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Infosys:Previously Asked Placement Questions

1.what is the largest positive integer n for which n3+47 is divisible by n +5? 2.A clock is so placed that at 12 noon its minute hand points towards north-east. In which direction does its hour hand point at 1.30 p.m? 3.In a group of six women, there are four dancers, four vocal musicians, one actress and three violinists. Girija and Vanaja are among the violinists while Jalaja and Shailaja do not know how to play on the violin. Shailaja and Tanuja are among the dancers. Jalaja, Vanaja, Shailaja and Tanuja are all vocal musicians and two of them are also violinists. If Pooja is an actress, who among the following is both a dancer and violinist ? A) Jalaja B) Shailaja C) Tanuja D) Pooja Ans: C 4.i) There are six friends A,B,C,D,E and F ii) Each one is proficient in one of the games, namely Badminton, Vollyball, Cricket, Hockey, Tennis and Polo iii) Each owns a different coloured car, namely yellow, green, black, white, blue and red. iv) D plays Polo and owns a yellow coloured car v) C does not play either Tennis or Hockey and owns neither blue nor yellow coloured car vi) E owns a white car and plays Badminton vii) B does not play Tennis, he owns a red coloured car. viii) A plays Cricket and owns a black car

11. Who plays Volleyball ? 5.. If x and y are both positive integers, how much greater is x than y? 1. x + y = 20 2. x = y 6.(a-X)(b-X)(c-X)..........upto(z-X)=? 7.1 chocolate cost is Rs.1 & if we return 3 wrapers(covers) of chocolate we get 1 more chocolate. If u have Rs.15 how many chocolates do u get...? 8.if CAT=72 & GATE=99 then BODY=?? a)120 b)128 c)138 d)184 9.When all the possible 5 letters are arranged in the letter LASER in alphabetical order,what will be the 25th word and 16th word? 10.one bag 10 red.other 20 blue.to take out 1 red and 1 blue how many balls to be taken out. 10.0,2,4,6,8,12,12,20,16,? 11.There are 6561 balls out of them 1 is heavy and remaining 6560 are same weight. Find th min. no. of times the balls have to be weighed for finding out the heavy ball ? 12.The puzzle is Nine IIT students were sitting in a classroom. Their professor wanted them to test. Next day the professor told all of his 9 students that he has 9 hats, The hats either red or black color. He also added that he has at least one hat with red color and the no. of black hats is greater than the no. of red hats. The professor keeps those hats on their heads and ask them tell me how many red and black hats the professor have? Obviously students can not talk to each other or no written communication, or looking into each other eyes; no such stupid options and no tricks.

Professor goes out and comes back after 20 minutes but nobody was able to answer the question. So he gave them 10 more minuets but the result was the same. So he decides to give them final 5 minutes. When he comes everybody was able to answer him correctly. So what is the answer? and why? 13.Every day a cyclist meets a car at the station.The road is straight and both are travelling in the same direction. The cyclist travels with a speed of 12 mph.One day the cyclist comes late by 20 min. and meets the car 5miles before the Station. What is the speed of the car? 14.2XX 3XX --5XX X4X XX3 ------XXXXX ------Find out the X's and seven is not there in the calculation. Please explain ? 15.A cube of volume 1000 cm 3 is divided into small cubes of 1 cm 3 ..& all the outer surfaces are painted how many cubes will be there with (at least one side painted or no side painted).? 16.There is a 5 digit number.3 pairs of sum is eleven each.last digit is 3 times the first one.3rd digit is 3 less than second one.4th digit is 4 more than second one.find the number. ? 17.Arrange the following words will come in middle if all of them are arranged alphabetically as in a dictionary? A. Research

B. Rational C. Round D. Rustic E. Rural 18.Between two book ends in your study are displayed your five favourite puzzle books. If you decide to arrange the five books in every possible combination and moved just one book every minute, how long would it take you? 19.A share is purchased at a rate of 23.60 and sold at a rate of 36.40. If brokerage at the time of buy and sell is 50 paisa per 100 rupee, then net profit will be. (excluding any other government charges)? 20.10.1 % of 9.6 % of x = an integer then minimum possible positive integer value of x will be? 21.in a fraction, the numerator is 20% less than the denominator. the sum of fraction and its reciprocal is.?? a.2 1/2 b.2 1/6 c.2 1/20 d.3 1/3 22.Let 1 be the A.M and 2 be the G.M of two numbers a and b. Then their H.M is? 23.There are 5 houses. Each house has its own unique color. All house owners are of different nationalities. They all have different pets. They all drink different drinks. They all smoke different cigarettes. The english men lives in the red house. The swede has a dog. The dane drinks tea. The green house is on the left side of the white house. In the green house they drink coffee. The man who smokes Pall Mall has birds. In the yellow house they smoke Dunhill.

In then middle house they drink milk. The norwagein lives in the first house. The man who smokes Blend , lives in the house next to the house with cats. In the house next to the house where they have horse, they smoke Dunhill. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks Beer. The german smokes Prince. The norwegian lives next to the blue house. They drink water in the house that lays next to the house where they smoke Blend. WHO OWNS THE ZEBRA ? 24.how to cut cake 8 piece from 3 cuts? 25.a motor cyclist after travelling a certain distance slowed down to 3/4th of his initial speed and arrived at his destination 6 minutes late.had he slowed down to 2/3 rd of his initial speed 6 km further on,he would have reached 6 minute late.what is his initiala speed?