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SET I 1. Let n be a natural number, then n(n2 -1) is always divisible by? A. 6 (B)12 (C)24 (0)48 (E) None of these Ans: A. 6. {product of three consecutive numbers} 2. A group of housewives with average age 30 years meets with another group of housewives with average age of 40 years. If the average age of the new group is 34 years, what is the ratio of the number of housewives in the first group to the number of housewives in the second group? A. 2:3 (B) 3:5 (C) 3:2 (D) 3:4 (E) 4:3 Ans: (B) 3:2{allegation rule: (40-34) : (34-30)} 3.In the city club, there are four people: Avinit, Bikash Chandan and Debjit. They were; though not necessarily in the same order: doctor, teacher, painter and actor. Avinit and the teacher never spoke to Chandan. Bikash and the actor were very good friends. The painter was friends with Debjit and the actor. 1. Avinit is the (A) Doctor (B) Teacher (C) Painter (D) Actor (E) Data Inadequate 2. Bikash is the (A) Doctor (B) Teacher (C) Painter (D) Actor (E) Data Inadequate Ans: Avinit-actor;Bikash-Painter;Chandan-doctor;Debjit-Teacher 4. If a number 774958A96B is to be divisible by 8 and 9, the values of A and B, respectively, will be: (A) 7, 8 (B) 8,0 (C) 5, 8 (D) 3,0 (E) None of these Ans: B ) 8,0{divisibility rules of 8 & 9} 5. A software engineer starts from home at 3 PM for evening walk on a route which has level road for some distance and a then a hillock. He walks speed of 4kmph on level ground and then at a speed of 3kmph on the uphill and then down the hill at a speed of 6 kmph to the level ground and then at a speed of 4kmph to the home If he reaches home at 9 PM. What is the distance one way of his route? (A) 12 Km (B) 15 Km (C) 18 Km (D) 24 Km (E) Data Inadequate Ans: (D)24km.{average speed in the hillock =2*3*6/(3+6)=4kmph as covering the same distance during up and downhill.Therefore 4kmph*(6PM-3PM)hr=24km} 6. From a circular sheet of paper with a radius of 20 cm, four circles of radius 5 cm each are cut out.What is the ratio of the uncut to the cut portion? (A) 1:3 (B) 4: 1 (C) 3: 1 (D) 4:3 (E) 2:3 Ans: (c) 3:1; 7. Supposing a clock takes 7 seconds to strike 7. How long will the same clock take to strike 10? (A) 10 secs (B) 10.5 sees (C) 7 sees (D) 9 sees (E) 12.5 secs Ans: (B) 10.5secs 8. A bag contains 5 green and 7 blue balls. Another one contains 4 green and 8 blue balls. If a bag is chosen randomly and a ball is drawn from it at random, then find the probability that it is green (A) 3/4 (B) 1/4 (C) 5/8 (D) 3/8 (E) None of these Ans: (D)=3/8 {(1/2)*(5/12)+(1/2)*(4/12)=3/8} 9. Saniya, her brother, her daughter, and her son are tennis players. As a game of doubles is about to begin: Saniya's brother is directly across the net from her daughter. Her son is diagonally across the net from the worst player's sibling. The best player and the worst player are on the same side of the net. 1. Who is the best player? (A) Saniya (B) Saniya's brother(C) Saniya's son (D) Saniya's daughter (E) Can't be determined 2. Who is the worst player? (A) Saniya's daughter (B) Saniya (C) Saniya's son (D) either (A) or (B) (E) either (B) or (C) 3. Who is partner with Saniya? (A) Saniya's daughter (B) Saniya's brother (C) Saniya's son (D) Either (A) or (B) (E) either (B) or (C) Ans: 1.(B) Saniyas brother; 2.(B) Saniya; 3. (B) Saniyas brother 10. The price of a precious stone is directly proportional to square of its weight. What will be the loss incurred (approx) if a stone weighing 28 g and costing 28,000 breaks into two pieces whose weights are in the ratio 15: 13? (A)No Loss (B)' 10,000 (C) , 9,500 (D) , 28,000 (E)' 14,000 Ans: (E) 14000

