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APTITUDE 3

1) 1, 2, 3, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 3, ____. What is the next number in the series and the reason?

2) If m-4 is 7 more than n then m+9 is how much more than n+2.

3) If 10x coins are added to the no. of original coins he has (5y + 1) times more coins. Find out how many coins he had originally in terms of x and y.

4) If 1/5th of a hive of bees flew to the Badamba flower, 1/3rd flew to the slandbara, 3 times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour, and one bee continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant ketaki and malati. What was the total number of bees?

5) If x + y + z =1. Then xy + yz + zx is a)<1/2 b)>1/2 c)=1/2.

6) If it takes 10 technicians working 6 hours to build a server. They start working at 11 AM and 1 technician is added per hour starting at 5 PM. At what time they will finish the server?

7) Find the no of possible palindromes: TYGHHTY.

8) Find the no of possible palindromes: TYHHHTYH.

9) What is the difference in times between clock1 and clock2? Both show the same time 6 hrs back. A clock gain 1 minute an hour, clock 2 gains 2 minutes an hour.

10) In a party 48 person are there, 2/3 are men, remaining are women, half ofwomen are doctor, number of doctor in party is ____?

11) The age of father is thrice of his son, after 15 years the father’s age will be twice of the son. Find the age of father.

12) The ratio of the ages of the father and the son is 5:3. After 10 years it will be in the ratio 3:2. What will be their ages?

13) A Farmer owns a square land of 15m each side with a pole in one of the corners to which he tied his cow with a rope whose length is about 10m. What is the area available for the cow to graze? (Assume pi = 3)

14) A and B can separately do a piece of work in 10 and 15 days respectively. They work together for some time and then B stops. If A completes the rest of the work in 5 days, then B has worked for ?

15) Five friends Lokesh, Manoj, Neeraj, Raveesh and Rohit have agreed to work together on a part-time job offered by a local restaurant. The restaurant works five days a week and this group has the following schedule when they can work:

a. Neeraj and Raveesh can work on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdayb. Raveesh and Rohit can work on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday c. Rohit and Lokesh can work on Monday, Friday and Thursday d. Lokesh and Manoj can work on Friday, Tuesday and Thursday e. Neeraj and Manoj can work on Friday, Tuesday and Wednesday

Which one of the five friends cannot work on Thursdays?

16) The cost, in dollars, of manufacturing x refrigerators is 9,000 + 400x. The amount received when selling these x refrigerators is 500x dollars. What is the least number of refrigerators that must be manufactured and sold so that the amount received is at least equal to the manufacturing cost?

17) A Fraction has the denominator greater than its numerator by 4. But if you add 10 to the denominator, the value of the fraction would then become 1/8. What is the fraction

18)   A takes 4 days to finish a job and B takes 5 days. If both of them work together on the same job, what proportion of the work is done by A?

19) In the right angled triangle below, if tan Ө + sin Ө = 32 / 15 and all sides are whole numbers, find cos Ө .

20) Sum of all 5 digit numbers formed using 1, 3,5,7,9.

21) Arrange the numbers 1 to 9 in any way to obtain the sum 100.a. Use numbers 1 to 9 in the natural order of occurrence.b. Use all the 4 operators and parenthesis

22) If 3 workers can collect 48 kgs cotton in 4 days, how much kgs cotton can 9 workers collect in 2 days?

23) Which of the following circles contains letters in a different order?

A B C D E

24) Each problem in this test consists of a series of diagrams, which follow a logical sequence. You are to choose the next diagram in the series from the four options on the right. Then indicate your answer by choosing the correct one (A B C D)

25) There is a ring road connecting points A, B, C and D. The road is in a

complete circular form but having several approach roads leading to the centre. Exactly in the centre of the ring road there is a tree which is 20km from the point A on the circular road. You have gone around the circular road starting from point A and finish at the same point after touching points B,C and D. You then drive 20 km interior towards the tree from point A and from there reach somewhere between point B and C on the ring road. How much distance you have to travel from the tree to reach the point between B and C on the ring road?

26) Each problem in this test consists of a series of diagrams, which follow a logical sequence. You are to choose the next diagram in the series from the four options on the right. Then indicate your answer by choosing the correct one (A B C D)

A B C D

A B C D

27) Loss incurred by selling a bicycle for Rs.895 is equal to the profit earned by selling it for Rs.955. What is the loss/profit in this case?

