1) A circular swimming pool is surrounded by a concrete wall 4 feet wide.

If the area of the walk is of

the area of the pool, then the radius of the pool in feet is:
(a) 8
(b) 16
(c) 30
(d) 20

3) George can do a piece of work in 8 hours. Paul can do the same work in 10 hours. Hari can do
the same work in 12 hours. George, Paul and Hari start the same work at 9 a.m., while George stops
at 11 a.m., the remaining two complete the work. Approximately at what time will the work be
completed?
(a) 11:30 a.m.
(b) 12 noon
(c) 12:30 p.m.
(d) 1 p.m.

4) In a single throw with two dice, find the probability that their sum is a multiple either of 3 or 4.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

5) The average marks of 3 students A, B and C is 48. When another student D joins the group, the
now average becomes 46 marks. If another student E, who has 3 marks more than D, joins the
group, the average of the 4 students B, C, D and E becomes 45 marks. How many marks did A get
in the exam?
(a) 47
(b) 46
(c) 50
(d) 49

6) A rectangle is divided into four rectangles with areas 70, 36, 20 and X. The value of X is:



(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

7) The shopkeeper charged twelve rupees for a bunch of chocolates, but I bargained with the
shopkeeper and got two extra ones, and that made them cost one rupee a dozen less than his first
asking price!
How many chocolates I received for my twelve rupees?
(a) 14
(b) 18
(c) 10
(d) 16

8) I bought a certain number of marbles at a rate of 27 marbles for rupees 2 times M, where M is an
integer. I divided these marbles into two parts of equal numbers, one part of which I sold at the rate
of 13 marbles for Rs. M, and the other at the rate of 14 marbles for Rs. M. I spent and received an
integral number of rupees, but bought the least possible number of marbles. How many did I buy?
(a) 9828
(b) 378
(c) 364
(d) 182

9) A sealed envelope contains a card with a single digit on it. Three of the following statement true,
and the other is false.
i. The digit is 1.
ii. The digit is not 2.
iii. The digit is 3.
iv. The digit is not 4.
Which one of the following must necessarily be correct?
(a) IV is false
(b) I is false
(c) I is true
(d) II is true

10) Rules:
- Either 3 or 4 of the 7 invoices must be paid on Wednesday, the rest on
- If invoice 6 is paid on Wednesday, invoice 7 must be paid on Thursday
- Invoice 2 is always paid on Thursday
- Invoice 1 and 5 cannot be paid on the same day
- Invoice 4 and 7 will be paid on the same day

If 4 invoices are paid on Wednesday, then those 4 invoices could be:
A) 1, 3, 4, 6
B) 1, 3, 5, 6
C) 2, 4, 5, 7
D) 3, 4, 5, 7
(a) A
(b) C
(c) B
(d) D

11) On a 26 question test, five points were deducted for each wrong answer and eight points were
added for each correct answer. If all the questions were answered, how many were correct if the
score was zero?
(a) 13
(b) 10
(c) 11
(d) 12

12) The average monthly expenditure of a family was Rs. 2200 during first 3 months, Rs. 2500
during next 4 months and Rs. 3150 during last 5 months of the year. If the total saving during the
year was Rs. 5210, find average monthly income.
(a) 3130
(b) 3180
(c) 3150
(d) 3080

13) How many different integers can be expressed as the sum of five distinct numbers from the set
(9, 20, 31, 42, 53, 64, 75, 86, 97, 108)?
(a) 252
(b) 25
(c) 26
(d) 10

14) Which of the following represents the largest 4 digit number which can be added to 7991 in order
to make the derived number divisible by each of the following numbers: 36, 14, 21, 22 and 54?
(a) 9829
(b) 325
(c) 8641
(d) 9901

15) Jake, a contractor engaged 42 labourers to complete a piece of work in five work in five weeks,
at the rate of 6 hours a day. After two weeks, only a third of the work was over and hence he
included a few more men for the task and also extracted one more hour a day from all the labourers
to complete the work on time. The number of men he included on the staff is:
(a) 6
(b) 10
(c) 12
(d) 14

16) Jake and Paul start together to walk 10 kms. Jake walks 1.5 kmph faster than Paul and arrives
at his destination 1.5 hours before than Paul. Jakes speed of walking is:
(a) 8 kmph
(b) 6 kmph
(c) 4 kmph
(d) 2 kmph

17) In the simple subtraction problem below, same single digits (not necessarily distinct) are
replaced by letters. Find the value of 7 A + 2 8 + 2 C D