11. In a class of 50 students, 23 speak English, 15 speak Hindi and 18 Speak Punjabi. 3 speak only English and Hindi, 6 speak only Hindi and Punjabi and 6 speak only English and Punjabi. If 9 can speak only English, how many speak all the three? (A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) None of these Ans: (D) 5 {Venn diagram} 12. The average of 10 numbers is 40.2. Later it is found that 2 numbers have been wrongly added. The first is 18 greater than the actual number and the second number added is 13 instead of 31. Find the correct average. (A) 40.2 (B) 40.4 (C) 40.6 (D) 40.8 (E) 41 Ans: (A) 40.2 13. A man has 1044 candles. After burning, he can make a new candle from 9 stubs left behind. Find the maximum number of candles that can be made. (A) 116 (B) 120 (C) 130 (D) 140 (E) 144 Ans: (C) 130 { 116New-12New & 8Waste-1New & 3Waste-1New 2Waste= Total=116+12+1+1=130} 14. The sides of a triangular are in the ratio of 1/2: 1/3 : 1/4. if the perimeter is 52 cm. the length of the smallest side is... (A) 9 cm (B) 10 cm (C) 16 cm (D) 24 cm (E) 12 cm Ans: (E) 12cm 15. Find the last number of the sequence: 8,12,24,60, (A) 168 (B) 120 (C) 90 (D) 144 (E) 178 Ans: (A)168 16. The cast of a benefit program will consist of exactly four actors to be selected from the seven actors P, Q, R, S, T, U and V according to the following conditions: I. Either P or T must be in the cast; but they cannot both be in the cast. II. If T is in the cast, then Q must be in the cast III. If U is in the cast, then neither P not R can be in the cast. 1. If U is in the cast, then which of the following must also be in the cast? (A) P (B) Q (C) R (D) S (E) V 2. If P is in the cast, then any of the following groups of three could make up the rest of the cast, except (A) Q, R and S (B) Q, R and V (C) R, S and V (D) S, U, and V (E) None of these Ans: 1. (B) Q; 2. (D) S, U, and V 17. The boys and girls are in the ratio 3:7 in a school. 25% of the boys and 20% of the girls are scholarship holders. How much percent of the total students do not get scholarships? (A) 68 (B) 75 (C) 79.8 (D) 78.5 (E) 82.5 Ans: (D) 78.5 18. A cistern is two-third full of water. Pipe A can fill the remaining part in 12 minutes and pipe B in 8 minutes. Once the cistern is emptied, how much time will they take to fill it together completely? (A) 12 minutes (B) 12.5 min (C) 14.4 min (D) 10.2 min (E) 14.66 min Ans: (C) 14.4min 19. Mr. Mohit is 7 times as old as his son. 10 years hence he will be three times as old as his son. What is the difference in their present ages? (A) 24 years (B) 30 years (C) 18 years (D) 36 years (E) 42 years Ans: (B) 30years 20. Three terrorists are employed to shoot a renowned person Mr. X. Only one bullet is sufficient to kill him if it strikes in the head. The probabilities of the terrorists striking Mr. X's head by their bullets are 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4. What is the probability that Mr. X is shot dead? (A) 0.336 (B) 0.9 (C) 0.1 (D) 0.760 (E) 0.664 Ans: (E) 0.664 { Prob(at least one of them will strike)=1-Prob(none will be succeded)=1-(.8)(.7)(.6)=.664} 21. Which of the following numbers is a perfect square? (A) 10201 (B) 12223 (C) 11116 (D) 55555 (E) 10101 Ans: (A) 10201 22. Mr. Rajiv and Mr. Jogesh can complete a piece of work in 6 days and 8 days respectively. They started together but Rajiv left the work after 2 days. In how many days will Mr. Jogesh complete the remaining work ? (A) 19/4 days (B) 8/3 days (C) 9.5 days (D) 4 days (E) 10/3 days Ans: (E) 10/3 days

23. Study the given series (A) carefully and answer the incomplete series (B), in the following questions. Assume that series B follows the same rule as series A. 1. Series A: 2, 5,17,71, Series B: 1, a, b, c What will replace the symbol c? (A)70 (B) 11 (C) 47 (D) 36 (E) 27 2. Series A: 2,11,47,128, .... ; Series B: 5, m, n, 0 ... The value of o is..... (A) 45 (B) 50 (C) 60 (D) 131 (E) 121 Ans: 1. (C ) 47{series B:1*1+0,1*2+1,3*3+2,11*4+3} 2. (D) 131 {series B: 5,5+3^2,14+6^2,50+9^2} 24. A bag contains 4 white and 3 black balls. 2 balls are drawn one at a time, randomly in succession. What is the probability that both the balls drawn out are white in color, if the first ball is not replaced after the first draw? (A)9/49 (B) 3/7 (C) 2/7(D) 4/7 (E) 16/49 Ans: (C ) 2/7 {(4/7)*(3/6)} 25. On rolling 6 dice, it is found that (1) Exactly 3 dice show the same number (II) Only 1 die shows 6 (III) Not more than 3 dice show 4 or more 1. What is the minimum possible total of numbers on the faces, if the three dice having same number show 2? (A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 11 (D) 14 (E) 15 2. What is the maximum total, if 4 of the dice show less than 4? (A) 28 (B) 22 (C) 17 (D) 23 (E) 24 Ans: 1. (D) 14 {2,2,2,6,1,1} 2. (B) 22 {3,3,3,6,2,5} 26. There arc seven family members viz, P, Q, R, S, T, U and V four of whom are females. The family runs into three generations. The family consists of two married couples, three daughters and two mothers. S is the brother of R. R is the mother of U. V is Q's son in law. P is the father of R. 1. Who is the husband of R ? (A) Q (B) U (C) V (D) T (E) Either (A) or (C) 2. Which of the following is not true? (A) Q is the mother of R. (B) T may be the sister of S (C) V is the father of T (D) T and V are married (E) Options (B) and (D) Ans: 1.(C) V; 2. (E) { Gen 1:P(M)+Q(F) Gen2: S(M) & R(F); R married with V(M)Gen 3: U(F) & T(F)} 27. The population of a bacteria culture doubles every 2 minutes. Approximately how many minutes will it take for the population to grow from 1,000 to 500,000 bacteria? (A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 14 (D) 18 (E) 20 Ans: (C ) 14 {N=N0* 2(t/2); t in mins, N=500,000,N0=1000} 28. If Sin and Cos are two roots of the equation ax2+ bx + c = 0, then which of the following is true? (A) a2+b2 =2ac (B) a+b = c (C) a2 - b2 +2ac = 0 (D) a2 _b2 = 2ac (E) None of These Ans: (C) a2-b2+2ac=0 {sin+cos=-(b/a); sin cos=c/a} 29. From the top of a building 60 metres high the angles of depression of the top and bottom of a tower are 30 and 60 respectively. The height of the tower is, A. 40m (B) 30m (C) 20m (D) 50m (E) 23m Ans: (A) 40m {60-60cot60tan30} 30. There are 6 positive and 8 negative numbers. Four numbers are chosen at random and multiplied. The probability that the product is positive is A. 500/1001 (B) 503/1001 (C) 303/1001 (D) 101/1001 (E) 505/1001 Ans: (E) 505/1001 {(8C4+6C2*8C2+6C4)/14C4} 31. The average age of all boys in the class is 16.66, while the average age of all girls in the same class is 18.75. Thus the average age of all 40 students in the class is 17.5 what is the number of girls in the class? (A) 12 (B) 16 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) Data Insufficient Ans: (B)16{apply allegation rule;{[(17.5-16.66)/(18.75-16.66)]*40=16} 32. If a+b : b+c : c+a = 6:7:8 and a+b+c = 14, then the value of c is (A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 14 (E) None of These Ans: (A) 6 33. From each of the two given numbers, half of the smaller number is subtracted. Of the resulting numbers, the largest is three times the smaller one. What is the ratio of the two numbers? (A) 5:4 (B) 5:2 (C) 3:2 (D) 2:1 (E) 7:4

