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DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 4: Answer these questions on the
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Harish and Sachin are playing a game of matchsticks. There are N
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matchsticks on the table to start with. Each player, in his turn, picks up at
least one matchstick and at most eight matchsticks. The two players take

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turns alternately. The player who clears the table loses. Assume that each
player plays intelligently with an objective of winning. The first move is
Harish’s. No player is allowed to pass his turn without picking up any
matchsticks.

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Harish in his first four moves were 6, 4, 3, and 6 respectively, then how

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many matchsticks would Sachin have picked up in his third move?
Assume that Harish wins the game.

(1) 3 (2) 5 (3) 6 (4) Insufficient data

2. If it is known that the game was completed in 8 moves (by each of the two
players), what is the maximum possible value for N?

(1) 63 (2) 71 (3) 72 (4) 81

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Instead of a minimum of one matchstick, each player has to pick up

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at least two matchsticks in his turn. The only instance that a player

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is allowed to pick up one matchstick is when there is only one
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3. If it is known that N is greater than 6 but less than 44, for how

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many values of N will Harish certainly lose the game irrespective of
how he plays?

(1) 4 (2) 5
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4. If it is known that N is greater than 128 but less than 138 and
that Harish picked up 6 matchsticks in his first move, then what is
the value of N?

(1) 137 (2) 133 (3) 134 (4) Cannot be determined

DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 9: Answer these questions on the
basis of the information given below.
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Eight teams – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H – played a cricket
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tournament among themselves. Every team played exactly one match
with each of the other seven teams. Given below is an incomplete

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table which gives the results of the matches between the teams. For
any team, a match can have only three results – Win, Tie or Lose, for

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which +2, 0 and -2 points are respectively awarded to the team. The
team which gets the highest number of net points is declared as the
winner.

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The entry in any particular cell of the table gives the winner of the

a ‘‘T’’ , which means that the match was a tie.

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(i) The team which got the maximum number of net points did not

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(iii) There were exactly three matches which ended in a tie.

(iv) There were exactly two teams which had lost the same number
of matches and G was not one of them.
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(1) A (2) B (3) C (4) None of these
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6. What is the difference between the maximum and the minimum
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number of points scored by any team?
(1) 18 (2) 20 (3) 22
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7. Which of the following statements is definitely true?
(1) One of the teams won all its seven matches.

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(2) The teams which lost an equal number of matches also won an
equal number of matches.
(3) F won its match against E.
(4) E won its match against H.

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8. The match between which of the following two teams ended in a
tie?
(1) B and E (2) C and E (3) D and F (4) All the above

9. Against which of the following teams did B win its match?

(1) A (2) F (3) H (4) None of these
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There are 32 players in a tennis tournament who are seeded from 1 to
32. The grid representing the matches played and their outcomes

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(wherever available) is as shown below. The tournament consisted of
a total of five rounds – I Round, II Round, Quarter Finals, Semi

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Finals and Finals – as indicated at the bottom of the grid.

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In every match the higher seeded player beats the lower seeded
player and advances to the next round, while the loser is eliminated.

So also in any round, the highest seeded player still left in the
tournament meets the lowest seeded player still left in the
tournament, the second highest seeded player still left in the
tournament meets the second lowest seeded player still left in the
tournament and so on.
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Hewitt

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Semi Final
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following is Agassi’s seeding?
(1) 4 (2) 5 (3) 6 (4) None of these
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11. If Roddick beats Safin in the II Round and Safin beats Costa in
the I Round, what is Costa’s seeding?
(1) 20 (2) 19 (3) 18 (4) 17

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12. If it is known that Nalbaldian lost his Quarter Finals against
Nadal, against which of the following seeds did Nalbaldian win his
matches?
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(1) 26 and 10 (2) 30 and 14 (3) 27 and 11 (4) 29 and 13

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13. How many players who played in the tournament won at least
one match and at most two matches?
(1) 24 (2) 12 (3) 16 (4) None of these
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DIRECTIONS for questions 14 to 18: Answer the questions on the
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Sixteen players participated in a tennis tournament. The players

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were seeded from 1 to 16, with seed 1 being the highest seed and
seed 16 being the lowest seed. The following figure gives the draw of

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matches for the tournament, comprising four rounds – First Round,
Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and Finals.