28) Choose an appropriate figure from the answer figures to complete the sequence:

is to as is to

A B C D E

29) The units digit of a 3 digit number is square of the hundred’s digit. Which of the following can be the difference between the number and the number formed by reversing the order of the digits?

a) 198 b)196 c)194 d)192

30) Each problem in this test consists of a series of diagrams, which follow a logical sequence. You are to choose the next diagram in the series from the four options on the right. Then indicate your answer by choosing the correct one (A B C D)

31) Singles table tennis tournament is held at IT solutions in which 32 players participated. If a single player is eliminated as soon as the player loses a match. How many matches are required to determine the winner?

32) In a class of 40 students, 30 speak French and 20 speak German. What is the lowest possible number of students who speak both languages?

33) Sum of 1 to 100 is divisible by a) 1,2,4,8 b) 2 & 4 c) 2 d) none

A B C D

34) 3 glasses containing mixture of water and alcohol in ratio 2:3 , 3:4 and , 5:9 When all 3 are mixed what is the new ratio?

35) Answer the following questions based on the information given in the table below:

Population Structure 1985

 Population atstart of Year

(Million)

Live Births Per 1000 population (Jan-Dec)

Deaths per 1000 population (Jan - Dec)

Percentage of population at start of Year aged

under 15

60 or over

UK 56.6 13.3 11.819

21

France 55.2 13.9 10 21 19

Italy 57.1 10.1 9.5 19 19

Germany 61 9.6 11.5 15 20

Spain 38.6 12.1 7.7 23 17

How many live births occurred in 1985 in Spain and Italy together (to the nearest 1,000)?

A) 840,000 B) 8,440,000 C) 1,044,000 D) 104,000

36) Sohanlal purchased 120 reams of paper at Rs.100 per ream.  The expenditure on transport was Rs.480. He had to pay an octroi duty of 50 paise per ream and the coolie charges were Rs.60.  What should be the selling price of each ream if he wants a profit  of 20% ?

37) The interest on a certain deposit at 9% per annum is Rs.405 in one Year.  How much will be the additional interest in one year on the same deposit at10% per annum?

38) The breadth of a rectangular hall is three-fifth of its length.  If the area of the hall is 135 sq.m..what is the difference between the length and breadth of the hall in metres ?

39) (A) 'A * B' means "A is the mother of B" and (B) 'A x B' means "A is the husband of B", Which of the following shows 'P is the father of Q' ?

(a)  Q * M x P (b)  P * Q  (c)  Q * P (d)  P x M * Q (e) None of these

40) Ashok is standing at P.  He walks 10 meters towards the South; then he walks 20 meters towards the West; then he walks 10 meters towards the South; then he walks 20 meters towards the East; then he walks 5 meters towards the North and reaches Q.  What is the straight distance between P and Q in meters?

41) A man purchases 3 TV’s at 11500 Rs per piece, one is sold at 20%gain, other two at 7% loss, find net gain/loss in %.

42) A town has a population of 500000 and 42% of males and 28% of females are married to same town. Find the total number of males?

43) A salesman's commission is 5% on all sales up to Rs.10000 and 4% on all sales exceeding this. He remits Rs.31100 to his parent company after deducting his commission, His sales was worth ?

44) If A tell lies on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and B tells lie on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A says ' Yesterday was one of my lying days' B says 'Yesterday was one of my lying days also". Now tell what day is it today?

45) Concentrations of three wines A, B and C are 10, 20 and 30 percent respectively. They are mixed in the ratio 2 : 3 : x resulting in a 23% concentration solution. Find x

46) Consider the following statements:Albert: Dave did it.Dave: Tony did it.Gug: I did not do it.Tony: Dave lied when he said that I did it.

a. If only one out of all above statements is true, who did it?b. If only one out of all above statements is false, who did it?

47) A rope ladder was left down from a ship. 12 steps of the ladder were exposed at 10:00 am. The queen, who was going to visit the ship, said she would visit at 1:00 pm as she would have to climb lesser number of steps then. The tide in the sea increases from morning to afternoon at the rate of 1.2 meters per hour. The distance between any 2 steps of the ladder is 0.4 meters. How many steps will the queen have to climb?

48) If a driver, drives a car four laps at 10 KMPH for the first lap, 20 KMPH for the second lap 30 KMPH for the third lap and, 60 KMPH for the fourth lap , what is his average speed?

49) A company purchased 3 computer tables in 1995. as the company wanted to renovate the office , sold those tables at RS.2400 each making a profit of 20% of one , no profit no loss on second table and 20% loss on third table. What did the company get in this transaction

50) Out of three A, B, C one is thief. All give two statements. One is false another is true. Find the thief.

A : I did not do, B did not do.B : I did not do, C did not do.

C : I did not do, I don’t know who did it