1. For the kings revelry 30 barrels of beer have b een ordered .

howerver, it was found that one of them is poisoned. The poison takes effect even if consumed in the tiniest amount after 14 hours. Yhou need to find within 24 hours the poisone d barrel and have at your disposal some beer guzzling mice. The smallest number of mice required to find the poisoned barrel is 1) 2 2) 1 3) 4 4) 3 hint: 2^n> no of barrels ans:4 2. Given a collection of points P in the plane a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line; i.e the pint lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P) . The maximum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 15 points in the plane is 1) 5 2) 10 3) 15 4) 9 Ans: 15(Same as given number of points) 3. The pacelength P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive footprin ts for men the formula n/P=190 gives an approximate relationship between n and P where n= number os steps per minute and P= CX in meters. Bernard knows his Pace Length is 104cm the formula applies to Bernards walking. Calculate Bernards wal king speed in kmph. 4. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The t ortoise goes in one direction and the hare I the other. The hare starts after th e tortoise had coveredc 1/7 of its distance and that tooo leisurely. The hare an d tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what fact or shoul the hare increase its speed so as to ties the reace? 8 41.00 56 7 Ans: 1/7, 1/8 7*8=56 56-7=49 49-8=41 49*41/7^2=41.00 5. Mr bean visited a magic shop and bought some magical marbles of different col ours along with other magical items. While returning home whenever he saw a colo ured light he took out marbles of similar colours and counted them. So he counte d the pink coloured marbles and found that he has bought 25 of them . then he co unted 10 green marbles and then 32 yellow marbles. He later counted 30 purple co loured marbles with him. But when he reached a crossing, he looked at a red ligh t and started counting red marbles and found that he had bought 34 red marbles. As soon as he finished counting, it started raining heavily and by the time he r eached home he was drenched. After reaching home he found that the red, green, a nd yellow marbles had magically changed colours and became white, while other ma rbles were unchanged . it will take 1 day to regain its colo9urs, but he needs t o give atleast one pair of marbles to his wife so as to ensure that there is atl east one pair of red, yellow and green marbles? 70 42 68 40 Ans: 34+32+2=68 6. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fill s at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40,80, 160..in tank B. 1/16 th of the tank B is filled in 21 hours. What is the time to fill the tank fully? a) 26 (b) 25 (c) 5 (d) 27

7. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 20. For all values of n fr om 1 to 20. Statement n says At least n of the statements on this sheet are fal se. Which statements are true and which are false? (a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. (b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. (c) The first 6 statements are true and the last 6 are false. (d) The first 13 statements are false and the last 13 are false. Ans. c Note: For this type of Questions, follow this: --At least- I st half are true, Last half are false --Exactly- Last second one is true or (N-1)th Statement is true --Almost- All are true. 8. 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 continu es 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 cod e in total? Hint: m1*h1/w1=m2*h2/w2 9. 45 people {a1, a2, , a12} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In the p airs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, , {a11, a12}, {a12, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the s et is (a) 12 (b) 10 Ans. d hint: ceiling[N/3] (c) 18 (d) 15

10. 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. O nly one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each per son declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost p erson is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A. All suspects are lying. B. leftmost suspect is guilty. C. leftmost suspect is guilty (a) (b) (c) (d) A A A B only and C and B only

ans: b 11. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 15 + X*(Y Z) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Al ok 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 variabl e of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the var iable 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? Ans. 15+18 =33 Note: For this type of questions: x+y-z=11

x-y-z=2 x*(y+z)=18 12. How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (bu t with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer? (a) (b) (c) (d) 100 125 75 85

Ans:. 5^n-1= 5^4-1=125, n= no of digits 13. On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 yea rs after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks . Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*v (t-9) for t = 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the s olar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b)21.25 c)12.25 d)14.05 Ans: b 14. Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Ital y. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored dr ivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal v ehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been n oted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan s Mercedes is 35 km/hr an d the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18 Ans: b 15. John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Sh op 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 n eighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper? a)loss 23 b)gain 23 c)gain 54 d)Loss 54 Ans: a hint: 19+4=23 16. Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and m en. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that pla y a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in differen t rounds, where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tourna ment. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches wer e played?

a)257 b)256 c)72 d)255 And: d 17. (1/2) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b) 7 c) 8 d) 9 Ans: d 18. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 100 coins are stacke d one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ord inary 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 t he top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 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 neit her player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when its a players turn then the player wins the game. A. B. C. D. Alice has no winning strategy. Initially, the gold coins the third coin from the top. Then In order to win, Alices first move should be a 0-move. In order to win, Alices first move should be a 1-move.

Ans. D 19. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts t he letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the prob ability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? (a) 0 (b) 12/212 (c) 11/12 (d) 1/12 Ans. a 20. 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 contin ues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmer s are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write cod e at the same rate. Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 line s of code in total. How many lines of code can be written by 72 programmers in 7 2 minutes? (a) 72 (b) 432 (c) 12 (d) 144 Ans. b (This question is two times repeated in my question paper) 21. A circular dartboard of radius 2 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 p eriphery? a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.25 d) 0.5 Ans: 0.25 22. Planet Fourfe resides in 4-dimensional space and thus the currency used by i ts residents are 3- dimensional objects. The rupee notes are cubical in shape sh ile their coins are spherical. However the coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations on the size of the coins. A. The diamere of the coins should be at least 4 mm and not exceed 16mm. B. given a coin the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater. C. the diameter of the coin must always be na inte ger. You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters with thers re quirements and your goal is to desigh as many coins as possible. How many coins can you design? 1 2 4 3 Ans: 1 23. There are two boxes, one containing 24 red balls and the other containing 38 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when y ou choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box the probabili ty of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is .50 .39 .69 .19 24. Subha patel is an olfactory scientist working for internation flavors and fr agrances. She specializes in finding new scents recorded and reconstituted from nature thanks to living flower technology she has extracted fragraned ingredient s from different flowering plants into bottles labeled citrus lilac, woody, anis ic and casis . 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 ci trus, it must also contain anisic, and the amount of anisic must equal the amoun t of lilac. Woody cannot be used in combination with anisic. Anisic cannot be us ed in combination with casis. If the perfume contains casis, the amount of casis must be greater than the total amount of the other essence or essence used. Whi ch of the following could be added to and unacceptable perfume consisting of two parts woody and one part casis to make it acceptable? 1. Two parts woody 2. One part lilac 3. One part citrus 4. Two parts casis Ans: Two parts casis 25. exp(m,n)= m to the power of n, if exp(10,m) = n exp(2,4),what is the value o f n? (i dont remember the options) 26. The citizens of planet Oz are 6 fingered and thus have developed a number sy stem in base 6. A certain street in Oz contains 1000 buildings numbered from 1 t o 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? Express your answer in base 10. Ans: 3 * n2=108 (n=6,....if n= number system given)

27. 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 a ge group. You get to know fro the supermarket records that their average age 3 y ears ago was 48 years. After a while, another person joins the queue and the pre sent average of all the 5 is 46 years. The present age of the last person in the queue is: Ans: 26 years

28. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? a) 2.4 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4 mph d) 5 mph Solution: Average speed=(2*x*y)/(x+y) 29. A scientist was researching on animal behavior in his lab. He was very inter ested in analyzing the behavior of bear. For some reason he travelled 1mile in n orth direction & reached at North Pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed th e bear around 1 hr with a speed of 2km/hr in east direction. After that he trave lled in south direction & reached at his lab in2 hrs. Then what is the color of the bear? a) White b) Black c) Gray d) Brown Solution is: White. above all the matter is nonsense 30. In a school, for a student out of 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects an d he got 79 marks in the 8th subject. what is the average of all the subject? a) 76.251 b) 80.25 c) 74.265 d) 74.625 Solution: Total marks=74*7=518, then average=(518+79)/8=74.625 31. A boy got 224 points out of 300, but he had to score atleast 79%. Now he has one more exam left with him how much he have to score in remaining exam to scor e atleast 79% if it is of 100 points. Ans: 92 marks 32. The bacteria grows in exponential manner, the bacteria proportion at 3.00 P. M is 300 then at 7.00 P. M it raise to 153600. By how much will be the proportio n of bacteria at 10.00 P.M? Ans: 39321600 (just solve it). 33. Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, the y begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One frien d suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of ca rds numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulating a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the numb er shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear more often 8

,9 or 10? a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10 Solution: Calculate how many times 8,9,10 will come when we throw 2 dice, and an swer 34. Bhanu spends 30% of his income on petrol on scooter. ? of the remaining on house rent and the balance on food. If he spends Rs.300 on petrol then what is t he expenditure on house rent? a) b) c) d) Rs.525 Rs.1000 Rs.675 Rs.175

