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Number System, H.C.F. and L.C.M. of Numbers,
Decimal Fractions and Simplification 1
8. Let x be a positive integer such that 7x + 13. How many natural numbers are there
96 is divisible by x. how many values of x which give a remainder of 31 when 1186
are possible? is divided by these natural numbers?
(a) 10 (a) 6
(b) 11 (b) 7
(c) 12 (c) 8
(d) Infinitely many (d) 9
9. If p, q, r and s distinct single digit positive 14. Let pp, qq and rr be 2-digit numbers
numbers, then what is the greatest value where p < q < r. If pp + qq + rr = tt0, where
of (p + q)(r + s) ? tt0 is a 3-digit number ending with zero,
(a) 230 consider the following statements:
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colour from green to red. The durations (a) The Question can be answered by
for green and red colours are same. using one of the Statements alone,
At 2:00 p.m, they together turn green. but cannot be answered using the
At what time will they change to green other Statement alone.
next, simultaneously? (b) The Question can be answered by
(a) 4:00 p.m. using either Statement alone.
(b) 4:10 p.m. (c) The Question can be answered by
using both the Statements together,
(c) 4:20 p.m. but cannot be answered using
(d) 4:30 p.m. either Statement alone.
17. Question : Is p greater than q ? (d) The Question cannot be answered
even by using both the Statements
Statement -1 : p × q is greater than zero
together.
Statement-2 : p2 is greater than q2
19. Consider a 3-digit number.
Which one of the following is correct in
Question : What is the number?
respect of the above Question and the Statement-1 : The sum of the digits
Statements? of the number is equal
(a) The Question can be answered by to the product of the
using one of the Statements alone, digits.
but cannot be answered using the Statement-2 : The number is divisible
other Statement alone. by the sum of the digits
(b) The Question can be answered by of the number.
using either Statement alone.
Which one of the following is correct in
(c) The Question can be answered by respect of the above Question and the
using both the Statements together, Statements?
but cannot be answered using either
Statement alone. (a) The Question can be answered by
using one of the Statements alone,
(d) The Question cannot be answered but cannot be answered using the
even by using both the Statements other Statement alone.
together.
(b) The Question can be answered by
18. Question: Is (p + q – r)) greater than using either Statement alone.
(p - q + r), where p, q and r are integers ? (c) The Question can be answered by
Statement-1 : (p - q) is positive.
using both the Statements together,
but cannot be answered using
Statement-2 : (p - r) is negative. either Statement alone.
Which one of the following is correct (d) The Question cannot be answered
inrespect of the above Question and the even by using both the Statements
Statements? together.
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40. From January 1, 2021, the price of petrol 1. S is always divisible by 74.
(in Rupees per litre) on m day of the year
th
2. S is always divisible by 9.
is 80 + 0.1m, where m = 1, 2, 3, ..., 100 and
Select the correct answer using the code
therafter remains costant. On the other
given below:
hand, the price of diesel (in Rupees per
litre) on nth day of 2021 is 69 + 0.15n for (a) 1 only
any n. On which date in the year 2021 are (b) 2 only
the prices of these two fuels equal.
(c) Both 1 and 2
(a) 21 May
st
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
(b) 20 May
th
44. Consider the following addition problem:
(c) 19th May 3P + 4P + PP + PP = RQ2; where P, Q and
(d) 18th May R are different digits.
41. A boy plays with a ball and he drops it What is the arithmetic mean of all such
from a height of 1.5m. Every time the ball possible sums?
hits the ground, it bounces back to attain (a) 102
a height 4/5th of the previous height.
(b) 120
The ball does not bounce further if the
previous height is less than 50cm. What (c) 202
is the number of times the ball hits the (d) 220
ground before the ball stops bouncing? 45. Consider the following multiplication
(a) 4 problem :
(b) 5 (PQ) × 3 = RQQ, where P, Q and R are dif-
(c) 6 ferent digits and R ≠ 0.
47. Consider the following statements: Which of the above statements is/are
1. The sum of 5 consecutive integers can correct?
be 100. (a) 1 only
2. The product of three consecutive (b) 2 only
natural numbers can be equal to their
(c) Both 1 and 2
sum.
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Which of the above statements is/are
correct? 50. When a certain number is multiplied by
7, the product entirely comprises ones
(a) 1 only
only (1111...). What is the smallest Such
(b) 2 only Number?
(c) Both 1 and 2 (a) 15713
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
(b) 15723
48. An amount of money was distributed
(c) 15783
among A, B and C in the ratio p : q : r.
(d) 15873
Consider the following statements :
1. A gets the maximum share if p is
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greater than (q + r). 51. How many zeroes are there at the end of
2. C gets the minimum share if r is less the following product?
than (p + q). 1 × 5 × 10 × 15 × 20 × 25 × 30 × 35 × 40 ×
Which of the above statements is/ are 45 × 50 × 55 × 60
correct? (a) 10
(a) 1 only (b) 12
(b) 2 only (c) 14
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) 15
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 52. Let XYZ be a three-digit number, where (X
49. The difference between a 2-digit + Y + Z) is not a multiple of 3. Then (XYZ +
number and the number obtained by YZX + ZXY) is not divisible by
interchanging the positions of the digits (a) 3
is 54.
(b) 9
Consider the following statements:
(c) 37
1. The sum of the two digits of the
(d) (X + Y + Z)
number can be determined only if the
product of the two digits is known.
2. The difference between the two digits
of the number can be determined.
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61. What is the greatest length ϰ such that 65. What is the remainder when 51 × 27 × 35
1 3
3 m and 8 m are integral multiples × 62 × 75 is divided by 100?
2 4
of ϰ? (a) 50
1 m
(a) 1 (b) 25
2
1m (c) 50
(b) 1
3 (d) 1
1 m 66. A sum of Rs. 2,500 is distributed among,
(c) 1
4 1 3 5
X, Y and Z in two ratio : : What
2 4 6
(d) 1 3 m is the difference between the maximum
4
share and the minimum share?
62. The recurring decimal representation (a) Rs. 300
1.272727 … is equivalent to (b) Rs. 350
(a) 13/11 (c) Rs. 400
(b) 14/11 (d) Rs. 450
(c) 27/99 67. For what value of n, the sum of digits in
(d) 37/99 the number (10n + 1) is 2?
divisible by 6. If every number from 1 to 73. Sunita cuts a sheet of paper into three
100 is assigned to a student, then how pieces Length of first piece is equal to
many of them play cricket as well as the average of the three single digit odd
football. prime numbers. Length of the second
(a) 4 piece is equal to that of the first plus one-
third the length of the third. The third
(b) 8
piece is as long as the other two pieces
(c) 10 together. The length of the original sheet
(d) 12 of paper is
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Answer Key
1 A 19 D 37 A 55 C 73 D
2 A 20 C 38 C 56 B 74 D
3 A 21 D 39 B 57 C 75 C
4 D 22 A 40 B 58 D 76 B
5 A 23 A 41 B 59 D 77 C
6 D 24 B 42 D 60 C 78 B
7 C 25 C 43 C 61 D 79 D
8 C 26 C 44 C 62 B 80 D
9 B 27 B 45 B 63 B 81 B
10 A 28 D 46 B 64 C 82 C
11 C 29 D 47 C 65 A 83 D
12 B 30 A 48 A 66 C 84 D
13 D 31 D 49 B 67 B 85 D
14 C 32 C 50 D 68 C 86 B
15 A 33 D 51 A 69 B 87 B
16 B 34 D 52 B 70 C 88 A
17 D 35 B 53 C 71 B 89 A
18 C 36 C 54 A 72 D 90 D
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Square Roots and Cube Roots,
Surds and Indices
2
2020 2017
1. How many pairs of natural numbers are 3. The age of Mr. X last year was the
there such that the difference of whose square of a number and it would be
squares is 63? the cube of a number next year. What
(a) 3 is the least number of years he must
wait for his age to become the cube of
(b) 4
a number again ?
(c) 5
(a) 42
(d) 2
(b) 38
2018 (c) 25
2. If X is between -3 and -1, and Y is be- (d) 16
tween -1 and 1, then ϰ2- y2 is in between
Answer Key
which of the following ?
(a) -9 and 1 1 A 2 D 3 B
(b) -9 and -1
(c) 0 and 8
(d) 0 and 9
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2019
10. There are thirteen 2-digit consecutive
7. The average marks of 100 students are odd numbers. If 39 is the mean of the
given to be 40. It was found later that first five such numbers, then what is the
marks of one student were 53 which mean of all the thirteen numbers ?
were misread as 83. The corrected mean
(a) 47
marks are
(b) 49
(a) 39
(c) 51
(b) 39.7
(d) 45
(c) 40
(d) 40.3
11. The average rainfall in a city for the first
four days was recorded to be 0.40 inch.
8. A family has two children along with their The rainfall on the last two days was in
parents. The average of the weights the ratio of 4 : 3. The average of six days
of the children and their mother is 50 was 0.50 inch. What was the rainfall on
kg. The average of the weights of the the fifth day ?
children and their father is 52 kg. If the
(a) 0.60 inch
weight of the father is 60 kg, then what is
the weight of the mother ? (b) 0.70 inch
(a) 48 kg (c) 0.80 inch
(b) 50 kg (d) 0.90 inch
(c) 52 kg
(d) 54 kg
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2016 2015
12. Average hourly earnings per year (E) of 14. The graph below depicts the earnings of
the workers in a firm are represented in A and B over the period 2000 to 2010
figures A and B as follows :
E
A
Earnings
40
35 B
Hourly
30
earning
25
20 2000 2007 2010
2013 14 15 16 17 Y
years Fig. A From the graph, which one of the
following can be concluded?
E
(a) On the average A earned more than
40 B during this period.
Hourly 30 (b) On the average B earned more than
earning
20 A during this period.
10
(c) The earnings of A and B were equal
2013 14 15 16 17 Y during this period.
years (d) The earnings of A were less as
From the figures, it is observed that the compared to B during this period.
(a) Values of E are different 2014
(b) Ranges (i.e. the difference between 15. Direction for the follows 4 (four) items:
the maximum and the minimum) of E The following graph shows the average
are different profit of two fruit-sellers A and B in
(c) Slopes of the graphs are same thousands (Rs) per year from the year
(d) Rates of increase of E are different 1995 to 2000. Consider the graph and
answer the 4 (four) items that follow :
13. The average monthly income of a person
in a certain family of 5 is Rs. 10,000. What
will be the average monthly income of a 6
5
Average profit in thousands (Rs.)
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Students
A B C D
English 60 100 80 150
Psychology 70 100 70 100
History 50 100 60 100 Soubhagya cleared CSE & IFoS
Prelims 2023
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Answer Key
1 B 2 C 3 A 4 A
5 C 6 C 7 B 8 D
9 C 10 A 11 C 12 C
i B
ii C
13 A 14 A 15 16 C
iii D
iv B
17 D
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Problems on Numbers 4
2020 2019
1. Consider the following sequence of 4. Rakesh and Rajesh together bought 10
numbers: 5 1 4 7 3 9 8 5 7 2 6 3 1 5 8 6 3 8 balls and 10 rackets. Rakesh spent Rs.
52243496 1300 and Rajesh spent Rs. 1500. If each
racket costs three times a ball does, then
How many odd numbers are followed by
what is the price of a racket?
the odd number in the above sequence?
(a) 5 (a) Rs. 70
7. A printer numbers the pages of a book 9. What was the approximate total value (in
starting with 1 and uses 3089 digits in all. $) of sheet steel imported over the six
How many pages does the book have? months period?
(a) 1040 (a) 45,555
(b) 1048 (b) 50,555
(c) 1049 (c) 55,550
(d) 1050 (d) 65,750
2018 10. X and Y are natural numbers other than
1, and Y is greater than X. Which of the
8. Directions for the following 3 (three)
following represents the largest number?
items :
(a) XY
The following three items are based on
the graph given below which shows (b) X / Y
imports of three different types of steel (c) Y / X
over a period of six months of a year. (d) (X +Y) / XY
Study the graph and answer the three
11. A student has to get 40% marks to pass
items that follows.
in an examination. Suppose he gets 30
marks and fails by 30 marks, then what are
Thousands of tons imported
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450
(Price Rs.)
