IAS P.T.

TEST SERIES - 2014

SET NO: 04
By S.K. Mishra, IAS (Retd.) & Manoj K. Jha

GENERAL MENTAL ABILITY

Time Allowed: Two Hours

Maximum Marks: 200

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7 5

(a) 1962
(c) 1269

and y =

7 5
, find x3 + y3.
7 5

Directions (Q 10-13): Read the following information

to answer questions:
1. Four men, Ved Prakash, Jag Mohan,
Mukesh and Trilok are sales manager,
lecturer, accountant and doctor by
profession accompanied their children to a
circus. Each person was with one child
only.

(b) 1692
(d) 2196

2. The sum of two numbers is 29 and the

difference of their squares is 145. The difference
between the numbers is:
(a) 13
(b) 5
(c) 8
(d) 11

2. Trilok and Jag Mohan came with their sons

and they were not doctor or sales manager.

3. Nanu, a sweet little girl, was not the

doctor's daughter.
4. Gaurav is not Jag Mohan's son.

300

5. Saurabh's (who is a boy) father is not an

accountant.

OR

3. Which of the two numbers is greater, 2 or

3 20 0 ?
(a) 2 3 0 0
(b) 3 2 0 0
(c) Both are equal
(d) Not possible to say without log tables

10. The sales manager's child is:

(a) Tanu
(b) Nanu

(c) Gaurav

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4. The product of two two-digit numbers is 2160

and their G.C.D is 12. The numbers are:
(a) 72, 30
(b) 36, 60
(c) 96, 25
(d) None of these

6. Tanu is not Mukesh's daughter.

5. The number of prime factors in the expression

(6)10 (7)17 (11)27 is:
(a) 54
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4

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6. The length of the minute hand of a clock is 8

cm. Find the distance travelled by its outer end
in 15 minutes.
(a) 16
(b) 32
(c) 4
(d) 18
7. 24 is divided into two integral parts such that
7 times the first part added to 5 time the second
part makes 146. The first part is:
(a) 11
(b) 13
(c) 16
(d) 17

8. The difference between a discount of 40% on

Rs 500 and two successive discounts of 36%
and 4% on the same amount is:
(a) 0
(b) Rs. 2
(c) Rs. 1.93
(d) Rs. 7.20
9. If m and n are integers and mn is 10. Which
of the following cannot be the value of m + n?
(a) 29
(b) 25
(c) 52
(d) 50
2

(d) Saurabh

11. Who is Gaurav's father and what is he?

(a) Trilok - Sales manager
(b) Ved Prakash - Sales manager
(c) Mukesh - Accountant
(d) Trilok - Accountant

12. If Saurabh and Gaurav are cousins, which two

men are brothers?
(a) Ved and Mukesh
(b) Ved and Trilok
(c) Jag Mohan and Mukesh
(d) Jag Mohan and Trilok
13. Who is Tanu's Father and what is he?
(a) Ved Prakash - Doctor
(b) Trilok - Accountant
(c) Ved Prakash - Sales manager
(d) Jag Mohan - Lecturer
14. P,Q,R are consecutive integers. Which of the
following is true?
(a) P+Q+R is always even
(b) P+Q+R is always odd
(c) P+2Q+R is always even
(d) P+2Q+R is always odd
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(a) 135
(b) 165
(c) 330
(d) None of these
16. How many three digit odd nos. can be formed
from the digits : 2, 0, 3, 5? (repetition not
allowed).

Direction (Q 21-22): An Inspector has discovered

that 5 people were involved in the murder of Miss
Batliwala. Nine suspects are short listed by him.
Maina, Naina and Raina are women. Ooman,
Sangha, Topaz, Unni, Vasu and Wagle are men.
Through intelligent deliberation and analysis, Ghote
has also made a checklist of points.
I) There were at least two women involved
in the crime.
II) Raina will never collude with Ooman.

15. What is the sum of the 11 terms of an

Arithmetic Progresion whose 3rd term is 10 and
the 9th term is 20?

(b) 4

III) Sangha and Topaz will always commit

crimes together.