(ans 175) 35. Anoop managed to draw 7 circles of equal radii with their centres on the dia gonal of a square such that the two extreme circles touch two sides of the squar e and each middle circle touches two circles on either side. Find the ratio of t he side of the square to radius to the circles. You may assume that squate toot of 2 is 1.4 (a) 13.90 :1 (b) 10.40 :1 (c) 11.80 :1 (d) 15.90 :1 Ans: b Explanation: (2+6root(2)) : 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1) Technical Round... I had my technical round 7.45 P.M on 25th. It was about 20-25 minute. 1. Tell me about yourself ? 2. What is data structure expailn with real life example ? 3. Write a program for Ascending data structure ( that means sorting of array us ing any sorting technique. i wrote by using bubble sort) 4. Explain the logic behind it ? (had the long debate of 5-10 min on it.) 5. Write a program to swap the value two variables without using third variable. ( wrote by simple logic but he wants different one.) 6. WAP to swap two variables with XOR ing of two variables(Wrote after giving hi nt by him). 7. What are ranges of int, unsigned int, float,long ? 8. What are the Extra curricular activites hav u done ?? 9. Do u hav any questions ?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2) Managerial Round:

It was very cool for me. He didnt ask the hackneyed questions. He asked me about the favourite subject and busy in looking at my app form resume and the program the i wrote in previous interview. It was about 10-15 minutes. 1. So how u doing? 2. What is ur favourite subject ? 3. What is array? (Explained in deep...he said now I`ll not ask the techincal qu estions....) 4. tell me about ur family? 5. What is IT industry? 6. Who are famous personalities of IT industry? 7. Why should we Hire u? 8. Why TCS? 9. Do u hav any questions( had the debate.....). -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3) HR Round HR was also normal. it was about 7-10 minutes 1. Where do u live? 2. How often u go home?? 3. What u do in hostel in ur leisure time? 4. Asked about the extra curricular activities that i had mentioned in the resum e? 5. Any plans for P.G? 6. Why TCS why not infosys?? 7. Are u ready for relocation?? 8. Are u ready to sign the bond of 2 years?? ________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Test Paper :6 Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 18 August 2011 Test Location : A.Z.I.Tech. Kerala Posted By : gaurav gupta 400 appeared in written........265 qualified for interview ........185 finally s elected TCS ques paper......Total time:80 min

1. From a circular sheet of paper with a radius of 20 cm, four circles of radius 5cm each are cut out. What is the ratio of the uncut to the cut portion? [1] 1 : 3 [2] 4 : 1 [3] 3 : 1 [4] 4 : 3 2. Two liquids A and B are in the ratio 5 : 1 in container 1 and in container 2, they are in the ratio 1 : 3. In what ratio should the contents of the two containers be mixed so as to obtain a mixture of A and B in the ratio 1 : 1? 3. Out of two -thirds of the total number of basket-ball matches, a team has won 17 matches and lost 3 of them. What is the maximum number of matches that the team can lose and still win three-fourths of the total number of matches, if it is true that no match can end in a tie? [1] 4 [2] 6 [3] 5 [4] 3 4. A closed wooden box of thickness 0.5 cm and length 21 cm, width 11 cm, and he ight 6 cm, is panted on the inside. The cost of painting is Rs 70. What is the rate of painting in rupee s per sq. cm? [1] 0.7 [2] 0.5 [3] 0.1 [4] 0.2 5. If a number 774958A96B is to be divisible by 8 and 9, the values of A and B, respectively, will be: [1] 7,8 [2] 8,0 [3] 5,8 [4] None of these 6. Once I had been to the post-office to buy stamps of five rupees, two rupees a nd one rupee. I paid the clerk Rs 20, and since he did not have change, he gave me three more stamps of o ne rupee. If the number of stamps of each type that I had ordered initially was more than one, wh at was the total number of stamps that I bought? [1] 10 [2] 9 [3] 12 [4] 8 7. Given the quadratic equation x2 - (A - 3) x - (A - 2), for what value of A wi ll the sum of the squares of the roots be zero? [1] - 2 [2] 3 [3] 6 [4] None of these 8. I sold two watches for Rs. 300 each, one at a loss of 10% and the other at a profit of 10%. What is the percent loss (- ) or the percent profit (+) that resulted from the transaction? [1] (+) 10 [2] ( -) 1 [3] (+) 1 [4] 0 9. The price of a Maruti car rises by 30% while the sales of the car came down b y 20%. What is the percent change in the total revenue? [1] - 4 [2] - 2 [3] + 4 [4] 0 10. In triangle ABC, angle B is a right angle. If AC is 6 cm, and D is the mid-p oint of side AC, the length of BD is: A D B C [1] 4 cm [2] ? 6 cm [3] 3 cm [4] 3.5 cm

DIRECTIONS for Questions 11 and 12: Answer the questions based on the following information:A, S, M and D are functions of x and y, and they are defined as follows: A(x, y) + x + y S(x, y) = x - y M(x, y) = xy D(x, y) = x/y, where y ? 0. 11. What is the value of M(M(A(M(x, y), S(y,x)), x), A(y, x)) for x = 2, y = 3 [1] 50 [2] 140 [3] 25 [4] 70 12. What is the value of S(M(D(A(a, b), 2), D(A(a, b),2)), M(D(S(a, b), 2), D(S( a, b),2))) [1] a + b [2] ab [3] a - b [4] a/b 13. In the figure O is the center of the circle and PT is the tangent to the circl e at T. If PC = 4 cm and PT = 8 cm, find the radius of the circle. T B O C P [1] 5.5 cm [2] 6.5 cm [3] 6 cm [4] 7 cm 14. Which of the following value of x do not satisfy the inequality (x - 3x + 2 > 0) at all? [1] 1 ? ? ? 2 [2] - 1 ? x ? - 2 [3] 0 ? x ? 2 [4] 0 ? x ? - 2 15. A man travels three-fifths of distance AB at a speed of 3a, and the remainin g at a speed of 2b. If he goes from B to A and back at a speed of 5c in the same time, then: [1] 1/a + 1/b = 1/c [2] a + b = c [3] 1/a + 1/b = 2/c [4] None of thes e Answer the questions based on the following data: A salesman enters the quantity sold and the price into the computer. Both the nu mbers are two-digit numbers. Once, by mistake, both the numbers were entered with their digits interchanged. The total sales value remained the same, i.e. Rs. 1148, but the inventory reduced by 54. 16. What is the actual price per piece? [1] 82 [2] 41 [3] 56 [4] 28 17. What is the actual quantity sold? [1] 28 [2] 14 [3] 82 [4] 41 In a locality, there are five small towns, A, B, C, D and E. The distances of these towns from each other are as follows: AB = 2km AC = 2 km AD > 2 km AE > 3 km BC = 2km BD = 4 km BE = 3 km CD = 2 km CE = 3km DE > 3 km 18. If a ration shop is to be set up within 2 km of each city, how many ration s hops will be required? [1] 2 [2] 3 [3] 4 [4] 5 19. If a ration shop is to be set up within 3 km of each city, how many ratio sh ops will be required? [1] 1 [2] 2 [3] 3 [4] 4

Choose the best alternative: 20. The cost of a diamond varies s diamond broke into four pieces with weights in the ratio erchant got Rs. 70,000 less. Find the original price of [1] Rs. 1.4 lakh [2] Rs. 2.1 lakh

directly as the square of its weight. Once, thi 1 : 2 : 3 : 4. When the pieces were sold, the m the diamond. 2.0 lakh [3] Rs. 1.0 lakh [4] Rs.

21. A cube of side 12 cm is painted red on all the faces and then cut into small er cubes, each of side 3 cm. What is the total number of smaller cubes having none of their faces painted? [1] 16 [2] 8 [3] 12 [4] 24 22. The points of intersection of three lines, 2X + 3Y - 5 = 0, 5X - 7Y + 2 = 0, and 9X - 5Y - 4 = 0: [1] form a triangle. [2] are on lines perpendicular to each other. [3] are on lines parallel to each other. [4] are coincident. 23. If n is any odd number greater t han 1, then n(n - 1) is [1] divisible by 48 always [2] divisible by 24 always 6 always [4] None of these Each item has a questions followed by two statements. Mark [1] if the question can be Mark [2] if the question can be Mark [3] if the question can be t with the help of either statement alone. Mark [4] if the question cannot statements. answered with the help of statement 1 alone answered with the help of statement 2 alone. answered with the help of both statements but no be answered even with the help of both the given [3] divisible by

24. What is the radius of the inscribed circle of triangle ABC? I. The area of the triangle is 20 cm II. The perimeter of the triangle is 20 cm. 25. What is the value of K? I. 9x + kx + 25 is the perfect square. II. k = - k

26. Is the area of triangle ABC equal to that of triangle DEF? The triangles are inscribed in the same circle. I. Their perimeters are equal. II. The angles of triangles ABC are respectively equal to the ang les of triangle DEF. 27. ABC is a right triangle, with the right angle at B. BD is the bisector of an gle B. Is AD > DC? I. C = 40 II. Hypo tenuse AC = 15 cm. 28. Which has the greater area: rhombus ABCD or square PQRS? I. Perimeter of rhombus = 8 and one angle measures 30. II. Perimeter of square = 4. hi guys myself gaurav gupta c.s.e. 2008-12, A.Z.I.Tech. Kerala.........this tim e ques paper was quite different as compared to earlier ones......some ques have slipped out of my mind .....there were total 35 ques which had some verbal ques &ome from en

glish .i remember some words like- foray,banal...........thats all i remember ________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ # 1 A can do a work in 36 days, B can do the work in 72 days and C can do th e work in 78 days. The three take turns in working, i.e. A works on the first da y, B works on the second day, C on the third day and so on. Which day will they finish the work? 55 th day 19 th day 54 th day 17 th d ay # 2 Consider two tumblers, the first containing one litre of milk and the sec ond containing one litre of coffee. Suppose you take one cup of milk out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After mixing you take one cup of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler. Which one of the following statements holds now? There is less coffee in the first tumbler than milk in the second tumbler. There is more 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 tum bler. None of the statements holds true. # 3 In a certain coding system used by the military intelligence, URMILA is written as SACHIN. KANIKA is written as NOROIN and TANISHA is written as INT ERNL. Which of the following cannot be the code for NIKETA? TINORK EINORD MLIONR RLIONS