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In each round, the winners of the matches advanced to the next
round, while the losers were eliminated.

In any match, if a lower seeded player defeats a higher seeded

player, the match is termed as an upset.
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Seed 1
Seed 16
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Seed 3
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Seed 15
Seed 6
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Seed 13 Finals
Seed 2 Quarter Semi Final
Round I Final
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14. If the player seeded 11 reached the finals, what is the minimum number

(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) 5

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15. The lowest seeded player who can win the tournament without himself

(1) Seed 6 (2) Seed 7

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16. If the player seeded 3 is one of the persons who reached the finals, who

(2) Seed 7
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among the following can be the other player who reached the finals?
(1) Seed 10 (3) Seed 14 (4) Seed 15

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17. If it was known that the player seeded 6 was the winner of one of the
semi-finals, who among the following was definitely not the winner of the
tournament?
(1) Seed 3 (2) Seed 15 (3) Seed 1 (4) Seed 4

18. What is the maximum number of upsets that could have happened in the
tournament?
(1) 6 (2) 8 (3) 12 (4) 15
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Eight players – A through H qualified for the final round of the
World Snooker Championship which is a round robin competition,

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i.e., each player plays with every other player exactly once. At the
start of the tournament, these eight players were seeded from 1 to 8,
with seed 1 being considered as the top seed. No match ended as a

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tie and after each match, the winner was awarded one point and the
loser was not awarded any points. At the end of the tournament, it

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was found that each player scored exactly one point less than his
seeding. The following table gives the results of some of the matches
played.
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For example, in the match between A and D, A won over D.
It was also known that C was seeded 3 and E was not among the top
five seeds.
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(1) A (2) F (3) H (4) Cannot be determined

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25. How many matches did B win?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4
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27. At the end of the tournament, the eight players were ranked based on

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number of points is ranked 1, the one with the second highest number of
points is ranked 2 and so on. For which player was his rank the same as
the number of points he scored?
(1) D (2) A (3) E (4) Cannot be determined
DIRECTIONS for questions 28 to 31: Answer the questions on the
basis of the information given below.
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Eight county teams – Kent, Essex, Somerset, Durham, Hampsire,
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Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Lancashire participated in a Twenty20
tournament held in London. In the first round, these eight teams were

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divided into two groups of four teams each. Each team has to play two
matches against each of the other teams in its group. The teams with
the highest and the second highest number of wins in both the groups

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will move to the next round, i.e., semi-finals. It is known that, Essex,
Yorkshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire reached the semi-finals

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It is also known that, in the first round

(i) No match ended in a tie and in each of the groups, each of the four
teams won a different number of matches.
(ii) Yorkshire lost both its matches against Derbyshire.
(iii) Kent won the same number of matches that by Yorkshire.
(iv) In its group, Somerset lost both of its matches against all the
other teams, except Durham, which, in turn, won at least one match
against each of the other teams, except one.
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28. Which team won the highest number of matches in the first
round?
(1) Yorkshire (2) Derbyshire
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29. Which team won the least number of matches in the first round?
(2) Hampshire (3) Durham (4) Cannot be

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30. What was the total number of matches won by Durham in the
first round?
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31. Which team/s lost at least one match against Kent in the first
round?
(1) Only Hampshire (2) Only Yorkshire
(3) Only Yorkshire and Hampshire (4) Only Hampshire and
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A and B are about to start playing a game where there will be n coins
on the table at the beginning of the game and each of them has to

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remove a minimum of one and a maximum of x coins in his turn. They
take turns alternatively and always play intelligently so as to win the

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game, as far as possible. They select one of the following two formats

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(i) Last out: The format in which the player who clears the table is
considered to be the loser of the game.
(ii) Last win: The format in which the player who clears the table is
considered to be the winner of the game.
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32. They started playing the Last win format of the game with the

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value of x as 4 and the value of n as 73. If A is the first person to
play, then how many coins should he remove?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4
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33. They started playing the Last win format of the game with the
value of x as 6. If A who played first, removed five coins, which of the
following can be the value of n?
(1) 65 (2) 125
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34. They started playing the Last out format of the game with the
value of x as 5 and the value of n as 135. If B is the first person to
play, then how many coins should he remove?
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 1 (4) 5