Quantitative and Reasoning Training Material PDF

Table of Contents
QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE ......................................................................................... 2

Height and Distance ................................................................................................................ 2
Simplification ......................................................................................................................... 2
Simple equation....................................................................................................................... 4
Time and Work ........................................................................................................................ 8
Mensuration .......................................................................................................................... 16
Area ...................................................................................................................................... 24
Races and games ................................................................................................................... 27
Functions .............................................................................................................................. 28
Ratios and Proportions........................................................................................................... 30
Numbers ................................................................................................................................ 33
HCF and LCM ......................................................................................................................... 61
Pipes and cistern ................................................................................................................... 61
Probability ............................................................................................................................ 62
Percentage ............................................................................................................................ 70
Profit and Loss ...................................................................................................................... 75
Problems on Ages ................................................................................................................... 78
Permutation and Combination ................................................................................................ 79
Mixtures and Alligation.......................................................................................................... 90
Time and distance ................................................................................................................. 92
Compound interest ................................................................................................................. 98
Average ................................................................................................................................. 99
Puzzles................................................................................................................................ 103
Partnership ......................................................................................................................... 107
REASONING APTITUDE ................................................................................... 107

Directions Sense .................................................................................................................. 108
Data Arrangements .............................................................................................................. 109
Sequence and series ............................................................................................................. 114
Statements .......................................................................................................................... 115
Venn Diagrams .................................................................................................................... 120
Odd man out........................................................................................................................ 121
Cubes .................................................................................................................................. 121
Image based problems .......................................................................................................... 122
Calendar ............................................................................................................................. 122
Clocks ................................................................................................................................. 123
Coding and decoding............................................................................................................ 124
QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE
Height and Distance
1) From the top of a 9 metres high building AB, the angle of elevation of the top of a tower
CD is 30º and the angle of depression of the foot of the tower is 60º. What is the height
of the tower?
a) 11
b) 12
c) 13
d) 14
Simplification
1) If ab + b + a = 135
bc + b + c = 47
ca + a + c = 101
What is the value of a + b + c?
a) 30
b) 31
c) 28
d) 25
2) If ab + b + a = 135
bc + b + c = 322
ca + a + c = 151
What is the value of a + b + c?
a) 40
b) 41
c) 42
d) 43
3) 30L + 3Q = 1167
30L + 6Q = 1284
Find L.
a) 30
b) 35
c) 40
d) 45
4) x y +y x =46 Find x & y values ?

a) 1,40
b) 1,46
c) 1,45
d) 45,1
5) Weight of M, D and I is 74. Sum of D and I is 46 greater than M. I is 60% less than D.
What is D's weight.
a) 7
b) 10
c) 15
d) 14
6) Machine A produces bolts at a uniform rate of 120 every 40 second, and Machine B
produces bolts at a uniform rate of 100 every 20 seconds. If the two machines run
simultaneously, how many seconds will it take for them to produce a total of 200 bolts?
a) 24
b) 25
c) 26
d) 27
7) A certain company retirement plan has a rule of 70 provision that allows an employee to
retire when the employee's age plus years of employment with the company total at least
70. In what year could a female employee hired in 1986 on her 32nd birthday first be
eligible to retire under this provision?
a) 2004
b) 2005
c) 2006
d) 2007
8) Juan is a gold medalist in athletics. In the month of May, if Juan takes 11 seconds to run
y yards, how many seconds will it take him to run x yards at the same rate?
a) 12x/y
b) 13x/y
c) 11x/y
d) 14x/y
9) 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 rounds were run.
After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How
many teams participated in the race?
a) 16
b) 32
c) 8
d) 30
10) If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very little he will die
within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, what is the minimum no.
of mice’s required to find poisoned can?
a) 6
b) 7
c) 5
d) 4
11) A school has 120, 192 and 144 students enrolled for its science, arts and commerce
courses. All students have to be seated in rooms for an exam such that each room has
students of only the same course and also all rooms have equal number of students. What
is the least number of rooms needed?
a) 18
b) 19
c) 20
d) 21
Simple equation
1) Three generous friends, each with some money, redistribute the money as follows: Sandra
gives enough money to David and Mary to double the amount of money each has. David
then gives enough to Sandra and Mary to double their amounts. Finally, Mary gives
enough to Sandra and David to double their amounts. If Mary had 11 rupees at the
beginning and 17 rupees at the end, what is the total amount that all three friends have?
a) 105
b) 60
c) 88
d) 71
2) The sum of the digits of a three digit number is 17, and the sum of the squares of its
digits is 109. If we subtract 495 from that number, we shall get a number consisting of
the same digits written in the reverse order. Find the number
a) 773
b) 944
c) 863
d) 683
3) In a city there are few engineering, MBA and CA candidates. Sum of four times the
engineering, three times the MBA and 5 times CA candidates is 3650. Also three times CA
is equal to two times MBA and three times engineering is equal to two times CA. In total
how many MBA candidates are there in the city?
a) 200
b) 300
c) 450
d) 400
4) A series of book was published at seven year intervals. When the seventh book was
published the total sum of publication year was 13,524. First book was published in?
a) 1911
b) 1910
c) 2002
d) 1932
5) 3 mangoes and 4 apples costs Rs.85. 5 apples and 6 peaches costs Rs.122.6 mangoes and
2 peaches cost Rs.114. What is the combined price of 1 apple, 1 peach and 1 mango ?
a) 37
b) 39
c) 35
d) 36
6) Raj writes a number. He sees that the number of two digits exceeds four times the sum of
its digits by 3. If the number is increased by 18, the result is the same as the number
formed by reversing the digits. Find the number.
a) 35
b) 42
c) 49
d) 57
7) In the equation A+B+C+D+E = FG, where FG is the two – digit number whose value is
10F+G, and letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G each represent different digits. If FG is as large
as possible, what is the value of G?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 1
d) 5
8) Divide 50 into two parts, such that the sum of their reciprocals is 1/12.
a) 25, 25
b) 10, 40
c) 20, 30
d) 15, 35
9) John told Mark that if Mark gives 1/3rd of his money to him, he will have Rs.75. Mark told
John that if John gives ½ of his money to him, he will have Rs.75. How much money did
they totally have?
a) 105
b) 125
c) 150
d) 75
10) Raj invested in Indigo, HUL and SBI shares at Rs.300, Rs.200 and Rs.5 per share
respectively and purchased a total of 100 shares for Rs.10000. The number of Indigo and
HUL shares he bought are
a) 15, 25
b) 23, 17
c) 17, 23
d) 17, 60
11) A man takes 9 minutes to load a box in a truck. 8 boxes can be loaded into a truck. If 16
men load for one and a half hours, how many trucks will be loaded?
a) 20
b) 10
c) 15
d) 40
12) A series of books was published at 10years intervals when the 10 th book was issued the
sum of publication years was 19,560 when was the 1st book published
a) 1910
b) 1914
c) 1911
d) 1909
13) According to the stock policy of a company, each employee in the technical division is
given 15 shares of the company and each employee in the recruitment division is given 10
shares. Employees belonging to both committees get 25 shares each. There are 20
employees in the company, and each one belongs to at least one division. The cost of each
share is $10. If the technical division has 15 employees and the recruitment division has
10 employees, then what is the total cost of the shares given by the company?
a) 2650
b) 3180
c) 3250
d) 3120
14) 12 divides ab313ab (in decimal notation), where a, b are digits > 0, the smallest value of a
+ b is      
a) 7
b) 6
c) 2
d) 4
15) In a quadratic equation, (whose coefficients are not necessarily real) the constant term is
not 0. The cube of the sum of the squares of its roots is equal to the square of the sum of
the cubes of its roots. Which of the followingtrue?
a) Both roots are real
b) Neither of the roots is real
c) Atleast one root is non real
d) Atleat one root is real
Time and Work

1) Two women Renu and Usha are working on an embroidery design. If Usha worked alone,
she would need eight hours more to complete the design than if they both worked
together. Now if Renu worked alone, it would need 4.5 hours more to complete the design
than they both working together. What time would it take Renu alone to complete the
design?
a) 10.5 hrs
b) 12.5 hrs
c) 14.5 hrs
d) 18.5 hrs
2) X takes 4 days to complete 1/3 of job, Y takes 3 days to complete 1/6 th of the same work
and Z takes 5 days to complete half the job. If all of them work together for 3 days and X
and Z quit. How long will it take for Y to complete remaining work alone?
a) 6 days
b) 7 days
c) 5.1 days
d) 8.1 days
3) A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how many days
can A do the work if he is assisted by B and C on every third day?
a) 11 days
b) 15 days
c) 10 days
d) 12 days
4) A completes 80% of a work in 20 days. Then B also joins and A and B together finish the
remaining work in 3 days. How long does it need for B if he alone completes the work?
a) 37 ½
b) 32
c) 32 ½
d) 37
5) A can complete a piece of work in 8 hours, B can complete in 10 hours and C in 12 hours.
If A,B,C start the work together but A leaves after 2 hours. Find the time taken by B and
C to complete the remaining work.
a) 2 1/11 hours
b) 4 1/11 hours
c) 2 6/11hours
d) 2 hours
6) 60 men can complete a piece of work in 40 days. 60 men start the work but after every 5
days 5 people leave. In how many days will the work be completed?
a) 60
b) 80
c) 120
d) None of these
7) A, B, C can do some work in 36 days. A and B together can do twice as much work as c
alone, and A and C together can do thrice as much work as B alone. Find the time taken
by C to do whole work?
a) 96 days
b) 108 days
c) 120 days
d) 72 days
8) Father is 5 times faster than son. Father completes a work 40 days before the son. If both
of them work together, when will the work get complete?
a) 8 days
b) 8 1/3 days
c) 10 days
d) 20 days
9) Each of A, B and C need a certain unique time to do certain work. C needs 1 hour less
than A to complete the work. Working together they require 30 minutes to complete 50%
of the work. The work also gets completed if A and B start working together and A leaves
after 1 hour and B works further 3 hours. How much work does C do per hour?
a) 16.66%
b) 66.66%
c) 50%
d) 33.33%
10) George and Mark can paint 720 boxes in 20 days. Mark and Harry in 24 days and Harry
and George in 15 days. George works for 4 days, Mark for 8 days and Harry for 8 days.
The total number of boxes painted by them is
a) 252
b) 516
c) 348
d) 492
11) Raju can do a piece of work in 10 days, Vicky in 12 days, Tinku in 15 days. They all
started work together, but Raju leaves after 2 days, Vicky leaves 3 days before the work is
completed. In how many days work is completed?
a) 7
b) 5
c) 9
d) 6
12) A box of fruits can be loaded in a truck in 9 minutes by a worker and 8 boxes fill a truck
completely. How many trucks can be loaded completely in 1½ hours if there are 16 men
working together?
a) 21
b) 20
c) 23
d) 22
13) George is two-third as efficient as Smith and Smith is three-fourth as efficient as John. In
one day, what will be the fraction of the work done by George alone, compared to all of
them working together?
a) 2/3
b) 2/9
c) 4/9
d) 1/3
14) DrinkMoreCoffee is a coffee shop with a peculiar scheme. The shop keeps a weekly tally
for each customer’s first coffee costs Rs. 45, the second coffee costs Rs. 40.5, third cots
Rs. 36 and so on. The cost decreases by Rs.4.5 until the price reaches Rs. 4.5. The
remaining coffees that week are free for the customer. Ms. CoffeePriya is a coffee lover and
in a two week period she consumed a total of 15 coffees at this shop. She paid a total of
Rs. 333 for the coffees she drank during the two weeks. How many free coffees did she get
during this week period?
a) 2
b) 11
c) 0
d) 3
15) An airplane has four emergency exists. In an emergency, it requires 8 seconds per
passenger to evacuate the plane, if the hand baggage is not carried by the passenger. How
long will it take to evacuate 53 passengers in an emergency?
a) 1 min 52 sec
b) 1 min 44 sec
c) 7 min 4 sec
d) None of these
16) Thomas takes 7 days to paint a house completely whereas Raj would require 9 days to
paint the same house completely. How many days will it take to paint the house if both of
them work together (give answers to the nearest integer)?
a) 3
b) 5
c) 4
d) 8
17) Jake can dig a well in 16 days. Paul can dig the same well in 24 days. Jake, Paul and Hari
together dig the well in 8 days. In how many days Hari alone can dig the well?
a) 32 days
b) 48 days
c) 96 days
d) 24 days
18) Akbar, Benoit and Cinder takes 20, 80, 160 days respectively to complete a work. If each
work one day alternatively, on which day will they compete the work?
a) 40 th
b) 41 st
c) 42 nd
d) 43 rd
19) A alone can finish the work in 10 hours, B alone can finish the work in 12 hours and C
alone can finish the work in 15 hours. A, B and C together started working at 11’o clock.
After 2 hours A leaves. When will B & C will together will finish the work?
a) 4 ‘o clock
b) 5 ‘o clock
c) 4:20
d) 5:20
20) The wages of 24 men and 16 women amount to Rs 11600 per day. Half the number of
men and 37 women earn the same money. The daily wages paid to each man is
a) Rs. 375
b) Rs. 400
c) Rs. 350
d) Rs. 325
21) A alone can do 1/4th of the work in 2 days. B alone can do 2/3th of the work in 4 days. if
all the three work together, they can complete it in 3 days so what part of the work will be
completed by C in 2 days ?
a) 1/12
b) 1/8
c) 1/16
d) 1/20
22) A certain sum of money is sufficient to pay either George wages for 15 days or Mark wages
for 10 days .For how long will it be sufficient if both George and Mark work together ?
a) 5
b) 6
c) 8
d) 9
23) Babla alone can do a piece of work in 10 days. Ashu alone can do it in 15 days. The total
wages for the work is Rs.5000. How much should be Babla be paid if they work together
for an entire duration of work?
a) 2000
b) 4000
c) 5000
d) 3000
24) George can do some work in 8 hours. Paul can do the same work in 10 hours while Hari
can do the same work in 12 hours. All the three of them start working at 9 am while
George stops work at 11 am and the remaining two complete the work. Approximately at
what time will the work be finished?
a) 11.30 am
b) 1 pm
c) 12.30 pm
d) 12 noon
25) A takes 12 hours to make a publication. B takes 10 hours to make a publication. Find the
time taken by them to make two publications, working independently.
a) 12 hours
b) 11 hours
c) 22 hours
d) 11 hours 40 minutes
26) A manufacturer of chocolates makes 6 different flavours of chocolates. The chocolates are
sold in boxes of 10. How many different boxes of chocolates can be made?
(NOTE: A box is considered different from another only if, regardless of the order, the box
Contains a different number of chocolates of at least one type)
a) 3003
b) 10^6
c) 3000
d) 6^10
27) It takes 52 days to complete an agreement deal by a certain number of men. After 17
days, 300 men are added and 21 days are reduced. How many men were working
initially?
a) 250
b) 150
c) 200
d) None of these
28) A and B completed a work in 5 days. Had A worked at twice the speed of B and B as half
the speed of A, it would have taken them 4 days to complete the job. How much time
would it take for A alone to do the work?
a) 5 days
b) 20 days
c) 10 days
d) 25 days
29) An engineer undertakes a project to build a road 15 km long in 300 days and employs 45
men for the purpose. After 100 days, he finds only 2.5 km of the road has been completed.
Find the (approx.) number of extra men he must employ to finish the work in time.
a) 43
b) 45
c) 55
d) 68
30) Aravind can do a work in 24 days. Mani can dig the same well in 36 days. Aravind, Mani
and Hari can do a work together in 8 days. Hari alone can do the work in
a) 12 days
b) 18 days
c) 16 days
d) 24 days
31) Truck A and truck B move grain into a box at the rate of 20 kilos/ min and 13 1/3 kilos a
minute respectively while Truck C removes grain from the box at the rate of 10 kilos/ min.
If the capacity of the box is 2.4 tons, and Truck A, Truck B and Truck C are working
simultaneously then the box will be filled in
a) 1 ½ hours
b) 3/5 hours
c) 1 5/7 hours
d) 2 1/8 hours
32) Four examiners evaluate certain number of papers in 8 days working 5 hours a day. If 2
examiners evaluate twice the number of papers in 20 days then how many hours per day
should they work?
a) 8
b) 9
c) 4.5
d) 7
33) George and mark work for a company. George can finish a certain job in 30 days. Mark
can finish the same job in 45 days. A project was taken by the company and George was
made superior to Mark. This move from the company was not liked by Mark. So Mark did
not work for 15 days. Find the total number of days the entire work was completed if
Mark works at his normal speed after 15 days from the date of commencement?
a) 15
b) 20
c) 35
d) 24
34) Each of A,B and C need a certain unique time to do certain work. C needs 1 hour less
than A to complete the work. Working together they require 30 minutes to complete 50%
of the work. The work also gets completed if A and B start working together and A leaves
after 1 hour and B works further 3 hours. How much work does C do per hour?
a. 16.66% b. 66.66% c. 50% d. 33.33%
35) G works 5 times faster than his son and hence completed a job 40 days earlier than son.
find the time they would take 2 finish d job together
A)12.5,
b) 8.3,
C) 7.5,
D) 6
36) Each of A,B,C need a certain unique time to do a certain work.C needs 1hr less than A to
complete the work.Working together they require 30min to complete 50percent of the
job.The work also gets completed if A & B start working together and A leaves after 1hr
and B works for further 3 hrs.How much work does C do per hour?
a)16.6%
b)33.3%
c)66.6%
d)50%
37) Raju can do a piece of work in 10 days,Vicky in 12days,Tinku in 15 days.They all started
work together,but raju leaves after 2 days,vicky leaves 3 days before the work is
completed. In how many days work is completed?
a)7 b)5 c)9 d)6
38) x takes 4 days to complete one third of a job, y takes 3 days to complete one sixth of the
Same job and z takes 5 days to complete half of the job.If all of them work together for 3 days
and x and z quit, how long will it take for y to complete the remaining work done?
a) 5.6 days
b) 5.1 days
c) 5 days
d) 5.8 days
39) A is twice efficient than B. A and B can both work together to complete a work in 7 days.
Then find in how many days A alone can complete the work?
a) 10.5 days
b) 11 days
c) 11.5 days
d) 12 days
40) The water from one outlet, flowing at a constant rate, can fill the swimming pool in 9
hours. The water from second outlet, flowing at a constant rate can fill up the same pool
in approximately in 5 hours. If both the outlets are used at the same time, approximately
what is the number of hours required to fill the pool?
a) 3.33 hrs
b) 3.21 hrs
c) 3.50 hrs
d) 3.66 hrs
41) 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, third hour it has 40 and so on). If
tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it
completely?
a) 24 hrs
b) 25 hrs
c) 26 hrs
d) 27 hrs
42) A completes a work in 20 days B in 60 days C in 45 days. All three persons working
together on a project got a profit of Rs.26000 what is the profit of B?
Options
a) 3500Rs
b) 4000Rs
c) 2500Rs
d) 6000Rs
43) A completes a piece of work in 3/4 of the time in B does, B takes 4/5 of the time in C
does. They got a profit of Rs. 40000 how much B gets?
Options :
a) Rs.23478
b) Rs.76598
c) Rs.32745
d) Rs.12765
44) There are 250men and 150 women in a committee, if all will work they will complete 12
units per day, if all men work they will complete 15 units per day, how many units will
women complete per day?
A) 4
B) 5
C) 3
D) 2
Mensuration
1) There is a set of 36 distinct points on a plane with the following characteristics:
* There is a subset A consisting of fourteen collinear points.
* Any subset of three or more collinear points from the 36 are a subset of A.
How many distinct triangles with positive area can be formed with each of its vertices
being one of the 36 points? (Two triangles are said to be distinct if at least one of the
vertices is different)
a) 7140
b) 4774
c) 1540
d) 6776
2) Two circles with centers P and Q cut each other at two distinct points A and B. The circles
have the same radii and neither P nor Q falls within the intersection of the circles. What is
the smallest range that includes all possible values of the angle AQP in degrees?
a) Between 0 and 90
b) Between 0 and 30
c) Between 0 and 60
d) Between 0 and 75
e) Between 0 and 45
3) In the medieval times, the sheikdom of Al kurazi had a proud tradition of inventing their
own measurements units. The unit for distance was du, and the unit of time was pu.
Unfortunately exactly what these measurement units are in modern terminology has been
lost. The sheikh of Al Kurazi had built a huge mansion in the desert (near an oasis) with a
circular wall around it, and the wall had four gates pointing north, south, east and west.
He had built three observation towers, one 144 du to the north of the north gate, one 135
du to the east of the south gate, and one 7 1/2 du to the east of the east gate. They had
been aligned to be all in a straight line passing thru the oasis. What was the diameter of
the wall that surrounded the city (in Du)?
a) 178
b) 183
c) 180
d) 181

