Sample Paper 1

1) 30 teams enter a hockey tournament. A team is out of the tournament if it loses 2 games. What is the
maximum number of games to be played to decide one winner?
Options 60 61 59 34

2) India with a burgeoning population and a plethora of vehicles (at last count there were more than 20
million of them) has witnessed big traffic jams at all major cities. Children often hone their counting skills
by adding the wheels of vehicles in schoolyards or bus depots and guessing the number of vehicles.
Alok, one such child, finds only bicycles and 4 wheeled wagons in his schoolyard. He counts the total
number of wheels to be 46. What could be the possible number of bicycles?
Options 25 5 4 6
3) Alchemy is an occult tradition that arose in the ancient Persian empire. Zosimos of Panopolis was an
early alchemist. Zara, reads about Zosimos and decides to try some experiments. One day, she collects
two buckets, the first containing one litre of ink and the second containing one litre of cola. Suppose she
takes one cup of ink out of the first bucket and pours it into the second bucket. After mixing she takes
one cup of the mixture from the second bucket and pours it back into the first bucket. Which one of the
following statements holds now?
1. There is more cola in the first bucket than ink in the second bucket.
2. There is as much cola in the first bucket as there is ink in the second bucket.
3. There is less cola in the first bucket than ink in the second bucket.
4) 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?
Options 3 Red 3 Blue

2 Red 4 Blue

All Red

4 Red 2 Blue

5) Suppose 12 monkeys take 12 minutes to eat 12 bananas. How many monkeys would it take to eat 72
bananas in 72 minutes?
Options 6 72 12 18

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6) The difference between the ages of two of my three grandchildren is 3. My eldest grandchild is three
times older than the age of my youngest grandchild and my eldest grandchilds age is two years more
than the ages of my two youngest grandchildren added together. How old is my eldest grandchild?
Options 13 12 15 10
7) 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
Options 3/4 1/2 37/38 5/6
8) A man is standing in front of a painting of a man, and he tells us the following: Brothers and sisters have I
none, but this mans father is my fathers son. Who is on the painting?
Options - His grandfather His son His father He himself
9) 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?
Options 488 500 900 800
10) 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.
11) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective.
What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively?
Options 1/16

1/8

1/32

1/5

12) Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 35 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?
Options 20

15

30 12

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13) The ages of two friends are in the ratio 6:5. The sum of their ages is 66. After how many years will the
ages be in the ratio 8:7?
Options 12

13

15 16

14) A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different toppings. In how many ways can
she make pizzas with 2 different toppings.
Options 56 64 15 8
15) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are 25 cm, 11 cm and 31 cm. What will be the
area of the square made from the same rope?
Options 280.5625

256

121

67

16) An athlete decides to run the same distance in 1/4th less time that she usually took. By how much
percent will she have to increase her average speed?
Options

33.3%

25%

20%

50%

17) A horse chases a pony 3 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 4 hours to reach the pony. If the average
speed of the horse is 35 kmph, what s the average speed of the pony?
Options

20kmph

25kmph

15kmph

8.75kmph

18) There are 7 friends (A1, A2, A3....A7). If each one has to shake hands with all without repetition, how
many handshakes are possible?
Options

18 19 20 21

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