(c) 12

(d) 6

IV) Unni and Vasu never work together.

OR

(a) 8

17. How many diagonals does a decagon have?

(a) 25

(b) 45

(c) 35

(d) 55

Directions (Q 18-20): are based on the information

given below.

21. If Maina was involved in the crime and Naina

is not, which statements given below are true
Necessarily.
I) Either Unni or Vasu but not both are
involved.

II) Sangha and Topaz will be involved

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The six faces of a cube are coloured black, brown,

green, red, white and blue.

Select the correct code:

(i) Red is opposite to black

(a) Only I

(ii) Green is between red and black

(b) Only II

(iii) Blue is adjacent to white

(c) Both I and II

(iv) Brown is adjacent to blue

(d) Either I or II

(v) Red is at the bottom

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18. Which colour is opposite to brown

(a) White
(b) Red

(c) Green
(d) Blue

19. The four adjacent colours are

(a) black, blue, brown, red

(b) black, blue, brown, white

(c) black, white, red, blue
(d) black, brown, red, white
20. Which of the following can be deduced from
(i) and (v)?
(a) Black is on the top

22. Greatest number of combinations are possible

if which of the following are definitely involved
in the crime.
(a) Sangha and Topaz
(b) Vasu
(c) Raina
(b) Wagle
23. Doubling the perimeter of a triangle, keeping
the shape the same, multiplies the area by
(a) 2

(b) 3

(c) 4

(d) 8

24. The probability that A can solve a problem is

3
2
, for B it is
. What is the probability of
5
5

(b) Blue is on the top

problem being solved when both of them

attempt the problem together?

(c) Brown is on the top

(a) 31/35

(b) 12/25

(d) Brown is opposite to black

(c) 6/25

(d) 19/25

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31. How many words (both meaningful and

meaningless) can be formed using all the letters
of the word ABRACADABRA such that all the
consonants come together?

(a) x

(a)

6!
(2!) 2 5!

(b)

(6!) 2
(2!) 2 5!

(b) x + 2
(c) x

1
2

(d) x + 1

(c)

(a) 72

(b) 62

(c) 28

(d) 38

32. If x2y3z<0, which of the following must be true?

(a) yz<0
2

(c) y z<0

(b) 40 days

(b) 75

(c) 60 days

(c) 45

(d) 40

(d) None of these

(c) 52

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(a) 33.33

(b) 40

(d) 46.6

29. In how many ways can 10 puppies (all look

alike) be sold to 6 men, given that every puppy
must be sold and each man must have at least
one puppy?
(a)

15

C5

(b)

C6

(c)

10

C6

(d)

C5

30. The length of a rectangle is decreased by 20%

and breadth increased by 20%. The area will
(a) decrease by 40%
(b) remain the same

(d) z<0

(a) 80 days

(a) 6

28. In ABC Company, 60% of the employees are

men and 48% of the employees are engineers
and 66.67% of these are men. What percentage
of women are engineers?

(b) y<0

33. A watch loses 90 seconds in an hour and the

watch owner adjusts the time lost by the watch
in one day at the end of 48 hrs. After how
many days will the watch show the correct
time before the watch owner adjust the time?

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27. In a college, 5/9th of the students are boys and

the remaining are girls. On a particular day,
4/5th of the boys and 7/8th of of the girls were
absent. How many more boys were absent than
the girls, if total number of boys is 80 more
than the number of girls?

(d) None of these

OR

26. A few tickets of a show are sold at Rs.10 per

ticket and the other tickets are sold at Rs.12
per ticket. In all, 100 tickets are sold on a specific
day. If the amount collected on that day was
Rs.1056, find the number of tickets sold at Rs.12.

6!
5!

25. The average of a set of seven consecutive

integers is (x + 1) and that of a different set of
seven consecutive integers is (x 1). Find the
average of all the integers in both the sets
considering all the common integers only once.

34. There are three addressed envelopes and three

letters. Find the probability that the typist inserts
exactly one letter in the envelope incorrectly.
(a)

1
6

(b)

7
12

(c)

43
216

(d) None of these

35. Sanjeev can run one km in 3 minutes 10
seconds and Motiani can run the same distance
in 3 minutes 20 seconds. If they start together,
by what distance can Sanjeev beat Motiani in
that race?

