Better Government

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Directions of Test
Test Name 2017 Bull CAT 01 Total Questions 100 Total Time 180 Mins
Section Name No. of Questions Time limit Marks per Question Negative Marking
Verbal Ability 34 1:0h:m 3 1/3
DI & Reasoning 32 1:0h:m 3 1/3
Quantitative Ability 34 1:0h:m 3 1/3
Section : Verbal Ability
DIRECTIONS for the question : Read the passage and answer the question based on it.
Question No. : 1
I heartily accept the motto,"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly
and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,"That government is best which governs not at
all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an
expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have
been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought
against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is
only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the
people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing
government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.
This American governmentwhat is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to
posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man
can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the
people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is
excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got
out of its way.Itdoes not keep the country free.Itdoes not settle the West.Itdoes not educate. The character inherent in the
American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not
sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and,
as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made
of India rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and, if
one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions, and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be
classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads. But, to speak practically and as a
citizen, unlike those who call themselves nogovernment men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better
government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step
toward obtaining it.
It can be inferred from the passage that:
AGovernments are never able to truly achieve their ends as citizens come in its way and the overzealous methods of a view
cost the multitude
BGovernments, through a subtle sleight of hand and skills of deception, are able to control the masses and paint a future
picture of themselves as they deem fit
CGovernments are prone to hubris and this is the sentiment that they convey to the future generations
DEven though the government may wish to transfer its legacy to the future without any harm, it continues to lose its
integrity in the present moments
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What does the author wish to imply when he says 'Government is an expedient'?
AGovernments are simply meant to serve as a means to an end, though this fact is not observed in practical reality
BGovernments are the ends for which men seek numerous means and this is something they are not able to achieve
CGovernments are the ends for which men seek numerous means and this is something they are able to achieve
DGovernments are simply meant to serve as a means to an end and this fact is observed in practical reality
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Question No. : 3
The author of the passage would agree with the statement
AGovernments should be all powerful agents of change in society

BGovernments should only serve the minimum cursory functions required of them
CGovernments are indispensible with regards to the goals of society DGovernments have no real practical utility
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DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.
Question No. : 4
It can be inferred from the passage that:
AThe American government has done well to defeat the Mexicans

BNot all governments around the world do not have vested interests
CThe American governments' interference has hindered the progress of America
DGovernments are never intransigent to understand the views of their populace
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DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.
Question No. : 5
What does the author mean when he refers to trade and commerce to be made of India rubber?
AThe primary object of American trade is Indian rubber

BTrade and commerce has shown rubberlike adaptability in order to cope with the issues created by the Government
CTrade and commerce has show rubberlike pliability in order to deal with tough market conditions
DTrade and commerce has successfully managed to mould itself to varying market conditions
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Question No. : 6
I heartily accept the motto,""That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly
and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,""That government is best which governs not at
This American government"what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to
classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.But, to speak practically and as a
Which of the following best describes the structure of the passage?
AAn discrepancy is quantified, deliberated and fixed. BA condition is confronted, took apart and examined.
CA concept is emphasized, and followed up with conceivableconsequences.
DAn observation is given and then evidence is provided for the same.
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We're pretty much all the same in terms of our human DNA. You're 99.99 percent identical in terms of your human DNA to the
person sitting next to you. But that's not true of your gut microbes: you might only share 10 percent similarity with the person
sitting next to you in terms of your gut microbes.
Microbes in our body help us digest our food. They help educate our immune system. They help us resist disease, and they may
even be affecting our behavior. So how do they do all this stuff? Well, in part it's because although there's just three pounds of
those microbes in our gut, they really outnumber us. Well, each of us consists of about 10 trillion human cells, but we harbor as
many as 100 trillion microbial cells.
And it turns out that in addition to traces of our human DNA, we also leave traces of our microbial DNA on everything we
touch. We showed in a study a few years ago that you can actually match the palm of someone's hand up to the computer
mouse that they use routinely with up to 95 percent accuracy. So this came out in a scientific journal a few years ago, but more
importantly, it was featured on "CSI: Miami," so you really know it's true. Today, we can tell whether you're lean or obese with
90 percent accuracy by looking at the microbes in your gut. Even if we sequence your complete genomes and had all your
human DNA, we could only predict your obesity with about 60 percent accuracy.
When we take the microbes from an obese mouse and transplant them into a genetically normal mouse that's been raised in a
bubble with no microbes of its own, it becomes fatter than if it got them from a regular mouse. Sometimes what's going on is
that the microbes are helping them digest food more efficiently from the same diet, so they're taking more energy from their
food, but other times, the microbes are actually affecting their behavior.
People with C. diff, a terrible form of diarrhea, have to go to the toilet up to 20 times a day, We transplanted some of the stool
from a healthy donor into these patients. Immediately, you have this radical change in the gut community. So one day after you
do that transplant, all those symptoms clear up, the diarrhea vanishes, and they're essentially healthy again, coming to
resemble the donor's community, and they stay there.
Excerpted from TED talk by Rob Knight
Which of the following would be an example of a microbial therapy used in the animal kingdom?
AA newborn pup cannot hear, see or excrete for the first 3 weeks. A mother dog licks a pups hind ends to help stimulate
the pup to empty its bladders and bowels.
BThe use of fungi in the manufacture of antibiotics.
CAntibiotics like efrotomycin and lasalocid which are used in animals for growth promotion.
DA mother whale making its newborn calf eat its poop.
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What advantage does microbial therapy have over conventional therapy?
AIt provides for a much larger range of functions in the immune system.
BIn time, it can be customized for a specific community or person. CMicrobes decide how efficiently food is digested.
DMicrobial therapy, by introduction of gut microbes from healthy adults, is an effective treatment for diarrhea.
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What is the implied critique of gene therapy that this article presents?
AIt is restrictive because the microbial genes outnumber human genes.

BA gene is delivered to the body using a virus. Viruses, however, can cause an unwanted immune system reaction.
C99.99% of our genes are the same. 90% of our microbial cultures are different.
DGene therapy calls for long living cells so that the therapy goals can be achieved. Due to the rapid division of many cells,
patients have to be treated with repeated courses of gene therapy.
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Question No. : 10
Indian classical musicians looked down upon the music of the theatre, which formed the basis of early Indian films. And, at that
stage, India's classical music was raga music, presented through khayal songs sung in a dialect that was understood by only a
few. It could be argued that this is true of Western opera but there, words can be separated from the music. In India, this was
just not on. There was a strong religious background to classical Indian music. There were gharanas of singers for whom the
unfolding of the raga had hardly any independent existence outside of the khayal bandish. This also meant that independent
instrumental music was ruled out.
There was, of course, the influence of folk music, but in the early days of film there were not many links between an urban
based cinema and the largely rural folk music. In the days of the silent movies, when musicians played in halls, they started
learning to adjust. The duration and tempo of the ghazal on the harmonium had to suit the film the musician was
accompanying. This in itself was a highly rebellious act since a classically trained Indian musician would have learnt from his
ustad guru that nothing could deviate from the mehfil which had been createda performance meant for the elite few.
But this began to change as the twentieth century dawned. The invention of the gramophone revolutionised both rural life and
Indian music. For the first time, Indian classical music had an existence outside the darbars. Classical records began to be
produced and ragas and songs had to be restricted to fit onto one side of the disc. And, for the first time in Indian musical
history, a musician performed without an audience being present. This was what the Bollywood film was trying to do. The
requirement was for a short song that would appeal as much to northern as southern India; where people might know little of
the Hindi language the film was made intheir mother tongue being Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, or Telugubut could tap their
toes to the music.
As opposed to the Western conductor and his orchestra following the written music in front of them, in an Indian classical
music performance an individual might sing, compose and be his own orchestra. Unless, and until, he takes great pleasure in his
own art, he is not going to keep the audience entranced. This makes Indian music very individualistic, while the Western one is
more collective, following a score and based on teamwork, led by the conductor.
The Indian tradition had created teachers gurus and ustads not composers. Ustads created bandishes or compositions that
taught a student the principles of a raga which, in turn, would continue to be cultivated and refined as the bandishes were
handed down to the next generation. During a performance, disciples will respond to the ustad and he will go on teaching
them in public. This means that, as opposed to the organised collective face a Western classical music performance represents,
Indian music is intuitive, individualistic, and also very anarchic. This is also seen when there are duets in Indian classical music
which can result in one musician throwing a challenge to the other.
Finally with classical Indian music not having a concept of notation, it was film songs with many hundreds being sung every
year that forced Indians to note music down, since it was impossible to remember every tune. A musical piece also had to be
planned and composedit could not depend on inspiration or impromptu improvisation.
Excerpted from Pages 226232 Bollywood A History by Mihir Bose
Why does the author consider Indian classical music anarchic?
AThe lyrics used in the khayals are generally quite unintelligible to the average listener.
BIn Western music everything is planned and there is no deviation from the plan during the performance. Indian classical in
contrast has jugalbaandis which are quite impromptu.
CIn Indian classical music, the disciples have to strictly follow the Guru or Ustads composition; they cannot improvise.
DClassical Indian music does not have the concept of notation, hence each time a raga is played differently which can be
conceived to be chaotic by a westerner.
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toes to the music.
Hindi film music differed in one aspect from Indian classical, in the sense that it aped the practice of notation followed by the
West. What is the reason for the implementation of this practice?
AIndian classical music relied on the memory of the singer and it was honed by practice. In contrast to the limited
number of ragas, the number of film songs was quite high.
BAs a new generation of nonclassicallytrained musicians came to the fore, they found it impossible to remember a tune
and express it to the musicians without notations.
CThe duration and tempo of the accompany instruments of the orchestra during the silent talkies days had to suit the film.
DWhen musicians had to play for the gramophone recording instead of the audience, it required much better time
management, which could only be done with notations.
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toes to the music.
What can be said to be the defining characteristic of the early Hindi film song?
AThe length of the song. BThe broad appeal of the melody. CThe flexibility.
DThe influence from Indian classical music.
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The primary conception of force is associated with the muscular sensation felt when we make an effort to cause or prevent the
motion of matter. Similar effects on the motion of matter can be caused by nonliving agency, and these also are regarded as
due to forces. As is well known, the scientific measure of a force is the momentum that it communicates to a body in given
time. There is nothing very abstract about a force transmitted by material contact; modern physics shows that the momentum
is communicated by a process of molecular bombardment. We can visualise the mechanism, and see the molecules carrying the
motion in small parcels across the boundary into the body that is being acted on. Force is no mysterious agency; it is merely a
convenient summary of this flow of motion, which we can trace continuously if we take the trouble. It is true that the difficulties
are only set back a stage, and the exact mode by which the momentum is redistributed during a molecular collision is not yet
understood; but, so far as it goes, this analysis gives a clear idea of the transmission of motion by ordinary forces.
But even in elementary mechanics an important natural force appears, which does not seem to operate in this manner.
Gravitation is not resolvable into a succession of molecular blows. A massive body, such as the earth, seems to be surrounded
by a field of latent force, ready, if another body enters the field, to become active, and transmit motion. One usually thinks of
this influence as existing in the space round the earth even when there is no testbody to be affected, and in a rather vague way
it is suspected to be some state of strain or other condition of an unperceived medium.
Although gravitation has been recognised for thousands of years, and its laws were formulated with sufficient accuracy for
almost all purposes more than 200 years ago, it cannot be said that much progress has been made in explaining the nature or
mechanism of this influence. It is said that more than 200 theories of gravitation have been put forward; but the most plausible
of these have all had the defect that they lead nowhere and admit of no experimental test. Many of them would nowadays be
dismissed as too materialistic for our tastefilling space with the hum of machinerya procedure curiously popular in the
nineteenth century. Few would survive the recent discovery that gravitation acts not only on the molecules of matter, but on
the undulations of light.
The nature of gravitation has seemed very mysterious, yet it is a remarkable fact that in a limited region it is possible to create
an artificial field of force which imitates a natural gravitational field so exactly that, so far as experiments have yet gone, no one
can tell the difference. Those who seek for an explanation of gravitation naturally aim to find a model which will reproduce its
effects; but no one before Einstein seems to have thought of finding the clue in these artificial fields, familiar as they are. When
a lift starts to move upwards the occupants feel a characteristic sensation, which is actually identical with a sensation of
increased weight.
According to the information given in the passage
I. it is possible to replicate the force of gravitation.