400 (b) B
350
300
(c) C
1000 2000 3000 (d) D
No. of pieces sold
Fig. B 15. There are three pillars X, Y and Z of
different heights. Three spiders A, B
The manufacturing cost and projected
and C start to climb on these pillars
sales for a product are shown in the
simultaneously. In one chance, A climbs
above figures A and B respectively. What
on X by 6 cm but slips down 1 cm. B
is the minimum number of pieces that
climbs on Y by 7 cm but slips down 3 cm.
should be manufactured to avoid a loss?
C climbs on Z by 6.5 cm but slips down 2
(a) 2000 cm. If each of them requires 40 chances
(b) 2500 to reach the top of the pillars, what is the
(c) 3000 height of the shortest pillar?
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17. Six boys A, B, C, D, E and F play a game 20. In paid of charity, every student in a
of cards. Each has a pack of 10 cards. F class contributes as many rupees as the
borrows 2 cards from A and gives away 5 number of students in that class. With
to C who in turn gives 3 to B while B gives the additional contribution of Rs. 2 by
6 to D who passes on 1 to E. Then the one student only, the total collection is
number of cards possessed by D and E is Rs. 443. Then how many students are
equal to the number of cards possessed there in the class?
by (a) 12
(a) A, B and C (b) 21
(b) B, C and F (c) 43
(c) A, B and F (d) 45
(d) A, C and F 21. In a class, there are 18 very tall boys.
18. In a test, Randhir obtained more marks If these constitute three-fourths of the
than the total marks obtained by Kunal boys and the total number of boys is two
and Debu. The total marks obtained by – thirds of the total number of students
Kunal and Shankar are more than those in the class, what is the number of girls
of Randhir. Sonal obtained more marks in the class?
than Shankar. Neha obtained more (a) 6
marks than Randhir, who amongst them
(b) 12
obtained highest marks?
(c) 18
(a) Randhir
(d) 21
(b) Neha
22. A daily train is to be introduced between
(c) Sonal
station A and B starting from each end at
(d) Data are inadequate 6 AM and the journey is to be completed
2016 in 42 hrs. What is the number of trains
needed in order to maintain the shuttle
19. There are some nectar-filled flowers on
service?
a tree and some bees are hovering on it.
(a) 2
If one bee lands on each flower, one bee
will be left out. If two bees land on each (b) 3
flower, one flower will be left out. The (c) 4
number of flowers and bees respectively
(d) 7
are:
23. In a question paper there are five
(a) 2 and 4
questions to be attempted and answer
(b) 3 and 2 to each question has two choices – True
(c) 3 and 4 (T) or False (F). It is given that no two
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five questions in an identical sequence. (c) C has more than what A and D have
For this to happen the maximum number together
of candidates is: (d) B is richer than D
(a) 10 27. In a parking area, the total number of
(b) 18 wheels of all the cars (four – wheelers)
(c) 26 and scooters / motorbikes (two –
wheelers) is 100 more than twice the
(d) 32
number of parked vehicles. The number
24. A person is standing on the first step of cars parked is
from the bottom of a ladder. If he has to
(a) 35
climb 4 more steps to reach exactly the
middle step, how many steps does the (b) 45
ladder have? (c) 50
(a) 8 (d) 55
(b) 9 28. If ABC × DEED = ABCABC where A, B, C,
(c) 10 D and E are different digits, what are the
values of D and E?
(d) 11
(a) D = 2, E = 0
25. In a class of 60 students, where the
number of girls is twice that of boys, (b) D = 0, E = 1
Kamal, a boy, ranked seventeenth from (c) D = 1, E = 0
the top. If there are 9 girls ahead of (d) D = 1, E = 2
Kamal, the number of boys in rank after
him is : 2014
(a) 13 29. A group of 630 children is seated in rows
(b) 12 for a group photo session. Each row
contains three less children than the row
(c) 7
in front of it. Which one of the following
(d) 3 number of rows is not possible?
2015 (a) 3
26. Each of A, B, C and D has Rs. 100. A pays (b) 4
Rs. 20 to B, who pays Rs. 10 to C, who (c) 5
gets Rs. 30 from D. In this context, which (d) 6
one of the following statements is not
correct ?
(a) C is the richest
(b) D is the poorest
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i A
1 B 13 25 B
ii B
2 B 14 B 26 C
3 B 15 B 27 C
4 C 16 C 28 C
5 C 17 B 29 D
6 D 18 D 30 D
7 C 19 C 31 A
8 C 20 B 32 C
9 C 21 B 33 C
Vipin cleared CSE & IFoS
10 A 22 C 34 B Prelims 2023
11 C 23 D 35 B
12 C 24 B
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Problems on Ages 5
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Answer Key
10. Consider the four age pyramids given
1 B 6 C
below namely A, B, C and D representing
four different countries. 2 C 7 B
A B C D
3 B 8 B
4 B 9 B
Age
5 D 10 C
Percent in age class
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Ratio and Proportion 6
1. D is a 3-digit number such that the ratio 3. 20 notes of ₹10 are used and the
of the number to the sum of its digits is
remaining are in the denominations of
₹50 and ₹20.
least. What is the difference between the
digit at the hundred’s place and the digit Which of the above statements are not
at the unit’s place of D? correct?
2021 2020
6. A person P asks one of his three friends X 9. A bottle contains 20 litres of liquid A. 4
as to how much money he had. X replied, litres of liquid A is taken out of its and
“ If Y gives me ₹ 40, then Y will have half replace by same quantity of liquid B.
of as much as Z, but if Z gives me ₹ 40, Again 4 litres of the mixture is taken out
then three of us will have equal amount.” and replaced by same quantity of liquid
What is the total amount of money that X, B. What is the ratio of quantity of liquid
Y and Z have? A to that of liquid B in the final mixture?
(a) ₹ 420 (a) 4 : 1
(b) ₹ 360 (b) 5 : 1
(c) ₹ 300 (c) 16 : 9
(d) ₹ 270 (d) 17 : 8
7. There are three points P, Q and R on a 2019
straight line such that PQ : QR = 3 : 5. If n
10. The ratio of a two-digit natural number to
is the number of possible values of PQ :
a number formed by reversing its digits
PR, then what is n equal to?
is 4 : 7. The number of such pairs is
(a) 1
(a) 5
(b) 2
(b) 4
(c) 3
(c) 3
(d) 4
(d) 2
8. A cubical vessel of side 1 m is filled
11. In an examination, A has scored 20 marks
completely with water. How many
more than B. If B has scored 5% less
millilitres of water is contained in it
marks than A, how much has B scored?
(neglect thickness of the vessel)?
(a) 1000 (a) 360
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incomes respectively are (in Rs.) 19. In a rare coin collection, there is one
(a) 24,000 and 18,000 gold coin for every three non-gold coins.
10 more gold coins are added to the
(b) 28,000 and 21,000
collection and the ratio of gold coins
(c) 32,000 and 24,000 to non-gold coins would be 1 : 2. Based
(d) 34,000 and 26,000 on the information, the total number of
coins in the collection now becomes.
2013
(a) 90
18. Direction for the following questions.
(b) 80
Study the two figures given below and
(c) 60
answer the questions.
(d) 50
20. Out of 120 applicants for a post, 70 are
male and 80 have a driver’s license.
What is the ratio between the minimum
to maximum number of males having
dirver’s license ?
(a) 1 to 2
(b) 2 to 3
(c) 3 to 7
(d) 5 to 7
2012
21. Two glasses of equal volume are
respectively half and three-fourths filled
with milk. They are then filled to the brim
by adding water. Their contents are then
poured into another vessel. What will be
Figure 1 Number of Professors in
the ratio of milk to water in this vessel?
selected disciplines in a
University by sex. (a) 1 : 3
Figure 2 Age of Physics Professors (b) 2 : 3
Which one of the following disciplines (c) 3 : 2
has the highest ratio of males to females? (d) 5 : 3
(a) Physics
(b) Mathematics
(c) Chemistry
(d) Economics
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Answer Key
22. A village having a population of 4000
1 C 8 D 15 D
requires 150 liters of water per head per
day. It has a tank measuring 20 m × 15 m 2 A 9 B 16 A
× 6 m. The water of this tank will last for 3 D 10 B 17 A
(a) 2 days 4 D 11 B 18 A
(b) 3 days 5 C 12 B 19 A
(c) 4 days 6 B 13 A 20 C
(d) 5 days 7 B 14 B 21 D
22 B
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P 2014
Velocity C Vehicle B K D 9. A straight line segment is 36 cm long.
Points are to be marked on the line from
A
h i cle both the end points. From each end, the
Ve first point is at a distance of 1 cm from
O L the end, the second point is at a distance
Time
of 2cm from the first point and the third
What is the ratio between the distance point is at a distance of 3cm from the
covered by vehicles A and B in the time second point and so on. If the points
interval OL? on the ends are not counted and the
(a) 1 : 2 common points are counted as one, what
is the number of points?
(b) 2 : 3
(a) 10
(c) 3 : 4
(b) 12
(d) 1 : 1
2017 (c) 14
(d) 16
7. Two walls and a ceiling of a room meet
at right angles at a point P. A fly is in the 2012
air 1m from one wall, 8m from the other 10.
wall and 9 m from the point P. How many
P 10 11 1 Q
meters is the fly from the ceiling?
(a) 4 9 7 2
(b) 6 8 6
R 4 5 3 S
(c) 12
(d) 15
In the above figure, circle P represents
2015 hardworking people, circle Q represents
8. In a plane, line X is perpendicular to intelligent people, Circle R represents
line Y and parallel to line Z line U is truthful people and circle S represents
perpendicular to both lines V and W line honest people. Which region represents
X is perpendicular to line V. the people who are intelligent, honest
Which one of the following statements is and truthful but not hardworking?
correct? diagram
(a) Z, U and W are parallel (a) 6
(b) X, V and Y are parallel (b) 7
(c) Z, V and U are all perpendicular to (c) 8
W
(d) 11
(d) Y, V and W are parallel
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1 D 2 D 3 A 4 B 5 D
6 C 7 A 8 D 9 C 10 A
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(a) 9 2020
(b) 13 15. As a result of 25% hike in the price of
(c) 27 rice per kg, a person is able to purchase
(d) 43 6 kg less rice for Rs. 1,200. What was the
original price of rice per kg?
12. A pie diagram shows -the percentage
distribution of proteins, water and (a) Rs. 30
other dry elements in the human body. (b) Rs. 40
Given that proteins correspond to 16% (c) Rs. 50
and water corresponds to70%. If both
(d) Rs. 60
proteins and the other dry elements
correspond to p%, then what is the 16. A person bought a car and sold it for Rs.
central angle of the sector representing 3,00,000. If he incurred a loss of 20%,
p on the pie diagram? then how much did he spend to buy the
car?
(a) 540
(a) Rs. 3,60,000
(b) 960
(b) Rs. 3,65,000
(c) 1080
(c) Rs. 3,70,000
(d) 1200
(d) Rs. 3,75,000
13. If the price of an article is decreased by
20% and then the new price is increased 2019
by 25%, then what is the net change in
17. A and B are two heavy steel blocks. If
the price?
B is placed on the top of A, the weight
(a) 0% increases by 60%. How much weight will
(b) 5% increase reduce with respect to the total weight of
(b) Raju has exactly the same amount as (a) 1 and 2 only
required to buy the handset. (b) 2 and 3 only
(c) Raju has enough amount to buy the (c) 1 and 3 only
handset and he will have Rs. 500 with
him after buying the handset. (d) 1,2 and 3
(d) Raju has enough amount to buy the 21. Rakesh had money to buy 8 mobile
handset and he will have Rs. 1000 handsets of a specific company. But the
with him after buying the handset. retailer offered very good discount on
that particular handset. Rakesh could by
19. All members of a club went to Mumbai
10 mobile handsets with the amount he
and stayed in a hotel. On the first day,
had. What was the discount the retailer
80% went for shopping and 50% went
offered?
for sightseeing, whereas 10% took
rest in the hotel. Which of the following (a) 15 %
conclusion(s) can be drawn from the (b) 20 %
above data ?
