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Top 30 questions on QA & DI

1.

Of five letters mailed today, each have a 2/5 probability of arriving in three days or sooner. What is
the probability that exactly two of the five letters will arrive three days or sooner?

(a) 216/125

2.

(b) 105 (c) 119 (d) None of these

(b) -1/2 (c) -3/2 (d) None of these

Find the total distance covered by an elastic ball before it comes to rest, if it is dropped from a
height of 20 m, and after each fall, it rebounds to 50% of the height from which it falls.

(a) 120m

5.

(b) 100m

(b) 48

(c) 24

(d) 46

The perimeter of a triangle is 8 cm and one of the sides is 3 cm. If the triangle has the maximum
area then the other two sides are

(a) (5/2, 5/2)

7.

(c) 60m (d) None of these

Given N = 11 X 13 X 17. What will be the number of factors of 12N, excluding 1 and 12N?

(a) 5

6.

(d) 64/125

If a, b and c are real numbers, then the minimum value of ab + bc + ca is

(a) 0

4.

(c) 125/216

Given: Min(a, b) = Least of a, b

Max(a, b) = Larger of a, b
G(a, b) = GCD of a, b
L(a, b) = LCM of a, b
P(a, b) = Product of a, b
Then the value of P(7, Max(3, Min(L(3, 5), P(17, 1)))) is

(a) 17

3.

(b) 216/625

(b) (3, 2) (c) (3/2, 7/2) (d) None of these

Two watermelons of the same quality are being sold. The first is 60 cm in circumference and the
other is 50 cm. The first is one and half times as costly as the second. Which of the two is more
profitable to buy?

(a) First (b) Second (c) Both are same (d) Depend on the weight

8.

A tank is filled by three pipes with uniform flow. The first two pipes operating simultaneously fill
the tank in the same time during which the tank is filled by the third pipe alone. The second pipe
fills the tank 5 hours faster than the first pipe and 4 hours slower than the third pipe. The time (in
hours) required by the first pipe is

(a) 10

9.

(b) 12

(c) 15

(d) 20

A company could advertise about its new products in 4 magazines, 3 newspapers and 2 television
channels. But in later move it decided to give advertisements in only 2 of the magazines one of the
newspapers and one of the television channels. In how many ways can they advertise their
products?

(a) 3

(b) 36

(c) 44

(d) None of these

10. There are two positive integers a and b. What is the probability that a + b is odd?

(a) 1/4 (b) 1/3 (c) 1/2 (d) 1/5

11.

The sum of three fractions is 59/24. When the largest fraction is divided by the smallest fraction
thus obtained is 7/6 which is 1/3 more than the middle one. Find the fractions.

(a) 1/2, 2/3, 3/4 (b) 4/3, 8/7, 5/6 (c) 2, 4, 5

(d) 3/4, 5/6, 7/8

12. If log10 5 + log10 (5x + 1) = log10 (x + 5) + 1, then the value of x is

(a) 1

(b) 2

(c) 3

(d) 4

13. In a ABC, the median drawn from the vertex B is perpendicular to the side BA, and then which of
the following is correct?

(a) tanA tanB = 0

(b) 2tanA tanB = 0

(c) 2tanA + tanB = 0

(d) None of these

14. A and B can do a work in 30 days. B and C can do the same work in 24 days whereas C and A can
do in 20 days. A, B and C started the work together, but B and C left after 10 days. How many days
more will A take to complete the work?

(a) 18

(b) 21

(c) 22

(d) 24

15. If f(x) = x-3, g(x) = x2, and h(x) = 1/x, then for -1 < x < 1,

(a) f(g(h(x))) = h(f(g(x))) (b) f(g(h(x))) h(f(g(x))) (c) f(g(h(x))) f(h(g(x))) (d) None of these

16. If six bells start ringing together and ring at intervals of 4, 8, 10, 12, 15 and 20 seconds
respectively then how many times will they ring together in 60 minutes?

