1. Hare in the other.

The hare starts after the tortoise has

covered 1/3 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a
tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The
tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise
meet when the hare has covered only 1/5 of the distance. By
what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the
race?
Ans. 4.40
2.How many 4 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1,
2,3,4 ,5 ( but with repetition) that are divisible by 4?
Ans. 5^3
3. Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in
Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia
Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured
race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles
in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company
has been noted for its continued participation in racing,
especially in Formula One where it has employed great success
.Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as
Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46
km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find
the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.
a)20.72
b) 5.18
c)238.25
d)6.18
ans:(b)(timedistance/speed953/4`46
4. keywords: alok, bhanu, want to maximize nd other want to
minimize.
15+X`Y-Z
For these type of ques, remember dis thumb rule..
X`Y-Z18
X+Y-Z11
X-Y-Z2
here Ans: 15+1833
This question was repeated three times in my paper.
5. The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of
150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in
the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in
products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are
equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also
write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take
12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it
take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?
ans 12 min
prgrmr`min/ loc prgmr `min/ loc
This question was also repeated thrice.
a) no of programer
b) no lines of codes
c) how much time they will take.
6. On a sheet of paper, there are 40 statements. Each n
statement states that "Atleast n number of statements on this
sheet is false". Then which of the following is true.
ans first 20 statements are true and last 20 are false.
This question was also repeated thrice.
a) Atleast wid false ans first 20 r true and last 20 r false..
b) Exactly wid true ans 39th z true nd rest r false
c) Atmost wid true or false ans all statements r true
7.There are 6 circles on a diagonal of square such that their
centre lie on diagonal. Consider that radius of each circle is
equal. Find the ratio between side of square and radius of
circle.
10r+ 2sqrt(2)r sqrt(2)a
nw find a/r.
8. There are 6 beer bottle nd one is poisoned. we have mice who
will die within 14 hrs after drinkin poisned beer. In 24 hrs we
have to find poisoned beer bottle. How many no of mice we
require to find out poisoned bottle.
options
a) 6
b) 4
c) 3
d) 1
i hav not answered dis question
9. keyword: Alok Bhanu, stack of 20 coins. i move can play. dat
z 1th move means to put top coin 1 postion below. gold coin.
initialy gold coin is at 3rd position from top. if itz player turns
nd player brings gold coin to the top then player z winner. alok
starts. which of the following is true.
a) alok must play 1th move to win.
b) alok must play 0th move to win
c) alok has no wining strategy
ans (a)
10 1/3 rd of a number is more 3 than the 1/6th of a number
then find the number?
Ans:18


11. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12
envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1
letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1
letter is inserted in an improper envelope?
a)0
b)12/212
c)11/12
d)1/12
Ans:a (since 1 letter is in improper envelope other would
definitely be in improper envelope)
12 There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the
other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the
balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at
random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the
probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum
probability is
a)3/4
b)14/19
c)37/38
d)1/2
ans:b (probability of selecting a box1/2.now keep 1 red ball in
box a and transfer 9 red balls to b,so probability1/2(1+9/19)
13 On the planet Oz, there are 8 days in a week- Sunday to
Saturday and another day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in
a day and each hour has 90 min while each minute has 60 sec.
As on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day.
Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz
when the time is 9:40 am.
a. 251
b.111
c.29
d.89
ANS: c
For 12:40 am ans z 89
14 Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point
in P that can be separated from the rest by a line; i.e. the point
lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side.
The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The maximum
value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 9 points in the plane
is
a.10
b.9
c.3
d.5
ans: b ( m nt sure)
15. .Planet fourfi resides in 4-dimensional space and thus the
currency used by its residents are 3-dimensional objects. The
rupee notes are cubical in shape while their coins are spherical.
However the coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations
on the size of the coins.The diameter of the coins should be at
least 64mm and not exceed 512mm.
Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least
50 greater.
The diameter of the coin must always be an integer.
You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters
with these requirements and your goal is to design as many
coins as possible. How many coins can you design?
5
9
6
8
Ans: c(hint:first coin has length 64 mm,2nd coin diamter
length 64+(50/100)`64,3rd coin 2nd coins diameter
length+50/100 of 2nd coinds lenght,in that way go till you reach
maximum diamter length 512!now think!
16. The pacelength P is the distance between the rear of two
consecutive footprints. For men, the formula, n/P 144 gives
an approximate relationship between n and P where, n
number of steps per minute and P pacelength in meters.
Bernard knows his pacelength is 164cm. The formula applies
to Bernard's walking. Calculate Bernard's walking speed in
kmph.
23.62
11.39
8.78
236.16
ans:a