(c) 25 %
1. 40 % members went for shopping as
(d) 30 %
well as sightseeing.
2. 20 % members went for only shopping. 2018
Select the correct answer using the code 22. A shopkeeper sells an article at Rs. 40 and
given below : gets X % profit. However, when he sells
it at Rs. 20, he faces same percentage
(a) 1 only
of loss. What is the original cost of the
(b) 2 only
article ?
(c) Both 1 and 2
(a) Rs. 10
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
(b) Rs. 20
20. In a school, 60% students play cricket. A (c) Rs. 30
student who does not play cricket, play
(d) Rs. 40
football. Every football player has got
a two-wheeler. Which of the following 2017
conclusions cannot be drawn from the
23. Gopal bought a cell phone and sold it to
above data ?
Ram at 10% profit. Then Ram wanted to
1. 60% of the students do not have two sell it back to Gopal at 10% loss. What
wheelers
will be Gopal’s position if he agreed?
2. No cricketer has a two wheeler.
(a) Neither loss nor gain
3. Cricket players do not play football.
(b) Loss 1 %
Select the correct answer using the code (c) Gain 1 %
given below
(d) Gain 0.5 %
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24. P (40% of A) + (65%of B) and 27. The monthly average salary paid to all
Q = (50% of A) + (50% of B) where A is the employees of a company was Rs.
greater than B 5000. The monthly average salary paid
to male and female employees was Rs.
In this context, which of the following
5200 and Rs. 4200 respectively. Then
statements is correct?
the percentage of males employed in the
(a) P is greater than Q
company is
(b) Q is greater than P
(a) 75 %
(c) P is equal to Q
(b) 80 %
(d) None of the above can be concluded
(c) 85 %
with certainty
(d) 90 %
25. In a city, 12 % of households earn less
than Rs. 30,000 per year, 6% households 28. Two members X and Y are respectively
earn more than Rs. 2,00,000 per year, 20% and 28% less than a third number Z.
22% households earn more than Rs. By what percentage is the number Y less
1,00,000 per year and 990 households than the number X ?
earn between Rs. 30,000 and Rs. 1,00,000 (a) 12 %
per year. How many households earn (b) 10 %
between Rs. 1,00,000 and Rs. 2,00,000
(c) 9 %
per year ?
(d) 8 %
(a) 250
29. A person allows a 10% discount for cash
(b) 240
payment from the marked price of a toy
(c) 230 and still he makes a 10 % gain. What is
(d) 225 the cost price of the toy which is marked
Rs. 770 ?
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(a) Rs. 610
26. Anita’s mathematics test had 70 problems
(b) Rs. 620
carrying equal marks i.e. 10 arithmetic,
30 Algebra and 30 geometry. Although (c) Rs. 630
she answered 70% of the arithmetic, 40 (d) Rs. 640
% of algebra and 60% of the geometry
problems correctly, she did not pass
the test because she got less than 60%
marks. The number of more questions
she would have to answer correctly to
earn a 60% passing marks is:
(a) 1 (b) 5
(c) 7 (d) 9
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30. An automobile owner reduced his (a) Family A spent more money on food
monthly petrol consumption when the
than family B
prices went up. The price consumption (b) Family B spent more money on food
relationship is as follows: than family A
Price (in Rs. Per litre) 40,50,60,75 (c) Family A and Family B spent the same
Monthly consumption (in. L) 60,48,40,32
amount on food
(d) The expenditure on food by family A
If the price goes up to Rs. 80 per litre, his
and family B cannot be compared.
expected consumption (in litres) will be :
33. A cow costs more than 4 goats but less
(a) 30
than 5 goats. If a goat costs between Rs.
(b) 28 600 and Rs. 800, which of the following is
(c) 26 a most valid conclusion?
(d) 24 (a) A cow costs more than Rs. 2,500
31. In a test, a candidate attempted only 8 (b) A cow costs less than Rs. 3,600
questions and secured 50% marks in (c) A cow costs between Rs. 2,600 and
each of the questions. If he obtained a Rs. 3,800
total of 40% in the test and all questions
(d) A cow costs between Rs. 2,400 and
in the test carried equal marks, how Rs. 4,000
many questions were there in the test?
34. Candidates in a competitive examination
(a) 8 consisted of 60% men and 40% women.
(b) 10 70% men and 75% women cleared the
(c) 15 qualifying test and entered the final test
where 80% men and 70% women were
(d) 16
successful.
32. The proportion of expenditure on
Which of the following statements is
various item by two families A and B are
correct?
represented in the following Bar
(a) Success rate is higher for women
10% Food (b) Overall success rate is below 50%
50%
Food
(c) More men cleared the examination
60%
Other than women.
items
30%
Other (d) Both (a) and (b) above are correct.
items
30%
20% Education
Education
Family A Family B
Total expenditure Total expenditure
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36. Out of a total of 120 musicians in a club, (a) Now the money A has is just enough to
5% can play all the three instruments, buy two tickets.
guitar, violin and flute. It so happens (b) A still needs Rs. 2 for buying the
that the number of musicians who tickets.
can play any two and only two of the (c) After buying the two tickets A will be
above instruments is 30. The number of left with 50 paise.
musicians who can play the guitar alone
(d) The money A now has is still not
is 40. What is the total number of those sufficient to buy two tickets.
who can play violin alone or flute alone?
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(a) 49
(b) 44 39. Direction for the following questions.
Study the two figures given below and
(c) 38
answer the questions.
(d) 30
37. The following table gives population and
total income of a city for four years.
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(b) 500
(c) 600
(d) 700
2011
40. There are 100 students in a particular
class. 60% students play cricket, 30%
student play football and 10% student
play both the games.
What is the number of students who play
Figure 1 Number of Professors in neither cricket nor football?
selected disciplines in a
University by sex. (a) 25
Figure 2 Age of Physics Professors (b) 20
(c) 18
i) What percentage of all Psychlology (d) 15
professors are females?
41. In a group of persons, 70% of the persons
(a) 40 %
are male and 30% of the persons are
(b) 50 % married. If two sevenths of males are
(c) 60 % married, what fraction of the females is
(d) 70 % single?
(a) 2/7
ii) If the number of female Physics
professors in the age group 25 – (b) 1/3
34 equals 25% of all the Physics (c) 3/7
professors in that age group, then
what is the number of male Physics
(d) 2/3
professors in the age group 25 -34 ? 42. Read the following passage and answer
(a) 9 the 3 (three) items that follow:
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1 C 10 A 19 A 28 B 37 C
2 D 11 A 20 D 29 C 38 C
i C
3 B 12 C 21 B 30 A 39 ii A
iii B
4 A 13 A 22 C 31 B 40 B
5 A 14 D 23 C 32 C 41 D
6 A 15 B 24 D 33 D i B
7 D 16 D 25 B 34 C 42 ii A
8 D 17 D 26 B 35 C iii A
9 C 18 D 27 B 36 B
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Pipes and Cisterns 9
2015
1. Two pipes A and B can independently fill
a tank completely in 20 and 30 minutes
respectively. If both the pipes are opened
simultaneously, how much time will they
take to fill the tank completely ?
(a) 10 minutes
(b) 12 minutes
(c) 15 minutes
(d) 25 minutes
Answer Key
1 B
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Time and Work 10
2023 2020
1. A, B, C working independently can do 3. A person x can complete 20% of work in 8
a piece or work in 8, 16 and 12 days days and another person Y can complete
respectively. A alone works on Monday, 25% of the same work in 6 days. If they
B alone works on Tuesday, C alone works work together, in how many days will
on Wednesday; A alone, again works 40% of the work by completed?
on Thursday and so on. Consider the (a) 6
following statements:
(b) 8
1. The work will be finished on Thursday.
(c) 10
2. The work will be finished in 10 days.
(d) 12
Which of the above statements is/are
correct?
2016
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6. A class starts at 11.00 am and lasts till 8. Ram and Shyam work on a job together
2.27pm. Four periods of equal duration for four days and complete 60% of it.
are held during this interval. After every Ram takes leave then and Shyam works
period, a rest of 5 minutes is given to for eight more days to complete the job.
the students. The exact duration of each How long would Ram take to complete
period is : the entire job alone?
(a) 48 minutes (a) 6 days
(b) 50 minutes (b) 8 days
(c) 51 minutes (c) 10 days
(d) 53 minutes (d) 11 days
7. Four friends A, B, C and D need to cross 9. W can do 25% of a work in 30 days, X can
a bridge. A maximum of two persons can do ¼ of the work in 10 days, Y can do 40%
cross it at a time. It is night and they just of the work in 40 days and Z can do 1/3
have one lamp. Persons that cross the of the work in 13 days. Who will complete
bridge must carry the lamp to find the the work first ?
way. A pair must walk together at the (a) W
speed of slower person. After crossing
(b) X
the bridge, the person having faster
speed in the pair will return with the (c) Y
lamp each time to accompany another (d) Z
person in the group. Finally, the lamp has
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to be returned at the original place and
the person who returns the lamp has to 10. Five persons fire bullets at a target at
cross the bridge, the time taken by them an interval of 6,7,8,9 and 12 seconds
is as follows : A : 1 minutes, B : 2 minutes, respectively. The number of times they
C : 7 minutes and D : 10 minutes. What would fire the bullets together at the
is the total minimum time required by all target in an hour is
the friends to cross the bridge? (a) 6
(a) 23 minutes (b) 7
(b) 22 minutes (c) 8
(c) 21 minutes (d) 9
(d) 20 minutes
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Days
Days
(b) 40km
(c) 45km
O Men x O Men x
(d) 48km
Diagram III Diagram IV
(a) Diagram I 2011
(b) Diagram II 15. A contract on construction job specifies
(c) Diagram III a penalty for delay in completion of the
work beyond a certain date is as follows:
(d) Diagram IV
Rs. 200 for the first day, Rs. 250 for the
12. In a garrison, there was food for 1000 s second day, Rs. 300 for the third day etc.,
for one month. After 10 days, 1000 more the penalty for each succeeding day
s joined the garrison. How long would the being 50 more than that of the preceding
s be able to carry on with the remaining day. How much penalty should the
food? contractor pay if he delays the work by
(a) 25 days 10 days ?
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1 A 6 A 11 D
2 D 7 A 12 D
3 A 8 C 13 D
4 D 9 D 14 B Sagar Dhanraj cleared CSE
Prelims 2023
5 C 10 B 15 B
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(a) 25 : 21 (d) 10 : 20 AM
(b) 25 : 20 2013
(c) 5 : 3 17. A thief running at 8 km/hr is chased by
(d) 5 : 7 a policeman whose speed is 10 km/hr. If
the thief is 100 m ahead of the policeman,
14. Two cities A and B are 360 km apart. A
then the time required for the policeman
car goes from A to B with a speed of 40
to catch the thief will be
km/hr and returns to A with a speed of 60
km/hr. What is the average speed of the (a) 2 min
car ? (b) 3 min
(a) 45 km/hr (c) 4 min
(b) 48 km/hr (d) 6 min
(c) 50 km/hr
(d) 55 km/hr
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2018 2013
1. A train 200 metres long is moving at the 2. A train travels at a certain average speed
rate of 40 kmph. In how many seconds for a distance of 63 km and then travels
will it cross a man standing near the a distance of 72 km at an average speed
railway line? of 6 km/hr more than its original speed.
(a) 12 If it takes 3 hours to complete the total
journey, what is the original speed of the
(b) 15
train in km/hr?
(c) 16
(a) 24
(d) 18
(b) 33
Answer Key (c) 42
1 D 2 C (d) 66
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Alligation or Mixture 13
2022
Answer Key
1. There are two containers X and Y. X
contains 100 ml of milk and Y contains 1 A 2 A 3 D
100 ml of water. 20 ml of milk from X is
transferred to Y. After mixing well, 20 ml
of the mixture in Y is transferred back to
X. If m denotes the proportion of milk in
X and n denotes the proportion of water
in Y, then which one of the following is
correct?
