 should clap his hands. How many claps were there   when they counted upto 1725?


16)  In question 15 above let us assume that there   are 11 students standing in a circle. Student No 1 started the process of calling numbers, followed by students 2, 3 and so on. They continued going around the circle and counted upto 500. The last person to clap must be  _____  student number of the circle

Directions for Questions 17-19
Harbhajan and Kumble play for Delhi cricket club and each considers himself  to be a better  bowler than the other.  After each match, they compare their bowling averages [ratio of number of runs scored against to the number of wickets taken] and the one with the higher average for the match takes the other out to dinner.
In the first innings of a match against BCC in a tournament, Kumble took the first wicket and had 84 runs scored against him. Harbhajan had 252 runs scored against him but had a lower building average than Kumble [for the first innings).  In this second innings, Kumble had 252 runs scored against him while Harbhajan had 84 runs scored against him and again Harbhajan’s average [for the second innings] was lower than Kumble’s.
Bit it was Harbhajan who lost in the match average and had to take Kumble out to dinner.
[Note: Maximum number of wickets that can be taken in an innings is 10]

17)  How many  wickets  did  Kumble take in the second  innings?
                  a) 8      b) 7      c)4       d)cannot be determined                   

18)  What  is the bowling average of Harbhajan for the  entire match?
            a) 48          b) 42                c) 28                d) Cannot be determined

19)  How many wickets did both Kumble  and Harbhajan, put together, take  for the entire  match?
1) 14          2)15                 3)12                 4) 10


20)  Find the area not occupied by circles:  Given length =y breadth =x

21)  A series  is formed of single digits as follows. How many numbers are there in this series, which can be divided by either 2   or 3 . but not  by  both and is preceded by an odd number?
                  2 4 3 8 8 5 9 6 7 3 1 2 4 8 9 5 6 2 1 4 5 7 8 5 6 6 4 2 1 3
                  a) 4                  b) 7                  c) 8                  d) None of these.

22)  “Central college canteen captain, get me a cup of coffee! Can you?”  How often does the number of ‘e’s exceed the number of ‘c’s in the above statement?

23)  Candidates P and Q Contested   in an election in a   country where the voters pre-decide the candidate they will vote for by giving a promise before the polling day.  As per the promises received from the voters, P was to win the election by a margin of 1 vote.  However, on the day of election, 1/7th of the candidates who had promised to vote for P, voted for Q. similarly 1/9th of the candidates who had promised to vote for Q, shifted their votes to P.  Q finally won the election by 1 vote.  The total number of voters in the election must be.

24)  A and B run in opposite directions from P on a circle with different but constant speeds. A runs in clockwise direction. They meet for the first time at a distance of 900 meters in clockwise direction from P and for the second time at a distance of 800 meters in anticlockwise direction from P. If B is yet to complete one round, the circumference of circle is

25)  You have reached Utopia where you find two kinds of precious stones, rubies and emeralds. The worth of a ruby and that of emerald is Rs 4 lakhs and Rs 5 lakhs respectively while the weights are 0.3Kg and 0.4Kg respectively. You have a bag that can carry maximum .of 12Kgs. How many rubies and emeralds would you like to carry such that their total value is maximized

26)  When the head of a military convoy is in line with  a pole, a messenger on a motorcycle  from the  rear moves forward to give  a message to the convoy commander who is traveling  in the leading vehicle. The length of the  convoy   is 1 km. By the time  the messenger, after  giving the message  comes back to  join the rear  of the convoy, he finds that  the  last vehicle of the  convoy has just  crossed  the pole. If both the convoy  and the messenger  were  traveling  at constant  speed, how much distance  the messenger  must have covered from the time he left  the rear  of the  convoy till he  joined it  at his original place ?

27)  On a particular  day in a restaurant , 2/3rd of the customers had lunch , 10 customer had both lunch and dinner , 12 had dinner while 6 did not have either lunch or dinner but visited the restaurant with friends. How many customers in all visited the restaurant that day?

A Tourist has to visit six places P, Q, R, S T and U exactly only during the course of his tour. He decides to visit P before Q and T. He also decides to Visits Q before S and being somewhat superstitious, decides to visit R as his third place on the tour. 