17.A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm.
It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer
surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the
smaller cubes remain unpainted?
800
500
488
900
ans:side of cube 5 cm
its thichness 1 cm
so volume of outer cube 5`5`5
volume of inner cube 3`3`3
volume of the hollow cube 5`5`5 - 3`3`3 98
so total no of small cubes of the size 1 cm 98/1`1`1 98
we know a cube has 6 faces so total no of face 98`6 588
one surface of outer cube contains a total of 25 surface of
smaller cube , so when 4 surface of outer cube is painted total
no of surface of small cubes i.e supposed to be painted is 4`25
100
so the total no of surfaces of small cube that will be remained
unpainted is 588-100 488
no of faces remain unpainted: 588-( 25` no faces painted)
18. 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned
about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects
are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the
person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person
is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true?
A. All suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent.
B. All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent .
A only
B only
Neither A nor B
Both A and B
19. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32
red, and 25 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 if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take
out to make sure she has a pair of each color?
a)50 b)8 c)60 d)42
ans:60
There can be lots of logic for this, but approach the simplest
one so that we approach to one of the solutions. Suppose the
lady first picks 32 Red gloves, and then 24 Yellow gloves. The
next pair she pics will be one Yellow and One Blue which does
not make a pair. The next two will be blue gloves. So she make
a total of 32+24+1+1+2 60 picks.
20. One day Rapunzel meets Dwarf and Byte in the Forest of
forgetfulness. She knows that Dwarf lies on Mondays,
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and tells the truth on the other
days of the week. Byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays,
Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of
the week. Now they make the following statements to Rapunzel
- Dwarf: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie. Byte:
Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it?
a]Thursday
b]Tuesday
c]Sunday
d]Monday
ANS::
Thursday
Explanation :
On Thursday, Dwarf says truth. i.e Yesterday(Wednesday) was
one of those days when I lies. Its true.
On the other hand, On Thursday, Byte lies. i.e
Yesterday(Wednesday) was one of those days when I lie too. Its
a lie.... So both satisfied. Hence its Thursday.
21 The citizens of planet nigiet are 5 fingered and have thus
developed their decimal system in base 8.
A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 5) buildings
numbered 1 to 1000.
How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? Express
result in terms of base 10.
a) 54 b)64 c) 75 d) 100
I didnt ans it..
For base 8.. (8^2)`3 i dont know how to xpress it base 10
TCS TP-7
1. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than
B. While
water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up
like, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B
has 10
liters, second hour it has 20 liters and so on). If tank B is 1/32
filled of the 21 hours, what is total duration of hours required
to fill
it completely?
ans.-here part filled is 1/32 then 1/321/(2)^5. so ans is 21+5.

2. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after
two years
their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with
them. Hence
the current average age has become 45. Find the age of seventh
person?
ans.-Total age of 6 persons is x hours,after two years total age
of 6
persons is x+12
Average age of 6 persons is after two years is 43
So (x+12)/643,then x246
After 7th person is added then (246+7th person age)/745
7th person age 69

3. One statement problem-in this problem if
atleast all statement are true - first part true and last part false
exactly all statement are true - second part true rest is false
atmost all statement are true - all are false.

4. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its
distance
and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along
a
circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction
and
the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only
1/8 of
the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed
so as to
tie the race?
in this problem atfirst find the ratio of the distance left to cover
the
turtle and distance by the hare. means-(87.5-20)/12.55.4
and then 87.5/12.57
and multiply these two 5.4`737.8

5. alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the
expression
N 9 + X + Y - Z

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to
9), Alok
would like to maximize N while Bhanu
would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a
single digit
number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice
(X, Y or
Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to
substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the
remaining
variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the
value of N
at the end of the game would be.
ans.- in this problem there is 3 patern 1st X+Y-Z11
X`Y-Z18
X-Y-Z2 u just add the to the no given.

6.- For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been
predicting the
winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that
in a match
between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same
probability as A's
chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and
that in a
match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team
has a
probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability
that
Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?
ans.- hare the answer is - 2/3`2/3+1/3`1/35/9



7.-After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes,
she
inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per
envelope).
What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an
improper
envelope?
ans- 0

8.- There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the
other
containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls
between the
boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at
random from
the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is
maximized. This
maximum probability is
ans.- the tricks is - 1/2`1+(n-1)/(n-1+m)`1/2
here n is the no. which have to be max. and m is the another
no. here m
is green ball and n is red ball.here ans is 14/19

9.- A and B play a game of dice between them. The dice consist
of colors
on their faces (instead of numbers). When the dice are thrown,
A wins if
both show the same color; otherwise B wins. One die has 4 red
face and 2
blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die
have if the
both players have the same chances of winning?
ans.- here the ans is 3red and 3 blue.

10.- On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on
its
equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina
start
growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and
the
relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of
echina
is given by the formula
d 4 ` sqrt (t - 8)for t 8
Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of
years since
the solar blast.
1agan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is
24 years
then what is diameter?
ans- this is the simple problem just put the value of t and find
d.

11.- A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20
feet
from you. You throw a dart at it and it
hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the
probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the
periphery?
ans.- here the tricks is (n/2)^2/n^2 here n is the radius of circle.

12.- 36 people a1, a2, ..., a36] meet and shake hands in a
circular
fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes
involving the
pairs, a1, a2], a2, a3], ..., a35, a36], a36, a1]. Then size of
the
smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with
at
least one person in the set is.
ans.- hare the tricks is if the handshake is circular and given no
is
even-then n/2 if odd then n/3.
and if hand shake is non circular then n-1.

13.- Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20
coins
are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold)
coin
and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold
coin to
the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another
position in the
stack.

Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of
moving the
coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 i 20).
We will
call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The
proviso
is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player
makes a
2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-
move. If the
gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then
the player
wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the
top.

ans.- Ans is in order to win, Alice's first move should be a
1-move.(This is the final ans.)

14.- The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus
developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in
nigiet
contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How
many 3s are
used in numbering these buildings?
ans.- here the tricks is 8`8+8`8+8`8192 (here the base is 8)if
the base
is n then n`n+n`n+n`n.

15.- Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like
the
cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a
piece of
the cake. One friend suggests that they have a blindfold friend
choose
from well shuffled set of cards numbered one to six. You check
and find
that this method works as it should simulating a fair throw of a
die.
You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of
picking the
cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number
shown by
the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die,
sums to a
number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to
appear more
often - 8,9 or 10?
a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10
ans.- here the ans is 8. because 8 comes in 3
types(4+4,5+3,6+2),9 comes
in 2 types(5+4,6+3),and 10 comes 2 types(5+5,6+4).