* There is a subset A consisting of fifteen collinear points.
* Any subset of three or more collinear points from the 27 are a subset of A.
vertices is different)
a) 2200
b) 2470
c) 2925
d) 1210
5) A solid wooden toy is in the shape of a right circular cone mounted on a hemisphere, such
that the circular base of the cone rests on the flat circular area of the hemisphere. The
radius of the hemisphere is equal to the radius of the circular base of the cone. If the
radius of the hemisphere is 4.2 cm and the total height of the toy is 10.2 cm, find the
volume of the wooden toy (approximately to the nearest integer)
a) 266cm3
b) 104 cm3
c) 162 cm3
d) 427 cm3
6) A person standing inside a rectangular room ABCD and measures his distances from
three of the corners as PA = 10, PB = 3 and PC = 6 m. What is his distance in meter from
the other corner D?
a) 7
b) 13
c) Sqrt(127)
d) Sqrt(109)
7) In the triangle AB=15,AC=39,BC=36.A perpendicular dropped from B meets the side AC at

D. A circle of radius BD (with center B) is drawn. If the circle cuts AB & BC at P & Q
respectively, the AP: QC is equal to.
a) 1:17.1
b) 1:15.1
c) 1:19.1
d) 1:18.1
8) How many parallelograms are formed by a set of 4 parallel lines intersecting on other set
of 7 parallel lines?
a) 125
b) 126
c) 127
d) 128
9) Find the sum of angles 1,2,3,4,5.

a) 180
b) 300
c) 360
d) 400
10) Consider a triangle drawn on the X-Y plane with its three vertices at (41, 0), (0, 41) and (0,
0), each vertex being represented by its (X, Y) coordinates. The number of points with
integer coordinates inside the triangle (excluding all the points on the boundary) is
a) 780
b) 800
c) 820
d) 741
11) There is a conical tent in which 10 persons can stand. Each person need 6m 2 to stand
and 60m3 air to breath. What is the height of tent?
a) 60
b) 30
c) 20
d) 45
12) In a triangle ABC, the length of the sides AB and AC equal 17.5 cm and 9 cm respectively.
Let D be a point on the line segment BC such that AD is perpendicular to BC. If AD = 3
cm, then what is the radius (in cm) of the circle circumscribing the triangle ABC?
a) 17.05
b) 27.85
c) 32.25
d) 26.25
13) A tree of height 36 m at the edge of a road broke at a certain height. It fell in such a way
that its top touched the other edge of the road. If the breadth of the road is 12 m, then
what is the height at which the tree broke?
a) 16
b) 24
c) 12
d) 18
14) A rectangle of height 100 squares and width 200 squares is drawn on a graph paper. It is
colored square by square from top left corner and moving across in a spiral turning right
whenever a side of the rectangle or a colored square is reached. Which square is colored
last (give its row and column numbers – the bottom right square is on row 100 and
column 200)
a) 51, 150
b) 51, 50
c) 50, 150
d) 50, 50
15) Area of ∆ABC = 40 cm2

PB = (1/3) AB
QC = (1/4) AC
Find the area of ∆PQC .
a) 20/3
b) 40/3
c) 80/3
d) 85/3
16) Two cylinders are covered with papers on the curved surfaces. The top and bottom regions
of the cylinder are left exposed. If the length of the papers just covers the surface area of
the cylinder (after cutting them if necessary), then what is the sum of the volumes of the
two cylinders in cc? The height of the 1st cylinder and 2nd cylinder is 10cms and 12cms
respectively. The area of the paper covering the first cylinder is 10cm * 8cm and the
second is 10cm * 4cm. The answers are to be correct to two decimal places.
a) 61.54
b) 54.54
c) 65.43
d) 47.76
17) The length, breadth and height of a room are in the ratio 3:2:1. If the breadth and height
are halved while the length is doubled, then the total volume of the of the room will:
a) Decrease by 30%
b) Decrease by 18.75%
c) Decrease by 13.6%
d) Decrease by 50%
18) Two sides of plot measure 32m and 24m and angle between them is a perfect right angle.
Other two sides are 25m and 25m and other 3 angles are not right angles. If the plot is
convex, what is the area of the plot?
a) 768
b) 534
c) 696.5
d) 684
19) An ant smartly moves across a staircase taking the shortest distance. Calculate the
distance it takes to reach the top to B from A given that staircase consists of 2 steps. It is
also known that the length, breadth and height is 6cm, 2cm and 1cm respectively.
a) 6√2
b) 6
c) 7
d) 2√19
20) There is a conical tent in which 10 persons can stand. Each person need 10m 2 to stand
and 60m3 air to breath. What is the height of tent?
a) 18
b) 12
c) 36
d) 9
21) There are 10 points on a straight line AB and 8 on another straight line AC none of them
being point A. How many triangles can be formed with these points as vertices?
a) 680
b) 720
c) 816
d) 640
22) Find the ratio of the area of square to area of triangle.
a) 1:2
b) 2:1
c) 2:3
d) 3:2
23) Radius of the bigger circle is 1. Which area will be greater?
a) 5
b) 4
c) Cannot be determined
d) None of these
24) The figure shows an equilateral triangle of side length 5, which is divided into unit
triangles. A valid path is a path from the triangle in the top row to the middle triangle in
the bottom row such thst the adjacent triangles in our path share a common edge and the
path never travels up (from a lower row to a higher row ) or revisits a triangle. An example
of one such path is illustrated below. How many such valid paths are there?
a) 120
b) 16
c) 23
d) 24
25) Perimeter of a equilateral triangle is equal to the perimeter of Hexagon. What is the ratio
of their areas?
a) 6:1
b) 1:6
c) 3:2
d) 2:3
26) There is a rectangle with dimension 400 x 300 ft. Inside the rectangle, there are 3 ants for
every square inch. So, how many ants (approximately) will be there inside the rectangle?
a) 5 million
b) 50 million
c) 50000
d) 500
27) There is a pool of radius X and there is a pathway around the pool with a width of 4 feet.
Find the radius of the pool if the path area/ pool area = 11/25.
a) 12
b) 20
c) 25
d) 29
28) How many lattice points are there between (2,0) and (16,203)?
a) 8
b) 10
c) 14
d) 15
29) Four parallel lines are drawn parallel to one side of an equilateral triangle such that it
cuts the other two sides at equal intervals. The area of the largest segment thus formed is
27 m2. Find the area of the triangle.
a) 100
b) 75
c) 81
d) 54
30) A circular swimming pool is surrounded by a concrete walk feet wide. If the area of the
walk is 11/25 of the area of the pool. Then the radius of the pool in feet is
a) 50
b) 30
c) 16
d) 20
31) Length, Breadth and Height of a 3D figure is in the ratio 3:2:1. If the length is doubled
and Breadth & Height are halved, then what is the % decrease in the volume of the solid?
a) Decreased by 15%
b) Decreased by 18%
c) Decreased by 30%
d) Decreased by 50%
32) From a square of side 2 cm, equal triangles are cut from its corners to form a regular
octagon. We will get an octagon. What is the area of that octagon?
a) 4(sqrt2) + 8
b) 8(sqrt2) – 8
c) 2(sqrt2) + 8
d) 8(sqrt2) + 4
33) There is a circle with two equilateral triangles of side 12 cm inscribed in it in opposite
direction making it a star as shown in the figure. What is the area of the remaining
portion of the circle outside the star (dotted region)?
a) 48 (π - √3)
b) 48 (π + √3)
c) 24 (π - √3)
d) 24 (π + √3)
34) The diagonal of a square is twice the side of anequatorial triangle. The ratio of the
area of thetriangle to the area of square is
a) Sqrt(3):8
b) Sqrt(2):4
c) Sqrt(2):5
d) Sqrt(3):6
35) The number of different non congruent triangles with integer side and perimeter 15 is
a) 9
b) 7
c) 10
d) 6
36) A closed cylindrical tank contains 36π cubic feet of water and its filled to half its
capacity. When the tank is placed upright on its circular base on level ground, the height
of water in the tank is 4 feet. When the tank is placed on its side on level ground, what is
the height, in feet, of the surface of the water above the ground?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5
37) In a rectanglular coordinate system, what is the area of a triangle whose vertices whose
vertices have the coordinates (4,0), (6, 3) adn (6 , -3)
A. 6
B. 7
C. 7.5
D. 6.5
Area
1) A man walking at the speed of 4 km/hr crosses a square field diagonally in 3 minutes.
The area of the field (in m2) is:
a) 20000
b) 21000
c) 25000
d) 26000
2) A rectangle is divided into four rectangles with area 70, 36, 20 and X. The value of X is
a) 350/9
b) 350/7
c) 350/11
d) 350/13
3) Ratio of the radii of the cylinder to the cone is 1:2. Assume, their heights are the same.
Find the ratio of their volumes.
a) 3:4
b) 1:2
c) 1:4
d) 4:1
4) Find the perimeter of the decagon with given dimensions.

a) 32
b) 34
c) 44
d) 22
5) A hollow pipe has circumference 14 cm. A bug is on its wall (outside) at a distance of 48
cm from top. A drop of honey is on the wall (inside the pipe) at 24 cm from top but
diametrically opposite to bug. Find the shortest distance bug has to travel to reach honey.
a) 24
b) 25
c) 27
d) 29
6) If a ladder is 100 m long and distance between bottom of ladder and wall is 60. What is
the maximum size of cube that can be placed between the ladder and wall.
a) 34.28
b) 24.28
c) 21.42
d) 28.56
7) Arun makes a popular brand of cuboidal ice-cream bar of length, breadth and thickness
of 3 cm, 5 cm and 2 cm respectively. To cut the cost company decided to reduce the
volume by 19 % . Thickness remains the same but length and the width decreased by the
same percentage. What is the new breadth?
a) 4.5 cm
b) 5.5 cm
c) 6.5 cm
d) 7.5 cm
8) 17 x 8 m rectangular ground is surrounded by 1.5 m width path. Depth of the path is 12

cm. Gravel is filled and find the quantity of gravel required in cubic meters.
a) 5.5
b) 7.5
c) 6.05
d) 10.08
9) There is a circle which circumscribes three unit circles which are tangential to each other.
What is the circumference of the bigger circle?
a) π(7+2√3)/√3
b) π(5+4√3)/√3
c) π(5+2√3)/√3
d) π(4+2√3)/√3
10) Raj drives slowly along the perimeter of a rectangular park at 24 kmph and completes one
full round in 4 minutes. If the ratio of the length to the breadth of the park is 3:2. What
are its dimensions?
a) 450m x 300m
b) 150m x 100m
c) 480m x 320m
d) 100m x 100m
11) Length, Breadth and Height of a cuboid is in the ratio 1:3:7. Volume of the cuboid is 27
m3. If the length is doubled and Breadth & Height are halved, then what is the change in
the volume of the cuboid?
a) Decreased by 15%
b) Decreased by 18%
c) Decreased by 30%
d) Decreased by 50%
12) A semicircle is drawn with AB as its diameter. From C, a point on AB, a line perpendicular
to AB is drawn, meeting the circumference of the semicircle at D. Given that AC=2 cm and
CD=6 cm, the area of the semicircle (in sq cm) will be:
13) The area of a square region having sides of length 6 cms is equal to the area of a
rectangular region having width 2.5 cms, then the length of the rectangle, in cms, is
a) 15.5
b) 16.4
c) 14.4
d) 13.4
14) In a rectanglular coordinate system, what is the area of a triangle whose vertices whose
vertices have the coordinates (4,0), (6, 3) adn (6 , -3)
A. 6
B. 7
C. 7.5
D. 6.5
11) A rectangular park 60 m long and 40 m wide has concrete crossroads running in the middle
of the park and rest of the park has been used as a lawn. if the area of the lawn is 2109
sq.m,then what is the width of the road.
a. 2.91 m b. 3m c. 5.82 m d. None
Races and games

1) In a potato race, 20 potatoes are placed in a line of intervals of 4 meters with the first
potato 24 meters from the starting point. A contestant is required to bring the potatoes
back to the starting place one at a time. How far would he run in bringing back all the
potatoes?
a) 2400
b) 1440
c) 2480
d) 1240
2) Anusha, Banu and Esha run a running race of 100 meters. Anusha is the fastest followed
by Banu and then Esha. Anusha, Banu and Esha maintain constant speeds during the
entire race. When Anusha reached the goal post, Banu was 10m behind. When Banu
reached the goal post Esha was 10m behind. How far was behind Anusha when the latter
reached the goal post.
option
a) 70
b) 81
c) 90
d) 80
3) 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 and tortoise meet when 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?
a) 37.7
b) 37.8
c) 37.9
d) 36.9
Functions
1) What is the minimum value of abs(187m – 396n – 526) as m, n take all integer values?
Here abs is the absolute value function (that is, if x > 0, then abs(x) = x and if x < 0, then
abs(x) = – x).
a) 0
b) 9
c) 2
d) 1
abs(x) = – x).
a) 6
b) 3
c) 2
d) 4
abs(x) = – x).
a) 1
b) 0
c) 6
d) 13
abs(x) = – x).
a) 1
b) 0
c) 6
d) 13
5) Let f be a function such that
f(f(x)) = f(x + 13) – 18 for all integers x. If f(241) = 259 and
F(259) = 254, then f(267) is
a) 308
b) 290
c) 295
d) 272
6) Function ‘f’ satisfies the equation

f(x) + 2 * f(6 - x) = x for all real numbers x. Value of f(1) is
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) Cannot be determined
7) P(x) = (x2012 + x2011 + x2010 + ……… + x + 1)2 – x2012

Q(x) = x2011 + x2010 + ……… + x + 1
The remainder when P(x) is divided by Q(x) is:
a) 1
b) 0
c) X+1
d) X-1
8) How many polynomial functions f of degree >= 1 satisfy f (x 2) = [f(x)]2 = f(f(x)) ?

a) More than 2
b) 2
c) 0
d) 1
9) f(f(n)) + f(n) = 2n+3, f(0) = 1,Find f(2012).

a) 2011
b) 2013
c) 4095
d) 2012
10) For a real number x, int (x) denotes the integral part of x, that is int(x) is the largest
integer less than or equal to x. Thus int (1.2) = 1 and int (-2.4) = -3, The value of
int(1/2)+int(1/2+1/100)+int(1/2+2/100)….int(1/2+99/100) is
a) 50
b) 49
c) 51
d) 48
11) If f(1) = 4, f(x+y) = f(x) + f(y) + 7xy + 2 for x>0 and y>0, find f(2) + f(5).
a) 98
b) 120
c) 115
12) Find the remainder when 32^33^34 is divided by 11

A. 6
B. 8
C. 9
D. 10
13) If P(x) = ax4+bx3+cx2+dx+e has roots at x = 1, 2, 3, 4 and P(0) = 48, what is P(5)
A)46
B)45
C)48
D)52
Ratios and Proportions

