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Instructions
Before the Test: (1) Keep only the identity card, pencil, eraser and sharpener with you. DO NOT KEEP with you books, rulers, slide rules, drawing instruments, calculators, cellular phones, stop watches or any other devices or loose paper. (2) Use only HB pencil to fill in the Answer Sheet. (3) Ensure that your name and roll number have been entered in the space provided correctly.

(4) Directions for answering the questions are given before each group of questions. Read these directions carefully and answer the questions by darkening the appropriate circles on the Answer Sheet. Each question has only one correct answer. (5) All questions carry one mark each. Questions. At the start of the Test: (6) Do your rough work only on the test booklet and NOT on the Answer Sheets. (1) As soon as the signal to start is given, open the test booklet. (1) This test contains one section with 35 questions. You have 60 minutes to complete the test. After the Test: (2) Candidates found violating the instructions will be disqualified.

How to Answer:

(1) At the end of the test remain seated. The invigilator will collect the Answer Sheet from your seat. (2) You may retain this test booklet with you.

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1) A schoolyard contains only bicycles and 4 wheeled wagons. On Tuesday, the total number of wheels in the schoolyard was 166. What could the possible number of bicycles? 2) 9years ago, Andromedas age was twice Achillies age .9 years hence, Andromedas age will be 4/3 times the age of Achilles. Find Andromedas present age in binary numbers. 3) 21 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 people a1, a2, , aK such that the pairs (a1, a2), (a2, a3), , (a (k-1), a k) , (ak, a1) shake hands. 4) The ticket to Disneyland will cost anywhere from 1p to 63p. You need to produce the exact change as the ticket counter and have with you a 63p coin . So you decide to break this into change but you want to carry with you as few coins as possible. Assuming that coins of all denominations are available, how many coins (denominations) would you split the 63p into? 5) Peter is twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. The combined age of Peter and Paul is 42 years. How old is peter now? 6) 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 liters, second hour it has 20, and so on) If tank B is 1/16 filled after 17 hours, what is the total durations required to fill it completely? (a) 4 hours (b)21 hours (c)22 hours (d)24 hours 7) Middle-earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournoi is one, where out of 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 tournament. If there are 10 rounds played in a knock-out tournoi how many matches were played? (a)1024 (b) 1023 (c)1026 (d)1011 (a) 21 (b) 18 (c) 24 (d) 26 (a) 33 (b) 63 (c)6 (d)64 (a) 17 (b) 18 (c) 19 (d)20 (a)11011 (b) 11000 (c) 1001 (d) 1010 (a) 14 (b) 10 (c)12 (d)11

8) 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 drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participations in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has enjoyed great success Rohit once bought a Ferraris. It could go 4 times as fast Mohits old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohits Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 968 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. (a) 242 hours (b) 27 hours (c) 7 hours (d)6.91 hours 9) Two blocks of copper with density of 100 kg/m^3 are twisted into wires of length 100 km and thickness 0.1mm. Copper is a very ductile material. Its ductility is measured in terms of percentage elongation upon application of tensile forces. The conductivity of the copper wire is extremely high rendering it useful in the construction of many electronic circuits. If the voltage through one such circuit is 18 V and the current flowing in the circuit is 190 ma. What is the resistance of the wire? (a) 208.00 K Ohms (b) 3420.00 K Ohms (c)0.9 k Ohms (d) 10.56 K Ohms

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10) 5 men and 5 women meet and men dance with women. Which of the following are always true? A. there are 2 men who have danced with same number of women. B. There are 2 women who have danced with same number of men. (a) Both A and B (b) A only (c) B only (d) Neither A nor B 11) Three boys John, Tom and Oliver and two girls Rachel and Kim are to be seated in a row. Rachel always sits to the left of John. No girl sits at the extreme positions and at the middle positions. Tom always sits at the extreme positions. Who sits to the right of Kim? (a) Oliver (b) Tom (c) Tom or Oliver (d) John