(a) m = n
(b) m > n
(c) m < n
(d) Cannot be determined due to
insufficient data
2017
2. There is a milk sample with 50% water in
it. If 1/3rd of this milk is added to equal
amount of pure milk, then water in the
new mixture will fall down to :
(a) 25% (b) 30%
(c) 35% (d) 40%
2016
3. 30g of sugar was mixed in 180 ml water
in a vessel A, 40 g of sugar was mixed
in 280 ml of water in vessel B and 20 g LIET & SCOPE BATCH STUDENT
of sugar was mixed in 100 ml of water in
vessel C. The solution in vessel B is :
(a) Sweeter than that in C
(b) Sweeter than that in A
(c) As sweet as that in C
(d) Less sweet than that in C
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2020 (b) Thursday
8. In the particular year 12th January is a (c) Saturday
Sunday, then which one of the following (d) Sunday
is correct?
11. A wall clock moves 10 minutes fast in
(a) 15th July is a Sunday if the year is a every 24 hours. The clock was set right
leap year. to show the correct time at 8.00 am. On
(b) 15th July is a Sunday if the year is Monday. When the clock shows the time
not a leap year. 6.00 pm. On Wednesday, what is the
(c) 12th July is Sunday if the year is a correct time?
leap year. (a) 5 : 36 pm
(d) 12th July is a not Sunday if the year (b) 5 : 30 pm
is a leap year.
(c) 5 : 24 pm
9. Consider the following data:
(d) 5 : 18 pm
Year Birth rate Death 12. Which year has the same calendar as
rate
that of 2009?
1911-1921 48.1 35.5
1921-1931 46.4 36.3 (a) 2018
1931-1941 45.2 31.2 (b) 2017
1941-1951 39.9 27.4 (c) 2016
1951-1961 41.7 22.8
(d) 2015
1961-1971 41.1 18.9
1971-1981 37.1 14.8 2017
For which period was the natural growth 13. If second and fourth Saturdays and all
rate maximum? the Sundays are taken as only holidays
(a) 1911-1921 for an office, what would be the minimum
number of possible working days of any
(b) 1941-1951
month of any year ?
(c) 1961-1971
(a) 23
(d) 1971-1981
(b) 22
2019 (c) 21
10. Mr X has three children. The birthday of (d) 20
the first child falls on the 5 Monday of
th
14. A watch loses 2 minutes in every 24 hours
April, that of the second one falls on the
while another watch gains 2 minutes in
5th Thursday of November. On which day
every 24 hours. At a particular instant,
is the birthday of his third child, which
the two watches showed an identical
falls on 20th December?
time. Which of the following statements
(a) Monday is correct if 24 hour clock is followed ?
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(a) The two watches show the identical After how many minutes (nearest
time again on completion of 30 days integer) will the two hands be again lying
(b) The two watches show the identical one above the other?
time again on completion of 90 days (a) 60
(c) The two watches show the identical (b) 62
time again on completion of 120 days
(c) 65
(d) None of the above statements is
correct. (d) 67
18. A bell rings 18minutes. A second bell
15. A clock strikes once at 1 o’clock, twice
rings every 24minutes. A third bell rings
at 2 o’clock and thrice 3 o’clock, and so
every 32minutes. If all the three bells
on. If it takes 12 seconds to strike at 5
ring at the same time at 8 o’clock in the
o’clock, what is the time taken by it to
morning, at what other time will they all
strike at 10 o’clock
ring together?
(a) 20 seconds
(a) 12 : 40 hrs.
(b) 24 seconds
(b) 12 : 48 hrs.
(c) 28 seconds
(c) 12 : 56 hrs.
(d) 30 seconds
(d) 13 : 04 hrs.
2015
19. If the 3rd day of a month is Monday,
16. Between 6 PM and 7 PM the minute hand which one of the following will be the fifth
of a clock will be ahead of the hour hand day from 21st of this month?
by 3 minutes at (a) Monday
(a) 6 : 15 PM (b) Tuesday
(b) 6 : 18 PM (c) Wednesday
(c) 6 : 36 PM (d) Friday
(d) 6 : 48 PM
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2014
20. There are five hobby clubs in a college.
17. Assume that photography, yachting, chess, electronics
1. The hour and minute hands of a clock and gardening. The gardening group
move without jerking. meets every second day, the electronics
group meets every third day, the chess
2. The clock shows a time between 8’o
group meets every fourth day, the
clock and 9’o clock.
yachting group meets every fifth day and
3. The two hands of the clock are one
the photography group meets do all the
above the other.
five groups meet on the same day within
180 days?
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(a) 3
Answer Key
(b) 5
1 C 8 C 15 C
(c) 10
2 B 9 D 16 C
(d) 18
3 D 10 B 17 C
4 D 11 A 18 B
5 C 12 D 19 C
6 A 13 B 20 A
7 B 14 D
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Permutations and Combinations 16
2023 4. One non-zero digit, one vowel and
one consonant from English alphabet
1. A flag has to be designed with 4
(in capital) are to be used in forming
horizontal stripes using some or all of
passwords, such that each password
the colours red, green and yellow. What
has to start with a vowel and end with a
is the number of different ways in which
consonant. How many such passwords
this can be done so that no two adjacent
can be generated?
stripes have the same colour?
(a) 105
(a) 12
(b) 525
(b) 18
(c) 945
(c) 24
(d) 1050
(d) 36
5. There are 9 cups placed on a table
2022 arranged in equal number of rows and
2. A, B and C are three places such that columns out of which 6 cups contain
there are three different roads from A to coffee and 3 cups contain tea. In how
B, four different roads from B to C and many ways can they be arranged so that
three different roads from A to C. In how each row should contain at least one cup
many different ways can one travel from of coffee?
A to C using these roads? (a) 18
(a) 10 (b) 27
(b) 13 (c) 54
(c) 15 (d) 81
(d) 36 2021
3. There is a numeric lock which has a 3-digit
6. On a chess board, in how many different
PIN. The PIN contains digits 1 to 7. There
ways can 6 consecutive squares be
is no repetition of digits. The digits in the
chosen on the diagonals along a straight
PIN from left to right are in decreasing
path?
order. Any two digits in the PIN differ by
at least 2. How many maximum attempts
(a) 4
does one need to find out the PIN with (b) 6
certainty? (c) 8
(a) 6 (d) 12
(b) 8
(c) 10
(d) 12
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9. Suppose you have sufficient amount of
rupee currency in three denominations:
Rs. 1, Rs. 10, Rs. 50. In how many different
ways can you pay a bill of Rs. 107 ?
There are six different colours available
(a) 16 to choose from and each of the three
(b) 17 wooden blocks is to be painted such
(c) 18 that no two of them has the same colour.
In how many different ways can the
(d) 19
winners’ stand be painted?
(a) 120
(b) 81
(c) 66
(d) 36
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12. A bag contains 20 balls. 8 balls are 15. There are 5 tasks and 5 persons. Tasks-1
green, 7 are white and 5 are red. What is cannot be assigned to either person-1
the minimum number of balls that must or person-2. Task -2 must be assigned
be picked up from the bag blindfolded to either person-3 or person 4. Every
(without replacing any of it) to be person is to be assigned one task. In how
assured of picking at least one ball of many ways can the assignment be done
each colour? ?
(a) 17 (a) 6
(b) 16 (b) 12
(c) 13 (c) 24
(d) 11 (d) 144
13. If 2 boys and 2 girls are to be arranged in 16. In a box of marbles, there are three less
a row so that the girls are not next to each white marbles than the red ones and five
other, how many possible arrangements more white marbles than the green ones.
are there ? If there are a total of 10 white marbles,
(a) 3 how many marbles are there in the box ?
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1 C 2 C 3 C 4 C 5 D
6 B 7 B 8 A 9 C 10 B
11 A 12 B 13 C 14 D 15 C
16 B 17 A
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2020
1. If you have two straight sticks of length
7.5 feet and 3.25 feet, what is the
minimum length can your measure?
(a) 0.05 foot
(b) 0.25 foot 35
(c) 1 foot
(d) 3.25 feet
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2. AB is a vertical trunk of a huge tree with
A being the point where the base of trunk
touches the ground. Due to a cyclone
the trunk has been broken at C which is
at a height of 12 meters, broken part is
partially attached to the vertical portion
of the trunk at C. If the end of the broken
part B touches the ground at D which is
at a distance of 5 meters from A, then the
original height of the trunk is
(a) 20 m
(b) 25 m
(c) 30 m
(d) 35 m
Mansi cleared CSE
Prelims 2023
Answer Key
1 C
2 B
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1. A pie chart gives the expenditure on Player Runs Balls Runs Balls
scored faced scored faced
five different items A, B, C, D and E in a
in the in the in the in the
household. If B, C, D and E correspond First First Second Second
to 90°, 50°, 45° and 75° respectively, then Innings Innings Innings Innings
what is the percentage expenditure on A 61 99 14 76
item A? of B 05 12 50 85
112 C 15 75 20 50
(a) 9 D 13 55 12 50
125 Who is the fastest run scorer in the
(c) 9 TestMatch?
155
(b) (a) A
9
250 (b) B
(d) 9 (c) C
2021 (d) D
2. You are given two identical sequences in 2019
two rows :
4. Passage :
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10
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(Price Rs.)
figures A and B as follows :
400
E 350
300
40
1000 2000 3000
Hourly 30 No. of pieces sold
earning Fig. B
20
10 The manufacturing cost and projected
sales for a product are shown in the
2013 14 15 16 17 Y
above figures A and B respectively. What
years
is the minimum number of pieces that
E should be manufactured to avoid a loss ?
40 (a) 2000 (b) 2500
35
Hourly (c) 3000 (d) 3500
30
earning
25
20 11. Consider the following graphs. The
2013 14 15 16 17 Y curves in the graphs indicates different
years Fig. A
age groups in the population of two
countries A and B over a period of few
From the figures, it is observed that the
decades :
(a) Values of E are different
Country A
12
(b) Ranges of E are different
Population (in millons)
10
0.8
(c) Ranges (i.e. the difference between 0.6
0.4
the maximum and the minimum) of E 0.2
0
are different 1950 1970 1990 2010 2030 2050
Years
(d) Rates of increase of E are different <15 15-64 64+
8 10
0.8
Cost of production
7 0.6
(Rs. in Lakhs)
6 0.4
0.2
5
0
4 1950 1970 1990 2010 2030 2050
Years
<15 15-64 64+
1000 2000 3000
No. of pieces manufactured
Fig. A
With reference to the above graphs,
which of the following are the most
logical and rational inferences that can
be made
1. Over the last two and a half decade,
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With reference to the above table, which
4.00 of the following is/are the most logical
3.50
and rational inference / inferences that
3.00
Jul 2 Jul 27 Sep 16 Nov 2 Des 16 Jan 25 Mar 17 May 3 Jun 16
can be made?
2010 2011
1. Higher per capita income is generally
associated with higher Tele-density.
Which one of the following can be the
most likely reason for the Central Bank 2. Higher GDP growth rate always
ensure higher per capita income.
for such an action
3. Higher GDP growth rate does not
(a) Encouraging foreign investment
necessary ensure higher Tele-density.
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given below of the following is/are the most logical
(a) 1 only and rational inference / inferences that
can be made?