1) A sum of Rs. 20706 is distributed amongst A, B, and C. A gets 10/123 of what B and C
got together and C gets 1/10 of what A and B got together, C's share is (approx)?
a) 1782.3
b) 1885.0
c) 1882.4
d) 1456.8
2) An alloy of Copper and Aluminum has 45% Copper. An alloy of Copper and Zinc has
Copper and Zinc in the ratio 3:6. These two alloys are mixed in such a way that in the
overall alloy, there is more Aluminum than Zinc, and Copper constitutes a fraction x of
this alloy. What is the minimum value of x (as a fraction)?
a) 28/73
b) 9/20
c) 31/73
d) 29/73
3) A sum of Rs.3000 is distributed amongst A, B and C. A gets 2/3 of what B and C got
together and C gets 1/3 of what A and B got together. C’s share is
a) 1200
b) 2250
c) 750
d) 1050
4) A petrol tank is already (2/3)rd filled. When 8 litre is added it is filled by (5/6)th of the tank.
Find the tank capacity
a) 30
b) 24
c) 48
d) 32
5) On a certain assembly line, the rejection rate for Hyundai i10s production was 4 percent,
for Hyundai i20s production 8 percent and for the 2 cars combined 7 percent. What was
the ratio of Hyundai i20 and i10 production?
a) 3/1
b) 2/1
c) 1/1
d) 1/3
6) Two alloys A&B are composed of two basic elements. The ratio of the composition of the
two elements in the 2 alloys are 5:3 & 1:2. A new alloy X is formed by mixing the alloys A
& B in the ratio 4:3. What is the ratio of the composition of 2 elements in alloy X?
a) 1:1
b) 2:3
c) 5:2
d) 4:3
e) 7:9
7) The savings of an employee equals income-expenditure. If the income of A, B, C are in the

ratio 1:2:3, expenses 3:2:1 then what is the order of employees A, B, C in the increasing
order of the size of their savings?
a) A>C>B
b) B>A>C
c) B>C>A
d) C>B>A
8) Two beakers are kept on a table. The capacity of the first beaker is x liters and that of the
second beaker is 2x liters. Two thirds of the first beaker and one fourth of the second
beaker is filled with wine. The remaining space in both the beakers is filled with water. If
the content in both these beakers are mixed in a large beaker of volume 3x liters, what is
the proportion of wine in the beaker?
a) 11/12
b) 11/36
c) 7/6
d) 7/18
9) Raj divided 50 into two parts such that the sum of their reciprocal is 1/12 ,we get the
parts as
a) 28,22
b) 24,36
c) 36,14
d) 20,30
10) Totally 3 beakers A,B,C are present. A of capacity X lit, B of capacity 2X lit,C of capacity
3X lit. if A contain 2/3 of wine and rest with water. B contains 1/4 of wine and rest with
water. if these two liquids are poured in to the 3rd beaker what is the proportion of wine
in the 3rd beaker.
a) 7/18
b )9/18
c)13/18
d)12/18
11) The present ratio of students to teachers at a certain school is 30 to 1. If the student
enrollment were to increase by 50 students and the number of teachers were to increase
by 5, the ratio of the teachers would then be 25 to 1 What is the present number of
teachers?
a) 10
b) 11
c) 12
d) 15
12) Kelly and Chris are moving into a new city. Both of them love books and thus packed
several boxes with books. If Chris packed 60% of the total number of boxes, what was the
ratio of the number of boxes Kelly packed to the number of boxes Chris packed?
a) 4:2
b) 3:1
c) 2:3
d) 1:3
Numbers
1) A bc=9000. (a,b)(b,c)(c,a) are pairs of co-prime numbers. Find, a + b + c =?
a) 142
b) 1009
c) 119
d) None of these
2) A fence has to be made. Posts are to be for every 6 m interval. They are at starting and
ending point. Person brings some posts and there are 7 posts lacking. If they are 9 m
interval the posts are sufficient. How many posts did the persons bring?
a) 13
b) 14
c) 15
d) 16
3) Anand packs 304 marbles into packets of 9 or 11 so that no marble is left. Anand wants to
maximize the number of bags with 9 marbles. How many bags does he need if there
should be at least one bag with 11 marbles?
a) 36
b) 8
c) 24
d) 32
4) 1, 2, 3 and 4 can form 256 different four digit numbers. If digits repeated, two of them are
1111 and 1113. Then find the sum of 256 numbers.
a) 711040
b) 711000
c) 711038
d) 711042
5) 4^85 + 2^3383 + 4^n. what is the value of n to make it a perfect square?

a) 85
b) 170
c) 3297
d) 3285
6) Find the remainder : (29)^31^109/9
a) 2
b) 9
c) 1
d) 8
7) (3)^87 + (5)^87 / 26. Find the remainder.

a) 22
b) 25
c) 1
d) 21
8) How many of the integers from 1 to 86 (inclusive) contain the digit 4 or have the digit sum
divisible by 4?
a) 40
b) 39
c) 24
d) 34
9) What is the Greatest Common Divisor (the largest number that will divide both numbers
with no remainder) of the following two numbers
X = 111111…(27810 times)
Y = 11111111…(1750 times)
a) 1111 (4 times)
b) 1111111111(10 times)
c) 11111111111(11 times)
d) 111111111111111111111(21 times)
10) For which of the following values of n, is the number 1641 + 27925 + 16n a perfect square?
a) 3922
b) 3921
c) 3924
d) 3920
11) In this question, A^B means A raised to the power B. What is the remainder when
48^565 is divided by 7?
a) 1
b) 4
c) 6
d) 5
12) A number when divided by 50 leaves a remainder 43. The same number when divided by
320 leaves a remainder n. How many values can n take?
a) 64
b) 6
c) 10
d) 32
13) What is the highest power of 91 that divides 78! ?

a) 4
b) 3
c) 6
d) 13
14) What is the value of

44444445 x 88888885 x 44444442 + 44444438
444444442
Note: All numbers in the question and s are 8 digit numbers.
a) 88888883
b) 88888884
c) 88888888
d) 44444443
15) The sum of 5 numbers in AP is 30 and the sum of their squares is 190. Which of the
following is the third term?
a) 5
b) 6
c) 8
d) 9
16) The least number which when divided by 48, 60, 72, 108 and 140 leaves 38, 50, 62, 98
and 130 as remainders respectively, is:
a) 4562
b) 15110
c) 2135
d) 7589
17) A person starts writing all the 4 digit numbers, how many times he has written the digit
2?
a) 4200
b) 4700
c) 3700
d) 3200
18) How many 2’s are there between the terms 112 to 375?
a) 313
b) 159
c) 156
d) 315
19) The sum of four consecutive two digit odd numbers , when divided by 10, becomes a
perfect square. Which of the following can possibly be one of these four numbers?
a) 67
b) 41
c) 25
d) 31
20) Consider the sequence of numbers 0,2,2,4,…where for n>2 the nth term of the sequence
is the units digit of the sum of the previous two terms. let Sn denote the sum of the
first n terms of the sequence . What is the smallest value of n for which Sn> 2771 ?
a) 692
b) 693
c) 694
d) 700
21) I bought a certain number of marbles at rate of 59 marbles for rupees 2 times M, where M
is an integer. I divided these marbles into two parts of equal numbers, one part of
which I sold at the rate of 29 marbles for Rs. M, and the other at a rate 30 marbles for
Rs. M. I spent and received an integral number of rupees but bought the least possible
number of marbles. How many did I buy?
a) 870
b) 102660
c) 1770
d) 1740
22) Cora, a blue whale , participated in a weight loss programme at the behest of his girl
friend. At the end of every month , the decrease in weight from the original weight was
measured and noted as 1,2,6,21,86,445,2676. While, Cora made a steadfast effort, the
weighing machine showed an erroneous weight once .What weight was that?
a) 445
b) 2676
c) 84
d) 2
23) How many different integers can be expressed as the sum of three distinct numbers from
the set
{3, 8, 13, 18, 23, 28, 33, 38, 43, 48}?
a) 421
b) 20
c) 10
d) 22
24) 77!*(77!-2*54!)3/(77!+54!)3 + 54!*(2*77!-54!)3/(77!+54!)3

a) 2*77!+2*54!
b) 77!-54!
c) 77!+54!
d) 2*77!-2*54!
25) 1- 2 + 3 – 4 + …. – 98 + 99 = ?
a) -49
b) 0
c) 50
d) -50
26) When ‘M’ is divided by 6 it leaves a remainder 2 and when ‘N’ is divided by 6 it leaves a
remainder 3. What will be remainder if ‘M-N’ is divided by 6 ? (M>N)
a) 1
b) 2
c) 4
d) 5
27) Which satisfies the condition P must be greater than Q?
i. 0.9^P = 0.9^Q
ii. 0.9^P= 0.92^Q
iii. 0.9^P>0.9^Q
iv. 0.9P>0.9Q
a) I
b) II
c) III
d) IV
28) There are 14 digits of credit card number to be filled. Each of the below three boxes
contains continuous digits of 18 as sum. Given: 4th digit is 7 and 7th digit is x. Then
what is the value of x?
a) 1
b) 7
c) 4
d) 2
29) What is the greatest possible positive integer n if 8^n divides (44)^44 without
Leaving a remainder?
a) 14
b) 28
c) 29
d) 15
30) Find the number of divisors of 1728.

a) 28
b) 21
c) 24
d) 18
31) Find the sum of the series given below 1(1!) + 2(2!) + 3(3!) + …..
2012(2012!).
a) 2013! + 1
b) 2013! -1
c) 2012!+1
d) 2012!-1
32) How many number x(x being integer) with 10<=x<=99 are 18 more than sum of their
digits?
a) 12
b) 9
c) 18
d) 10
33) The mean of three numbers is 10 more than the least of the numbers and 15 less than
the greatest of the three. If the median of the three numbers is 5, then the sum of the
three is :
a) 5
b) 20
c) 30
d) 25
34) When numbers are written in base b, we have 12 x 25 = 333. The value of b is
a) 8
b) 16
c) None of these
d) 7
35) For which of the following n is the number 274 + 22058 + 22n a perfect square?
a) 2020
b) 2011
c) 2012
d) 2100
36) Sum of the digits in the product of (16^100)*(125^135) is

a) 2
b) 5
c) 3
d) 8
37) A sequence x1 , x2 and x3 is said to be in a harmonic progression if the reciprocals 1/x1,

1/x2 and 1/x3 are in arithmetic progression. The 5th term and the 7th term for an
harmonic progression are 30 and 50 respectively. What is the difference between the
6th and 4th term?
a) 16
b) 14.5
c) 13.4
d) 12.5
38) What is the remainder when 6^17+17^6 is divided by 7 ?

a) 1
b) 6
c) 0
d) 3
39) The first 44 integers are written in order to form the large number N =
123456............424344. what is the remainder when N is divided by 45?
a) 4
b) 9
c) 14
d) 18
40) The sum of 3 consecutive numbers of the four numbers A, B, C, D are

4613,4961,5010,5099 then what is the largest number among A,B,C,D ?
a) 1948
b) 1463
c) 1601
d) 1550
41) In subtraction problem below, some single digits (not necessarily distinct) are replaced by
letters. Find the value of 7*A+5*B+6*C*D
A5C5
-1 B 8 7
_______
67 4 D
a) 235
b) 242
c) 259
d) 230
42) There are 5 distinct integers a, b, c, d, e in ascending order.

(68-a)(68-b)(68-c)(68-d)(68-e) = 725.
What is a + b + c + d?
a) 34
b) 136
c) 306
d) 238
43) If (3a+6b)/(5a+12b)=12/23 determine the value of 3a2+5b2/ab

a) 19/2
b) 32/3
c) 9
d) 31/3
44) 2481 =(±1±2±3±……………±n).Find the minimum value of n.
a) 65
b) 69
c) 70
d) 71
45) In an arithmetic progression there are 6 terms and their sum is 3. The first term is 4
times the third term. The fifth term in the progression is
a) -3
b) 9
c) -4
d) -9
46) What is the remainder when 2(8!) – 21(6!) divides 14(7!) + 14(13!) ?
a) 9!
b) 1
c) 8!
d) 7!
There is a subset A consisting of ten collinear points.
Any subset of three or more collinear points from the 32 are a subset of A.
vertices is different.)
a) 1540
b) 3850
c) 4960
d) 4840
48) When (m+n) is divided by 12, remainder is 8. When (m-n) is divided by 12, remainder is 6.
What is the remainder when (m*n) is divided by 6?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 0
d) 3
49) Find the remainder when 34^31^301 is divided by 9.

a) 2
b) 7
c) 0
d) 4
50) Out of a group of students, 49/5 times the square root of the total numbers are playing
cricket. Remaining 2 are idle. Find the total number of students.
a) 100
b) 81
c) 144
d) 121
51) How many palindromes are there between 4000 and 83,000?
a) 800
b) 790
c) 890
d) 780
52) If f(x)= ax + b, f(f(f(x)))= 8x + 21

Find the value of a + b=?
a) 2
b) 6
c) 5
d) 7
53) In this sequence 1, 22, 333, 4444, 11, 2222, 333333, 44444444, 111, 222222, ...........
what is 2170th term???
a) 2 (1086 times)
b) 3 (1084 times)
c) 2 (542 times)
d) 2 (543 times)
54) Find the greatest number that will divide 148, 246 and 623 leaving remainders 4, 6 and
11 respectively.
a) 20
b) 12
c) 6
d) 48
55) Find the sum of prime numbers from 1 to 100 which when divided by 4 and 5 leaves the
remainders 1 and 4 respectively.
a) 220
b) 118
c) 260
d) 225
56) Find the last digit of 21999 x 22013

a) 2
b) 4
c) 6
d) 8
57) For any two numbers, we define an operation $ yielding another number X $ Y such that
following condition holds:  X $ X = 0. Also for all X,   X $ (Y $ Z) = X $ Y + Z  Find the
Value of 2012 $ 0 + 2012 $ 1912    
a) 2112
b) 100
c) 5936
58) If A=x3 y2 and B=xy3, then find the HCF of A and B.

a) X⁴Y⁵
b) XY²
c) XY
d) X³
59) There are 60 pebbles and 2 persons A and B. A takes the 1 pebble, B takes the 2 pebble,
again A takes 3 pebble and B takes 4 pebbles and it goes on alternatively. Who takes
the maximum number of pebbles?
a) A
b) B
c) Equal pebbles
60) In this question A^ B means A raised to the power B. If f(x) = ax^4-bx^2+x+5

F(-3) = 2
Then f(3) = ?
a) 3
b) -2
c) 8
d) 1
61) In the sequence

1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,…. what is
the 2926th term?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
62) A number when successively divide by 5, 3, 2 gives a remainder of 0, 2 and 1 respectively

in that order. What will be the remainder when the same number is divided
successively by 2, 3 and 5 in that order?
a) 4,3,2
b) 1,0,4
c) 2,1,3
d) 4,1,2
63) How many prime numbers are there which are less than 100 and greater than 3 such
that they are of the following:
i) 4x + 1 ii) 5y – 1
a) 11
b) 12
c) 7
d) None of these
64) On a 26 question test, 5 points were deducted for each wrong answers and 8 points were
added for right answers. If all the questions were answered, How many were correct if
the score was zero.
a) 10
b) 11
c) 12
d) 13
65) A boy buys 18 sharpeners (brown or white) for Rs.100. For every white sharpener, he
pays one rupee more than the brown sharpener. What is the cost of white sharpener
and how much did he buy?
a) 5,13
b) 5,10
c) 6,10
d) None of these
66) If M is 30% of Q, Q is 20% of P, and N is 50% of P, then M/N is

a) 4/3
b) 3/25
c) 6/5
d) 3/250
67) What is the reminder of (16937^30)/31

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 6
68) 8+88+888+…..+8888……..8888. There are 21 “8” digits in the last term of the series. Find
the last three digits of the sum.
a) 458
b) 648
c) 658
d) 568
69) If x^y denotes x raised to the power y, find last two digits of (1941^3843) + (1961^4181)
a) 2
b) 82
c) 42
d) 22
70) Assume that f(1) = 0 and f(m+n)=f(m) + f(n)+ 4(9mn-1)

For all natural numbers (integers >0) m& n.
What is the value of f(17)?
a) 5436
b) 4831
c) 5508
d) 4832
71) The numbers 272738 and 232342, when divided by n, a 2 digit number, leave a
remainder of 13 and 17 respectively. Find the sum of the digits of n?
a) 7
b) 8
c) 5
d) 4
72) 60, 48, 38, 28, 24, 20, 18

What is the wrong number in the sequence?
a) 28
b) 38
c) 60
d) 18
73) What is the remainder of (32^31^301) when it is divided by 9?

a) 3
b) 5
c) 2
d) 1
74) Which of the following numbers must be added to 5678 to give remainder of 35 when
divided by 460?
a) 980
b) 797
c) 955
d) 618
75) A number divided by 357 leaves 5 as remainder. If the number is divided by 17, what is
the remainder?
a) 9
b) 3
c) 5
d) 7
76) A girl entered a store and bought x flowers for y dollars (x and y are integers). When She
was about to leave, the clerk said, If you buy 10 more flowers I will give you all For $2,
and you will save 80 cents a dozen. The values of x and y are:
a) (15,1)
b) (10,1)
c) (5,1)
d) Cannot be determined from the given information
77) In the given figure, if the sum of the values along each side is equal, find the possible
values of a, b, c, d, e and f.
a) 9,7,20,16,6,38
b) 4,9,10,13,16,38
c) 4,7,20,13,6,38
d) 4,7,20,16,6,33
78) 70, 54, 45, 41, ?

a) 35
b) 36
c) 38
d) 40
79) How many positive integers less than 500 can be formed using the numbers 1,2,3, and 5
for digits, each digit being used only once?
a) 52
b) 68
c) 66
d) 34
80) In the sample subtraction problem below, single digits are replaced by letters. Find the
values of 3*A + 7*B + 4*C*D = ?
A5C1
3B79
_________
3 9 7 D
a) 80
b) 95
c) 89
d) 96
81) In the sample subtraction problem below, single digits are replaced by letters. Find the
values of 3*A + 7*B + 4*C*D = ?
A5C1
3B79
_________
3 9 7 D
a) 5/9
b) 4/9
c) 2/9
d) 1/9
82) An absentminded professor has a very peculiar problem, in that he cannot remember
numbers larger than 15. However, he tells his wife, I can remember any number up to
100 by remembering the three numbers obtained as remainders when the number is
divided by 3, 5 and 7 respectively. For example, (2,2,3) is 17. Professor remembers that
he had (1,1,6) rupees in the purse, and he paid (2,0,6) rupees to the servant. How
much money is left in the purse?
a) 59
b) 61
c) 49
d) 56
83) 0>a>b>c>d. Which is largest?
a) (b+d)/(a+c)
b) (a+d)/(b+c)
c) (b+c)/(a+d)
d) (c+d)/(a+d)
84) How many 5’s will be there in the number 121122123… till 356?
a) 51
b) 54
c) 50
d) 49
85) The rupee/coin changing machine at a bank has a flaw. It gives 10 ten rupee notes if you
put a 100 rupee note and 10 one rupee coins if you insert a 10 rupee note but gives 10
hundred rupee notes when you put a one rupee coin.
Sivaji, after being ruined by his rivals in business is left with a one rupee coin and
discovers the flaw in the machine by accident. By using the machine repeatedly, which of
the following amounts is a valid amount that Sivaji can have when he gets tired and stops
at some stage (assume that the machine has an infinite supply of notes and coins)
a) 26975
b) 53947
c) 18980
d) 33966
86) 26ab5 is a five digit number divisible by 25. If the number formed from the two digits ab
is a multiple of 13, then ab =?
a) 52
b) 65
c) 10
d) 25
87) Find the odd man out:

