Infosys Placement Papers 2011

Directions (Q. 1-7): In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers 1), 2), 3), 4) and 5). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the same sequence to make it meaningfully complete. 1. A nation that loses the _______ of honesty loses its __________. 1) power, will 2) appeal, charisma 3) dictum, ground 4) stamina, courage 5) virtue, soul 2. If one gets rid of the government officials and politicians from the _____ of economic activities, corruption will be _____. 1) hub, balanced 2) nexus, reprimanded 3) gear, eliminated 4) genre, alleviated 5) sphere, reduced 3. The principal aim of a socialist state is to ____ _______ in income and status and standards of life. 1) abolish, poverty 2) curb, menace 3) eliminate, inequality 4) check, gulf 5) minimise, standards 4. To fight natural calamities wisdom requires that we ________ crises and _______ for them. 1) apprehend, tackle 2) anticipate, prepare 3) hamper, secure 4) address, evolve 5) sense, deviate 5. This collection of essays has _________ beyond the traditional ______ of a versatile economist. 1) ventured, domain 2) marked, line 3) performed, performance 4) sold, copyright 5) held, charisma 6. It is quite true that when the whole economy is in ________, raising the rate of interest has other ________. 1) seize, burdens

2) shambles, dimensions 3) jeopardy, glimpse 4) distress, implications 5) swing, justification 7. In a democracy, it is essential that ______ voices on one extreme or the other should exist as part of the system of checks and _____. 1) concerned, pressure 2) dissenting, balances 3) confronting, pranks 4) opposition, whims 5) eager, fancies Directions (Q. 8-13): Study the following table and answer accordingly: The following table shows the marks obtained by six students in six different subjects. Stu./Sub. History(100) Maths(200) English(150) Biology(150) Econo.(100) Hindi(150) Ankit 62 162 113 30 75 90 Sana 59 118 103 38 72 107 Ramar 54 173 97 26 79 105 Sumantra 69 106 100 36 68 118 Joseph 68 109 109 32 75 113 Sharbani 72 143 76 40 64 103 8. Which two students have got equal marks in all subjects together? 1) Ankit-Joseph 2) Joseph- Ramar 3) Sana- Sumantro 4) Sana- Sharbani 5) Ankit-Sharbani 9. What is the approximate ratio between the sum of percentages of marks obtained by Ramar in History and Hindi and percentage marks obtained by Sharbani in Maths? 1) 7:4 2) 4:7 3) 7:5 4) 8:5 5) 5:9 10. Percentage of marks obtained by Sumantro in Economics is what percent more/less as a percentage of the percentage marks obtained by Ankit in Maths? 1) 15% 2) 10% 3) 13%

4) 19% 5) 23% 11. Percentage of marks obtained by Joseph in all subjects together is 1) 63.43% 2) 67.46% 3) 70.43 4) 60.59% 5) 73.43% 12. The marks obtained by Sumantro in Hindi is what per cent more than the marks obtained Sana is English? 1) 12.34% 2) 10.87% 3) 14.56% 4) 16.43% 5) 17.89% 13. What should come in place of question mark (?) in the following equation? 13 + 5 ? = 14 1)4 2)4 3)4 4)5 5) None of these Directions (Q. 14-25): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate words. The earth is not only the 51 heritage of all humankind but also the ultimate 52 of life. By overexploiting its 53 we are 54 the very 55 of our own life. All around signs 56 of the destruction 57 by human activity and of the 58 of nature. Therefore, the protection and 59 of the earth is not a question of morality or ethics but a question of own 60 . How we 61 to this challenge will 62 not only this generation but many generations to come. 14. 1) cultural 2) common 3) historical 4) established 5) initial 15. 1) destiny

2) sparkle 3) principle 4) source 5) goal 16. 1) burden 2) capacity 3) resources 4) nature 5) reserves 17. 1) undermining 2) stressing 3) forcing 4) seeking 5) evading 18. 1) hope 2) basis 3) unity 4) solidarity 5) growth 19. 1) compete 2) glitter 3) stages 4) marvel 5) abound 20. 1) caused 2) unfold 3) negligence 4) unfolded 5) highlighted 21. 1) casualty 2) abuse 3) load

