SUFI

1. The 14 digits of a credit card are written in the boxes shown. If the sum of any three
consecutive digits is 18, what is the value of x?

---7---x---8—

a) 3 b) 2 c) Cant be d) 1
determinred

2. Katrina has a wheat business. She purchases wheat from a local wholesaler at a particular
cost per pound. The price of the wheat at her stores is $3 per pound. Her faulty spring
balance reads 0.9 pounds for a pound. Also, in the festival season, she gives a 10% discount
on the wheat. She found that she made neither a profit nor a loss in the festival season. At
what price did Katrina purchase the wheat from the wholesaler?

a) 3 b) 2.5 c) 2.43 d) 2.7

3. Consider the following flow chart for a customer

The person in no. 1 is:

a) Married, with children
b) Married, with atleast one son
c) Unmarried, with atleast one daughter
d) unmarried, with atleast one son
e) Unmarried, with no children

4. Consider the sequence of numbers 0,2,2,4,…where for n>2 the nth term of the sequence is
the units digit of the sum of the previous two terms. let Sn denote the sum of the first n terms
of the sequence . What is the smallest value of n for which Sn > 2771 ?

a) 692 b) 693 c) 694 d) 700

5. Joke is faster than Paul, Joke and Paul each walk 24 KM. The sum of their speed is 7 Km per
hour. And the sum of times taken by them is 14 hours. Then, Joke speed is

a) 3KM/H b) 4km/h c) 5km/h d) 7km/h

6. The letters A,B,C,D,E,F and G not necessarily in that order, stand for seven consecutive
integers from 1 to 10

D is 3 less than A
B is the middle term
F is as much less than B as C is greater than D
G is greater than F

The fifth integer is

(a) A
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) F

7. Pointing towards a girl, abhishek says, this girl is the daughter of only child of father. What is
the relation of abhishek’s wife to that girl?

a) Daughter

b) Mother

c) Aunt

d) Sister

8. In the question below, passage consist of six sentences. The first and sixth sentence is given
in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up.
These are labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order for the four sentences.

S1: Calcutta unlike other cities kepts its trams.

P : As a result there horrendous congestion.
Q : It was going to be the first in South Asia.
R : They run down the centre of the road
S : To ease in the city decided to build an underground railway line.
S6: The foundation stone was laid in 1972.

The Proper sequence should be:

a) PRSQ

b) PSQR

c) SQRP

d) RPSQ

9. An accurate clock shows 8 o'clock in the morning. Through how may degrees will the
hour hand rotate when the clock shows 2 o'clock in the afternoon?

a) 154 b) 170 c) 180 d) 160

10. Tap 'A' can fill the tank completely in 6 hrs while tap 'B' can empty it by 12 hrs. By mistake,
the person forgot to close the tap 'B', As a result, both the taps, remained open. After 4 hrs,
the person realized the mistake and immediately closed the tap 'B'. In how much time now
onwards, would the tank be full?

a) 2hrs b) 4hrs c) 5hrs d) 1hr

11. There are 8 houses in a line and in each house only one boy lives with the conditions as given
below:
Jack is not the neighbour Siman.
Harry is just next to the left of Larry.
There is at least one to the left of Larry.
Paul lives in one of the two houses in the middle.
Mike lives in between Paul and Larry.
If at least one lives to the right of Robert and Harry is not between Taud and Larry, then which
one of the following statement is not correct ?
a) Robert is not at the left end.
b) Robert is in between Simon and Taud
c) Taud is in between Paul and Jack
d) There are three persons to the right of Paul.
12. A watch which gains uniformly is 2 minutes low at noon on Monday and is 4 min. 48 sec
fast at 2 p.m. on the following Monday. When was it correct?

a) 2 p.m. on Tuesday

b) 2 p.m. on Wednessday

c) 3 p.m. on Thursday

d) 1 p.m. on Friday

13. A container contains a mixture of two liquids P and Q in the ratio 7 : 5. When 9 litres of
mixture are drawn off and the container is filled with Q, the ratio of P and Q becomes 7 : 9.
How many litres of liquid P was contained in the container initially?

b) 21 c) 19 d) 17
a) 23

14. Susan can type 10 pages in 5 minutes. Mary can type 5 pages in 10 minutes. Working
together, how many pages can they type in 30 minutes?

a) 15 b) 20 c) 65 d) 75

15. Akshar, Brinda, Cathy and Dinesh are four friends who live in the same area and work for
the children in a nearby slum. One of them cooks the childrens breakfast and each of
the other three teach a different subject from mathematics, reading & writing and drawing.
They study mechanical engineering, psychology, medicine and economics. Neither the
economics nor the psychology student cooks breakfast. Brinda does not teach reading &
writing. Dinesh is the medical student, and he does not cook breakfast. Cathy teaches
drawing. Akshar studies mechanical engineering. Who teaches mathematics?

a) Akshar b) Brinda c) Cathy d) Dinesh

16. Sally overslept. Therefore, she did not eat breakfast. She realized that she was late for
school, so she ran as fast as she could and did not see a hole in the ground which was in her
path. She tripped and broke her ankle. She was then taken to the hospital and while lying in
bed was visited by her friends, who wanted to know why she had got up so late. 
Which of the following conclusions can be made from the above passage? 

a) Because Sally did not eat her breakfast, she broke her ankle 

b) Sally's friend visited her in the hospital because she wanted to know why she was late
for school 
 c) Sally did not notice the hole because she overslept 

d) Sally broke her ankle because she went to bed late the previous night 

e) Sally's broken ankle meant she did not go to school that day

17. The director of a custom service suggested that custom taxes on automobiles not be reduced
as planned by the government because of the high incidence of the traffic accidents last year.

Which of the statements weakens he argument above?

1. Although traffic accident rates last year was high, it was not appreciably higher than previous
year and anyway, compulsory insurance covered more physical damage to automobile and
property.

2. A commerce department report showed that the demand for automobiles was highly inelastic
as all dealers lower their prices, sales did not increased appreciably.

3. A study by the economics department showed that most traffic accidents have been caused
by human error although it also concluded that an inadequate road network contributed to
atleast 40% of passenger injuries.

a) Only 1

b) Only 2

c) 1 and 3

d) 2 and 3

e) All

18. Significant beneficial effects of smoking occur primarily in the area of mental health, and the
habit originates in a search for contentment. The life expectancy of our people has increased
greatly in recent years; it is possible that the relaxation and contentment and enjoyment
produced by smoking has lengthened many lives. Smoking is beneficial. 

Which of the following, if true, weaken the above conclusion? 

(A)That cigarettes are a major health hazard cannot be traced to the willful act of any human
or organization. 

(B)The government earns millions of dollars from the tobacco tax and tens of thousands of
civilians are employed in the tobacco industry. 

(C)The evidence cited in the statement covers only one example of the effects of cigarette
smoking. 

(D)no mention is made of possible harmful sideeffects of smoking 

(E)No statistical evidence has proven a link between smoking and longevity