(c) increase by 4%

(a) 100 m

(b) 25 m

(d) decrease by 4%

(c) 50 m

(d) 75 m
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(a) 1050

(b) 540

(c) 1440

(d) 1590

42. In a chess tournament, a player gets one point

for every game won, point for a draw and
0 point for a loss, A grandmaster played 11
games without losing and scored 9 points. How
many games did he win?
(a) 4

(b) 6

(c) 7

(d) 8

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OR

37. Vikas leaves Aravali hostel and walks towards

West. After walking a distance of 30 metres, he
turns right and walks 20 metres. He then turns
left and moves 10 metres before taking another
left and walking 40 metres. He then takes
another left turn and walks 40 metres before
taking a final left turn. If Aravali hostel is the
origin then all other hostels are at a distance of
500 metres from it such that Nilgiri hostel lies
to its North, Karakoram lies to the South,
Jwalamukhi lies to the East and Kailash lies to
the West. Towards which hostel is Vikas finally
walking?
(a) Nilgiri
(b) Karakoram
(c) Kailash
(d) Jwalamukhi

41. Deepak had to do a multiplication. Instead of

taking 35 as one of the multipliers, he took 53.
As a result, the product went up by 540. What
is the new product?

36. The work done by a man, a woman and a

child is in the ratio of 3 : 2 : 1 and the wages
that they receive are proportional to the work
done by them in a week. There are 20 men, 30
women and 36 children in a factory. Their
weekly wages amount to Rs.780. What will be
the wages of 15 men, 21 women and 30 children
for a month, which is made of 4 working
weeks?
(a) Rs. 5850
(b) Rs. 2925
(c) Rs. 2340
(d) Rs. 1170

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38. A rectangular pool of 20 m wide and 60 m

long is surrounded by a walkway of uniform
width. If the total area of the walkway is 516
m2, how wide, in metres, is the walkway?
(a) 43 m
(b) 3 m
(c) 2.5 m
(d) 3.5 m
39. Janshakti Constructions Limited undertakes to
construct a road 1000 metres long in 50 days.
It initially uses 56 road-rollers and finds at the
end of 27 days that only 448 metres of the road
has been built. How many more road-rollers
must be used so that the work may be finished
on schedule?
(a) 81
(b) 25
(c) 38

(d) 58

40. Which of the following cannot be the greatest

common divisor of two positive integers x and y
(a) 1
(b) x
(c) y
(d) x + y
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43. Consider a 99 digit number created by writing

side by side, the first fifty four natural numbers
as follows: 12345678910111213 5354
The above number when divided by 8 will leave
a remainder of

(a) 6

(b) 4

(c) 2

(d) 0

44. A number, K, is a positive integer with the

special property that 3 times its unit is equal to
2 times its 10 digit. How many such numbers
exist between 10 & 99?
(a) 2

(b) 3

(c) 4

(d) 5

45. Let S be the set of prime numbers greater than

or equal to 2 and less than 100. Multiply all
elements of S. With how many consecutive zeros
will the product end?
(a) 1

(b) 4

(c) 5

(d) 10

46. An old man has Rs (1! + 2! + 3! + ...+ 50!), all

of which he wants to divide equally (without
fractions) among his n children. Then, n may be
(a) 5

(b) 7

(c) 9

(d) 11

47. In an election between two candidates, the

candidate who gets 30% of the votes polled is
defeated by 15000 votes. The number of votes
polled for the winning candidate is:
(a) 11250

(b) 15000

(c) 26250

(d) 3100

(a) 2

(b) 3

(c) 4

(d) 5

(a)

P
100

(b) P(.01) 50
(d) None of these

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50. Two numbers x and y are such that x = y2. If

y is increased by 10% then x is increased by
(a) 100%

(b) 15%

(c) 40%

(d) 21%

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51. Rahul invests Rs.32,000 in a bank, 7% p.a.

