APTITUDE 1(CTS)

SPECIAL PLACEMENT TRAINING

1. What is the value of 15C13?
A. 30
B. 15
C. 210

D. 105

2. Find the value of 5-2 X 10-4 / 2-5 X 5-6.

(A) 2
(B) 0
(C) 5
(D) 10
3. If a number is divisible by 63, then it is also divisible by:
A. 7
B. 11
C. 13
D. 17
4. A detergent powder company is having a contest. Each pack of 1kg
contains one of the letters B, A, M and O. In every 20 packs there are four
Bs, five As, ten Ms and one O. What is the probability that a pack will have
a B?
A. 1/4
B. 1/2
C. 1/5
D. 1/20
5. Which number should be subtracted from 876905 so that it can be
divisible by 8?
A. 1
B. 2
C.3
D. 4
6. What is the least number which should be added to 1330 to make it a
perfect square?
A. 56
B. 1
C. 41
D. 30
E. 39
7. Simplify: (4/5) (61/20) (10/9)
A. 61/90
B. 90/61
C. 60/91

D. None of these

8. If x=1+21/2, and y=1-21/2, then x2+y2is:

A. 2
B. 3
C. 6
D. 0
9. Express the fraction 26/17 as a number upto 3 decimal points.
A. 1.429
B. 1.535
C. 1.321
D. 1.529
10. In a scheme, a pack of three soaps with MRP Rs.45 is available for
Rs.42. If it still gives a profit of 5% to the shopkeeper, then the cost price of
the pack is:
A. Rs.40
B. Rs.37
C. Rs.41
D. Rs.35
11. An air container can cool the hall in 40 minutes while another takes 45
minutes to cool under similar conditions. If both air conditioners are
switched on at same instance, then how long will it take to cool the room?
A.About 22 minutes
B. About 20 minutes
C.About 30 minutes
D. About 25 minutes
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12. A man sells 12 candies for Rs.12 & loses Rs.2.40. If he sells 12 candies
for Rs.16, how much does he gain or lose?
A. Gains Rs.4
B. Loses Rs.6
C. Gains Rs.6.40
D. Loses Rs.1.60
E. Gains Rs.1.60
13. Shobhit bought 300 litres of milk at Rs.19 per litre. He added 200 liters
of water to it and sold 400 litres of a milk at Rs.20 per litre. To the rest, he
added 10 litres more water and then sold it for Rs. 15 per litre, if he used
mineral water that costs Rs.10 per litre, then the total money earned by
shobhit is:
A. Rs.4000
B. Rs.4150
C. Rs.1800
D. Rs.1850
14. A car is 250 metres behind the bus. The car and bus are moving with
the speed of 60 kmph and 35 kmph respectively. The car will be ahead of
bus by 250 metres in:
A. 37 seconds
B. 48 seconds
C. 72 seconds
D.
68 seconds
15. The price of sugar increases by 30%, then by what % should its
consumption be decreased so that the total expenditure remains same.
A. 76.92%
B. 23.07%
C. 30%
D. 42.85%
16. 49 pumps can empty a reservoir in 6 days, working 8 hours a day. If
196 pumps are used for 5 hours a day, then the same work will be
completed in how many days?
A. 2.6 days
B. 3 days
C. 2.5 days
D. 2 days
17. Simplify: (144-3/2)-1/6
A.23
B. 6

C.32

18. Write 528/7 as a mixed fraction.

A. 75 2/7
B. 75 3/7
C. 74 3/7

D. 4
D. 70 2/7

19. What is unit place of the following sum: 11+22+33+44+55+66

A. 0
B. 4
C. 7
D. 9
20. 4 men can repair a road in 7 hours. How many men are required to
repair the road in 2 hours?
A.7
B. 14
C. 17
D. 10
21. Find the largest two digit number that divides 673 and 865, leaving
remainder 1 in each case.
A. 91
B. 93
C. 96
D. 98
22. When
A.0

is divided by 5, the remainder is?