II. the understanding of force is not esoteric in nature.
III. momentum and force are connected to one another.
AI & II BII & III CI & III DAll of above

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increased weight.
According to the author of the passage:
Amany ancient theories of gravitation depended upon too much machinery

Bmany ancient theories of gravitation were too materialistic
Cmany theories of gravitation depend on too much machinery without any consequence
Dmany theories of gravitation that failed in the 19th century were too obscure to use machinery
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increased weight.
It can be inferred from the passage:
Athat gravitation is an open and shut book Bthat gravitation is too abstruse to be fathomed
Cthat gravitation still demands extensive thought Dthat gravitation has not been accorded the status it deserves
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increased weight.
The tone of the author of the passage can be said to be:
Achiefly descriptive merged with optimism Bgenerally factual though mixed with occasional analysis
Csignificantly conjectural, though at times accompanied with an air of superiority
Dprimarily explanatory, though exhibiting slight reservations at times
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increased weight.
According to the information given in the passage:
I. Gravitation was discovered about 200 years ago.

II. Laws of gravitation were known for thousands of years.
III. Significant progress has not been made in explaining gravitation.
Aonly II Bonly III Conly II and III DI, II and III

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increased weight.
In the given passage, the author is trying to:
Aidentify different forces and how they operate Bdiscern and discuss the nature of gravitation
Cdelineate how gravitation operates on bodies Didentify the core components of gravitation
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I suppose there is no man in his sober senses who seriously believes that no other mind than his own exists. There is, to be
sure, an imaginary being more or less discussed by those interested in philosophy, a creature called the Solipsist, who is
credited with this doctrine. But men do not become solipsists, though they certainly say things now and then that other men
think logically lead to some such unnatural view of things; and more rarely they say things that sound as if the speaker, in some
moods, at least, might actually harbor such a view.
Thus, the philosopher Fichte 17621814 talks in certain of his writings as though he believed himself to be the universe, and
his words cause Jean Paul Richter, the inimitable, to break out in his characteristic way: "The very worst of it all is the lazy,
aimless, aristocratic, insular life that a god must lead; he has no one to go with. If I am not to sit still for all time and eternity, if I
let myself down as well as I can and make myself finite, that I may have something in the way of society, still I have, like petty
princes, only my own creatures to echo my words. . . . Every being, even the highest Being, wishes something to love and to
honor. But the Fichtean doctrine that I am my own bodymaker leaves me with nothing whateverwith not so much as the
beggar's dog or the prisoner's spider. . . . Truly I wish that there were men, and that I were one of them. . . . If there exists, as I
very much fear, no one but myself, unlucky dog that I am, then there is no one at such a pass as I."
Just how much Fichte's words meant to the man who wrote them may be a matter for dispute. Certainly no one has shown a
greater moral earnestness or a greater regard for his fellowmen than this philosopher, and we must not hastily accuse any one
of being a solipsist. But that to certain men, and, indeed, to many men, there have come thoughts that have seemed to point
in this direction"that not a few have had doubts as to their ability to prove the existence of other mindsthis we must admit. It
appears somewhat easier for a man to have doubts upon this subject when he has fallen into the idealistic error of regarding
the material world, which seems to be revealed to him, as nothing else than his "ideas" or "sensations" or "impressions." If we
will draw the whole "telephone exchange" into the clerk, there seems little reason for not including all the subscribers as well. If
other men's bodies are my sensations, may not other men's minds be my imaginings? But doubts may be felt also by those
who are willing to admit a real external world. How do we know that our inference to the existence of other minds is a
justifiable inference? Can there be such a thing as verification in this field?
For we must remember that no man is directly conscious of any mind except his own. Men cannot exhibit their minds to their
neighbors as they exhibit their wigs. However close may seem to us to be our intercourse with those about us, do we ever
attain to anything more than our ideas of the contents of their minds? We do not experience these contents; we picture them,
we represent them by certain proxies. To be sure, we believe that the originals exist, but can we be quite sure of it? Can there
be a proof of this right to make the leap from one consciousness to another? We seem to assume that we can make it, and
then we make it again and again; but suppose, after all, that there were nothing there. Could we ever find out our error? And
in a field where it is impossible to prove error, must it not be equally impossible to prove truth?
The main idea of the passage is:
Ato use reasoning to prove that Fichte was right in this views with respect to the unitary nature of self
Bto highlight the logical blunders committed by Fichte in discussing the self
Cto raise concerns on the thesis that the self is all that exists
Dto raise doubts and highlight contrary viewpoints of the topic of the existence of the self alone
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In the passage, the word 'inimitable' means
Arustic Bunrivaled Ccholeric Dirate

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According to the information provided in the passage, a 'Solipsist' is someone who believes:
Athat it is not possible for the rational mind to prove the existence of self Bin the limited precepts of life
Cthat the self is all that youknow to exist Dthat multiple minds actually unify to become one
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The author of the passage exhibits which of the following in the last paragraph of the passage?
Aa hint of malice Ban element of opacity Ca suggestion of perplexity Da modicum of frustration

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According to the information given in the passage, Jean Paul Richter's would agree with the statements:
I. Fichtean doctrine does not account for the social existence of man.
II. Human beings crave for emotions born out of social interactions.
III. Men exist only relative to one another.
AI & II BII & III CI & III DAll of the above

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According to the author of the passage:
AFichte was a rigid believer in the existence of a society driven by selfmotivated individuals
BFichte was a fierce advocate of the thought that no other mind than his own exists
CFichte may or may not have been a strong believer of the thought that no other mind than his own exists
DNone of the above
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DIRECTIONS for the question: Identify the most appropriate summary for the paragraph and write the key for most appropriate
option.
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We are the only animal that chooses what it will look like. True, the chameleon changes colour but not willfully. Unlike us, it
doesnt get up in the morning and ask itself, What shall I look like today? , but we can and do. Indeed, the antiquity of our
body decoration points to the conclusion that it is a key factor in our development as the dominant lifeform on our planet. No
human society has ever been found where some form of body decoration is not the norm.
By customizing their appearance, our ancestors distanced themselves from the rest of the animal kingdom. Within each tribe
this helped them to mark out differences of role, status and kinship. Our ancestors developed extraordinary techniques of body
decoration for practical reasons. How to show where one tribe ends and another begins? How to memorably underline the
significance of that moment when an individual becomes an adult member of society? Arguably, without the expressive
capabilities of such body language we would have been infinitely less successful as species.
Which of the following best summarizes the paragraph above?
1. Humans are the only animal which can change their forms and appear as they wish; our ancestors too gave great importance
to outward decoration for aesthetic reasons
2. Bodily decorations have being used by humans since ancient times, first, to make themselves different than other animals
and then from other clan members or from other age groups, indeed, these physical expressions have helped humans to
flourish
3. To portray a sense of belongingness within members of the same tribe, physical identification became a necessity and bodily
decorations seemed to fulfill this human need
4. Physical appearance was crucial to the development of mankind, and from the time of our ancestors, we have used bodily
decorations to determine the status a person holds in his group, which decides the role that he will play in the working of the
group
A2 B C D
DIRECTIONS for the question: The five sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4, and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form
a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
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1. If they're targeted and the university does nothing to help them, they will be left to their own resources in coping with the
damage wrought.
2. The theory that vulnerable students should be guaranteed psychological security has roots in a body of legal thought
elaborated in the 1980s and 1990s and still read today.
3. One scholar, Mari J. Matsuda, was particularly insistent that college students not be subjected to the violence of the word
because many of them are away from home for the first time and at a vulnerable stage of psychological development.
4. That might have, she wrote, lifelong repercussions.
5. Feminist and antiracist legal scholars argued that the First Amendment should not safeguard language that inflicted
emotional injury through racist or sexist stigmatization.
in Order
A25314 B C D
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1. The author, Richard Cohen, could not have realised just how inescapable his theme would become.
2. But the idea of the biological clock is a recent invention. It first appeared in the late 1970s.
3. The Clock Is Ticking for the Career Woman, the Washington Post declared, on the front page of its Metro Section, on 16
March 1978.
4. His article opened on a lunch date with a Composite Woman who is supposed to represent all women between the ages of
27 and 35.
5. Women in many times and places have felt pressure to bear children.
A52314 B C D
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1. The financial markets have sensed it and are preparing for disaster.
2. Peripheral countries must abandon austerity as part of a Europewide programme to raise productivity, financial institutions
must be taken into public ownership, and debt written off.
3. Hidebound by neoliberal economics, they will continue with austerity, privatisation and liberalisation.
4. After three years of festering, truly drastic action is now required.
5. But it is unthinkable that Europe's current political leaders would embark on such changes.
A42531 B C D
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coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of six numbers as your answer.
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1. It is ubiquitous, yet hidden.