16.- How many of 14 digit numbers we can make with 1,2,3,4,5
that are
divisible by 4. Repetitions allowed.
ans.- here ans is 5^(n-1) n is the 14.

17.- Which is the smallest no which divides 2880 and gives a
perfect
square?
a) 4 b) 9 c) 3 d) 5
ans.- 2880/5576 and 57624`24.

18.- 3 persons a,b,c were there A always says truth,B lies on
Monday,tusday,& Wednesday.but C lies on thrusday,Friday &
saturday .one
day A saidthat B & C said to A that B said ~yesterday way
one of the
days when I lies,C said thatyesterday way one of the days
when I lies
too.then which day was that?
ans.- the ans of all this type is Thursday.

19.-There 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then
60lines can
type within 60 minutes. How many programmers are needed?
ans.- we have 3 question of this type the solution is based on
time and
work.

20.-amrith told to Anand in front of a Photo that ~He is the son
of my
father`s son.Find who is in the picture if amrith have no
brothers and
sisters.
ans.- the ans is him means amrith itself.

21.- In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to
100.Then how many
4`s will be present in the numbers?
ans.- Here if the n's is given then ans is 20. n's is from 2 to 9.
and
if 1 is given then ans is 21.

22.- If a and b are mixed in 3:5 ration and b and c are mixed in
8:5
ration if the final mixture is 35 liters, find the amount of b?
ans.- b/(a+b+c)`35.

23.- If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person
tastes
very little he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test
and
24 hours to test, how many mices are required to find the
poisoned can?
ans.- 6

24.- A man whose age is 45 yrs has 3 sons named 1ohn, 1ill,
jack. He
went to a park weekly twice. He loves his sons very much. On a
certain
day he found the shop keepers selling different things. An
apple cost
1penny, 2chocalate costs 1penny & 3 bananas cost 1 penny. He
has bought
equal number of apple, chocolate & banana for each son. If the
total
amount he invest is 7 penny then how many he has bought
from each piece
for his son?
ans.- 1 apple,2 chocklets,1bananas.simply 1 2 1.

25.- There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda,
Chelsey, 1uli
visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than
Chelsea
and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. 1ulia is shorter than Linda.
Find the
correct sentence?
ans.-here p>j

26.-A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32
red, and
25 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 if it is
a
glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has
a pair of
each color?
ans.- Here the tricks is at first take the ball is max. and then
take
second max. no. and 2. here ans is 32+25+2.

27.- A scientist was researching on animal behavior in his lab.
He was
very interested in analyzing the behavior of bear. For some
reason he
travelled 1mile in north direction & reached at North Pole.
There he saw
a bear. He then followed the bear around 1 hr with a speed of
2km/hr in
east direction. After that he travelled in south direction &
reached at
his lab in2 hrs. Then what is the color of the bear?
ans.- ans is white bear.

%!
Q1) Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point
in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e. the point
lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side.
The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum
value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane
in general position (.i.e. no three points in P lie on a line) is
a) 3 b) 5 c) 2








Q2) Paul the octopus who has been forecasting the outcome of
FIFA world cup matches with tremendous accuracy has now
been invited to predict ICC world cup matches in 2011. We
will assume that the world cup contenders have been divided
into 2 groups of 9 teams each. Each team in a group plays the
other teams in the group. The top two teams from each group
enter the semi finals (after which the winner is decided by
knockout).However, Paul has a soft spot for India and when
India plays any team, Paul always backs India. Alas, his
predictions on matches involving India are right only 2 out of 3
times. In order to qualify for the semi finals, it is sufficient for
India to win 7 of its group matches. What is the probability
that India will win the ICC world cup?
a) (2/3)^10
b) (2/3)^9 + 8/3 ` (2/3)^9
c) 8/3 ` (2/3)^9
d) (2/3)^10 + 8/3`(2/3)^9
Q3) A toy train produces at least 10 different tunes when it
moves around a circular toy track of radius 5 meters at 10
meters per minute. However, the toy train is defective and it
now produces only two different tunes at random. What are
the odds that the toy train produces 4 consecutive music tunes
of the same type?
a) 1 in 16
b) 1 in 4
c) 1 in 8
Q4) A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 8 and
when divided by 3D leaves a remainder of 21. What is the
remainder left, when twice the number is divided by 3D?
a) 13
b) cannot be determined
c) 3
d)
42

(solution:c)
Q5) Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like
the cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a
piece of the cake. One friend suggests that they have a
blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of cards
numbered one to six. You check and find that this method
works as it should simulate a fair throw of a die. You check by
performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards
blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number shown
by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world
die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be
likely to appear more often - 8,9 or 10?
a) 8
b) All are equally likely
c) 9
d) 10
Q6) One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She knows
that pal lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and tells
the truth on the other days of the week byte, on the other hand,
lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth
on the other days of the week. Now they make the following
statements to Alice - pal. Yesterday was one of those days
when I lie byte. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too.
What day is it ?
a) Thursday
b) Tuesday
c) Monday
d)
Sunday
(solution:a)