7, 17, 19, 43, 91, 131
a) 17
b) 43
c) 91
d) 131
88) Find the number of zeroes in 11*22*33*……4848*4949?
a) 250
b) 225
c) 545
d) 135
89) In this question, A ^B means A raised to the power B. If x*y^2*z< 0, then which one of the
following statements must also be true?
I . XZ< 0
II . Z< 0
III. XYZ < 0
a) I and II
b) III only
c) None of above
d) I only
90) The addition 641+852+973 = 2456 is incorrect. What is the largest digit that can be
changed to make the addition correct
a) 5
b) 6
c) 4
d) 7
91) a, b, c are non negative integers such that 28a + 30b + 31c = 365. Then a + b + c is:
a) Greater than 13
b) Less than or equal to 11
c) 13
d) 12
92) A drinks machine offers three solutions Tea, Coffee or one of the two at random but the
machine has been wired up wrongly so that each button does not give what it claims. If
each drink costs Rs.50, what is the minimum amount of money that must be spent to
determine with certainty the correct labeling of the buttons?  
a) Rs.100
b) Rs.50
c) Rs.150
93) P, Q, R, S are distinct integers that can take values from 1 to 12. What is the possible
smallest value for (P/Q) + (R/S)?
a) 1/12 + 2/11
b) 1/11 + 9/10
c) 1/11 + 2/12
d) 1/10 + 1/11
94) If ab64ab is divisible by 12, then the least possible value of a + b is?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7
95) Find the odd man out: 2, 8, 20, 44, 83

a) 8
b) 20
c) 44
d) 83
96) If 5+3+2 = 151022, 9+2+4=183652, 8+6+3 = 482466 and 5+4+5 = 202541, then 7+2+5
a) 143547
b) 132234
c) 2577224
d) 112321
97) If all the numbers between 11 and 100 are written on a piece of paper, how many times
will the number ‘4’ be used?
a) 20
b) 19
c) 9
d) None of these
98) What is the value of A such that X^2 – 11*X + A and X^2 – 14*X + 2A will have a common
factor?
a) -1/2
b) 24
c) -2
d) 20
99) What will be the next term in the series 1, 7, 8, 49, 50, 56, 57, 343 …..?
a) 344
b) 350
c) 2401
100) A man sold 12 candies in 10 $ had loss of b % then again sold 12 candies at 12 $ had
profit of b % find the value of b.
a) 9
b) 9.09
c) 10
d) 11
101) How many positive multiples of 10 that are less than 1000 are the sum of 4 consecutive
integers.
a) 51
b) 50
c) 49
d) None
102) The sum of two numbers is 2016 and their product is 32.The sum of their reciprocals is
a) 63
b) 9
c) 32+√2014
d) 32-√2014
103) Sum of the two numbers is 45.The sum of their quotient and its reciprocal is 2.05.The
product of numbers is
a) 450
b) 205
c) 400
d) 500
104) Find the number of divisors of 1728

(including 1 and 1728)
a) 28
b) 20
c) 30
d) 18
105) A number when divided by 406 leaves a remainder 115. What remainder would be
obtained by dividing the same number by 29 ?
a) 27
b) 7
c) 28
d) 19
106) If (P/Q) – (Q/P) =21/10 ;

(4P/Q) + (4Q/P) =?
a) 58/10
b) 113/10
c) 58/5
d) 121/110
107) If A^B means A raised to the power of B, in which of the following choices must P be
greater than Q?
a) 0.9p = 0.9q
b) 0.9p = 0.92q
c) 0.9p> 0.9q
d) 9p < pq
108) A mother, her little daughter and her just born infant boy together stood on a weighing
machine which showed 74 Kg. How much does the daughter weigh if the mother
weighs 46 Kg more than the combined weight of the daughter and the infant. And the
infant weighs 60 percent less than the daughters
a) 10
b) 11
c) Cannot be determined from the given information
d) 12
109) Sixteen football teams play in a tournament. They are first divided into four groups,
each of four teams. In each group each team plays each once. The best two teams from
each group then play in a knockout tournament (when a team loses a game, it is
eliminated) to decide the overall winner. How many matches must be played?
a) 25
b) 31
c) 16
d) 15
110) For which of the following n is the number 274 + 22058 + 22n a perfect square?
a) 2010
b) 2011
c) 2012
d) 2100
111) Two full tanks one shaped like the cylinder and the other like a cone contain liquid fuel
the cylindrical tank held 500 lts more then the conolical tank After 200 lts of fuel is
pumped out from each tank the cylindrical tank now contains twice the amount of fuel
in the canonical tank How many lts of fuel did the cylindrical tank have when it was
full?
A. 1200
B. 2000
C. 1700
D. 1500
112) How many two digit numbers are there which when substracted from the number
formed by reversing it's digits as well as when added to the number formed by
reversing its digits, result in a perfect square.
A. 56
B. 54
C. 52
D. 55
113) Kate wanted to buy 2kgs of apples. The vendor kept the 2kg weight on the right side and
weighed 4 apples for that. She doubted on the correctness of the balance and placed 2
kg weight on the left side and she could weight 14 apples for 2 kgs. If the balance was
correct how many apples she would have got?
A. 6
B. 8
C. 9
D. 10
114) There are several bags of same weight. A bag is 6 kgs plus three fourth of the weight of
another bag. What is the weight of a bag?
A. 15
B. 24
C. 43
D. 35
115) Find the remainder when 6^50 is divided by 215
A. 36
B. 24
C. 44
D. 15
116) Find last two digits of the following expression (201*202*203*204*246*247*248*249)^2
A. 76
B. 74
C. 64
D. 75
117) A number when successively divided by 5,3,2 gives remainder 0,2 and 1 respectively in
that order. What will be the remainder when the same number is divided successively
by 2,3, and 5 in that order?
118) The sum of the digits of a 3 digit number is 17, the sum of the squares of its digits is
109. If we subtract 495 form that no , we shall get a no consisting of the same digits
written in the reverse order .find the no?
119) The prime factorization of integer N is A*A*B*C where A, B and C are all distinct prime
integers. How many factors does N have?
120) A home has a relatively large rectangular tank and smaller cube-shaped tanks that can
store water. The choices between above two types are made based on the needs of the
day. Whenever, rectangular tank is to be cleaned, the water can be transferred into
cube shaped tanks. On a certain day, the rectangular tank of dimensions 10" by 8" by
4" is filled with water. If all of the water is to be transferred to cube-shaped tanks, each
one 3 inches on a side, how many of this cube shaped tanks are needed?
A)12
B)15
C)13
D)11
121) Four friends - Arjan, Bhuvan, Guran and Lakha were comparing the number of sheep
that they owned. It was found that Guran had ten more sheep than Lakha. If Arjan
gave one-third to Bhuvan, and Bhuvan gave a quarter of what he then held to Guran,
who then passed on a fifth of his holding to Lakha, they would all have an equal
number of sheep. How many sheep did each of them possess? Give the minimal
possible answer.
(A) 80,50,55,45 ( B) 90,50,55,45 (C) 90,40,55,45 (D) 90,50,50,45
122) There are 60 slots around a circle, numbered from 1 to 60. A man starts from the 1st
slot thn 5th slot and jumps into the 9th slot and so on. In which slot will he land in his
2200th jump?
a) 45
b) 41
c) 1
d) 5
123) Three non integers numbers X, Y, Z are such that the mean is M and the median is 5. If
M is 10 more than the smallest number and 15 less than biggest number, Find the
values of X+Y+Z.
a) 15
b) 5
c) 20
d) 30
124) A clock loses 1% time during the first week and then gains 2% time during the next one
week. If the clock was set right at 12 noon on a Sunday, what will be the time shown
by the clock exactly 14 days from the time it was set right?
A) 1.60
B) 1.70
C) 1.68
D) NONE OF THESE
125) Tom, Dick and Harry went for lunch to a multi-cuisine restaurant. Tom had $100 with
him, Dick had $60 and Harry had $409. Tom preferred continental, While Harry
chosen Chinese. Dick opted to mughlai cuisine. Continental and Chinese types of
items tasted good than that of mughlai. Despite, variations in ordering, they called for
a single bill. They got a bill for $104 and decided to give a tip of $16. They further
decided to share the total expenses in the ratio of the amounts of money each carried.
The amount of money which Tom paid more than what Harry paid is
A)66.23
B)66.16
C)63.59
D)78.23
126) Sum of two number is 50 & sum of three reciprocal is 1/12 so find these two numbers
A) 30,20
B) 25,30
C) 35,20
D) 40,20
127) 30^72^87 divided by 11 gives remainder

A) 5
B) 6
C) 7
D) 8
128) 1234567891011121314151617181920......424344 what is remainder when divided by

45?
A) 8
B) 7
C) 6
D) 9
129) n is a natural number and n^3 has 16 factors. Then how many factors can n^4 have?
A) 24
B) 26
C) 25
D) 22
130) W, X, Y, Z are integers. The expression X - Y - Z is even and the expression Y - Z - W is

odd. If X is even what must be true?
a) W must be odd
b) Y - Z must be odd
c) Z must be even
d) Z must be odd
131) The remainder when 1!+2!+3!...+50! divided by 5! will be
a) 30
b) 33
c) 32
d) 31
132) How many prime numbers between 1 and 100 are factors of 7150?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
133) Of the following, which is the closest approximation of (50.2*0.49)/199.8 ?
a) 0.125
b) .0120
c) .0130
d) .0140
134) What is the lowest possible integer that is divisible by each of the integers 1 through 7,
inclusive?
a) 320
b) 520
c) 480
d) 420
135) After loading a dock, each worker on the night crew loaded 3/4 as many boxes as each
worker on the day of the crew. If the night crew has 4/5 as many workers as the day
crew, what fraction of all the boxes loaded by two crews did the day crew load?
a) 2/8
b) 3/8
c) 4/8
d) 5/8
136) If N=4P, where P is a prime number greater than 2, how many different positive even
divisors does n have including n?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
137) The difference between two no is 9 and the product of the two is 14. What is the square
of their sum?
a)144
b) 133
c) 136
d) 137
138) 2ab5 is a four digit number divisible by 25. If a number formed from the two digits ab is
a multiple of 13, then ab is
a) 52
b) 45
c) 10
d) 25
139) How many 4-digit numbers contain no.2?
a) 3268
b) 3368
c) 3168
d) 3200
140) 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 1, 2,
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4......
In the above sequence what is the number of the position 2888 of the sequence
a) 1
b) 4
c) 3
d) 2
141) If all the numbers between 11 and 100 are written on a piece of paper. How many times
will the number 4 be used?
a) 18
b) 19
c) 20
d) 21
142) A number has exactly 3 prime factors, 125 factors of this number are perfect squares
and 27 factors of this number are perfect cubes. overall how many factors does the
number have?
Options
a) 639
b) 525
c) 729
143) Let exp(m,n) = m to the power n. If exp(10, m) = n exp(2, 2) where to and n are integers
then n =
Options :
a) 0
b) 1
c) Infinite values
d) 2
143) If 3y + x > 2 and x + 2y≤ 3, What can be said about the value of y?
A.) y = -1
B) y >-1
C.) y <-1
D) y = 1
144) If m is an odd integer and n an even integer, which of the following is definitely odd?
A. (2m+n)(m-n)
B. (m+n 2 )+(m−n 2 )
C. m 2 +mn+n 2
D. m +n
145) N is an integer and N>2, at most how many integers among N + 2, N + 3, N + 4, N + 5, N +

6, and N + 7 are prime integers?
A. 1
B. 3
C. 2
D. 4
146) What is the sum of all even integers between 99 and 301?
A. 40000
B. 20000
C. 40400
D. 20200
147) If n is the sum of two consecutive odd integers and less than 100, what is greatest
possibility of n?
A. 98
B. 94
C. 96
D. 99
148) x 2 < 1/100, and x < 0 what is the highest range in which x can lie?
A. -1/10 < x < 0
B. -1 < x < 0
C. -1/10 < x < 1/10
D. -1/10 < x
149) In base 7, a number is written only using the digits 0, 1, 2, .....6. The number 135 in base
7 is 1 x 7 2 + 3 x 7 + 5 = 75 in base 10. What is the sum of the base 7 numbers 1234 and
6543 in base 7.
A.) 11101
B.) 11110
C.)10111
D.) 11011
150) . How many odd and even numbers are there between 42 and 400?? Find the sum of odd
numbers and the sum of even numbers!
A) 39879
B) 35678
C)39338
D)36578
151) Total number of 4 digit number do not having the digit 3 or 6.

A) 3589
B )3867
C) 3584
D) 3245
HCF and LCM

1) HCF of 2472,1284 and a 3rd number ‘N’ is 12. If LCM of these three numbers is
2^3*3^2*5^1*103*107, then ‘N’?
a) 2^6*11^1*17^1
b) 2^6*11^1*71^1
c) 2^6*11^1*103^1
d) None
:
Pipes and cistern

1) There is a tank, and two pipes A and B. A can fill tank in 25 min and B can empty the
tank in 20 min. If both the pipes are opened at same time. How much time required for
the tank to be filled?
a) 15 min
b) 18 min
c) 13 min
d) Never be filled
2) Find a number such that when it is added to 7249 will be perfectly divisible by 12, 14, 21,
33 and 54.
a) 8136
b) 9123
c) 8727
d) 9383
Probability
1) 5 black balls and 3 red balls are there in a basket. What is the probability that red ball is
taken in the 4th pick without replacement.
a) 0.464
b) 0.375
c) 0.315
d) None of these
2) Two decks of cards are there. Each deck contains 20 cards, with numbers from 1 to 20
written on them. A card is drawn of random from each deck, getting the numbers x and y
What is the probability that log x + log y is a positive integer. Logs are taken to the base
10.
a) 3/200
b) 29/200
c) 7/400
d) 1/50
3) A bag contains 110 tickets numbered 1, 2, 3, …., 110. If a ticket is drawn out of it at
random, what is the probability that the ticket drawn has the digit 2 appearing on it?
a) 22/110
b) 20/110
c) 21/110
d) 31/110
4) A box has 13 white chips, 7 blue chips and 6 green chips. What is the probability that, if
2 chips are drawn from the box in succession, one is blue and other is white?
a) 8/30
b) 7/25
c) 7/50
d) 20/16
5) One card is lost from a pack of 52 cards.

Two cards are drawn randomly. They are spade. What is the probability that the lost card
is also spade?
a) 1/52
b) 1/13
c) 1/4
d) 3/13
6) Tickets are numbered from 1,2....1100 and one card is drawn randomly what is the
probability of having 2 as a digit?
a) 29/11
b) 32/11
c) 30/110
d) 22/110
7) There is a school were 60% are girls and of which 45% are poor. Students are selected at
random, what is the probability of selecting a poor girl out of total strength.
a) 0.27
b) 0.45
c) 0.56
d) None of these
8) A bag contains six sticks of the following lengths 1 cm, 3 cm, 5 cm, 7 cm, 11 cm and 13
cm. Three sticks are drawn at random from the bag. What is the probability that we can
form a triangle with those sticks?
a) 11/20
b) 1
c) ¼
d) 2/5
9) Probability that leap year chosen at random will have 53 Sundays.