(a) 28

(b) 31

(c) 36

(d) None of these

17. If all the terms of a geometric series are positive, the first term of the series is 2 and the third term
is 8, then how many digits are there in the 40th term?

(a) 10

(b) 11

(c) 12

(d) 13

18. When (6767 +67) is divided by 68 then the remainder is

(a) 65

(b) 66

(c) 67

(d) 1

19. In a row of 40 boys, Ram was shifted 10 places to the right of Shyam and Hari was shifted 10
places to the left of Manu. If Manu was 26th from the left and there were 3 boys between Hari and
Ram after shifting, what was the position of Shyam in the row?

(a) 11th from the right end

(b) 13th from the left end

(c) 30th from the right end

(d) Insufficient Data

20. In two alloys A and B, copper and zinc are in the ratios of 4:1 and 1:3 respectively. A new alloy C is
obtained by melting together 10 kg of A, 16 kg of B and some of pure copper. If in C the ratio of
copper to zinc is 3:2, find the weight of the alloy C in Kg.

(a) 34

(b) 35

(c) 42

(d) 45

SECTION II : Data Interpretation

DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS 21 to 25 :

Refer to the data below and answer the questions that follow.

21. What was the percentage increase in imports between 1995-96 and 1999-2000?

(a) 80

(b) 90

(c) 100 (d) None of these

22. What was the approximate percentage change in trade gap between 1998-99 and 1999-2000?

(a) 4.6 (b) 4.9 (c) 5.1 (d) 6.4

23. What was the approximate percentage increase in trade gap between 1996-97 and 1997-98?

(a) 160 (b) 175 (c) 190 (d) 200

24. Which of the following is true?

(a) In all the years exports are greater than

imports.

(b) Trade gap is continuously increasing.

(c) Trade gap is continuously decreasing.

(d) The trade gap first increases and then exhibits a

decreasing trend.

25. If oil imports constituted 20% of the total imports in 1997-98, then what percent of the trade gap
was due to oil (assuming that no oil is exported)?

(a) 30

(b) 40

(c) 50

(d) 60

DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS 26 to 30 :

RAILWAY TIMETABLE : NEW DELHI BHUBANESWAR RAJDHANI EXPRESS

Station Name

Arrival Time

Departure Time

Distance(In KM)

New Delhi

--

17:05

Kanpur Central

21:48

21:53

440

Mughal Sarai JN

01:55

02:05

786

Gaya JN

04:18

04:21

989

Koderma

05:22

05:24

1066

Bokaro Steel City

07:35

07:40

1191

Tatanagar JN

10:35

10:40

1342

Kharagpur JN

12:25

12:40

1476

Balasore

14:02

14:04

1595

Bhadrak

15:12

15:14

1657

Cuttack

16:33

16:35

1772

Bhubaneswar

17:30

--

1800

26. The longest run for the train between the two successive halts is

(a) Mughal Sarai JN - Gaya JN

(b) New Delhi - Kanpur Central

(c) Kanpur Central - Mughal Sarai JN

(d) Balasore - Balasore

27. The average speed that the train maintained between two successive stations was the highest
between

(a) Kanpur Central - Mughal Sarai JN

(b) Mughal Sarai JN - Gaya JN

(c) New Delhi - Kanpur Central

(d) Bokaro Steel City - Tatanagar JN

28. The average speed that the train maintained between New Delhi and Bhubaneswar was nearly
equal to

(a) 72 kmph

(b) 74 kmph

(c) 75 kmph

(d) 82 kmph

29. If we consider a journey that begins in New Delhi and ends in Bhubaneswar, the train has the
longest halt at

(a) Kanpur Central (b) Mughal Sarai JN

(c) Tatanagar JN

(d) Kharagpur JN

30. The train begins its return journey from Bhubaneswar to New Delhi Seventeen hours after it has
arrived at Bhubaneswar. If the train left New Delhi on Tuesday on what day will it have returned to
New Delhi? (Assume that on the return journey that train maintains the same average speed as on
the onward journey).

(a) Thursday (b) Friday

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(c) Saturday (d) Sunday