# 4 Susan made a block with small cubes of 7 cubic cm volume to make a b lock 4 small cubes long, 4 small cubes wide and 10 small cubes deep. She realise s that she has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realised that s he could have glued a fewer number of cubes together to look like a block with s ame dimensions, if it were made hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she needs to make the block? 160 32 128 79

# 5 A certain street contains 100 buildings. They are numbered from 1 to 100. How many 9s are used in numbering these buildings? 21 20 19 9

# 6 A power unit is by the bank of a river 1500m wide. It is required to construct a power plant on the side of the river opposite to the power unit and 3000mfrom the unit. A cable has to be laid from the power unit to the power pla nt. The cost of laying the cable under water and on the land is Rs 100 per m and Rs 10 per m respectively. If we want to minimize the total cost of laying the c able, where should the plant be located? 750 m from the river bank 1500 m from the river bank river bank 3000 m from the river bank 1200 m from the

# 7 A man speaks truth 3 out of 4 times. He throws a die and reports it to be a 6. What is the probability of it being a 6? 1 /2 3 /4 5 /8 1 /8 # 8 The fundamental theorem of arithmetic states that every natural numb er greater than 1 can be written as a unique product of prime numbers.

Now what is the smallest number by which 3380 must be divided in order to make i t into a perfect square? 5 8 6 4

# 9 Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the catego ry in which it fits. RAPETEKA City Fruit Vegetable Bird # 10 How many 8 digit numbers formed using 1,2,3,4,5 with repetition are divisible by 4? 97657 97656 78125 31250 # 11 Find the missing number 8 , 1 , 17 , 4 , 35 , 10 , 71 , ?, 143 22 20 12 21

# 12 The cost of making the robot is divided between materials, labour a nd overheads in the ratio of 4:5:2. If the materials cost $116, the cost of the robot is 255.2 638 319 261

# 13 Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maran ello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sp onsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of stre et-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 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 tim e taken for Rohit to drive that distance. 29.75 476 15.88 14.88

# 14 A woman has 136 yards of cloth on a single roll, and she wants to d ivide it into 136 lengths of 1 yard each. It takes her 5 seconds to cut each len gth. Working non-stop, how long (in seconds) will it take her to cut all 136 pie ces? 679 675 680 681

# 15 4 years ago, Aditya s age was twice Anvesh s age. 4 years hence, Ad itya s age will be 4/3 times the age of Anvesh. Find Aditya s present age. 5 years 12 years 9 years 4 years ________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ 1. Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/3 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circ le of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare a nd tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/5 of the distance. By what fac tor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?

Ans. 4.40 2.How many 4 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2,3,4 ,5 ( but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Ans. 5^3 3. 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 dr ivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal v ehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been n oted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan s Mercedes is 46 km/hr a nd the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a)20.72 b) 5.18 c)238.25 ans:(b)(time=distance/speed=953/4*46 d)6.18

4. keywords: alok, bhanu, want to maximize nd other want to minimize. 15+X*Y-Z For these type of ques, remember dis thumb rule.. X*Y-Z=18 X+Y-Z=11 X-Y-Z=2 here Ans: 15+18=33 This question was repeated three times in my paper. 5. 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 continu es to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans 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? ans 12 min prgrmr*min/ loc= prgmr *min/ loc This question was also repeated thrice. a) no of programer b) no lines of codes c) how much time they will take.

6. On a sheet of paper, there are 40 statements. Each n statement states that "A tleast n number of statements on this sheet is false". Then which of the followi ng is true. ans first 20 statements are true and last 20 are false. This question was also repeated thrice. a) Atleast wid false ans first 20 r true and last 20 r false.. b) Exactly wid true ans 39th z true nd rest r false c) Atmost wid true or false ans all statements r true 7.There are 6 circles on a diagonal of square such that their centre lie on diag

onal. Consider that radius of each circle is equal. Find the ratio between side of square and radius of circle. 10r+ 2sqrt(2)r= sqrt(2)a nw find a/r. 8. There are 6 beer bottle nd one is poisoned. we have mice who will die within 14 hrs after drinkin poisned beer. In 24 hrs we have to find poisoned beer bott le. How many no of mice we require to find out poisoned bottle. options a) 6 b) 4 c) 3 d) 1

i hav not answered dis question 9. keyword: Alok Bhanu, stack of 20 coins. i move can play. dat z 1th move means to put top coin 1 postion below. gold coin. initialy gold coin is at 3rd positi on from top. if itz player turns nd player brings gold coin to the top then play er z winner. alok starts. which of the following is true. a) alok must play 1th move to win. b) alok must play 0th move to win c) alok has no wining strategy ans (a) 10 1/3 rd of a number is more 3 than the 1/6th of a number then find the number ? Ans:18 11. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts t he letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the prob ability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? a)0 b)12/212 c)11/12 d)1/12 Ans:a (since 1 letter is in improper envelope other would definitely be in impro per envelope) 12 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 yo u choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probabili ty of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is a)3/4 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)1/2

ans:b (probability of selecting a box=1/2.now keep 1 red ball in box a and trans fer 9 red balls to b,so probability=1/2(1+9/19) 13 On the planet Oz, there are 8 days in a week- Sunday day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each ch minute has 60 sec. As on earth, the hour hand covers . Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock :40 am. a. 251 b.111 c.29 d.89 ANS: c For 12:40 am ans z 89 to Saturday and another hour has 90 min while ea the dial twice every day on Oz when the time is 9

14 Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line; i.e. the point lies on one side of the li ne while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The maximum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 9 points in th e plane is a.10 b.9 c.3 d.5 ans: b ( m nt sure) 15. .Planet fourfi resides in 4-dimensional space and thus the currency used by its residents are 3-dimensional objects. The rupee notes are cubical in shape wh ile their coins are spherical. However the coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations on the size of the coins.The diameter of the coins should be at lea st 64mm and not exceed 512mm. Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater. The diameter of the coin must always be an integer. You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters with these require ments and your goal is to design as many coins as possible. How many coins can y ou design? 5 9 6 8 Ans: c(hint:first coin has length 64 mm,2nd coin diamter length 64+(50/100)*64,3 rd coin 2nd coins diameter length+50/100 of 2nd coinds lenght,in that way go til l you reach maximum diamter length 512!now think! 16. The pacelength P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive footpri nts. For men, the formula, n/P = 144 gives an approximate relationship between n and P where, n = number of steps per minute and P = pacelength in meters. Berna rd knows his pacelength is 164cm. The formula applies to Bernard s walking. Calc ulate Bernard s walking speed in kmph. 23.62 11.39 8.78 236.16 ans:a 17.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 pain ted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? 800 500 488 900 ans:side of cube = 5 cm its thichness = 1 cm so volume of outer cube = 5*5*5 volume of inner cube = 3*3*3 volume of the hollow cube = 5*5*5 - 3*3*3 = 98 so total no of small cubes of the size 1 cm = 98/1*1*1 = 98 we know a cube has 6 faces so total no of face = 98*6 = 588 one surface of outer cube contains a total of 25 surface of smaller cube , so wh en 4 surface of outer cube is painted total no of surface of small cubes i.e sup posed to be painted is 4*25 = 100 so the total no of surfaces of small cube that will be remained unpainted is 588 -100 = 488 no of faces remain unpainted: 588-( 25* no faces painted) 18. 10 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 pe rson 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 suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent. B. All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent .

A only B only Neither A nor B Both A and B 19. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yello w. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she t ake out to make sure she has a pair of each color? a)50 b)8 c)60 d)42 ans:60 There can be lots of logic for this, but approach the simplest one so that we ap proach to one of the solutions. Suppose the lady first picks 32 Red gloves, and then 24 Yellow gloves. The next pair she pics will be one Yellow and One Blue wh ich does not make a pair. The next two will be blue gloves. So she make a total of 32+24+1+1+2 = 60 picks. 20. One day Rapunzel meets Dwarf and Byte in the Forest of forgetfulness. She kn ows 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]Thursday b]Tuesday c]Sunday d]Monday ANS:: Thursday Explanation : On Thursday, Dwarf says truth. i.e Yesterday(Wednesday) was one of those days wh en I lies. Its true. On the other hand, On Thursday, Byte lies. i.e Yesterday(Wednesday) was one of t hose days when I lie too. Its a lie.... So both satisfied. Hence its Thursday. 21 The citizens of planet nigiet are 5 fingered and have thus developed their de cimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 5) buildings numbered 1 to 100 0. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? Express result in terms of ba se 10. a) 54 b)64 c) 75 d) 100 ________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ 1. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fill s at the rate of 1 liter 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 liters, second hour it has 20 liters and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled of the 21 hours, what is total du ration of hours required to fill it completely? ans.-here part filled is 1/32 then 1/32=1/(2)^5. so ans is 21+5. 2. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their a verage age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. Hence the current ave rage age has become 45. Find the age of seventh person? ans.-Total age of 6 persons is x hours,after two years total age of 6 persons is x+12 3. One statement problem-in this problem if atleast all statement are true - fir st part true and last part false exactly all statement are true - second part tr ue rest is false atmost all statement are true - all are false.

4. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that t oo leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards dia meter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet wh en the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race? in this problem atfirst find the ratio of the distance left to cover the turtle and distance by the hare. means-(87.5-20)/12.5=5.4 and then 87.5/12.5=7 and multiply these two 5.4*7=37.8 5. alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 9 + X + Y - Z Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would l ike 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 t he game would be. ans.- in this problem there is 3 patern 1st X+Y-Z=11 X*Y-Z=18 X-Y-Z=2 u just add the to the no given. 6.- For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of e ach 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 winning. Let s a ssume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghan a the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the pr obability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? ans.- hare the answer is - 2/3*2/3+1/3*1/3=5/9 7.-After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts th e letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the proba bility that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? ans- 0 8.- There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 1 0 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 probabi lity of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is ans.- the tricks is - 1/2*1+(n-1)/(n-1+m)*1/2 here n is the no. which have to be max. and m is the another no. here m is green ball and n is red ball.here ans is 14/19 9.- A and B play a game of dice between them. The dice consist of colors on thei r faces (instead of numbers). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color; otherwise B wins. One die has 4 red face and 2 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have the same c hances of winning? ans.- here the ans is 3red and 3 blue. 10.- On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 y ears after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rock s. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diamet er of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4 * sqrt (t 8)for t = 8 Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the sola r blast. Jagan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is 24 years then what is diameter? ans- this is the simple problem just put the value of t and find d.

11.- A circular dartboard of radius 1 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 p eriphery? ans.- here the tricks is (n/2)^2/n^2 here n is the radius of circle. 12.- 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2 , a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is. ans.- hare the tricks is if the handshake is circular and given no is even-then n/2 if odd then n/3. and if hand shake is non circular then n-1. 13.- Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacke d one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ord inary 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 (0 = i = 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies d oing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example onc e 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 th e game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. ans.- Ans is in order to win, Alice s first move should be a 1-move.(This is the final ans.) 14.- The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) b uildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? ans.- here the tricks is 8*8+8*8+8*8=192 (here the base is 8)if the base is n then n*n+n*n+n*n. 15.- Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, th ey begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One frie nd suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of c ards numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulating a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the num ber shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear more often 8,9 or 10? a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10 ans.- here the ans is 8. because 8 comes in 3 types(4+4,5+3,6+2),9 comes in 2 types(5+4,6+3),and 10 comes 2 types(5+5,6+4). 16.- How many of 14 digit numbers we can make with 1,2,3,4,5 that are divisible by 4. Repetitions allowed. ans.- here ans is 5^(n-1) n is the 14. 17.- Which is the smallest no which divides 2880 and gives a perfect square? a) 4 b) 9 c) 3 d) 5 ans.- 2880/5=576 and 576=24*24. 18.- 3 persons a,b,c were there A always says truth,B lies on Monday,tusday,& We dnesday.but C lies on thrusday,Friday & saturday .one day A saidthat B & C said t o A that B said yesterday way one of the days when I lies,C said thatyesterday way o ne of the days when I lies too.then which day was that?

ans.- the ans of all this type is Thursday. 19.-There 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type within 60 minutes. How many programmers are needed? ans.- we have 3 question of this type the solution is based on time andwork. 20.-amrith told to Anand in front of a Photo that He is the son of my fathers son.F ind who is in the picture if amrith have no brothers and sisters. ans.- the ans is him means amrith itself. 21.- In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 4s will be present in the numbers? ans.- Here if the n s is given then ans is 20. n s is from 2 to 9. and if 1 is g iven then ans is 21. 22.- If a and b are mixed in 3:5 ration and b and c are mixed in 8:5 ration if t he final mixture is 35 liters, find the amount of b? ans.- b/(a+b+c)*35. 23.- If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very li ttle he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to te st, how many mices are required to find the poisoned can? ans.- 6 24.- A man whose age is 45 yrs has 3 sons named John, Jill, jack. He went to a p ark weekly twice. He loves his sons very much. On a certain day he found the sho p keepers selling different things. An apple cost 1penny, 2chocalate costs 1penn y & 3 bananas cost 1 penny. He has bought equal number of apple, chocolate & ban ana for each son. If the total amount he invest is 7 penny then how many he has bought from each piece for his son? ans.- 1 apple,2 chocklets,1bananas.simply 1 2 1. 25.- There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller tha n 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence? ans.-here p>j 26.-A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yell ow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color? ans.- Here the tricks is at first take the ball is max. and then take second max. no. and 2. here ans is 32+25+2. 27.- A scientist was researching on animal behavior in his lab. He was very inte rested in analyzing the behavior of bear. For some reason he travelled 1mile in north direction & reached at North Pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed t he bear around 1 hr with a speed of 2km/hr in east direction. After that he trav elled in south direction & reached at his lab in2 hrs. Then what is the color of the bear? ans.- ans is white bear. my HR and technical question is 1.- Why TCS? 2.- Whats ur week point and strength. 3.- What the question u got from the students. 4.- Draw the circuit diagram of induction motor. 5.- What is short term and long term sheduling. 6.- What is the diff. between malti tasking and multithreading.

7.- Who is the owner of microsoft and linux. 8.- Proof the equivalant resistance of parellel circuit. 9.- Name the os which have u used in ur life. 10.-What is pointer and panildrom.write program. ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Q1) Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that ca n be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e. the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denote d by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e. no three points in P lie on a line) is a) 3 b) 5 c) 2 Q2) Paul the octopus who has been forecasting the outcome of FIFA world cup matc hes with tremendous accuracy has now been invited to predict ICC world cup match es in 2011. We will assume that the world cup contenders have been divided into 2 groups of 9 teams each. Each team in a group plays the other teams in the grou p. The top two teams from each group enter the semi finals (after which the winn er is decided by knockout). However, ys backs 2 out of India to the ICC Paul has a soft spot for India and when India plays any team, Paul alwa India. Alas, his predictions on matches involving India are right only 3 times. In order to qualify for the semi finals, it is sufficient for win 7 of its group matches. What is the probability that India will win world cup?

a) (2/3)^10 b) (2/3)^9 + 8/3 * (2/3)^9 c) 8/3 * (2/3)^9 d) (2/3)^10 + 8/3*(2/3)^9 Q3) A toy train produces at least 10 different tunes when it moves around a circ ular toy track of radius 5 meters at 10 meters per minute. However, the toy trai n is defective and it now produces only two different tunes at random. What are the odds that the toy train produces 4 consecutive music tunes of the same type? a) b) c) 1 in 16 1 in 4 1 in 8

Q4) A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 8 and when divided by 3D le aves a remainder of 21. What is the remainder left, when twice the number is div ided by 3D? a) 13 b) cannot be determined c) 3 d) 42 (solution:c) Q5) Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, the y begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One frien d suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of ca rds numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulate a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous tr ials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number

shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear more often 8,9 or 10? a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10 Q6) One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She ondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and tells the truth on k byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make to Alice pal. Yesterday was one of those days when I of those days when I lie too. What day is it ? a) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Monday d) Sunday (solution:a) knows that pal lies on M the other days of the wee and Saturdays, but tells the following statements lie byte. Yesterday was one

Q7) A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models which come out of the f inal testing area completely at random. What are the odds that 5 consecutive car s of the same color will come through the test area at any one time? a) b) c) d) 1 1 1 1 in in in in 16 125 32 25

Q8) Alok is attending a workshop How to do more with less and today s theme is wor king with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if mankind (as well as womankind) had only worked with fewer di gits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2,3,4 ,5 ( but wit h repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer? a) 100 b) 125 c) 75 d) 85

Q9) Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in wh ich it Ms RAPETEKA a) Bird b) Vegetable c) City d) Fruit Q10) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 ye ars after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rock s. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4* (t-9) for t 9 Where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many y ears back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 12.06 (solution:b)

Q11) In the reading room of a library, there are23 reading spots. Each reading s pot consists of a round table with 9 chairs placed around it. There are some rea ders such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of read ers. If in all there are 36 readers, how many reading spots do not have even a s ingle reader? a) 8 b) None c) 16 d) 15 (solution:d) Q12) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Ita ly. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One wher e it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 tim es as fast as Mohan s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan s Mercedes is 46 km/h r and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) (solution:b) 6.18

Q13) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false. (solution:d) Q14) Middle earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and m en. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent liv es and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical gam es. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that pl ay a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in differe nt rounds where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tour nament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches wer e played? a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255 (solution:d) Q15) A research lab in Chennai requires 100 mice and 75 sterilized cages for a c ertain set of laboratory experiments. To identify the mice, the lab has prepared labels with numbers 1 to 100, by combining tags numbered 0 to 9. The SPCA requi res that the tags be made of toxin-free material and that the temperature of the cages be maintained at 27 degree Celsius. Also, not more than 2 mice can be cag ed together and each cage must be at least 2 sq.ft in area. The 5 experiments to be conducted by lab are to be thoroughly documented and performed only after a round of approval by authorities. The approval procedure takes around 48 hours. How many times the tag is numbered 4 used by the lab in numbering these mice? a) 9 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21 (solution:b) Q16) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fi lls 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 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the tota l duration required to fill it completely?