Ans: (D) 2:1 34. Suppose n is an integer such that the sum of digits of n is 2 and 1010 < n< 10ll. The number of different values for n is (A) 11 (B) 10 (C) 9 (D) 8 (E) No Values Possible Ans: (A) 11; {11 digit number. Case 1: two 1 & nine 0 1st digit has to be 1 remaining 10 digits can be filled up with 10 ways(1 at 10 different positions).Case 2: one 2 & ten 0 2 in the first digit and remainings are 0 so one way.} 35. A car is traveling at uniform speed. The driver sees a milestone showing a two digit number which is a perfect square, after traveling for an hour the driver sees another milestone with the same digits in reverse order and after another hour the driver sees another milestone containing the same two digits as part of a three digit number. What is the speed of the car? (A) 30 kmph (B) 40 kmph (C) 50 kmph (D) 60 kmph (E) 45 kmph Ans: (E) 45kmph { difference of a two digit number and its reverse must be divisible by 9. As the car traversed this distance in 1 hr therefore speed of the car will be divisible by 9.Therefore only possible answer in the option is 45.Initial mile stone was 16 then 61 and finally 106.} 36. A tap can fill a tank in 16 minutes and another can empty it in 8 minutes. If the tank is already full and both the taps are opened together, will the tank be filled or emptied? How long will it take before the tank is either filled completely or emptied completely as the case may be? (A) Emptied; 16 mins (B) Filled; 8 mins (C) Emptied; 12 mms (D) Filled; 12 mins (E) None of These Ans: (E) None of these{ emptied the 1/2full tank in (1/2)*[(1/8)-(1/16)]-1=8min} 37. How many numbers can be formed using all of 1,2,3,4,5 (without repetition), when the digit at the units place must be greater than that in the tenth place? A. 54 (B) 40 (C) 60 (D) 48 (E) 36 Ans: (C ) 60. {4!+(4!-3!)+( (4!-2*3!)+ (4!-3*3!)=60} 38. A man is standing in front of a painting of a man, and he tells us the following: Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man's father is my father's son. Who is on the painting? His father A. His grandfather B. His son C. He himself Ans: B.His son 39. A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? A. 900 B.488 C.500 D.800 Ans: B. 488 { 130*2+76*3=488} 40. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N=X-Y-Z where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be A.4 B.2 C. -18 D.9 Ans:B. 2 {Strategy of the game for B : if the 1st number less than 3 then make it X if not make it Y or Z;if X is vacant 2nd number will be allotted to X if it is less than or equal to (7-1st number). Strategy of A: 1st number should be 2 and 2nd number will be 0 if 1st number is assigned to X, if not then 4 or 5.} 41. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre evelY hour in A, it gets filled up like 10,20, 40, 80, 160 .. in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If 1/32 of B's volume is filled after 3 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? A. 10 hours B.9 hours C.8 hours D.7 hours Ans:C. 8hours { Volume of B=32*40lt=10*27lt; Again nth term of the series 10,20,40is 10*2(n-1) where n is time elapsed in hour.Therefore solving n=8} 42. The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries and also write code at the same rate. suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total? A.72 B. 12 C.6 D. 18 Ans:B. 12mins

43. The difference between the ages of two of my three grandchildren is 3. My eldest grandchild is three times older than the age of my youngest grandchild and my eldest grandchild's age is two years more than the ages of my two youngest grandchildren added together. How old is my eldest grandchild? A 12 B 15 C 10 D13 Ans: B. 15 { ages are 15,8,5} 44. There are two "boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is A 14/19 B 37/38 C D 3/4 Ans: A 14/19,[Box1:1R,Box2:9R+10G] 45. Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of streetlegal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A.. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohit's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit's Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 952 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. A15.88 B 14.88 C 476 D 29.75 Ans: B. 14.88hr 46. The teacher is testing a student's proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question. 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer? A 18 B 21 C 6 D 12 Ans:A. 18 47. A greengrocer was selling apple at a penny each, chickoos at 2 for a penny and peanuts at 3 for a penny. A father spent 7p and got the same amount of each type of fruit for each of his three children. What did each child get? A) 1 apple, 2 chickoos, 2 peanuts B) 1 apple, 3 chickoos, 2 peanuts C) 1 apple, 2 chickoos, 1peanut D) 1 apple, 1 chickoo, 1 peanut Ans: C) 1 apple, 2 chickoos, 1peanut {let 3x,3y,3z are the total no of ap,ch and peanut, therefore 6x+3y+2z=14, x has to be 1it cant be more than that,between y and z by trial it is found that y=2,z=1} 48. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only l/8 of the distance:. By what [actor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race? A 8 B40 C 37.80 D 5 Ans: C. 37.80 {

x 7x 4x u v' v' = (u + v ) 8 ........(1) = 5.4; x = (u + v') 8 .........(2) = 7; = 7 5.4 = 37.8; 5 v v v' u v Where, u = vel of tortoise, v = initial vel of hare, v' = increased vel of hare, x = total distance of the race
} 49. Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in which it fits. RAPETEKA A Bird B Vegetable C Fruit D City Ans: A. Bird(PARAKEET) 50. One day Rapunzel meets Dwarf and Byte in the Forest of forgetfulness. She knows that Dwarf lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and tells the truth on the other days of the week. Byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Rapunzel- Dwarf: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie. Byte: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it? A Sunday B Monday C Thursday D Tuesday Ans: C. Thursday {After the statement of Dwarf it is clear that the day will be either Monday or Thrusday, Bytes statement prove that it cant be Monday} 51. A hunter leaves his cabin early in the morning and walks one mile due south. There he sees a bear and starts chasing it for one mile due east before he is able to shoot the bear. After shooting the bear, he drags it one mile due north back to his cabin where he started that morning. What color is the bear?