2. As a result, women from the northeast continue to be seen as 'loose' and African students like Yannick are given a subhuman
status because of the colour of their skin.
3. You can sense it but you can't really pin it down.
4. So much for the land of Gandhi.
5. The biggest hurdle in tackling racism is its invisible character.
6. Worse still, in India it is institutionalised with law enforcers themselves complicit in perpetuating stereotypes.
A513624 B C D
DIRECTION for the question: The six sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4,5 and 6) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a
coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of six numbers as your answer.
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1. However, this reasoning is ultimately problematic and leads me to ask: Is the best argument made on racial grounds or
economic grounds?
2. The argument made by ICP is of course one based upon racial grounds because race is a federally protected class; the
economic class known as the poor is not.
3. It seems the reasoning is to blame the government for subsidizing affordable housing in poor, black communities instead of
richer, whiter highresource communities, a policy which supposedly perpetuates the cycle of poor black people in poor black
communities.
4. Is there even a distinguishable difference between the two anymore?
5. Leave out the racial signifiers and just like that we're talking about integrating the rich and the poor.
6. However, their argument can be seen as an argument against economic segregation"or its more popular term, free market
capitalism.
A314265 B C D
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For most of human history, works of visual art were the direct expression of the society that made them. The artist was not an
autonomous creator; he worked at the behest of his patron, making objects that expressed in visible form that patron's beliefs
and aspirations. As society changed, its chief patrons changed"from medieval bishop to absolutist despot to captain of
industry"and art changed along with it. Such is patronage, the mechanism by which the hopes, values, and fears of a society
make themselves visible in art. When World War I broke out in 1914, that mechanism was delivered a blow from which it never
quite recovered. If human experience is the raw material of art, here was material aplenty but of the sort that few patrons would
choose to look upon.
1. The system of patronage, which underpinned artistic expression, was ripped apart by World War I, ultimately leading art
down a path from which it never quite recovered
2.Art, a factor of the kind of patronage it received, was dealt a body blow by World War I in 1914 which left art without its
moving force
3.Art, driven by the different forms of patronage across different eras, suffered a blow in 1914 when World War I and never
quite recovered from it
4. The system of expression of art, driven by patrons, was derailed by World War I, which opened a whole new of human
experience for art to explore
A4 B C D
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DIRECTIONS for question: Four sentences related to a topic are given below. Three of them can be put together to form a
meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.
Question No. : 32
1. It is under the influence of this motive, for instance, that many a man lives above his income, not for the purpose of gratifying
any real wants either of himself or his family, but for the sake of keeping up appearances, though he is exposing his creditors to
considerable losses, his family to many probable disadvantages, and himself to almost certain disgrace in the future.
2. We at one time think ourselves or others more, and, at another time, less blamable for the selfsame acts, or we come to
regard some particular class of acts in a different light from what we used to do, either modifying our praise or blame, or, in
extreme cases, actually substituting one for the other.
3. It is under the influence of this motive, too, that many men, in the upper and middle classes, rather than marries on a modest
income, and drop out of the society of their fashionable acquaintance, form irregular sexual connections, a source of injury to
themselves and ruin to their victims.
4. As soon as a man begins to care about what others will say of circumstances not under his own control, such as his race, his
origin, his appearance, his physical defects, or his lack of wealth or natural talents, he may be laying up for himself a store of
incalculable misery, and is certainly enfeebling his character and impairing his chances of future usefulness.
A2 B C D
Question No. : 33
1. Unemployment and hardship in Lancashire and Yorkshire were, on the face of it, not subjects that Orwell could have been
expected to know that much about.
2. If he did not have much relevant experience, what Orwell could offer his publisher were energy and passion, and a small but
growing reputation as a young man with something to say.
3. In early 1936 the publisher Victor Gollancz commissioned George Orwell to conduct an investigation into the plight of the
unemployed in Englands industrial North, a project that led to the book The Road to Wigan Pier.
4. True, he had written vividly about tramps and tramping, spikes, charity wards and common lodging houses, but he had
little experience of England outside London and the home counties and few friends or acquaintances who were working class
or came from a nonprivileged background.
A2 B C D
Question No. : 34
1. The year was 1981a year in which, as Bryan Burrough observes in Days of Rage, his sprawling history of Americas post60s
radical underground, the country had suffered the greatest number of fatalities from terrorism in that era of radical violence.
2. That figure would not be surpassed again until the year the World Trade Center was bombed.
3. The terrorists attacked their target in New York on a sunny Tuesday in autumnbut not the sunny Tuesday we now
commemorate.
4. If the attack proved anything, it was the extraordinary resilience of revolutionary violence in the United States long after it
had any conceivable chance of bringing about social change assuming that such a chance existed in the first place.
A4 B C D
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Section : DI & Reasoning
DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the information given below and answer the question that follows.
Question No. : 35
A professional juggler juggles 10 balls of different colors, 1 yellow, 5 black, 2 red and 2 green, but in a specific order, a part of
which is [ B, B, _ , _ , _ , G, _ , _ , _ , R]. The blanks denote that it is not known which ball is juggled in that place. He juggles the
first ball black at time t = 1 second, the second ball black at time t = 2 second, and so on unitl the tenth ball red at time t =
10 second, after which he again throws the first black ball at t = 11 second. This cycle goes on for a very long time. He throws
the balls from his right hand and catches them in his left hand. A ball is airborne for exactly 9 seconds. Some additional facts
as given below:
1. He throws the green ball at t = 23 second.
2. He throws the black ball at t = 47 second.
3. He catches the black ball at t = 87 second.
4. No 3 black balls are thrown consecutively.
5. No 2 red balls are thrown consecutively.
At what time in seconds does he catch the green ball for the seventh time?
A32 B33 C42 D43
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as given below:
Which ball does he throw at t = 5 seconds?
ABlack BRed CGreen DCannot be determined
Question No. : 37
as given below:
Which ball does he catch at t = 98 seconds?
ABlack BRed CGreen DYellow

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Question No. : 38
The Uttam Group of Industries owns four companies ABC Ltd., JV Ltd., PQR Ltd. and XYZ Ltd. The Chartered Accountant of the
group has reported Sales and Expenses figures to the Income Tax Department and submitted challans for the tax paid
according to these figures. All the companies pay a 40% tax on profits, which are calculated as the difference between the Sales
and Expenses. An Accountant with the Income Tax Department found the reported figures to be a bit odd and warded the
following observations to an Auditor with the Department.
The Profits of PQR Ltd. and XYZ Ltd. were each equal to a fifth of the Sales of XYZ Ltd..
The Sales of JV Ltd. and PQR Ltd. were each equal to four times the Profits of JV Ltd..
ABC Ltd. reported Profits as 15% of Sales, while PQR Ltd. reported Profits as a sixth of its Expenses.
ABC Ltd. reported Expenses as 15% less than the Expenses of PQR Ltd and PQR Limited reported expenses as Rs. 432
crores.
The Auditor scrutinized the books of all four companies and determined the following.
The Sales of ABC Ltd. and JV Ltd. were reported 10% less than actual while those of XYZ Ltd. were reported 20% less than
actual.
The Expenses of ABC Ltd., JV Ltd. and PQR Ltd. were reported 20% more than actual while those of XYZ Ltd. were reported
25% more than actual.
The Profits of PQR Ltd. were reported 20% less than actual.
Based on this information, the Income Tax Department issued notices to all the companies stating that they would have to
make good the difference in the actual tax and the amount of tax paid as well as pay a penalty amounting to ten times this
difference.
How much less Profits were reported by ABC Ltd. and JV Ltd. together?
ARs. 245 crore BRs. 55 crore CRs. 228 crore DRs. 98 crore
Question No. : 39
crores.
actual.
difference.
What is the total penalty paid by JV Ltd. and XYZ Ltd. together?
ARs. 1100 crore BRs. 1066 crore CRs. 100 crore DRs. 1190 crore
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Question No. : 40
crores.
actual.
difference.
Which of the following represents the actual total Profits of the four companies as a percentage of their actual Sales?
A37.55% B42.3% C35.4% D32.7%
Question No. : 41
crores.
actual.
difference.
If Profitability is calculated as Profits as a percentage of Expenses, what is the difference between the actual Profitability of ABC
Ltd. and XYZ Ltd?
A31.8 B38.45 C9.8 D46

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Question No. : 42
The following figure shows the steps in the multiplication of a 3digit integer, AAC by a 2digit integer, DD.Each of the letters
A, B, C and D represents a distinct prime number.
A A C
D D
B D B C
B D B C 0
B C C A C
Which of the following is the value of the product D BAC?
ABC A C + BC BAC B C + AC CDC B C + DC DNone of these
Question No. : 43
A A C
D D
B D B C
B D B C 0
B C C A C
What is the value of BDD2 A D B2?
ACBCBC BDCDCC CCDCCAC DCACBC
Question No. : 44
A A C
D D
B D B C
B D B C 0
B C C A C
Which of the following is not the value of A + B + C + D?
AB C + A BD C + 2 CB D + A + C DA B + D
Question No. : 45
A A C
D D
B D B C
B D B C 0
B C C A C
What is the value of the product AAC DD?
A25575 B25535 C75525 D75535

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DIRECTIONS for the question: Study the table/s given below and answer the question that follows.
Question No. : 46
Table A provides data about the Wind Speed Reading and the corresponding increase in the Beaufort Number over the
Beaufort Number of the immediately preceding Wind Speed Reading. Table B gives the Sea Disturbance Number and its
corresponding Beaufort Number given in parentheses and the associated Average Wave Height. Table C gives the observable
wind characteristics i.e. the common name assigned to the wind, for the corresponding Beaufort Number.
Table A Table B Table C

Wind Sea
Increase
Speed Disturbance Average
in Beaufort Wind
Reading Number Wave
Beaufort Number Name
in Beaufort Height
Number
Km/Hr Number
15 1 00 0 0 Calm
611 1 01 0.1 1 Light Air
Light
1219 2 12 0.3 2
Breeze
Gentle
2038 1 24 0.4 4
Breeze
3949 3 35 0.6 5 Moderate
5061 2 48 1.2 8 Fresh
6274 3 510 2.4 10 Strong
7588 3 613 4 13 Gale
89102 2 716 6 16 Storm
>102 1 818 9 18 or more Hurricane
Beaufort Number is 0 for Wind Speed Reading of less than 1 km/hr and for all wind speeds in excess of 1 km/hr, the Beaufort
Number is calculated over that of the immediate preceding wind speed reading.
What is the range over which the Average Wave Height can vary when the wind speed reading varies between 20 and 74
km/hr?
A0.3 2.4 B0.1 6 C0.6 4 DData inadequate

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Question No. : 47

Wind Sea
Increase
in Beaufort Wind
Reading Number Wave
in Beaufort Height
Number
Km/Hr Number
15 1 00 0 0 Calm
611 1 01 0.1 1 Light Air
Light
1219 2 12 0.3 2
Breeze
Gentle
2038 1 24 0.4 4
Breeze
3949 3 35 0.6 5 Moderate
5061 2 48 1.2 8 Fresh
6274 3 510 2.4 10 Strong
7588 3 613 4 13 Gale
89102 2 716 6 16 Storm
Which of the following is not a possible Wind Speed Reading in km/hr when the wind is either Light Breeze, Gentle Breeze,
Moderate, Fresh or Strong?
A60 B42 C32 D72

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Question No. : 48

Wind Sea
Increase
in Beaufort Wind
Reading Number Wave
in Beaufort Height
Number
Km/Hr Number
15 1 00 0 0 Calm
611 1 01 0.1 1 Light Air
Light
1219 2 12 0.3 2
Breeze
Gentle
2038 1 24 0.4 4
Breeze
3949 3 35 0.6 5 Moderate
5061 2 48 1.2 8 Fresh
6274 3 510 2.4 10 Strong
7588 3 613 4 13 Gale
89102 2 716 6 16 Storm
The coast guard of Bangladesh raises cautionary signal 1 for a Gale, 2 for a Storm and 3 for a Hurricane in times of inclement
weather. On 5th June 2003, the wind speeds at Coastal Bangladesh were in excess of 94 km/hr. Which of the following is true
regarding the cautionary signal raised?
AThe signal raised was 1 BThe signal raised was 2 CThe signal raised was 3 DEither signal 1 or signal 2
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Question No. : 49

Wind Sea
Increase
in Beaufort Wind
Reading Number Wave
in Beaufort Height
Number
Km/Hr Number
15 1 00 0 0 Calm
611 1 01 0.1 1 Light Air
Light
1219 2 12 0.3 2
Breeze
Gentle
2038 1 24 0.4 4
Breeze
3949 3 35 0.6 5 Moderate
5061 2 48 1.2 8 Fresh
6274 3 510 2.4 10 Strong
7588 3 613 4 13 Gale
89102 2 716 6 16 Storm
What is the increase in the Sea Disturbance Number when the Wind Speed Reading has increased from 17 km/hr to 83 km/hr?
A3 B6 C4 D5
Question No. : 50
Seven upcoming actresses Anushka, Deepika, Kangana, Mrinmayee, Parineeti, Shraddha and Vidya are auditioning for the
lead role in the latest Salman Khan thriller. Each audition is scheduled for an hour, with four auditions scheduled from 9 a.m. to
12 noon and three auditions scheduled from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The Audition Schedule with the security guard at the movie set
revealed the following:
Vidya will be either the first or the last actress to be auditioned.