(a) 69
(b) 60
(c) 64
(d) 62

18) One hundred identical biased coins each with a probability p of showing a head are tossed
simultaneously. If the probability of heads showing on 50 coins is equal to that of heads showing on
51 coins, then value of p is:
(a) None of these
(b)
(c)
(d)

19) Raj invested in Indigo, HUL and SBI shares at Rs. 300, Rs. 200 and Rs. 5 per share
respectively. He bought 100 shares for Rs. 10,000. The number of Indigo and HUL shares he bought
are respectively:
(a) 15, 25
(b) 17, 23
(c) 17, 60
(d) 23, 17

20) Write numbers from 133 to 355 in a sequence like 133134135136137138.354355. How
many times the digit 6 occurs in the sequence?
(a) 41
(b) 42
(c) 83
(d) 85

21) Seven people are sitting in a theater watching a movie. The row they are in contains seven
seats. After intermission, they all return to the same row but choose their seats randomly. What is
the probability that neither of the two aisle seats was previously sitting in an aisle seat?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

22) In a certain city, 60 percent of the registered voters are Party A supporters and the rest are Party
B supporters. In an assembly election, if 75 percent of the registered Party A supporters and 20
percent of the registered Party B supporters are expected to vote for Candidate A, what percent of
the registered voters are expected to vote for Candidate A?
(a) 60
(b) 53
(c) 20
(d) 75

23) Two rectangles, A with volumes at ( 2, 0), (0, 0), (0, 4) and ( 2, 4), and B, with volume of (1, 0),
(5, 0), (1, 12) and (5, 12) are simultaneously bisected by a line in the plane. What is the slope of the
line?
(a) 1
(b) 4
(c) 4
(d) 2

24) Ramesh deals some cards to Mushtaq and himself from a full pack of playing cards and laid the
rest aside. Ramesh then said to Mushtaq If you give me a certain number of your cards, I will have
four times as many cards as you will have. If I give you the same number of cards, I will have thrice
as many cards as you will have. Of the given choices, which can represent the number of cards with
Ramesh?
(a) 31
(b) 9
(c) 12
(d) 35

25) In this question, AB refers to A raised to the power B.
Ten tickets are numbered 1, 2, 3, ., 10. Six tickets are selected at random one at a time with
replacement. The probability of the largest number appearing on the selected ticket is 7 is:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

26) Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players. The playing pieces are moved
according to the roll of dice, and players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. Although
luck is involved and factors into the outcome, strategy plays a more important role in the long run.
With each roll of the dice, players must choose from numerous options for moving their checkers
and anticipate possible counter-moves by the opponent. Earliest record of dice game in India dates
back to Mahabharata. It is said that Shakuni used biased dice to get the desired outcome. Let us say
Shakuni threw 2 biased dice together. For the first dice P(6) = , the other scores being equally likely
while for the second dice, P(1) = and the other scores are equally likely. What is the probability that
Shakuni will throw a total of 7 in one throw of these two dice?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

27) A solid wooden toy is in the shape of a right circular cone mounted an a hemisphere, such that
the circular base of the cone rests on the flat circular area of the hemisphere. The radius of the
hemisphere is equal to the radius of the circular base of the cone. If the radius of the hemisphere is
4.2 cm and the total height of the toy is 10.2 cm, find the volume of the wooden toy (approximately to
the nearest integer).
(a) 421 sq. cm.
(b) 104 sq. cm.
(c) 427 sq. cm.
(d) 162 sq. cm.

28) If there are 254 barrels out of which 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 to test, how many mice are required to find
the poisoned barrel?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 6
(d) 8

29) In how many ways can the letters of the English alphabet be arranged so that there are seven
letter between the letters A and B, and no letter is repeated?
(a) 24P7 2 18!
(b) 18 24!
(c) 24P7 2 20!
(d) 36 24!

30) In this question, AB means A raised to the power B. Let f(x) = 1 + x + x2 + ..x6. The remainder
when f(x7) is divided by f(x) is:
(a) None of the other choices
(b) 6
(c) 0
(d) 7

31) There are 6561 cricket balls out of them 1 is heavy. Find the minimum number of times the
cricket balls have to be weighed for finding out the heavy ball?
(a) 8
(b) 5
(c) 7
(d) 9

32) An organisation has 3 committees, only 2 persons are members of all 3 committee but every pair
of committee has 3 members in common. What is the least possible number of members on any one
committee?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 6
(d) 1