12) The thankgiving banquet at No.2, Ritcher Street, had 49 guests which consisted of 6 statesmen, 26 relatives and their families. At the end of a banquet 19 people shake hands with other , some of which were between the statesmen alone, some between relatives alone and some between the statesmen and relatives. How many handshakes will there be in total? 13) There are 7 children. You are told that the youngest child is a boy. The probability that all of them are boys is 1 in (a) 64 (b) 21 (c) 2 (d) 128 (a)342 (b) 171 (c) 180 (d) 162

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 line 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 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 (d)7 15) There is a pie to be divided among 20 people. A man eats 3 pizza, a women eats two pieces and a child eats half a piece of pie. Find the number of men, women and children so that they are 20 people in total and everyone gets some pie. There are 20 pieces of pie in all. (a) 7 women, 1 men and 12 children (b)5 women, 1 men and 14 children (c) 6 women, 2 men and 12 children (d) 4women, 2 men and 14 children 16) A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 8 and when divided by 3D leaves a remainder of 21 . What is the remainder left, when twice the number is divided by 3D? (a) 13 (b) 42 (c)3 (d) cannot be determined

17) In a pizza restaurant, you get a basic pizza with two toppings, cheese and tomato. You can also make up your own pizza with extra toppings. You can also choose from 10 different toppings, e.g. olives, ham, mushroom, salami etc. Ross wants to order a pizza with 2 different extra toppings. How many different combinations are possible? (a) 100 (b)1024 (c) 90 (d) 45 18) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one 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, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 11 hours, what is the total durations required to fill it completely? (a)5 Hours (b) 15 Hours (c) 17 Hours (d)16 Hours 19) Paul the octopus who has been forecasting the outcome of FIFA world cup matches with tremendous accuracy has now been invited to predict ICC world cup matches 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 group. The top two teams from each group enter the semi finals ( after which the winner is decided by knockout). However, Paul has a soft spot for India and when India plays any team, Paul always backs India. Alas, his predictions on matches involving India are right only 2 out of 3 times. In order to qualify for the semi finals, it is sufficient for India to win 7 of its group matches. What is the probability that India will win the ICC 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

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20) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 10. For all values of n from 1 to 10, statement n says At most n of the statement on this sheet is false. Which statements are true and which is false? (a) All the statements are true (b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. (c) The first half statements are true and the rest are false. (d) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.

21) A schoolyard contains only bicycles and 4 wheeled wagons. On Tuesday, the total number of wheels in the schoolyard was 90. What could be possible number of bicycles? (a) 12 (b) 14 (c) 10 (d)11

22) The Thousand Pillar Temple of Hyderabad was built by the Kakatiyans of Chalukyan dynasty in the 12th century. Each pillar has carvings made of black monolithic rocks of basalt which are polished to give it a brilliant look. One sunny morning, three tourists visit the temple. Samantha is taller than Lily and taller than two of the thousand pillars and Kelly is shorter than Samantha and three pillars. Which of the following statements would be most accurate? (a) Its impossible to tell (b) Kelly is as tall as Lily (c) Lily is shorter than Kelly (d) Lily is taller than Kelly 23) Franchois 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. Named Continuator, the robot duet can with alive musician in realtime. It listens to a musical phrase and then computes a complementary phrase with the same playing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided between materials, labour and overheads is the ratio of 4:5:2. If the materials costs $ 84.0, the cost of the robot is (a) 184.80 $ (b) 189.00 $ (c) 231.00 $ (d) 462.00 $

24) The great Indian mathematician Bhaskaracharya formulated this problem in the twelfth century for his teenaged prime number aged daughter Lilavati. He also authored the eponymous Lilavati, a compendium of mathematical puzzles, in which the number of problems that use this formula is the sum of two prime numbers. The product of the two prime numbers is smaller than the total number of problems in the Lilavati. Now, if the difference of any two numbers is 4 and their product is 18, what is the sum of their squares? 25) A taxi driver commenced his journey from a point, and drove 10 km towards north, and turned to his left and drove another 20 km. After waiting to meet a friend here he turned to his right and continued to drive another 50 km. In which direction is he now? (a) North (b) South (c) West (d) East (a)34 (b)40 (c)52 (d)42