a) 1/49
b) 3/7
c) 1/7
d) 2/7
10) From a box containing 3 white chips, 7 blue chips and 15 green chips, 2 chips are drawn
at random. What is the probability that one is of the chips is blue and the other is white?
a) 7/625
b) 7/50
c) 7/100
d) 21/625
11) Two people, Ranbir and Katrina decide to meet at a beach between 1 pm to 2 pm, given
that both will surely turn up once in the given time frame. If Ranbir arrives, he waits for
15 minutes and then leaves feeling betrayed and similarly Katrina waits for 15 minutes
after she arrives. So what’s the probability that they meet?
a) 1/4
b) 1/16
c) 7/16
d) 9/16
12) A pair of 8 sided dice has sides numbered 1 to 8.Each side has same probability or
chance of landing face up.The probability that the product of 2 numbers on the sides that
land face up exceeds 36 is
a) 11/64
b) 5/32
c) 3/16
d) 1/4
13) Given the digits 1,3,6,9 find the probability that a 3 digit number formed by using them
with no digit repeated is divisible by 4
a) None
b) 1/4
c) 1/6
d) 1/12
14) Three cars, A, B and C are participating in a race. A is twice as likely as B to win and B is
thrice as likely as C to win. What is the probability that B will win, if only one of them can
win the race?
a) 1/2
b) 2/5
c) 3/10
d) 1/10
15) Two dice are thrown. Find the probability of getting a multiple of 3 or 5 as the sum.
a) 19/36
b) 1/2
c) 17/36
d) 5/36
16) 100 students appeared for two different examinations. 60 passed the first , 50 the second
and 30 both examinations. Find the probability that a student selected at random failed
in both examinations?
a) ¼
b) 4/5
c) 1/5
d) 0.4
17) From a bag containing 8 green and 5 red balls, three are drawn one after the other. The
probability of all three balls being green if the balls drawn are replaced before the next ball
is picked and the balls drawn are not replaced, are respectively:
a) 512/2197, 336/2197
b) 512/2197, 336/1716
c) 336/2197, 512/2197
d) 336/1716,512/1716
18) In how many ways a cricketer can score a double century (200 runs) with only boundaries
(fours) and over boundaries (sixes)?
a) 15
b) 16
c) 17
d) 18
19) A bag contains 8 white and 3 blue balls. Another bag contains 7 white and 4 blue balls.
What is the probability of getting a blue ball?
a) 3/7
b) 7/22
c) 7/25
d) 7/15
20) There are 2 bags. One bag contains 5 white and 10 red balls. The other contains 10 white
and 7 red balls. What is the probability of taking a red ball from one of the bags?
a) 55/102
b) 17/21
c) 15/17
d) 7/8
21) In a 3x3 square grid comprising 9 tiles, each tile can be painted in red or blue color. When
the tile is rotated by 1800, there is no difference which can be spotted. How many such
possibilities are there?
a) 16
b) 32
c) 64
d) 256
22) On a toss of two dice, A throws a total of 5. Find the probability that he throws another 5
before he throws 7.
a) 40%
b) 45%
c) 50%
d) 60%
23) Three dice are rolled. What is the probability of getting sum of the numbers as 10?
a) 27/216
b) 25/216
c) 10/216
d) 1/11
24) In a horse racing competition there were 18 horses numbered 1 to 18. The organizers
assigned a probability of winning the race to each horse, based on the horses’ health. The
probability that horse 1 would win is (1/7), that 2 win is 1/8 and that 3 would win is 1/7.
Assuming that tie is not possible, find chance that one of 3 will win the race.
a) 22/392
b) 1/392
c) 23/56
d) 391/392
25) Three dice are rolled. What is the probability of getting the sum as 13?
a) 19/216
b) 21/216
c) 17/216
d) 23/216
26) 4 men throw a die each simultaneously. Find the probability that at least 2 people get the
same number.
a) 5/18
b) 13/18
c) 1/36
d) ½
27) 2/3rd of the balls in a bag are blue, the rest are pink. If 5/9th of the blue balls and 7/8th
of the pink balls are defective, find the total number of balls in the bag given that the
number of non defective balls is 146.
a) 216
b) 649
c) 432
d) 578
28) In an examination, each student has to select 3 subjects out of 6 subjects Mathematics,
Bengali, English, Science, History, and Sanskrit. This is done by drawing three slips from
a hat with six slips, each listing a different subject. If he has chosen Mathematics already,
what is the probability of Bengali being chosen?
a) 1/5
b) 2/3
c) 2/5
d) 1/3
29) Two ISB alumni decide to meet at cafe linger On between 9.30 am and 10.30 am. They
agree that the persn who arrives first at the café would wait for exactly 15 minutes for
the other. If each of them arrives at a random time between 279.30 am and 10.30 am.
What is the probability that the meeting takes place?
29) Among a group of 2500 people, 35 percent invest in municipal bonds, 18 percent invest in
oil stocks, and 7 percent invest in both municipal bonds and oil stocks. If 1 person is to
be randomly selected from 2500 people, what is the probability that the person selected
will be one who invests in municipal bonds but not in oil stocks
A)7/25
B)4/25
C)8/25
D)9/25
30) An article manufactured by a company consists of two parts X and Y. In the process of
manufacturing of part X, 9 out 100 parts many be defective. Similarly , 5 out of 100 are
likely to be defective in the manufacturer of Y. Calculate the probability that the
assembled product will not be defective?
a) 0.6485
b) 0.6565
c) 0.8645
d) none of these
31) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters
randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1
letter is inserted in an improper envelope?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3
32) 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 and tortoise meet when 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?
a)1/9
b)4/9
c)5/9
d)2/3
33) In a single throw with two dice, find the probability that their sum is a multiple either of 3 or
a. 1/3
b. ½
c. 5/9
d. 17/36
34) There are 6 red balls, 8 blue balls and 7 green balls in a bag. If 5 are drawn with
replacement, what is the probability at least three are red?
a) 243/343
b) 256/512
c) 312/16807
d)4556/50698
35) In a class there are 60% of girls of which 25% poor. What is the probability that a poor girl
is selected is leader?
Options :
a) 15%
b) 30%
c) 42%
d) 25%
36) Raj tossed 3 dices and there results are noted down then what is the probability that raj
gets 10?
Options :
a) 34216
b) 27216
c) 56439
d) 14567
37) A drawer holds 4 red hats and 4 blue hats. What is the probability of getting exactly
three red hats or exactly three blue hats when taking out 4 hats randomly out of the drawer
and immediately returning every hat to the drawer before taking out the next?
A. 1/2
B. 1/8
C. 1/4
D. 3/8
38) A father purchases dress for his three daughter. The dresses are of same color but of
different size .the dress is kept in dark room. What is the probability that all the three will not
choose their own dress.
A. 2/3
B. 1/3
C. 1/6
D. 1/9
39) There are two boxes,one containing 39 red balls & the other containing 26 green balls.you
are allowed to move the balls b/w the boxes so that when you choose a box random & a ball at
random from the chosen box,the probability of getting a red ball is maximized.this maximum
probability is
A) 0.7
B) 0.9
C) 0.8
D) 1.0
40) A man is known to speak truth 3 out of 4 times. He throws die and reports that it is a 6. The
probability that it is actually a 6 is
A) 34
B) 22
C) 28
D) 42
41). A man who goes to work long before sunrise every morning gets dressed in the dark. In
his sock drawer he has 6 black and 8 blue socks. What is the probability that his first pick
was a black sock, but his second pick was a blue sock?
A) 2645
B) 2316
C) 1235
D) 2491
Percentage
1) 60% of the companies are men. Remaining are women. If 25% of the men are given a
salary of more than 3 lakh and if 25% of the company employees are given a salary of
more than 3 lakh then what fraction of women are getting 3 lakh are lesser?
a) 1/10
b) 3/10
c) 1/5
d) 2/3
2) The value of a scooter depreciates in such a way that its value at the end of each year is
¾ of its value at the beginning of the same year. If the initial value of the scooter is Rs.
39936. What is its value in Rs. at the end of 4 years?
a) 9984
b) 16848
c) 7488
d) 12636
3) A store is selling a jacket on sale at 30% off the marked price. A matching pair of pants is
on sale at 50% off the marked price. If the marked price of the pants is Rs.11600 less
than the marked price of the jacket and the total sale price of both items is Rs.14600,
then what is the marked price of the jacket?
a) 17000
b) 16700
c) 16900
d) 17100
4) A team won 80% of the games it played. It played 5 more games of which it won 3 and
lost 2. Its loss percentage changed to 25%. How many games did it play overall?
a) 20
b) 14
c) 16
d) 25
5) The value of a scooter depreciates in such a way that its value at the end of each year is
¾ of its value at the beginning of the same year. If the initial value of the scooter is Rs.
40,000. What is its value at the end of 3 years?
a) Rs 23125
b) Rs 19000
c) Rs 13435
d) Rs 16875
6) There are 5 boxes in a cargo hold. The weight of the first box is 200 kg and the weight of
the second box is 20% higher than the weight of the third box, whose weight is 25%
higher than the first box’s weight. The fourth box at 350 kg is 30% lighter than the fifth
box. Find the difference in the average weight of the four heaviest boxes and four lightest
boxes.
a) 80
b) 75
c) 37.5
d) 116.8
7) A survey of n people in the town of Badaville found that 50 % of them prefer Brand A.
Another survey of 100 people in the town of Chottaville found that 60% prefer Brand A.
In total, 55% of all the people surveyed together prefer Brand A. What is the total number
of people surveyed?
a) 200
b) 150
c) 50
d) 100
8) Total income of 2003, 2004, 2005 is Rs. 36400. Every year the salary increases by 20%.
What is the salary in 2003?
a) 10,000
b) 12, 000
c) 8800
d) 5000
9) In a certain city, 60 percent of the registered voters are Congress supporters and the rest
are BJP supporters. In an assembly election, if 75 percent of the registered Congress
supporters and 20 percent of the registered BJP supporters are expected to vote for
Candidate A, what percent of the registered voters are expected to vote for Candidate A ?
a) 53
b) 20
c) 60
d) 75
10) In a country, 60% of the male citizen and 70% of the female citizen are eligible to vote.
70% of male citizens eligible to vote voted, and 60% of female citizens eligible to vote
voted. What fraction of the citizens voted during the election?
a) 0.54
b) 0.42
c) 0.49
d) 0.48
11) A jar full of whisky contains 40% alcohol. A part of this whisky is replaced by another
containing 19% alcohol and now the percentage of alcohol was found to be 26%. The
quantity of whisky replaced is:
A. 1/3
B. 2/3
C. 2/5
D. 3/5
12) Amy spends 70% of her income on household expenditure, 60% of the remaining on the
education of her children and then 40% of the remaining is given to her old mother.
Finally, she has US $576 in her hand. Her salary is __________.
a. US $6000 b. US $8000 c. US $9000 d. US $10000
13) Dinalal divides his property among his four sons after donating Rs.20,000 and 10% of
his remaining property. The amounts received by the last three sons are in arithmetic
progression and the amount received by the fourth son is equal to the total amount
donated. The first son receives as his share RS.20,000 more than the share of the
second son. The last son received RS.1 lakh less than the eldest son. 10. Find the share
of the third son.
a) Rs.80,000
b) Rs.1,00,000
c) Rs.1,20,000
d) Rs.1,50,000
14) If 75 % of a class answered the first question on a certain test correctly, 55 percent
answered the second question on the test correctly, and 20 percent answered neither of
the questions correctly, what percentage answered both correctly?
a) 25%
b) 50%
c) 75%
d) 55%
15) Jose is a student of horticulture in the University of Hose. In a horticultural experiment

in his final year, 200 seeds were planted in plot I and 300 were planted in plot II. If 57%
of the seeds in plot I germinated and 42% of the seeds in plot II germinated, what percent
of the total number of planted seeds germinated?
a) 46 %
b) 48 %
c) 50%
d) 52%
16) Andalusia has been promoting the importance of health maintenance. From January
1,1991 to January 1,1993, the number of people enrolled in health maintenance
organizations increased by 15 percent. The enrollment on January 1,1993 was 45
million. How many million people(to the nearest million) was enrolled in health
maintenance organizations on January 1,1991?
a) 38.13
b) 39.13
c) 40.13
d) 41.13
17) A bakery opened yesterday with its daily supply of 40 dozen rolls. Half of the rolls were
sold by noon and 80 % of the remaining rolls were sold between noon and closing time.
How many dozen rolls had not been sold when the bakery closed yesterday?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
18) Country Club has an indoor swimming club. Thirty percent of the members of a swim
club have passed the lifesaving test. Among the members who have not passed the test,
12 have taken the preparatory course and 30 have not taken the course. How many
members are there in the swim club?
a) 50
b) 55
c) 60
d) 65
19) Rajesh calculated his average over the last 24 tests and found it to be 76. He finds out
that the marks for three tests have been inverted by mistake. The correct marks for these
tests are 87, 79 and 98. What is the approximate percentage difference between his
actual average and his incorrect average?
a) 5% increase
b) 5% decrease
c) No change
d) None of these
20) 60% of male in a town and 70% of female in a town are eligible to vote. out of which 70% of
male and 60% of female who are eligible to vote voted for candidate A. what is the value of votes
in % did A get?
a) 0.3
b) cannot be found
c) 0.4
d) 0.5
21) The value of diamond varies directly as the square of its weight. If a diamond falls and
breaks into two pieces with weights in the ratio 2:3. what is the loss percentage in the value?
A) 45%
B) 48%
C) 49%
D) 50%
Profit and Loss

1) The shopkeeper charged 12 rupees for a bunch of chocolate. but bargained to
shopkeeper and got two extra ones, and that made them cost one rupee for dozen less
than first asking price . How many chocolates I received in 12 rupees?
a) 10
b) 16
c) 14
d) 18
2) Platinum is sold in bars of weights ranging from 17 grams to 1760 grams in 7 gram
increments. Each bar is sealed in an opaque box weighing 47 grams. The box used for
packaging has no marks on it indicating the weight of the bar inside.
The precious metals merchant selling the boxes has put the packed bars into shelves
based on weight. However , to be certain , he weighs the packed box in an equal arms two
pan balance, and a set of weights( which is common for all the bars and which he
considers as “standard” weights.). Each of these weighs an integral number of grams, and
have their weight marked on them. The merchant, a superstitious man, always places the
packed box of platinum on the left pan, and places the appropriate weights in the left pan
or the right pan or both until balance is achieved. This suffices hi m to tell the weight of
the packed bar.
What is the minimum number of “standard” weights the merchant must have to be able
to accurately determine the weight of all his packed boxes?
a) 5
b) 3
c) 8
d) 6
3) The marked price of a coat was 40% less than the suggested retail price. Eesha
purchased the coat for half the marked price at a fiftieth anniversary sale. What percent
less than the suggested retail price did Eesha pay?
a) 60%
b) 20%
c) 70%
d) 30%
4) A shop sells chocolates. It used to sell chocolates for Rs.2 each, but there were no sales
at that price. When it reduced the price, all chocolates sold out enabling the shopkeeper
to realize Rs. 164.90 from the chocolates alone. If the new price was not less than half
the original price quoted. How many chocolates were sold (at the reduced price)?
a) 39
b) 97
c) 37
d) 71
5) A cow and a horse are bought for Rs 2,00,000. The cow is sold at a profit of 20% and
the horse is sold at a loss of 10%. The overall gain is Rs.4000. The cost price of the cow
is
a) 130000
b) 80000
c) 70000
d) 120000
6) The price of a book in four different shops and the successive discounts offered for the
books is given below. Select the option in which the price of the book is the least
a) 10%, 5% & 5% discounts on a marked price of Rs. 195
b) 25% discount on a marked price of Rs. 200
c) 12.5% & 12.5% discounts on a marked price of Rs.
d) 10% & 15% discounts on a marked price of Rs. 190
7) A merchant buys two dolls voodoo and hopi kachino for rs 600 .with a doll based script
hitting the silver screen at that tym hopi kachino type of dolls bcom obnoxious amooung
kids while voodoo dolls gained much hype.Due to behind scene logics he sells voodoo
dolls at a profit of 22% and the other at a loss of 8%,makes no loss or profit.what is d
selling price of hopi kachino doll?
A)RS 400
B)RS410.50
C)404.80
D)CANNOT BE DETERMINED
8) A dealer originally bought 100 identical batteries at a total cost of q rupees. If each
battery was sold at 50 percent above the original cost per battery, then, in terms of q,
for how many rupees was each battery sold?
a) 3q200
b) 4q200
c) 5q200
d) 6q200
9) The cost price of a cow and a horse is Rs 3 lakhs. The cow is sold at 20% profit and the
horse is sold at 10% loss. Overall gain is Rs 4200. What is the cost price of the cow?
a) 114000
b) 112000
c) 111000
d) 115000
10) A Grocer bought 24 kg coffee beans at price X per kg. After a while one third of stock got
spoiled so he sold the rest for $200 per kg and made a total profit of twice the cost.
What must be the price of X?
Option
a) 22.22
b) 44.44
c) 11.11
d) 33.33
11) Bhanu spends 30% of his income on petrol on scooter 20% of the remaining on house
rent and the balance on food. If he spends Rs.300 on petrol then what is the
expenditure on house rent?
Options
A) Rs. 320
B) Rs.140
C) Rs.280
D) Rs.180
Ans:Rs.140
12) If the price of an item is decreased by 10% and then increased by 10%, the net effect
on the price of the item is
A. A decrease of 99% B. No change
C. A decrease of 1% D. An increase of 1%
Problems on Ages
1) Six years ago Raj’s father’s age is 6 times the age of Raj. The difference of present ages is
35. What is the sum of their present ages
a) 51
b) 61
c) 52
d) 62
2) At the end of 1994 Rohit was half as old as his grandmother. The sum of the years in
which they were born is 3844. How old Rohit was at the end of 1999?
a) 48
b) 55
c) 49
d) 53
3) 10 years ago, the average age of 10 people was 33 years. After 3 years, a person of age 40
died. After another 3 years, another person of age 40 died. After another 3 years, another
person of age 30 dies. Find the present average age.
a) 43
b) 44
c) 35
d) 40
4) After 6 years Raju’s father’s age will be twice that of the his age and 2 years ago, his
mothers age was twice that of Raju’s age. What is the sum of Raju’s parents’ age?
a) 4 less than four times Raju’s age
b) 2 more than four times Raju’s age
c) 4 more than four times Raju’s age
d) 2 less than four times Raju’s age
5) In 4 years Raj father will be twice raj age then , where as two years ago his mother was
twice his age . If Raj is going to be 32 years old eight years from now then what is the sum
of his parents age now.
a) 96
b) 100
c) 102
d) 98
6) In 10 years, A will be twice as old as B was 10 years ago. If A is now 9 years older than B
the present age of B is
a) 48 yrs
b) 50yrs
c) 49 yrs
d) 47 yrs
7) A grand father has 3 grand children. Age difference of two children among them is 3.
Eldest child age is 3 times the youngest child’s age and the eldest child age is two year
more than the sum of age of other two children. What is the age of the eldest child?
a) 14
b) 15
c) 16
d) 17
8) Mother, daughter and an infant combined age is 74, and mother's age is 46 more than
daughter and infant. If infant age is 0.4 times of daughter age, then find daughters age.
Options :
a) 45
b) 20
c) 10
d) 55
9) Roy is now 4 years older than Erik and half of that amount older than Iris. If in 2 years, roy
will be twice as old as Erik, then in 2 years what would be Roy's age multiplied by Iris's age?
A. 28
B. 48
C. 50
D. 52
Permutation and Combination

1) Five people need to travel in a 5-passenger car. There are a driver’s seat and a
passenger seat in the front and three passenger seats in the back: a left seat, a middle
seat, and a right seat. Two of the people are children and can sit only in the back. One
of the three adults is busy reading a math book and refuses to drive. In how many
ways can they get seated?
a) 12
b) 24
c) 18
d) 6
2) Find the 32nd word in the list, where the word MONOS is permuted in all possible ways
and arranged in alphabetical order.
a) OSMON
b) OSNOM
c) OSMNO
d) OSONM
3) There are 16 teams divided in 4 groups. Every team from each group will play with
each other once. The top 2 teams will go to the next round and so on the top two
teams will play the final match. Minimum how many matches will be played in that
tournament?
a) 43
b) 40
c) 14
d) 50
4) How many words are formed from DRAUGHTSLOTS if order of vowels do not change
and no two vowels occupy consecutive places
a) 76204800
b) 259459200
c) 17160
d) 15120
5) How many six digit even numbers can be formed from digits 1 to 7 such that the digits
should not repeat and the second last digit should be even?
a) 6480
b) 320
c) 2160
d) 720
6) In how many ways can the digit of the number 2233558888 be arranged so that the
odd digits are placed in the even positions?
a) 900
b) 450
c) 225
d) 360
7) When all possible six letter arrangements of the letters of the word “MASTER” are
sorted in alphabetical order, what will be the 49th word?
a) AREMST
b) ARMEST
c) AMERST
d) ARMSET
8) If ABERSU are in sorted in alphabetical order, if 24 sortings are req for ABUSRE, 25
for AEBRSU, 49 for ARBESU, then how many sortings are required for AEUSRB?
a) 45
b) 48
c) 47
d) 46
9) How many 6 digit even numbers can be formed from digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 so that
the digit should not repeat and the second last digit is even?
a) 6480
b) 320
c) 2160
d) 720
10) The number of ways in which four persons A, B, C, D and six more persons can stand
in a queue so that A always stands before B, B always before C and C always before D
is:
a) 6!
b) 7!
c) 9!
d) 10C4*6!
11) How many positive integer numbers not more than 4300 can be formed with the digits
0, 1, 2, 3, 4 if repetitions are allowed?
a) 560
b) 565
c) 575
d) 625
:c
12) How many 6 digit even numbers can be formed from the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 so
that digits do not repeat and the second last digit is even?
a) 2160
b) 720
c) 5040
d) 865
13) There are 5 letters and 5 addressed envelopes .The number of ways in which all the
letters can be put in wrong envelope are?
a) 119
b) 44
c) 59
d) 40
14) In how many possible ways can you write 1800 as a product of 3 positive integers a, b
and c.
a) 350
b) 360
c) 380
d) 450
15) How many vehicle registration plate numbers can be formed with digits 1,2,3,4,5 (no
digits being repeated) if it is given that the registration number can have 1 to 5 digits?
a) 205
b) 100
c) 325
d) 105
16) There are 20 persons sitting in a circle. In that there are 18 men and 2 sisters. How
many arrangements are possible in which the two sisters are always separated by a
man?
a) 18!x2
b) 17!
c) 17x2!
d) 12
17) A number plate can be formed with two alphabets followed by two digits, with no
repetition. Then how many possible combinations can we get?
a) 58500
b) 67600
c) 65000
d) 64320
18) The letters in the word “PLACES” are permuted in all possible ways and arranged in
the alphabetical order. Find the word at position 48th in the permuted alphabetical
order.
a) AESPLC
b) ALCEPS
c) ALSCEP
d) AESPCL
19) In how many ways a team of 11 must be selected from 5 men and 11 women such that
the team comprises of not more than three men?
a) 1234
b) 1565
c) 2456
d) 2256
20) In a staircase, there are 10 steps. A child is attempting to climb the staircase. Each
time, she can either make 1 step or 2 steps. In how many different ways can she climb
the staircase?
a) 10
b) 21
c) 36
d) None of these
21) In how many possible ways can you write 3240 as a product of 3 positive integers a, b
and c.
a) 450
b) 420
c) 350
d) 320
22) The letters in the word ROADIE are permuted in all possible ways and arranged in
alphabetical order. Find the word in the 44th rank.
a) AERIOD
b) AERDOI
c) AERODI
d) AEODRI
23) An organization has three committees. Only two persons are members of all three
committees, but every pair of committees has three members in common. What is the
LEAST possible number of members on any one committee?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7
24) In how many ways can 2310 be expressed as a product of three factors?
a) 41
b) 56
c) 23
d) 46
25) In an office, at various times during the day the boss gives the secretary a letter to
type, each time putting the letter on top of the pile in the secretary’s inbox. When there
is time, the secretary takes the top letter off the pile and types it. If there are five
letters in all, and the boss delivers them in the order 1 2 3 4 5, which of the following
could NOT be the order in which the secretary types them?
a) 2 4 3 5 1
b) 4 5 2 3 1
c) 3 2 4 1 5
d) 1 2 3 4 5
26) 6 task and 6 persons. P1 and P2 does not do taskT1. T2 is assigned to P3 or P4;. Each
person shouldbe assigned with at least 1 task. In how many waysthe task can be
assigned?
a) 192
b) 360
c) 144
d) 180
27) 2 gears, one with 12 teeth and the other one with 14 teethare engaged with each other.
One tooth in smaller gear andone tooth in bigger gear are marked and initially those
2marked teeth are in contact with each other. After how manyrotations of the smaller
gear with the marked teeth in the
other gear will again come into contact for the first time?
a) 7
b) 12
c) Data in sufficient
d) 84
28) There are 4 couples who go for a honeymoon together. At one of the places, they all
have to cross a river but there is only one boat available. Wives are jealous and they
don’t like their husbands travelling with other woman. Husbands are also possessive
and they don’t like their wives travelling with other man. The number of minimum
possible ways in which they will cross the river are:
a) 16
b) 17
c) 18
d) 19
29) In how many ways can the letters of the English alphabet be arranged so that there
are seven letters between the letters A and B, and no letter is repeated.
a) 24 P7 * 2
b) 24!*36
c) 24 P7*20!
d) 24 P7*7!
30) A owes B a sum of Rs.50. He decides to pay back the loan but can pay back the loan
by giving either a 10 rupee note or a 20 rupee note at a time. In how many ways, can
he repay the loan such that he uses at least one note of each denomination?
a) 5
b) 6
c) 7
d) 8
31) 10 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many handshakes are
possible, if they are in no pair of cyclic sequence
a) 45
b) 9
c) 12
d) 10
32) The number of committees of size 10 that could be formed from 10 men & 10 women
such that committee has at least 6 women is
a) 60626
b) 210
c) 10210
d) None
33) In a group of 6 boys and 4 girls, four children are to be selecteD. In how many different
ways can they be selected such that at least one boy should be there?
A. 159
B. 194
C. 205
D. 209
E. None of these
34) A box contains 2 white balls, 3 black balls and 4 red balls. In how many ways can 3
balls be drawn from the box, if at least one black ball is to be included in the draw?
A. 32
B. 48
C. 64
D. 96
E. None of these
35) There are 4 boxes colored red, yellow, green and blue. If 2 boxes are selected, how
many combinations are there for at least one green box or one red box to be selected?
36) 4 Women & 6 men have to be seated in a row given that no two women can sit
together. How many different arrangements are there.
A. 6! * 7P4
B. 6! *4P7
C. 6! *7P7
D. 6! *4P4
37) A student can select one of 6 different math book, one of 3 different chemistry book &
one of 4 different science book.In how many different ways students can select book of
math, chemistry & science.
A. 71 ways
B. 72 ways
C. 73 ways
D. 74 ways
38) . Find the total number of combinations of 5 letters a, b, a, b, b taking some or all at a
time?
A.10 ways
B. 12 ways
C. 11 ways
D. 15 ways
39) . What is the sum of all the 4 digit numbers that can be formed using all of the digits
2,3,5 and 7?
A. 4 ! x 1111 x 17
B. 3 ! x 1111 x 17
C. 2 ! x 1111 x 17
D. 1 ! x 1111 x 17
40) Find the 55th word of SHUVANK in dictionary