Mrinmayee will be auditioned after Kangana.
Mrinmayees audition is scheduled for 3 p.m. if Deepikas audition is scheduled for 12 noon.
Parineetis audition is scheduled exactly an hour after Mrinmayees audition.
Which of the following could be the schedule of auditions from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.?
AVidya, Anushka, Deepika, Mrinmayee, Parineeti, Kangana, Shraddha

BAnushka, Kangana, Shraddha, Deepika, Vidya, Mrinmayee, Parineeti
CDeepika, Anushka, Kangana, Shraddha, Mrinmayee, Parineeti, Vidya
DVidya, Mrinmayee, Parineeti, Shraddha, Kangana, Deepika, Anushka
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Question No. : 51

If Deepikas audition is scheduled for 12 noon, which of the following must be true?
AVidyas audition is scheduled for 9 a.m. BAnushkas audition is scheduled for 11 a.m.
CKanganas audition is scheduled for 2 p.m. DParineetis audition is scheduled for 3 p.m.
Question No. : 52

Who amongst the following actresses cannot be scheduled for an audition at 2 p.m.?
ADeepika BKangana CMrinmayee DParineeti
Question No. : 53

Which of the following statements must be false?
AKangana is scheduled for an audition at 9 a.m. BParineeti is scheduled for an audition at 10 a.m.
CAnushka is scheduled for an audition at 2 p.m. DDeepika is scheduled for an audition at 4 p.m.
2017 Bull CAT 01
DIRECTIONS for the question: Go through the following graph/information and answer the question that follows.
Question No. : 54
The 2730 families in a township own at least one vehicle from amongst Activa, Pulsar and Royal Enfield. In the diagram below,
the square depicts the number of families who own an Activa each, the circle depicts the number of families who own a Pulsar
each and the isosceles right triangle depicts the number of families who own a Royal Enfield each. The overlaps account for
families who own more than one of the three vehicles.
What is the total number of vehicles? in numerical value
A3990 B C D
Question No. : 55
How many more families own exactly one vehicle than families who own at least two vehicles? in numerical value
A1190 B C D
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Question No. : 56
What is the ratio of the number of families who own exactly one vehicle to the number of families who own exactly two
vehicles?
A7 : 1 B14 : 3 C17 : 11 D17 : 4
Question No. : 57
If an Activa costs Rs.60,000, a Pulsar costs Rs.90,000 and a Royal Enfield costs Rs.120,000, what is the value, in lakhs, of all the
vehicles owned by all the families? in lakh Rs.
A3150 B C D
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Question No. : 58
At the recent Republic Day celebrations, five sportsmen were awarded the Arjuna Awards for achievements in their respective
fields of archery, cricket, football, tennis and wrestling. In alphabetical order, the first names of the five sportsmen are Abhinav,
Baichung, Gautam, Leander and Yogeshwar and their last names are Bhutia, Bindra, Gambhir, Kumar and Paes.
1. Abhinav, Bhutia, and the football player were on vacation in Dubai when the awards were announced.
2. Baichung Gambhir isn't the tennis player.
3. Neither Bindra nor Kumar is the wrestler.
4. Neither Bhutia nor Paes is Gautam.
5. Leander received his award for his achievements in archery.
6. Bhutia isn't the famous tennis player.
7. Bindra isn't the man awarded for his achievements in cricket.
8. Yogeshwar received his award after the cricket player.
9. Abhinav, Paes, and the tennis player were the only married sportsmen at the awards ceremony.
10. Neither Bhutia nor Paes is the wrestler.
Which of the following is the correct order of first name, last name and the sport for which the sportsman won the Arjuna
award?
ABaichung Bhutia Football BAbhinav Kumar Cricket CLeander Gambhir Tennis

DYogeshwar Kumar Wrestling
Question No. : 59
Which of the following statements is true?
ABhutia did not win the award for archery BYogeshwar did not win the award for football
CGautam did not win the award for tennis DKumar did not win the award for Wrestling
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Question No. : 60
Leander is _________
Athe sportsman who won the award for tennis Bthe sportsman who won the award for archery
Cthe sportsman who won the award for wrestling Dthe sportsman who won the award for football
Question No. : 61
Which of the following is not the correct order of the sportsmen who won the Arjuna awards for archery, cricket, football, tennis
and wrestling respectively?
ALeander, Abhinav, Paes, Bindra, Gambhir BLeander, Kumar, Paes, Gautam, Baichung
CBhutia, Kumar, Yogeshwar, Gautam, Gambhir DAbhinav, Gautam, Baichung, Leander, Yogeshwar
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Question No. : 62
Twelve cricket teams participated in a national level cricket tournament. These teams were distributed equally into two pools A
and B. In the first round, each team played a match against all the other teams in its pool. Then three teams with highest
average points from each pool qualified for the second round where all the teams played against each other once. Again, three
teams with highest average points qualified for the final. In the final round, all the teams played a match against each other and
the one with the highest average points was declared to be the winner of the tournament. A winner of any match gets two
points, the loser loses one point and in case of a draw both the teams get one point each. Average points of a team are defined
as the total points earned by the team so far divided by the number of matches played by the team so far.
The following table gives the total points earned and the average points for each team at the end of the tournament.
Teams A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6
Total 14 0 5 0 8 3 3 13 3 6 2 7
Average 1.17 0 0.5 0 0.8 0.6 0.6 1.08 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.58
points
Also,
I. The winner of the tournament won both its matches in the finals.
II. In second round, the total points earned by all the teams are 50.
Find the total number of matches won by A2 and A4 together in the first round. in numerical value
A2 B C D
Question No. : 63
Twelve cricket teams participated in a national level cricket tournament. These teams were distributed equally into two pools A
and B. In the first round, each team played a match against all the other teams in its pool. Then three teams with highest
average points from each pool qualified for the second round where all the teams played against each other once. Again, three
teams with highest average points qualified for the final. In the final round, all the teams played a match against each other and
the one with the highest average points was declared to be the winner of the tournament. A winner of any match gets two
points, the loser loses one point and in case of a draw both the teams get one point each. Average points of a team are defined
as the total points earned by the team so far divided by the number of matches played by the team so far.
The following table gives the total points earned and the average points for each team at the end of the tournament.
Teams A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6
Total 14 0 5 0 8 3 3 13 3 6 2 7
Average 1.17 0 0.5 0 0.8 0.6 0.6 1.08 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.58
points
Also,
I. The winner of the tournament won both its matches in the finals.
II. In second round, the total points earned by all the teams are 50.
How many points did the second runner up earn in the finals? write the correct option
1. 1 2. 2
3. 0 4. 2
A2 B C D
2017 Bull CAT 01
DIRECTIONS for the question: Analyse the graph/s given below and answer the question that follows.
Question No. : 64
The graph shows the percent shares of different regions in crude oil production. The total crude oil production in 1973 and
2001 was 2861 million tons and 3574 million tons respectively.
How many regions produced less crude oil in 2001 than in 1973? in numerical value
A3 B C D
Question No. : 65
The production of crude oil in Latin America in 2001 was more than its production of crude oil in 1973 by approximately
million tons. in numerical value
A114 B C D
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Question No. : 66
As compared to 1973, how many regions have increased their share of crude oil production in 2001 by more than 75%? in
numerical value
A1 B C D
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DIRECTIONS for the question: Mark the best option

Question No. : 67
A B C D
DIRECTION for the question: Answer the following question as per the best of your judgment.
Question No. : 68
From a point S outside a circle, two tangents SP and SQ are drawn as shown in the figure given below. It is also given that RP=
RQ, where point R lies on the given circle, PQ= 4 cm and the measure of PRQ is 300. Find distance between in center of PSQ
and R.
A B8 C12 D
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DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
Question No. : 69
Consider 100 terms in arithmetic progression with first term as 3 and common difference d. Sn and Sm denote the sum of the
first n terms and the first m terms of the progression respectively. If 1 n 20, m = 5n and the ratio Sm : Sn is constant
irrespective of the value of n, which of the following cannot be a term of the progression?
A81 B371 C105 D57
DIRECTIONS for the question: Answer the question independently of any other question.
Question No. : 70
There are 3 weights in the forms of discs with diameters 3 cm, 4 cm and 5 cm. When placed on one side of a weighing balance,
they equally balance a fourth weight on the other side of the weighing balance. If the thicknesses and densities of all discs are
the same, then what is the diameter of the fourth disc?
A52 cm B6 cm C102 cm D53 cm
Question No. : 71
All reputed Engineering colleges lure their students, while onesixth of all Engineering colleges that lure their students are
reputed and onefourth of all Engineering colleges that are recognized, lure their students. There are exactly 6 reputed
Engineering colleges which are also recognized, and 39 Engineering colleges which are recognized but do not lure their
students. If there are a total of 78 Engineering colleges which lure their students, then how many of these are neither
recognized nor reputed? Assume that there is no college which is not reputed, nonrecognized and does not lure there
students
A39 B65 C58 D45
Question No. : 72
Tejas and Swatej were sitting on a bench around the perimeter path of Sarasbaugh, a garden with a circular layout. They saw a
dog at the edge of the garden, who was, as the crow flies, 120 meters away from them. Tejas walked towards the dog at 9
km/hr in order to pat it. After patting the dog, he started walking back towards Swatej, who at the same time started walking
towards Tejas both taking the shortest route. They met midway on Tejas's journey back to the bench. In the meantime the dog
had taken the radial route to reach the temple, which was at the centre of Sarasbaugh. After meeting, Tejas, Swatej also wanted
to have a closer look at the dog. He took the shortest route from their meeting point to reach the temple in 18 seconds. How
much had the dog walked to reach the temple? answer in metres
A75 B C D
Question No. : 73
An equilateral triangle is inscribed in a circle of radius 7 cm. The largest possible square is inscribed in the equilateral triangle.
Then a circle is inscribed in the square, an equilateral triangle is inscribed in the circle and a square is then inscribed in the
triangle. What is the ratio of the sum of the perimeters of both the triangles to the sum of the perimeters of both the squares?
A B C D

Question No. : 74
In 2008, of the total sales volume of a company, 40 % was comprised of product A and 60 % was comprised of product B. In
2009, product C was added and the total sales volume increased by 25 %, but product A lost 20 % of its initial volume to
product B while product B lost 30 % of its initial volume to product A. What percent of the total sales volume in 2009 is
comprised of product A?
A32 B40 C50 DCannot be determined

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Question No. : 75
The daily wages of Kalu and Bawa and also of Bawa and Lalit are in the ratio 2 : 3 each. A third of Lalit's wages exceeds half of
Kalu's wages by Rs. 80. Each of them spends the same amount of money and their savings are in the ratio 1 : 9 : 21. What is
their combined expenditure? in Rs.
A900 B C D
Question No. : 76
If K! has exactly 6 different prime factors, find the value of K?
A6 B11 C13 DMore than one value of K exists
Question No. : 77
Which of the following will not leave a remainder of 13?
A111040 18 B133885 16 C246047 38 D162661 23
Question No. : 78
In an effort to explain concepts of Time & Work to his students, a Math professor connects an inlet and an outlet to an empty
cistern. The inlet can fill the empty cistern in 10 minutes while the outlet can empty the full cistern in 20 minutes. Beginning
with the inlet, the professor opens the inlet and the outlet alternately for a minute each. However, when the cistern should have
been full, he finds that due to a leak in the bottom, the cistern is still 37% empty. How long will the leak alone take to empty
the full cistern?
A20 minutes B50 minutes C1 hour D1 hour 40 minutes
Question No. : 79
Rajat purchased one or more pencils, one or more erasers and one or more sharpeners from a shop where price of a pencil and
an eraser is Rs. 3 and 20 paisa respectively. Number of sharpeners purchased by Rajat is 7 more than the number of erasers.
Which of the following is always true?
AIf the total expense of Rajat is Rs. 20, he can purchase a maximum of 70 erasers.
BLast digit of number of sharpeners purchased by Rajat is 7 or 2.
CSum of number of pencils, erasers and sharpeners is a prime number. DNone of the options is always true.
Question No. : 80
The largest number by which the sum of the cubes of any 3 consecutive numbers is always divisible is:
A9 B8 C5 D2
Question No. : 81
Let A = 101 102 103 ..... 199

