SET 3

Section : General Mental Ability

DATA SUFFICIENCY QUESTIONS

Directions: Each question given below has a problem and two statements numbered I and
II giving certain information. You have to decide if the information given in the
statements is sufficient for answering the problem. Indicate your answer as
a) if the data in the statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question;
b) if the data in the statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question;
c) if the data in the statement I or II alone are sufficient to answer the question;
d) if the data even in the both the statements together are not sufficient to answer the
question;
e) if the data in both the statements together are needed.

1) How many gift boxes were sold on Monday?

I) It was 10% more than the boxes sold on the earlier day i.e Sunday.
II) Every third visitor to the shop purchased the box and 1500 visitors
were there on Sunday.

2) What is the monthly salary of Praveen?

I) Praveen gets 15% more than Sumit while Sumit gets 10% less than Lokesh.
II) Lokesh’s monthly salary is Rs.1500

3) What will be the total weight of 10 poles each of the same weight?

I) One-fourth of the weight of the pole is 5 kilograms.

II) The total weight of three poles is 20 kilograms more than the total weight of
the two poles.
4) In a certain language,’pit nac mit’means ‘red pant shirt’.Which word means ‘pant’
in the language?

I) ‘mit tim nac sir’means ‘he wore red pant’

II) ‘nee jic pit’means ‘shirt is dirty’.

5) How much was the total sale of the company?

I) The company sold 8000 units of Product A each costing Rs.25

II) This company has no other product line.

6) Manoj, Sunil, Akash, and Kamal are four friends. Who among them is the heaviest?

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 I) Sunil is heavier than Manoj and Kamal but lighter than Akash
II) Manoj is lighter than Sunil and Akash but heavier than Kamal.
7) What is Gagan’s age?

I) Gagan, Vimal and Kunal are all of the same age.

II) Total age of Vimal,Kunal and Anil is 32 and Anil is as old as Vimal and
Kunal together.

8) How is Rakesh related to Keshav?

I) Tapan’s wife Nisha is paternal aunt to Keshav.

II) Rakesh is the brother of a friend of Nisha.

9) Who is C’s partner in a game of cards involving four players A,B,C, and D?

I) D is sitting opposite to A
II) B is sitting right of A and left to D.

10) When is Manohar’s birthday this year?

I) It is between JAN 13TH and 15th, Jan 13th being Wednesday.

II) It is not on Friday.

11) Gaurav ranks eighteenth in a class.What are his rank from the last?

I) There are 47 Students in the class.

II) Jatin who ranks 10th in the same class, ranks 38th from the last.

12) What day is the fourteenth of a given month?

I) The last day of the month is a Wednesday.

II) The third Saturday of the month was seventeenth.

13) On which day in Jan ,Subhas left for Germany?

I) Subhas has so far spent 10 years in Germany.

II) Subhas’s friend Anil left for Germany on 15th feb and joined Subhas 20days
after Subhas arrival.

14)How many speeches were delivered in the two day’s programme?

I) 18 Speakers were invited to give at least one speech,out of which one-sixth

of the speakers could not come.
II) One-third of the speakers gave two-speeches each.

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 15) Is D brother of F?

I) B has two son’s of which F is one.

II) D’s mother is married to B.

Directions:In each of the following questions ,there is one question and three statements
I,II,III.You have to decide whether the data given in the statements is sufficient to answer
the question.

16)How many sons does X have?

I) Q and U are brothers of T.

II) R is sister of P and U.
III) R and T are daughters of X.

a) I & II only. b) II & III together c) I , II,III together d) I,II,III together not sufficient.
e) none of these.

17)Five person’s –A,B,C,D,and E are sitting in a row. Who is sitting in the middle?

I) B is between E and C.
II) B is to the right of E.
III) D is between A and E.

a) I & II together b) II & III together c) I &III together d) I,II,III together.

e) none of these.

18)Pankaj is younger than Sunita and Rupali is older than Tom.Who among them is the
oldest?

I) Rupali is older than Pankaj

II) Sunita is older than Rupali
III) Tom is the youngest among all.

a)II only. b) Only III c) I&II together d) I, II, III together e)none of these.

19)In which year was Sanjay born?

I) Sanjay is six years older than Gopal.

II) Gopal’s brother was born in 1982.
III) Sanjay’s brother is 2 years younger than Gopal’s brother who was eight
Years younger than Gopal.

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a) I & II together b) II & III together c) I &III together d) I,II,III together.
e) none of these.

20) What is the monthly salary of Vasu?