28)  If the tourist visits U first, which place does he visit second?

29)  If the tourist visits S just before T and immediately after U he must visit S as his   -------   place?

30)  A wood blog weights 30 kg. What will be the weight of the blog if its thickness is doubled and length is reduced to half.

31)  In  a particular  language, the codes  for some words are written as under ‘true’  is coded  as qyxp, ‘star’  is  coded as  yxzr, ‘real’ is coded as rsyq, ‘stud’ is coded  as ztpx, ‘tear’ is coded  as yqrx: The letter  ‘t’ is coded as

32)  The letter ‘s’ is coded as

33)  The ‘p’  represents the letter

Please read the following passage for answering  Question  34
What is the difference between Junior beggars and Junior  partners? If the Junior gives back some fraction of what he gets, insecurity of business terms, he is a partner.  In NATO, European countries are Junior partners, providing some security and business to the US.  To  lesser extent that is true of Singapore,Taiwan and South Koriea. On the other hand, Junior beggars are those that get a lot and give little or nothing. Many African  countries are Junior beggars. So too for decades, was India.

34)  It can be  concluded from the above passage that
a.       Beggars can never become partners.
b.      Whites are partners and blacks are beggars.
c.       India is not tagged as one of the Junior beggars anymore.
d.      Chinese and Japanese are neither partners not beggars.

35)  In the  adjoining  figure,
Radius  OA = 5 cm. BC = 6 cm. CD =2 cm. Find the area of shaded region.


Questions  36 and 37 are  based on the following

     Ram, Rahim and  Robert were  attending an Artists summit in Hyderabad.         One of  them was from  Delhi, one from Lucknow and the third was from        Patna. Each of  them specialized in one art form. One was a painter, one      was a singer and one was  a dancer. The following  additional  information is      known about them.

Ram was not  from Lucknow and he always preferred  sitting next to  the  dancer.
The painter was from Lucknow
Robert was from Delhi ?
36)  Who is the dancer ?
                  1) Ram            2) Rahim         3) Robert         4) Insufficient data

37)             Which of the following is true ?
                 A)The singer is from Patna
                 B) Ram is a painter
                 C) Ram sat next  to Robert
                  1) A & B          2) A & C         3) B & C          4) A, B & C

38)  Questions 38  and 39  are based on the following.
                  In  a particular system of numerology , the English letters are assigned numerical values form  1 onwards as per the alphabetical order and are added till there is only one digit left.  So alphabet ‘a’ is assigned a value of 1, b=2, c= 3 and so on.        ‘India will have a numerical value of

39)   One   numerologist  predicts the professor  of the  person  based on the numerical  values of their names.  As per him, a person with 2 as the numerical value of his name will be  a political leader, 4  a finance expert , 6 a consultant  and 8 a businessman.  According to this numerologist, “ Arvind Kumar’ will be a
      1)  Polictical  Leader  2) Finance Expert  3)  Consultant    4) Businessman


40)  If six of the  above companies represent the entire supply of mobile phones, what is the demand  supply gap  of mobile phones in   July 2005?
a)      Excess  demand  of 300  units
b)      Zero
c)       Excess supply of 100 units
d)      Excess demand of 1000 units

41)  The demand for company Q’s  Phone  approximately  what percentage of the demand for the phones of company S?
                  1) 58                2) 70                3) 66                4) 27

42)  The  merger of which two companies will make their demand and supply equal? 1) Q  & R              2) R & S                 3) T & U         4) U & P

      Please  read the following passage carefully before answering  Question 41
      Apart from such endless instance  of authorial  desire to control  meaning         and interpretation – even as history actually slips  out of  their grip – there         are other  serious  problems  with  this book. To name just one; this is elite          history at its  worst , a history that moves between congresses, conferences        and resolutions, with  no sense of any movement and ferment   anywhere          on the  ground.
43)   The above  passage  is a part of the review  of  a book. In this passage, the reviewer is trying  to point out :
1)      the author’s control  over the theme  of the book
2)      How the congress  was responsible  for the  elite  history.
3)      The negative aspects of  this book
4)      Serious  problems  arising  out of control over the meaning  and      interpretation   of history.

