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Aptitude Class Questions #01

(Year 2019)

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1. University of Delhi has enrolled nine PhD candidates: Sanjay, Prachi,
Mukesh Manisha,
Mukesh, Manisha Arbaz,
Arbaz Surbhi,
Surbhi Anwar,
Anwar Akram,
Akram Arnold
- Arbaz and Akram were enrolled on the same day as each other,
and no one else was enrolled that day.
- Prachi and Surbhi were enrolled on the same day as each other,
other
and no one else was enrolled that day.
- On each of the other days of hiring, exactly one candidate was
enrolled.
enrolled
- Manisha was enrolled before Sanjay.
- Anwar was enrolled before Mukesh.
- Mukesh was enrolled after Akram but before Manisha.
Manisha
- Surbhi was enrolled after both Arnold and Sanjay.
- Sanjay was enrolled before Arnold.
Wh were the
Who th last
l t two
t candidates
did t to t be
b enrolled?
ll d?
(a) Sanjay and Surbhi (b) Surbhi and Prachi
(c) Sanjay and Prachi (d) Manisha and Arnold

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Ans 1. (b)

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2. Kapil and Lala work for a department. Kapil can finish a
certain job in 30 days. Lala can finish
f the same job in
45 days. A project was taken by the department and
K il was made
Kapil d superior
i tot Lala.
L l This
Thi move from
f th
the
department was not liked by Lala. So Lala did not work
f 15 days.
for d Fi d the
Find th total
t t l number
b off days
d th entire
the ti
work was completed if Lala works at his normal speed
after 15 days from the starting date?

(a) 22 (b) 24

(c) 36 (d) 19

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Ans 2. (b)

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3. Two persons in their respective divisions were involved
in the harvesting of wheat grains.
grains One division had an
avg output of 21 tons from a hectare and the other
division which had 12 hectares of land less,
division, less dedicated
to wheat grains, got 25 tons of wheat grains from a
hectare. As a result, the second division harvested 300
tons of wheat grains more than the first. How many
tons of wheat grains did the first division harvest?

(a) 3000 (b) 3100

(c) 3200 (d) 3150

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Ans 3. (d)

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4. A visitor wants to visit 3 or more of the 5 major cities in
India:

Bhopal Indore,
Bhopal, Indore Raipur,
Raipur Kota,
Kota Nagpur.
Nagpur In how many
ways can he plan his tour such that Bhopal is always
i l d d? Two
included? T plans
l off the
h tour are different
diff if the
h cities
ii
in the tour or the order of the cities are different.

(a) 2! + 5! (b) 5! + (4x4!) + (6x3!)

(c) 4! + 5! + 3! (d) 5(4! +3! +2!)

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Ans 4. (b)

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5. A 3 x 3 mesh is colored using yellow and orange colors
such that if we rotate the mesh about its center in the
plane by 180 degrees, the mesh looks the same. The
number of ways to color the mesh this way is:

( ) 32
(a)

((b)) 128

(c) 64

(d) 96

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Ans 5. (a)

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6. Kushal divided 50 into 2 parts such that the sum of
their reciprocal is 1/12, we get the parts as

(a) 36,
36 24

(b) 14, 28

(c) 36, 14

(d) 20, 30

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Ans 6. (d)

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7. The letters in the word EATING are permuted in all
possible ways and arranged in the alphabetical order.
Find the word at position 27 in the permuted
alphabetical order

( ) AGETNI
(a)

((b)) AGENIT

(c) AGETIN

(d) AGENTI

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Ans 7. (b)

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8. The total number of trainees in 3 batches of a company
is 333. The number of trainees in batches X and Y are
in the ratio 3 : 5 and those in batches Y and Z are in
the ratio 7 : 11. Find the number of trainees in the
batch that had the highest number of trainees.
trainees

(a) 73 (b) 165

(c) 110 (d) 160

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Ans 8. (b)

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9. 5 people need to travel in a 5-seater car. There are a
driver's seat and a passenger seat in the front and
three passenger seats in the back: a left seat, a middle
seat, and a right seat. Two of the people are children
and can sit only in the back.
back One of the three adults is
busy reading a novel and refuses to drive. In how
many ways can they get seated?

