CPC Mechanical - Diagnostic Test 2014

Quantitative Aptitude
Marking Scheme: +3 for correct and -1 for incorrect answers Duration: 30 Min

1) There were x lions and y tigers in a cage. One fine morning ‘p’ of them escaped to freedom.
If the cage keeper, knowing only that p = 7, was able to figure out without looking into the
cage that at least one lion had escaped, then which of the following does not represent a
possible (x,y) pair?
(a) (10,8) (b) (7,2) (c) (25,6) (d) (12,4)

2) Let n = 999 ... 99 be an integer consisting of a string of 2014 nines. Find the sum of digits of
n2.
(a) 18125 (b) 18126 (c) 18135 (d) 18136

3) Eight litres are drawn off from a vessel full of water and substituted by pure milk. Again eight
litres of the mixture are drawn off and substituted by pure milk. If the vessel now contains
water and milk in the ratio 9:40, find the capacity of the vessel.
(a) 17.6 litres (b) 16 litres (c) 19.6 litres (d) 14 litres

4) If x represents the sum of all the positive three-digit numbers that can be constructed using
each of the distinct nonzero digits a, b, and c exactly once, what is the largest integer by
which x must be divisible?
(a) 6 (b) 11 (c) 22 (d) 222

5) A truck travelling at 70 kilometres per hour uses 30% more diesel to travel a certain distance
than it does when it travels at the speed of 50 kilometres per hour. If the truck can travel
19.5 kilometres on a litre of diesel at 50 kilometres per hour, how far can the truck travel on
10 litres of diesel at a speed of 70 kilometres per hour?
(a) 130 (b) 140 (c)150 (d) 175

6) A florist makes 25 bouquets, such that the first bouquet has 5 roses and each subsequent
bouquet has ‘n’ more roses than the previous one. He uses 3125 roses in all for these 25
bouquets. How many more bouquets can he make, if he uses 6125 roses in all?
(a) 35 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 20

7) A man standing at the bottom of a staircase starts tossing a coin. Every time it shows Heads,
he climbs two steps, while every time it shows Tails he climbs one step. After a while, he
finds that he has climbed 8 steps. How many possible sequences of Heads and Tails could he
have thrown?
(a) 256 (b) 28 (c) 36 (d) 34

8) If two integers are chosen at random out of the set {2, 5, 7, 8}, what is the probability that
their product will be of the form (a^2 – b^2), where a and b are both positive integers?
(a) 2/3 (b) 1/2 (c) 1/3 (d) 1/4

9) A man sets out to cycle from Trichy to Madurai and at the same time another man starts
from Madurai to Trichy. After passing each other they complete their journeys in 4 and 9 hrs
respectively. At what rate does the second man cycle if the first one cycles at 9 km/hr.
(a) 4km/hr (b) 6km/hr (c) 8 km/hr (d) 9 km/hr
 10) Consider a regular polygon of p sides. The number of values of p for which the polygon will
have angles whose values in degrees can be expressed in integers?
(a) 21 (b) 23 (c) 22  (d) 20
 
Data for Questions 11 and 12:
Abhay and Bhayya conducted a survey in their department to find out how many employees
were affected by the company’s new HR policies. Abhay selected 50% of the employees and
found that 531/3 % of them were affected. Bhayya selected 25% of the employees out of
which 40% were affected. 40% of the employees selected by Bhayya were also selected by
Abhay. Four-sevenths of the employees not selected by either of them were affected but
three-eighths of the affected employees were not selected by either of them.

11) What is the minimum possible number of employees in the department?

(a) 30 (b) 42 (c) 60 (d) 84

12) What percentage of the employees selected by both Abhay and Bhayya were affected?
(a) 50% (b) 30% (c) 33.33% (d) 36.67%

DIRECTIONS for questions 13 and 14: Refer to the data below and answer the questions
that follow.
In a library, on a particular day, the following statistics for 5 different books were noted:
Table–1shows the number of readers of each of the five books. Table-2 shows the number
of persons to read different combinations of the books. The readers have been categorized
gender wise. Every visitor reads atleast 1 book and no more than 2 books.
Table 1
  Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5
Male 5 4 11 6 9
Female 9 6 8 12 15

Table 2
  Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5
Book 1 10 3 0 1
Book 2   0 0 0
Book 3     11 1
Book 4       5
Also, it was known that the person who read books 1 and 5 was male.

13) How many readers visited the library?

(a) 23 (b) 31 (c) 85 (d) 54

14) How many females read both book 1 and book 3?

(a) Three (b) Two (c) One (d) Cannot be Determined

15) A network of pipes are connected to a water tank. 5 of them are used to fill the tank which
can individually fill the tank in 10 hours. 4 of them are used to discharge the tank which can
individually discharge the tank in 24 hours. ‘x’ number of pipes are used to discharge the
tank which can individually discharge the whole tank in 18 hours. Now what is ‘x’ if it takes 6
hours to fill the whole tank when all of the pipes are functioning together.
(a) 2 (b) 5 (c) 4 (d) 3