B = 1001 1002 1003 ..... 1099
C = 10001 10002 10003 ..... 10099
Remainder of A, B and C by 18 are say r, s and t respectively. Find 2r s t. in numerical value
A B C D
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Question No. : 82
Bhanwars Restaurant buys equal quantities of milk from three milkmen Gokudas, Shyamsunder and Kishenlal. The milk
bought from these three milkmen contain water, such that the percentages of water form a geometric progression respectively.
For making milkshakes, Bhanwar mixes the milk bought from the milkmen in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4 respectively, so that the mixture
contains 52% water. For making faludas, Bhanwar mixes the milk bought from the milkmen in the ratio 6 : 5 : 4 respectively, so
that the mixture contains 36% water.
For making kulfi, Bhanwar mixed the milk bought from the milkmen in the ratio 3 : 2 : 1 respectively. What was the percentage
of pure milk in the mixture?
A27% B36% C73% D48%
Question No. : 83
If the amount is times the sum after 3 years at compound interest compounded annually, then the rate of interest per annum is
A25% B50% C D
Question No. : 84
A circle with centre O has chords AC and BD intersecting each other at point Y. A, O and B are collinear. Find the area of the
cyclic quadrilateral ABCD, if the radius of the circle is 2 units and AD = BC = 1 unit.
A B C DCannot be determined
Question No. : 85
Task called "HELL IN WELL" was going on in roadies. Rannvijay had to come out of well. Each time he tries to climb, he covers
half the distance left and half a metre. If he comes out after 4 such climbings, the depth of well is: in m
A15 B C D
Question No. : 86
There is a group of hundred positive integers in some fixed order such that the sum of any 6 consecutive values is the same. If
the values of the 12th, 23rd, 34th, 45th and 56th terms are 12, 23, 34, 45 and 56 respectively, then which of the following is
definitely true about the sum of the 28th and the 80th terms of the sequence?
AIt is less than 70 BIt is greater than 56 and less than 74 CIt is greater than 80 and less than 95
DNone of the above is true
Question No. : 87
A merchant buys 80 articles, each at Rs. 40. He sells n of them at a profit of n% and the remaining at a profit of 100 n%.
What is the minimum profit the merchant could have made on this trade?
ARs. 2160 BRs. 1420 CRs. 1580 DRs. 2210

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DIRECTIONS for the question : Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
Question No. : 88
[log1+log1+3+log1+3+5+.log1+3+5+.+19] 2[log1+log2+.log7] = a + bP + cQ. If log2 = P and log3 = Q, then

which of the following is a possible value for a, b, c? [Assume base 10 for all the log functions.]
A2,6,4 B1,7,3 C2,3,8 D1,3,8
Question No. : 89
Jacob bought a scooter for a certain sum of money. He spent 10% of the cost on repairs and sold the scooter for a profit of Rs
1100. How much did he spend on repairs if he made a profit of 20%? in Rs.
A500 B C D
Question No. : 90
In the figure below, O is the centre of the semicircle and lies on the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle. If O divides the
hypotenuse in the ratio m : n, what is the area of the shaded region? Options are in terms of m and n
A B C D
Question No. : 91
Two vessels are filled with water. 60% of the water in the first vessel is poured into the second vessel. Then 50% of the water in
the second vessel is poured into the first vessel. The ratio of the quantity of water in the first vessel to that in the second vessel
is now 11 : 7. What was the ratio of the quantities of water in the first and the second vessel initially?
A1 : 4 B5 : 6 C4 : 3 D5 : 4
Question No. : 92
Amika wants to buy 4 cupcakes from an infinite supply of three types of cupcakes: chocolate, vanilla & gemsladen. In how
many different ways can she buy cupcakes? in numerical value
A15 B C D
Question No. : 93
A56 B56 C14 D14