(a) 12 (b) 6

(c) 24 (d) 18

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Ans 9. (c)

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10. 16 cricket teams play in a match. They are first divided
into four groups, each of four teams. In each group
each team plays each other once. The best two teams
from each group then play in a knockout match (when
a team loses a game,
game it is eliminated) to decide the
overall winner. How many matches must be played?

(a) 31 (b) 19

(c) 21 (d) 29

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Ans 10. (a)

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11. In a library 20% of books are in English, 33.33% are in
Hindi and the remaining books are in Urdu.
Urdu Among the
Hindi books 75% are fiction books and the rest are
non-fiction
non fiction. Among the non fiction books 10% are
biographies and 20% are autobiographies, the rest are
books on society, y arts and culture. Among g the
autobiographies there are 20 books written by women
which comprises 40% of the autobiographical novels.
How many books are there in the library in total?

(a) 2500 (b) 3000

(c) 5000 (d) 2000

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Ans 11. (b)

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12. Before Eesha started a three-hour drive, her car's
odometer reading was 29792, a palindrome. At her
destination, the odometer reading was another
palindrome. If Eesha never exceeed the speed limit of
75 KM per hour,
hour which of the following was her
greatest possible average speed?

(a) 104/3 (b) 211/3

(c) 101/3 (d) 213/3

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Ans 12. (b)

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13. In the class of 40 students, 30 speak Hindi and 20
speak English. What is the lowest possible number of
students who speak both the languages?

(a) 20

(b) 15

(c) 5

(d) 10

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Ans 13. (d)

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14. Two labours, one young and one old, live together and
work at the same field. It takes 20 mins for the young
man to walk to field. The old man takes 30 mins for the
same distance. When will the young man catch up with
the old man if the old man starts at 10:00 am and the
young man starts at 10:05 am?

(a) 10:25AM (b) 10:15AM

(c) 10:30AM (d) 10:00AM

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Ans 14. (b)

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15. Consider all arrangements of the digits 1, 2 and 3. We
will say that a hit has been scored if at least one digit
occurs in its proper position in the arrangement, i.e. if 1
occurs in the first position or 2 in the second position or
3 in the third position.
position In how many of these
arrangements is a hit scored?

(a) 1 (b) 4

(c) 3 (d) 2

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Ans 15. (b)

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16. 2 equilateral triangles of side 12 cm are placed one on
top of another, such that a 6 pointed star is formed. If
the six vertices lie on a circle what is the area of the
circle not enclosed by the star?

( ) 62
(a)

((b)) 68

(c) 67

(d) 78

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Ans 16. (b)

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17. If a orange and a mango together cost Rs. 12.00, an
onion and a orange cost Rs. 4.00 and a mango cost Rs.
8.00 more than an onion or a orange then which of the
following can be the price of a orange?

( ) Rs
(a) R 3

((b)) Rs 4

(c) Rs 2

(d) Rs 5

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Ans 17. (c)

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18. Two nonadjacent vertices of a rectangle are (4, 3) and
(-4, -3), and the coordinates of the other two vertices
are integers. The number of such rectangles is:

(a) 4

(b) 5

(c) 3

(d) 2

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Ans 18. (b)

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19. Two alloys A and B are composed of two basic
elements.
l Th ratios
The i off the
h compositions
ii off the
h two
basic elements in the two alloys are 5 : 3 and 1 : 2,
respectively.
ti l A new alloy
ll X is
i formed
f d by
b mixing
i i the
th two
t
alloys A and B in the ratio 4 : 3.

What is the ratio of the composition of the two basic


elements in alloy X?

(a) 5:2 (b) 4:3

( ) 2:3
(c) 23 (d) 1:1
11

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Ans 19. (d)

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20. The Savings of an employee equals Income minus
Expenditure. If their Incomes ratio is 1 : 2 : 3 and their
Expenses ratio is 3 : 2 : 1, then what is the order of the
employees A, B, and C in the increasing order of the
size of their savings?