4) degradation 5) harshness 22. 1) infrastructure 2) respect 3) conservation 4) beautification 5) generation 23. 1) doom 2) survival 3) rationality 4) prestige 5) intelligence 24. 1) cater 2) forward 3) confront 4) tolerate 5) respond 25. 1) review 2) reprimand 3) engulf 4) affect 5) deprive ANSWERS : 1. (5) 2. (5) 3. (3) 4. (2) 5. (1) 6. (4) 7. (2) 8. (3) 9. (1) 10. (4) 11. (2) 12. (3) 13.(3) 14. (2) 15. (4) 16. (3) 17. (1) 18. (2) 19. (5) 20. (1) 21. (4) 22. (3) 23. (2) 24. (5) 25. (4)

1.My neighbour has seven children.Every brother has equal no. of brothers and siters ,but each sister has twice as many brothers as sisters? Ans: 4,3 2.There are 11 more animals than birds in a pet shop.If there are as many birds as animals and if there are as many animals as birds the no. of legs is 4/5 of the original.Howmany birds and animals are there? Ans: 22,11 3.one soap can be made out of the scraps obtained while preparing 11 soaps.How many soaps can be prepared out of the scrap obtained out of 251 soaps.(Take all possibilities) Ans: 25 4.Find out the five digit number whose first digit is three times that of its fifth digit,the fourth digit is four more than the second digit,the third digit is three less than the second digit, and there are 3 pairs of digits such that each sum is 11? Ans: 65292 5. 2XX 3XX 5XX X4X XX3 XXXXX Find out the Xs and seven is not there in the calculation. Ans: 281332 6.There are 5 burglars and once went to a bakery to rob it obviously The first guy ate 1/2 of the total bread and 1/2 of the bread. The second guy ate 1/2 of the remaining and 1/2 of the bread. The third guy ,fourth guy and fifth guy did the same.After fifth guy there is no bread left out.How many bread are there? Ans:31 7.The main line train starts at 5.00AM and the harbour line train starts at 5.02AM.Each train has the frequency of 10 minutes.If a guy goes in the morning at a random time what is the probability

of he getting main line train? Ans: 0.8 8.There is 6633m rectangular area .Ram is 11/8 times faster than Krishna.Both of them started walking at opposite ends and they met at some point then,Ram said See you in the other endThen they continued walking.After some time Ram thought he will have tea so he turned back walked back 15 meters then he changed his mind again and continued walking .How much Krishna has travelled by the time they meet? 9.A farmer has C chickens.A sack of feed comes for 9 days.As the feed cost is increasing the farmer sells some chickens and retains 12 chicken.If he reduces the feed quantity by 10% .Then he observes that the feed comes for 30 days.What is C? Ans:36 10.Escalator Problem. A person walking takes 26 steps to come down on a escalator and it takes 30 seconds for him for walking.The same person while running takes 18 second and 34 steps.How many steps are there in the escalator? Ans:46 Anal Paper: 1. There are nine cards arranged in three rows and three columns. Each row contains atleast one green card.There are three yellow corners.Red is either in the first row or second row.There are 2 greens in the 3rd column and 2 blues in the second row.What is the arrange ment of the cards Ans: Y R G BBG YGY 2. There are eight cards.Each card has colour on both sides.There are 2 blue 2 red 2 green 2 yellow

1) There are two balls touching each other circumferencically. The radius of the big ball is 4 times the diameter of the small ball.The outer small ball rotates in anticlockwise direction circumferencically over the bigger one at the rate of 16 rev/sec. The bigger wheel also rotates anticlockwise at Nrev/sec. what is N for the horizontal line from the centre of small wheel always is horizontal. 2) 1 2 3 4 +3455 4689 -2345 2344 +1254 3698 Q) Strike off any digit from each number in seven rows (need not be at same place) and combine the same operations with 3 digit numbers to get the same addition. After this strike off another digit from all and add all the No.s to get the same 2 digit No. perform the same process again with 1 digit No.s. Give the no.s in 7 rows at each stage. 3) there is a safe with a 5 digit No. The 4th digit is 4 greater than second digit, while 3rd digit is 3 less than 2nd digit. The 1st digit is thrice the last digit. There are 3 pairs whose sum is 11. Find the number. Ans) 65292. 4) there are 2 guards Bal and Pal walking on the side of a wall of a wearhouse(12m X 11m) in opposite directions. They meet at a point and Bal says to Pal See you again in the other side. After a few moments of walking Bal decides to go back for a smoke but he changes his direction again to his previous one after 10 minutes of walking in the other(opposite) direction remembering that Pal will be waiting for to meet.If Bal and Pal walk 8 and 11 feet respectively, how much distance they would have travelled before meeting again. 5) xxx)xxxxx(xxx 3xx xxx

