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21. Rai is standing in the middle of a square field with side 27. Town D is 20 km to the West of town M. Town R is 15 km
2 2 km. He start walking diagonally towards North-East to the South of town D. Town K is to the East of town R
to the corner of the field. Halfway, he turns right and and at a distance of 15 km from the town M. Town K is in
reaches the far end of the field. Then, he turns right and what direction and at what distance from the town D?
starts walking. In the midway, he again turns right and (a) 25 km, South-West (b) 28 km, East
starts walking to the starting point from where he then (c) 30 km, South (d) 25 km, South-East
turns left and walks to reach the corner of the field. In
what direction and at what distance is Rai now from the 28. Karim walked 5 m towards North, took a left turn and
starting point? walked for 10 m. He then took a right turn and walked for 20
(a) North, 3 km (b) South, 2 km m and again took a right turn and walked 10 m. How far is he
then from the starting point and also in what direction?
(c) North-West, 3 km (d) South-West, 2 km
(a) 20 m, East (b) 15 m, South
22. Ram and Roy started from a place X. Ram went West and Roy
(c) 25 m, North (d) 30 m, West
went North, both travelling with the same speed. After some
time, both turned to the left and walked a few steps. They 29. Kunal walks 10 km towards North. From there he walks 6
again turned to the left and walked the same distance. Then km towards South. Then, he walks 3 km towards his left.
Ram turned 45º clockwise and Roy turned 45º anti-clockwise. How far and in which direction is he with reference to his
Which directions will they be facing now? starting point?
(a) South-East, North-East (a) 5 km, West (b) 7 km, West
(b) South-West, North-West (c) 6 km, East (d) 5 km, North-East
(c) South, North
30. The post office is 5 km to the East of my school while my
(d) West, East
house is 10 km to the South of my school. The market is to
23. W walked 40 m towards West took a left turn and walked the North of the post office. If the distance of the market
30 m. He, then, took a right turn and walked 20 m. He from the post-office is half the distance of my house from
again took a right turn and walked 30 m after which he the school, in which direction and how far is the market
once again turned right and walked one-third of the from the school?
previous distance. How far and in what direction is he
(a) North, 5 km (b) East, 6 km
now from the starting point?
(a) 40 m, West (b) 45 m, East (c) North-East, 5 2 km (d) South-West, 6 2 km
(c) 50 m, West (d) 50, South
SESSION – 4
24. Two buses start from the opposite points A and B, on the
CUBES
main road, 150 km apart. The first bus runs 25 km and takes
a right turn and then runs for 15 km. It then turns left and Directions for Q1 to Q5: Read the following passage and
runs for another 25 km and takes the direction to reach back answer the questions below.
the main road. In the meantime, the other bus runs 40 km
along the main road and then turns left to run 25 km. At this A solid block is formed by arranging some cubes of equal
stage, what is the distance between the two buses? dimensions, as shown in the figure below. The block is painted
(a) 70 km (b) 55 km (c) 60 km (d) 65 km pink on all of its surfaces except the base.

25. City Y is at a distance of 40 km to the East of city X which

is 20 km to the North of city Z. If the city P is 20 km South
of 2, then in which direction of Y is P? Also find the
distance between the cities P and Y.
(a) North, 50 km (b) East, 50 2 km

(c) South-East, 40 km (d) South-West, 40 2 km

26. Joe and Jane are both walking away from point ‘O’ in
opposite directions. Joe walked 2 m and Jane 3 m from it, 1. How many cubes have four faces coloured?
then Joe walked 5 m North while Jane walked 7 m South. (a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3
What is the distance between them now?
2. How many cubes have exactly three faces coloured?
(a) 6 m (b) 8 m (c) 13 m (d) 12 m
(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 11

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3. How many cubes have exactly two faces coloured? Directions for Q16 to Q20: Read the following passage and
(a) 9 (b) 11 (c) 18 (d) 15 answer the questions below.