A Grey B Black C Brown D White Ans: D. White { This is possible only when you are at the north pole, so bear must be a polar bear which is white in color} 52.In school there are some bicycles and 4 wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 190 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there? Ans: Must be an odd number exists(say,1bicycle & 47 wagons, or 2 bicycles & 46 wagons.etc){x+2y=95, x=no.of bicycle,y=no. of 4 wheelers} 53.In a market 4 man are standing .the average age of the four before 4 years is 45, after some days one man is added and his age is 49. What is the average age of all? Ans:49{now the average age is(45+4)=49,therefore if the man added is of 49 average age will remain same} 54. In a school for a student out of a 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79 marks in 8th subject. What is the average of all the subjects? Ans:75.625{average will be increased by (79-74)/8=0.625} 55. In a city, there are 100 buildings numbered by corporation between 0-100, how many twos are shown in door? Ans:20{1 in unit digit,19 in two digits} 56. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. hence the current average age has become 45.Find the age of seventh person? Ans: 69 {present average age 43-2=41.average age increased by (45-41)=4.So 7th person is 7*4=28 years older than the present average age of 6 persons. His age will be 41+28=69.} 57. 3,22,7,45,15,?, 31 Ans: 91{ series A:3,7,15,31;series B:22,45,45*2+1=91} 58. if a person moves 15km straight and turns 45km right and moves 15km straight then how much distance he needs to walk to reach starting point? Ans:15 13 { (15 + 15) + 45 }
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59. if pqrstu implies qrstuv then abcdefg implies what? Ans: bcdefgh{shift one letter} 60. There are 30 cans and out of them only one is poisoned. If a person tastes very little he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours, how many mice are required to find the poisoned can? Ans: 5[30<2n, ans: is min value of n] 61. If a and b are mixed in 3:5 ration and b, c are mixed in 8:5 ration if the final mixture is 35liters, find the amount of b in the final mixture. Ans: 15.6lt{a=3b/5,c=5b/8;a+b+c=35lt} 62. In a shopping mall with a staff of 5 members the average age is 45 years. After 5 years a person joined them and the average age is again 45 years. What's the age of 6th person? Ans:20yrs {after 5 yrs average age of 5 is 50yrs,which is reduced by 5 due to 6th person, so his age must be (50-6*5)} 63. 3,15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find X Ans: 17{3,3*5,15+2,17*3,51+2,53*3,159+2} 64. 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald's restaurant and there they measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final round measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds? Ans:88.56kg{([a]+[b]+[c]+[a+b]+[b+c]+[c+a]+[a+b+c])/7=(a+b+c)*4/7} 65. There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except: 1) Balsamic and Lilac 2) Woody and Lemon 3) MI mosaic and Woody 4) MI mosaic and Lilac Ans: 4) MI mosaic and Lilac 66. What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d.

d d Ans: + {z intercept is when x=0 & y=0; x intercept is when y=z=0} a c

67. There are 11 children in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of all are boys? Ans: 1/1024 {(1/2)10} 68. A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds Time taken to cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is? Ans: 140*2=280sec 69. A Person buys a horse for 15 pounds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person? Ans: 15pound{(15+30)-(20+40)} 70. John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper? Ans: 23dollar {only loss is the cost price of the cycle & 4dollar change} 71. In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family? Ans: 4boys & 3 girls 72. There are certain numbers of gloves in a box. They are of 41 red, 23 green, 11 orange. Power gone. How many draws are required to obtain a pair of each color? Ans: 66 {41+23+2=66} 73. Metal strip of width 'x' cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is 'y'. If 'z' strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement? Ans:x+(z-1)(y-x) 74. A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round? Ans: 28{ in the xth round the number of players =29-x} 75. There are 3 boys A, B, C and 2 Girls D, E. D always sit right to A. Girls never sit in extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. Who is sitting immediate right to E? Ans: C { A,D,B,E,C}or A {B,E,A,D,C} 76. Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible? Ans: 5 {1,2,4,8,16} 77. Block has 10, 9,5 size, how many unit cube is needed to make a block of that size? Ans: 450 78. Sangakara and Ponting selects batting by using a dice, but dice is biased. So to resolve, Ponting takes out a coin. What is the probability that dice shows correct option? Ans: 1/2{ x*0.5+(1-x)*0.5, where x is the biased ness of the dice } 79. There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? Ans: 1/16 { 2*()5}