(b) 2 and 3
1. During the given period, the revenue
(c) 1 and 3
from Direct Taxes as percentage of
(d) 3 only gross tax revenue has increased while
14. With reference to the above table, the
that of Indirect Taxes decreased.
following assumption have been made: 2. The trend in the revenue from excise
duty demonstrates that the growth
1. Nowadays, prosperity of an already
of manufacturing sector has been
high performing stata cannot e
negative during the given period
sustained without making further
large investments in its telecom Select the correct answer using the code
infrastructure. given below:
2. Nowadays, a very high Tele-density (a) 1 only
is the most essential condition for
(b) 2 only
promoting the business and economic
growth in a state. (c) Both 1 and 2
Which of the above assumptions is/are (d) Neither 1 nor 2
valid? 2015
(a) 1 only
16. Year – wise variation of the price of
(b) 2 only a certain commodity is shown in the
(c) Both 1 and 2 following graph :
50
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Price in Rupees →
40
15. The following graph indicates the 30
composition of our tax revenue for a 20
period of two decades : 10
45 0
Per cent of gross tax revenue
1995-96
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
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5 Popula- 20 21 22 23
B →
4
tion In
lakhs
3
A Income 1010 1111 1225 1345
2
1
Increases
0
crores
1995 1996 1997
Year
1998 1999 2000 (Rs.)
i) In which year is the average profit of A Which one of the following statements is
and B same ? correct in respect of the above data?
(a) 1995 (a) Population increased by 5% or more
(b) 1996 every year.
(c) 1997 (b) Income increased by 10% or more
every year.
(d) 1998
(c) Per capita income was always above
ii) What is the difference between the
Rs. 5000
average profit of B and A in the year
1998? (d) Per capita income was highest in 1994
(a) - Rs. 100 2013
(b) - Rs. 1000
19. Direction for the following questions.
(c) + Rs. 600 Study the two figures given below and
(d) + Rs. 300 answer the questions.
iii) How much more average profit did A
make in the year 2000 than in the year
1999?
(a) Rs. 200
(b) Rs. 1000
(c) Rs. 1500
(d) Rs. 2000
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(b) 6
(c) 3
Number of Professors in selected
Figure1
disciplines in a University by sex. (d) 2
Figure 2 Age of Physics Professors.
i) How many Physics professors belong v) If the Psychology professors in the
to the age group 35 – 44 University constitute 2% of all the pro-
fessors in the university, then what is
(a) 18 the number of professors in the univer-
sity?
(b) 16
(a) 400
(c) 14
(b) 500
(d) 12
(c) 600
ii) Which one of the following disciplines
has the highest ratio of males to fe- (d) 700
males ?
2012
(a) Physics
20. Consider the following information
(b) Mathematics regarding the performance of class of
1000 students in four different tests:
(c) Chemistry
Test I II III IV
(d) Economics
Average
60 60 70 80
iii) What percentage of all Psychlology Marks
professors are females ?
30 45 20 0
(a) 40 % Range of
to to to to
marks
(b) 50 % 90 75 100 100
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Population (billions
0
2000
200
400
600
800
1600
1800
1000
1200
1400
AD
Year
Which curve indicates the exponential
growth?
(a) A
(b) B (a) Town A
(c) C (b) Town B
(d) D (c) Same in Town A and Town B
22. Directions for the following 2 (two) items: (d) No inference can be drawn
The following pie charts show the break- ii) What can we say about persons
up of disease categories recorded in with more than one disease from
the patients from two towns, Town A these graphs?
and Town B. Pie charts plot the disease (a) There are likely to be persons
Categories as percentage of the total with more than one disease in
number of patients. Based on these, Town A.
answer the two items that follow the (b) There are likely to be persons
charts. with more than one disease in
i) Which of the two towns has a higher Town B.
number of persons with Diabetes?
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i) D
ii) C
Train A
5 17
iii) D
ii) B
0 Time to iv) B
With reference to the above graph, which i) C
one of the following statements is not 6 ii) C 18 C
correct ?
iii) B
(a) Train B has an initial acceleration
i) B
greater than that of Train A.
ii) A
(b) Train B is faster than Train A at all i) A
times. 7 19 iii) C
(c) Both trains have the same velocity at iv) A
time to’ ii) D v) B
(d) Both trains travel the same distance in
8 A 20 B
time to units.
9 C 21 C
i) D
10 A 22
ii) B
11 C 23 D
12 D
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7. There are 24 equally spaced points lying agricultural field will not exceed which
on the circumference of a circle. What one of the following values ?
is the maximum number of equilateral (a) 400 sq.m
triangles that can be drawn by taking
(b) 300 sq.m
sets of three points as the vertices?
(c) 200 sq.m
(a) 4
(d) 80 sq.m
(b) 6
11. A and B walk around a circular park.
(c) 8
They start at 8 am. from the same point in
(d) 12 the opposite directions. A and B walket
8. Twelve equal squares are placed to fit at a speed of 2 rounds per hour and 3
in a rectangle of diagonal 5cm. There rounds per hour respectively. How many
are three rows containing four squares times shall they cross each other after 8
each. No gaps are left between adjacent am and before 9.30 am. ?
squares. What is the area of each square? (a) 7
5 (b) 6
(a) sq.cm
7
(c) 5
7
(b) sq.cm
5 (d) 8
(c) 1 sq.cm 2014
25
(d) sq.cm 12. A gardener increased the area of his
12
rectangular garden by increasing its
2017
length by 40% and decreasing its width
9. There are 4 horizontal and 4 vertical by 20%. The area of the new garden.
lines, parallel and equidistant to one (a) Has increased by 20 %
another on a board. What is the maximum
(b) Has increased by 12 %
number of rectangles and squares that
can be formed ? (c) Has increased by 8 %
(a) 16 (d) Is exactly the same as the old area
(b) 24
(c) 36
Answer Key
(d) 42
1 C 2 A 3 B 4 C
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5 D 6 A 7 C 8 C
10. An agricultural field is in the form of a
rectangle having length X1 meters and
9 C 10 A 11 A 12 B
breadth X2 meters (X1 and X2 are variable).
If X1+ X2 = 40 meters, then the area of the
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13. Consider the following statements in 15. letters of the word The
respect of five candidates P, Q, R, S “INCOMPREHENSIBILITIES” are
and T. Two statements are true and one arranged alphabetically in reverse order.
statement is false. How many positions of the letter/letters
will remain unchanged?
True Statement : One of P and Q was
selected for the job. (a) None
False Statement : At least one of R and S (b) One
was selected for the job. (c) Two
True Statement : At most two of R, S and T (d) Three
were selected for the job.
Which of the following conclusions can
Answer Key
be drawn?
17. Two friends X and Y start running and Which one of the following is correct
they run together for 50 m in the same in respect of the Question and the
direction and reach a point. X turns right Statements?
and runs 60 m, while Y turns left and runs (a) Statement-1 alone is sufficient to
40 m. Then X turns left and runs 50 m answer the Question
and stops, while Y turns right and runs
(b) Statement-2 alone is sufficient to
50 m and then stops. How far are the two answer the Question
friends from each other now?
(c) Both Statement-1 and Statement-2
(a) 100 m are sufficient to answer the Question
(b) 90 m (d) Both Statement-1 and Statement-2 are
(c) 60 m not sufficient to answer the Question
(d) 50 m 21. In the series AABABCABCDABCDE...,
which letter appears at the 100th place?
18. If the order of the letters in the English
alphabet is reversed and each letter (a) G
represents the letter whose position it (b) H
occupies, then which one of the following
(c) I
represents ‘LUCKNOW?
(d) J
(a) OGXPMLD
22. Three persons A, B and C are standing
(b) OGXQMLE
in a queue not necessarily in the same
(c) OFXPMLE order. There are 4 persons between A
(d) OFXPMLD and B, and 7 persons between B and C.
If there are 11 persons ahead of C and
19. The letters A, B, C, D and E are arranged
13 behind A, what could be the minimum
in such a way that there are exactly two
number of persons in the queue?
letters between A and E. How many such
arrangements are possible? (a) 22 (b) 32
(a) 12 (b) 18 (c) 28 (d) 38
(c) 24 (d) 36
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23. Consider the Question and two (c) Both Conclusion-III and Conclusion-IV
Statements given below in respect of (d) None of the Conclusions follows
three cities P, Q and R in a State :
25. Three Statements followed by three
Question : How far is city P from city Q? Conclusions are given below. You have
Statement-1 City Q is 18 km fromcity R. to take the Statements to be true even
Statement-2: City P is 43 km from city R. if they seem to be at variance from the
commonly known facts. Read all the
Which one of the following is correct
Conclusions and then decide which of
in respect of the Question and the
the given Conclusions logically follows/
Statements?
follow from the Statements, disregarding
(a) Statement-1 alone is sufficient to the commonly known facts :
answer the Question
Statement-1 : Some doctors are teachers.
(b) Statement-2 alone is sufficient to
answer the Question Statement-2 : All teachers are engineers.
(c) Both Statement-1 and Statement-2 Statement-3 : All engineers are scientists.
are sufficient to Question answer the Conclusion-1: Some scientists are doctors.
(d) Both Statement-1 and Statement-2 are Conclusion-II : All engineers are doctors.
not sufficient to answer the Question Conclusion-III : Some engineers are doctors.
24. Two Statements followed by four Which one of the following is correct?
Conclusions are given below. You have
(a) Only Conclusion-I
to take the Statements to be true even
if they seem to be at variance from the (b) Only Conclusion-II
commonly known facts. Read all the (c) Both Conclusion-I and Conclusion-III
Conclusions and then decide which of (d) Both Conclusion-I and Conclusion-II
the given Conclusions logically follows/
26. Eight students A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H sit
follow from the Statements, disregarding
around a circular table, equidistant from
the commonly known facts::
each other, facing the centre of the table,
Statement-1 : All pens are books.
not necessarily in the same order. B and
Statement-2 : No chair is a pen. D sit neither adjacent to C nor opposite
Conclusion-I : All chairs are books. to C. A sits in between E and D, and F sits
in between B and H. Which one of the
Conclusion-II : Some chairs are pens.
following is definitely correct?
Conclusion-III : All books are chairs.
(a) B sits in between A and G
Conclusion-IV : No chair is a book.
(b) C sits opposite to G
Which one of the following is correct?
(c) E sits opposite to F
(a) Only Conclusion-I
(d) None of the above
(b) Only Conclusion-II
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27. Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting 28. Six lectures A, B, C, D, E and F, each
equidistant from each other around a of one hour duration, are scheduled
circular table (facing the centre of the between 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
table).
Consider the Question and Statements
Consider the Question and two given below :
Statements given below:
Question: Which lecture is in the
Question : Who is sitting on the im- third period?
mediate left of A? Statement-1: Lecture F is preceded by
Statement-1: B is sitting opposite to C A and followed by C.
and D is sitting opposite Statement-2: There is no lecture
to E. afterlecture B.
Statement-2: F is sitting on the immedi- Which one of the following is correct
ate left of B.
in respect of the Question and the
Which one of the following is correct Statements?
in respect of the Question and the
(a) Statement-1 alone is sufficient to
Statements? answer the Question
(a) Statement-1 alone is sufficient to (b) Statement-2 alone is sufficient
answer the Question toanswer the Question
(b) Statement-2 alone is sufficient to (c) Both Statement-1 and Statement-2
answer the Question are sufficient to answer the Question
(c) Both Statement-1 and Statement-2 (d) Both Statement-1 and Statement-2 are
are sufficient to Question answer the not sufficient to answer the Question
(d) Both Statement-1 and Statement-2 are 29. What is the value of X in the sequence 2,
not sufficient to answer the Question
12, 36, 80, 150, X?
19 C 20 D 21 C (c) 258
(d) 262
22 A 23 D 24 D
25 C 26 D 27 D
28 D 29 B
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45. In the series _b_a_ba_b_abab_aab; fill (c) S1 and S2 together are sufficient to
in the six blanks (_) using one of the answer the Question, but neither S1
following given four choices such that alone nor S2 alone is sufficient to
the series follows a specific order. answer the question.
(a) bababa (d) S1 and S2 together are not sufficient
to answer the Question.
(b) baabba
47. Two Statements S1 and S2 are given
(c) bbaabb
below followed by a Question:
(d) ababab
S1 : n is a prime number.
S2 : n leaves a remainder of 1 when
divided by 4.
Answer Key
Question:
30 D 35 A 40 B
If n is a unique natural number between
31 C 36 C 41 D
10 and 20, then what is n?
