1. 2 workers one old and one young live and work together.

Old man takes 30 mins

while young man takes only 20mins to reach office. When will the young man catch
up with the old man if the old man starts at 10:00am while young man starts at
10:05am.
a. 10:18
b.10:20
c.10:15
d.10:10
2. What is the next number in the series 11 23 47 83 131?.
a. 191,263,347 b. 191,264,348
c.193,263,348

d.190,264,348

3. A two digit number is 18 less than square of sum of its digits, how many such
numbers are there?
a. 1
b. 2
c.3
d.4
4. Find the total number of combinations of 5 letters a,b,a,b,b taking some or all at a
time
a. 33
b.11
c.31
d.12
5. In how many ways can one or more of 6 similar perk chocolates and 5 similar kit kat
chocolates be given away?
a. 41
b. 42
c.1953
d.40
6. Dealer buys a product at Rs.1920. He sells at a discount of 20% and still gains 20%
profit. What is the selling price?
a. Rs.1536
b.Rs.2200
c.Rs.2304
d. Not possible
7. What is the sum of all the possible four digit numbers that can be formed with
repetition of 2, 3, 5, 7.
a. 18887
b.1208268
c.466620
d.113322
8. Each of two friends has 20 stamps and 10 post cards. A fair exchange is that in which
a post card is exchanged for a post card and a stamp for a stamp.
9. What are the odds in favour that a leap year selected at random has 53 Fridays?
a. 2:7
b.5:7
c. 2:5
d. 5:2
b.
10. A man sold 12 candies at 10$ at a loss of b%. He sold again 12 candies at 12$ at a
gain of b%. What is the value of b?
a. 8.88
b.10.05
c.9
d.9.09
11. A wall has to be painted with 7stripes. A painter has 3 colours, yellow, blue, green.
But each colour is enough only to make 4 stripes. In how many ways can he make the
7 stripes using only any 2 colours?
12. There is a class of 172 children of which 2 are girls. They initially stand in a particular
order such that 9 boys who are facebook addicts always stand together in a certain
order. Next the positions of boys and girls is shuffled such that the addicts always
stand together in the same order, the girls always stand together in the same order and
the remaining boys are ordered differently. In how many ways can they be distinctly
arranged including the original positioning, given the above conditions?
a. 163!
b.162!*13203
c.163!*13203
d.162!

13. How many different triangles are there in a given equilateral triangle of side 5cm?
a. 1325
b.425
c.455
d.1550
14. In how many ways can 11 different beads be arranged in a necklace?
a. 11!
b.19958400
c.1814400
d.39916800
15. A and B finished a piece of work in 5 days. If A had worked at twice the speed and B
at half the speed, they would have finished the work in four days. How many days
would it have taken A to finish the work alone?
a. 10 days
b.3.33 days
c.3.99 days
d.11 days
16. B takes 3 steps forward and 1 step backward while walking. He walks up a stationary
escalator in 118 seconds. If it takes a total of 40 sec to reach the top when the
escalator is moving, then find the speed of the escalator approx.
a. 3.9steps/sec b.1.9steps.sec
c.2.9steps/sec
d.0.9steps/sec
17. What is the digit in the units place of 136^132?
a. 6
b.8
c.2

d.4

18. The least number to be subtracted from 63520 to make the result a perfect square is
a. 20
b.24
c.18
d.16
19. Find the missing numbers x and y in the series
0,2,5,x,17,28,y
a. 10,41
b.11,31
c.21,40

d.31,51

20. A motorboat covers a certain distance downstream in 30 minutes while it takes 45

minutes to cover same distance upstream. If speed of current is 5kmph, find speed of
boat in still water.
a. 20kmph
b.25kmph
c.10kmph
d.15kmph
Answer 21-25 based on questions below:
In a state the ratio of males to females to children above 10 years is 11:10:9. 50 of males are
illiterates which is 5500. 20% of children and 70% of females are illiterate. The number of
children below 10yars of age is equal in number to 10% of the total female population. 5% of
total population is below poverty line and out of this 80% are illiterates
21. How many people are below poverty line and illiterate?
7200
b.1240
c.3000

d.1000

22. What is the total population of the state?

a. 31000
b.20000

c.21000

d.1000

23. What is the percentage of women approx?

a. 50
b.35

c.52

d.48

24. How many children above 10 years are literates?

a. 11000
b.9000
c.7200
25. How many men are illiterate?

d.7000

a. 2250

b.2500

c.3500

d. none of these

26. A boy is cycling such that the wheel of his cycle is undergoing 420 revolutions per
minute. The diameter of the wheel is 50cm. Find his speed in kmph.
a. 1.37kmph
b.4.59kmph
c.39.5kmph
d.3.95kmph
27. Today Mohans age is 6 years lesser than Gitas age. 50 years back Gita was twice as
old as Mohan. What is Gitas present age?
a. 6
b.52
c.56
d.12
28. Two merchants A and B sell an article for Rs.1000. A made a profit of 10% on CP. B
merchant declares a profit of 10% wrongly calculated against SP. Who has gained
more and by how much?
a. A by 9rs.
b. B by 100rs.
c. B by 9rs.
d.A by 100rs.
29. 20 passengers are to travel by a doube decker bus. 13 can be accommodated in the
upper deck while 7 can be accommodated in the lower. 5 refuse to sit in the upper
deck and 8 refuse to sit in the lower. In how many ways can the passengers be
arranged in the bus?
a. 21
b.25
c.18
d.18
30. What is the remainder when 1! Is divided by 16^15?
a. 1
b.2
c.2