4. How many cubes are not coloured on any face? A cube is having the dimensions of 30 x 30 x 30. There are
(a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 11 3 layers in both horizontal and vertical. We can rotate horizontal
layers by 360 in horizontal directions. And also vertical layers
5. How many cubes have only one face coloured?
by 360° in vertical direction.
(a) 22 (b) 24 (c) 25 (d) 27
Now,
Directions for Q6 to Q10: Read the following passage and (a) Top layer is painted with red.
answer the questions below. (b) Bottom layer is painted with orange.
(c) Yellow should come at left adjacent side of blue.
A cube is coloured orange on one face, pink on the opposite face,
(d) White is painted opposite to yellow.
brown on one face and silver on one face adjacent to the brown
(e) Green is painted opposite to blue.
face. The other two faces are left uncoloured. It is then cut into
125 smaller cubes of equal size. Note: [Rotate all the layers in your front view as per the
conditions given below.]
6. How many cubes have at least one face painted pink?
(1) Place red colour on top horizontal layer and make it as
(a) 1 (b) 9 (c) 16 (d) 25 face 1.
7. How many cubes are coloured silver on one face, orange (2) Take orange colour in bottom horizontal layer and keep
or pink on another face and have four uncoloured faces? it as face 6.
(a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 16 (3) Take yellow colour in your left view and name it as face 3.

8. How many cubes have all the faces uncoloured? (4) Keep the face opposite to face 3 as face 5[white].
(a) 24 (b) 36 (c) 48 (d) 64 (5) Face 2 will be having blue colour and keep it in your
right side view.
9. How many cubes are coloured orange on one face and
have the remaining faces uncoloured? 16. Rotate the face 2 layer by 180°. Now what colours will be
(a) 16 (b) 20 (c) 21 (d) 23 there in face 3?
(a) White & Orange (b) Yellow & White
10. How many cubes have at least two faces coloured? (c) Orange & White (d) Yellow & Green
(a) 16 (b) 20 (c) 21 (d) 23
17. Return back to the original position. Rotate face 3 by 90°
Directions for Q11 to Q15: Read the following passage and in anticlockwise direction. Rotate face 1 by 90° in
answer the questions below. clockwise direction. What are the colours in face 3?
(a) 1 Blue, 2 Green, 6 Yellow
A cube is having the dimensions of 30 x 30 x 30 cm3. Join two
cubes having the same dimensions with the previous one on any (b) 1 Orange, 2 Blue, 6 Yellow
two adjacent faces. Cut it to get a smaller number of cubes (c) 3 Orange, 6 Yellow
having dimensions of 10 x 10 x 10 cm3 after it was painted. (d) 1 Orange, 2 Green, 6 Yellow

11. How many cubes are not painted? 18. With the same position, rotate face 5 by 90° in
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 7 (d) 8 anticlockwise direction. What are the colours in face 1?
(a) 2 Blue, 4 Red & 3 Green
12. How many cubes are having 2 faces painted? (b) 4 White, 4 Red & 1 Green
(a) 18 (b) 24 (c) 28 (d) 25 (c) 1 White, 4 Red & 4 Green
13. How many cubes are having 1 face painted? (d) 4 Green, 4 White & 1 Red
(a) 28 (b) 18 (c) 30 (d) None of these 19. With the original position, rotate face 1 by 90°
anticlockwise direction then rotate face 6 by 180°. What
14. If we join one more cube of same dimensions on any
are the common colours in face 2 & face 3?
adjacent face, how many more no face painted cube will
(a) White & Green (b) Green & Yellow
be possible?
(c) Blue & Green (d) Yellow & Blue
(a) 10 (b) 11 (c) 3 (d) 2
20. What is the percentage of blue colour in face 2 with
15. What percentage of cubes are having 3 faces painted? respect to its original position?
(a) 12.32% (b) 12.30% (a) 33% (b) 37.75%
(c) 12.42% (d) 12.34% (c) 33.33% (d) 37%

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