32 B 37 C 42 C Which one of the following is correct in
33 B 38 C/D 43 B respect of above Statements and the
34 C 39 B 44 D Question?
(a) S1 alone is sufficient to answer the
45 D Question.
(b) S2 alone is sufficient to answer the
2020 Question.
(c) S1 and S2 together are sufficient to
46. Two Statements S1 and S2 are given answer the Question, but neither S1
below with regard to four members P, Q, alone nor S2 alone is sufficient to
R and S followed by a Questions: answer the Question.
S1 : R is greater than P as well as Q. (d) S1 and S2 together are not sufficient
S2 : S is not the largest one. to answer the Question.
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49. Two statements are given followed by (d) Both Conclusion-I and Conclusion-II
two Conclusions: 51. Consider the following arrangement that
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64. Consider the following sequence that (d) Both S1 and S2 are necessary to
follows some arrangement : answer the question
c_accaa_aa_bc_b 67. If every alternative letter of the English
The letters that appear in the gaps are alphabet from B onwards (including B) is
(a) abba written in lower case (small letters) and
the remaining letters are capitalized,
(b) cbbb
then how is the first month of the second
(c) bbbb half of the year written?
(d) cccc (a) JuLY
65. ‘A’ started from his house and walked (b) jULy
20m towards East, where his friend B
(c) jUly
joined him. They together walked 10 m in
the same direction. Then ‘A’ turned left
(d) jUlY
while friend ‘B’ turned right and travelled 68. In the sequence 1, 5, 7, 3, 5, 7, 4, 3, 5,
2m and 8m respectively. Again ‘B’ turned 7, how many such 5s are there which are
left to travel 4m followed by 5m to his not immediately preceded by 3 but are
right to reach his office. ‘A’ turned right immediately followed by 7?
and travelled 12m to reach his office. (a) 1
What is the shortest distance between
(b) 2
the two offices?
(c) 3
(a) 15m
(d) None
(b) 17m
69. A joint family consists of seven members
(c) 19m
A, B, C, D, E, F and G with three females. G
(d) 20m is a widow and sister in-law of D’s father
66. Consider two statements S1 and S2 F. B and D are siblings and A is daughter
followed by a question: of B. C is cousin of B. Who is E?
S1: p and q both are prime numbers. 1. Wife of F
S2: p + q is an odd integer. 2. Grandmother of A
Question: Is pq an odd integer? 3. Aunt of C
Which one of the following is correct? Select the correct answer using the code
(a) S1 alone is sufficient to answer the given below:
question (a) 1 and 2 only
(b) S2 alone is sufficient to answer the (b) 2 and 3 only
question
(c) 1 and 3 only
(c) Both S1 and S2 taken together are
not sufficient to answer the question (d) 1, 2 and 3
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(b) 10
(c) 11
(d) 12
71. If $ means ‘divided by’; @ means
‘multiplied by’; # means ‘minus’, then the
value of 10#5@1$5 is
(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 9
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i) What is the symbol on the face opposite 77. Directions for the following 2 items
to that containing a single dot? Read following information and
(a) Four dots answer the two items that follow.
(b) Three dots The plan of an office block for six
(c) Two dots officers A, B, C, D, E and F is as
follows: both B and C occupy officers
(d) Cross to the right of the corridor (as
ii) What is the symbol on the face opposite one enters the office block) and A
to that containing two dots? occupies on the left of the corridor.
E and F occupy officers in opposite
(a) Single dot
sides the corridor but their offices do
(b) Three dots not face each. The offices of C and
(c) Four dots D face each other. E does not have
a corner office. F’s office is further
(d) Line
down the corridor than A’s but on the
iii) What is the symbol on the face opposite same side.
to that containing the cross?
i) If E sits in his offices and faces the
(a) Single dot corridor, whose office is to his left?
(b) Two dot (a) A
(c) Line (b) B
(d) Four dots (c) C
75. If LSJXVC is the code for MUMBAI the (d) D
code for DELHI is ii) Who is/ are F’s immediate neighbour/
(a) CCIDD neighbours?
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79. If pen< book and book> cap then which iii) C is Studying in
one of the following is always true? (a) Science college
(a) Pen > cap (b) Rajasthan
(b) Pen < cap (c) Gujarat
(c) Pencil = cap (d) City Q
(d) Pencil > cap
iv) Which one of the following statements
80. Direction for the following 6 Items: is correct?
Read the information given below and (a) D is not studying in city S
answer the six items that follow.
(b) A is studying in Science college
A B C and D are students they are (c) A is studying in Kerala
studying in four different cities, viz, P Q
(d) Engineering college is located in
R and S (not necessarily in that order).
Gujarat.
They are studying in Science college,
Arts college, Commerce and Engineering v) Which one of the following statements
college (not necessarily in that order) is correct regarding Engineering col-
which are situated in four different states lege?
viz., Gujrat, Rajasthan, Assam and Kerala (a) C is studying there
(not necessarily in that order) further, it
(b) B is studying there
is given that-
(c) It is located in Gujarat
(a) D is studying in Assam
(d) D is studying there
(b) Arts college is located in city S which
is in Rajasthan vi) Which one off the following statements
(c) A is studying in commerce college is the correct?
81. Consider the figures given below: 83. Lakshmi, her brother, her daughter and
her son are badminton players. A game
of doubles is about to begin:
1. Lakshmi’s brother is directly across the
net from her daughter.
2. Her son is diagonally across the net
from the worst player’s sibling
3. The best player and the worst player
are on the same side of the net.
? Who is the best player?
(a) Her brother
To fit the question mark the correct (b) Her daughter
answer is (c) Her son
(a) (d) Lakshmi
(b)
(c)
(d) Answer Key
82. Consider the following figures i) B
ii) A
iii) B
72 B 76 B 80
iv) A
(i) (ii) (iii)
v) D
vi) A
i) C
(iv) (v) (vi) 73 D 77 81 A
ii) A
In the figures I to IV above, some parts
are shown to change their position in i) B
regular directions. Following the same 74 ii) C 78 A 82 B
sequence which of the figures given
iii) C
below will appear at VII stage?
75 A 79 B 83 A
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
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94. Directions for the following 3 (three) ii) To which city does the Lecturer special-
Items: ized in Economics belong?
Consider the given information and (a) Hyderabad
answer the three items that follow. (b) Mumbai
A, B, C, D, E, F and G are Lecturers (c) Neither Hyderabad nor Mumbai
from different cities-Hyderabad,
(d) Cannot be determined as data
Delhi, Shillong, Kanpur, Chennai,
are inadequate
Mumbai and Srinagar (not necessarily
in the same order) who participated iii) Who of the following belongs to Hy-
in a conference. Each one of them derabad?
is specialized in a different subject,
(a) B
viz., Economics, Commerce, History,
Sociology, Geography, Mathematics (b) E
and Statistics (not necessarily in the (c) Neither B nor E
same order).
(d) Cannot be determined as data
Further. are inadequate
1. Lecturer from Kanpur is specializedin 95. In a school, there are five teachers A,
Geography
B, C, D and E. A and B teach Hindi and
2. Lecturer D is from Shillong English. C and B teach English and
3. Lecturer C from Delhi is specializedin Geography. D and A teach Mathematics
Sociology and Hindi. E and B teach History and
4. Lecturer B is specialized in neither French. Who teaches maximum number
History nor Mathematics of subjects?
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Select the correct answer using the code There are five persons in a group —
given below: P, Q, R, S and T. The group has one
doctor, one lawyer and one artist. P
(a) 1 only and S are unmarried students. T is
(b) 1 and 2 only a man married to one of the group
(c) 3 only members. Q is the brother of P and
is neither doctor nor artist. R is not
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 nor 3 doctor.
101. There are five hobby clubs in a i) Who is the doctor ?
college …photography, yachting,
(a) T
chess, electronics and gardening. The
gardening group meets every second (b) P
day, the electronics group meets every (c) Q
third day, the chess group meets every (d) R
fourth day, the yachting group meets
ii) Who is the artist ?
every fifth day and the photography
group meets every sixth day. How many (a) P
times do all the five groups meet on the (b) Q
same day within 180 days ? (c) R
(a) 5 (d) T
(b) 18
iii) Who is the spouse of R ?
(c) 10
(a) P
(d) 3
(b) T
102. There are some nectar-filled flowers on (c) Q
a tree and some bees are hovering on it.
(d) S
If one bee lands on each flower, one bee
will be left out. If two bees land on each iv) Who is the lawyer ?
flower, one flower will be left out. The (a) P
number of flowers and bees respectively
(b) Q
are :
(c) R
(a) 2 and 4
(d) S
(b) 3 and 2
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ii) Which of the following statements is/ 109. A person climbs a hill in a straight path
are correct? from point ‘O’ on the ground in the
(a) D is painted yellow direction of north-east and reaches a
point ‘A’ after travelling a distance of 5
(b) F is painted indigo
km. Then, from the point ‘A’ he moves to
(c) B is painted blue point ‘B’ in the direction of north-west.
(d) All of the above Let the distance AB be 12 km. Now, how
iii) The football is in the box of which far is the person away from the starting
colour? point ‘O’?
(a) Yellow (a) 7 km
(b) Indigo (b) 13 km
(c) Cannot be determined as data (c) 17 km
are inadequate (d) 11 km
(d) Blue
110. A person is standing on the first step
107. A piece of tin is in the form of a rectangle from the bottom of a ladder. If he has to
having length 12 cm and width 8 cm. This climb 4 more steps to reach exactly the
is used to construct a closed cube. The middle step, how many steps does the
side of the cube is : ladder have ?
(a) 2 cm (a) 8
(b) 3 cm (b) 9
(c) 4 cm (c) 10
(d) 6 cm (d) 11
108. In a question paper there are five 111. Direction for the following 3 (three)
questions to be attempted and answer items: Consider the given information
to each question has two choices – True and answer the three items that follow.
(T) or False (F). It is given that no two
When three friends A, B and C met, it was
candidates have given the answer to the
found that each of them wore an outer
five questions in an identical sequence.
garment of a different colour. In random
For this to happen the maximum number
order, the garments are: jacket, sweater
of candidates is :
and tie; and the colours are: blue, white
(a) 10 and black. Their surnames in random
(b) 18 order are: Ribeiro, Kumar and Singh.
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3. Singh’s garment was not white 113. A cube has all its faces painted with
4. Kumar does not wear a jacket different colours. It is cut into smaller
cubes of equal sizes such that the side of
5. Ribeiro does not like to wear the
the small cube is one-fourth the big cube.
black colour
The number of small cubes with only one
6. Each of the friends wore only one of the sides painted is :
outer garment of only one colour
(a) 32
i) What is C’s surname ?
(b) 24
(a) Ribeiro
(c) 16
(b) Kumar
(d) 8
(c) Singh
114. A military code writes SYSTEM as
(d) Cannot be determined SYSMET and NEARER as AENRER.
ii) What is the colour of the tie? Using the same code, FRACTION can be
(a) Black written as:
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i) B
99 A 106 ii) B 113 B To fit the question mark, the correct
answer is :
iii) C
100 B 107 C 114 D
(a)
101 D 108 D 115 B
102 C 109 B 116 A (b)
2015 (c)
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121. What is the missing number ‘X’ of the 124. Four persons A, B, C and D consisting
series 7, X, 21, 31, 43? of two married couples are in a group.
(a) 11 Both the women are shorter than their
respective husbands. A is the tallest
(b) 12
among the four. C is taller than B. D is B’s
(c) 13 brother. In this context, which one of the
(d) 14 following statements is not correct?
122. Four cardboard pieces of specific (a) All four have family ties.
shapes are shown in the following figure: (b) B is the shortest among the four.
(c) C is taller than D
(d) A is B’s husband.
125. Consider the following statements :
Which one of the following figures given 1. A man had a wife, two sons and two
can be formed by joining these pieces
daughters in his family.
together? 2. The daughters were invited to a feast
and the male members of the family
went out to take part in a picnic.
(a) 3. The man’s father did not return from
his work.
