1. 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number?

Can you help the student find the answer?

12
21
6
18
Ans: 18

x/3=x/6+3

3x/18=3 => x= 54/3 => 18

1. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with
amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with
the same probability as A's chances of winning.
Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between X and Y, X the stronger
team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will
correctly pick the winner of the X-Y game?

Ans. (2/3)^2+(1-2/3)^2

2. A circular dart board of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart
at it and it hits the dartboard at some point X in the circle. What is the probability that X is
closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?

Ans. pi(r/2)^2/pi(r)^2

6 There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the
rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 .. in tank B. (At
the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If 1/32 of B’s
volume is filled after 3 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?
10 hours
7 hours
8 hours
9 hours

Ans : 8

A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of

20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the
dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the
probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle
than the periphery?
0.75
1
0.5
0.25

Solution: 0.25

Ans:CONSIDER THE RADIUS OF 0.5FT ON THE DARTBOARD (OF

TOTAL
RADIUS 1FT)
IF THE DART FALLS IN THIS RADIUS OR RATHER AREA GIVEN
BY
PI*0.5*0.5
THEN ITS CLOSER TO THE CENTRE
HENCE PROBABILITY=PI*0.5*0.5/(PI*1*1)
=0.25

5. 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words,
there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36,
a1}. Find the size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at
least one person in the set.

Ans. simply put n/3=36/3=12

6. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, he inserts 1 letter per
envelope randomly into the envelopes. What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted
in an improper envelope?

Ans. 0

7. Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from
the rest by a line; i.e. the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other
side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). Find the maximum value of n1(P) over all
configurations P of 19 points in the plane.

Ans. 19

8. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 35. For all values of n from 1 to 35,
statement n says "At most n of the statements on this sheet are false". Which statements are
true and which are false?

Ans. For this type f question

At least-half f the statements are true and remains false.
Exactly-n-1 statements are true and remains false
Almost-all statement r true. In my set this type f question. repeated 3 times.

13. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red and 25 yellow. The lights are
out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a
hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove.
How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour?
50
8
60
42

Ans. highest +middle +2

at the worst case she will pick up 32red

at the second case there is no red at worst case she
pick up
and may get 25 yellow
by third time there is only blue if she pick only 2
that
pair must be blue.

so 32+25+2=59

there is no option of 59 so even if she pick 3 blue

one pair
of blue will be their so 60 is write answer.

(or)
in first lady takes 32 gloves r red in color

she go for next pickup that may be yellow or blue

we assume is it yellow

after then she pickups 24 yellow gloves

only one yellow be there probability for getting blue

also

so 1+1 yellow +blue

so now there is no yellow and red gloves

so she pickup 2 gloves which must be in blue

32+24+2+2=60
ans :60...........

5) Shusan brought terlin cloth and rope (…some time waste data….) If
rope is 115metre long and cut 7 times then how many pieces you get?

a) 805 b) 804 c) 802 d) 806

Sol: 115*7times =805 pieces.

7) there are some 2 wheelrs and 4 wheelrs parked..(….some time

waste data….).Total number of wheels present is 140 then how many
cycle wheels are there?

a) 15 b) 18 c) 19 d) 14

Sol: check options

From a) 15*2=30 cycle wheels,

140-30=110 is not divisible by 4 so 15 wrong ans

From b) 18*2=36 cycle wheels

140-36=102 is divisible by 4 so 18 is correct ans

9) Pizza parlor provides pizzas…there were 2 toppings available initially

peperomi and salami but now they introduces 7 new item(….some time
waste data….).One person wishes to buy two different pizzas from the
new items. How many ways he can do that?

Sol: from new items n*(n-1); 7*6=42

10) In laboratory one person checks electronic equipment(….some

time waste data….). Voltage 10v and current is 4mA then the
resistance is ?

Sol: R= V/I = 10/4 = 2.5kv

12) The ratio of current age of X and Y is 6:5. Their age some days
after is 55 years. After how many years their age ratio will be 8:7 ?

Sol: 6x:5x

6x+5x = 55  x=5;

6x:5x=30:25;

(30+y)/(25+y)=8/7  y=10

2) Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that
all the remaining children are boys

Ans: 1/2^6 = 1/64

5) A toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes after every 4

min................. ..................................... .....................................
..... now train is defective and can make only 2
sounds................. .......................................................................
.......... Find probability that same sound is repeated 5 times
consecutively (1 OUT OF __)?
Ans: 1/32

1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2

7) 10 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many
hand shakes possible, if they are in no pair of cyclic sequence.

Ans-9