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Section 1: Aptitude (20 questions in 30 minutes)
1) One rectangular plate with length 8inches, breadth 11 inches and 2 inches thickness is there. What is
the length of the conical rod with diameter 8 inches and equal to volume of rectangular plate?
a) 10.5inches b) 5inches c) 7.5 inches d) None of these

2) What is the number of zeros at the end of the product of the numbers from 1 to 1000?
a)250 b) 248 c) 249 d) 247

3) In some game 100 members have participated every time one fellow will get bye what is the number
of matches to choose the champion to be held?
a) 200 b) 101 c) 99 d) 50

4) One elephant eats a certain amount of grass in 5hrs and another elephant eats the same amount of
grass in 10 hrs, if both eat together in how much time they will finish?
a) 8.3hours b) 15 hours c) 7.5 hours d) 3.3 hours

5) If the chess board would have been a 9 by 9 square, what is the total number of squares in it?
a) 204 b) 206 c) 385 d) 285

6) Falling height is proportional to square of the time. An object falls 64cm in 4sec, then in 7sec from
how much height the object will fall.
a) 49cm b) 98cm c) 196cm d) 392cm

7) Gavaskars average in first 51 innings was 51. After the 53rd innings his average was 53. How many
runs he made in the 53rd innings if his score in 52
nd
inning was 102?
a) 101 b) 103 c) 104 d) 106

8) 3 oranges, 4 bananas and 5 apples cost Rs.25. 4 oranges, 3 bananas and 2 apple costs Rs 24. What is
the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples?
a) 16 b) 18 c) 21 d) 19
9) An old man now, spent one-fourth of his life as a boy, one-eighth as a youth and one-half as an active
man. If he spent 9 years as an old man, then how many years did he spend as an active man?
a) 12 b) 24 c) 36 d) 48
10) Last weekend, I went to play in the nearby park. It was real fun! I rode my new bicycle that Mom had
gifted me on my birthday. On reaching the park, I saw there were a total of 12 bicycles and tricycles. If
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the total number of wheels was 28, how many tricycles were there?
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6
11) A snail creeps 7 ft up a wall during the daytime. After all the labor it does throughout the day, it
stops to rest a while... but falls asleep!! The next morning it wakes up and discovers that it has slipped
down 5 ft while sleeping. If this happens every day, how many days will the snail take to reach the top of
a wall 39 ft in height?
a) 17days b) 37 days c) 39 days d) 24 days
12) atom : molecule :: leaves : ?
a) tree b) branch c) stem d) roots
Directions for 13 and 14: The distance between Station Atena and Station Barcena is 78 miles. A train
starts from Atena towards Barcena. A bird starts at the same time from Barcena straight towards the
moving train. On reaching the train, it instantaneously turns back and returns to Barcena. The bird
makes these journeys from Barcena to the train and back to Barcena continuously till the train reaches
Barcena. The bird finally returns to Barcena and rests. Calculate the total distance in miles the bird
travels in the following two cases:
13) the bird flies at 70 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 60 miles per hour
a) 85 b) 88 c) 91 d) 94

14) the bird flies at 60 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 70 miles per hour
a) 65 b) 68 c) 70 d) 72

15) There were 850 people when the second song was sung. After each song 50 people are leaving the
hall. How many songs are sung to make them zero?
a) 16 b) 17 c) 18 d) 19
16) A rich merchant had collected many gold coins. He did not want anybody to know about them. One
day, his wife asked, "How many gold coins do we have?"
After pausing a moment, he replied, "Well! If I divide the coins into two unequal numbers, then 59 times
the difference between the two numbers equals the difference between the squares of the two
numbers."
The wife looked puzzled. Can you help the merchant's wife by finding out how many gold coins they
have?
a) 259 b) 59 c) 359 d) 159
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17) Freddie takes the underground train to work and uses an escalator at the railway station. If Freddie
runs up 8 steps of the escalator, then it takes him 55.0 seconds to reach the top of the escalator. If he
runs up 13 steps of the escalator, then it takes him only 42.5 seconds to reach the top.
How many seconds would it take Freddie to reach the top if he did not run up any steps of the escalator
at all?
a) 30 b) 60 c) 75 d) 90
18) A creeper plant is climbing up and around a cylindrical tree trunk in a helical manner. The tree trunk
has a height of 300 inches and a circumference of 40 inches. If the creeper covers a vertical distance of
75 inches in one complete twist around the tree trunk, what is the total length of the creeper?
a) 300 b) 320 c) 340 d) 360
19) Statement: all apples are oranges, all oranges are bananas
Conclusion:
I) some apples are oranges
II) some bananas are oranges
III)some oranges are not apples
IV) all bananas are oranges

a) I and II hold b) only III holds c) II and III hold d) none of these

20) A large water tank has two inlet pipes (a large one and a small one) and one outlet pipe. It takes 1
hour to fill the tank with the large inlet pipe. On the other hand, it takes 5 hours to fill the tank with the
small inlet pipe. The outlet pipe allows the full tank to be emptied in 6 hours. What fraction of the tank
(initially empty) will be filled in 0.73 hours if all three pipes are in operation? Give your answer to two
decimal places (e.g., 0.25, 0.5, or 0.75).
a) 0.25 b) 0.35 c) 0.55 d) 0.75