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(b) meditation has little or no effect on (c) C has more than what A and D have
the person who practises it. together
(c) Naresh was a poor boxer earlier (d) B is richer than D
because he was not aggressive
130. Examine the following statements:
enough.
1. Lady’s finger is tastier than cabbage.
(d) Naresh would not have taken to
meditation as he was a boxer. 2. Cauliflower is tastier than lady’s
finger.
127. All good athletes want to win and all
athletes who want to win eat a well 3. Cabbage is not tastier than peas.
balanced diet therefore all athletes who The conclusion that can be drawn from
do not eat a well-balanced diet are bad these statements is that
athletes.
(a) peas are as tasty as lady’s finger.
The best conclusion from this statements
(b) peas are as tasty as cauliflower and
is that
lady’s finger.
(a) no bad athlete wants to win
(c) cabbage is the least tasty of the four
(b) no athlete who does not eat a well vegetables.
balanced diet is a good athlete
(d) cauliflower is tastier than cabbage.
(c) every athlete who eats a well –
131. Shahid and Rohit start from the same
balanced diet is a good athlete
point in opposite directions. After each
(d) all athlete who want to win are good 1 km, Shahid always turns left and Rohit
athletes
always turns right. Which of the following
128. If A runs less fast than B, and B runs statements is correct?
as fast but not faster than C; then, as
(a) After both have travelled 2 km, the
compared to A, C runs distance between them is 4 km.
(a) slower than A (b) They meet after each has travelled 3
(b) faster than A km.
(c) with same speed as A (c) They meet for the first time after each
has travelled 4 km
(d) Given data is not sufficient to
determine (d) They go on without ever meeting
again.
129. Each of A, B, C and D has Rs. 100. A pays
Rs. 20 to B, who pays Rs. 10 to C, who 132. Each of the six different faces of a
gets Rs. 30 from D. In this context, which cube has been coated with a different
one of the following statements is not colour i.e., V, I, B, G, Y and O. Following
correct? information is given :
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2. Colours I, G and Y are on adjacent 135. Usha runs faster than Kamala, Priti runs
faces. slower than Swati, Swati runs slower
3. Colours B, G and Y are on adjacent than Kamala. Who is the slowest runner ?
faces. (a) Kamala
4. Colours O, V and B are on adjacent (b) Priti
faces.
(c) Swati
Which is the colour of the face opposite
(d) Usha
to the face coloured with O ?
136. Directions for the following 2 (two) items:
(a) B
Read the following passage and answer
(b) V the 2 (two) items that follow :
(c) G A, B, C, D, E and F are cousins. No two
(d) I cousins are of the same age, but all
133. Consider the following statements have birthdays on the same day of the
followed by two conclusions : same month. The youngest is 17 years
Statements Some men are great. old and the oldest E is 22 years old. F is
somewhere between B and D in age. A is
Some men are wise.
older than B. C is older than D. A is one
Conclusion 1 Men are either great or year older than C.
wise. i) Which one of the following is possible?
Conclusion II Some men are neither (a) D is 20 years old
great nor wise. (b) F is 18 years old
Which one of the following is correct? (c) F is 19 years old
(a) Only conclusion I is valid (d) F is 20 years old
(b) Only conclusion II is valid ii) What is the number of logically
(c) Both the conclusions are valid possible orders of all six cousins in terms
(d) Neither of the conclusions is valid of increasing age ?
(c) D = 1, E = 0
(d) D = 1, E = 2
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137. Two men, Anil and David, and two women, (a) B, C and F are cowards.
Shabnam and Rekha are in a sales group.
(b) A, E and F are fighters.
Only two speak Tamil. The other two
speak Marathi. Only one man and one (c) B and E are in the same category.
woman can drive a car. Shabnam speaks (d) A and F are in different categories.
Marathi. Anil speaks Tamil. Both Rekha 140. Candidates in a competitive examination
and David can drive. consisted of 60% men and 40% women.
Which of the following statements is 70% men and 75% women cleared the
true? qualifying test and entered the final test
(a) Both the Tamil speakers can drive a where 80% men and 70% women were
car. successful.
(b) Both the Marathi speakers can drive Which of the following statements is
a car. correct?
(c) Both of those who can drive a car (a) Success rate is higher for women
speak Marathi. (b) Overall success rate is below 50%
(d) One of those who can drive a car (c) More men cleared the examination
speaks Tamil. than women.
138. In a plane, line X is perpendicular to (d) Both (a) and (b) above are correct.
line Y and parallel to line Z; line U is
perpendicular to both lines V and W; line
X is perpendicular to line V.
Which one of the following statements is
correct ?
Answer Key
(a) Z, U and W are parallel
117 D 125 B 133 D
(b) X, V and Y are parallel
118 A 126 A 134 C
(c) Z, V and U are all perpendicular to W
119 A 127 B 135 B
(d) Y, V and W are parallel
i) B
139. A society consists of only two types 120 A 128 B 136
of people - fighters and cowards. Two ii) B
cowards are always friends. A fighter and 121 A 129 C 137 D
a coward are always enemies. Fighters
122 D 130 C 138 D
are indifferent to one another. If A and B
are enemies, C and D are friends, E and F 123 B 131 B 139 B
are indifferent to each other, A and E are 124 C 132 C 140 C
not enemies, while B and F are enemies.
Which of the following statements is
correct?
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(c) 5 (a) A, C, B
(d) 6 (b) A, D, E
142. There are seven persons up on a ladder (c) C, B, F
A, B, C, D, E, F and G (not in that order). A (d) E, B, D
is further up than E but is lower than C,B
145. Four children are sitting in a row. A is
is in the middle. G is between A and B. E
occupying the seat next to B but not next
is between B and F. If F is between E and
to C. If C is not sitting next to D, who is/
D, the person on the bottom step of the
are occupying seat/seats adjacent to D ?
ladder will be
(a) B
(a) B
(b) A
(b) F
(c) B and A
(c) D
(d) Impossible to tell
(d) C
146. Six books are labeled A,B,C,D,E and F
143. Consider that :
and are placed side by side. Books B,C,E,
1. A is taller than B and F have green covers while others
2. C is taller than A have yellow covers. Books A,B and D
3. D is taller than C are new while the rest are old volumes.
4. E is the tallest of all Books A,B and C are law reports while
the rest are medical extracts. Which two
If they are made to sit in the above order
books are old medical extracts and have
of their height, who will occupy the mid
green covers?
position?
(a) B and C
(a) A
(b) E and F
(b) B
(c) C and E
(c) C
(d) C and F
(d) D
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147. A straight line segment is 36 cm long. 149. Consider the following matrix :
Points are to be marked on the line from
both the end points. From each end, the
first point is at a distance of 1 cm from
↑↑ ↑↓ ↓↑
↑→ ↑← ↓→
the end, the second point is at a distance
of 2cm from the first point and the third
point is at a distance of 3cm from the
second point and so on. If the points
on the ends are not counted and the
↑↓ ↓↓
common points are counted as one, what
Which one of the following figures fits
is the number of points ?
into the blank part of the above matrix?
(a) 10
(b) 12 (a) ↑→
(c) 14
(d) 16
(b) ↑↑
148. Examine the following figure : (c) ↑↓
(d) ↓↑
Which one of the following figures has
the above figure embedded in it ? 150. Consider the table given below in which
the numbers bear certain relationship
(a) among themselves along rows :
29 13 18
(b) 33 X 19
30 27 3
(c) Which one of the following numbers is
the missing number indicated above by
(d) X?
(a) 19
(b) 15
(c) 14
(d) 8
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151. Consider the following matrix with one 153. Consider the following figures :
empty block in the lower extreme corner:
(a)
(b)
(b)
(c)
(c)
(d)
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(c) The values of the things bought would 157. In a group of six women there are
be halved. four dancers, four vocal musicians,
(d) The value of money only would be one actress and three violinists. Girija
halved. and Vanaja are among the violinists
while Jalaja and Shailaja do not know
155. A and B decide to travel from place X
how to play on the violin. Shailaja and
to place Y by bus. A has Rs. 10 with him
Tanuja are among the dancers. Jalaja,
and he finds that it is 80 % of the bus
Vanaja, Shailaja and Tanuja are all vocal
fare for two persons. B finds that he has
musicians and two of them are also
Rs. 3 with him and hands it over to A. In
violinists. If Pooja is an actress, who
this context, which one of the following
among the following is certainly a dancer
statements is correct?
and a violinist?
(a) Now the money A has is just enough to
(a) Jalaja
buy two tickets.
(b) Pooja
(b) A still needs Rs. 2 for buying the
tickets. (c) Shailaja
(c) After buying the two tickets A will be (d) Tanuja
left with 50 paise. 158. The letters L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S and T
(d) The money A now has is still not in their order are substituted by nine
sufficient to buy two tickets. integers 1 to 9 but not in that order 4 is
156. A question paper must have a question on assigned to P. The difference between P
one of the eight poets: A, B, C, D, E, F, G and T is 5. The difference between N and
or H. The first four belong to the medieval T is 3. What is the integer assigned to N ?
period while the rest are considered (a) 7 (b) 5
modern poets. Generally, modern poets
(c) 4 (d) 6
figure in the question paper in alternate
years. Generally, those who like H like G 159. The number of deaths among the army
also; and those who like F like E also. The personnel is 8 in 1000, but among the
paper setter does not like to ask about civilian population it is 20 per 1000.
likes F. Last year, the paper contained can be drawn from this statement?
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160. Given the statement: “Buses are the 5. On Tuesday, he attends his Sports
cause of more accidents than cars, classes.
and trucks cause fewer accidents If he attends just one subject in a day and
than buses”, which of the following his Sunday is free, then he is also free on
conclusions can we draw ?
(a) Monday
(a) There are more buses on the road
than trucks. (b) Thursday
(b) Car drivers are more careful than bus (c) Saturday
drivers. (d) Friday
(c) Truck drivers are more skilled than 163. In a row ‘A’ is in the 11th position from
either car or bus drivers. the left and ‘B’ is in the 10th position from
(d) None of the above the right. If ‘A’ and ‘B’ interchange, then
‘A’ becomes 18h from the left. How many
161. Four persons, Alok, Bhupesh, Chander
persons are there in the row other than
and Dinesh have a total of Rs. 100 among
‘A’ and ‘B’?
themselves. Alok and Bhupesh between
them have as much money as Chander (a) 27
and Dinesh between them, but Alok has (b) 26
more money than Bhupesh and Chander (c) 25
has only half the money that Dinesh has.
(d) 24
Alok has in fact Rs. 5 more than Dinesh
has. Who has maximum amount of 164. Location of B is north of A and location
money? of C is east of A. The distances AB and
AC are 5 km and 12 km respectively. The
(a) Alok
shortest distance (in km) between the
(b) Bhupesh
locations B and C is
(c) Chander
(a) 60 (b) 13
(d) Dinesh
(c) 17 (d) 7
162. Examine the following statements :
165. Directions for the following 3 (three)
1. George attends Music classes on items : Read the passage given below
Monday. and answer the items that follow. A, B,
2. Heattends Mathematics classes on C, D, E, F are members of a family. They
Wednesday. are engineer, stenographer, doctor,
3. His Literature classes are not on draughtsman, lawyer and judge (not in
Friday. order). A, the engineer is married to the
lady stenographer. The judge is married
4. He attends History classes on the day
following the day of his Mathematics to the lawyer. F, the draughtsman is the
classes. son of B and brother of E. C, the lawyer
is the daughter-in-law of D. E is the
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A tennis coach is trying to put together a Rohit and Tanya will not work together.
team of four players for the forthcoming Kunal and Shobha will not work together.
tournament. For this 7 players are Mukesh and Kunal want to work together.
available : Males A,B and C and Females Which of the following is the most
W, X, Y and Z. All players have equal acceptable group of people that can be
capability and at least 2 males will be selected by the music director ?
there in the team. For a team of four, all
(a) Rohit, Shobha, Kunal and Kaushal
players must be able to play with each
other. But, B cannot play with W, C cannot (b) Tanya, Kaushal, Shobha and Rohit
play with Z and W cannot play with Y. (c) Tanya, Mukesh, Kunal and Jaswant
i) If Y is selected and B is rejected, the (d) Shobha, Tanya, Rohit and Mukesh
team will consist of which one of the
following groups ?