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(solution: a) Q17) Consider two tumblers, the first containing one litre of coffee. Suppose yo u take one spoon of water out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second t umbler. After moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler a nd pour it back into the first tumbler. Which one of the following statement hol ds now? a) There is b) There is c) There is tumbler d) None less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the second tumbler. more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the second tumbler as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water in the second of the statements holds true.

Q18) Francois Pachet, a researcher at Sony Computer Science laboratories is also a jazz musician. He decided to build a robot able to improvise like a pro. Name d Continuator, the robot can duet with a live musician in real- time. It listens to a musical phrase and then computes a complementary phrase with the same play ing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided between and then computes a complementary phrase with the same playing style. If the cost of making the ro bot is divided between materials, labour and overheads in the ratio of 4:6:2.If the materials cost $108. the cost of the robot is a) $270 b) $324 c) $216 d) $ 648 (solution:b) Q19) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red and 25 yello w. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can ma ke out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she t ake out to make sure she has a pair of each colour? a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42

Q20) A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? a) 2.4 mph b) 4 mph c) 4.8 mph d) 5 mph (solution:d) Q21) Spores of a fungus, called late blight, grow and spread infection rapidly. These pathogens were responsible for the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th cen tury. These seem to have attacked the tomato crops in England this year. The tom ato crops have reduced and the price of the crop has risen up . The price has al ready gone up to $45 a box from $27 a box a month ago. How much more would a veg etable vendor need to pay to buy 27 boxes this month over what he would have pai d last month? a) $27 b) $ 18 c) $45 d) $ 486 Q22) Given a collection of 36 points P in the plane and a point equidistant from all points in P, which of the following are necessarily true? A. The points in P lie on a circle. B. The distance between any pair of points in P is larger than the distance betw een X and a point in P a) A and B b) Neither A nor B c) B only d) A only

Q23) In the year 2002, Britain was reported to have had 4.3m closed circuit tele vision (CCTV) cameras one for every 14 people in the country . This scrutiny is supposed to deter and detect crime. In one criminal case, the police interrogate s two suspects . The ratio between the ages of the two suspects is 6:5 and the s um of their ages is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 55 years. After how many ye ars will the ratio be 8:7.? a) 11 b) 6 c) 10 d) 5

Q24) Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm volume to make a block 3 small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide and 5 small cubes deep. She realizes that s he has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realized that she could have glued a fewer number of cubes together to lock like a block with same dime nsions, if it were made hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she nee ds to make the block? a) 114 b) 135 c) 21 d) 71 Q25) Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arra nged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are sp ecial and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins c loser until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initi ally the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of t he following is true? a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn. b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn. c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn. d) Alok has no winning strategy. Q26) There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 l iters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160.if B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill completely? Ans: 7 hours _________________________________________________________________ 1) (1/3) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b) 16 c) 18 d) 21 Ans- x/3=x/6 +3 ..solve ans is 18 2) There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in an hour, B can fill 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80, 160. If B filled in 1/1 6 of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill the tank completely? a) 9 B) 8 c) 7 d) 6 This question repeated two times in my paper Ans: (b) these type of que are repeated frequently but the numeric values change .Simple approach is- count the number of hours taken to fill the part of the tan k from the given part ie. Initially the tank is 1/32 then after 1 hour it will become 1/16 then 1/8 then then then 1. Here 1 is the state when the tank is ful l so the number of hours is (1+1+1+1+1)=5. Now add this number of hours to the g iven time ie 5+3=8 3) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yellow . The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can m ake out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of t he closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she ta ke out to make sure she has a pair of each color?

a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42 Ans: Do not get trapped in these type of questions .a very simple trick to solve these type of question is just see the max and the middle value of gloves and h ats ie 32 and 25 . just add max+min_values +2 or 1 or 3 ie 32+25+3=60 the answer will definitely fall in this range as 60 here 4) Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and me n. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives a nd appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds, where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournam ent. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches were played? a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255 Ans: (255) there are two varieties of this type of que in one they ask about the number of matches in the first round so solution to that is 2^(number of rounds)i e 2^8=256 another variety is the number of matches played in the tournament so ans is 2^(number of teams )-1 ..ie 2^8 -1=255 5) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Marane llo, Ital y. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored dr ivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal v ehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been n oted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan s Mercedes is 46 km/hr an d the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18 Ans very simple question approach is time =dist./speed ie 953/(4*35)=6.18 6) how many 8 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if repetition of digits is allowed? Ans: (78125) simple trick to these type of que is that 5^(number of digits-1) ie 5^(8-1) i.e. 5^(7)=78125 By maths first 6 digits of the 8 digit number can be filled in by using any 5 dig its given so it come out (5*5*5*5*5*5) and last two must be divisible by 4 ie (4 4,52,32,12,24) are the 5 possibilities. So the anwer is (5*5*5*5*5*5*5=5^7) 7) Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circ le of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare a nd tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what fac tor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race? a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5 Ans: 37.80 8) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 9 + X + Y - Z Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would l ike 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 c hooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally A lok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their o

ptimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20 Ans: Do not get trapped in this que i am giving a very short trick that guarante es 100% correct solution just add the following number if the que contains the following changes X*(Y-Z) then add 18 to the given constant to get N.ie 9+18=27 X+(Y-Z) = then add the 12 ie 9+11=20 X-(Y-Z) is then add 2 ie 9+2=11 9) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of ea ch match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A a nd B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A s chances of winning. Let s as sume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the pro bability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3 Ans: 5/9.just do 1-(probability)^2..1-(2/3)^2 11). On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 ye ars after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rock s. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diamete r of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4 * sqrt (t 8)for t = 8 Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the sola r blast. Jagan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is 24 years then wha t is diameter? a) 8 b) 16 c) 25 d) 2 Ans: Put the value of years in equation and get the answer ie 10) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n f rom 1 to 70. Statement n says At least n of the statements on this sheet are f alse. Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false. Ans: c There are two more varieties of this type of questions. I am giving those also b elow just concentrate on the part underlined in the questions and mark the answe r. 11) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n f rom 1 to 40, statement n says: Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are fa lse. Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are fal se. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are fal se. c) All the statements are false. d) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. Ans: d 12) 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 contin ues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmer

s are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write cod e 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 cod e in total? a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12 Ans: d (w1/w2=m1*t1/m2*T2) 13) A circular dartboard of radius 1 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 pe riphery? a)0.75 b)1 c)0.5, d)0.25 Ans: Probability= (area of inner circle)/(area of outer circle) i.e (r/2)^2/r^2 =1/4=0.25 14) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts t he letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the prob ability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? a) 0 b) 1/12 c) 11/12 d) 12/212 Ans: 0 This questions repeated in my paper thrice. 15) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a trian gle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from al l the 3 lines is a) 4 b) 3 c) 1 d) 0 Ans: 4 If it is given line then there are 4 points one inCentre and three circumcentres If it it given line segment then and is 1 bcoz only one incentre is there 16) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of e ach 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 winning. Let s assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivi a, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia g ame? a) 5/9 b) 1/9 c) 2/3 d) 4/9 Ans: 5/9 17) Mr. Bean went to a shop for buying a gift to his wife on her Birthday. He bo ught 28 purple marbles as her wife was fond of marbles. He also bought 21greem m arbles. While coming out of the shop on the way he also bought 24 red, 42 yellow and 12 pink marbles and he put them all in a bag. When he was returning back to the home a lightning occurred and suddenly due to some reasons the red, green, and yellow balls got converted into white color. But in spite of this Mr. Beans decided to give few marbles to his lovely wife. So, how many times he should put his hand in the bag so that he can gift his wife at least one ball of each colo r. Ans: logic is same as I told in the question 3 i.e 24+42+2=68 18) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 50 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordi

nary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving t he topmost coin to another position in the stack.Alice starts and the players ta ke turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below th e top coin (0 i 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing no thing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a pla yer 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 t he game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then a) In order to win, Alices first move should be a 0-move. b) In order to win, Alices first move should be a 1-move. c) Alice has no winning strategy. d) In order to win, Alices first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move Ans: (d) In this type of question if the coin is at the 3 position (as here )then the ans wer is d otherwise at the 1 or second position of the coin the answer is always. No chance of winning ie C 19) There is a planet oz . The people there are four fingered and reside in 4 d imensional space and thus the currency used by its residents are 3 dimensional o bjects. The rupees notes are cubical in shape while their coins are spherical. H owever the coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations on the size of the coins. The diameter of the coins should be at least 16mm and not exceed 64mm Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater. The diameter of the coin must always be an integer. You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters with these require ments and your goal is to design as many coins as possible. How many coins can y ou design? Ans: 4 At least 16 coins so the series is 16, (16+16/2)= 24 , (24+24/2)=36, (36+36/2)=5 4. Now next value of coin exceeds 64 so the number of coins is 4 20) 21 there people k, a1) a) 17 Ans: n 21) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. O nly one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each per son declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost p erson is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A. B. C. a) All suspects are lying. leftmost suspect is innocent. leftmost suspect is guilty A only b) A or C c) A or B people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if is to be no cycle of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of a1, a2, , aK such that the pairs (a1, a2), (a2, a3), , (a (k-1), a k) , (a shake hands. b) 18 c) 19 d) 20

d) B only

Ans: c 22) In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, Sunday to Saturday and 8th day is Oz d ay. There is 36 hours in a day. What is angle between 12.40? a) 80 b) 81 c) 87 d) 89