x3x xxx 3xx Q) Find the 5 digit No. Hint: 5 is used atleast once in the calculation. 6) Afly is there 1 feet below the ceiling right across a wall length is 30m at equal distance from both the ends. There is a spider 1 feet above floor right across the long wall eqidistant from both the ends. If the width of the room is 12m and 12m, what distance is to be travelled by the spider to catch the fly? if it takes the shortest path. 7) Ramesh sit around a round table with some other men. He has one rupee more than his right person and this person in turn has 1 rupee more than the person to his right and so on, Ramesh decided to give 1 rupee to his right & he in turn 2 rupees to his right and 3 rupees to his right & so on. This process went on till a person has no money to give to his right. At this time he has 4 times the money to his right person. How many men are there along with Ramesh and what is the money with poorest fellow. 8)Question related to probabilities of removing the red ball from a basket,given that two balls are removed from the basket and the other ball is red. The basket contains blue,red,yellow balls. 9)Venkat has 1boy&2daughters.The product of these children age is 72. The sum of their ages give the door numberof Venkat.Boy is elder of three.Can you tell the ages of all the three.

ANALYTICAL 1)L:says all of my other 4 friends have money M:says that P said that exact one has money N:says that L said that precisely two have money O:says that M said that 3 of others have money. P:Land N said that they have money. all are liers.Who has money&who doesnt have?

2)A hotel has two,the east wing and the west wing.some east wing rooms but not all have an ocean view(OV).All WW have a harbour view(HV).The charge for all rooms is identical, except as follows * Extra charge for all HV rooms on or above the 3rd floor * Extra charge for all OV rooms except those without balcony * Extra charge for some HV rooms on the first two floor&some EW rooms without OV but having kitchen facilities. (GRE modrl Test 3-question 1J-22) 3)Post man has a data of name surname door no.pet name of 4 families. But only one is correct for each family.There are a set of statements &questions. 4)4 couples have a party.Depending on the set of statements,find who insulted whom and who is the host of the party. 5)5 women given some of their heights(tall,medium,short)Hair( long, plainted),stards(Black or Brown), sari,2 medium,2-short.Tall->no sari.Plainted->medium.Answer the combinations. 1) A person has to go both Northwards&Southwards in search of a job. He decides to go by the first train he encounters.There are trains for every 15 min both southwards and northwards.First train towards south is at 6:00 A.M. and that towards North is at 6:10 .If the person arrives at any random time,what is the probability that he gets into a train towards North. 2) A person has his own coach&whenever he goes to railway station he takes his coach.One day he was supposed to reach the railway station at 5 Oclock.But he finished his work early and reached at 3 Oclock. Then he rung up his residence and asked to send the coach immediately. He came to know that the coach has left just now to tje railway station. He thought that the coach has left just now to the railway station.He thought that he should not waste his time and started moving towards his residence at the speed of 3mi/hr.On the way,he gets the coach and reaches home at 6 oclock.How far is his residence from railway station. 3)Radha,Geeta&Revathi went for a picnic.After a few days they forgot the date,day and month on which they went to picnic.Radha said that it was onThursday,May 8 and Geeta said that it was Thursday May 10.Revathi said Friday Jun 8.Now one of them told all things wrongly,others one thing wrong and the last two things wrongly.If April 1st is tuesday what is the right day,date and month?

1) Find the next term in series 1,5,14,30,55,91,140,___ Ans:- 204 4 marks 2)I went to the market and spend 10% f what I had then went tot the second shop and spend 10% again .When I came back home I realized that I had dropped my purse .When I checked my pay slips the amount that I had spend were 19Rs.What t was the amount that was in the purse when I dropped it.. Ans:- 81 Rs. 2 marks

3) There is a five digit number. The fifth digit is one fourth of the third digit and one half of the fourth digit. Third digit is one half of the first digit. second digit is 5 more than the fifth digit. What is that 5 digit no.? Ans:86421 4 marks 4) There are three associates and they have some money in a room. But no one is believing others alone. so, a) No one should be able to open the room alone. b) When any 2 persons are combined they should be able to open the room. What is the minimun no. of locks & keys required.? Ans:- Didnt attempt 5 marks 5)there are two towers 1 and 2 of 200 and 150 ft heiht and 250ft is the distance between them.Two birds traveling at the same velocity from the top of the two towers reach for a grain placed on ground between the two towers at same time, what is the distance of this grain from tower1. 6 marks 6)One man had 64 barrels and had to pay 40francs and 5 barrels for excise duty.Anothe man who had 20 barrels had to pay 2barrels for excise duty but got 40 francs in change.What was the excise duty on each barrel and what was the cost of one barrels belongings. Ans. 10 and 110 4 marks Ans:- 90 feet.