Q7) A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models
which come out of the final testing area completely at random.
What are the odds that 5 consecutive cars of the same color
will come through the test area at any one time?
a) 1 in 16
b) 1 in 125
c) 1 in 32
d) 1 in 25
Q8) Alok is attending a workshop ~How to do more with less
and today's theme is working with fewer digits. The speakers
discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if
mankind (as well as womankind) had only worked with fewer
digits.
The problem posed at the end of the workshop is
How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1,
2,3,4 ,5 ( but with repetition) that are divisible by 4?
Can you help Alok find the answer?
a) 100 b) 125 c) 75 d) 85
Q9) Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose
the category in which it Ms RAPETEKA
a) Bird b) Vegetable c) City d) Fruit
Q10) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on
its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called
echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of
circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle
and the age of echina is given by the formula
d 4`\ (t-9) for t 9
Where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of
years since the solar blast.
1agan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot
as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?
a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d)
12.06 (solution:b)




Q11) In the reading room of a library, there are23 reading
spots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 9 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 36 readers, how many reading spots do not
have even a single reader?
a) 8 b) None c) 16 d)
15 (solution:d)
Q12) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based
in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as
Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and
manufactured race cars before moving into production of
street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its
history, the company has been noted for its continued
participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has
employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could
go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of
Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by
the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to
drive that distance.
a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d)
6.18 (solution:b)
Q13) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70.
For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least 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) The odd numbered statements are true and the even
numbered are false.
c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false.
d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are
false.
(solution:d)
Q14) Middle - earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits,
Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are
peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate
nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical
games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of
the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get
eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where
in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the
tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out
tournol how many matches were played?
a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d)
255 (solution:d)
Q15) A research lab in Chennai requires 100 mice and 75
sterilized cages for a certain set of laboratory experiments. To
identify the mice, the lab has prepared labels with numbers 1
to 100, by combining tags numbered 0 to 9. The SPCA requires
that the tags be made of toxin-free material and that the
temperature of the cages be maintained at 27 degree Celsius.
Also, not more than 2 mice can be caged together and each
cage must be at least 2 sq.ft in area. The 5 experiments to be
conducted by lab are to be thoroughly documented and
performed only after a round of approval by authorities. The
approval procedure takes around 48 hours. How many times
the tag is numbered '4' used by the lab in numbering these
mice?
a) 9 b) 19 c) 20 d)
21 (solution:b)
Q16) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller
than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in
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 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total
duration required to fill it completely?
a) 26 hrs
b) 25 hrs
c) 5 hrs
d) 27
hrs
(solution: a)
Q17) Consider two tumblers, the first containing one litre of
coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of water out of the first
tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After moving you
take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler and
pour it back into the first tumbler. Which one of the following
statement holds now?
a) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the
second tumbler.
b) There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the
second tumbler
c) There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water
in the second tumbler
d) None of the statements holds true.
Q18) Francois Pachet, a researcher at Sony Computer Science
laboratories is also a jazz musician. He decided to build a robot
able to improvise like a pro. Named Continuator, the robot can
duet with a live musician in real- time. It listens to a musical
phrase and then computes a complementary phrase with the
same playing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided
between and then computes a complementary phrase with the
same playing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided
between materials, labour and overheads in the ratio of 4:6:2.If
the materials cost $108. the cost of the robot is
a) $270
b) $324
c) $216
d) $
648
(solution:b)
Q19) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32
red and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark
inspite 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 if it is a glove. How many gloves
must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour?
a) 50
b) 8
c) 60
d) 42

Q20) A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks
over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for
the journey?
a) 2.4 mph
b) 4 mph
c) 4.8 mph
d) 5
mph
(solution:d)
Q21) Spores of a fungus, called late blight, grow and spread
infection rapidly. These pathogens were responsible for the
Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. These seem to
have attacked the tomato crops in England this year. The
tomato crops have reduced and the price of the crop has risen
up . The price has already gone up to $45 a box from $27 a box
a month ago. How much more would a vegetable vendor need
to pay to buy 27 boxes this month over what he would have
paid last month?
a) $27
b) $ 18
c) $45
d) $ 486
Q22) Given a collection of 36 points P in the plane and a point
equidistant from all points in P, which of the following are
necessarily true?
A. The points in P lie on a circle.
B. The distance between any pair of points in P is larger than
the distance between X and a point in P
a) A and B
b) Neither A nor B
c) B only
d) A only
Q23) In the year 2002, Britain was reported to have had 4.3m
closed - circuit television (CCTV) cameras - one for every 14
people in the country . This scrutiny is supposed to deter and
detect crime. In one criminal case, the police interrogates two
suspects . The ratio between the ages of the two suspects is 6:5
and the sum of their ages is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 55
years. After how many years will the ratio be 8:7.?
a) 11 b) 6 c) 10 d) 5
Q24) Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm
volume to make a block 3 small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide
and 5 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 to lock like a
block with same dimensions, if it were made hollow. What is
the minimum number of cubes that she needs to make the
block?
a) 114 b) 135 c) 21 d) 71
Q25) Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game.
99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two
other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are
ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an
ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the
other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The
goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the
first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins
are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the
following is true?
a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.
b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins
different from O1 and O2 on his first turn.
c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn.
d) Alok has no winning strategy.
Q26) There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour
B can fills 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40,
80,160..if B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much
time will it take to fill completely? Ans: 7 hours
%!
Q1. (1/2) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same
number?
a) 6 b) 7 c) 8 d) 9

Solution:
Let the number be x,
((1/2)`x)3+(1/6)`x,
Then solve x

Q2. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller
than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it
gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of
first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20 liters and so
on). If tank B is 1/32 filled of the 21 hours, what is total
duration of hours required to fill it completely?
a) 26 B) 25 c) 5 d) 27

Solution: for every hour water in tank in B is doubled, Let the
duration to fill the tank B is x hours. x/32 part of water in tank
of B is filled in 21 hours, Next hour it is doubled so, 2`(x/32)
part i.e (x/16) part is filled in 22 hours,
Similarly (x/8)th part in 23 hours,(x/4)th part is filled in 24
hours, (x/2)th part is filled in 25 hours, (x)th part is filled in 26
hours
So answer is 26 hours.