B. 1

C. 2
2

D.3

23. Atul bought a machine for Rs.4,50,000 and sold it to Irfan at a profit.
Irfan later sold the machine to Danish at a loss of 10% for Rs.4,95,000. The
profit earned by Atul is?
A. 23%
B. 21%
C. 25%
D.22.22%
24. How many 4 digit number can be made using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6, 7
if repetition of digits is not allowed?
A. 24
B. 120
C. 840
D. 5040
25. The product of two numbers 2208. If LCM of the two numbers 552, then
what is HCF of the two numbers.
A. 12
B. 4
C.24
D. Data insufficient
26. The LCM of two numbers 2516 and HCF of square root is 2. Then the
product of two numbers is.
A. 5032
B. 10064
C.7548
D.11322
27. The reciprocal of HCF and LCM of two numbers are 1/12 & 1/312
respectively. If one of the numbers is 24, find the other one.
A. 156
B. 468
C. 117
D. 234
28. In an election, the winning candidate won by 15% votes. If a total 5000
votes were cost of which is 86% where eligible, then how many votes the
winning candidate got?
A. 2000
B. 1800
C. 4000
D. 4300
E. 2300
29. What is the value of (10101)base2 in decimal number.
A.20
B.21
C.42
D.18
30. What is the price of a pair of sandals is decreased by 10%, the number
of pair sold increased by 20%. What is net effect on sells?
A.8% decreases B.10% decreases C.10% increases D. 8% increases
31. 2^x+y=2*(2)^1/2 and 2^x-y= 2^1/2 , the value of x is
A.1
B. 2
C.3
D.4
32. What is the largest and smallest number divisible by 6,15,21 and 24.
A.9235,420
B.9980,840
C.9240,840 D.9999,999
33. In how many ways can a panel of 5 students to be selected from 8 kids.
If a particular student is included?
A. 35 WAYS
B.3! WAYS
C.7! WAYS
D.210 WAY
34. How many 5 digit odd integers can be made using the digits 12345.
A. 24
B. 120
C. 96
D. 360
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35. Arrange 2/15, 18/29, 7/18, 10,87 in ascending order.

A. 2/15, 18/29, 7/18, 10/87
B. 18/29, 7/18, 10/87,2/15
C. 10/87,2/15, 7/18, 18/29
D. 2/15, 18/29, 10/87, 7/18
36. Find X: (2/7)-8 (7/2)-2= (2/7)2x
A. 3
B. -3
C. -6

D. 2

37. If 87958432315X divisible by 8. Find X?

(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 4
(D) 0
38. The profit of Rs.36000 is divided among 3 persons A, B,C such that
A:B=5:4 and B:C=8:9. Find the profit of C.
(A) 9000
(B) 10000
(C) 12000
(D) 24000
39. The permutation and combination of ABCD taken 3 at a time.
(A) 12,2
(B) 24,4
(C) 26,6
(D) 48,8
40. -3.4 is a number on a number line, if 1 subtracted then new number is
(A) number closer to 0 (B) number farther from 0
(C) cannot be determined
(D) none of these
41. 22n-1=1/8n-3, then find n
(A)
(B) 7/4

(C) 2

(D) 3

42. A, B, C can complete a work in 10, 12, 15 days respectively. Which 2 of

them must be selected to complete the task in 6 days.
(A) AB
(B) BC
(C) CA
(D) none of these
43. a2-b2/(a-b)2=2, a=4, b=?
(A) 2/3
(B) 3/2
(C) 3/4

(D) 4/3

44. b is the SI on a & c is the SI on b, the period n and the rate percent r
are same. Then find the relations .
(A) a2=bc
(B) c2-=ab
(C) b2=ac
(D) a=b=c
45. If A is the principal and the rate percent per annum is A% invested for A
months. Find the amount?
(A) A(1+A2/12)
(B) A(1+A2)/1200 (C) A+A3/1200
(D) A(1+A2/1200)
46. In an election between two candidates the winner gets 85% of votes. If
the total votes are 5000 and 86% are eligible. Find the number of votes
polled.
(A) 4300
(B) 1850
(C) 700
(D) none of these
47 Which is greater 22/7, 138/43
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(A) 22/7
these

(B) 138/43

(C) both are equal

(D) none of

48. If the length is 4 times the breadth and the area of the rectangle is 2500
square units. Find the length.
(A) 25
(B) 50
(C)75
(D)100
49. Write 4.33 in p/q form
(A) 16/3
(B) 4/3
(C)13/3
(D) 14/3
50. Find the largest power of 20 in 100 !
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 24
(D) 56
51. What is the probability of two cards to be selected from a pack of 52
cards in which one should be heart and other should be spade.
(A) 1/16
(B) 1/2
(C) 1/4
(D) 13/102
52. A vendor purchases 12 pens for Rs.60. How many pens he should sell
for Rs.60 to gain 20%
(A) 12
(B) 15
(C) 10
(D)
none of these
53. In a poultry 50 hens gives 200 eggs in two days. In how many days 20
hens can give 400 eggs.
(A) 15
(B) 10
(C) 5
(D)8
54. What number must be multiplied by 43 so that it will have 3 prime
factors?
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 6
(D) 8
55. Write 625 in base 8 system
(A) 1161
(B) 1160

