TCS Previous Questions

1)

If the equation A + B + C + D + E = FG is two

digit number, whose value is 10F + G and the
letters A, B, C, D, E, F and G represents
different digits, if FG is as large as possible,
what is the value of FG?
a) 36
b) 30
c) 32
d) None

2)

Aditya has 35 computer files that he wants to

store on floppy disks. Each floppy disk has a
capacity of 1.44 megabytes (MB), 2 of the
files have size 0.8 MB, 16 have size 0.7 MB
and the remaining 17 have size 0.4 MB, No
file can be split across floppy disks. What is
the minimal number of floppy disks that will
hold all these files?
a) 16
b) 18
c) 15
d) 14

3)

4)

Let P be the product of any three consecutive

positive odd integers each of which is less
than 146. Then the largest integer dividing all
such P is
a) 6
b) 3
c) 7
d) 15
A city in the US has a basketball league with
three basketball teams, the Astra, the Braves
and the Deities. A sports writer notices that
the tallest player of the Astra is shorter than
the shortest player of the Braves. The
shortest of the Deities is shortest of the
Astra, while the tallest of the Braves is taller
than the tallest of the Astra.
Which of the following can be judged with
certainity?
X) Paul, a brave is taller than David, an Astra
Y) David, a Deities is shorter than Edward, an
Astra.
a) X only
b) Both X and Y
c) Y only
d) Neither X and Y

5)

A person has to work on 8 consecutive days

and he gets rest of 9th day. If he starts on
Monday then what is the 12th rest day?
a) Wednesday b) Sunday c) Tuesday d) Monday

6)

At a news channel, there are a total of 10

sports reader, 10 tables where each table has
4 chairs (i.e) 4 chairs per table. It is also
known that each table is occupied by
different number of people, how many tables
will be empty?
a) 5
b) 6
c) 7
d) 4

7) A tree of height 36 m is on edge of the road,

because of the wind, a part of tree fall and
touches the other side of the road, if the
width of the road is 12 m then what be the
height of the broken part?
a) 12 m
b) 18 m
c) 16 m
d) None
8)

The cost of a cup is twice as that of a saucer,

if the cost of a cup increases by 13% and that
of a saucer increases by 19%. By how much
percent would the cost of 6 cups and 6
saucers increase?
a) 15 %

b)

20 %

c) 16

2 % d) None
3

9) A candidate who gets 20% of the maximum

marks in the examination and fails by 30
marks, but another candidate who gets 32%
of the maximum marks gets 6 marks more
than the minimum pass marks. Find the
percentage of passing marks?
a) 26 %
b) 25 %
c) 30 %
d) None
10) In a packing company X, each crate of apples
consists of 4 layers of apples, each layer
consists of 5 rows which has 6 apples each.
Later it was decided that new types of crates
which would consists of 5 layers of apples
with 5 rows, but only 5 apples each row
would be used for packing. What is the
percentage reduction in the number of crates
used for packing?
a) 5 %
b) 10 %
c) 4 %
d) None
11) A monkey could climb 6 meters of a round
pole in one minute but slipped 3 meters in
the next minute. What is the time taken by
the monkey to reach the top of a pole of
length 21 meters?
a) 12 mins b) 13 mins c) 14 mins d) None
12) Every Sunday Mike jogs 3 miles and for the
rest of the week, each day he jogs 1 mile
more than the previous day. What is the
number of miles mike jogs in 2 weeks?
a) 42 miles b) 84 miles c) 86 miles d) None
13) A wheel is moved with a speed of 60 miles
per hour, if the radius of the wheel is 30 cm.
What is the distance travelled by the wheel in
20 mins?
a) 20 miles b) 30 miles c) 40 miles d) None
14) How many vehicle registration
can be formed with digits 1,
digits being repeated) if it
registration number can have
number plates?
a) 205
b) 100
c) 325

plate numbers
2, 3, 4, 5 (no
is given that
1 to 5 digited
d) 120

15) Four friends namely Rahul, Ravi, Rajesh and

Rohan contested for a dairy milk chocolate.
To decide which friend will get the chocolate
they decided to throw two dice. Every friend
was asked to choose a number and if the sum
of the numbers on two dice equals that
number, the concerned person will get the
chocolate. Rahul's choice was 7, Ravi's choice
was 9, Rajesh's choice was 10 and Rohan's
choice was 11. Who has the maximum
probability of winning the amount?
a) Rahul b) Ravi
c) Rajesh d) Rohan
16) 49 members attended the party, where 22
are males and 27 are females. The shake
hands are done between males, females,
male and female. If the total number of
people given the handshakes, how many such
kinds of handshakes are possible ?
a) 55
b) 66
c) 1176
d) None

TCS Previous Questions

27) Find the last two digits of the given product
17) In a month of January, there are 4 Thursdays
and 4 Sundays, then on 1st January of that
month which will be the day?
a) Monday b) Thursday c) Saturday d) Tuesday
18) If three dices are rolled simultaneously, what
is the probability of getting a sum 10 ?
a)

20
216

b)

25
216

c)

27
216

d)

21
216

19) From a pack of 52 cards, three cards drawn

randomly. What is the probability of getting
1 spade , 1 red queen and 1 black king ?
a)

1
420

b)

2
417

c)