I) Vasu’s basic salary is Rs.100 more than Rajan’s salary who also serves
in Vasu’s company.
II) Other allowances drawn by Rajan besides his basic salary are Rs.2000 per
Month which is Rs.50 less than Vasu’s salary.

a)II only. b) II & III together c) I & IItogether d) I & III together e) I,II,III together.

ARITHMETICAL REASONING:

1) A shepherd had 17 sheep. All but nine died. How many was he left with?

a) Nil b) 8 c) 9 d) 17

2) A bird shooter was asked how many birds he had in the bag. He replied that there were
all sparrows but six, all pigeons but six, and all ducks but six. How many birds had he in
all?

a) 9 b) 18 c) 27 d) 36

3) What is the smallest number of ducks that could swim in this formation-two ducks in
front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck between two ducks?

a) 3 b) 5 c) 7 d) 9

4) A group of 1200 persons consisting of captains and soldiers are traveling in a train. For
Every 15 soldiers there is one captain. The number of captains in the group is

a) 85 b) 80 c) 75 d) 70

5) Aruna cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal
size.Each of the small pieces is 20 grams in weight .If she has seven pieces of the cake in
all with her,How heavy was the original cake?

a) 120g b) 140g c) 240g c)280g

6) A placed three sheets with 2 carbons to get 2 extra copies of the original.Then he
decided to get more carbon copies and folded the paper in such a way that the upper
Half of the sheets were on top of the lower half.Then he typed.How many carbon copies

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Did he get?

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

7) A motorist knows four different routes from Bristol to Birmingham.From Birmingham

to Sheffield he knows three different routes and from Sheffield to Carlisle he knows two
different routes.How many routes does he know from Bristol to Carlisle?

a) 4 b) 8 c) 12 d) 24
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8) In a class,there are 18 boys who are over 160cm tall.If these constitute 3/4th of the boys
and total number of boys is 2/3rds of the total number of students in the class,What is the
number of girls in the class?

a)6 b) 12 c) 18 d)24

9)A bus start from CITYx.The number of women in the bus is half of the number of
men.In CITY Y ,10 men leave the bus and five women enter.Now,number of men and
women is equal.In the beginning ,how many passengers entered the bus?

a) 15 b) 30 c) 36 d) 45

10) Between two book ends in your study are displayed five fav puzzle books.If you
decide to arrange the five books in every possible combination and moved just one book
every minute,how long would it take for you?

a) 1 hour b) 2 hour c) 3 hour d) 4 hour

11) I have a few sweets to be distributed .If I keep 2,3,or 4 in a pack,I am left with one
sweet.If I keep 5 in a pack,I am left with none.What is the minimum number of sweets I
can have to pack and distribute?

a) 25 b) 37 c) 54 d) 65

12) Mr.John was to earn 300 pounds and a free holiday for 7 weeks’work.He worked
only 4 weeks and earned 30 pounds and a free holiday.What was the value of the
holiday?

a) 300pounds b) 330pounds c) 360pounds d)420 pounds

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13) In a cricket match ,five batsmen A,B,C,D,E scored an average of 36 runs.D scored 5
more than E;E scored 8 fewer than A ;B scored as many as D and E combined; and B and
C scored 107 between them.How many runs did E score?

a) 62 b) 45 c) 28 d) 20

14) Robin says,’If JAI gives me Rs.40,he will have half as much as Atul,but if Atul gives
me Rs.40,then the three of us will all have the same amount.”What is the total amount of
money that Robin,Jai and Atul have between them?

a) Rs.240 b) Rs.320 c)Rs.360 d) Rs.420

15)a caravan in addition to 50 hens,there is 45 goats and 8 camels with some keepers.If
the total number of feet be 224 more than the number of heads in the caravan,the number
of keepers is

a) 5 b)8 c) 10 d) 15

16) A certain number of horses and an equal number of men are going somewhere.Half
the owners are on their horse’s back while the remaining ones are walking along leading
their horses.If the number of legs walking on the ground is 70,how many horses are
there?

a) 10 b) 12 c) 14 d) 16

17) In an examination ,a student scores 4 marks for correct answer and loses 1 mark for
every wrong answer.If he attempts all 75q’s and secures 125 marks,the number of q’s he
attempts correctly ,is

a) 35 b) 40 c) 42 d) 46

18) A father is now three times as old as his son. Five years back, he was four times as
old as his son. The age of the son is

a) 12 b) 15 c) 18 d) 20

19) When Rahul was born, his father was 32 years older than his brother and his mother
was 25 years older than his sister. If Rahul’s brother is 6 years older than him and his
mother is 3 years younger than his father, How old was Rahul’s sister when he was born?