SET II 1. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N=40+ X+Y -Z, where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be 49 51 31 5 Ans:51(Remember if X+Y-Z then =11,if X-Y-Z then =2, if X*(Y-Z) then =18 ) 2.The IT gaint Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Timop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries and also write code at the same rate. Suppose 14 such programmers take 14 minutes to write 14 lines of code in total. How long will in take 5 programmers to write 5 lines of code in total? 19 5 14 70 Ans:14 3.14 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no 'cycle' of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of people aI, 31, ... ak, k>2 such that the pairs {al ,a2}, {a2,a3}, ... , {a(k-l), ak}, {ak, al} shake hands). 11 12 10 13 Ans: 13 {k-1} 4. 45 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A. All the suspects are lying. B. The leftmost suspect is guilty. C. The rightmost suspect is guilty. A only A and C B only A and B Ans: A & B 5.The dynamics of crowd behavior are hard to study because usually people are not reliable witnesses of their own behavior. Now consider 4 people standing in the queue of a supermarket. You want to predict their behavior based on their age group. You get to know from the supermarket records that their average age 4 years ago was 43 years. After a while, another person joins the queue and the present average of all the 5 is 40 years. The present age of the last person in the queue is : 28 years 12yrs 32 yrs 24rs Ans: 12yrs 6. One day Snowwhite meets Pal and Unicorn in the Fairyland. She knows the Pal lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and tells the truth on the other days of the week. Unicorn, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Snowwhite - Pal: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie. Unicorn: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it? Tuesday Monday Thursday Sunday Ans:Thursday 7.The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has one of the most extra-ordinary and idiosyncratic collections in French impressionist art. Dr. Barnes who put together this collection has insisted that the paintings be hung in a particular manner specified by him at a museum designed by the French architect Paul Philippe Cret who also designed the Rodin Museum. The museum has, say, seven galleries - Eugene Boudin, Cassatt, Boudin, Forain, Gonzales, Manet and Monet. Visitors reach the main Eugene Boudin by an elevator, and they can enter and leave the exhibition only through Eugene Boudin gallery. Once inside, visitors are free to move as they choose. The following list includes all of the doorways that connect the seven galleries: There is a doorway between Eugene Boudin and Cassatt, a doorway between Eugene Boudinand Boudin, and a doorway between Eugene Boudin and Gonzales galleries. There is a doorway between Cassatt and Boudin galleries. There is a doorway between Gonzales and Forain and a doorway between Gonzales and Manet galleries. There is a doorway between Manet and Monet galleries. Which of the following rooms CANNOT be the third gallery that any visitor enters? Monet Boudin Forain Cassatt Ans:Monet

8.Mr. Beans visited a magic shop and bought some magical marbles of different colours along with other magical items. While returning home whenever he saw a coloured light, he took out marbles of similar colours and counted them. So he counted the pink coloured marbles and found that he has bought 25 of them. Then he counted 14 green marbles and then 21 yellow marbles. He later counted 30 purple coloured marbles with him. But when he reached a crossing, he looked at a red light and started counting red marbles and found that he had bought 23 Red marbles. As soon as he finished counting, it started raining heavily and by the time he reached home he was drenched. After reaching home he found that the red, green and yellow marbles had magically changed colours and became white, while other marbles were unchanged. It will take 1 day to regain its colours, but he needs to give at least one pair of marbles to his wife now. So how many white marbles must be choose and give to his wife so as to ensure that there is at least one--pair of red, yellow and green marbles? 46 35 29 48 Ans:46 {23+21+2=46} 9. A greengrocer was selling watermelon at a penny each, chickoos at 2 for a penny and peanuts at 3 for a penny. A father spent 7p and got the same amount of each type of fruit for each of his three children, Jane, Joe and Jill. Jane is three years older than Jill and Joe is exactly half the age of Jane and Jill together. What did each child get? 1 watermelon, 3 chickoos, 2 peanuts I watermelon, 1 chickoo, 1 peanus I watermelon, 2 chickoos, 2 peanuts I watermelon, 2 chickoos, 1 peanut Ans: 1 watermelon, 2 chickoos, 1 peanut{6x+3y+2z=14} 10. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection from a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 20, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is 4 3 0 1 Ans:4{1 incentre and 3 excenters} 11. 33 people {a1, a2, ... ,a33} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 33 handshakes involving the pairs, {al,a2}, {a2,a3}, ... ,{a32, a33}, {a33, a I}. Then the size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is 10 11 16 12 Ans: 11{ k/3 if k is multiple of three;(k+1)/3 or (k+2)/3 if k is not multiple of three;where k is no.of people} 12.Consider two vessels, the first containing on litre of water and the second containing one litre of pepsi. Suppose you take one glass of water out of the first vessel and pour it into the second vessel. After mixing you take one glass of the mixture from the second vessel and pour it back into the first vessel. Which one of the following statements holds now? None of the statements holds true. There is less pepsi in the first vessel than water in the second vessel. There is more pepsi in the first vessel than water in the second vessel. There is as much pepsi in the first vessel as there is water in the second vessel. Ans: There is as much pepsi in the first vessel as there is water in the second vessel. 13.Alok is attending a workshop 'How to do more with less' and today's theme is Working with fever digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if mankind (as well as womankind) had only worked with fever digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is 'How many 10 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4?' Can you help Alok find the answer? 1953125 781250 2441407 2441406 Ans: 1953125{58 x 5=59} 14.For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of wining. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 11/12 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul with correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? .92 .01 .85 .15 Ans 0.85{P(Paul correct)=P(Paul correct/Ghana Win)P(Ghana Win)+P(Paul correct/Bol win)P(Bol 11 11 1 1 win)= + } 12 12 12 12 15. There are two boxes, one containing 39 red balls and the other containing 26 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is. .60 .50 .80 .30

Ans: .80{All the red balls has to be transferred to the other box keeping only one red in that box .So box 1:1Red 0Green and box2 :38Red 26Green. So probability will be

1 38 0.5 + 0.5 = 0.8 } 1 64

16.After the typist writes 40 letters and addresses 40 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly I letter is inserted in an improver envelope? 1-1/40 1/40 1/401 0 Ans:0 17.A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the are in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/3 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/4 of the distance. By what factor should be hare increase its speed so as the win the race? 4 3 12 5 Ans: 5

