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com , Phone (044) 24860148, 9381001711 APTITUDE 21 1) Two wine merchant s reached Paris gate. A is having 64 barrels wine and B is having 20 barrels .A paid 5 barrel plus 40 franc as tax and B paid 2 barrels and got 40 francs in return. What is the cost of one barrel and how much is tax per barrel. 2) Meera was playing with her brother using 55 blocks. She gets bored playing and starts arranging the blocks such that the no. of blocks in each row is one less than that in the lower row. Find how many were therein the bottom most row? 3) Sam and Mala have a conversation. Sam says I am certainly not over 40. Mala says I am 38 and you are atleast 5 years older than me Now Sam says you are atleast 39 All the statements by the two are false. How old are they really? 4) The month of October in a year has exactly four Mondays and four Fridays, find what day of week will be on the 20th of November of that year. 5) Three clocks where set to true time .First run with the exact time .second slows one minute/day. Third gains one minute/day. After how many days they will show true time. 6) A person buys some clothes in wholesale at some discount and sells them in retail. He presumes that he made 40% profit. But he found out that he made 39 % loss on account of his faulty weight meter (cloth meter) .Can you find how much is the meter weight more or less from normal.

7) The Bulls, Pacers, Lakers and Jazz ran for a contest. Anup, Sujit, John made the following statements regarding results Anup said either Bulls or Jazz will definitely win Sujit said he is confident that Bulls will not win John said he is confident that neither Jazz nor Lakers will win When the result came it was found that only one of the above three had made a correct statement. Who has made the correct statement and who has won the contest? 8) A Person gets his old book binded. But he finds that the page numbers are cut off. So he starts numbering the pages. During the process he finds that 3 is encountered 61 times. Can u tell how many pages were there in the book?

9) A boy will cycle his way to his grandfather's house. On the first day he cycles 1/2 of the distance. On the second day he cycles 1/2 of the remaining distance. On the third day he cycles three quarter of the remaining. On the fourth day he cycles 10 miles. What is total distance he traveled? 10) There is a class of students where one third were under 12 one half were under 13 and 6 were eleven yrs. The number of students between 11 and 12 were equal that of between 12 and 13. Find the figure! 11) I have got some money in my bag. (Which is stolen after shopping I and II)? I spent 10% of my money for shopping (I) For second time, 10% of the remaining money is spent for shopping (II) The total bill amount=Rs.18. Find the amount which will be remaining in the bag? 12) The length and breadth of a rectangular plot are in the ratio of 7:5. if the length is reduced by 5 m& breadth is increased by 2 m then the area is reduced by 65 sq.m. The length and breadth of the rectangular plot are? 13) There are nine cards numbered 1-9 a. card 5 is in centre b. card 9 is in row in which card 5 is there c. card 4 is in same column in which card 9 is present d. card 1 and card 6 are adjacent to each other e. sum of each rows is equal to 15 only f. sum of each diagonal is also 15 g. Nine cards are arranged in three rows and three columns. Adjacent means two cards are in same row or in same column next to each other. Consider all possible answers. Which are definitely adjacent to each other? Which two cards do not come definitely adjacent to each other? The middle column adds upto. The middle column cant be added upto X)10 Y)15 Z) 20. 14) The Jones have named their four boys after favorite relatives; their friends, the Smiths, have done the same thing with their three boys. One of the families has twin boys. From the following clues, can you determine the families of all seven children and their ages? Valentine is 4 years older than his twin brothers. Winston, who is 8, and Benedict are not brothers. They are each named after a grandfather. Briscoe is two years younger than his brother Hamilton, But three years older than Dewey. Decatur is 10 years old. Benedict is 3 years younger than Valentine; they are not related. The twins are named for uncles.

15) If a date Oct,02,2001 is written as 10022001(mmddyyyy), Then which date before 01,oct,2000 gives the maximum valued palindrome(the digits must be same when reversed) 16) There are 5 persons a, b, c, d, e and each is wearing a black or white cap on his head. a person can see the caps of the remaining 4 but can't see his own cap. a person wearing white says true and who wears black says false. a says I see 3 whites and 1 black b says I see 4 blacks e says I see 4 whites c says I see 3 blacks and 1 white. Now find the caps worn by a, b, c, d and e 17) There are seven different colored eggs in a basket, among them 23 are in red, 17 blue, 21 green, 18 yellow, 16 black, 12 white, 25 violet. What is the probability of getting at least one pair of the same color, when you draw a least number? 18) X puts some black and white balls in a bag. Y picks a ball from the bag and finds it to be black. He picks out another ball and finds it also to be black. He asks what would be probability of a third black ball for which X replies that it is 9/10 of the probability of the original trail. Y knows that there are at least 7 balls in the bag originally. How many balls of each color are there originally? 19) A murder occurred in a train. The murdered is Mr. X. The people investigated gave the following statements. Old Man: I'm innocent. I saw Blonde woman talking to Mr X Blonde Woman: I'm innocent. I didn't talk with Mr. X. Young Man: I'm innocent. The brunette woman killed Mr. X. Brunette Woman: Im innocent. One of the men is the murderer. There are 4 true and four false statements. Who is the murderer? 20) You've got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them. The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the end of every day. If you are only You've got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them. The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the end of every day. If you are only allowed to make two breaks in the gold bar, how do you pay your worker? 21) Imagine an analog clock set to 12 o'clock. Note that the hour and minute hands overlap. How many times each day do both the hour and minute hands overlap? How would you determine the exact times of the day that this occurs?