d.0

31. Mani sells vegetables and he marks up the prices at 5% above cost price. Also
weighing stones used by him weight only 90% of correct weight. Find effective
percentage mark up.
a. 15 %
b.16 2/3 %
c.20%
d.18%
32. A grocer mixes 3 quantities of dal costing Rs.25, Rs.30 and Rs.33 per kg in 1:2:5 ratio
and sells mixture at Rs.35/kg. Another seller mixes all 3 varieties in equal ratio and
sells mixture at Rs.35/kg. A person makes an equal purchase from both sellers
spending Rs.350 on the whole. If after purchase, the entire contents are mixed, find
the ratio of the 3 varieties in the new mixture.
a. 11:14:23
b.8:6:15
c.1:1:1
d. 1:2:4
33. Basu and Kiran walk towards each other starting from two opposite towns P and Q
respectively which is 100km apart. Basu walks at 50km/h while Kiran at 20km/h. If
after reaching their destination they turn around and walk back to their starting point,
at what distance from Q does Kiran meet Basu again for the second time?
a. 66.66km
b.33 1/3km
c.60km
d.66 2/3km
34. How many words can be formed by using the letters of the word SURPRISE 4 at a
time?
a. 1296
b.606
c.390
d.426
35. A bag contains 6 balls of one or more colours. One ball is picked and found to be red.
What is the probability that the bag initially had exactly six red balls?
a. 2/7
b.1/5
c.3/5
d.4/5

36. In how many ways can 10 identical pencils be distributed among 4 children such that
each child gets atleast 1 pencil.
a. 360
b. 28
c.184
d.83
37. 6, 24, 60, 120, 210,x. Find x.
a. 366
b.306

c.300

d.336

38. The difference in painting a cuboid at 5.5rs per square inch and 5rs per square inch is
rs.188. The dimensions of the box are in the ratio 3:4:5. Find the volume of the box in
cubic inches.
a. 480
b.516
c.240
d.360
39. 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. 4
b.5
c.8
d.14
40. If n=4p, where p is a prime number greater than 2, how many different positive even
divisors does n have including n?
a. 14
b.15
c.18
d.4
41. Fill missing number 1,3,15,___,51,53,159,161
a. 18
b.17
c.19

d.21

42. From the top of a 9 metres high building AB, the angle of elevation of the top of a
tower CD is 30 and the angle of depression of the foot of the tower is 60. What is the
height of the tower?
a. 12
b. 18
c.9
d. 15
43. 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. 122
b. 66
c.48
d.128
44. 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. 1/25
b/6/25
c.7/25
d.11/25
45. Messrs. Siva Constructions, leading agents in Chennai prepared models of their lands
in the shape of a rectangle and triangle. They made models having same area. The
length and width of rectangle model are 24 inches and 8 inches respectively. The base
of the triangle model is 16 inches. What is the altitude of triangle model from the base
to the top?
a. 24 inches
b. 8 inches
c.20 inches
d.32 inches

46. Leena cuts small cubes of 3 cubic cm each. She joined it to make a cuboid of length
10 cm,width 3cm, and depth 3 cm. How many more cubes does she need to make a
perfect cube? [910]
a. 650
b.750
c.250
d.910
47. A father purchases dress for his three daughters. The dresses are of same colour 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. 1/3
b.1/6
c.2/3
e.1/9
48. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with
sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is
a. 0
b.4
c.3
d.1
49. 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. 5^7
b. 5^6
c.5^9
d.5^8
50. 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. 37.80
b.8
c.40
d.5
51. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each
match with amazing success. It is rumoured that in a match between 2 teams A and B,
Paul picks A with the same probability as As chances of winning. Lets assume such
rumours to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia; Ghana the
stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability
that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?
a. 1/9
b.4/9
c.5/9
d.2/3
52. 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
53. There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green
balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a
box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a
red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is
a. 1/2
b.37/38
c.14/19
d.3/4
54. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a
dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability
that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?
a. a.0.75
b.1
c.0.5
d. 0.25

55. 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. 26hrs
b.25hrs
c.5hrs
d.27hrs
56. 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonalds 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
b.77.5
c.50
d.55
57. In a mixture of a, b, & 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. 13.34L
b. 15.73L
c.16.73L
d.9.45 L
58. . 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.12/212
c.11/12
d. 1/12
59. 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. 900
b.488
c. 563
d.800
60. My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed 10 Hrs later at a place
with coordinates 36N70W. What is the local time when my plane landed?
a. 12 noon
b.6: 40 AM
c.5: 20 PM
d.6:50 AM
61. The difference between two no is 9 and the product of the two is 14. What is the
square of their sum?
a. 120
b.130
c.137
d.145
62. In a 100m race , A beats B by 15m and B beats C by 10m . If A beats C by 5 sec then
find the speed of C.
a. 5 m/sec
b. Data insufficient c.4.7 m/sec
d.4 m/sec
63. Oshkosh did a study of the colors used in African national flags. He found that 38
flags have red, 20 have blue, 13 have both red and blue, and 8 have neither red nor
blue. How many flags
a. have red but not blue?
b. have blue but not red?
c. were included in the study?
a. 25, 7, 53
b.38, 20, 79
c.25, 7, 66
d.30, 20, 60
64. 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.80%
c.75%
d.50%

65. 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. 20s
b.25s
c.15s
c.2s
66. 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. 6%
b.6.5%
c.6.3%
d.6.67%
67. 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. 5/8
b.3/8
c.2/3
d.3/5
68. 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. 70
b.65
c.60
d.50
69. 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. 0.5
b.0.6
c.0.7
d.0.8