1 u 1 1 u 1 v' 1 v' v' = 1 ........(1) = 5 / 3; = 1 .........( 2) = 3; = 3 5 / 3 = 5; 4 v 4 3 v 4 u 4 u v Where, u = vel of tortoise, v = initial vel of hare, v' = increased vel of hare, x = total distance of the race
18. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 20. For each value of n from I to 20, statements n says 'At least n of the statements on this sheet are true.' Which statements are true and which are false? The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. The first 13 statements are false and the rest are true. The first 6 statements are true and the rest are false. The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. Ans: The first 6 statements are true and the rest are false. 19. The question is followed by two statements, A and B. Answer the question using the following instructions: Choose 1: ifthe question can be answered by using one of the statements alone but not by using the other statement alone. Choose 2: if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone. Choose3: if the question can be answered by using both statements together but not by either statement alone. Ch.oose 4: if the question cannot be answered on the basis of the two statements. Zaheer spends 30% of his income on his children's education, 20% on recreation and 10% on healthcare. The corresponding percentages for Sandeep are 40%,25% and 13%. Who spends more on children's education? A" Zaheer spends more on recreation that Sandeep B: Sandeep spends more on health care than Zaheer. 3 2 1 4 Ans: 1 20. Subha Patel is an olfactory scientist working for lnternationa! Flavors and Fragrances. She specializes in finding new scents recorded and reconstituted from nature thanks to Living Flower Technology. She has extracted fragrance ingredients from different flowering plants into bottles labeled herbal, sweet, honey, anisic and rose. She has learned that a formula for a perfume is acceptable if and only if it does not violate any of the rules listed: If the perfume contains herbal, it must also contain honey and there must be twice as much honey as herbal. If the perfume contains sweet, it must also contain anisic, and the amount of anisic must equal the amount of sweet. honey cannot be used in combination with anisic. anisic cannot be used in combination with rose. lfthe perfume contains rose, the amount ofrose must be greater than the total amount of the other essence or essences used. Which of the following could be added to an unacceptable perfume consisting of two parts honey and one part rose to make it acceptable? Two parts rose One part herbal Two parts honey One part sweet Ans: Two parts rose 21. The citizens of planet Oz are 6 fingered and thus have developed a number system in base 6. A certain street in Oz contains 1000 buildings numbered from 1 to 1000. How many 3's are used in numbering these buildings? Express your answer in base 10. 144 54 108 36

Ans:108{single digit(1)+double digit(6+5)+3 digits(6*6+6*5+6*5)=1+11+96} 22. Recent reports have suggested that sportsmen with decreased metabolic rates perform better in certain sports. After reading one such report, Jordan, a sportsperson from Arlington decides to undergo a rigorous physical training program for 3 months, where he performs Yoga for 3 hours, walks for 2 hours and swims for I hour each day. He says: I began my training on a Wednesday in a prime number month of2008. I lost 1% of my original weight within the first 30 days. In the next two months combined, I lost 1 Kg. If he walks at 5 mph over a certain journey and walks back over the same route at 7 mph at an altitude of 200 meters, what is his average speed for the journey? 5.83 2.92 6.00 35.00 Ans: 5.83{2*5*7/(5+7)}

23. A schoolyard contains only bicycles and 4 wheeled wagons. On Tuesday, the total number of wheels in the schoolyard was 134. What could be possible number of bicycles? 16 15 18 14 Ans: 15{must be an odd number, clear from the equation} 24.A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 20. For all values ofn from 1 to 20, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. All the statements are false. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. The second last statement is true and the rest are false. Ans: The second last statement is true and the rest are false. 25. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10,20,40, 80, 160 .. in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/8 filled after 5 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? 9 hours 7 hours 3 hours 8 hours Ans:8hrs{5+log28} 26. A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? 900 488 500 800 Ans:488 27. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 100 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (for some j between 0 and 100). We will call this an imove (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coin is the third coin from the top. Then In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move. In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move. Alice has no winning strategy. In order to win, Alice's first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move. Ans: In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move. 28.The teacher is testing a student's proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question: 1/2 of a number is 3 more than I/6 of the same number. What is the number?Can you help the student find the answer? 9 8 10 3 Ans:9 29.A circular dashboard of radius 1.0 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery? 1.00 .75 .25 .50 Ans:0.25{

(r / 2)2 =1/4}
r2

30.A result of global warming is that the ice of some glaciers is melting. 13 years after the ice disappears, tiny plants, called lichens, start to grow on the rocks. Each lichen grows approximately in the shape of a circle. The relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of the lichen can be approximated with the formula: d=l O*(t - 13) for

t> 13, where d represents the diameter of the lichen in millimeters, and t represents the number of years after the ice has disappeared. Using the above formula, calculate the diameter of the lichen, 45 years after the ice has disappeared. 450 437 13 320 Ans:320 31.25 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no 'cycle' of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of people a1, a2, ... , ak, k>2 such that pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ... , {a(k-I), ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands). 24 22 21 23 32. Ans:24 32.Consider two cans, the first containing one litre of water and the second containing one litre of pepsi. Suppose you take one cup of water out of the first can and pour it into the second can. After mixing you take one cup of the mixture from the second can and pour it back into the first can. Which one of the following statements holds now? There is less pepsi in the first can than water in the second can. There is more pepsi in the first can than water in the second can. None of the statements holds true. There is as much pepsi in the first can as there is water in the second can. Ans: There is as much pepsi in the first can as there is water in the second can. 33. A greengrocer was selling orange at a penny each, olives at 2 for a penny and grapes at 3 for a penny. A father spent 7p and got the same amount of each type of fruit for each of his three children, Jane, Joe, and Jill. Jane is three years older than Jill and Joe is exactly half the age of Jane and Jill together. What did each child get? 1 orange, 2 olives, 2 grapes I orange, 3 olives, 2 grapes 1 orange, 1 olive, 1 grape 1 orange, 2 olives, 1 grape Ans: 1 orange, 2 olives, 1 grape 34.A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 20. For each value of n from 1 to 20, statement n says 'At least n of the statements on this sheet are true.' Which statements are true and which are false? The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false The first 13 statements are false and the rest are true. The fist 6 statements are true and the rest are false. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. Ans: The first 6 statements are true and the rest are false. 35. 45 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A. All the suspects are lying. B. The leftmost suspect is guilty. C. The rightmost suspect is guilty. A and C A and B A only B only Ans: A and B 36.Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer base in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored driver and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A ..Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once brought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohit's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit's Mercedes is 40 Km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 913 Km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive the distance. 12 Hours 22 Hours 456 Hours 11.41 Hours Ans: 11.41 Hours 37.The teacher is testing a student's proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question: 1/3 of a number is 6 mote than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer? 35 6 37 36 Ans: 36 38.Recent report have suggested that sportsmen with decreased metabolic rates perform better in certain sports. After reading one such report, Jordon, a sportsperson from Arlington decides to undergo a rigorous physical training program for 3 months, where he performs Yoga for 3 hours, walks for 2 hours and swims for 1 hour each day. He says: I began my training on a Wednesday in a prime number month of2008. I lost 1% of my original weight within the first 30 days. In the next two months combined, 1 lost 1 Kg. If he walks at 5 mph over a certain journey and walks back the same route at 8 mph at an altitude of 200 meters, what is his average speed for the journey? 6.15 3.08 6.50 26.67 Ans:6.15