A. AHSNKVU
B. AHSNKUV
C. ASHNKUV
D. ASHNKVU
41) The remainder when 1!+2!+3!...+50! divided by 5! will be

A. 3500
B. 3700
C. 3600
D. 3800
42) Seven different objects must be divided among three persons. In how many ways this
can be done if at least one of them gets exactly one object.
a) 200
b) 194
c) 196
d) 198
43) How many different 9 digit numbers can be formed from the number 223355888 by re-
arranging its digits so that the odd digits occupy even position?
a) 60
b) 58
c) 59
d) 61
44) 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 27 are females. The shake
hands are done between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake
hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible?
a) 65
b) 64
c) 66
d) 67
45) How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 which are
divisible by 4 if the repetition is allowed?
a) 56
b) 58
c) 60
d) 62
46) 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) 12
b)11
c)13
d) 18
47) The crew of a rowing team of 8 members is to be chosen from 12 men (M1, M2, ….,
M12) and 8 women (W1, W2,…., W8), such that there are two rows, each row
occupying one the two sides of the boat and that each side must have 4 members
including at least one women. Further it is also known W1 and M7 must be selected
for one of its sides while M2, M3 and M10 must be selected for other side. What is the
number of ways in which rowing team can be arranged.
a)14*4!*4c2*4!
b)15*4!*4c2*4!
c)16*4!*4c2*4!
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48) What is the 32nd word of "WAITING" in a dictionary?
a) ANGTIWI
b) AWGNTII
c) AGNTIWI
d) AGNITWI
49) The letters in the word ADOPTS are permuted in all possible ways and arranged in
alphabetical order then find the word at position 42 in the permuted alphabetical
order?
a) AOTDSP
b) AOTPDS
c) AOTDPS
d) AOSTPD
50) In how many ways can we distribute 10 identical looking pencils to 4 students so that each
student gets at least one pencil?
A. 5040
B. 210
C. 84
D. None of these
51)) Mr and Mrs Smith have invited 9 of their friends and their spouses for a party at the
Waikiki Beach resort. They stand for a group photograph. If Mr Smith never stands next to Mrs
Smith (as he says they are always together otherwise). How many ways the group can be
arranged in a row for the photograph?
A. 20!
B. 19! + 18!
C. 18 x 19!
D. 2 x 19!
52) letters in the word ABUSER are permuted in all possible ways and arranged in
alphabetical order then find the word at position 49 in the permuted alphabetical order?
a) ARBSEU
b) ARBESU
c) ARBSUE
d) ARBEUS
53) In how many ways can 3 postcards can be posted in 5 postboxes?

A) 225
B) 169
C) 125
D) 324
54) A necklace is made by stringing N individual beads together in the repeating pattern red
bead, green bead, white bead, blue bead and yellow bead. If the necklace begins with a red bead
and ends with a white bead, then N could be:
A) 45
B) 68
C) 56
D) 76
Mixtures and Alligation

1) Easha bought two varieties of rice, costing Rs 50 per kg and Rs. 60 per kg each, and
mixed them in some ratio. Then she sold the mixture at Rs. 70 per kg, making a profit of
20%. What was the ratio of the mixture?
a) 1:10
b) 3:8
c) 1:5
d) 2:7
2) A beaker contains 180 litres of alcohol. On the first day, 60 litres of alcohol is taken out
and replaced by water. On the second day, 60 litres of the mixture is taken out and
replaced by water and the process continues day after day. What will be the quantity of
alcohol in the beaker after the third day?
a) 40 litres
b) 80 litres
c) 53.33 litres
d) 100 litres
3) How many liters of 90% concentrated acid needs to be mixed with 75% concentrated acid
to get a 30 liter solution of 78% concentrated acid?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 6
d) 10
4) A merchant buys 20 kg of wheat at Rs.30 per kg and 40 kg of wheat at Rs.25 per kg. He
mixes them and sells one third of the mixture at Rs.26 per kg. The price at which the
merchant should sell the remaining mixture so that he may earn a profit of 25% on his
whole outlay is
a) Rs. 30
b) Rs. 40
c) Rs. 360
d) Rs. 37
5) A tank contains 10,000 gallons of a solution that is 5 percent sodium chloride by volume.
If 2500 gallons of water evaporate from the tank, the remaining solution will be
approximately what percentage of sodium chloride?
a) 16.66%
b) 6.66%
c) 26.66%
d) 33.33%
6) In a vessel, there are 10 litres of alcohol. An operation is defined as taking out five litres
of what is present in the vessel and adding 10 litres of pure water to it.What is the ratio of
alcohol to water after 2 operations?
a) 1:5
b) 2:3
c) 1:6
d) 3:2
AnswerOptiona
7) In a mixture of a, b and c, if a and b are mixed in 3:5 ratio and b and c are mixed in 8:5
ratio and if the final mixture is 35 liters, find the amount of b?
a) 14.73
b) 15.73
c)16.73
d)17.73
8) How many kgs. of wheat costing Rs. 5 per kg must be mixed with 45 kg of rice costing Rs.
6.40 per kg so that 20% gain may be obtained by selling the mixture at Rs. 7.20 per kg ?
Options :
a) 18kgs
b) 12 kgs
c) 15 kgs
d) 9 kgs
Time and distance

1) Walking at 3/4 of his usual speed, a man is 16 minutes late for his office. The usual time
taken by him to cover that distance is ?
a) 48 min
b) 60 min
c) 42min
d) 62 min
2) An Old man and a Young man are working together in an office and staying together in a
near by apartment. The Old Man takes 30 minutes and the Young 20 minutes to walk
from apartment to office. If one day the old man started at 10:00AM and the young man at
10:05AM from the apartment to office, when will they meet?
a) 10:15
b) 10:30
c) 10:45
d) 10:00
3) Ram and Shakil run a race of 2000m. First, Ram gives Shakil a start of 200 m and beats
him by 1 minute. Next, Ram gives Shakil a start of 6 min and is beaten by 1000 metres.
Find the time in minutes in which Ram and Shakil can run the race separately.
a) 12, 18
b) 10, 12
c) 11, 18
d) 8, 10
4) George walks 36 Kms partly at a speed of 4kms per hour and partly at 3 km per hour. If
he had walked at a speed of 3km per hour when he had walked at 4 and 4 Km per when
he had walked at 3 he would have walked only 34 kms . The time (in hours ) spent by
George walking was:
a) 8
b) 12
c) 5
d) 10
5) At 12:00 hours Jake starts to walk from his house at 6 km an hour. At 13:30 hours, Paul
follows him from Jake’s house on his bicycle at 8 km per hour. When will Jake be 3 km
behind Paul?
a) 19:00 hrs
b) 18:30 hrs
c) 20:00 hrs
d) 19:30 hrs
6) A person walks at 4km/hr for a particular duration T1 and 3km/hr for another duration
T2 and covers a total distance of 36 km. If he walks at 4km/hr for the duration T2 and at
3km/hr for the duration T1, then he covers only 34 km. What will be the time taken by
him to cover the one of the legs?
a) 4 hrs
b) 7 hrs
c) 10 hrs
d) 6 hrs
7) Megha drives along the perimeter of square field of side 10 kms. She drives along the first
side at 10 kmph, along the second side at 20 kmph, along thee third side at 30 kmph and
along the fourth side at kmph. Her Average speed is
a) 19.2 kmph
b) 18 kmph
c) 20 kmph
d) 30 kmph
8) A person travels from Chennai to Pondicherry in cycle at 7.5 Kmph. Another person
travels the same distance in train at a speed of 30 Kmph and reached 30 mins earlier.
Find the distance.
a) 5 km
b) 10 km
c) 15 km
d) 20 km
9) For a car there are 5 tyres including one spare tyre (4+1). All tyres are equally used. If the
total distance travelled by the car is 40000 km then what is the average distance travelled
by each tyre?
a) 10000
b) 40000
c) 32000
d) 8000
10) Jake and Paul walk each 10 km. Jake is 1.5 km faster than Paul because of which he
covers the distance in 1.5 hrs faster than Paul. What is Jake’s speed?
a) 4
b) 6
c) 8
d) 2
11) Raj travels a part of journey by taxi paying 15 per km and rest by train paying 21per km.
If he travels a total of 450 Km and pay Rs.8130 then the distance travelled by raj in train?
a) 230
b) 260
c) 190
d) 180
12) Jake is faster than Paul. Jake and Paul each walk 24 km. The sum of their speeds is 7
kmph and the sum of time taken by them is 14 hours. Then, Jake’s speed is equal to:
a) 7 kmph
b) 3 kmph
c) 5 kmph
d) 4 kmph
13) A and B start from their house at 10 am. They travel from their house on MG road at 20
kmph and 40 kmph. There is a T junction on their path A turn left at the T junction at
12:00 noon. B reaches the T junction earlier and turns right. Both of them continue
travelling till 2:00 pm. What is the distance between A and B at 2:00 pm?
a) 160 km
b) 120 km
c) 140 km
d) 150 km
14) Car A leaves city C at 5 pm and drives at a speed of 40 kmph. 2 hours later another car B
leaves city C and drives in the same direction as car A. In how much time will car B be 9
km ahead of car A if speed of car B is 60 kmph?
a) 4.25 hours
b) 4.17 hours
c) 4.30 hours
d) 4.45 hours
15) One day, Eesha started 30 minutes late from home and reached her office 50 minutes late
while driving 25% slower than her usual speed. How much time in minutes does Eesha
usually take to reach her office from home?
a) 80 min
b) 50 min
c) 60 min
d) 70 min
16) A travels at 40kmph and B travels at 60kmph. They are traveling towards each other and
start at the same time. By the time they meet, B would have travelled 120km more than
A. Find the total distance.
a) 600 km
b) 720 km
c) 400 km
d) 540 km
17) A snail covered 3 mm in the first second and 4 mm more in each successive second, for a
certain number of seconds. However, if it had covered 1 mm in the first and 8 mm more in
each successive second for some seconds, then difference between the length of path it would
have covered during the same time and the actual path took would have been more than 6
mm but less than 30 mm. Find the time for which the snail moved.
a) 5 Sec
b) 3 Sec
c) 4 Sec
d) 6 Sec
18) At 12:00 hours Jake starts to walk from his house at 6 Km an hour. At 13:30 hours, Paul
followed him from Jake's house on his bicycle at 8 Km per hour. When will Jake be 3 Km
behind Paul?
a) 19:00 hours
b) 18:30 hours
c) 20:00 hours
d) 16:30 hours
19) A and B run a 1 km race. If A gives B a start of 50m, A wins by 14 seconds and if A gives
B a start of 22 seconds, B wins by 20 meters. Find the time taken by A to run 1 km.To
solve these type of questions, always keep in your mind that, the ratio of the speeds of two
contestants never change.
a. 150
b. 125
c. 100
d. 175
20) during rain rock is driving in a truck which passes a man on foot that is trading at a rate
of 2 km/hr in the same direction the man could see the truck for 6 minutes and it was
visible upto a distance of 0.6 km.what is the speed of truck
A)6 kmph B) 5 kmph C) 8 kmph D)11 kmph
21) Two trains start from Chennai and villupuram spaced 150 k m apart at the same time
and speed as the tr ains start, a bird flies fro m one train towards the other and on reac
hing the s econd t rain; it flies back to the first tr ain. T his is repeated till the trains
collide. If the speed of the trains is 75 kmph and that of the bird is 100 k mph. How much
did the bird travel till collision?
A)110KM
B)100KM
C)90KM
D)120KM
22) Navjivan Express fro m Ahmadabad to Chennai leav es Ahmadabad at 06.30 am and
travels at 50 k m/hr towards B aro da situated 100 k m away. At 7 am Howrah to
Ahmadabad express leaves Baroda tow ards Ahmadabad and trav els at 40 km/hr . At
7.30 Mr.John , the t raffic controller at Baro da r ealises that bot h t he trains are running
on the s ame t rac k. How much time do es he have to avert a head- o n collision between
the two t rains?
(a) 15 minut es ( b) 20 minutes (c) 12 minutes (d) 18 minutes
23) A train travelling at 90km/hr crosses goods train at 50km/hr in opposite direction
completely in 50 sec.how long it takes train to overtake same goods train,if travellling in
same direction?
A) 165 sec
B) 175 sec
C) 160 sec
D) 115 sec
Two cars start from the same point at the same time towards the same destination which
is 420 km away. The first and second car travel at respective speeds of 60 kmph and 90
kmph. After travelling for sometime the speeds of the two cars get interchanged. Finally
the second car reaches the destination one hour earlier than the first. Find the time after
which the speeds get interchanged?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
24) George while driving along the highway saw road markers which are at equal distances
from each other. He crosses the markers every 20 seconds. If he increases his speed by x
meters per second, he crosses the markers at every 15 seconds. But if he increases his
speed by y meters per second, he crosses the marker at every 10th second. If y-x = 40
meters per second, then what is the distance between two markers.
a) 2500
b) 1200
c) 1400
d) 1300
25) 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
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 and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490
km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.
a) 4 hrs
b) 3 hrs
c) 3.5 hrs
d) 5 hrs
26) A and B are running around a circular track of length 120 meters with speeds 12 m/s
and 6 m/s in the same direction. When will they meet for the first time?
a) 15 secs
b) 20 secs
c) 12 secs
d) 24 secs
27) Two cyclists begin training on an oval racecourse at the same time. The
professional cyclist completes each lap in 4 minutes; the novice takes 6 minutes to
complete each lap. How many minutes after the start will both cyclists pass at exactly the
same spot where they began to cycle?
A. 10
B. 8
C. 14
D. 12
29) Tim and Elan are 90 km from each other.they start to move each other simultanously tim at
speed 10 and elan 5 kmph. If every hour they double their speed what is the distance that Tim
will pass until he meet Elan
A. 45
B. 60
C. 20
D. 80
30) A dog taken four leaps for every five leaps of hare but three leaps of the dog is equal to four
leaps of the hare. Compare speed?
A) 4: 3
B) 5: 7
C) 16:15
D) 11:15
31) . Suresh Raina and GautamGambhir after a scintillating IPL match decide to travel by cycle
to their respective villages. Both of them start their journey travelling in opposite directions.
Each of their speeds is 6 miles per hour. When they are at a distance of 50 miles, a housefly
starts flying from Suresh Raina's cycle towards GautamGambhir at a relative speed of 17 miles
per hour with respect to Raina's speed. What will be the time taken by housefly to reach
Gambhir?
a. 10 hrs b. 15 hrs c . 20 hrs d. 25 hrs
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Compound interest
1) A sum of money is borrowed and paid back in two annual instalments of Rs. 882 each
allowing 5% C.I. The sum borrowed was:
a) 1680
b) 1142
c) 640
d) 1640
2) Analysing the good returns that Halocircle Insurance Pvt Ltd was giving, Ratika bought a 1-
year, Rs 10,000 certificate of deposit that paid interest at an annual rate of 8% compounded
semi-annually.What was the total amount of interest paid on this certificate at maturity?
a) 816
b) 616
c) 800
d) 815
Average
1) The average temperature of June, July and August was 31 degrees. The average temperature
of July, August and September was 30 degrees. If the temperature of June was 30 degrees,
find the temperature of September (in degrees).
a) 26
b) 27
c) 28
d) 25
2) What is the average of the first 200 terms of the series

