1) 10 cats caught 10 rats in 10 seconds.

How many cats are required to catch 100 rats in 100

seconds
A. 100
B. 10
C. 20
D. 50
Answer / Explanation :
Answer : B.
2) There are eight mango trees in a straight line. The distance between each mango tree with
other is 3 metres. What is the distance between first tree and eighth tree?
A. 24 m
B. 27 m
C. 30 m
D. 21 m
Answer / Explanation :
Answer : D.

3)Ashok got thrice as many sums wrong as he got right. If he attempted 60 sums in all, how
many sums did he solved correctly?
A. 20
B. 12
C. 15
D. 10
Answer : c) 15
Solution :
Let the number of answers got correct by Ashok be X and the number of wrong answers be 3X.
Since he attempted 60 sums, X + 3X = 60
4X = 60
X = 15
So, Ashok had solved 15 sums correctly.
4) Find the next term in the series: 3, 6, 9, 18, 27, 54, ... Correct!
A. 81
B. 69
C. 108
D. 72
Answer / Explanation :

Answer : A.

) A candidate appearing for an examination has to secure 40% marks to pass paper I. But he
secured only 40 marks and failed by 20 marks. What is the maximum mark for paper I? Correct!

A. 100
B. 150
C. 180
D. 200
Answer / Explanation :

Answer : B.
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1. Qns : A set of football matches is to be organized in a "round-robin" fashion, i.e., every
participating team plays a match against every other team once and only once. If 21 matches are
totally played, how many teams participated?
Ans:7 teams okay.for a match u need 2 teams.suppose there r totally'n 'teams.
Now to choose 2 teams out of 'n' teams.so answer = no of suchchoices= no. of possible
combinations. So we've ans =nC2(ncombination2)=21;
solve to get n=7.Sol: n(n-1)/2=21. so n=7.if u don't understand c the graph beloweach team
plays no. of matches=no of teams ahead of it. One bar '|'represents one team
| | | | | | | ------------
76 5 4 3 2 1 0 -----------21
last team is written as 0 matches becos this team has already playedwith all other teams-
hence sum of matches =6+5+4+3+2+1=21
which iscorrect only if no of teams =7


2. Qns : A businessman advertised two job openings for peons in his firm. Two men applied and
the businessman decided to engage both or them. He offered them a salary of Rs. 2,000 per year;
Rs. 1,000 to be paid every half year, with a promise that their salary would be raised if their work
proved satisfactory. They could have a raise of Rs. 300 per year, or if they preferred, Rs. 100
each half year. The two men thought for a few moments and then one of them expressed his wish
to take the raise at Rs 300 per year, while the other man said he would accept the half yearly
increase of Rs. 100. Between the two men, who was the gainer, and by how much?


Ans: 100 half yearly
At a raise of Rs. 300 per year; .
1st year Rs. 1000 + Rs. 1000 = Rs. 2000
2nd year Rs. 1150 + Rs. 1150 =? Rs. 2300
3rd year Rs. 1300 -f Rs. 1300 = Rs. 2600
4th year Rs. 1450 + Rs. 1450 = Rs. 2900

At a raise of Rs. 100 each half year:
1st year Rs. 1000 + R. 1100 = Rs. 2100
2nd year Rs. 1200 + Rs. 1300 = Rs. 2500
3rd year Rs. 1400 + Rs. 1500 = Rs. 2900
4th year Rs. 1600 + Rs. 1700 = Rs. 3300
Obviously the second proposition is much more

3. Qns: A box contains 12 marbles of three different colors green, yellow and blue4 each. If
you were to close your eyes and pick them at random, how many marbles must you take out to
be sure that there are at least two of one color among the marbles are picked out
Ans: In the first three pickings you may get 1 of each color, on the 4th pick there must be at least
two of one color. Therefore the answer is 4.

4. There are two numbers with the difference of 3 between them and the difference of their
squares is 51.
Can you find the numbers?
Ans: let's assume X is one of the numbers and Y the

X^2-Y^2 = 51
X-Y=3
6Y+9=51
.: X=Y+3
(Y+3)(Y+3)-Y^2=51
6Y=42
.: Y=7
AND X=10.

5. Qns: Shown in the sketch are six matchsticks



Can you rearrange them to make nothing?

Ans
NIL