39.The result of global warming is the ice of some glaciers is melting. 19 years after the ice disappears, tiny planets, called lichens, start to grow on the rock. Each lichen grows approximately in the shape of a circle. The relationship between the diameter of the circle and the age of the lichen can be approximated with the formula: d =12* (t-19) for t> 19, where d represents the diameter of the lichen in millimeters, and t represents the number of years after the ice has disappeared. Using the above formula, calculate the diameter of the lichen, 32 years after the ice has disappeared. 384 156 19 365 Ans:156 40.There are two boxes, one contains 12 red balls and the other containing 47 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is: .59 .20 .10 .50 Ans:0.59 {box1:1R and0G box2:11R and 47G. probability=.5*1+.5*(11/58)=0.59} 41.The citizens of planet Oz are fmgered and thus have developed a number system in base 6. A certain street in Oz contains 1000 buildings numbered from 1 to 1000. How many 2's are used in numbering these buildings? Express your answer in base 10. 144 24 108 36 Ans:108 42.The question is followed by two statements, A and B. Answer the question using the following instructions: Choose 1: if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone but not by using the other statement alone. Choose2: if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone. Choose3: if the question can be answered by using both statements together but not by either statement alone. Choose4: if the question cannot be answered on the basis of the two statements. Zayed spends 30% of lLis income on his children's education, 20% on recreation and 10% on health care. The corresponding percentage for Sandeep are 40%,25% and 13%. Who spends more on children's education? A: Zayed spends more on recreation than Sandeep B: San deep spends more on healthcare than Zayed. 4 3 2 1 Ans:1 43.The question is followed by two statements, A and B. Answer the question using the following instructions: Choose 1: if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone but not by using the other statement alone. Choose2: if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone. Choose3: if the question can be answered by using both statements together but not by either statement alone. Choose4: if the question cannot be answered on the basis of two statements. Tamn is standing 2 steps to the left of a green mark and 3 steps to the right of a black mark. He tosses a coin. If it comes up heads, he moved one step to the right, otherwise he moves one step to the left. He keeps doing this until he reaches one of the two marks, and then he stops. At which mark does he stops? A: he stops at 21 coin tosses. B: he obtains three more tails than heads. 1 3 4 2 Ans:1 44.There are two water tank A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at rate of one liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10,20, 40, 80, 16..in tank B. (At the end offrrst hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is l/8 filled after 7 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? 10 hours 9 hours 11hrs 3hrs Ans: 10hrs{7+log2 8} 45.A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 10. For a1l values of n from 1 to 10, statement n says: < 'Exactly n ofthe statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. The second last statement is true and the rest are false. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. All the statements are false. Ans: The second last statement is true and the rest are false.

46. Alok is attending a workshop 'How to do more with less' and today's theme is Working with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if mankind (as we as womankind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is 'How many 6 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1,2,3,4,5, (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4?' Can you help Alok find the answer?

 3906 3907 3125 1250 Ans:3125{54*5=55} 47.The dynamics of crowd behaviour are hard to study because usually people are not reliable witness of their own behaviour. Now consider 4 people standing in the queue of a supermarket. You want to predict their behaviour based on their age group. You get to know fro the supermarket records that their average age 3 years ago was 48 years. After a while, another person joins the queue and the present average of all the 5 is 46 years. The present age of the last person in the queue is: 38 years 35yrs 41yr 26yrs Ans:26yrs 48.Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 100 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top of the repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position I below the top coin (for some I between 0 and 100). We will call this as imove (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated, for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move.lfthe gal coin happen to be on the top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coin is the third coin from the top. Then In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move. Alice has no winning strategy. In order to win, Alice's first move can be a 0-moveor a 1-move. In order to win, Alice's frrst move should be a 0-move. Ans: In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move. 49.There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 .. in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). Iftank B is 1/16 filled after 16 hours, what is total duration required to fill it completely? 19 20 hours 4 hours 21 hrs Ans:20hrs{16+log2 16} 50.Consider two tumblers, the first containing one litre of milk ad the second containing one litre of coffee. Suppose you take one glass of milt out of the frrst tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After mixing you take one glass of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler. Which one of the following statements holds now? None of the statements holds true. There is less coffee in the first tumbler than milk in the second tumbler. There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is milk in the second tumbler. There is more coffee in the first tumbler than milk in the second tumbler. Ans: There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is milk in the second tumbler. 51.A circular dashboard of radius 2.0 foot is at a distance of20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery? .75 1.00 .25 .50 Ans: 0.25 52.A sheet of paper has statements numbered from I to 10. For all values ofn from I to 10, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? All the statements are false. The second last statement is true and the rest are false. The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. Ans: The second last statement is true and the rest are false. 53.Consider two vessels, the fIrst containing one litre of oil and the second containing one litre of coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of oil out of the fIrst vessel and pour it into the second vessel. After mixing you take one spoon of mixture from the second vessel ap.d pour it back into the first vessel. Which one of the following statements holds now? None of the statements holds true. There is less coffee in the fIrst vessel than oil in the second vessel. There is more coffee in the fIrst vessel than oil in the second vessel. There is as much coffee in the fIrst vessel as there is oil in the second vessel. Ans: There is as much coffee in the first vessel as there is oil in the second vessel.