7)There were two barbers in a shop.Each one takes 15 min for haircut and 5 mins. For shave.Three customers came to the shop and wanted haircut as well as shave each.What is the minimum time in which both the barbers can finish the work.. Ans:- 30 mins my answer was 35 mins( one silly mistake in making sequence) 4 marks

8)A brigade had 9 soldiers carrying 15 fruits each.Their chief had some fruits as well.The average of the whole brigade was 9 less than what the chief individually had.What was the total number of fruits that the brigade had. Ans:- 160 but I wrote the fruits that the chief had was 25 in the main answer(silly mistake). 3 marks 9)A lady bought two garden slots for less than 10 dollars.She bought some no of yards of each both equal to the the avg.price of them per yard.The difference between them was 2.15 dollars in cents.What were the no. Of yards of each that were bought. Ans:- Didnt attempt 6 marks 10)There were 4 persons a,b,c,d each participating in 4 contests of french,English,maths,logic. a thought d won logic award,b thought c won French award,c thought b didn win maths award, d thought a won English award. Later on the results of maths and logic came out to be correct and other two false. So who won which award. My Ans:A won french B won english C won maths D won logic 6 marks 11) there were 4 persons working in an organization a ,b,c,d. They have post president,manager,accountant,cashier,not in the same order. Cashier always play with president and always defeats him. Cashier and manager are better players then accountant. c lives next door to d and plays chess with him. b only lives next to president. So who hold which position. My Ans:C was manager A C D B is possible arrangement of houses B was cashier A was accountant D was president 6 marks

1. From a vessel, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates on the first day. On the second day 3/4th of the remaining liquid evaporates. What fraction of the volume is present at the end of the second day. Ans: 50% 2. An orange glass has orange juice and white glass has apple juice both of equal volumes. 50ml of the orange juice is taken and poured into the apple juice. 50ml from the white glass is poured into the orange glass. Of the two quantities, the amount of apple juice in the orange glass and the amount of orange juice in the white glass, which one is greater and by how much? Ans: The two quantities are equal 3. There is a 4 inch cube painted on all sides. This is cut down into of 1 inch cubes. What is the no of cubes which have no pointed sides. Ans: 8 4. Sam and Mala have a conversation. Sam says I am certainly not over 40 Mala says I am 38 and you are atleast 5 years older than me Now Sam says you are atleast 39 All the statements by the two are false. How old are they really? Ans: Mala = 38 yrs Sam = 41 yrs. 5. Ram Singh goes to his office in the city, every day from his suburban house. His driver Gangaram drops him at the railway station in the morning and picks him up in the evening. Every evening Ram Singh reaches the station at 5 O Clock. Gangaram also reaches at the same time. One day Ram Singh started early from his office and came to the station at 4 O Clock. Not wanting to wait for the car he starts walking home. Mangaram starts at normal time, picks him up on the way and takes him back house, half an hour early. How much time did Ram Singh walk?

6. In a railway station, there are two trains going. One in the harbour line and one in the main line, each having a frequency of 10 minutes. The main line service starts at 5 oclock and the harbour line starts at 5.02A.M. A man goes to the station every day to catch the first train that comes. What is the probability of the man catching the first train? Ans: 0.8 7. A family X went for a vacation. Unfortunately it rained for 13 days when they were there. But whenever it rained in the mornings, they had clear afternoons and vice versa. In all they enjoyed 11 mornings and 12 afternoons. How many days did they stay there totally? Ans: 18 8. A survey was taken among 100 people to find their preference of watching T.V. programmes. There are 3 channels. Given the no of people who watch at least channel 1 at least channel 2 at least channel 3 no channels at all atleast channels 1and 3 atleast channels 1 and 2 atleast channels 2 and 3 Find the no of people who watched all three. 9. Albert and Fernandes have two leg swimming race. Both start from opposite ends of the pool. On the first leg, the boys pass each other at 18 m from the deep end of the pool. During the second leg they pass at 10 m from the shallow end of the pool. Both go at constant speed but one of them is faster. Each boy rests for 4 seconds at the end of the first leg. What is the length of the pool? 10. Each alphabet stands for one digit in the following multiplication. THIS xIS XFXX

XXUX XXNXX What is the maximum value T can take? Ans: T max value = 4