Q3. Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the
probability that all the remaining children are boys
a) 1/64 b) 1/32 c) 1/128 d) 1/256

Solution:
Probability of a boy or girl is
So for remaining 6 it`s - 1/2]^6 1/64

Q4. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 14 blue, 20
red, and 18 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 if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take
out to make sure she has a pair of each color?
a) 50 b) 8 c) 40 d) 42

Solution:
This is the most repeated question in Tcs so prepare it well. It
has no logic but it`s answer comes like this
Firstly add 2 max values i.e 20+1838
Then add 2 to answer i.e. 38+240 so this is the answer.



Q5. Sangakara and Ponting selects batting by using a dice, but
dice is biased. So to resolve, Ponting takes out a coin. What is
the probability that coin shows correct option?
a) 1/2 b) 1/6 c) 1/12 d) 6/10

Solution is .

Q6. On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its
equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called
echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of
circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle
and the age of echina is given by the formula d 4`\ (t-9) for t
9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number
of years since the solar blast.1agan recorded the radius of some
echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did
the solar blast occur?
a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 14.05

Solution: radius 7mm, then diameter 2`radius, substitude
diameter the in above equation you will get answer

Q7. Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based
in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as
Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers 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
employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could
go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of
Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the
Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive
that distance.
a) 20.72 b) 3.5 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

Solution: Speed of Ferrari 4`35140,timedistance/velocity,

Q8. Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You
need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p
coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide
the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?
a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 7

Solution: Will be 5.
For 31p, we divide it 1,2,4,8,16.

Q9. 1ohn buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of
amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his
neighbor and gave change to 1ohn. After 2 days, it is known
that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his
neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the
profit/loss for shop keeper?
a) loss 23 b) gain 23 c) gain 54 d) Loss 54

Solution: 23 loss
as he has to pay 35 dollar to neighbor he has only 31 remaining
so 35-314
and cycle costs 19 dollar
so total loss19+423 dollar

Q10. If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisened if a person
tastes very little he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice
to test and 24 hours to test, how many mices are required to
find the poisened can?
A) 3 B) 2 C) 6 D) 1

Solution: 1
Because in that problem they didn't mention the details
like,one mice take 2 hr or 3hr etc. They told only 24 hr to test.
So 1 mice is enough rest are useless words.

Q11. A Sheet of paper has statements number from 1 to 20.
Statement n says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are
true". Which statements are true and which are false.

a. The even no statements are true and the odd no statements
are false.
b. The 1st 13 statements are false and rest are true.
c. The 1st 6 statements are true and rest are false
d. The odd no statements are true and even no. are false.

Solution: This type of question was repeated 3 times but for
different case.
For this type of Questions, follow this:
At least- Ist half are true, Last half are false
Exactly- Last second one is true or (N-1)th Statement is true
Almost- All are true.
So correct answer is (C)

Q12. On the planet Oz, there are 8 days in a week- Sunday to
Saturday and another day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in
a day and each hour has 90 min while each minute has 60 sec.
As on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day.
Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz
when the time is 12:40 am.

Solution: 89 deg
36 hours a day mane the clk will be of 18 hours.
18 hours covrs 360 deg
Thus 1 hour covrs 20 deg
12 hours covers 12`20240 deg
ekhon,1 hour in 90 min
thus in 90min the hour hand goes 20deg
tai, for 1min hr hand goes 2/9deg
sei jonne, for 40 min hour hnd goes
(2/9)`40deg80/9deg9deg(approx)
thus hr hand covrs total of 240+9249deg
now min hand covrs40`4160deg
(karon, 90min360deg
1min4deg)
hus angle betwn them 249-16089deg

Q13. There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac,
Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a
perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be
followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI
mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together.
Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also
mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how
much quantity of the other; but that is not needed for the
question) All of the following combinations are possible to
make a perfume except:
1) Balsamic and Lilac
2) Woody and Lemon
3) MI mosaic and Woody
4) MI mosaic and Lilac

Solution: First is acceptable for perfume since balsamic and
liliac are given to be present and second is also acceptable as
lemon can be added with any of four, third is also acceptable as
given in question left fourth is not acceptable as MI mosaic is
always with woody and balsamic is always with liliac.
Therefore combination of MI mosaic and liliac cant occur
because woody and balsamic are never together

Q14: Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given
the expression N 15 + X`(Y f~ Z) Where X, Y and Z are
variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to
maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards
this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu
substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok
then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to
substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the
remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal
strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be?

Note: For this type of questions:
x+y-z11
x-y-z2
x`(y+z)18
What should be the approach to do such type of prob?