54.There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10,20,40,80, 160 .. in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). Iftank B is 1/32 fIlled after 19 hours, what is total duration required to fill it completely? 5 hours 23 hours 24 hours 25 hours Ans:24hrs{19+log2 32} 55.The question is followed by two statements, A and B. Answer the question using the following instructions: Choose 1: if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone but not by using the other statement alone. Choose2: if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone. Choose3: ifthe question can be answered by using both statements together but not by either statement alone. Choose4: ifthe question cannot be answered on the basis of two statements. Zayed spends 30% of his income on his children's education, 20% on recreation and 10% on healthcare. The corresponding percentage for Sandeep are 40%,25% and 13%. Who spends more on children's education? A: Zayed spends more on recreation than Sandeep B: Sandeep spends more on healthcare than Zayed. 1 3 4 2 Ans:1 56.The question is followed by two statements, A and B. Answer the question using the following instructions: Choosel: if the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone but not by using the other statement alone. Choose2: if the question can be answered by using either ofthe statements alone. Choose3: if the question can be answered by using both statements together but not by either statement alone. Choose4: if the question cannot be answered on the basis of two statements. Tarak is standing 2 steps to the left of a yellow mark and 3 steps to the right of a grey mark. He tosses a coin. If it comes up heads, he moves one step to the right, otherwise he moves one step to the left. He keeps doing this until he reaches one of the two marks, and then he stops. At which mark does he stops? A: he stops at 21 coin tosses. B: he obtains three more tails than heads. 234 1 Ans:1 57. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 10. For all values ofn from 1 to 10, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. The second last statement is true and the rest are false. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. All the statements are false. Ans: The second last statement is true and the rest are false. 58.There are two boxes, one contains 47 red balls and the other containing 46 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is .75 .50 .25 .5 Ans:0.75 59. Consider two vessels, the first containing one litre of ink and the second containing one litre of cola. Suppose you take one glass of ink out of the first vessel and pour it into the second vessel. After mixing you take one glass of mixture from the second vessel and pour it back into the first vessel. Which one of the following statements holds now? There is as much cola in the first vessel as there is ink in the second vessel. None of the statements holds true. There is more cola in the first vessel than ink in the second vessel. There is less cola in the first vessel than ink in the second vessel. Ans: There is as much cola in the first vessel as there is ink in the second vessel. 60. 36 people {a1, 31, ..... , a36} meet and shake hand in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving in the pairs, {al,a2}, {a2,a3}, ..... , {a35, a36}, {a36, al}. Then the size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is 1 18 12 13 Ans:12{k/3}

SET III

Ans: 37

Ans: 10800[

N 3600 = e kt ; = e 2 k e k = 3; N = N 0 e 3k = 400 * 33 = 10800 N0 400

Ans:1[ x F(x) E(x)=3(1/4)+y(1/4)=0; y=-1 x F(x) E(x)=3(1/2)+(-1)(1/2)=1]

3 1/4 3 1/2

y 3/4 -1 1/2

Ans: Ans:89deg [angle between any two consecutive hour is 360/18=20deg.Each 20deg corresponds to 90/18=5mins.At 12:40 min hand is on 40/5=8 and hr hand is on approx 12(Actually it will travel further by 20*40/90=8.88 deg).Therefore angle between them is (12-8)*20=80deg(actually it should be 80+8.88=88.88deg)]

Ans:83

Ans:255[28-1]

Ans:In order to win, Alices first move should be 1-move.

Ans:637

Ans;1100[12]

Ans:12(k/3 )

Ans:25

Ans:0.75

Ans:48[24+22+2=48]

Ans:33[21+12=33]

Ans:30208[23600*1.6*.8=30208]

Ans:1095

Ans:6min

Ans:11011[27(correction:4/3 times not 413 times)]

Ans:6.86 [H.M. of 6 and 8=2*6*8/(6+8)=6.86]

Ans:11

Ans: 4[one in center and 3 ex centers ]

Ans:0.76[6/7*6/7+1/7*1/7=37/49]

Ans:185

Ans:625[53*5=625]

Ans:72lt[(2/3)x=x-(6+x/4)]

Ans:2[4mm,6mm]

Ans:8[1(one digit)+7(4+3,two digits)=8]

Ans:13

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Ans:2[actual answer should be one mouse]

Ans:5.79thousand dollar[22*106/3800=5789.5]

Ans:93[46+45+2=93]

Ans:47.43[83*4/7=47.43]

Ans:4[total 58 shake hands therefore shake hands with host is 39therefore 2 hostess are there(1between themselves and 38 with invitees)Therefore S{H1,H2,Inv1,Inv2}so that every pair shake hands between themselves]

Ans:488[53-33=98 small cubes.total faces=98*6=588.Painted face=25*4=100.Therefore unpainted faces=588-100=488]

Ans:7.6:1 [ a 2 = r 2 + r + 6r + r + r 2 ; a : r =

2 2 +8 2

= 2 + 4 2 = 7.6 ]

Ans: Two parts rose

Ans:11[(1-1/5)*(1-1/5-1/4)*(1/5)-2=11 1 u 1 1 1 v' 1 v' 1 1 1 1 = 1 ........(1); = 1 .........( 2) = (1 ) (1 ) ( ) 2 ; 5 v 5 4 5 u 5 v 5 4 5 5 Where, u = vel of tortoise, v = initial vel of hare, v' = increased vel of hare, x = total distance of the race ]

Ans: A and B

Ans:0.25

Ans:0

Ans:19.44[n=125p; vel=np=125p2 m/min=125p2(60/1000)kmph]

Ans:15[11+log2 16=15]

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Ans:15