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1. A Roman was born the first day of the 35 th year before Christ and died the first day of
the 35th year after Christ. How many years did he live?
(a) 70 (b) 69 (c) 71 (d) 72
2. A horse starts to chase a dog that has left the stable two hours earlier. The horse runs at
an average speed of 22km/hr. It crosses a 10-metre road, two small ponds 3 metres
deep, and finally runs along two small streets of 200 metres long. After traveling 6 hrs,
2hrs after sunset, it catches the dog. Compute the speed of the dog in Km/hr?
(a) 20 (b) 22 (c) 16.5 (d) 18.5
3. Adam sat with his friends in the Chinnaswamy stadium at Madurai to watch the 100
metres running race organized by the Asian Athletics Association. Five rounds were run.
After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How
many teams participated in the race?
(a) 30 (b) 32 (c) 41 (d) 54
4. If an airplane starts at point R and travels 14 miles directly north to S, then 48 miles
directly east to T, what is the straight-line distance (in miles) from T to R?
(a) 25 (b) 34 (c) 50 (d) 2500
5. A scientist was researching into animal behavior in his laboratory. He was very interested
in studying the behavior of bears. He travelled a mile to the north and reached the
north pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear for an 1 hour to the east
with a speed of 2km/hr. After that he travelled south and reached his laboratory in 2
hours. What was the colour of the bear?
(a) Black (b) White (c) Red (d) Blue
6. A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days when supplied at the rate of 850 g per
head. At the end of 7 days, a reinforcement arrives, and it is found that the provisions
can last for 17 days more when supplied at the rate of 825 g per head. What is the
strength of the reinforcement?
(a) 1700 (b) 1000 (c) 3000 (d) 2700
7. Two unemployed young men decided to start a business together. They pooled in their
savings, which came to Rs. 2,000. They were both lucky, their business prospered and
they were able to increase their capital by 50 per cent every three years. How much did
they have in all at the end of eighteen years?
(a) Rs. 22,781.25 (b) Rs. 24,150.25 (c) Rs. 28,140.50 (d) Rs. 18,000
8. A man divides Rs.8600 among 5 sons, 4 daughters and 2 nephews. If each daughter
receives four times as much as each nephew, and each son receives five times as much
as each nephew, how much does each daughter receive?
(a) Rs.800 (b) Rs.600 (c) Rs.200 (d) Rs.700
9. A train starts full of passengers. At the first station, it drops one-third of the passengers
and takes 280 more. At the second station, it drops one-half of the new total and takes
12 more. On arriving at the third station, it is found to have 248 passengers. Find the
number of passengers in the beginning.
(a) 240 (b) 248 (c) 280 (d) 288
10. A manufacturer undertakes to supply 2000 pieces of a particular component at Rs.25
per piece. According to his estimates, even if 5% fail to pass the quality tests, then he
will make a profit of 25%. However, as it turned out, 50% of the components were
rejected. What is the loss to the manufacturer?
(a) Rs.12000 (b) Rs.13000 (c) Rs.14000 (d) Rs.15000
11. In Tnagar many buildings were under residential [Link] buildings they number as
1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime numbers.
how many time 6 will appear in building numbering?
(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) 19
12. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age
will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. hence the current average age has
become 45. find the age of seventh person?
(a) 69 (b) 70 (c) 40 (d) 45
13. 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31
(a) 45 (b) 90 (c) 91 (d) 35
14. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square?
a.1 b.2 c.5 d.6
15. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest
child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of
other two children. What is the age of eldest child? ->18
(a) 5 (8) 10 (c) 8 (d) 15
16. It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my
drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to
take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color?
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 48 (d) 25
17. 23 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes
possible, if they are in pair of cyclic sequence.
(a) 22 (b) 23 (c) 44 (d) 46
18. There are 10 reading spots in a room. Each reading spot has a round table. Each
round table has 4 chair. If different no of persons are sitting at each reading spot.
And if there are 10 persons inside the room then how many reading spots donot
have atleast a single reader.
(1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 7 (4) None
19. Middle – earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The
Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate
nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as
follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that
loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every
round , half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds
played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played?
a) 257 (b) 256 (c) 72 (d) 255
20. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the
rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B.( At
the end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is
1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?
a) 26 hrs (b) 25 hrs (c) 5 hrs (d) 27 hrs
21. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph.
What is his average speed for the journey?
a) 2.4 mph (b) 4 mph (c) 4.8 mph (d) 5 mph
22. A pizza shop, there were 2 kinds of pizzas available. But now they have introduces 8
new types, a person buy two different type pizzas of new type in how many ways he can
select?
(28) (a) 24 (b) 43 (c) 56 (d) 58
23. A box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg packets. Total weight of box
is 264kg. How many 2kg packets are there?
(a) 100 (b) 114 (c) 200 (d) 208
24. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24
days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work?
(a) 8 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 18
25. A bus started from bus stand at 8.00a m and after 30 min staying at destination, it
returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The
speed of the bus 50 percent fast speed. At what time it returns to the bus stand.
(a) 11a.m (b) 12a.m (c) 10a.m (d) 10.30p.m
26. 2 oranges, 3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15. 3 oranges, 2 bananas, and 1 apple costs
Rs 10. What is the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples?
(a) Rs10 (b) Rs15 (c) Rs20 (d) Rs25
27. If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give
10% discount then what is the profit percentage.-->50%
(a) 40% (b) 55% (c) 35% (d) 30%
28. Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in
the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely
passes by him. What is the length of faster train?
(a) 100m (b) 75m (c) 120m (d) 50m
29. A man spends half of his salary on household expenses, 1/4th for rent, 1/5th for travel
expenses, the man deposits the rest in a bank. If his monthly deposits in the bank
amount 50, what is his monthly salary?
(a) Rs.500 (b) Rs.1500 (c) Rs.1000 (d) Rs. 900
30. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010
(a) Sunday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday
31. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'LEADING' be arranged in such a
way that the vowels always come together?
(4+1)!*3!
(a) 360 (b) 480 (c) 720 (d) 5040
32. The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3
years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining
players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average
age of the team?
(9x+55)/11-x=1
X=22
Avg age=22*9+55/11
(a) 23 years (b) 24 years (c) 25 years (d) None of these
33. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8 10 and 12 seconds
respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together ?
(a) 4 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 16
34. The difference of two numbers is 1365. On dividing the larger number by the smaller,
we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder. What is the smaller number?
X-y=1365
X=6y+15
(a) 240 (b) 270 (c) 295 (d) 360
35. In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. Its average
speed for the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30
minutes. The duration of the flight is:
(a) 1 hour (b) 2 hours (c) 3 hours (d) 4 hours