Ans: 89 23) 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is a) 13 b) 18 c) 11 d) 12 Ans:18 24) The pace length P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive footpr ints. For men, the formula, n/P = 144 gives an approximate relationship between n and P where, n = number of steps per minute and P = pace length in meters. Ber nard knows his pace length is 164cm. The formula applies to Bernard s walking. C alculate Bernard s walking speed in kmph. a) 23.62 b) 8.78 c) 11.39 d) 236.16 Ans: 236.16 (144*1.64 m) 25) Anoop managed to draw 7 circles of equal radii with their centers on the dia gonal of a square such that the two extreme circles touch two sides of the squar e and each middle circle touches two circles on either side. Find the ratio of t he radius of the circles to the side of the square. a) 1:(4+ 7v3) b) 1:(2+ 6v2) c) 1:(2+ 7v2) d) (2+ 7v2):1 Ans: b 26) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsea, Juli visited that temple. (Som unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Juli is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence? a) Linda is shorter among them b) Chelsea is taller than Juli c) Chelsea is shorter than Juli d) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Juli Ans: d Friends there is a trick of solving this questions any question in the paper of TCS that involves comparison the answer is always cannot determine 27) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs. ago. And horse st arted to ran with average speed 22km/hr., horse crossed 10 mts road and two smal l pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. Aft er traveling 6 hrs., 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog? Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it. Hence d = 22*6 = 132km, Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earl ier). Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hr Ans: 16.5km/hr. 28) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that c an be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denote d by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e. no three points in P lie on a line) is a) 3 b) 5 c) 2 Ans: 5

Friends there is a trick of solving this questions any question in the paper of TCS that involves points separated by line with a set of points points each sid e the answer is the number of points in plane as 5 here the answer is always can not determine 29) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N =9+ X + Y - Z Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would l ike 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 c hooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally A lok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their o ptimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20 Ans: 20 Here it is X+Y-Z then add the 11 so ans is (11+9)=20 30). The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) b uildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192 Ans: 192 ________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ 1) How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? 5^(n-1) Can you help Alok find the answer? a) 100 b) 125 c) 75 d) 85 2) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 year s after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks . Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4* (t-9) for t 9where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of y ears since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particu lar spot as 12mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12 d) 12.06 Ans: c 3) 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 dr ivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal v ehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been n oted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan s Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken f or Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 Ans: b b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

4) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fill s at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 8 0, 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 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total dura

tion required to fill it completely? a) 26 hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs Ans: a 5)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 1/16 filled after 4 hours, what is the total du ration required to fill it completely? a) Ans: a 8hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs

6) Unnecessary data. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red , 10 white , 25 yellow, 55 purple, 30 orange. The lights are out and it is t otally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a h at and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour of blue, red, yellow? a) 59 b) 8 c) 50 d) 42 Ans: a(32+25+2) 7) 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 continu es to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans 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) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12

Ans: d (w1/w2=m1*t1/m2*T2) 8) The citizens of planet nigiet are 6 fingered and have thus developed their de cimal system in base 6. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) bui ldings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? a) 256 Ans: d 9) 12 people {a1, a2, , a12} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, , {a11, a12}, {a12, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the r est have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is a) 12 Ans: B 10) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 100 coins are stacke d one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ord inary 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 t he top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 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 neit her player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when its a players turn then the player wins the game. b) 4 c) 18 d) 11 b) 54 c) 192 d) 108

A. Alice has no winning strategy. B. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then C. In order to win, Alices first move should be a 0-move. D. In order to win, Alices first move should be a 1-move. Ans: D 11) 10 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 k people a1, a2, , ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, , {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands). a)7 Ans: c 12) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts t he letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the prob ability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? a) 0 Ans: a 13) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. O nly one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each per son declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost p erson is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A. All suspects are lying B. leftmost suspect is innocent . C. leftmost suspect is guilty a) A only Ans: c 14) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a trian gle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from al l the 3 lines is a) 4 b) 3 c) 0 d) 1 b) A or C c) A or B d) B only b) 12/212 c) 11/12 d) 1/12 b) 6 c) 9 d) 8

Ans: a 3 lines are given so ans is 4 one incenter and 3 excenters. If it is 3 li ne segments then ans would be 1 15) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression - N = 1 5 + X*(Y Z) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would l ike 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 c hoice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to s ubstitute 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 th e game would be Ans: 15+18 =33 16) 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 an d tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what fact or should the hare increase its speed so as the win the race?(for this values ar e changed) a) 8 Ans: c 17) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 45. For all values of n f rom 1 to 45, statement n says At most n of the statements on this sheet are false. Which statements are true and which are false? A. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. B. The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. C. All statements are true. Ans: c 18) 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 1face of the outer surface of the cube are paint ed, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? a) 900 b) 488 Ans: c 19) 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 contin ues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmer s are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write cod e at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How many lines of code can be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes? a) 72 b) 432 c) 12 d) 144 Ans: b 20) The teacher is testing a students proficiency in arithmetic and poses the fol lowing 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) 12 Ans: b Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = X Y Z 21) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok wou b) 18 c) 6 d) 21 c) 563 d) 800 b) 5 c) 37 d) 80

ld like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, A lok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of h er 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 varia ble. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end o f the game would be a) 2 Ans: a 22) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse sta rted to ran with average speed 22km/hr, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog? Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it. Hence d = 22*6 = 132km, Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earl ier). Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hr Ans: 16.5km/hr. 23) A and B play a game between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces( instead of number). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color , otherwise B wins. One die has 3 red faces and 3 blue faces. How many red and b lue faces should the other die have if the both players have if the both players have the same chances of winning? a) 5 red and 1 blue faces. b) 1 red and 5 blue faces. c) 3 red and 3 blue faces. Ans: c 24) In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, sunday to saturday and 8th day is Oz d ay. There is 36 hours in a day. What is angle between 12.40? a) 80 b) 81 c) 87 d) 89 Ans: 89 _______________________________________________________________________ 1. A Roman was born the first day of the 35th year before Christ and died the fi rst day of the 35th year after Christ. How many years did he live? (a) 70 (b) 69 (c) 71 (d) 72 2. A horse starts to chase a dog that has left the stable two hours earlier. The horse runs at an average speed of 2km/hr. It crosses a 10-metre road, two smal l ponds 3 metres deep, and finally runs along two small streets of 200 metres lo ng. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset, it catches the dog. Compute the sp eed of the dog in Km/hr? (a) 20 (b) 22 (c) 16.5 (d) 18.5 3. Adam sat with his friends in the Chinnaswamy stadium at Madurai to watch the 100 metres running race organized by the Asian Athletics Association. Five round s were run. After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How many teams participated in the race? (a) 30 (b) 32 (c) 41 (d) 54 4. If an airplane starts at point R and travels 14 miles directly north to S, th b) 4 c) 9 d) -18

en 48 miles directly east to T, what is the straight-line distance (in miles) fr om T to R? (a) 25 (b) 34 (c) 50 (d) 2500 5. A scientist was researching into animal behavior in his laboratory. He was ve ry interested in studying the behavior of bears. He travelled a mile to the nor th and reached the north pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear fo r an 1 hour to the east with a speed of 2km/hr. After that he travelled south an d reached his laboratory in 2 hours. What was the colour of the bear? (a) Black (b) White (c) Red (d) Blue 6. A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days when supplied at the rate o f 850 g per head. At the end of 7 days, a reinforcement arrives, and it is found that the provisions can last for 17 days more when supplied at the rate of 825 g per head. What is the strength of the reinforcement? (a) 1700 (b) 1000 (c) 3000 (d) 2700 7. Two unemployed young men decided to start a business together. They pooled in their savings, which came to Rs. 2,000. They were both lucky, their business pr ospered and they were able to increase their capital by 50 per cent every three years. How much did they have in all at the end of eighteen years? (a) Rs. 22,781.25 (b) Rs. 24,150.25 (c) Rs. 28,140.50 (d) Rs. 18,000 8. A man divides Rs.8600 among 5 sons, 4 daughters and 2 nephews. If each daught er receives four times as much as each nephew, and each son receives five times as much as each nephew, how much does each daughter receive? (a) Rs.800 (b) Rs.600 (c) Rs.200 (d) Rs.700 9. A train starts full of passengers. At the first station, it drops one-third o f the passengers and takes 280 more. At the second station, it drops one-half of the new total and takes 12 more. On arriving at the third station, it is found to have 248 passengers. Find the number of passengers in the beginning. (a) 240 (b) 248 (c) 280 (d) 288 10. A manufacturer undertakes to supply 2000 pieces of a particular component at Rs.25 per piece. According to his estimates, even if 5% fail to pass the qualit y tests, then he will make a profit of 25%. However, as it turned out, 50% of th e components were rejected. What is the loss to the manufacturer? (a) Rs.12000 (b) Rs.13000 (c) Rs.14000 (d) Rs.15000 11. In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only pri me numbers. how many time 6 will appear in building numbering? (a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) 19 12. 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 av erage age has become 45. find the age of seventh person? (a) 69 (b) 70 (c) 40 (d) 45 13. 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31 (a) 45 (b) 90 (c) 91 (d) 35 14. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 6 15. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, e ldest child age is 3 times youngest childs age and eldest childs age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? (a) 5 (8) 10 (c) 8 (d) 15