(a) A, C, W and Y
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(d) B belongs to S 4:
174. Seven men, A, B, C, D, E, F and G are
standing in a queue in that order. Each
one is wearing a cap of a different colour
like violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow,
1 2 3 4
In the figures from 1 to 4 above, two
orange and red. D is able to see in front
symbols are shown to change their
of him green and blue, but not violet. E
position in a regular direction.
can see violet and yellow, but not red. G
Following the same sequence,
can see caps of all colours other than which one of the following will
orange. If E is wearing an indigo coloured appear at the fifth stage?
cap then the colour of the cap worn by F
is
(a)
(a) Blue
(b) Violet
(c) Red
(d) Orange (b)
175. There are some balls of red, green and
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Days
0 Men X 0 Men X
diagram I diagram II
y y
179. Problem figures :
Days
Days
0 Men X 0 Men X
diagram III diagram IV
1 3 3
4 2 6
6 1 5
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B
4 ii) B
167 173 D 179 B
iii) D
(a) 2 and 3 (b) 6 and 1 iv) A
(c) 1 and 4 (d) 3 and 1 i) B
183. Consider the following figures : 168 ii) C 174 C 180 D
iii) B
169 C 175 B 181 D
(1) (2) (3) (4) 170 C 176 C 182 B
i) D
? 171 ii) A 177 B 183 D
(5) (6) (7) iii) B
Which one of the following figures
would logically come in the 7th position 2012
indicated above by a question mark ?
184. Directions for the following 5 (five) items:
Examine the information given in the
(a) following paragraph and Solution: the
items that follow:
Guest lectures on five subjects viz.,
Economics, History, Statistics, English
and Mathematics have to be arranged
(b)
in a week from Monday to Friday. Only
one lecture can be arranged on each
day. Economics cannot be scheduled
on Tuesday. Guest faculty for History is
(c) available only on Tuesday. Mathematics
lecture has to be schedules immediately
after the day of Economics lecture.
English lecture has to be scheduled
(d) immediately before the day of Economics
lecture.
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i) Which lecture is scheduled on Mon- 185. In five flats, one above the other, live five
day? professionals. The professor has to go up
(a) History to meet his IAS officer friend. The doctor
is equally friendly to all, and has to go up
(b) Economics
as frequently as go down. The engineer
(c) Mathematics
has to go up to meet his MLA friend above
(d) Statistics whose flat lives the professor’s friend.
ii) Which lecture is scheduled between From the ground floor to the top floor, in
Statistics and English? what order do the five professionals live?
(a) Economics (a) Engineer, Professor, Doctor, IAS officer,
(b) History MLA
(c) Mathematics (b) Professor, Engineer, Doctor, IAS officer,
MLA
(d) No lecture
iii) Which lecture is the last one in the (c) IAS officer, Engineer, Doctor, Professor,
week? MLA
(a) History (d) Professor, Engineer, Doctor, MLA, IAS
officer
(b) English
186. Examine the following statements:
(c) Mathematics
1. I watch TV only if I am bored
(d) Economics
2. I am never bored when I have my
iv) Which lecture is located scheduled on
Wednesday?
brother’s company.
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188. Examine the following statements: to X but not Y: Who got the ticket?
191. Consider the following statements: 193. Six squares are coloured, front and
The Third World War, if it ever starts back, red(R), blue(B), yellow (Y), green
will end very quickly with possible (G), white (W), orange (O) and are hinged
end of civilization. It is only the misuse together as shown in the figure given
of nuclear power which will trigger it. below. If they were folded to form a cube
Based on the above statement which what would be the face opposite to white
one of the following inferences is face?
correct? (a) R
(a) Nuclear power will be used in Third (b) G
World War.
(c) B
(b) There will be no civilization left after
(d) O
the third world war.
194. Three views of a cube following a
(c) The growth of nuclear power will
destroy civilization in the long run. particular motion are given below:
(a) (b)
?
(c) (d)
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3. Frustrated people are prone to (a) All those who have a pair of binoculars
become drug addicts. are members of the birdwatcher’s
club.
From the above three statements it may
be concluded that: (b) All members of the birdwatcher’s club
have a pair of binoculars.
(a) Artists are frustrated
(c) All those who take part in photo-
(b) Some drug addicts are whimsical contests are members of the
(c) All frustrated people are drug birdwatcher’s club.
addicts. (d) No conclusion can be drawn.
(d) Whimsical people are generally
199. During the summer vacation Ankit went
frustrated
to a summer camp where he took part
197. Examine the following statements: in hiking, swimming and boating. This
1. Either A & B are of same age or A is summer, he is looking forward to a music
older than B camp where he hopes to sing, dance and
2. Either C & D are of same age or D is learn to play the guitar.
older than C Based on the above information four
3. B is older than C conclusions as given below, have been
made. Which one of these logically fol-
Which of the following conclusions can
lows from the information given above?
be drawn from the above statements?
(a) A is older than B (a) Ankit’s parents want him to play
guitar.
(b) B and D are of the same age
(b) Ankit prefers music to outdoor
(c) D is older than C activities.
(d) A is older than C (c) Ankit goes to some type of camp
every summer.
(d) Ankit likes to sing and dance
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200. Three persons A, B & C wear shirts of 202. Gita is prettier than Sita but not as pretty
Black, Blue and Orange colours (not as Rita. Then,
necessarily in the order) and pants of (a) Sita is not as pretty as Gita
green, yellow and orange (not necessarily
(b) Sita is prettier than Rita
in that order). No person wore shirt and
pant of the same colour. Further, it is (c) Rita is not as pretty as Gita
given that, (d) Gita is prettier than Rita
1. A did not wear shirt of black colour. 203. Given that,
2. B did not wear shirt of blue colour. 1. A is the brother of B
3. C did not wear shirt of orange colour. 2. C is the father of A.
4. A did not wear the pants of green 3. D is brother of E.
colour
4. E is the daughter of B
5. B wore pants of orange colour.
Then, the uncle of D is?
What were the colours of the pants and
(a) A (b) B
shirts worn by C respectively?
(c) C (d) E
(a) Orange and black
204. Who scored the highest?
(b) Green and blue
(a) Rama
(c) Yellow and blue
(b) Padma
(d) Yellow and black
(c) Rani
201. Ten new TV shows started in January 5
sitcoms, 3 drama and 2 news magazines.
(d) Ratna
By April, only seven of the new shows
Answer Key
were still on, five of them being sitcoms.
Based on the above information, for
i) D
conclusions, as given below, have ii) B
been made. Which of these logically 184 iii) C 191 A 198 B
follows from the information given
above? iv) C
(a) Only one news magazine show is still v) A
going on. 185 D 192 D 199 D
(b) Only one of the drama show is still 186 D 193 C 200 B
going on.
187 B 194 A 201 C
(c) At least one discontinued show was a
drama. 188 B 195 D 202 A
(d) Viewers prefer sitcoms over drama. 189 C 196 B 203 A
190 B 197 D 204 D
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20 A given below:
15 (a) 4
B
10 C (b) 5
5 (c) 6
(d) 7
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
208. Consider the following figure and answer
Distance in min
the item that follow :
Which of the statements given above is/
are correct ?
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
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209. Directions for the following 3 (Three) iii) Which region of the curve indicates
items: that the treatment yielded effective re-
lief?
Read the passage given below, study
the graph that follows and answer the (a) C
three items given below the figure. (b) D
During a party, a person was exposed to (c) E
contaminated water. A few days later, he
(d) The curve does not indicate the
developed fever and loose motions. He
treatment
suffered for some days before going to
a doctor for treatment. On starting the 210. There are four routes to travel from city
treatment, he soon became better and A to city B and six routes from city B to
recovered completely a few days later. city C. How many routes are possible to
The following graph shows different travel from the city A to city C?
phases of the person’s disease condition (a) 24
as regions A, B, C, D and E of the curve. (b) 12
(c) 10
Number of bacteria
D
E
(d) 8
C
B
211. Consider the figure given below and
A
0
answer the items that follows:
0
Time P2
i) Which region/regions of the curve
correspond/corresponds to incubation
phase of the infection ?
(a) A only S
(b) B only
O P1
(c) B and C
(d) No part of the curve indicates In the figure shown above, OP 1. and OP 2.
the incubation phase are two plane mirrors kept perpendicular
ii) Which region of the curve indicates to each other. S is the direction of a beam
that the person began showing the of light falling on the mirror OP 1. The
symptoms of infection ? direction of the reflected beam of light
(a) A from the mirror OP 2 will be
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212. Consider the following figure and answer 214. A person has only Rs. 1 and Rs. 2 coins
the item that follows: with her. If the total number of coins that
she has is 50 and the amount of money
with her is Rs. 75, then the number of Rs.
1 and Rs. 2 coins are, respectively
(a) 15 and 35
(b) 35 and 15
(c) 30 and 20
(d) 25 and 25
215. Three persons start walking together and
their steps measure 40 cm, 42 cm and 45
What is the minimum number of different cm respectively. What is the minimum
colours required to paint the figure given distance each should walk so that each
above such that no two adjacent regions can cover the same distance in complete
have the same colour ? steps ?
(a) 3 (a) 25 m 20 cm
(b) 4 (b) 50 m 40 cm
(c) 5 (c) 75 m 60 cm
(d) 6 (d) 100 m 80 cm
213. Consider the following figure and answer 216. The houses of A and B face each other
the items that follows: on a road going north-south, A’s being
on the western side. A comes out of his
15
house, turns left, travels 5 km, turns right,
travels 5 km to the front of D’s house.
48
B does exactly the same and reaches
the front of C’s house. In this context,
A square is divided into four rectangles which one of the following statements is
as shown above. The lengths of the sides correct?
of rectangles are natural n umbers. The
(a) C and D live on the same street.
areas of two rectangles are indicated
in the figure. What is the length of each (b) C’s house faces south.
side of the square? (c) The houses of C and D are less than 20
(a) 10 km apart.
(c) 15
(d) Cannot be determined as the given
data are Insufficient
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217. Read the following passage and answer 219. Consider the following three statements:
the 3 (three) items that follow: 1. Only students can participate in the
A, B, C, D and E are members of the same race.
family. There are two fathers, two sons, 2. Some participants in the race are
two wives, three males and two females. girls.
The teacher was the wife of a lawyer who 3. All girl participants in the race are
was the son of a doctor. E is not a male, invited for coaching.
neither also a wife of a professional. C is
Which one of the following conclusions
the youngest person in the family and D
can be drawn from the above statements?
is the eldest. B is a male.
(a) All participants in the race are invited
i) How is D related to E ?
for coaching.
(a) Husband (b) All students are invited for coaching.
(b) Son (c) All participants in the race are
(c) Father students.
(d) Wife (d) None of the statements (a), (b) and (c)
given above is correct.
ii) Who are the females in the group ?
220. Directions for the following 2 (two) items:
(a) C and E
(b) C and D Each of the following two items consists
of four statements. Of these four
(c) E and A
statements, two cannot both be true, but
(d) D and E both can be false. Study the statements
iii) Whose wife is the teacher? carefully and identify the two that satisfy
the above condition. Select the correct
(a) C
answer using the codes given below
(b) D
each set of statements :
(c) A i) Examine the following statements:
(d) B 1. All animals are carnivorous.
218. In a queue, Mr. X is fourteenth from the 2. Some animals are not carnivorous.
front and Mr. Y is seventeenth from the
3. Animals are not carnivorous.
end, while Mr. Z is exactly in between Mr.
X and Mr. Y. If Mr. X is ahead Mr. Y and 4. Some animals are carnivorous.
there are 48 persons in the queue, how Codes:
many persons are then between Mr. X
(a) 1 and 3
and Mr. Z ?
(b) 1 and 2
(a) 6 (b) 7
(c) 2 and 3
(c) 8 (d) 9
(d) 3 and 4
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