1, -2, 3, -4, 5, -6, 7 …………
a) -0.5
b) -50.5
c) 0.5
d) 50
3) For a car there are 5 tyres including one spare tyre ( 4+1). All tyres are equally used. If the
total distance travelled by the car is 40000 km then what is the average distance by the each
tyre?
a) 10000
b) 40000
c) 32000
d) 8000
4) A mother, her little daughter and her just born infant boy together stood on a weighing
machine which showed 74 Kg. How much does the daughter weigh if the mother weighs 46
Kg more than the combined weight of the daughter and the infant and the infant weighs 60
percent less than the daughter?
a) 4 kg
b) 10 kg
c) 46 kg
d) 14 kg
5) The average marks of 3 students A, B and C is 48. When another student D joins the group,
the new average becomes 47 marks. If another student E, who has 3 marks more than D,
joins the group, the average of the 4 students B, C, D and E becomes 48 marks. How many
marks did A get in the exam?
a) 46
b) 43
c) 49
d) 52
6) Apples cost L rupees per kilogram for the first 30 kilograms and Q rupees per kilogram for
each additional kilogram. If the price paid for 33 kilograms of apples is Rs. 1167 and for 36
kilograms of apples is Rs. 1284, then the cost of the first 10 kgs of apples is:
a) Rs.117
b) Rs.1053
c) Rs.350
d) Rs.281
7) Of a set of 30 numbers, average of first 10 numbers = average of last 20 numbers. Then the
sum of the last 20 numbers is ?
a) 2 X sum of last ten numbers
b) 2 X sum of first ten numbers
c) Sum of first ten numbers
d) Cannot be determined with given data
8) Average salary of 17 teachers is 45000. 3 teachers went out and the average dropped by
2500. What is the sum of salaries of 3 teachers who left?
a) 173000
b) 176000
c) 170000
d) 85000
9) The average marks of 3 students A,B and C is 48.When another student D joins the group
the average becomes 46 marks. If another student E who has 3 marks more than D, joins
the group, the average of the 4 students B,C,D and E becomes 45 marks. How many marks
did A get in the exam?
a) 46
b) 50
c) 39
d) 47
10) In a telecom assembly factory, there are 250 men and 150 women. The average productivity
of all workers is 12 units per day. The average productivity of a man is 15 units per day.
What is the average productivity of a woman per day?   
a) 6
b) 9
c) 7
d) 8
11) If a lemon and an apple together costs Rs. 12.00, a tomato and a lemon cost Rs.4.00 and an
apple cost Rs 8.00 more than a tomato or a lemon, then which of the following can be the
price of a lemon?
a) Rs. 2
b) Rs. 4
c) Rs. 1
d) Rs. 3
12) In the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth basketball games of the session a player scored 23,
14, 11, 20 points respectively. Hereafter nine games than it was after the first five games. If
her average after ten games was points per game average was higher greater than eighteen
what is the least number of points that she could have scored in the tenth game?
a) 30
b) 26
c) 29
d) 28
13) What was the number picked by person who announced the average as 56?"
a) 45 b) 42 c) 28 d) 56
14) In family of Five persons A,B,C,D and E.Everyone loves one another.Their Birthdays are in
different months and different dates. A remembers that his birthday is between 25th and
30th,of B it is between 20th and 25yh,of C it is between 10th and 20th,of D it is between 5th
and 10th of E it is between 1st to 5th of the month.The sum of date of birth is defined as the
addition of date and month,for example 12th jan will be written as 12/1 and will add to sum
of the date of 13.(Betwwen 25th and 30th includes both 25 and 30).What may be the max avg
of their sum of the birthdate???
A) 28,
B) 15.2,
C) 32,
D) 24.6
15) Find the average of the terms in the series 1-2+3-4+5....+199-200
A) 1
B) 2
C) .5
D) .75
16) A student's average ( arithmetic mean) test score on 4 tests is 78. What must be the
students score on a 5th test for the students average score on the 5th test to be 80?
A) 88
B) 90
C) 92
D) 86
17) 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they measure
there weights in some order In 7 rounds. A, B, C, AB, BC, AC, ABC. Final round measure is
155kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds?
a) 88.5 kg
b) 90kg
c) 90.5kg
d) 91.5 kg
18) The average temperature of Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday was 37 C. The average
temperature of Wednesday and Thursday and Friday was 38 C. if the temperature on Friday
was 39 C. Find the temperature on Tuesday.
a. 37.33 b. 38.33 c. 36 d. None of the above

19) The price of lunch for 15 people was 207 pounds, including a 15 percent gratuity of
service. What was the average price per person, EXCLUDING the gratuity?
a) 15 pounds
b) 12 pounds
c) 24 pounds
d) 9 pounds
20) A, B, C and D go for a picnic. When A stands on a weighing machine, B also climbs on,
and the weight shown was 132 kg. When B stands, C also climbs on, and the machine
shows 130 kg. Similarly the weight of C and D is found as 102 kg and that of B and D is
116 kg. What is D's weight
A)58kg
B) 78 kg
C) 44 kg
D) None
Puzzles
1) In the following KenKen puzzle, each cell is to be filled with a digit between 1 and 4. On each
row and column, each digit (between 1 and 4) appears exactly once. Groups of heavily-
outlined adjacent cells are called cages. Clues are provided in the top left corner of each cage,
in the form of result and (optionally) a result using the specified mathematical operator. Note
that more than two cells may be there in a cage only if the operator is “+” or “x”. If no
mathematical operator is specified in a cage, the number at the top left corner of the cage is
the value to be filled in the cage (the cage will have only one cell). In the following KenKen
puzzle, find the values at the cells denoted by x1, x2 and x3 and determine the value of – x1 –
2x2 – 3x3
a) -22
b) -27
c) -29
d) -8
2) A circle has 29 points arranged in a clock wise manner numbered from 0 to 28, as shown in
the figure below. A bug moves clockwise around the circle according to the following rule. If
it is at a point i on the circle, it moves clockwise in 1 second by (1+r) places, where r is the
remainder (Possibly 0) when i is divided by 11. Thus if it is at position 5, it moves clockwise
in one second by (1+5) places to point 11. Similarly, if it is at position 28 it moves (1+6) or 7
places to point 6 in one second. If it starts at point 23, at what point
will it be after 2012 seconds?
a) 1
b) 7
c) 15
d) 20
3) There is a set of 9 numbers that relate to each other in a certain way. Find the way the first
set of boxes works. The numbers in the second set work in exactly the same way. Find the
number that must
a) 16
b) 9
c) 12
d) -21
4) The figure below shows a “size 3” equilateral triangle divided up into 9
“size 1 “equilateral triangles. The figure has 6 upward facing and 3 downward facing
“size1”equilateral triangles, 3 upward facing and no downward facing
“size 3 “ triangle. It has a total of 13 equilateral triangles of all sizes.
The following size 6 triangle is divided up in the same way. What is the sum of the
number of up facing size 2 triangles and the number of upward facing
size 4 triangles?
a) 27
b) 17
c) 18
d) 19
5) Find 13X+13Y
a) 117
b) 169
c) 91
d) 130
6) A Farmer has a rose garden. Every day he either plucks 7 or 6 or 24 or 23 roses. The rose
plants are intelligent and when the farmer plucks these numbers of roses, the next day 37 or
36 or 9 or 18 new roses bloom in the garden respectively. On Monday, he counts 189 roses in
the garden. He plucks the roses as per his plan on consecutive days and the new roses bloom
as per the intelligence of the plants mentioned above. After some days which of the following
can be the number of roses in the garden?
a) 4
b) 37
c) 7
d) 30
7) A circle has 11 points arranged in a clock wise manner numbered from 0 to 10, as shown in
the figure below. A bug moves clockwise around the circle according to the following rule. If
it is at a point i on the circle, it moves clockwise in 1 second by (1+r) places, where r is the
remainder (Possibly 0) when i is divided by 2. Thus if it is at position 5, it moves clockwise in
one second by (1+1) places to point 7. Similarly, if it is at position 10 it moves (1+0) or 1
places to point 0 in one second.
If it starts at point 4, at what point will it be after 2012 seconds?
a) 7
b) 9
c) 5
d) 1
8) In a 8 x 8 chess board what is the total number of squares

a) 200
b) 201
c) 202
d) 204
9) 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 person 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.
B. leftmost suspect is innocent.
C. leftmost suspect is guilty
a) A only
b) A or C
c) A or B
d) B only
10) Five college students met at a party and exchanged gossips. Uma said, “Only one of us is
lying”. David said, “Exactly two of us are lying”. Thara said, “Exactly 3 of us are lying”.
Querishi said, “Exactly 4 of us are lying”. Chitra said “All of us are lying”. Which one was
telling the truth?
a) David
b) Querishi
c) Chitra
e) Thara
11) Find the number of rectangles from the adjoining figure (A square is also considered a
rectangle)
A) 864
B) 3276
C) 1638
D) None
12) There are 10 stepping stones numbered 1 to 10 as shown at the side. A fly jumps from the
first stone as follows; Every minute it jumps to the 4th stone from where it started - that is from
1st it would go to 5th and from 5th it would go to 9th and from 9th it would go to 3rd etc. Where
would the fly be at the 60th minute if it starts at 1?
A. 1
B. 5
C. 4
D. 9
13) There are 2 groups named brown and red. They cannot marry in the same group. If the
husband or wife dies then the person will revert to their own group. If a person is married then
the husband will have to change his group to his wife's group. Children will own the mother's
group. If man is red then his mother's brother belong to which group if he is married
a. red b. brown c. red and brown d. none
14) We are given the following sequence PROBLEMSOLVINGPROBLEMSOLVINGPRO……. If the

pattern continues, what letter will be in the 2015thposition?
a) G
b) N
c) B
d) O
Partnership
1) George, Paul and Hari start a business by contributing Rs.30000, Rs.40000 & Rs.50000
respectively. After ½ a year George withdraws half his contribution. At the end of the year
the business showed a profit of Rs. 90000 which divided amongst the 3 men proportionate to
amount and duration of their investment in the enterprise. Paul got:
a) Rs. 25000
b) Rs. 18000
c) Rs. 32000
d) Rs. 24000
2) A sum of Rs.3000 is distributed amongst A, B and C. A gets 2/3 of what B and C got
together and C gets 1/3 of what A and B got together. C’s share is
a) 1200
b) 2250
c) 750
d) 1050
3) A and B invest in a business in the ratio 3 : 2. If 4 % of the total profit goes to charity and A's
share isRs. 282 , the total profit is:
REASONING APTITUDE
1) A calculator has a key for squaring and another key for inverting. So if x is the displayed
number, then pressing the square key will replace x by x^2 and pressing the invert key will
replace x by 1/x. If initially the number displayed is 6 and one alternatively presses the
invert and square key 16 times each, then the final number displayed (assuming no roundoff
or overflow errors) will be
A. 665536
B. 665336
C. 625536
D. 664536
2) Every week, ABC Tours and Travels• conducts guided tours to Marina beach,
Mahabalipuram and Crocodile park, in and around Chennai as per following restrictions: -
Exactly five tours will be conducted that week, one each day from Monday to Friday - Each
location is toured at least once.
- The Marina beach location is not toured on Monday.
- The Mahabalipuram location is not toured on Wednesday.
- The crocodile park location is not toured on two consecutive days, and on no other days. - If
the Marina beach's location is toured on Thursday, then the Mahabalipuram location is
toured on Friday.
Which one of the following cannot be true of the week's tour schedule?
A. The location that is toured on Monday is also toured on Tuesday.
B. The location that is toured on Monday is also toured on Friday.
C. The location that is toured on Tuesday is also toured on Thursday.
D. The location that is toured on Wednesday is also toured on Friday.
3) A mother has 3 babies – Usha, Nisha and Eesha. If Usha is sleeping, Eesha is drinking milk.
If Nisha is not sleeping, Eesha is not drinking. It never happens that both Usha and Nisha
are sleeping. Father concludes that Usha never sleeps. Mother concludes that Nisha never
sleeps. Nurse concludes that Eesha always drinks. Who has made a correct deduction?
a) Nurse
b)Father
c) Mother
d) None
4) You are locked inside a room with 6 doors - A, B, C, D, E, F. Out of which 3 are Entrances
only and 3 are Exits only. One person came in through door F and two minutes later second
person came in through door A. He said, "You will be set free, if you pass through all 6 doors,
each door once only and in correct order. Also, door A must be followed by door B or E, door
B by C or E, door C by D or F, door D by A or F, door E by B or D and door F by C or D." After
saying that they both left through door B and unlocked all doors. In which order must you
pass through the doors?
(A) CFDAEB (B) EFDABC (C) BFDACE (D) CFDABE
5) When all words in "master" is sorted in alphabetical order then what is the 49th word.
A)AREMTS
B)AERMST
C)AREMST
D)ATSMER
Directions Sense
1) There are three cities A, B and C. Two ways to reach C from A or B. Shortest distance
from A to B is 66 km. shortest distance from B to C is 45 km. shortest distance from A to
C is 50 km. There is another city called P. Shortest distance from P to A is 180 km.
shortest distance from P to B is 200 km. Find the shortest distance between P to C.
a) 230
b) 245
c) 291
d) 430
2) A child was looking for his father. He went 90 metres in the East before turning to his
right. He went 20 metres before turning to his right again to look for his father at his
uncle’s place 30 metres from this point. His father was not there. From here he went 100
metres to the North before meeting his father in a street. How far did the son meet his
father from the starting point?
a) 90
b) 30
c) 80
d) 100
Data Arrangements
1) Six persons A, B, C, D, E, F are invited to the party.
A accepts invitation only if B or F accepts.
C may accept if B accepts.
F will accept if B, C, and D accept
E and B may accept if D accepts.
What is the possible order in which they accept their invitations?
a) DBECFA
b) DABEFC
c) DCBEFA
d) BFDECA
2) Eesha invited 8 friends to her birthday party - Usha, Nisha, Aasha, Abilasha, Suresh,
Ramesh, Naresh and Ritesh. They all arrived one after the other around the party time
within 1 minute of each other - from 19:41 to 19:48 hours, one friend every minute.
Nisha joined the party before Naresh
Suresh joined the part before Abilasha
Naresh and Abilasha joined the party before Usha
Naresh joined the party before Ritesh
Abilasha joined the party before Ramesh
Usha joined the party before Aasha
Which one of the following is not possible?
a) Usha 19:44
b) Nisha 19:41
c) Nisha 19:43
d) Ramesh 19:44
3) F, G, H, J, K, L, M and N are 8 people. They need to grouped into two with the following
conditions:
F and J must be in the same group
G and N must be in different groups
H and L must be in the same group
M and G are not in the same group
Find the correct ordering of groups
a) FJ, KL, MN, GH
b) FH, JL, MN, GK
c) FJ, HL, MN, GK
d) FJ, HL, MN, GH
4) A city in the US has a basketball league with 3 basketball teams, the Aztecs, the Braves
and the Celtics. A sports writer notices that the tallest player of the Aztecs is shorter than
the shortest player of the Braves. The shortest of the Celtics is shorter than the shortest of
the Aztecs, while the tallest of the Braves is shorter than the tallest of the Celtics. The
tallest of the braves is taller than the tallest of the Aztecs. Which of the following can be
judged with certainty?
X) Paul, a Brave is taller than David, an Aztec
Y) David, a Celtic, is shorter than Edward, an Aztec
a) X only
b) Both X and Y
c) Neither X nor Y
d) Y only
5) In a family, there are four daughters, Aasha, Easha, Trisha and Usha. Each girl has
exactly one necklace and one bracelet. Each of these eight ornaments was bought in
either 2007, 2008, or 2009. The eight ornaments were bought in a manner consistent
with the following conditions:
The necklace for each girl was bought either in an earlier year than or in the same year as
the bracelet for that girl.
The necklace for Easha and the bracelet for Aasha were bought in the same year.
The necklace for Trisha and the bracelet for Usha were bought in the same year.
The necklace for Easha and the necklace for Trisha were bought in different years.
The necklace for Aasha and bracelet for Trisha were bought in 2008.
If the necklace for Trisha was bought in an earlier year than bracelet for Trisha was, then
which one of the following statements could be true?
a) The necklace for Easha was bought in 2008
b) The necklace for Usha was bought in 2008
c) The necklace for Easha was bought in 2007
d) The bracelet for Usha was bought in 2008
6) In Loonyville, four people called Doctor, Engineer, Lawyer and Architect follow the
professions of doctor, lawyer, engineer and architect. However, none of them follow the
profession indicated by their name.
Lawyer does not like the doctor’s habit of constantly interrupting others. Architect is shy,
and gives no public talks. Engineer has a dog. The architect has no pets. The lawyer lives
in a big house. Doctor plays golf regularly with the engineer every Saturday, unless it
rains. The lawyer gives a lot of public talks on hygiene.
What is the profession of Lawyer?
a) An engineer
b) An architect
c) A doctor
7) A very special island is inhabited only by knights and knaves. Knights always tell the
truth, and knaves always lie. You meet four inhabitants: Usha, Eesha, Nisha and Asha.
Usha tells you ‘Eesha is a knave’. Eesha tells you ‘Asha is a knave’. Nisha claims, ‘Eesha
is a knight and Asha is a knave.’. Asha tells you, ‘I and Nisha are different.’
Identify the knave(s)
a) Eesha only
b) Usha only
c) Eesha and Nisha
d) Nisha and Asha
8) University of Vikramasila has enrolled nine Phd candidates – Babu, Chitra,

Dheeraj, Eesha, Farooq, Gowri, Hameed, Iqbal, Jacob.Farooq and Iqbal were enrolled on
the same day as each other, and no one else was enrolled that day.
Chitra and Gowri were enrolled on the same day as each other and no one else was
enrolled that day.
On each of the other days of hiring, exactly one candidate was enrolled.
Eesha was enrolled before Babu.
Hameed was enrolled before Dheeraj
Dheeraj was enrolled after Iqbal but before Eesha
Gowri was enrolled after both Jacob and Babu
Babu was enrolled before Jacob
Who were the last two candidates to be enrolled?
a) Gowri and Chithra
b) Babu and Chithra
c) Babu and Gowri
d) Eesha and Jacob
9) In a G6 summits beings held at London, a French, a German, an Italian, a British, a