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Question No. : 94
A man set of fuse for a blast to occur in 30 seconds. He ran away at a rate of 8 yards/sec and sound travels at 1080 feet per
second. When the man heard the blast, he ran approximately... Given that 1 yard = 3 feet
A300 yd B352 yd C245 yd D512 yd
Question No. : 95
The house on one side of a road are numbered using consecutive even numbers. The sum of the numbers of all the houses in
that row is 170. If there are at least 6 houses in that row and a is the number of the sixth, then
A2 a 6 B8 a 12 C14 a 20 D22 a 30
Question No. : 96
A triangle has sides measuring 10, 17 and 21 units.A square is inscribed in the triangle such that one side of the square lies on
the longest side of the triangle. The other two vertices of the square touch the two shorter sides of the triangle. What is the
length in units of the side of the square?
A B C D
Question No. : 97
A standard six faced die sum of numbers on opposite faces is 7 is rolled. Let x be the product of the five visible numbers. What
is the largest number that surely divides x?
A6 B12 C120 D24
Question No. : 98
Madhu, Shilpa and Mehr along with seven other girls had reached the finals of Miss Timbuktu 2003. Intially all the girls had an
average weight of 47.9 kgs. After the elimination of Madhu, the average weight got reduced to 46 kgs. If the average weight of
the rest of the girls is 3kgs less than the average weight of Madhu, Shilpa and Mehr together then, Madhu's weight is in kgs.:
A50 B55 C60 D65
Question No. : 99
p, q, r and s are positive real numbers such that p + q + r + s = x, where x is a constant. Find the maximum value of x px
qx rx s?
Ax4 pqrs/64 B81x4/256 C27x3/512 D9x4/4
Question No. : 100
Proxima Centauri is the closest star from our solar system. It is 4.24 light years away from us. The speed of light is 300,000 km/s.
How long would it take the Juno spacecraft, the fastest manmade object, traveling at 40 km/s to reach this star? Answer
rounded off to closest year
A31800 B C D
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QNo:1,Correct Answer:D
Explanation:
Option 4 can be derived from the lines: This American governmentwhat is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to
transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity?
In this case, you need to know the meanings of the words in order to derive the answer:
Endeavoring: Attempt by employing effort
Unimpaired: Not damaged or diminished in any respect
Posterity: All future generations
Using the meanings above, we can derive option 4 as the correct answer.
QNo:2,Correct Answer:A
Explanation:
In order to derive the answer, you need to know the meaning of the word 'expedient'. It means: A means to an end; not necessarily
a principled or ethical one/ Serving to promote your interest. Using this, we can see that option 1 is the best answer in the given
case.
Also keep in mind that the author is clearly critical of governments and wants their minimum interference possible in the practical
world.
QNo:3,Correct Answer:B
Explanation:
Options 1 and 3 go against the central idea of the passage wherein the author recommends that the powers of the governments
needs to be curtailed.
Option 2 is the correct answer as it gels with the central argument of the author of the passage.
Option 4 is incorrect as the author does imply that governments have a certain minimum function to fulfill in society.
QNo:4,Correct Answer:C
Explanation:
The answer can be derived from the lines: The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished;
and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Option 1 goes against the facts provided in the passage.
Option 2 in unnecessarily convoluted and not derived from the passage.
Option 4 goes against the facts provided in the passage.
Explanation:
Refer to the lines: Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles
which legislators are continually putting in their way
In this question, the comparison of trade and commerce to rubber is made only to illustrate the difficult conditions being created
by the government. Keeping this in mind, we find option 2 to be apt answer for the given question.
Explanation:
In the given case, the author provides his observation that there should be no government. He then goes on to provide evidence
why this is the case. Considering this, option 4 is the best answer in the given case.
Explanation:
When a calf eat its mothers fecal matter, the microbes get transferred to the calfs gut from the moms gut.
1 is taking about stimulation not microbes
2, 3 antibiotics mean against microbes. So both these options can be ruled out.
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Explanation:
The question is asking us to compare conventional drug based therapy with microbial therapy. Tailoring a therapy for an
individual is certainly a huge advantage since it would improve the efficacy of any treatment.
The other options are advantages of microbial therapy but do not contrast it with conventional therapy.
Explanation:
We are looking for an argument which is relevant to this article. So it has to include some comparison with microbial therapy. By
invoking the differences this option is indicating that tailor made therapies will work better with microbial than genes. Or that
gene therapy will work for a very limited set of people.
1 even if microbial genes outnumber human genes, the absolute quantity of human genetic material floating around our body is
awesome.
2 and 4 represent genuine problems with gene therapy, but do not involve a comparison with microbial therapy, hence they
cannot be inferred from this article.
Explanation:
Anarchy means lack of order. Refer to the passage: During a performance, disciples will respond to the ustad and he will go on
teaching them in public. This means that, as opposed to the organised collective face a Western classical music performance
represents, Indian music is intuitive, individualistic, and also very anarchic.
1 is true to an extent because of the use of an obscure dialect, but this cannot be construed to be the reason for lack of order.
3 this would have lead to more order, not less.
4 variation in music cannot be considered to be unorganized music.
Explanation:
Refer the last paragraph: With classical Indian music not having a concept of notation, it was film songs with many hundreds
being sung every year that forced Indians to note music down, since it was impossible to remember every tune.
2 not mentioned in the passage
3 a musician could synchronise the music just by seeing what is happening on the screen.
4 it is debatable whether scores are the only way of improving time management.
Explanation:
The requirement here was for a short song that would appeal as much to northern as southern India.
2 does not mention that the length had to be short
3 not mentioned in the passage
4 folk and western music were also influencers for Hindi film music.
Explanation:
Statement I can be derived from the lines: The nature of gravitation has seemed very mysterious, yet it is a remarkable fact that in
a limited region it is possible to create an artificial field of force which imitates a natural gravitational field so exactly that, so far
as experiments have yet gone, no one can tell the difference.
Statement II can be derived from the lines: Force is no mysterious agency.
Statement III can be derived from the lines: As is well known, the scientific measure of a force is the momentum that it
communicates to a body in given time.
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Explanation:
Refer to the lines: It is said that more than 200 theories of gravitation have been put forward; but the most plausible of these have
all had the defect that they lead nowhere and admit of no experimental test. Many of them would nowadays be
The lines above help us identify option c as the correct answer.
Explanation:
The author of the passage clearly states that gravitation has not been clearly understood and this implies that there is still work
that needs to be done with respect to gravitation. Keeping this in mind, option c is the apt answer in the given case. None of the
other options find representation in the passage.
Explanation:
In the given case, the author of the passage is explaining forces and gravitation and the work done in the field. Also, he displays a
slight disappointment that the true nature of gravitation has not been fathomed. This sentiment finds best reflection in option d.
None of the other options are completely accurate and commit some error or the other.
Explanation:
This is an easy question and the answer can be directly found from the lines: Although gravitation has been recognised for
thousands of years, and its laws were formulated with sufficient accuracy for almost all purposes more than 200 years ago, it
cannot be said that much progress has been made in explaining the nature or mechanism of this influence.
Explanation:
In this case, the author of the passage is concerned with gravitation and gravitation is the main subject of the passage. This helps
us rule out option a. Out of the other options, option b is the best one as it is the most generic in nature and it encapsulates the
central ideas of the passage. Options c and d are incorrect as these are the things that have not been found till now and are being
searched for.
Explanation:
In this case, options c and d are the close ones. The first two options are ruled out as the passage has a broader purpose rather
than discussing just Fichte. Now coming to options c and d, the difference between these two options is a minor one. In fact, if you
look closely, option d contains option c and also and an extra point. The author does raise doubts about the existence of the self
alone but then he also goes to highlight contrary viewpoints to these doubts. This makes option d the correct answer in the given
case.
Explanation:
Inimitable means ' Defying imitation; matchless'.
The meanings of the options are as follows:
Rustic: Characteristic of rural life
Unrivaled: Eminent beyond or above comparison
Choleric: Easily moved to anger
Irate: Feeling or showing extreme anger
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Explanation:
Refer to the lines: I suppose there is no man in his sober senses who seriously believes that no other mind than his own exists.
There is, to be sure, an imaginary being more or less discussed by those interested in philosophy, a creature called the Solipsist,
who is credited with this doctrine.
The lines clearly indicate that a Solipsist is someone who believes no other mind that his own exists. Later in the passage, the mind
is referred to as the self. This makes option 3 the correct answer in the given case.
Explanation:
In the last paragraph of the passage, the author raises concerns with regards to ones views of others and whether these can be
certain or not. He displays a certain sense of confusion and perplexity in his views. This lack of clarity finds best reflection in option
c.
Explanation:
Statement I can be derived from the lines: But the Fichtean doctrine that I am my own bodymaker leaves me with nothing
whateverwith not so much as the beggar's dog or the prisoner's spider.
Statement II can be derived from the lines: Every being, even the highest Being, wishes something to love and to honor.
Statement III is not mentioned in the passage and is too farfetched a derivation in this case.
Explanation:
The author of the passage clearly exhibits doubts with respects to Fichte's viewpoints and whether Fichte himself believed strongly
in these views. Refer to the lines: Just how much Fichte's words meant to the man who wrote them may be a matter for dispute.
QNo:25,Correct Answer:2
Explanation:
This is the best option because it covers all the relevant parts used since ancient times, to differentiate from other animals in the
kingdom, then from other tribes and then to show emergence into adulthood and finally to say that the bodily decorations helped
us flourish as a species.
Option 1. We cannot change our forms, we can choose what to look like. Our ancestors gave importance to bodily decorations for
practical purposes and not for aesthetic reasons
Option 3. It was not only belongingness that bodily decorations revealed. The physical identification was also used to reveal the
status and role of the individual.
Option 4. Again here only one aspect role identification is talked about. Kinship and status were also important.
Explanation:
The paragraph is talking about the theory vulnerable students and psychological security. One scholar was particularly insistent
suggests that something was said before this sentence, which is what is talked about in sentence 5. Hence 2 is a better opening
sentence. Moreover, what Mari J Matsuda said needs to be all together, as this is not a conversation.Hence the final order is 25314.
Explanation:
This is one of the easier parajumble questions that you will solve. It follows the general to specific rule and the relationships are
easy to identify. Statement 5 introduces the subject of the paragraph. Statement 2 takes this forward and statement 3 provides
details with respect to a specific articles that appeared in 1978. Statements 1 and 4 simply close the loop by providing details
about the said article. Thus the sequence is 52314
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Explanation:
This is an extremely tricky problem which can cause a lot of troubles if you do not spot the correct pairs. The one pair that is an
absolute must is 53. Statement 5 refers to Europe's current political leaders and the pronoun 'they' in statement 3 refers to these
leaders. This is the one conclusive pair in this case. The next step is identifying the opening sentence. We can see that statement 4
is the apt opening sentence in this case as it sets up the discussion for the other sentences.Hence the correct sequence is 42531.
Explanation:
Statement 5 is the generic opening sentence in this case. The set of connected statements is 624. Statement 6 is a lament about
the situation in India, statement 2 continues this and statement 4 is the conclusion in this case. The key in this question is which
statement follows 5 , statement 1 or 3. Statement 3 follows statement 1 as if explains the ubiquitous and hidden character of
racism. Remember, in order to determine the correct order of these two statements, you need to ask yourself: which statements
explains the other one? In this case, statement 3 explains statement 1. Thus, it follows 1 and the correct order is 513624
Explanation:
The first pair that you should spot in this parajumble is 31. These two are bound by the reasoning mentioned in statement 3.
Then, statement 4 questions the two arguments illustrated in statement 1. Statement 2 answers the question raised in the pair 14.
Statement 6 is connected to statement 2 as both statements make a common reference to argument. Statement 5 is connected to
statement 6 as it takes forward the sentiment expressed in statement 6. This leads us to the answer, 314265.
Explanation:
When you read the answer options for this question, be careful not be misled by phrases that are directly picked up from the
paragraph. These are meant to create diversions and lead you to select answer options that are not correct. Also, remember that
the paragraph mentions that the system of patronage for art never quite recovered from the blow it received when World War I
broke out. The paragraph does not state that art received this blow; it is the system of patronage that underwent the change. This
line of thinking helps us rule out options 1, 2 and 3. Option 4 correctly states what is intended by the author of the passage.
Explanation:
In the given case, statement 2 is the odd one out. Statement 4 introduces the subject of the connected statements; statements 1
and 3 take the sentiment forward and inform us of the consequences of the situation described in statement 1. Statement 2 does
not fit the given sequence of sentences.
Explanation:
In the given case, the statements are all related to the same subject (the famous writer George Orwell). How does one distinguish
the misfit sentence in such a case? You need to carefully read all statements and notice any change or inflection in sentiment. In
statement 2, you will find that the author jumps from a negative sentiment to a positive. This clearly does not fit in the given case
and makes this statement the odd one out.
Explanation:
The pair of connected statements in this case is: 312. These three statements make a generic reference to the 1981 terrorist
attack and explain what went happened in that particular year. Statements 1 and 2 are linked by the common reference to the
number of fatalities. Statement 4 is the odd one out as it places emphasis on the effects of the attack. This is a topic missing from
the other three statements.
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Explanation:
Let us name the balls are as B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, G1, G2, R1, R2 and Y.
Now, it is given that he throws B1 at times t = 1, 11, 21, .... seconds.
And a ball remains air bourn for 9 seconds. This means that he catches B1 at times t = 10, 20, 30, .... seconds.
Hence, he takes exactly 1 second for toggling the ball from his left to right hand.
From 1: He throws the green ball at t= 23 seconds, which means that he had thrown the same ball at t = 13 and 3 secons too, thus
it is the 3rd ball from start that he throws.
Similarly, from point 2, the 7th ball from start that he throws is black.
From 3: He catches black ball at t = 87 seconds, which means he then throws the same black ball at t = 88 seconds, and thus it is
the 8th ball from the start.
We now get the order as follows:
B1, B2, G1, _ , _ , G2, B3, B4, _ , R1
Now, from point 4 and 5
The 9th ball cannot be both black and red, thus it has to be yellow, and we have no clue about the 4th and the 5th balls. Thus the
final order is:
B1, B2, G1, B5/R2, R2/B5, G2, B3, B4, Y, R1
He catches G1 at times t = 12, 22, 32, 42, ...... seconds and G2 at t = 15, 25, 35, ...... seconds. Thus he catches a green ball at t = 42
seconds for the seventh time.
Explanation:
B1, B2, G1, _ , _ , G2, B3, B4, _ , R1
final order is:
B1, B2, G1, B5/R2, R2/B5, G2, B3, B4, Y, R1
He either throws B5 or R2 at t = 5 seconds.
Explanation:
B1, B2, G1, _ , _ , G2, B3, B4, _ , R1
final order is:
B1, B2, G1, B5/R2, R2/B5, G2, B3, B4, Y, R1
We see that as he throws the yellow ball at t = 9, 19, 29, ....... 99 seconds, hence he catches them at t = 18, 28, 38, ....... 88, 98
seconds.
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Explanation:
The expenses of PQR Ltd. are Rs. 432 crores. So profits are 432/6 = Rs. 72 crores and sales are 432 + 72 = Rs. 504 crores.
Since the profits of XYZ Ltd. are also Rs. 72 crores, its sales are 72 5 = Rs. 360 crores and expenses are 360 72 = Rs. 288 crores.
Since the sales of JV Ltd. are also Rs. 504 crores, its profits are Rs. 126 crores and expenses are Rs. 378 crores.
Expenses of ABC = 0.85 432 = Rs 367.2 crore. This must be 85% of the sales as profit is 15% of the sales. Hence sales =
367.2/0.85 = Rs 432 crores. Profits of ABC Ltd.,are 0.15 432 = Rs. 64.8 crores
According the auditor, the sales of ABC Ltd. are only 90% of actual. So actual sales of ABC Ltd. are 432/0.9 = Rs. 480 crores. Actual
expenses of ABC Ltd. are 367.2/1.2 = Rs. 306 crores and actual profits are 480 306 = Rs. 174 crores.
Similarly, the actual sales of JV Ltd. are 504/0.9 = Rs. 560 crores. The actual expenses of JV Ltd. are 378/1.2 = Rs. 315 crores and
its profits are 560 315 = Rs. 245 crores.
The actual expenses of PQR Ltd. are 432/1.2 = Rs. 360 crores. The actual profits of PQR Ltd. are 72/0.8 = Rs. 90 crores and its
actual sales are 360 + 90 = Rs. 450 crores.
The actual sales of XYZ Ltd. are 360/0.8 = Rs. 450 crores. The actual expenses of XYZ Ltd. are 288/1.25 = Rs. 230.4 crores and its
actual profits are 450 230.4 = Rs. 219.6 crores.
Based on these calculations, we can make the following table.
Reported Values Actual Values

ABC Ltd. JV Ltd. PQR Ltd. XYZ Ltd. ABC Ltd. JV Ltd. PQR Ltd. XYZ Ltd.
Sales 432 504 504 360 480 560 450 450
Expenses 367.2 378 432 288 306 315 360 230.4
Profits 64.8 126 72 72 174 245 90 219.6
Taxes 25.92 50.4 28.8 28.8 69.6 98 36 87.84
The total profits reported by ABC Ltd. and JV Ltd. together are 64.8 + 126 = Rs. 190.8 crores while their actual profits are 174 +
245 = Rs. 419 crores. The required difference is Rs. 228.2 crores.
Explanation:

Sales 432 504 504 360 480 560 450 450
Expenses 367.2 378 432 288 306 315 360 230.4
Profits 64.8 126 72 72 174 245 90 219.6
Taxes 25.92 50.4 28.8 28.8 69.6 98 36 87.84
JV Ltd. and XYZ Ltd. have together paid taxes of 50.4 + 28.8 = Rs. 79.2 crores while their actual taxes are 98 + 87.84 = Rs. 185.84
crores. The difference is Rs. 106.64 crores. Thus the penalty is Rs. 1066.4 crores.
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Explanation:

Sales 432 504 504 360 480 560 450 450
Expenses 367.2 378 432 288 306 315 360 230.4
Profits 64.8 126 72 72 174 245 90 219.6
Taxes 25.92 50.4 28.8 28.8 69.6 98 36 87.84
From the table, the actual total profits of the 4 companies are 174 + 245 + 90 + 219.6 = Rs. 728.6 crores and their actual total
sales are 480 + 560 + 450 + 450 = Rs. 1940 crores. The required percentage is 37.55%.
Explanation:

Sales 432 504 504 360 480 560 450 450
Expenses 367.2 378 432 288 306 315 360 230.4
Profits 64.8 126 72 72 174 245 90 219.6
Taxes 25.92 50.4 28.8 28.8 69.6 98 36 87.84
The actual profitability of ABC Ltd. is 174/306 = 56.86% while that of XYZ Ltd. is 219.6/230.4 = 95.31%. The required difference is
38.45.
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Explanation:
Since A, B, C and D are single digits and prime numbers, the only possible values are 2, 3, 5 or 7.
Since C D yields an answer with the units digit C, the only possibility is C = 5 and D is an odd number.
Since C = 5, D can only be 3 or 7.
Suppose D = 7.
Then, C D = 5 7 = 35, so there is a carry over of 3.
Now, (D A) + 3 should yield an answer ending in B.
Since C = 5 and D = 7, B can only take values 2 or 3.
So, (D A) + 3 = (7 A) + 3 should yield an answer ending in 2 or 3.
In other words, (7 A) should yield an answer ending in 1 or 0.