      Questions 44 to 45 are based on the following: Following functions are defined.
  • Max (a,b)  = Maximum of ‘a’ & ‘b’
  • Min (a,b)   = minimum of ‘a’ &’b’
  • ADV(a)= Integer value  less than or equal to ‘a’
  • DIS(a)   - Integer value greater than or equal to ‘a’
  • Mul (a,b) = Product of ‘a’ &’b’
  • Div (a,b) = ‘a’ divided by ‘b’
  • Add(a,b) = ‘a’ added to ‘b’
44)  A number ‘x’ with two decimal points  needs to be rounded off to the nearest integer. The function  that makes it possible is
a)      ADV(Mul(Div(Add(x,50),o.5),10))
b)     DIS(Div(Add(Mul(x,100),50),100))
c)      ADV(Div(Add(Mul(x,100),50),100))
d)     DIS(DIV(Add(Mul(x,10),50), 100))
45)  The greatest  of a,b,c is to  be multiplied by an integer ‘x’ where ‘x’ is a quotient of this greatest  of {a,b,c} divided by the lowest of (a,b,c) “ which  of the following functions can achieve this?
1)      Mul(Max(Max(a,b), c),ADV(Div(Max(Max(a,b),c), Min(Min(a,b),c))))
2)      Mul (Max(a,b),c), ADV(Div(Max(a,b),c), Div (Min(a,b)c)))
3)      Mul(Max(Max((a,b),c)Div(Max(Max(a,b),c),Min(Min(a,b),c)))
4)      Mul(a, (Max(b,c))
.
46)   In town of 500 people, 285 read The Hindu and 212 read Indian express and 127read Times of India 20 read The Hindu and Times of India and 29 read The Hindu and Indian Express and 35 read Times of India and Indian express. 50 read no news paper. Then how many read all the three papers

Directions for  Questions 47-48
A number  of sentences  are given below, which when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled  with a letter. Choose the most  logical order of sentence  among the four given choice  to constitute  the paragraph.
47)            
a)      This resulted in the state falling on tough times.
b)     Once well known and envied for its power situation, the state                  virtually plunged into darkness.
c)      The neglect of roads  spelt doom for the development of the state            causing  untold miseries  to its people.
d)     Recent years saw gross neglect of the infrastructure
     1) ACBD         2) CADB         3) DABC         4) BDCA

48)   
a)      The fate for lakhs  of Indian villagers, then  lies solely in Dhaka’s  hands .
b)     So far, they haven’t  been successful.
c)      Bangladesh is not likely to agree to this proposal.
d)     Kolkata or New Delhi can do  very little  but pressure the Bangladeshi Government.
                 1) CADB         2) ACBD         3) DABC         4) BDCA
49)  If x stands for subtraction
<  stands for addition
+  stands for Multification
Ø      Stands for division
/ stands for less than
= stands for greater than
-          stands for equal to
 Which of the following statements is true?
1)      8<4X6>2+3 = 12 X 3 +8>4<3
2)      22 X10 <24>6+2/35>5<3+2<12 X8
3)      32 X18>3<3X17 = 41X12+2X34X18<36 >6
4)      8 +3>4 X4+3= 18 X10+ 3 >6 X3

50)  Please read  the following passage carefully before  answering Question Bringing spirituality  to the workplace  is bringing those thoughts to the workplace. We are  materialistic when we believe and act as if life is all about gaining material success. To earn money for my family and me  is the mission of life. A spiritual person is one with a greater vision. He may be doing exactly the same work but the  conceives of a  higher  ideal,  a broader perspective. He dedicates his life to the  attainment of  something beyond himself. His attention is on more than himself and  his family. A higher ideal is something, which  encompasses a wider circle of  identification. It can be the organization the industry, the economy, or the   country. A peon may conceive of this but at MD may not; whosever can work for something that is higher  than his pay packet is working  for a higher cause.
            According to the passage.
            1) Spirituality  cannot be practiced at work place.
            2) To earn  money is considered as being  not spiritual
            3) Spirituality can be practiced  any where when one has  a greater vision
            4)  A person  can become  spiritualistic  but not an MD

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