(a) A > C > B

(b) C > B > A

(c) A > B > C

(d) B > A > C

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Ans 20. (b)

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21. Each year, funds A and B grow by a particular percentage
based on the following policy of the investment company:
1) The allowed percentages of growths on the two funds are
20% and 30%.
2) The growth percentages of the two funds are not the
same in any year.
3) No fund will have the same percentage growth in any two
consecutive years.
Bob invested equal amounts into funds A and B. In the first
year, fund B grew by 30%. After 3 years, how many times
greater is the value of fund B than the value of the fund A?
(a) 1.2 (b) 13/12
(c) 1 (d) 12/13

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Ans 21. (b)

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22. Selling 12 candies at a price of $10 yields a loss of a%.
Selling 12 candies at a price of $12 yields a profit of
a%. What is the value of a?

(a) 11/1100

(b) 11/100

(c) 100/11

(d) 10

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Ans 22. (c)

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23. The total income of Mr. Teng in the years 2003, 2004,
and 2005 was $36,400. His income increased by 20%
each year. What was his income in 2005?

(a) 10,000

(b) 8,800

(c) 14,400
14 400

(d) 5,600

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Ans 23. (c)

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24. One day, Mr. Richards started 30 minutes late from
home and reached his office 50 minutes late, while
driving 25% slower than his usual speed. How much
time in minutes does Mr. Richards usually take to
reach his office from home?

(a) 80

(b) 60

(c) 40

(d) 20

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Ans 24. (b)

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25. Katrina has a wheat business. She purchases wheat
f
from a local
l l wholesaler
h l l at a particular
i l cost per pound.
d
The price of the wheat at her stores is $3 per pound.
H faulty
Her f lt spring
i balance
b l reads
d 0.9
0 9 pounds
d for
f a pound.
d
Also, in the festival season, she gives a 10% discount
on the wheat.
heat She found
fo nd that she made neither a profit
nor a loss in the festival season. At what price did
Katrina purchase the wheat from the wholesaler?

(a) 3 (b) 2.7

(c) 2.5 (d) 2.43

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Ans 25. (d)

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26. A car traveled 65% of the way from Town A to Town B
at an average speed of 65 mph. The car traveled at an
average speed of v mph for the remaining part of the
trip. The average speed for the entire trip was 50 mph.
What is v in mph?

(a) 35

(b) 65

(c) 50

(d) 45

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Ans 26. (a)

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27. A survey of n people in the town of Eros found that
50% of them preferred Brand A. Another survey of 100
people in the town of Angie found that 60% preferred
Brand A. In total, 55% of all the people surveyed
together preferred Brand A.
A What is the total number of
people surveyed?

(a) 100 (b) 50

(c) 200 (d) 150

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Ans 27. (c)

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28. The factorial of a non-negative integer n, denoted by n!,
is the product of all positive integers less than or equal
to n. For example 5! is 5*4*3*2*1 = 120. The sum of
the series 1(1!) + 2(2!) + 3(3!) + .... + 2012 (2012!) is:

( ) None
(a) N off these
h

((b)) 2013! + 1

(c) 2013! – 1

(d) 2012! + 1

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Ans 28. (c)

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29. After an election, the newly constituted Geocity planning office is
exploring the use of hollow cylinders for water towers, and have built a
model in their office. The model is a hollow, open (no top) right cicular
cylinder (with negligibly thin walls), as shown in the figure below. An
intelligent bug is sitting at the point A in the figure on the outside of the
cylinder,
li d andd a drop
d off honey
h i accidentally
is id t ll dropped
d d att point
i t B
(diametrically opposite to the bug. but inside the
cylinder, and at a different distance from the top).
The bus crawls to the honey on the outside
and the inside of the cylinder by the shortest
path. If the circumference of the top of the
cylinder is 78 cm,
cm d = 27 cm, cm and h = 53 cm,
cm
then what is the distance (in cm) crawled by the
bug before reaching the honey? The answer is
rounded to the nearest integer g
(a) 80 (b) 119
(c) 89 (d) 100

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Ans 29. (c)

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30. A box has 13 white chips, 7 blue chips and 6 green
chips. What is the probability that, if 2 chips are drawn
from the box in succession, one is blue and the other is
white?

( ) 7/50
(a) / 0

((b)) 7/25

(c) 8/30

(d) 20/26

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Ans 30. (b)

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