Both these cases are not possible.
So, D cannot be 7 and therefore D = 3.
If D = 3, then D C = 3 5 = 15
there is a carry over of 1.
Now, if A = 7, then B = 2 and if A = 2, then B = 7.

Suppose A = 2 and B = 7.
Then, (AAC) D = 225 3 = 675.
Since this answer should have been a 4digit integer, we know that A cannot be 2 and B cannot be 7.
So, A = 7 and B = 2.
Thus, the values of the letters are A = 7, B = 2, C = 5 and D = 3.
D (BAC) = 3 275 = 825.

In option 1, (BC) (A C) + (BC) = 25 (7 5) + 25 = 900.
In option 2, (AC) (B C) + (AC) = 75 (2 5) + 75 = 825.
Thus the answer is option 2.
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Explanation:
Since A, B, C and D are digits and prime numbers, the only possible values are 2, 3, 5 or 7.
Suppose D = 7.

If D = 3, then D C = 3 5 = 15

Then, (AAC) D = 225 3 = 675.
So, A = 7 and B = 2.
(BDD)2 (A D B)2
= (233)2 (7 3 2)2
= 2332 422
= 54289 1764
= 52525
= (CBCBC).
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Explanation:
Suppose D = 7.

If D = 3, then D C = 3 5 = 15

Then, (AAC) D = 225 3 = 675.
So, A = 7 and B = 2.
A + B + C + D = 7 + 2 + 5 + 3 = 17.
Substituting for the letters, options 1, 2 and 4 yield 17 while option 3 yields 18.
The correct answer is option 3.
Explanation:
Suppose D = 7.

If D = 3, then D C = 3 5 = 15

Then, (AAC) D = 225 3 = 675.
So, A = 7 and B = 2.
(AAC) (DD) = BCCAC = 25575.
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Explanation:
Here an accurate interpretation of Table A would enable one to solve entire set very easily. The Beaufort number is 0 when wind
speed is less than 1 km/hr. Now let us construct a table for Beaufort numbers with the corresponding wind speed reading (i.e.
cumulative of the column reading given in the second column of table A).
Wind Speed Beaufort
Reading Number
15 1
611 2
1219 4
2038 5
3949 8
5061 10
6274 13
7588 16
89102 18
>102 19
Explanation:
Wind Speed Beaufort
Reading Number
15 1
611 2
1219 4
2038 5
3949 8
5061 10
6274 13
7588 16
89102 18
>102 19
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Explanation:
Here an accurate interpretation of Table A would enable one to solve entire set very easily.The Beaufort number is 0 when wind
Wind Speed Beaufort
Reading Number
15 1
611 2
1219 4
2038 5
3949 8
5061 10
6274 13
7588 16
89102 18
>102 19
When the wind speeds are in excess of 94 km/hr the corresponding Beaufort Number is 18 or 19. The wind type for Beaufort
Number 18 or more is Hurricane and during Hurricane the coast guard of Bangladesh raises cautionary signal 3.
Explanation:
Wind Speed Beaufort
Reading Number
15 1
611 2
1219 4
2038 5
3949 8
5061 10
6274 13
7588 16
89102 18
>102 19
Explanation:
In option 1, Parineetis audition is scheduled for 2 hours after Mrinmayees audition. Since this violates the given conditions, option
1 cannot be true.
In option 2, Vidyas audition is not scheduled as either the first or the last. Since this violates the given conditions, option 2 cannot
be true.
Option 3 seems to satisfy all the given conditions.
In option 4, Mrinmayee is auditioned before Kangana. Since this violates the given conditions, option 4 cannot be true.
The best answer is option 3.
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Explanation:
If Deepikas audition is scheduled for 12 noon, then Mrinmayees audition is scheduled for 3 p.m. and therefore Parineetis audition
is scheduled for 4 p.m. Vidya must therefore be the first actress auditioned at 9 a.m. Hence option 1.
Explanation:
Since Parineeti is scheduled for an audition exactly an hour after Mrinmayee, Parineeti cannot be auditioned at 2 p.m. as
Mrinmayee would then be auditioned at 1 p.m. which is not possible. Thus, Parineeti cannot be auditioned at 2 p.m.
Explanation:
If Parineeti is scheduled for an audition at 10 a.m., then Mrinmayee must be auditioned at 9 a.m. But, Mrinmayee is scheduled for
an audition after Kangana. Since this condition is violated, we can conclude that Parineeti cannot be auditioned at 10 a.m. Hence
option 2.
Explanation:
From the diagram, the number of families who own an Activa equals the area of the square, the number of families who own a
Pulsar equals the area of the circle and the number of families who own a Royal Enfield equals the area of the triangle. The
number of families who own an Activa only equals the yellow part of the square, the number of families who own a Pulsar only
equals the pink part of the circle, the number of families who own an Activa and a Pulsar only equals the orange region common
to the square and the circle and the number of families who own an Activa, a Pulsar and a Royal Enfield equals the area of the
triangle.
Suppose the equal sides of the triangle are 14 each. The area of the triangle is 14 14 = 98. The hypotenuse of this triangle
is 142 so that the side of the square is 142 and the radius of the circle is 72. The area of the circle is (72)2 = 308 and the
area of the pink part of the circle is 308/2 = 154. The orange part of the circle equals 154 98 = 56. The area of the square is
(142)2 = 392. The yellow part of the square is 392 154 = 238.
The total number of families represented in the diagram equals the area of the square and the area of the semicircle = 392 + 154
= 546. This represents 2730 families, which gives us a multiplication factor of 5.
The total number of vehicles is (98 + 308 + 392) 5 = 798 5 = 3990.
Explanation:
triangle.
The number of families who own exactly one vehicle is (238 + 154) 5 = 392 5 = 1960 and the number of families who own at
least two vehicles is 2730 1960 = 770. The required difference is 1960 770 = 1190.
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Explanation:
triangle.
The number of families who own exactly one vehicle is (238 + 154) 5 = 392 5 = 1960. The number of families who own
exactly two vehicles is 56 5 = 280. The required ratio is 1960 : 280 = 7 : 1.
Explanation:
triangle.
The number of Activa is 392 5 = 1960 and the value is 1960 60000 = 1176 lakhs. The number of Pulsar is 308 5 = 1540
and the value is 1540 90000 = 1386 lakhs. The number of Royal Enfield is 98 5 = 490 and the value is 490 120000 = 588
lakhs. Thus the total value is 1176 + 1386 + 588 = Rs.3150 lakhs.
Explanation:
The three people mentioned in each of the 1st, 3rd, 4th and the 9th clues are three different people.
Abhinav could be the wrestler or the cricket player and his last name could be Bindra or Kumar.
But since Bindra is neither the wrestler nor the cricket player and Kumar is not the wrestler, Abhinav must be the cricket player and
his last name must be Kumar.
Now, Gautam can only be Bindra.
Gautam is one of the football player and the tennis player and Baichung is one of football player and wrestler.Yogeshwar is one of
the football player or the tennis player or the wrestler.
Leander and Yogeshwar are one of Bhutia and Paes.

Since Yogeshwar is one of the football player and the tennis player and Bhutia is neither the football player nor tennis player, we
can conclude that Leander is Bhutia.
Since Paes is not the tennis player, Paes must be the football player and therefore Bindra must be the tennis player and Baichung
must be the wrestler.
We can now match the given information as:
Abhinav Kumar Cricket

Baichung Gambhir Wrestling
Gautam Bindra Tennis
Leander Bhutia Archery
Yogeshwar Paes Football ; Hence it can be seen that only second option matches with this. Hence 2.
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Explanation:


Yogeshwar Paes Football. Hence 4th option is the answer.
Explanation:


Yogeshwar Paes Football. Hence 2nd option is the answer as Leander is the one who won the award for Archery.
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Explanation:


Yogeshwar Paes Football
Thus all the given orders are correct except for the last option. Hence 4th option is the answer.
Explanation:
Let a, b and c be the number of matches won, lost and drawn respectively by A2 in first round. Then, a + b + c = 5 and 2a b + c
= 0. Adding these two equations, we get, 3a + 2c = 5, which holds only when a = c = 1. Similarly, A4 won 1 match in the first
round. Thus, the number of matches won by A2 and A4 in the first round is 2.
Explanation:
The teams playing in the second round were A1, A3, A5, B2, B4 and B6.
The total points earned by them after second round are 50 (From II).
But the total points earned by A3, A5 and B4 after second round are 5 + 8 + 6 = 19.
i.e., the total points earned by A1, B2 and B6 after second round are 50 19 = 31.
Also, we know the total points earned by A1, B2 and B6 after finals, which are 14 + 13 + 7 = 34. That means points scored by all
the teams in the finals are 3. From I, the winner of the tournament i.e., A1 won both its matches in the finals.
In these two matches, the total points earned by the three teams are 4 1 1 = 2.
The match between B2 and B6 cannot be a draw. Either B2 or B6 must have won that match. Now, consider the second
round. If B6 would have won the match between B2 and B6 in finals, then the total points earned by B2 and B6 after second round
would have been 13 (1 1) = 15 and 7 (1 + 2) = 6 and the average points would have been 1.5 and 0.6 respectively, which
contradicts the fact that the three teams with the highest average points went to the next round, as B4s average points after
second round are 0.6. B2 won the match against B6 in finals. The second runner up i.e., B6 earned 1 1 = 2 points in finals.
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Explanation:
From the graph, we can estimate the percent shares and calculate values of crude oil production as follows.
Region 1973 2001

% Qty % Qty
Africa 10 286 10.5 375
Asia 3 85 5 178
China 2 57 5 178
Europe 0.5 14 0.2 7
Latin
8.5 243 10 357
America
Middle
37 1058.57 29.6 1057.9
East
OECD 24 686 27.7 990
USSR 15 429.15 12 428.88
From the table we can see that Europe, Middle East and USSR produced less crude oil in 2001 as compared to 1973.
Explanation:
Region 1973 2001

% Qty % Qty
Africa 10 286 10.5 375
Asia 3 85 5 178
China 2 57 5 178
Europe 0.5 14 0.2 7
Latin
8.5 243 10 357
America
Middle
37 1058.57 29.6 1057.9
East
OECD 24 686 27.7 990
USSR 15 429.15 12 428.88
The production of crude oil in Latin America in 2001 was approximately 357 243 = 114 million tons more than the production in
1973.
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Explanation:
Region 1973 2001