22) 50 minutes ago if it was 4 times as many minutes past 3'o clock, how many minutes is it to 6'oclock. 23) There is an escalator and 2 persons move down it. A takes 50 steps & B takes 75 steps while the escalator is moving down. Given that the time taken by A to take 1 step is equal to time taken by B to take 3 steps. Find the no of steps in the escalator. While it is stationary. 24) Find the values of the alphabets in this addition sum ONE ONE ONE ONE ____ TEN 25) In a circular cycle game 1/5th of those ahead of me and 5/6th of those behind me equal the total number of participants. Find the total participants. 26) A car is traveling at a uniform speed. The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit number. After traveling for an hour the driver sees another milestone with the same digits in reverse order. After another hour the driver sees another milestone containing the two digits. What is the average speed of the driver. 27) XYZ + AB CDEF Find the values of E, F, B, G, A XYZ AB BGA

28) Uncle Reuben and aunt Cynthia came to town to shop Reuben bought a suit and hat for $15 Cynthia paid as much as for her hat as Reuben did for his suit then she spent the rest of their money for a new dress on the way home. Cynthia called Reubens attention to the fact that his hat cost $1 more than her dress then she added if we had divided our hat money differently so that I bought different hat, mine costing 1 and 1/2 time cost of yours then we each would have spent the same amount of money in that case said uncle Reuben "how much would my hat have cost". 29) Ann, Boobie, Cathy and Dave are at their monthly business meeting. Their occupations are author, biologist, chemist and doctor, but not necessarily in that order. Dave just told the biologist that Cathy was on her way with doughnuts. Ann is sitting across from the doctor and next to the chemist.

The doctor was thinking that Boobie was a goofy name for parent's to choose, but didn't say anything. What is each person's occupation? 30) The sum of digits of a 5 digit no. is 10. The digit in the ten thousandth place is cube of that of units place. what is the number. a) The digits in the thousandth, hundredth and tenth place are equal b) The digit in the units and tenth place are not equal 31) If I deposit Rs.1000 in the bank now and withdraw the amount only at the end of the year how much will I get? a) The rate of compound interest is 12% per year. b) The interest is deposited in the account at the end of every six months 32) 2 passengers have together 560 kgs of luggage and are charged for the excess above the weight allowed at 10$ and 26$. If all the luggage had belonged to one of them he would have to pay 46$. The amount of luggage each passenger is allowed without any charge is ? 33) Find the next number in the series 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, ____. 34) 4 contestants: Alan, Charlie, Darren, Brain. There are two races and average is taken to decide the winner. one person comes at the same position in both the race. Charlie always comes before Darren. Brian comes first once. Alan comes third at least once. Find the positions. Alan never comes last. Charlie & Darren come 2nd at least once. 35) A contribution of Rs. 500 was raised from 500 people. The fee was as follows: Men: Rs.3.00 each Women: Rs. 2.00 each Children: Rs 0.48 each If number of women is more than number of men, how many children are there? 36) Find the digits for X Y and Z XYZ +XZY ________ = YZX -----------37) Andy, Brian, Cedric and Dave are Architect, Case Worker, Dentist and Barber, not necessarily in that order. a. At least one but not all, has an occupation that starts with the first letter of his name. b. Architects name doesnt contain an r. c. The barber and the dentist have exactly one letter in common. Find out occupation of Brian and Cedric

38) Container A Contains only Water. Other Container B contains only Milk. The contents of B are doubled by pouring the contents of A. Then the contents of A are doubled by pouring the contents of B. Then contents of B are doubled by pouring the contents of A. At the end B contained one liter more water than milk. What are the contents of Water and Milk Separately in container A and B.? I) At the beginning of the process II) at the end of the process. 39) When the actual time passes one hour, Wall clock is 10 minutes behind. When it is one hour in Wall clock, table clock is ten minutes ahead of it. When Table clock shows one hour the alarm clock is 5 minutes behind it. When alarm clock shows one hour Wrist watch is 5 minutes ahead of it. All the clocks are set correctly at 12 Noon. What will be time shown in wrist watch after 6 hours. 40) Every station in N Railroad issues tickets to all stations and also tickets of all other stations. Some stations are added. Now they have to issue 46 more tickets. Give the number of stations both before and after addition. 41) 5 Hunters Doe, Deer, Hare, Boar and Row kill 5 animals. Each hunter kills an animal that does not correspond to his name. Also each hunter misses a different animal which does not correspond to his name. a) The Deer is killed by the hunter, known by the name of the animal killed by Boar. b) Doe is killed by the hunter, Known by name of the animal missed by Hare c) The deer was disappointed to kill only Hare and missed the Row 42) + = 43) 44) 45) 46) 47) 48) 49) NOON MOON SOON JUNE What is J, U, N and E