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1. A race horse starts chasing a wild pony 2 hours
after th pony bolts the stable. The ponyt runs
through the entire country of alberton, Texas
jumping over three streams and crossing four 10
meters roads. The race horse finally chatches up
with the pony after 5 hours by which time the sun
had set and the mopon was up in the skyl for 4
hours. If the average speed of the race horse is
74 kmph, then th3 average speed f the wild pony
is ______ kmph
a. 29.60 b. 52.86 c) 21.14 d) 53.86
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2. Susan made a block with small cubes of 10 cubic
cm volume to make a block 7 small cubes long, 7
small cubes wide and 6 small cubes deep. She
realizes that she has used more small cubes than
she really needed. She realized that she could
have glued a fewer number of cubes together a
look like a block with same dimensions, if it were
made hollow. What is the minimum number of
cubes t hat she needs to make the block?
a) 294 b)100 c)194 d) 114
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3. The great Indian mathematician Bhaskjaracharya
formulated this problem in the twelfth century for his
teenaged prime number aged daughter Lilavati. He
also authored the eponymous Lilavathi, a compendum
of mathematical puzzles, in which the number of
problem s that use this formula is the sum of two
prime numbers. The product of the two prime numbers
is smaller than the total number of problems in the
Lilavati. Now, if the difference of any tow numbers is 4
and their product is 22, what is the sum of the their
squares?
a) 48 b)38 c)60 d)50
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4.In a pizza restaurant, you get a basic pizza with
two toppings: cheese and tomato. You can also
make up your own pizza with extra toppings., You
can choose from 9 di9ffeent toppings, e.g. olives,
ham, mushroom, salami etc. Ross wants to order
a pizza with 2 different extra toppings. How many
different combinations are possible:
a) 81 b) 72 c)512 d)36
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5. A long, thin strip of width 16cm is kept on a flat
surface. Another identical strip is kept on it an an
overlapping manner such that the combined width
of the two is 23 cm. What is the width if 67 such
strips are kept like this?
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6.First dirt or fill soil is usually the sub-soil removed
from an excavation site and is used to level a
place or create artificial mounds. If the average
density of sub-soil removed from a site is 3 gm/cu
cm and it weights 800 kg, hw many hemispherical
pits each of volume 190 cubic cm, can this sub-
soil fill?
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7.Peter is twice as old a Paul was when Peter was as
old as Paul is now. The combined age of peter and
paul is 35 years. Hw old is peter now?
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8. A schoolyard contains only bicycles and 4 wheeled
wagons. On Tuesday, the total number of wheels
in the schoolyard was 106. What could the
possible number of bicycles?
a)18
b)16
c)15
d)14
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9. A rope of given length is used to form a triangle of
sides 13, 20 and 32 cms. If the same rope is used
to form a square, what would be the area of such
a square?
a)16.25 sq.cm
b)469.44 sq.cm
c)126.56 sq.cm
d)264.06sq.cm
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10. 8 years ago, Andromeda's age was twice Achilles'
age. 8 years hence, Andromedas age will be 4/3
times the age of Achilles'. Find Andromedas
present age in binary numbers
a)10101
b)11000
c)1000
d)1001
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11. The british mathematician Lewis Caroll also loved t
o make up fanstastic stores in which he embedded
number of clever puzzels and curious riddles. For
example, his popular tory, Alice in Wonderland, is
about a young girl called Alice who dreams of a
strange world where she meets several unusual
characcters including the Red Queen and the March
Hare. In our story, after 4 years of time, Paul will be
3 times as old as Alice. Presently he is 6 time as old.
How old is Paul now?
a)16 b)17 c)19 d)15
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12. There are 7 children. You are told that the
youngest child is a boy. The probability that all of
them ae boys is 1 in
a)2
b)2!
c)128
d)64
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13. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to
16. For all values on n from 1 to 16, statemenets n
says at most n of the statements on this sheet are
false. Which statements are true and which are false?
a. The even numbered statements are true and the
odd numbered are false.
b. All the statements are true
c. The odd numbered statements are true and the
even numbered are false.
d. The first half statements are true and the rest are
false.