simple interest. How much more should he
invest at 10% p.a. to get 8% return on his total
investment?
(a) Rs. 8,000

(b) Rs. 16,000

(c) Rs. 24,000

(d) None of these

52. A man has enough money to buy either 30

toffees or 40 peppermints. He decides to spend
only 90% of the amount overall, and buy 20
peppermints. How many toffees can he buy?
(a) 10

(b) 12

(c) 20

(d) 24

53. The selling price of an article is Rs.180 more

when it is sold at a 3.75% profit instead of a
3.75% loss. Find the cost price (in Rs.) of the
article.
(a) Rs. 2400
(b) Rs. 2000

(b) 15

(c) 14.20%

(d) 13.37%

55. On a certain assembly line, the rejection rate

for Monday's production was 4 %, for Tuesday
it was 8% and for the two days combined 7%.
What was the ratio of Tuesday's production to
Monday's production.

56.

(c) P(.1) 100

3
%
8

(a) 16.5%

OR

49. If you get 50 successive discounts of 2%, 4%,

6%, 8% etc. on marked price P (P 0) of a car.
How much will you have to pay for it?

54. A businessman marked the price of his goods

30% more than his CP. He then sells of his
stock at a discount of 15%, and half of the
stock at the marked price, and the rest at a
discount of 30%. Find his gain %.

48. A student took five papers in an examination,

where the full marks were the same for each
paper. His marks in these papers were in the
proportion of 6:7:8:9:10. In all papers together,
the candidate obtained 60% of the total marks.
Then the of papers in which he got more than
50% marks is:

(a) 3:1

(b) 2:1

(c) 1:3

(d) 1:2

A vendor has a certain number of frames. If he

sells each of the them at Rs. 7, he gains Rs.20
on the whole, while if he sells them at Rs.8.50
each, he gains Rs.80 on the whole. At what
price has he bought all the frames?

(a) 180

(b) 240

(c) 320

(d) 260

57. If a carton containing a dozen crockery plates

is dropped, then which of the following cannot
be the ratio of broken and unbroken plates?
(a) 2 : 1
(b) 3 : 1
(c) 4 : 1
(d) Will depend on how many mirrors break

Directions (Q 58-60): Refer to the following

information: Alphonso, on his deathbed, keeps half
his property for his wife and divides the rest equally
among his three sons Ben, Carl and Dave. Some
years later Ben dies leaving half his property to his
widow and half to his brothers Carl and Dave
together, shared equally. When Carl makes his will
he keeps half his property for his widow and the
rest he bequeaths to his younger brother Dave. When
Dave dies some years later, he keeps half his property
for his widow and the remaining for his mother.
The mother now has Rs 1,575,000.
58. What was the worth of the total property?

(c) Rs. 2640

(a) Rs. 30 lakh

(b) Rs. 8 lakh

(d) Rs. 2440

(c) Rs. 18 lakh

(d) Rs. 24 lakh

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59. What was Carl's original share?

65. A shipping clerk has five boxes of different but

unknown weights each weighing less than 100
kgs. The clerk weighs the boxes in pairs. The
weights obtained are 110, 112, 113, 114, 115,
116, 117, 118, 120 and 121 kgs. What is the
weight, in kgs, of the heaviest box?

(a) Rs. 4 lakh

(b) Rs. 12 lakh
(c) Rs. 6 lakh
(d) Rs. 5 lakh
60. What was the ratio of the property owned by
the widows of the three sons, in the end?

(a) 60
(b) 62

(b) 8:10:15

(c) 64

(c) 5:7:9

(d) 9:12:13

(d) cannot be determined

66. The average marks of a student in ten papers
are 80. If the highest and the lowest scores are
not considered, the average is 81. If his highest
score is 92, find the lowest.

OR

Directions: There are 2 containers of the same height

and the same base radius. One is a right circular
cone and the other is a cylinder. The cone is
completely filled with milk and the cylinder is
completely filled with water.