% Qty % Qty
Africa 10 286 10.5 375
Asia 3 85 5 178
China 2 57 5 178
Europe 0.5 14 0.2 7
Latin
8.5 243 10 357
America
Middle
37 1058.57 29.6 1057.9
East
OECD 24 686 27.7 990
USSR 15 429.15 12 428.88
Chinas shares in 1973 and 2001 were 2% and 5% respectively. This is an increase of more than 75%. It happens only in case of
China.
Explanation:
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Explanation:
Explanation:
Since this ratio is constant, i.e., it does not depend on n, (6 d) = 0

d = 6.
If a number belongs to this AP, then it must be of the form 3 + 6(n 1).
Going by the options,
81 = 3 + 6(n 1) n = 14;
371 = 3 + 6(n 1) n = 62.33;
105 = 3 + 6(n 1) n = 18;
57 = 3 + 6(n 1) n = 10.
Thus, 371 cannot be a term of this AP.
Explanation:
Since 3 discs balance the 4th, the volume of the 3 discs equals the volume of the 4th. As the thickness of each of the discs is the
same, the volumes will depend only on the squares of the radii. If the radius of the 4th disc is R, then R2 = (3/2)2 + (4/2)2 + (5/2)2
= 50/4 R = 52 / 2. So the diameter of the 4th disc is 52cm.
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Explanation:
Given t = 0.
There are six reputed colleges which are recoginzed so z = 6.
39 Engineering colleges which are recognized but do not lure their students so x = 39
There are a total of 78 Engineering colleges which lure their students, so y + z + p + w = 78
Onesixth of all Engineering colleges that lure their students are reputed so 1/6 (y + z + p + w) = z + p
1/6 78 = 6 + p
p=7
Onefourth of all Engineering colleges that are recognized, lure their students, so 1/4 (x + y + z) = y + z
y=7
No. of colleges which are neither recognized nor reputed
= w = 78 y z p
= 78 7 6 7
= 58
Explanation:
Chord is of 120 metres. Since Tejas and Swatej met midway on the chord i.e. at 60m, it means the speed of Tejas and Swatej is
same. Hence, Swatej's speed is 9 km/hr i.e., 2.5 m/s. he walked for 18 seconds means 45 metres.He took the shortcut means he
went perpendicular. So the distance to the center from the meeting point is 45 metres. If Base is 60 metres, height is 45 metres
then hypotenuse will be 75 metres. So, the distance the dog had walked to the temple is 75 metres.
Explanation:
Option 2
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Explanation:
We can answer using the following table

Year Total A B
2008 100 40 60
2009 125 40 8 + 18 = 50 60 + 8 18 = 50
So % of sales volume accounted for by Product A is 50/125 = 2/5 = 40 %
Explanation:
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Explanation:
K! should be a multiple of the first six prime numbers i.e. 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13. Thus values of K can be 13, 14, 15 and 16.
So, the correct answer is option D.
Explanation:
We can also solve this question by taking an observation where no calculations are required!! Since an even number divided by an
even number will never give an odd remainder, the best answer is option 3.
Explanation:
Suppose the volume of the cistern is 200 litres.
The inlet will pour in 20 litres per minute while the outlet will take out 10 litres per minute.
So, the cistern will effectively be filled at a rate of 10 litres every 2 minutes. In 36 minutes, the cistern will contain 180 litres and in
the 37th minute, the inlet will pour in another 20 litres to make it full. However, after 37 minutes, the cistern is still 37% empty, i.e.,
it contains only 126 litres.
This means that the leak has drained out 74 litres in 37 minutes, i.e., the leak drains out 2 litres per minute.
At this rate, the leak will take 200/2 = 100 minutes or 1 hour 40 minutes to empty the full cistern.
Explanation:
Let the number of pencils, erasers and sharpeners purchased by Rajat be p, e and s respectively. Let the price of one sharpener be
Rs m.
Considering option (1), we get,
3p + 0.2e + ms = 20 (i)
And, s = e + 7 (ii)
To maximize the number of erasers, price of a sharpener m can be reduced to a negligible value.
3p + 0.2e + 0 = 20
Now the minimum value of p is 1.
Maximum value of e = (20 3) 5 = 85
Option 1 is not true.
Considering option (2), we get,

3p + 0.2e + ms = total price ...(iii)
And, s = e + 7
We cannot find last digit of s, because we cannot find e from equation (iii).
Option 2 is not true.
Similarly, Option 3 is also not true, because we cannot conclude anything about the sum of p, e and s. Hence, option 4.
Explanation: Sum of cubes = (x 1)3 + x3 + (x + 1)3

= x3 1 3x (x 1) + x3 + x3 + 1 + 3x(x + 1) = 3x3 + 6x = 3x(x2+2)
If x is a multiple of 3 required number is 9.
If x is not multiple of 3, then,
Let x = 3n + 1 or 3n + 2.
If x = (3n + 1), then x2 + 2 = (3n + 1)2 + 2 = 9n2 +1 + 6n + 2 =3(3n2+2n+1)
If x = 3n+2, then x2 + 2 = 9n2 + 4 + 12n + 2 = 3(3n2 + 4n + 2)
So in all cases it is divisible by 9.
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Explanation:
A, B, C leave remainder 1 when divided by 2. (because all are odd.)
Since sum of digits is same in A, B and C, So, remainder by 9 are also same.
So, A, B, C leave same remainders when divided by 2 & 9.
A, B, C leave same remainders when divided by 18.
r=s=t
So, 2r s t = 0
Explanation:
Suppose he mixes 300 l, 200l and 100l of milk for making kulfi.
The amount of water will be 6% 300 + 24% 200 + 96% 100 = 18 + 48 + 96 = 162 litres.
In other words, 27% of the mixture will be water. Thus the mixture contains 73% pure milk.
Explanation:
If the amount becomes times of the principal i.e means it becomes = 27 /8 times of P
Also Given that A = P ( 1 + r /100 ) t

r = rate % , t = 3years
27/8 P = P ( 1 + r /100 )3
27/8 = ( 1 + r /100 )3
3/2 = 1 + r/100
r = 50%
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Explanation:
Triangle ADE is similar to triangle ABD by AAA hence:

AE/AD = AD/AB
AE = AD2/AB
Give than AD = 1 & AB = 4
Hence AE =
Triangle ADE is congurent to BCF
Hence = AE = FB =
Hence, AE + FB =
EF = 3.5 = CD
ED = (12 1/16) = (15)/4
The area of the trapezium
= Sum of parallel sides height
(4 + 3.5) (15/4) = 1515 /16.
Explanation:
Explanation:
Let us assume the sequence to be x1, x2, x3,x100 .
According to the question:
x1 + x2+x6 = x2 + x3 +.x7.
x1 = x7. Similarly it can be proved that x2 = x8, x3 = x9 and so on.
Combining these equations we get xk = xk+6 = xk+12 = .. for all natural numbers k.
Therefore x28 = x34 = 34
Also x56 =.= x80 = 56.
So the required sum is 56 + 34 = 90.
Explanation: CP = 80 40
Profit from the n objects = n% 40 n.
Profit from the remaining objects = (100 n)% 40 (80 n).
We need to find the minimum possible value of n% 40 n + (100 n)% 40 (80 n).
Or, we need to find the minimum possible value of n2+ (100 n) (80 n).
Minimum of n2+ n2 180n + 8000
Minimum of n2 90n + 4000
Minimum of n2 90n + 2025 2025 + 4000
We add and subtract 2025 to this expression in order to crate an expression that can be expressed as a perfect square.
Minimum of n2 90n + 2025 + 1975 = (n 45)2+ 1975

This reaches minimum when n = 45.
When n = 45, the minimum profit made

45% 40 45 + 55% 40 35
18 45 + 22 35 = 810 + 770 = Rs. 1580.
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Explanation:
Explanation:
Let the C.P. be Rs. x
Then 20% of x = 1100
=> x = 5500.
C.P. = Rs 5500.
Expenditure on repairs = 10%.
So actual cost = Rs (100/110)5500 = Rs 5000.
Therefore, expenditure on repairs = Rs (5500 5000) = Rs 500.
Explanation:
Let ratio of AO, OD and radius OB is m : n : r
Explanation:
Suppose the first vessel contains 100x litres of water and the second vessel contains 100y litres of water. 60x litres of water from
the first vessel is poured into the second vessel. 50% of the water from the second vessel, i.e., (30x + 50y) litres is now poured into
the first vessel. Now, the quantity of water in the first vessel is now (70x + 50y) and the quantity of water in the second vessel is
(30x + 50y). From the given information, (70x + 50y)/(30x + 50y) = 11/7. Solving this yields x : y = 5 : 4.
Explanation: Let c, v &g represents number of chocolate, vanilla and gems laden cupcakes.
c + v + g = 4
Where c, v, g 0
Number of possible solutions of above equation is 4+31C31 (i.e. n+k1Ck1)
=6C2 =15 Ans.
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Explanation:
We need coefficient of x15 in (x3 4)8

General term = 8Cr(4)8r x3r
r = 5 coefficient = 8C5(4)+3
Explanation:
Let after blast, both travel for t sec.
So 360 t = 8 (30 + t)
360t = 240 + 8t t = 240/352
So total distance = 240 + (240/352 8) = 245 yards.
Hence answer is option C.
Explanation:
n (k + n 1)=170
So number of house is factor of 170 and as per given conditions n can be 10, 17, 34, 85
As for n = 17, 34, 85 k will be ve .

a = k + 10 =18.
Hence option 3 is the answer.
Explanation:
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Explanation: Product of all numbers of all faces =6!=720=24.32.5

If face bearing number 1 is hidden, x =24.32.5
If face bearing number 5 is hidden, x =24.32
So, x must be divisible by =22.31=12
Explanation:
Let the weights of Madhu, Shilpa and Mehr be M1, S and M2 respectively. Also let the total weight of the rest be k kgs. Then
M1+S+M2+K = 47.9 10 = 479
Also S+M2+k = 46 9 = 414
Subtracting the two equations, we get
This gives M1 = 65 kgs.
The weight of Madhu is 65 kg.
Explanation:
Explanation: The distance of Proxima Centauri is 4.24 365 24 3600 300000

Time required by Juno to cover that distance would be (4.24 300,000 365 24 3600) / 40 s
= (4.24 300,000 365 24 3600) / (40 365 24 3600) years
= 4.24 300,000 / 40
= 31,800 years

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Section : Verbal Ability

It can be inferred from the passage that:

The author of the passage would agree with the statement

AGovernments should be all powerful agents of change in society

It can be inferred from the passage that:

AThe American government has done well to defeat the Mexicans

AThe primary object of American trade is Indian rubber

Which of the following best describes the structure of the passage?

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What advantage does microbial therapy have over conventional therapy?

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AIt is restrictive because the microbial genes outnumber human genes.

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Why does the author consider Indian classical music anarchic?

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According to the information given in the passage

I. it is possible to replicate the force of gravitation.

AI & II BII & III CI & III DAll of above

According to the author of the passage:

Amany ancient theories of gravitation depended upon too much machinery

It can be inferred from the passage:

The tone of the author of the passage can be said to be:

According to the information given in the passage:

I. Gravitation was discovered about 200 years ago.

Aonly II Bonly III Conly II and III DI, II and III

In the given passage, the author is trying to:

The main idea of the passage is:

In the passage, the word 'inimitable' means

Arustic Bunrivaled Ccholeric Dirate

Aa hint of malice Ban element of opacity Ca suggestion of perplexity Da modicum of frustration

AI & II BII & III CI & III DAll of the above

According to the author of the passage:

Which of the following best summarizes the paragraph above?

1. It is ubiquitous, yet hidden.

Section : DI & Reasoning

A32 B33 C42 D43

Which ball does he throw at t = 5 seconds?

ABlack BRed CGreen DCannot be determined

Which ball does he catch at t = 98 seconds?

ABlack BRed CGreen DYellow

A37.55% B42.3% C35.4% D32.7%

A31.8 B38.45 C9.8 D46

Which of the following is the value of the product D BAC?

ABC A C + BC BAC B C + AC CDC B C + DC DNone of these

What is the value of BDD2 A D B2?

ACBCBC BDCDCC CCDCCAC DCACBC

Which of the following is not the value of A + B + C + D?

What is the value of the product AAC DD?

A25575 B25535 C75525 D75535

Table A Table B Table C

A0.3 2.4 B0.1 6 C0.6 4 DData inadequate

Table A Table B Table C

A60 B42 C32 D72

Table A Table B Table C

Table A Table B Table C

Vidya will be either the first or the last actress to be auditioned.

AVidya, Anushka, Deepika, Mrinmayee, Parineeti, Kangana, Shraddha

Vidya will be either the first or the last actress to be auditioned.

Vidya will be either the first or the last actress to be auditioned.

ADeepika BKangana CMrinmayee DParineeti