(C) 1163

(D) 1162

56. Find the total combinations of selecting 3 balloons from a bag of 25

balloons.
(A) 2100
(B) 2200
(C) 2300
(D) 2400
57. By selling 10 papayas the cost price of 8 papayas were realized. What
is the profit or loss percent.
(A) 20
(B) 25
(C) 16.66
(D) 33.33
58. What is the probability of a day starts with T in a non-leap year?
(A) 1/7
(B) 2/7
(C) 1/2
(D) 2/5
59. What is the probability of getting 4 digit even numbers using 1, 2, 3, 4
without any repetition of the digits?
(A) 1/4
(B) 1/8
(C) 1/2
(D) 3/8
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60. What is the probability of getting 4 digit odd numbers using 1, 2, 3, 4

without any repetition of the digits?
(A) 1/4
(B) 1/8
(C) 1/2
(D) 3/8
61. A, B and C are three typists, who working simultaneously can type 216
pages in four hours. In one hour, C can type as many pages more than B as
B can type more than A. During a period of five hours, C can type as many
pages as A can during seven hours. How many pages does each of them
type per hour respectively?
A. 14,17,20
B. 16,18,22
C. 15,17,22
D. 15,18,21
62. A student was asked to divide a number by 6 and add 12 to the
quotient. He, however first added 12 to the number and then divided it by
6, getting 112 as the answer. The correct answer should have been:
A. 122
B. 118
C. 114
D. 124
63. In a certain game, each player scores either 2 points or 5 points. If n
players score 2 points and m players score 5 points and the total number of
points scored is 50, what is the least possible positive difference between n
and m?
A. 5
B. 3
C. 1
D. 2
64. If we write down all the natural numbers from 259 to 492 side by side
get a very large natural number 259260261....491492. How many 8's will be
used to write this large natural number?
A. 32
B. 43
C. 52
D. 53
65. What is the last digit of the number 3579+ 1?
A. 1
B. 4
C. 7
D. 3
66. When a particular positive number is divided by 5, the remainder is 2. If
the same number is divided by 6, the remainder is 1. If the difference
between the quotients of division is 3, then find the number.
A. 37
B. 97
C. 67
D. 87
67. The remainder when 784 is divided by 342 is
A. 0
B. 1
C. 49
D. 341
68. The LCM of two number is 4800 and their HCF is 160. If one number is
480, then the second number is
A.1200
B.1500
C.1600
D.1800
69. Two students appeared at an examination. One of them secured 9 marks
more than the other and his marks was 56% of the sum of their marks. The
marks obtained by them are:
A. 39, 30
B. 41, 32 C. 42, 33 D. 43, 34
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70. The price of an item changed from Rs. 120 to Rs. 100. Then later the
price decreased again from Rs. 100 to Rs. 80. Which can be said about the
two decreases in percentage term?
A. 1st decrease is larger
B. 2nd decrease is larger
C. both are equal
D. nothing can be said
71. In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid
votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500,
the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was:
A. 2700
B. 2900
C. 3000
D. 3100
72. A college has 10 basketball players. A 5-member team and a captain
will be selected out of these 10 players. How many different selections can
be made?
A. 1260
B. 210
C. 10C66! D. 10C56
73. In how many ways can a leap year have 53 Sundays?
A. 365C7
B. 7
C. 4
D. 2
74. In how many ways can 6 green toys and 6 red toys be arranged, such
that 2 particular red toys are never together whereas 2 particular green
toys are always together?
A. 11! 2! B. 9! 90 C. 4 10! D. 18 10!
75. How many numbers are there between 100 and 1000 such that at least
one of their digits is 6?
A. 200
B. 225
C. 252
D. 120
76. 20% of the students in a class failed in an examination. Out of the
students who failed, 75% were males. Male students who failed constitute
90% of the economically poor students in the class. What is the ratio of the
number of economically poor students to the number of students in the
class?
A. 1:4
B. 1:5
C. 5:6
D. 1:6
77. A, B and C enter into a partnership by investing Rs.3600, Rs.4400 and
Rs.2800. A is a working partner and gets a fourth of the profit for his
services and the remaining profit is divided amongst the three in the rate of
their investments. What is the amount of profit that B gets if A gets a total
of Rs. 8000?
A. 4888.88 B. 9333.33 C. 4000
D. 3666.66
78. A noodles merchant buys two varieties of noodles the price of the first
being twice that of the second. He sells the mixture at Rs 17.50 per
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kilogram thereby making a profit of 25%. If the ratio of the amounts of the
first noodles and the second noodles in the mixture is 2:3, then the
respective costs of each noodles are
A. Rs 20, Rs 10 B. Rs 24, Rs 12 C. Rs 16, Rs 8
D. Rs 26, Rs 13
79. Sachin can cover a distance in 1hr 24min by covering 2/3 of the
distance at 4 kmph
and the rest at 5kmph.the total distance is?
A. 5 km
B. 6 km
C. 7 km
D. 8 km
80. X and Y start walking towards each other at 10am at speeds of 3km/hr
and 4km/hr respectively. They were initially 17.5 km apart. At what time do
they meet?
A. 2:30 pm
B. 11 :30 pm
C. 1:30 pm D. 12 :30 pm
81. A boat covers a distance of 30km downstream in 2 hour while it takes 6
hour to cover the same distance upstream. What is the speed of the boat in
km/hr
A. 5
B. 7.5
C. 10
D. 12
82. A work is done by three person A,B and C. A alone takes 10 hours to
complete a single product but B and C working together takes 4 hours, for
the completion of the same product. If all of them worked together and
completed 14 products, then how many hours have they worked?
A. 20 hrs
B. 28 hrs
C. 40 hrs
D. 54 hrs
83. A can complete a project in 20 days and B can complete the same
project in 30 days. If A and B start working on the project together and A
quits 10 days before the project is completed, in how many days will the
project be completed?
A. 18
B. 27
C. 26.67
D. 16
84. A and B together can complete a piece of work in 35 days while A alone
can complete the same work in 60 days. B alone will be able to complete
the same working in:
A. 74 Days B. 80 Days C. 84 Days D. 90 Days
85. Two pipes can fill the cistern in 10hr and 12 hr respectively, while the
third empty it in 20hr. If all pipes are opened simultaneously, then the
cistern will be filled in
A. 7.5 hr
B. 8 hr
C. 8.5 hr
D. 10 hr
86. How many kilograms of sugar costing Rs. 9 per kg must be mixed with
27kg of sugar costing Rs.7 per kg so that there may be gain of 10% by
selling the mixture at Rs.9.24 per kg?
A. 60 kg
B. 63 kg
C. 50 kg
D. 77 kg
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87. A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk .The first contains 25% water and the
rest milk. The second contains 50% water. How much milk should he mix
from each of the container so as to get 12 litres of milk such that the ratio
of water to milk is 3:5?
A. 6 litres B. 1 litres C. 8 litres D. 7 litres
88. The average age of a family of 5 members is 20 years. If the age of the
youngest member be 10 years then what was the average age of the family
at the time of the birth of the youngest member?
A. 13.5
B. 14
C. 15
D. 12.5
89.In a set of three numbers, the average of first two numbers is 2, the
average of the last two numbers is 3, and the average of the first and the
last numbers is 4. What is the average of three numbers?
A. 2
B. 2.5
C. 3
D. 3.5
90. I forgot the last digit of a 7-digit telephone number. If 1 randomly dial
the final 3 digits after correctly dialling the first four, then what is the
chance of dialling the correct number?
A. 1/1001 B. 1/1000 C. 1/999
D. 1/990
91. The probability that a arrow fired from a point will hit the target is 1/4.
Three such arrows are fired simultaneously towards the target from that
very point. What is the probability that the target will be hit?
A. 19/64
B. 23/64
C. 23/67
D. 37/64