16. It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color? (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 48 (d) 25 17. 23 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes p ossible, if they are in pair of cyclic sequence. (a) 22 (b) 23 (c) 44 (d) 46 18. There are 10 reading spots in a room. Each reading spot has a round table. E ach round table has 4 chair. If different no of persons are sitting at each read ing spot. And if there are 10 persons inside the room then how many reading spot s donot have atleast a single reader. (1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 7 (4) None 19. Middle earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and m en. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent liv es and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical gam es. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that pl ay a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in differe nt rounds where in every round , half of the teams get eliminated from the tou rnament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches w ere played? (a) 257 (b) 256 (c) 72 (d) 255 20. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fil ls 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 i t has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? (a) 26 hrs (b) 25 hrs (c) 5 hrs (d) 27 hrs 21. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? (a) 2.4 mph (b) 4 mph (c) 4.8 mph (d) 5 mph 22. A pizza shop, there were 2 kinds of pizzas available. But now they have intr oduces 8 new types, a person buy two different type pizzas of new type in how ma ny ways he can select? (a) 24 (b) 43 (c) 56 (d) 58 23. A box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg packets. Total weight o f box is 264kg. How many 2kg packets are there? (a) 100 (b) 114 (c) 200 (d) 208 24. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can d o it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do th e same work? (a) 8 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 18 25. A bus started from bus stand at 8.00a m and after 30 min staying at destinat ion, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The speed of the bus 50 percent fast speed. At what time it returns to t he bus stand. (a) 11a.m (b) 12a.m (c) 10a.m (d) 10.30p.m 26. 2 oranges, 3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15. 3 oranges, 2 bananas, and 1 ap ple costs Rs 10. What is the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples? (a) Rs10 (b) Rs15 (c) Rs20 (d) Rs25

27. If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they no w give 10% discount then what is the profit percentage. (a) 40% (b) 55% (c) 35% (d) 30% 28. Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes by him. What is the length of faster train? (a) 100m (b) 75m (c) 120m (d) 50m 29. A man spends half of his salary on household expenses, 1/4th for rent, 1/5th for travel expenses, the man deposits the rest in a bank. If his monthly deposi ts in the bank amount 50, what is his monthly salary? (a) Rs.500 (b) Rs.1500 (c) Rs.1000 (d) Rs. 900 30. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010 (a) Sunday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday 31. In how many different ways can the letters of the word in such a way that the vowels always come together? (a) 360 (b) 480 (c) 720 (d) 5040 LEADING be arranged

32. The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket k eeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age o f the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team? (a) 23 years (b) 24 years (c) 25 years (d) None of these 33. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8 10 a nd 12 seconds respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together? (a) 4 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 16

34. The difference of two numbers is 1365. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder. What is the smaller numbe r? (a) 240 (b) 270 (c) 295 (d) 360 35. In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. Its a verage speed for the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increa sed by 30 minutes. The duration of the flight is: (a) 1 hour (b) 2 hours (c) 3 hours (d) 4 hours ________________________________________________________________________________ __ 1. Adam sat with his friends in the Chinnaswamy stadium at Madurai to watch the 100 metres running race organized by the Asian Athletics Association. Five round s were run. After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How many teams participated in the race? (a) 30 (b) 32 (c) 41 (d) 54 2. (1/3) of a number is 5 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b)36 c)30 d)72 3. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in an hour, B can fill 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80, 160. If B filled in 1/1 6 of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill the tank completely? a) 9 B) 8 c) 7 d) 6 4. Leena cut small cubes of 3 cubic cm each. She joined it to make a cuboid of l ength 10 cm, width 3 cm and depth 3 cm. How many more cubes oes she need to make

a perfect cube? a) 910 b) 250 c) 750 d) 650 5. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 26 blue, 30 red, and 56 yellow . The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can m ake out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of t he closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she ta ke out to make sure she has a pair of each color? 6. 10 men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibili ty that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa? a) 22 b) 20 c) 10 d) none 7. 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 se cond round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declar e only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round? a) 256 b) 512 c) 64 d) 128 8. 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shak e hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake han ds. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible? a) 122 b) 66 c) 48 d)1 28 9. There is 7 friends (A1, A2, A3....A7).If A1 have to have shake with all witho ut repeat. How many handshakes possible? a) 6 b) 21 c) 28 d) 7 10. 20 men handshake with each other without repetition. What is the total numbe r of handshakes made? a) 190 b) 210 c) 150 d) 250 11. On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 yea rs after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks . Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4* (t-9) for t 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 14.05 12. A man goes 50Km north , then turned left walked 40Km, then turned right ? In which direction he is? a) North b) South c) East d) West 13. In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 4s will be present in the numbers? a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21. 14. Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Ital y. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored dr ivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal v ehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been n oted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan s Mercedes is 35 km/hr an d the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 3.5 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

15. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n f rom 1 to 70. Statement n says At least n of the statements on this sheet are f alse. Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false. 16. If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very lit tle he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to tes t, how many mices are required to find the poisoned can? a) 3 b) 2 c) 6 d) 1 17. It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color? a) 2 b) 3 c) 48 d) 25 18. How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which ar e divisible by 4 if the repetition is allowed? a) 57 b) 56 c) 59 d) 58 19. Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that ca n be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the l ine while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over a ll configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is a) 3 b) 5 c) 2 d) 1 Ans: 5 20. The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their d ecimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) bu ildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192 Ans: 192 21. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a trian gle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from al l the 3 lines is a) 1 b) 3 c) 4 d) 0 22. Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a cir cle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what fa ctor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race? a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5 Ans: 37.80 23. Here 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type w ithin 60 minutes. How many programmers are needed? a) 16 b) 6 c) 10 d) 60 24. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 9 + X + Y - Z Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would l ike 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 c hooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally A lok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their o ptimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20 25. Alice nd Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordin ary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving th e topmost coin to another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on t he top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 20). We will call this an i-m ove (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 neith er player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it s a p layer s turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then a) b) c) d) 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. In order to win, Alice s first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move. Alice has no winning strategy.

26. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of e ach 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 winning. Let s a ssume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghan a the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the pr obability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3 Ans: 5/9 27. 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such t hat the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is a)12 b)11 c)13 d)18 Ans: 18 28. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n f rom 1 to 40, statement n says "At least and of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false? a)The b)The c)The d)The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. first 26 statements are false and the rest are true. first 13 statements are true and the rest are false. odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.

29. 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 y ou choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probabil ity of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is a)1/2 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)3/4 30. A circular dartboard of radius 1 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? a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25 31. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n f rom 1 to 40, statement n says: Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are fa lse. Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are fal se. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are fal se. c) All the statements are false. d) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. ___________________________________________________________________________ . A Roman was born the first day of the 35th year before Christ and died the fir st day of the 35th year after Christ. How many years did he live? (a) 70 (b) 69 (c) 71 (d) 72 2. A horse starts to chase a dog that has left the stable two hours earlier. The horse runs at an average speed of 2km/hr. It crosses a 10-metre road, two small ponds 3 metres deep, and finally runs along two small streets of 200 metres lon g. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset, it catches the dog. Compute the spe ed of the dog in Km/hr? (a) 20 (b) 22 (c) 16.5 (d) 18.5 3. Adam sat with his friends in the Chinnaswamy stadium at Madurai to watch the 100 metres running race organized by the Asian Athletics Association. Five round s were run. After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How many teams participated in the race? (a) 30 (b) 32 (c) 41 (d) 54 4. If an airplane starts at point R and travels 14 miles directly north to S, th en 48 miles directly east to T, what is the straight-line distance (in miles) fr om T to R? (a) 25 (b) 34 (c) 50 (d) 2500 5. A scientist was researching into animal behavior in his laboratory. He was ve ry interested in studying the behavior of bears. He travelled a mile to the nort h and reached the north pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear for an 1 hour to the east with a speed of 2km/hr. After that he travelled south and reached his laboratory in 2 hours. What was the colour of the bear? (a) Black (b) White (c) Red (d) Blue 6. A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days when supplied at the rate o f 850 g per head. At the end of 7 days, a reinforcement arrives, and it is found that the provisions can last for 17 days more when supplied at the rate of 825 g per head. What is the strength of the reinforcement? (a) 1700 (b) 1000 (c) 3000 (d) 2700 7. Two unemployed young men decided to start a business together. They pooled in their savings, which came to Rs. 2,000. They were both lucky, their business pr ospered and they were able to increase their capital by 50 per cent every three years. How much did they have in all at the end of eighteen years? (a) Rs. 22,781.25 (b) Rs. 24,150.25 (c) Rs. 28,140.50 (d) Rs. 18,000 8. A man divides Rs.8600 among 5 sons, 4 daughters and 2 nephews. If each daught er receives four times as much as each nephew, and each son receives five times as much as each nephew, how much does each daughter receive? (a) Rs.800 (b) Rs.600 (c) Rs.200 (d) Rs.700