26) Three boys Bob, Pete and Oliver and two girls Samantha and Kristie are to be seated in a row. Samantha always sits to the left of Bob. No girl sits at the extreme positions and at the middle positions. Peter always sits at the extreme positions. Who sits to the right of Kristie? (a)Peter or Oliver (b) Bob (c) Peter (d)Oliver 27) A result of global warming is that the ice of some glaciers is melting. Twelve years after the ice disappears tiny plants, called lichens, start to grow on the rocks. Each lichens grows approximately in the shape of a circle. The relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of the lichen can be approximated with the formula d = 13 * (t-11) for t > 11 where d represents the diameter of the lichen in millimeters, and t represents the number of years after the ice disappeared. Using the above formula, calculate the diameter of the lichen, 36 years after the ice has disappeared. (a) 468 mm (b) 457 mm (c) 325 mm (d) 11 mm

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28) The British mathematician Lewis Caroll also loved to make up fantastic stories in which he embedded a number of clever puzzles and curious riddles. For example, his popular story, Alice in Wonderland, is about young girl called Alice who dreams of a strange world where she meets several unusual characters including the Red Queen and the March hare. In our story, after 2 years of time, Paul will be twice as old as Alice. Presently he is 6 times as old. How old is Paul now? (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 6 29) A long, thin strip of width 10cm is kept on a flat surface. Another identical strip is kept on it as an overlapping manner such that the combined width of the two is 15cm. What is the width if 22 such strips kept like this? (a) 115 cm (b) 110 cm (c) 200 cm (d) 95 cm

30) A toy train produces at least 10 different tunes when it moves around a circular toy track of radius 5 meters, at 10 meters per minute. However, the toy train is defective and it now produces only two different tunes at random. What are the odds that the toy train produces 3 music tunes of the same type (1 in _____ ) ? (a) 3 (b) 9 (c) 8 (d) 4 31) Fill dirt or fill soil is usually the sub-soil removed from an excavation side and is used to level a place or create artificial mounds. If the average density of subsoil removed from a site is 3gm/cu cm and it weight 400 kg. How many hemispherical pits each of volume 240 cubic cm, can this sub-soil fill? (a)555 (b)277 (c)556 (d)554

32) The New York Public library is on of the worlds greatest repositories of books and journals. It has a beautiful reading room facing Manhattans famous Fifth Avenue. In the reading rooms are 10 reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 4 chairs placed around it. There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers. If in all there are 10 readers, how many reading spots are empty? 33) A group of friends Tom, Tim, Dick, Diana, Harry, and Harriet go out to a fair three hundred meters from the Mc.Donalds which is five KMs away. They see a weighing machine and decide to have some fun. However the girls refuse to step on the weighting machine. So Tom, Dick and harry, weigh themselves in a particular order. First Tom, Dick, and Harry weigh themselves individually and then tom and Dick, Dick and Harry, Tom and Harry and then Tom, Dick and harry together respectively. The recorded weight for the last measure is 158 kgs. The average of all the 7 measures is (a)112.86 (b)52.67 (c)90.29 (d)67.71 34) Determine the distance between the x-intercept and the z-intercept of the plane whose equation is 2x+9y-3z=18 (a) 6.32 (b)10.82 (c)3.00 (d)5.00 35) In the year 2002, Britain was reported to have had 4.3m closed-circuit televisions (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 interrogates two suspects. The ratio between the ages of the suspects is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 66 years. After how many years will the ratio be 8:7? (a)11 years (b)12 years (c)6 years (d)7 years (a)None (b)6 (c)5 (d)4

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