1. There are 2 systems for temperature measurement A,B.

System A System B
19 33
133 87
Find out the temp.when A=B.Ans.52.5 degree
Soln:Take 2 consts.A,B.
A+19B=33 and A+133B=87. Find Out A,B.Final eqn A+Bt=t.

2. There is a circle whose diameter is equal to the length of a chess board . If that is put
on the chessboard how many complete squares will be in the circle.

Ans.: It can be done both by calculation and graphical method.

Answer is 32. Draw a square inside the circle.

No: of square (area of inner square)/(area of single square of chess)

3. A grass field of 120-sq. meter bounded by a equilateral triangular compound. Three

goats tied up with ropes that can just touch the opposite line. A goat can eat all grass
which it only gets, half of that two can eat , and one third of that three can eat. How much
a goat can eat? (Mark 2)
ans.: one-third i.e. 40-sq meter.

4.Find the values of each of the alphabets.

NOON
SOON
+MOON
----------
JUNE

Ans: 9326

5. A car is travelling at a uniform speed. The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit
number. After travelling for an hour the driver sees another milestone with the same
digits in reverse order. After another hour the driver sees another milestone containing the
same two digits. What is the average speed of the driver.

Ans: 45 kmph

6. There N stations on a railroad. After adding X stations on the rail route 46 additional
tickets have to be printed. Find N and X.
Ans. x=2 and N=11

Let initially, N(N-1) = t

After adding, (N+X)(N+X-1) = t+46
By trail and error method (4 marks)

7. Everyday in his business a merchant had to weigh amounts from 1 kg to 121 kgs, to the
nearest kg.What are the minimum number of weight required and how heavy should they
be?

Ans: .The minimum number is 5 and they should weigh 1,3,9,27 and 81 kgs.

8. Sometime after 10:00 PM a murder took place.

A witness claimed that the clock must have stopped at the time of the shooting.
It was later found that the postion of both the hands were the same but their positions had
interchanged.
Tell the time of the shooting (both actual and claimed).
Ans: Time of shooting = 11:54 PM
Claimed Time = 10:59 PM

9. I bought a car with a peculiar 5 digit numbered licence plate which on reversing could
still be read.
On reversing value is increased by 78633.Whats the original number if all digits were
different?
Ans: Only 0 1 6 8 and 9 can be readupside down.So on rearranging these digits we get
the answer as 10968

10. 4.a certain person has to select 5% of the papers given to him.so he chooses his own
method and sorts such that he picks the 1st one leaves the 2nd then picks the 3rd and
leaves the next 2 and then picks the next and leaves the next 3 and then picks the next and
so on.he sees he picks the last paper from the list and ultimately picks exactly 5% of the
papers from the given list.how many papers does he pick?
Ans) 39

11. Aunt cynthia and uncle harry go shopping.uncle harry buys a hat and a coat for
15.aunt cynthia's dress costs as much as uncle harry's hat.aunt cynthia's hat costs 1 less
than uncle harry's coat.while going back aunt cynthia tells uncle harry "if we had divided
our hat money differently such that my hat cost 1.5 times that of yours then we both
would have spent the same amount of money" then uncle harry says"in that case how
much would my hat have cost".wat is the answer to uncle harry;s question and how much
money did they spend together?
Ans)6 and 29
16. The captain of the pirates comes home after 6 years of
prison and says i was 5 times older than my son when i
started my prison term but now i am only 3 times as old as
he is when my son gets twice as old as he is now I
will be twice as old as him how old was the captain when his
son was born?

Ans. 24 years (sure)

17. the time now is 1/4 the time from midnight and 1/2 the time from
now to midnight what is the time now? Ans 12/5 hr

18. . punchered tyre question. A guy is going on to a city at a constsnt

speed for 2 hrs, his tyre gets punchered aftered it takes him 10mins
to change the tyre, he then goes at a constant speed @30mph for rest
of the distance, on reaching the destination he finds himself 30mins
late and comments " if the tyre hat punchered 30miles later(i think)
i would have been only 15mins late "
find the distance between the two cities

ans 140 miles

17. Given that April 1 is tuesday.

A, B, C are 3 persons told that their farewell party was on

A - May 8, thursday
B - May 10,tuesday
C - June 5, friday

Out of A, B, C only one made a completetly true statement concerning date,day and
month
The other told two one told the day right and the other the date right..
What is correct date, month, day.

Ans: B - (May 10) SUNDAY

C - June 6 (Friday). (5 marks)

18. 14. Next number in the series is

1 , 2 , 4 , 13 , 31 , 112 , ?
Ans: 224.
No number has digits more than 4. All of them are 1 , 2, 4, 8 , 16 , 32 , 64
converted to numbers in base 5