3
420

d) None

20) There are 10 stepping stones numbered 1 to

10. A fly jumps from 1st stone as follows:
every minute it jumps to the 4th stone from
where it started (i.e) from 1st it would go to
5th, from 5th it would go to 9th, from 9th it
would go to 3rd, and so on, On which stone
would the fly be at 60th minute if it starts at
the 1st stone ?
a) 5th
b) 2nd
c) 1st
d) 8th
21) Given the following information who is
youngest?
1) C is younger than A.
2) C is younger than D.
3) C is older than B.
4) A is older than D.
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) None
22) If there are Six periods in each working day
of a school, In how many ways can one
arrange 5 subjects such that each subject is
allowed at least one period?
a) 360
b) 1440
c) 600
d) 120
23) 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) 0.55
b) 0.66
c) 0.75
d) 0.86
24) At the end of 1994, Rohit was half as old as
his grandfather. The sum of the years in
which they were born in 3844. How old Rohit
was at end of 1999?
a) 54
b) 59
c) 53
d) 51
25) In the addition of 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

(1941)
a) 21

x (1961)
b) 61

4181

?
c) 01

d) 41

28) Find the last two digits of the given product

(1991)
a) 21

4545

x (2321)
b) 61

5454

?
c) 01

d) None
77

29) What is the remainder, when (44)

divided by 7.
a) 5
b) 3
c) 4
d) None
17

is

30) What is the remainder, when (6)

+ (17)
is divided by 7.
a) 0
b) 1
c) 6
d) None
31) What is the remainder, when (1999)
divided by 7.
a) 5
b) 3
c) 4
d) 1
32) What is the remainder, when (2011)
divided by 8.
a) 5
b) 3
c) 4
d) 1

1000

2011

33) What is the units place of the product (7)

a) 7
b) 3
c) 9
d) 1
34) What is the last digit of (1777)
a) 7
b) 3
c) 9

is

is

1999

29996

d) 1
2012

35) What is the last two digits of (7)

a) 21
b) 61
c) 01
d) 41
36) What is the unit digit of the given series
5

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 99
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3

37) What is the unit digit of the given series

1! + 2! + 3! + 4! + 5! + 100!
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3
38) What is the remainder when the given series
1 ! + 2 ! + 3 ! + 4 ! . 50 ! is divided by 5 ?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 1
39) What is the remainder when the given series
1 ! + 2 ! + 3 ! + 4 ! 100 ! is divided by 7 ?
a) 0
b) 2
c) 1
d) 3
40) What is the remainder when the given series
1 ! + 2 ! + 3 ! + 4 ! . 100 ! is divided by 8 ?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 4
d) 3
41) What is the units place of the sum given
24

(13)
+ (68)
+ 578
a) 1
b) 3
21

26) My fathers age was x in the year x. I am

obviously talking about 20th century. In
which year was my father born?
a) 1886
b) 1892
c) 1890
d) 1992

3881

57

22

+ (24)

13

c) 8
23

+ (57)

68

+ 1234

d) 6
24

42) (7)
+ (7)
+ (7)
+ (7)
= N, then
what is the remainder when N is divided by
25?
a) 2
b) 0
c) 24
d) 9

TCS Previous Questions

1)

How many parallelograms are formed by a

set of 4 parallel lines intersecting another set
of 7 parallel lines?
a) 126
b) 63
c) 256
d) 125

2)

7 nouns, 5 verbs, 2 adjectives are written on

a blackboard, how many ways we can form a
sentence by choosing 1 word of each type
without making a sense of word?
a) 72
b) 70
c) 68
d) 60

3)

In a class of 100 students, the number of

students passed in English only is 46, in
maths only is 46, in commerce only is 58, the
number who passes in English and maths is
16, maths and commerce is 24 and English
and commerce is 26, and the number who
passed in all subjects is 7, then find the
number of students who passed failed in all
the subjects?
a) 11
b) 9
c) 91
d) 58

4)

If (222)
is
a) 1

222

divided by 7, then the remainder

b) 2

c) 4

d) None

5)

What is the smallest number which divides

2880 and gives a perfect square?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 6
d) 5

6)

A person is standing on a railway bridge of

length 70 m long finds that a train crosses
the bridge in 6 secs and crosses himself in 4
secs. Find the length of the train and its
speed in km/hr?
a) 140 m, 35 m/s
b) 28 m, 7 m/s
c) 140 m, 7 m/s
d) 70 m, 35 m/s

7)

Find the last two digits of (2957)

(3081)
a) 42

3661

3643

b) 38

c) 98

d) 22

8)

In a year N, the 320th day of the year is a

Thursday. In the year N + 1, the 206th day of
the year is also a Thursday. What is the 168th
day of the year N 1?
a) Friday
b) Thursday
c) Tuesday
d) Saturday

9)

A bag contains six sticks of the following

lengths 1 cm, 3 cm, 5 cm, 7 cm, 11 cm, 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
4

c)

1
5

d)

2
5

10) If AB313AB (in decimal notation, where A, B

are digits > 0) is divided by 12, then the
smallest value of A + B is
a) 7
b) 6
c) 2
d) 4

11) In the reading room of a library, there are 23

reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a
round table with 9 chairs placed around it.
There are some readers such that in each
occupied reading spot there are different
number of readers. If in all there are 36
readers, how many reading spots
do not
have even a single readers?
a) 8
b) 16
c) 15
d) None
12) Six persons were standing in queue with
different age group, after two years with
average age will be 43 and seventh person
joined with them, hence the current average
age has become 45. Find the age of the
seventh person.
a) 43
b) 69
c) 52
d) 31
13) A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey
and walks over the same route at 4 mph.
what is his average speed for the journey?
a) 2.4 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4 mph
d) 5 mph