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APTITUDE AND MENTAL ABILITY

How to Solve (Q. 1 to Q. 3): The six faces of a cube are painted in a manner that no adjacent
faces have the same colour. The three colours used in painting are red, blue and green. The
cube is then cut into 36 smaller cubes in such a manner that 32 cubes are of one size and the
rest of a bigger size and each of the bigger cubes has no red side.

1. How many cubes in all have a red side?

(a) 32 (b) 16 (c) 12 (d) 8

2. How many cubes in all have only one side coloured?

(a) 32 (b) 8 (c) 20 (d) 16

3. If the word MENTAL is written as LNDFMOSUZBKM, then how would the word TEST be
written in that code?
(a) UVFGTUUV (b) RSCDQRRS (c) SUDFQRSU (d) SUDFRTSU

4. In a shop, the items are arranged in a shelf consisting of 6 rows. Biscuits are arranged above
the tins of chocolates but below the rows of packets of chips. Cakes are at the bottom and the
bottles of peppermints are below the bottles of peppermints? The topmost row had the display
of jam bottles. Where exactly are the bottles of peppermints? Mention the place from the top.
(a) 2nd (b) 3rd (c) 4th (d) 5th

5. Which day is three days before the day immediately following the day two days before the
day three days after the day immediately before Friday?
(a) Sunday (b) Wednesday (c) Monday (d) Tuesday

6. In a shop, the items are arranged in a shelf consisting of 6 rows. Biscuits are arranged above
the tins of chocolates but below the rows of packets of chips. Cakes are at the bottom and the
bottles of peppermints are below the bottles of peppermints? The topmost row had the display
of jam bottles. Where exactly are the bottles of peppermints? Mention the place from the top.
(a) 2nd (b) 3rd (c) 4th (d) 5th

How to solve (Q. 7 to Q. 10): A flat wilderness area has four widely separated shelters F, G, W and X
that are connected by exactly four straight trails – Q, R, S and T – that are equal to each other in
length and connect the shelters in the following ways :
Q connects F and W only R connects G and W only
S connects F and G only T connects G and X only
The shelters are at the end of the trails.

7. Which of the following is the order in which a hiker, starting at F, using only trails and using
no trail more than once, must reach the other shelter?
(a) G, W, X (b) W, G, X (c) W, X, G (d) X., G, W

8. If a hiker is at X and wants to reach F by a sequence of trails no longer than necessary, there
are how many trail sequences of minimal length from which to choose?

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(a) one (b) two (c) three (d) four

9. If a hiker restricts her-shelf to the trails, any of the following is possible sequence in which
full lengths of trails are hiked EXCEPT
(a) Q, S, R, T, S (b) R, Q, S, R, Q (c) S, T, T, R, Q (d) T, R, R, T, T

10. If a hiker walks the full length of each trail exactly once, which of the following lists all those
shelters and only those shelters at which the hiker must be exactly twice?
(a) G (b) F and G (c) G and W (d) G and X

11. How many squares are there in the given figure?

(a) 10 (b) 14 (c) 12 (d) 15

12. What number should replace the question mark?

926 : 24
799 : 72
956 ?
(a) 63 (b) 62 (c) 51 (d) 45
13. Which is the odd one out?
(a) inch (b) metre (c) litre (d) foot

14. Spiral clockwise to spell out a ten-letter word that starts and finishes with the same two
letters. You must provide the missing letter.

(a) I (b) D (c) N (d) A

15. What number should replace the question mark?

(a) 16 (b) 14 (c) 15 (d) 11

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ANSWERS

1. (a) 2. (b)
3. (d) 4. (b)
5. (b) 6. (b)
7. (b) 8. (a)
9. (a) 10. (a)
11. (b) 12. (c)
13. (c) 14. (a)
15. (b)

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