Solution: This question was repeated 3 times for different cases
Yeah TCS has this 3 type of questions where there is
x+y-z,11
x-y-z 2
and x`(y+z)18

If an integer is added to any of the above equations just add the
integer to the value of the equations. For example in this case it
would be 15+1833. (don't ask me for explanations why this
value comes for those equations. It took me some gruelling
sessions to understand that)

Q15. Consider two tumblers, the first containing Water and
next contains coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of water out
of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After
moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second
tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler. Which one of
the following statement holds now?

a) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the
second tumblers
b) There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the
second tumbler
c) There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water
in the second tumbler
d)None of the statements holds true

Solution: a
There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water

Q16. Shreya writes 1st 100 whole num. let A and B be the num
of times she writes 0 and 9 respectively, find the value of A+B

Solution:
First 100 whole nos0 to 99.
thus Ano.of 0's(0,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90)10
Bno. of
9's(9,19,29,39,49,59,69,79,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99)20
A+B30

Q17. When my uncle died, he left a will instructing his
executers to divide his estate of 19,80,000 in this manner.Every
son should receive 3 times as much as a daughter and that evry
daughter should get twice as much as their mother. what is my
aunt's maximum share if my uncle has atleast one son and one
daughter?
(a) 19,80000 (b) 9,90,000 (c) 3,30,000 (d) 2,20,000 (e) 1,98,00

Solution:
1+2+69
1980000/9220000
220000(mother)
440000(daughter)
1320000(brother)
Answer is 220000(d)

Q18. There are 3 boys A,B,C and 2 girls D,E. D always sit right
to A.girls never sit in extreme positions and in the middle
position. C always sits in the extreme positions. who is sitting
immediate right to E?

Solution:
A D B E C
right of e is c
Now come to interview part:

%!
1) (1/3) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same
number?
a) 6 b) 16 c) 18 d) 21
Ans- x/3x/6 +3 ...solve ans is 18
2) There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in an hour,
B can fill 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40,
80, 160. If B filled in 1/16 of a tank in 3 hours, how much time
will it take to fill the tank completely?
a) 9 B) 8 c) 7 d) 6
This question repeated two times in my paper

Ans: (b) these type of que are repeated frequently but the
numeric values change.Simple approach is- count the number
of hours taken to fill the part of the tank from the given part
ie. Initially the tank is 1/32 then after 1 hour it will become 1/16
then 1/8 then then then 1. Here 1 is the state when the tank
is full so the number of hours is (1+1+1+1+1)5. Now add this
number of hours to the given time ie 5+38

3) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red,
and 25 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 if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to
make sure she has a pair of each color?
a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42
Ans: Do not get trapped in these type of questions .a very
simple trick to solve these type of question is just see the max
and the middle value of gloves and hats .ie 32 and 25 . just
add max+min_values +2 or 1 or 3 ie 32+25+360 the answer
will definitely fall in this range as 60 here
4) Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves,
dwarves and men. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures
that prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The
dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as
follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that
play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches
are played in different rounds, where in every round; half of
the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8
rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches
were played?
a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255
Ans: (255) there are two varieties of this type of que in one they
ask about the number of matches in the first round .so
solution to that is 2^(number of rounds).ie 2^8256 another
variety is the number of matches played in the tournament so
ans is 2^(number of teams )-1 ..ie 2^8 -1255
5) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in
Marane llo, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as
Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers 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
employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could
go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of
Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the
Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive
that distance.
a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18
Ans very simple question approach is time dist./speed ie
953/(4`35)6.18

6) how many 8 digit numbers are possible by using the digits
1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if repetition of digits is
allowed?

Ans: (78125) simple trick to these type of que is that
5^(number of digits-1) ie 5^(8-1) i.e. 5^(7)78125
By math`s first 6 digits of the 8 digit number can be filled in by
using any 5 digits given so it come out (5`5`5`5`5`5) and last
two must be divisible by 4 ie (44,52,32,12,24) are the 5
possibilities. So the anwer is (5`5`5`5`5`5`55^7)
7) Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has
covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a
tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The
tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise
meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By
what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the
race?
a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5
Ans: 37.80
8) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given
the expression
N 9 + X + Y - Z

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to
9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu
would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a
single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of
her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and
Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok
proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both
play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the
game would be
a) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20

Ans: Do not get trapped in this que i am giving a very short
trick that guarantees 100 correct solution just add the
following number if the que contains the following changes

X`(Y-Z) then add 18 to the given constant to get N..ie
9+1827
X+(Y-Z) then add the 12 ie 9+1120
X-(Y-Z) is then add 2 ie 9+211

9) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been
predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is
rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks
A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's
assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between
Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability
of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul
will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?
a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3
Ans: 5/9..just do 1-(probability)^2...1-(2/3)^2


11). On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its
equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called
echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of
a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle
and the age of echina is given by the formula
d 4 ` sqrt (t - 8)for t 8
Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of
years since the solar blast.
1agan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is
24 years then what is diameter?
a) 8 b) 16 c) 25 d) 2

Ans: Put the value of years in equation and get the answer ie

10) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70.
For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least 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) The odd numbered statements are true and the even
numbered are false.
c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false.
d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.
Ans: c

There are two more varieties of this type of questions. I am
giving those also below just concentrate on the part underlined
in the questions and mark the answer.

11) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40.
For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly 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 statements are false.
b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even
numbered statements are false.
c) All the statements are false.
d) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false.
Ans: d
12) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of
150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in
the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in
products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are
equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also
write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take
12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it
take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?
a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12

Ans: d (w1/w2m1`t1/m2`T2)

13) A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20
feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard
at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is
closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?
a)0.75 b)1 c)0.5, d)0.25
Ans: Probability (area of inner circle)/(area of outer circle)
i.e (r/2)^2/r^2 1/40.25

14) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12
envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1
letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1
letter is inserted in an improper envelope?
a) 0 b) 1/12 c) 11/12 d) 12/212

Ans: 0

This questions repeated in my paper thrice.

15) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of
intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30,
the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is
a) 4 b) 3 c) 1 d) 0

Ans: 4

If it is given line then there are 4 points - one inCentre and
three circumcentres
If it it given line segment then and is 1 bcoz only one incentre is
there

16) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been
predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is
rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks
A with the same probability as A's chances of winning.

Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match
between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a
probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability
that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia
game?
a) 5/9 b) 1/9 c) 2/3 d) 4/9

Ans: 5/9

17) Mr. Bean went to a shop for buying a gift to his wife on her
Birthday. He bought 28 purple marbles as her wife was fond of
marbles. He also bought 21greem marbles. While coming out
of the shop on the way he also bought 24 red, 42 yellow and 12
pink marbles and he put them all in a bag. When he was
returning back to the home a lightning occurred and suddenly
due to some reasons the red, green, and yellow balls got
converted into white color. But in spite of this Mr. Beans
decided to give few marbles to his lovely wife. So, how many
times he should put his hand in the bag so that he can gift his
wife at least one ball of each color.
Ans: logic is same as I told in the question 3 i.e 24+42+268
18) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 50
coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special
(gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring
the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin
to another position in the stack.Alice starts and the players
take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a
position i below the top coin (0 i 20). We will call this an i-
move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is
that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player
makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make
a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a
player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold
coinis the third coin from the top. Then
a) In order to win, Alice`s first move should be a 0-move.
b) In order to win, Alice`s first move should be a 1-move.
c) Alice has no winning strategy.
d) In order to win, Alice`s first move can be a 0-move or a 1-
move

Ans: (d)

In this type of question if the coin is at the 3 position (as here
)then the answer is d otherwise at the 1 or second position of
the coin the answer is always. No chance of winning ie C

19) There is a planet oz . The people there are four fingered
and reside in 4 - dimensional space and thus the currency used
by its residents are 3 - dimensional objects. The rupees notes
are cubical in shape while their coins are spherical. However
the coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations on the
size of the coins.

The diameter of the coins should be at least 16mm and not
exceed 64mm
Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least
50 greater.
The diameter of the coin must always be an integer.
You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters
with these requirements and your goal is to design as many
coins as possible. How many coins can you design?

Ans: 4
At least 16 coins so the series is 16, (16+16/2) 24 ,
(24+24/2)36, (36+36/2)54. Now next value of coin exceeds 64
so the number of coins is 4
20) 21 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of
handshakes possible if there is to be no cycle` of handshakes is
(A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of people a1, a2, . , aK
such that the pairs (a1, a2), (a2, a3),. , (a (k-1), a k) , (ak, a1)
shake hands.
a) 17 b) 18 c) 19 d) 20

Ans: n

21) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about
a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are
made to stand in a line and each person declares that the
person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person
is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true?

A. All suspects are lying.
B. leftmost suspect is innocent.
C. leftmost suspect is guilty
a) A only b) A or C c) A or B d) B only

Ans: c

22) In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, Sunday to Saturday
and 8th day is Oz day. There is 36 hours in a day. What is
angle between 12.40?
a) 80 b) 81 c) 87 d) 89
Ans: 89

23) 36 people a1, a2, ..., a36] meet and shake hands in a
circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36
handshakes involving the pairs, a1, a2], a2, a3], ..., a35,
a36], a36, a1]. Then size of the smallest set of people such that
the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is
a) 13 b) 18 c) 11 d) 12
Ans:18

24) The pace length P is the distance between the rear of two
consecutive footprints. For men, the formula, n/P 144 gives
an approximate relationship between n and P where, n
number of steps per minute and P pace length in meters.
Bernard knows his pace length is 164cm. The formula applies
to Bernard's walking. Calculate Bernard's walking speed in
kmph.
a) 23.62 b) 8.78 c) 11.39 d) 236.16
Ans: 236.16 (144`1.64 m)

25) Anoop managed to draw 7 circles of equal radii with their
centers on the diagonal of a square such that the two extreme
circles touch two sides of the square and each middle circle
touches two circles on either side. Find the ratio of the radius
of the circles to the side of the square.
a) 1:(4+ 7v3) b) 1:(2+ 6v2)
c) 1:(2+ 7v2) d) (2+ 7v2):1
Ans: b

26) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda,
Chelsea, 1uli visited that temple. (Som unrelated stuff) Linda is
taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. 1uli is
shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?

a) Linda is shorter among them
b) Chelsea is taller than 1uli
c) Chelsea is shorter than 1uli
d) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and 1uli
Ans: d

Friends there is a trick of solving this questions any question in
the paper of TCS that involves comparison the answer is
always -cannot determine

27) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs.
ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hr.,
horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth
3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After
traveling 6 hrs., 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed
of dog?

Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get
distance travelled by it.
Hence d 22`6 132km,

Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it
started two hours earlier).
Hence speed of dog 132/8 16.5km/hr
Ans: 16.5km/hr.

28) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point
in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point
lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side.
The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum
value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane
in general position (.i.e. no three points in P lie on a line) is
a) 3 b) 5 c) 2

Ans: 5

Friends there is a trick of solving this questions any question in
the paper of TCS that involves points separated by line with a
set of points points each side the answer is the number of
points in plane as 5 here the answer is always -cannot
determine








29) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given
the expression
N 9+ X + Y - Z

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to
9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu
would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a
single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of
her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and
Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok
proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both
play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the
game would be
a) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20
Ans: 20

Here it is X+Y-Z then add the 11 so ans is (11+9)20

30). The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus
developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in
nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000.
How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?
a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192
Ans: 192

From 1 to 100 3 comes 192
Once you clear this test you are promoted to Technical round
%!
1) How many four digit numbers can be formed using the
digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4?
5^(n-1) Can you help Alok find the answer?
a) 100 b) 125 c) 75 d) 85

2) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its
equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids
called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the
form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of
this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula
d 4` (t-9) for t 9where d represents the diameter in mm and
t the number of years since the solar blast.1agan recorded the
radius of some echina at a particular spot as 12mm. How many
years back did the solar blast occur?
a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12 d) 12.06
Ans: c
3) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in
Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia
Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured
race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles
in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company
has been noted for its continued participation in racing,
especially in Formula One where it has employed great success
.Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as
Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46
km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find
the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.
a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18
Ans: b
4) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than
B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in 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 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration
required to fill it completely?
a) 26 hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs
Ans: a
5)There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than
B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in 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 4 hours, what is the total duration
required to fill it completely?
a) 8hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs
Ans: a

6) Unnecessary data. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her
closet- 18 blue- 32 red , 10 white , 25 yellow, 55 purple, 30
orange. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite 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 if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make
sure she has a pair of each colour of blue, red, yellow?
a) 59 b) 8 c) 50 d) 42
Ans: a(32+25+2)
7) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of
150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in
the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in
products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are
equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also
write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take
12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it
take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?
a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12
Ans: d (w1/w2m1`t1/m2`T2)
8) The citizens of planet nigiet are 6 fingered and have thus
developed their decimal system in base 6. A certain street in
nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000.
How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?
a) 256 b) 54 c) 192 d) 108
Ans: d
9) 12 people a1, a2, ., a12] meet and shake hands in a
circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36
handshakes involving the pairs, a1, a2], a2, a3], ., a11,
a12], a12, a1]. Then size of the smallest set of people such that
the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is
a) 12 b) 4 c) 18 d) 11
Ans: B
10) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game.
100 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a
special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is
to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the
topmost coin to another position in the stack.
Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of
moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0
i 100). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies
doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be
repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on
subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move.
If the gold coin happens to be on top when it`s a player`s turn
then the player wins the game.
A. Alice has no winning strategy.
B. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then
C. In order to win, Alice`s first move should be a 0-move.
D. In order to win, Alice`s first move should be a 1-move.
Ans: D
11) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of
handshakes possible if there is to be no ~cycle of handshakes
is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2, ..,
ak (k > 2) such that the pairs a1, a2], a2, a3], .., ak-1,
ak], ak, a1] shake hands).
a)7 b) 6 c) 9 d) 8
Ans: c
12) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12
envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1
letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1
letter is inserted in an improper envelope?
a) 0 b) 12/212 c) 11/12 d) 1/12
Ans: a
13) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about
a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are
made to stand in a line and each person declares that the
person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person
is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true?
A. All suspects are lying
B. leftmost suspect is innocent .
C. leftmost suspect is guilty
a) A only b) A or C c) A or B d) B only
Ans: c
14) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of
intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30,
the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is

a) 4 b) 3 c) 0 d) 1
Ans: a 3 lines are given so ans is 4 one incenter and 3 excenters.
If it is 3 line segments then ans would be 1
15) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given
the expression - N 15 + X`(Y - Z)
Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to
9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to
minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit
number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice
(X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the
variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the
value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their
optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would
be
Ans: 15+18 33
16) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100
yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare
in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5
of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise
meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By
what factor should the hare increase its speed so as the win the
race?(for this values are changed)
a) 8 b) 5 c) 37 d) 80
Ans: c
17) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 45.
For all values of n from 1 to 45, statement n says ~At most n of
the statements on this sheet are false. Which statements are
true and which are false?
A. The odd numbered statements are true and the even
numbered are false.
B. The even numbered statements are true and the odd
numbered are false.
C. All statements are true.
Ans: c
18) A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1
cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 1face of the
outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of
the smaller cubes remain unpainted?
a) 900 b) 488 c) 563 d) 800
Ans: c
19) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of
150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in
the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in
products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are
equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also
write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take
12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How many lines of
code can be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes?
a) 72 b) 432 c) 12 d) 144
Ans: b
20) The teacher is testing a student`s proficiency in arithmetic
and poses the following question. 1/3 of a number is 3 more
than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you
help the student find the answer?
a) 12 b) 18 c) 6 d) 21
Ans: b
Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the
expression
N X - Y - Z
21) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits
(0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like
to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit
number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice
(X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the
variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the
value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their
optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would
be
a) 2 b) 4 c) 9 d) -18
Ans: a
22) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago.
And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hr, horse
crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and
it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling
6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog?
Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get
distance travelled by it.
Hence d 22`6 132km,
Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it
started two hours earlier).
Hence speed of dog 132/8 16.5km/hr
Ans: 16.5km/hr.

23) A and B play a game between them. The dice consist of
colors on their faces(instead of number). When the dice are
thrown, A wins if both show the same color, otherwise B wins.
One die has 3 red faces and 3 blue faces. How many red and
blue faces should the other die have if the both players have if
the both players have the same chances of winning?
a) 5 red and 1 blue faces.
b) 1 red and 5 blue faces.
c) 3 red and 3 blue faces.
Ans: c
24) In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, sunday to saturday
and 8th day is Oz day. There is 36 hours in a day. What is
angle between 12.40?
a) 80 b) 81 c) 87 d) 89
Ans: 89