Spanish and a Polish diplomat represent their respective countries and participate in a
round table conference to strengthen co-operation between these countries. There are
exactly six chairs evenly spaced around a circular table. The chairs are numbered 1
through 6, with successively numbered chairs next to each other and chair number 1
next to chair number 6. Each chair is occupied by one of the diplomats. The following
conditions apply:
-- Polish sits immediately next to British.
-- German sits immediately next to Italian, British or both.
-- French does not sit immediately next to Italian.
-- If Spanish sits immediately next to Polish, Spanish does not sit immediately next to
Italian.
Which one of the following seating arrangements of the six diplomats in chairs 1 through
6 would NOT violate the stated conditions?
a) French, Polish, British, Italian, Spanish, German
b) French, German, Italian, Polish, British, Spanish
c) French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, British
d) French, Spanish, Polish, British, German, Italian
e) French, British, German, Spanish, Italian, Poitier
10) There are 5 sweets – jamun, kulfi, peda, laddu and jilabi that I wish to eat on 5
consecutive days – Monday through Friday, one sweet a day, based on the following self
imposed constraints :
Laddu is not eaten on Monday
If jamun is eaten on Monday, then laddu must be eaten on Friday
If laddu is eaten on Tuesday, kulfi should be eaten on Monday
Peda is eaten the day following the day of eating jilabi
Based on the above, peda can be eaten on any day except?
a) Tuesday
b) Monday
c) Wednesday
d) Friday
11) Three sisters are identical triplets. The oldest by minutes is Asha, and Asha always tells
anyone the truth. The next oldest is Eesha, and Eesha always will tell anyone a lie. Usha
is the youngest of the three. She sometimes lies and sometimes tells the truth.
Victor, an old friend of the family’s, came over one day and as usual he didn’t know who
was who, as he asked each of them one question.
Victor asked the sister that was sitting on the left, “Which sister is in the middle of you
three?” and the answer he received was, “Oh, that’s Asha”.
Victor then asked the sister in the middle, “What is your name?” The response given was,
“I’m Usha.”
Victor turned to the sister on the right, then asked, “Who is that in the middle?” The sister
then replied, “She is Eesha”.
This confused Victor; he had asked the same question three times and received three
different answers.
Who was actually sitting in the middle?
a) Asha
b) Eesha
c) Usha
12) 8 residents – Jagan, Kumar, Lawrence, Mahesh, Nitin, Omprakash, Pavan and Qadir live
in different apartments in an apartment complex that has only 8 apartments. The
apartment complex has five floors. Each floor has either one or two apartments.
- Jagan lives on a floor with two apartments.
- Kumar lives on the floor directly above Pavan.
- The second floor is made up of only one apartment.
- Mahesh and Nitin live on the same floor.
- Omprakash does not live on the same floor as Qadir.
- Lawrence lives in the only apartment on his floor.
- Qadir does not live on the first or second floor.
Which one of the following must be true?
a) Nitin does not live on the second floor
b) Qadir lives on the fifth floor
c) Lawrence does not live on the fourth floor
d) Qadir lives on the third floor
Sequence and series

1) Complete the series: 4, 20, 35, 49, 62, 74, ?
a) 76
b) 79
c) 83
d) 85
2) 11 23 47 83 131. What are the next three numbers?

a) 145
b) 178
c) 176
d) 191
3) 1, 5, 6, 25, 26, 30, 31, 125, 126, 130, 131, 150, 151, 155, 156, _ _ _
The above sequence contains sums of distinct powers of 5 in the increasing order (5^0,
5^1, 5^1 + 5^0, 5^2, etc.) What is the value of term number 35?
a) 3150
b) 3130
c) 3151
d) 3131
4) Goel's mother kept a box of chocolates in the refrigerator. Goel put up a daily plan of how
many chocolates he would consume in the week. He represented that as diminishing
stock as 60, 48, 38, 28, 24, 20, 18. Mother said that his plan would be approved, provided
he corrected one of the figures to make it a proper series. Which one did Goel Correct?
a) 48
b) 20
c) 28
d) 38
5) 7 + 77+ 777 + . . . + 77777...7777. The addition shown here has 21 terms and the last
term consists of the digits seven, 21 times. Find three last digits of the above sum.
a) 747
b) 547
c) 647
d) 847
6) Series 1, 4, 2, 8, 6, 24, 22, 88 ?

a) 84
b) 89
c) 86
d) 88
7) Find the option to replace the question mark in the series below
5 ? 15 75 525 4725
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7
8) Find the missing in the series: 70, 54, 45, 41,____.

a) 39
b) 40
c) 41
d) 42
Statements
1) A sealed envelope contains a card with a single digit written on it. Three of the following
statements are true and one is false.
I. The digit is 1.
II. The digit is not 2.
III. The digit is not 9.
IV. The digit is 8.
Which one of the following must necessarily be correct?
A. II is false
B. III is true
C. IV is false
D. The digit is even.
E. I is true
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) E
2) A cinema multiplex MNOX has exactly three cinema screens:

cinema1, cinema 2 , and cinema 3. The multiplex prints three sets of tickets for
September and three sets of tickets for October : one set for each of its cinemas for each of
the two months. The company’s tickets are printed in a manner consistent with the
following conditions:
Each of the six tickets is one of the following colours: green, blue, red, white.
For each cinema the September tickets are a different colour than the October tickets.
For each month, tickets for different cinemas are in different colours.
Exactly one set of September tickets is red.
For cinema 3 either the September tickets or the October tickets, but not both, are green.
The September tickets for cinema 2 are blue.
No October tickets are blue.
If the cinema 3 tickets for September are red, then which one of the following statements
must be true?
a) The cinema 3 tickets for October are green
b) The cinema 1 tickets for October are red
c) The cinema 1 tickets for September are green.
d) The cinema 1 tickets for September are white.
3) Jain housing complex has a democratically elected governing council comprising of the
president, secretary and the treasurer. During their annual meeting, they take up 3
different initiatives for discussion and voting, namely, painting of exteriors, 24 hour
security, and additional water tank. They vote as below
Each member of the council votes for at least one of the initiatives and against at least
one of the initiatives.
Exactly two members of the council votes for the painting initiatives
Exactly one member of the council vote for the security initiatives
Exactly one member of the council vote for the water tank initiatives
The president votes for the painting initiative and votes against security initiative
Security votes against painting initiative
Treasurer votes against water tank initiative
which one of the following statements could be true?
a) President and Secretary vote the same way on the water tank initiative
b) Secretary and Treasurer vote the same way on the painting initiative
c) Secretary and Treasurer vote the same way on the Security initiative
d) President votes for one of the initiatives and Secretary votes for two of the initiatives
4) Three persons sail in a ship which got drowned near an island and they are struck there.
One of them is a Knight who speaks only truth, one is a spy who speaks either a truth or
a lie and other one is the knave who speaks only lies. From the following statements made
by 3 people A, B and C comprising the knight, spy and knave though not necessarily in
that order, identify the spy.
A ---> I am knight
B ---> A is not knave
C ---> If you had asked me, I would say A is the spy
a) A
b) B
c) C
5) Ahmed, Babu, Chitra, David and Eesha each choose a large different number. Ahmed
says, “My number is not the largest and not the smallest”. Babu says, “My number is not
the largest and not the smallest”. Chitra says, “My number is the largest”. David says, “My
number is the smallest”. Eesha says, “My number is not the smallest”.
Exactly one of the five children is lying. The others are telling the truth. Who has the
largest number?
a) Eesha
b) David
c) Chitra
d) Babu
6) Ashok, Eesha, Farookh and Gowri ran a race.

Ashok said, “I did not finish 1st or 4th“. Eesha said, “I did not finish 4th”. Farookh said, “I
finished 1st “.
Gowri said, “I finished 4th“.
There were no ties in the competition, and exactly three of the children told the truth.
Who finished 4th ?
a) Ashok
b) Gowri
c) Farookh
d) Eesha
7) A man asks 5 people to make a guess about the amount of money in his pocket which is
less than Rs.50.
A guesses that the amount is a multiple of 10.
B guesses that the amount is a multiple of 12.
C guesses that the amount is a multiple of 15.
D guesses that the amount is a multiple of 18.
E guesses that the amount is a multiple of 30.
Which of the following guesses are correct?
a) AE
b) AB
c) BC
d) DE
8) On door A – It leads to freedom

On door B – It leads to Ghost house
On door C – door B leads to Ghost house
The statement written on one of the doors is wrong.
Identify which door leads to freedom.
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) None
9) In a group of 5, Anooj said “One of us is lying”. Pooja said “Exactly two of us are lying”.
Bittoo said, “Exactly three of us are lying”. Billa said, “Exactly four of us are lying”. Chitra
said, “Exactly five of us are lying”. Which one said the truth?
a) Billa
b) Anooj
c) Chithra
d) Pooja
e) Bittoo
10) Rural households have more purchasing power than do urban households at the same
income level, since some of the income urban and suburban households use for food and
shelter can be used by the rural households for other needs. Which of the following
inferences is best Supported by the statement made above?
a) The average rural household includes more people than does the average urban or
suburban household.
b) Rural households have lower food and housing costs than do either urban or
suburban households.
c) Suburban households generally have more purchasing power than do either rural or
urban households.
d) The median income of urban and suburban households is generally higher than
that of rural households.
e) All three types of households spend more of their income on housing than on all
other purchases combined.
11) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40,
statement n says: ‘Exactly 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 statements are false.
b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.
c) All the statements are false.
d) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false
12) A turtle is crossing a field. What is the total distance (in meters) passed by turtle? Consider
the following two statements
(X) The average speed of the turtle is 2 meters per minute
(Y) Had the turtle walked 1 meter per minute faster than his average speed it would have
finished 40 minutes earlier
A. Statement X alone is enough to get the answer
B. Both statements X and Y are needed to get the answer
C. Statement Y alone is enough to get the answer
D. Data inadequate
13) Given the following information, who is youngest?

C is younger than A; A is taller than B
C is older than B; C is younger than D
B is taller than C; A is older than D
A. D
B. B
C. C
D. A
14) M, N, O and P are all different individuals; M is the daughter of N; N is the son of O; O is the
father of P; Among the following statements, which one is true?
A. M is the daughter of P
B. If B is the daughter of N, then M and B are sisters
C. If C is the granddaughter of O, then C and M are sisters
D. P and N are bothers.
Venn Diagrams
1) There are 100 in a class and they attend a test. 20 students are failed in both the subjects.
50 students pass in subject A. 60 students passed in subject B. How many students passed
in subject A only.
a) 20
b) 30
c) 15
d) 25
2) In abhi’s class of 44 students,28 students speak malayalam,26 students speak tamil,9

students speak none of the two languages. How many students speak both Tamil &
Malayalam
a) 54
b) 38
c) 19
d) 10
3) College T has 1000 students. Of the 200 students majoring in one or more of the
sciences,130 are majoring in Chemistry and 150 are majoring in Biology. If at least 30 of the
students are not majoring in either Chemistry or Biology, then the number of students
majoring in both Chemistry and Biology could be any number from
a) 100
b) 105
c) 110
d) 120
4) But If more than 30 students are not taking any subject, what can be the maximum number
of students who can take both the subjects?
a) 125
b) 135
c) 122
d) 130
5) There are 20 balls which are red, blue or green. If 7 balls are green and the sum of red balls
and green balls is less than 13, at most how many red balls are there?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
Odd man out

1) Cruesso’s weight in a week is 5 kg, 15 kg, 30 kg, 135 kg, 405 kg, 1215 kg. Find the odd
weight.
a) 15
b) 30
c) 135
d) 1215
Cubes
1) If the given sheet is folded to form a cube, which side will be opposite to X?
a) B
b) C
c) D
d) E
2) 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 painted, totally how many faces of the
smaller cubes remain unpainted?
a) 500
b) 498
c) 488
d) 478
3) All faces of a cube with an eight - meter edge are painted red. If the cube is cut into
smaller cubes with a two - meter edge, how many of the two meter cubes have paint on
exactly one face?
A. 24
B. 36
C. 60
D. 48
Image based problems

1) The sticks of same length are used to form the triangles as shown below. If 87 such sticks
are used then how many triangles can be formed?
a) 43
b) 86
c) 29
d) 58
2) The sticks of same length are used to form the triangles as shown below. If 840 such
sticks are used then how many triangles can be formed?
a) 419
b) 420
c) 840
d) 421
Calendar
1) A workman starts his work on Monday works for 8 days and takes every ninth day as his
holiday. His 12th holiday will fall on
a) Monday
b) Wednesday
c) Thursday
d) Tuesday
2) In a year N, the 320th day of the year is Thursday. In the year N+1, the 206th day of the
year is also a Thursday. What is the 168th day in the year N-1?
a) Friday
b) Thursday
c) Tuesday
d) Saturday
3) In 2003, there are 28 days in February and there are 365 days in the year. In 2004, there
are 29 days in February and there are 366 days in the year. If the date March 11, 2003 is
a Tuesday, then which one of the following would the date March 11, 2004 be?
a) Tuesday
b) Wednesday
c) Monday
d) Thursday
4) In a particular year, the month of January had exactly four Thursdays and four Sundays.
On which day of the week did January 1st occur that year?
a) Monday
b) Tuesday
c) Thursday
d) Wednesday
5) Asha and Eesha – Eesha lies on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Asha lies on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Other days they will say the truth. Professor forgot and
asked them what day it is. Both of them said yesterday I was lying and then professor got
the day. What day it is?
a) Tuesday
b) Thursday
c) Friday
6) . What was the day of the week on 28th May, 2006?

A. Thursday
B. Friday
C. Saturday
D. Sunday
Clocks
1) The minute hand of a clock is 9cm and that of hour hand is 7 cm. If they run for 3 days, how
much distance is covered by both the hands?
a) 1296 ∏
b) 1380 ∏
c) 84 ∏
d) 1500 ∏
2) At what time between 6 and 7 are the hands of the clock coincide?
a) 6.23
b) 6.32
c) 6.45
d) 6.55
3) The famous church in the city of Kumbakonnam has a big clock tower and is said to be over
300 years old. Every Monday 10.00 A M the clock is set by Antony, doing service in the
church. The Clock loses 6 mins every hour. What will be the actual time when the faulty
clock shows 3 P.M on Friday?
a. 4 AM b.3.16 PM c. 4.54 AM d. 3 AM
Coding and decoding

1) If YWUSQ IS 25-23-21-19-17, then MKIGF IS?
a) 13-11-9-7-6
b) 1-2-3-5-7
c) 9-8-7-6-5
d) 7-8-4-5-3
2) The letters of the alphabet are numbered from 1 to 26 consecutively with 1 assigned to A and
26 assigned to Z. By 27th letter we mean A, 28th we mean B etc. In general 26m+n where m, n
are positive integers is same as the letter numbered n.
Let p = 6. The Strange County Military General sends his secret messages according to the
following codification scheme. In codifying a sentence, the first time a letter occurs it is
replaced by the Pth letter from it, second time it occurs it is replaced by p^2 nd letter from
it ,third time it occurs, it is replaced by p^3rd letter from it etc.
What is the code word for ABBATIAL?
a) GHMNZOOR
b) GHKJZOHR
c) GHHGZOGR
d) GHLKZOIR

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QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE ......................................................................................... 2

REASONING APTITUDE ................................................................................... 107

4) x y +y x =46 Find x & y values ?

Time and Work

4) There is a set of 27 distinct points on a plane with the following characteristics:

7) In the triangle AB=15,AC=39,BC=36.A perpendicular dropped from B meets the side AC at

9) Find the sum of angles 1,2,3,4,5.

15) Area of ∆ABC = 40 cm2

4) Find the perimeter of the decagon with given dimensions.

8) 17 x 8 m rectangular ground is surrounded by 1.5 m width path. Depth of the path is 12

a. 2.91 m b. 3m c. 5.82 m d. None

Races and games

6) Function ‘f’ satisfies the equation

7) P(x) = (x2012 + x2011 + x2010 + ……… + x + 1)2 – x2012

8) How many polynomial functions f of degree >= 1 satisfy f (x 2) = [f(x)]2 = f(f(x)) ?

9) f(f(n)) + f(n) = 2n+3, f(0) = 1,Find f(2012).

12) Find the remainder when 32^33^34 is divided by 11

Ratios and Proportions

7) The savings of an employee equals income-expenditure. If the income of A, B, C are in the

5) 4^85 + 2^3383 + 4^n. what is the value of n to make it a perfect square?

7) (3)^87 + (5)^87 / 26. Find the remainder.

13) What is the highest power of 91 that divides 78! ?

14) What is the value of

24) 77!*(77!-2*54!)3/(77!+54!)3 + 54!*(2*77!-54!)3/(77!+54!)3

30) Find the number of divisors of 1728.

36) Sum of the digits in the product of (16^100)*(125^135) is

37) A sequence x1 , x2 and x3 is said to be in a harmonic progression if the reciprocals 1/x1,

38) What is the remainder when 6^17+17^6 is divided by 7 ?

40) The sum of 3 consecutive numbers of the four numbers A, B, C, D are

42) There are 5 distinct integers a, b, c, d, e in ascending order.

43) If (3a+6b)/(5a+12b)=12/23 determine the value of 3a2+5b2/ab

49) Find the remainder when 34^31^301 is divided by 9.

52) If f(x)= ax + b, f(f(f(x)))= 8x + 21

56) Find the last digit of 21999 x 22013

following condition holds: X $ X = 0. Also for all X, X $ (Y $ Z) = X $ Y + Z Find the

Value of 2012 $ 0 + 2012 $ 1912

58) If A=x3 y2 and B=xy3, then find the HCF of A and B.

60) In this question A^ B means A raised to the power B. If f(x) = ax^4-bx^2+x+5

61) In the sequence

62) A number when successively divide by 5, 3, 2 gives a remainder of 0, 2 and 1 respectively

66) If M is 30% of Q, Q is 20% of P, and N is 50% of P, then M/N is

67) What is the reminder of (16937^30)/31

70) Assume that f(1) = 0 and f(m+n)=f(m) + f(n)+ 4(9mn-1)

72) 60, 48, 38, 28, 24, 20, 18

73) What is the remainder of (32^31^301) when it is divided by 9?

78) 70, 54, 45, 41, ?

87) Find the odd man out:

determine with certainty the correct labeling of the buttons?

95) Find the odd man out: 2, 8, 20, 44, 83

104) Find the number of divisors of 1728

106) If (P/Q) – (Q/P) =21/10 ;

127) 30^72^87 divided by 11 gives remainder

128) 1234567891011121314151617181920......424344 what is remainder when divided by

130) W, X, Y, Z are integers. The expression X - Y - Z is even and the expression Y - Z - W is

145) N is an integer and N>2, at most how many integers among N + 2, N + 3, N + 4, N + 5, N +

151) Total number of 4 digit number do not having the digit 3 or 6.

HCF and LCM

Pipes and cistern

5) One card is lost from a pack of 52 cards.

9) Probability that leap year chosen at random will have 53 Sundays.

15) Jose is a student of horticulture in the University of Hose. In a horticultural experiment

Profit and Loss

24) 77!(77!-254!)3/(77!+54!)3 + 54!(277!-54!)3/(77!+54!)3

following condition holds:  X $ X = 0. Also for all X,   X $ (Y $ Z) = X $ Y + Z  Find the

Value of 2012 $ 0 + 2012 $ 1912    

determine with certainty the correct labeling of the buttons?  