a) 7 years b) 10 years c) 14 years d) 19 years

20) In a group of 15 people, 7 read French ,8 read English while 3 of them read none of
these two.How many of them read French and English both?

a) 0 b) 3 c) 4 d) 5

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21) Out of a total of 120 musicians in a club, 5% can play all the three instruments guitar,
violin and flute. It so happens that the number of musicians who can play any of the two
of the above is 30.The number of musicians who can play the guitar alone is 40.What is
the total number of those who can play violin alone or flute alone?

a) 30 b) 38 c) 44 d) 45

Directions (22-24):Study the information given below and answer the questions that
follow:
A Publishing firm publishes newspapers A, B and C.In a effort to persuade advertisers
To insert advertisements in these newspapers, the firm sends out the following statement
to possible advertisers:
A Survey of representative sample of the whole population shows that –
Newspaper A is read by 26%
Newspaper B is read by 25%
Newspaper C is read by 14%
Newspaper A and B are read by 11%
Newspaper B and C are read by 10%
Newspaper C and A are read by 0%

22) The percentage of readers who read all three newspapers is

a) 1 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6

23) The percentage of readers who read A and B but not C,is

a) 2 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6

24) The percentage of readers who read at least one of the three newspapers is

a) 40 b)50 c) 60 d) 65

25) A number of friends decided to go on a picnic and planned to spend Rs.96 on

eatables.Four of them,how ever did not turn up.As a consequence ,the remaining ones
had to contribute Rs.4 each extra.The number of those who attended the picnic was

a) 8 b) 12 c) 16 d) 24

SERIES COMPLETION

1) 563, 647, 479, 815, (….)

a) 672 b) 386 c) 279 d) 143

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2) 11, 12, 17,18,23,24, (….)

a) 12 b) 29 c) 30 d) 35

3) 225, 336, 447, (….), 669, 7710

a) 114 b) 338 c) 558 d) 991

4) 840, 168, 42, 14, 7, (….)

a) 1 b) 7 c) 9 d) 12

5) 5 , 6 , 7 , 8, 10 , 11, 14, (…)

a) 15 b)16 c)17 d)18

6) 0,2, 3, 5,8, 10, 15, 17, 24 , 26, (….)

a)35 b)32 c)30 d)28

7) 0 , 4, 6 , 3, 7 , 9, 6, (….),12

a) 8 b)10 c)11 d) 14

8) 1 , 1, 3 , 9 , 6,36, 10,100,(….),225

a) 15 b) 16 c)20 d)22

9) 2 , 1, 2, 4, 4, 5 , 6 ,7, 8, 8 ,10, 11,(….)

a)9 b)10 c)11 d)12

10) 4 , 23, 60 , 121, (….)

a) 212 b)221 c)241 d)242

11) 1, 4 , 2 ,8 , 6 ,24, 22, 88, (….)

a) 86 b)90 c)154 d)352

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12) 13, 32, 24, 43, 35, (….),46, 65, 57,76

a) 45 b)52 c)54 d)55

13) (2,3), (3,5),(5,7),(7,11),(11,13),(…..)

a) (13,15) b)(15,16) c)(13,17) d)(13,19)

14) In the series 10,17,24,31,38,…which of the following will be a number

of the series?
a) 48 b)346 c)574 d)1003

15) Which of the following will not be number of the series 1, 8

,27,64,125…?
a) 256 b)512 c)729 d)1000

16) In a series 3,9,15 ….., what will be the 21st term?

a) 117 b) 121 c)123 d)129

17) In a series 2 , 6 ,18 , 54,….what will be the 8th term ?

a) 4370 b)4374 c)7443 d)7434

18)Which term of the series 5,8,11,14,…is 320?

a) 104th b)105th c)106th d)64th

19)Which term of the series 5,10,20,40,…is 1280?

a) 10th b)9th c) 8th d)None of these

20)123456147,12345614,2345614,234561,(……)
a)3456 b)2345 c)23456 d)34561

FIND THE WRONG TERM IN THE FOLLOWING SERIES

1) 25,36,49,81,121,169,225
2) 2,5,10,17,26,37,50,64
3) 1,5,9,16,25,38,49
4) 2,5,10,50,500,5000
5) 46080,3840,384,48,24,2,1
6) 105,85,60,30,0,-45,-90
7) 325,259,202,160,127,105,94
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 8) 125,126,124,127,123,129
9) 3,4,10,32,136,685,4116
10)3,10,27,4,16,64,5,25,125
11)5,27,61,122,213,340,509
12)16,22,30,45,52,66
13)56,72,90,110,132,150
14)8,13,21,32,47,63,83
15)89,78,86,80,85,82,83

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