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14. There is a cake to be divided among 20 people. A
man eats of 3 pieces, a women eats two peices and
child eats half a piece of cake. Find the number of
men, women and children so that they are 20 people
in total and everyone gets some cake. There are 20
pieces of cake in all.
a.6 women, 2 men and 12 children
b.7 women, 1 men and 12 children
c.5 women, 1 men and 14 children
d.4 women, 2 men and 14 children
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15. The ticket a Disneyland will cost anywhere from 1p
to 7p. You need to produce the exact change at the
ticket counter and have with you a 7p coin. So you
decide to break this into change but you want to
carry with you as few coins as possible. Assuming
that coins of all denominations are available, how
many coins (denominations) would you split the 7p
into?
a)3 b)5 c) 7 d)8
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16. Determine the distance between the x-intercept
and the z-intercept of the plane whose equation is
6x+9y-5z=30
a. 6.86
b. 11.00
c. 7.81
d. 5.00
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17. The thousands pillar temple of hyderabad was built by
the Kakatiyans of Chalukyan dynasty in the 12th
century. Each pillar has carvings made of black
monolithic rocks of basalt which are polished to give it a
brilliant look. One sunny morning, three tourists visit the
temple. Rachel is taller than Lily and taller than two of
the thousand pillars, and Joe is shorter than Rachel and
three pillars. Which of the following statements would be
most accurate?
a. its impossible to tell
b. lily is shorter than joe
c. lily is taller than joe
d. joe is a tall as Lily
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18. Ther eare two water tanks A and B, A is much
smallar than B. While water fills at the rate of one
litre every hour is A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40,
80, 160... in tank B. (AT the end of first hour, B has
10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank
B is 1/16 filled after 24 horus, what is the total
duration required to fill it completely.
a. 4 hours
b. 27 hours
c. 29 hours
d. 28 hours
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19. 100 men and 1000 women meet and men dance
with women,. Which of the following are always
true? A there are 2 men who have danced with
same number of women. B. Tehre are 2 women
who have danced with same number of men.
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21. A lady has some fine gloves and hats in her closet
19 blue, 26 red, and 43 yellow. The lights are out
and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she
can make out the difference between a hat and a
glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only
if she is sure that it is a glove. How many gloves
must she take out tyo make sure she has a pair of
each colour?
a)71 b) 34 c) 45 d) 36
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30. A group of friends Tom, Tina, Dick, Diana, Harry and
Harriet go out to a fair three hundered meters from the
McDonaleds which is five KMs away. they see a
weighting machine and decide to have some fun.
However the girls refuse to setp on the weighting
machine. So Tom, Dick and Harry, weigh themselves in
a particular order. First Tom, Dick, and Harry weigh
themselves individually and then Tom and Dick, Dick
and Harry, Tome and Harry and then Tom, Dick and
Harry together respectively. The recorded weight for the
last measure is 164Kgs. The average of all the 7
measures is :
a)93.71 b) 117.14 c) 54.67 d) 70.29
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31. The New York Public Library is one of the world's
greatest repositories of books and journals. If has a
beautiful reading room facing Manhattan's famous
Fifth Avenue.o In the reading room are 10 reading
spots. Each reading spot consits of a round tbale
with 4 chairs placed around it. There are some
readers such that in each occupied reading spot
there are different numbers of readers. If in all
there are 10 readers, how many reading spot are
empty?
a)None b) 5 c) 6 d) 4
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32. Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sport car manufacturere based
in Marenello, Italy, Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as
Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drives and
manufactured race cars before moving into production of
street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A. Throughout
its history, the company has been noted for its continued
participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it
has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It
could go 3 times as fast as Mohit's old Mercedes. If the
speed of Mohit's Mercedes is 43 Km/hr and the distance
travelled by the Ferrari is 986 Km, find the total time taken
for Rohit to drive that distance.
a)328 horus b)22 hours c)7.64 hours d)8 hours
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33. A survey of India worker was taking the 2000 census in
Behrampur distance of Orissa. It was a Wednesday in the second
half of the year in the waxing moon phase right aftera major
national festival. In one of the villages the worker intervewed a
toothless old lady sitting in front of hut. The lady declared: My
grand daughter is about as many days as my daughter is weeks,
and my grand daughte is as many months as I am years. The
three of us together are 140 years. The surveyor quickly took out
her calculator and started punching in a few numbers to find the
lady's age. Her calculator has a seven segment LCD displaye but
she was puzzled to see the number so she did the calculations
again, this time assuming 30 days in a month and 365 days in a
year. This time the results were correct. Can you tell what did the
calculator display showed, if you made the same assumptions?
a)85 years b)83 years c)84 years d)86 years
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55.(209*144)^2 + (209*209)+(209*144)+(144*144)
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71. Avg marks of 5 sub is 61. Six sub mark is 89. What
is the average after adding 6th?
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72. A pipe can fill a tank at the rate 1 litre/hr, the tank
is 1/32 filled in 6 hours. After how many hows the
tank is filled completely
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73. A pipe can fill a tank at the rate 1 litre/hr, the tank
is 1/32 filled in 6 hours. After how many hows the
tank is filled completely
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102. Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their
ages is 42 years. Peter is twice as old as Paul was
when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the
present age of Peter?
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