9. A train starts full of passengers. At the first station, it drops one-third o f the passengers and takes 280 more. At the second station, it drops one-half of the new total and takes 12 more. On arriving at the third station, it is found to have 248 passengers. Find the number of passengers in the beginning. (a) 240 (b) 248 (c) 280 (d) 288 10. A manufacturer undertakes to supply 2000 pieces of a particular component at Rs.25 per piece. According to his estimates, even if 5% fail to pass the qualit y tests, then he will make a profit of 25%. However, as it turned out, 50% of th e components were rejected. What is the loss to the manufacturer? (a) Rs.12000 (b) Rs.13000 (c) Rs.14000 (d) Rs.15000 11. In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only pri me numbers. how many time 6 will appear in building numbering? (a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) 19 12. 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 av erage age has become 45. find the age of seventh person? (a) 69 (b) 70 (c) 40 (d) 45 13. 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31 (a) 45 (b) 90 (c) 91 (d) 35 14. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 6 15. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, e ldest child age is 3 times youngest childs age and eldest childs age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? (a) 5 (8) 10 (c) 8 (d) 15 16. It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color? (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 48 (d) 25 17. 23 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes p ossible, if they are in pair of cyclic sequence. (a) 22 (b) 23 (c) 44 (d) 46 18. There are 10 reading spots in a room. Each reading spot has a round table. E ach round table has 4 chair. If different no of persons are sitting at each read ing spot. And if there are 10 persons inside the room then how many reading spot s donot have atleast a single reader. (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) None 19. Middle earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and me n. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent live s and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical game s. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that pla y a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in differen t rounds where in every round , half of the teams get eliminated from the tourna ment. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played? (a) 257 (b) 256 (c) 72 (d) 255 20. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fil ls 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 i t has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? (a) 26 hrs (b) 25 hrs (c) 5 hrs (d) 27 hrs 21. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? (a) 2.4 mph (b) 4 mph (c) 4.8 mph (d) 5 mph 22. A pizza shop, there were 2 kinds of pizzas available. But now they have intr oduces 8 new types, a person buy two different type pizzas of new type in how ma ny ways he can select? (a) 24 (b) 43 (c) 56 (d) 58 23. A box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg packets. Total weight o f box is 264kg. How many 2kg packets are there? (a) 100 (b) 114 (c) 200 (d) 208 24. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can d o it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do th e same work? (a) 8 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 18 25. A bus started from bus stand at 8.00a m and after 30 min staying at destinat ion, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The speed of the bus 50 percent fast speed. At what time it returns to t he bus stand. (a) 11a.m (b) 12a.m (c) 10a.m (d) 10.30p.m 26. 2 oranges, 3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15. 3 oranges, 2 bananas, and 1 ap ple costs Rs 10. What is the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples? (a) Rs10 (b) Rs15 (c) Rs20 (d) Rs25 27. If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they no w give 10% discount then what is the profit percentage. (a) 40% (b) 55% (c) 35% (d) 30% 28. Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes by him. What is the length of faster train? (a) 100m (b) 75m (c) 120m (d) 50m 29. A man spends half of his salary on household expenses, 1/4th for rent, 1/5th for travel expenses, the man deposits the rest in a bank. If his monthly deposi ts in the bank amount 50, what is his monthly salary? (a) Rs.500 (b) Rs.1500 (c) Rs.1000 (d) Rs. 900 30. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010 (a) Sunday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday 3 31. In how many different ways can the letters of the word in such a way that the vowels always come together? (a) 360 (b) 480 (c) 720 (d) 5040 LEADING be arranged

32. The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket k eeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age o f the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team? (a) 23 years (b) 24 years (c) 25 years (d) None of these

33. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8 10 a nd 12 seconds respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together? (a) 4 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 16 34. The difference of two numbers is 1365. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder. What is the smaller numbe r? (a) 240 (b) 270 (c) 295 (d) 360 35. In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. Its a verage speed for the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increa sed by 30 minutes. The duration of the flight is: (a) 1 hour (b) 2 hours (c) 3 hours (d) 4 hours ______________________________________________________________________________ 1) The age of ram and sam are in the ratio 5:6 and after 4 years their ratios ar e 7:8 then what is the present age of sam? Ans: 12years (names and values may change) 2) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical soun ds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? (1 of )? Ans: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32 3) Find (4x+2y)/ (4x-2y) if x/2y=2 4) Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 14kmph up and 26kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y) 5) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons.one Tuesday there are 1 90 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there? Ans: 15 6) Six friends go to pizza corner there are 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors are there they have to select 4 flavors from 16 flavors. In how many wa ys we can select? Ans: 16C4 7) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find X Ans: 17 8) 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonalds restaurant and there th ey measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final ro und measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds? Ans: 4(155)/7=31 8. The cost of making robot is divided into cost of material, cost of repairing and cost of painting in the ratio of 5:2:3. The cost used for material is 200. F ind the total cost of making the robot? Ans: 400 (just calculate it). 10) (There was a long story, I ll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume tha t is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic g o together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go togethe r. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how m uch amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that s n ot needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to m ake a perfume except:

1) 2) 3) 4)

Balsamic and Lilac Woody and Lemon MI mosaic and Woody MI mosaic and Lilac

11) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the squa re made from the same rope? Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2 12) What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d (I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d). Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2) 13) A scientist in Antarctic region conducts research on bears came to know that bears changes according to the location .once he moves 1 mile towards north, th en he moves 2 miles towards east, then 1 mile towards south. Now the color of be ar he found will be in: Ans: white 14) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/1 6 of B if filled in 17 hours what time it will take to get completely filled Ans 21 15) There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probabil ity of all are boys? a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024 16) A boy bought a of 77 inches wide vant matter. Final econds. Time taken Ans is 2(141) =242 roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of length 333yards. We dont want any details of B. Some irrele question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 s to cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is?

17) A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, 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 is 15 pounds 18) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence? a) b) c) d) Linda is shorter among them Chelsea is taller than Julia Chelsea is shorter than Julia Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia

Ans: d 19) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are havin g 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 is 4 boys and 3 girls 20) There are certain number of hats and gloves in a box. They are of 41 red, 23 green, 11 orange. Power gone. But a woman can differentiate between hats and gl

oves.How many draws are required to obtain a pair of each color. 21) There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains w ant to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the f ollowing? a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tail b) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is head c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in th e sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head. I didnt remembered last option and I dont know answer. 22) 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 tim es of B. What is the present age of B in binary form? I didnt remember the exact values of x and y. You can solve easily. 23) Ram buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Sho p Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to Ram. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his nei ghbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop k eeper? Ans is 23(cost price + change given). 24) the the Ans metal strip of combine length final width of is (z-1) (y-x) width x cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then of 2 strips is y. If z strips are placed in that manner. What is that arrangement? +x.

25) 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 s econd round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to decla re only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round Ans is 28. 26) There are 3 boys A, B, C and 2 Girls D, E. D always sit right to A. Girls ne ver sit in extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the ex treme positions. Who is sitting immediate right to E? Ans is B or C 27) 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The sha ke hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake ha nds. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible? Ans is 12C2 29) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exa ct 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 pos sible? a) 22 b) 31 Ans is 6 c) 6 d) 32

30) There are 2 friends Peter and Paul. Peter age is twice as old as Paul when p eter was as old as Paul is now. Sum of the present ages of Peter and Paul is 35. What is the present age of Peter? Ans is 20 31) A lady took out jacket and gloves, which are avialable in blue 16, yellow 40 and red 36. Power goes off, she can distinguish between gloves and jacket but n ot in colors. What s the possibilty their she will pick up pair of gloves of eac h color.

Ans : very easy. 32) Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon o f water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good fo r the above? (Ans: second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bo wl) 33) Rearrange and categorize the word IGTRE? Ans: Animal(TIGER) 34) A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on Thurs, Fr i, Sat and speaks truths on other days. One day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today. What is the day? 35) One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, e ldest child age is 3 times youngest childs age and eldest childs age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? Ans: 18