92. Statement: A train derailed near a station while moving over a bridge
and fell into a river, resulting in the death of 65 people.
Courses of Action:
I. The Railway Authorities should clarify the reason of the accident to the
Government.
II. The Government should allocate funds to compensate the destruction
caused.
III. The protection walls of the bridge should be made strong enough to
avoid such accidents.
A.Only I and II follow
C.Only III follows
E.None of these

B.Only II and III follow

D.All follow

93. Statement: The vehicular traffic has increased so much in the recent
past that it takes at least two hours to travel between the city and the
airport during peak hours.
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Courses of Action:
I. Non-airport bound vehicles should not be allowed to ply on the road
connecting the city and the airport.
II. The load of vehicular traffic should be diverted through various link roads
during peak hours.
III. The departure and arrival of flights should be regulated so as to .avoid
congestion during peak hours.
A.Only I follows
C.Only I and II follow
E.None of these

B.Only II follows
D.All follow

94. Look at this series: 53, 53, 40, 40, 27, 27, ... What number should come
next?
A. 12
B. 14
C. 27
D. 53
95. Look at this series: 1.5, 2.3, 3.1, 3.9, ... What number should come next?
A. 4.2
B. 4.4
C. 4.7
D. 5.1
96. Look at this series: 14, 28, 20, 40, 32, 64, ... What number should come
next?
A. 52
B. 56
C. 96
D. 128
97. Look at this series: 201, 202, 204, 207, ... What number should come
next?
A. 205
B. 208
C. 210
D. 211
98. Look at this series: 8, 6, 9, 23, 87 , ... What number should come next?
A. 128
B. 226
C. 324
D. 429
99. Look at this series: 544, 509, 474, 439, ... What number should come
next?
A. 404
B. 414
C. 420
D. 445
100. Look at this series: F2, __, D8, C16, B32, ... What number should fill the
blank?
A. A16
B. G4
C. E4
D. E3

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