(a) 7:9:13

(a) 55

(b) 3:1
(c)

1
:1
3

(d) None of these

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61. The contents from both the containers are

emptied into a third vessel. What is the ratio of
milk to water in the third container?
(a) 1:1

(c) 2:3

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62. If both the containers are emptied to half their

heights into the third container, the ratio of
milk to water in the third container is
(a) 1:3
(b) 3:7
(d) 7:12

63. The ratio of the first and second class fares

between two stations is 4 : 1 and that of the
number of passengers traveling by first and
second class is 1 : 40. If Rs 1100 is collected as
fare, the amount collected from first class
passenger is:
(a) Rs. 275

(c) 62

(d) Cannot be determined.

67. Fresh grapes contain 90% water by weight

while dried grapes contain 20% water by
weight. What is the weight of dry grapes
available from 20 kg of fresh grapes?
(a) 2 kg
(b) 2.4 kg
(c) 2.5 kg
(d) None of these
68. The length of perpendicular and the base of a
right angled triangle are 84 cms and 288 cms
respectively. Calculate the length of hypotenuse
(in cms)
(a) 200

(b) 300

(c) 150

(d) 350

69. Sum of all the angles (in degress) of a regular

decagon will be equal to:

(b) Rs. 315

(c) Rs. 137.50
(d) Rs. 100
64. A tank is filled with water and oil in the
proportion 5 : 3. When 16 gallons of the mixture
are drawn off and the tank filled with 16 gallons
of oil, the proportion becomes 3 : 5. How many
gallons does the tank contain?
(a) 30

(b) 40

(c) 45

(d) 25

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(b) 60

(a) 1445

(b) 1465

(c) 1440

(d) 1460

70. The average of 5 consecutive integers starting

with m as the first integer is n. What is the
average of 9 consecutive integers that start with
m+2?
(a) m+4

(b) n+6

(c) n+3

(d) n+4

(a) 28

(b) 25

(c) 20

(d) 22

72. 6 letters are to be placed in 6 addressed

envelopes. Each letter is assigned for an
envelope. In how many ways these letters can
be put in these envelopes such that exactly one
letter goes in the correct envelope.
(a) 264

(b) 260

(c) 270

(d) None of these

77. A can complete a project in 20 days and B can

complete the same project in 30 days. If A and
B start working on the project together and A
quits 10 days before the project is completed,
in how many days will the project be
completed?
(a) 18 days
(b) 27 days
(c) 26.67 days
(d) 16 days

OR

73. In how many ways atleast 5 students can be

selected from 9 students.

76. Instead of walking along two adjacent sides of

a rectangular field, a boy took a short cut along
the diagonal and saved a distance equal to half
the longer side. Then the ratio of the shorter
side to the longer side is
(a) 1/2
(b) 2/3
(c) 1/4
(d) 3/4

71. If apples are bought at the rate of 30 for a

rupee. How many apples must be sold for a
rupee so as to gain 20%?

(a) 256
(b) 512
(c) 128
(d) None of these

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74. What is the probability that a two digit number

selected at random will be a multiple of '3' and
not a multiple of '5'?

78. X alone can do a piece of work in 15 days and

Y alone can do it in 10 days. X and Y undertook
to do it for Rs. 720. With the help of Z they
finished it in 5 days. How much is paid to Z?
(a) Rs. 360
(b) Rs. 120
(c) Rs. 240
(d) Rs. 300

(a) 2/15

(b) 4/15

(c) 1/15

(d) 4/90

GS

75. I travel the first part of my journey at 40 kmph

and the second part at 60 kmph and cover the
total distance of 240 km to my destination in 5
hours. How long did the first part of my journey
last?
(a) 4 hours
(b) 2 hours
(c) 3 hours

(d) 2 hours 24 minutes

79. A predator is chasing its prey. The predator

takes 4 leaps for every 6 leaps of the prey and
the predator covers as much distance in 2 leaps
as 3 leaps of the prey. Will the predator succeed
in getting its food?
(a) Yes
(b) In the 6th leap
(c) Never
(d) Cannot be determined
80. In a kilometre race, A can give B a start of 100
m or 15 seconds. How long does A take to
complete the race?
(a) 150 seconds
(b) 165 seconds
(c) 135 seconds
(d) 66.67 seconds

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