Quantitative Aptitude

1. A batsman is out for 68 runs, which raises his average for the season from 36 to 38. How many
runs should the batsman have scored in that innings (in which he scored 68) to raise his average
to 42?
(a) 132 (b) 144 (c) 96 (d) 121

2. 27 female members left a club. As a result, the number of males became 50% more than the
number of remaining females. After wards 45 males left, the remaining males being 75% of the
number of remaining females. What was the initial number of females?
(a) 90 (b) 87 (c) 97 (d) 80

3. From 8 teachers and 10 students a committee of 6 is to be formed. How many will have at least
4 teachers in that committee?
(a) 3638 (b) 3710 (c) 3234 (d) 3738

4. A man purchases a certain number of articles at 20 a rupee and the same number at 30 a rupee.
He mixes them together and sells them at 48 for 2 rupees. What is his gain or loss percent in the
transaction?
(a) 1%, gain (b) 2%, loss
(c) 5%, gain (d) Neither gain or loss

5. A shopkeeper buys a certain article for Rs50 and gives a discount of 20% on the retail selling
price. In the process he makes a profit of Rs90. What is the retail price before discount?
(a) Rs160 (b) Rs210 (c) Rs185 (d) Rs175

6. A mans annual income is Rs3500. He pays no income tax on allowances. On the remainder he
pays Rs128 as income tax at 4%. What amount does he get as allowances?
(a) Rs250 (b) Rs300 (c) Rs280 (d) Rs320

7. A shopkeeper sells a shirt at a profit of 25% on the cost price. If the shopkeeper allows a
discount of 10% on this selling price the sales volume of the shirts will double. What is the ratio
of the new profit to the old profit?

(a) 6 : 5 (b) 3 : 2 (c) 5 : 3 (d) 1 : 1

8. What is the minimum number to be subtracted from 705 so that it becomes divisible by 18, 27
and 39?
(a) 7 (b) 5 (c) 3 (d) 12

9. If x y = 5 and x and y are both less than 100 and greater than 1, how many sets of x and y
are there such that both x and y are prime?
(a) 0 (b) 21 (c) 19 (d) 1

10. A gives B a start of 60 m. If A runs 13 m to Bs 9 m, how far will B run before A overtakes B?
(a) 135 m (b) 195 m (c) 225 m (d) 125 m
11. A man borrows a total sum of Rs12000 from two sources. To one he pays 12% and to the other
5% per annum simple interest. If the total interest paid by him for two years is Rs1620, how
much did he borrow at the lowest rate of interest?
(a) Rs4000 (b) Rs8000 (c) Rs3000 (d) Rs5000

12. The ratio of the factorial of three times a number to the product of factorial of that number and
factorial of twice the number is 15. What is the number?
(a) 6 (b)4 (c) 3 (d) 2
13. 13 people enter into a partnership. 11 of them bring in Rs45 each. The twelfth brings in Rs30
more than the average of all thirteen and the thirteenth brings Rs75. What is the total sum
brought in?
(a) Rs650 (b) Rs570 (c) Rs670 (d) Rs750

14. The price of sugar falls by 12%. How many quintals can be bought for the same money which
was sufficient to buy 44 quintals at the higher price?
(a) 54 (b) 50 (c) 38 (d) 48

15. A field can be ploughed in 16 days. If 18 more hectares of land is ploughed daily, the work will
be finished in 10 days. Find the area of the field.
(a) 480 hectares (b) 520 hectares (c) 440 hectares (d) 500 hectares

16. How much pure alcohol can be added to 700 ml of an 18% solution to make its strength 30%?
(a) 60 ml (b) 100 ml (c) 140 ml (d) 120 ml

17. A hemispherical bowl of internal diameter 54 cm contains liquid. The liquid is to be filled in
cylindrical bottles of radius 3 cm and height 9 cm. How many bottles are required to empty the
bowl?
(a) 221 (b) 343 (c) 81 (d) 243

18. How many numbers are there between 100 and 1000 such that 7 is at units place?
(a) 100 (b) 90 (c) 81 (d) 82

19. Find the chance of throwing a sum more than 15 in one throw with 3 dice?
(a) (1/36) (b) (5/216) (c) (5/108) (d) (11/216)

20. Two different numbers when divided by the same divisor left remainders of 11 and 21
respectively. And when their sum was divided by the same divisor, the remainder was 4. What
was the divisor?
(a) 36 (b) 32 (c) 14 (d) 28
 Data Interpretation
Questions 1-5 refer to the two graphs relating to Techno magazine.

1. Which of the following can be correctly deduced from the data? (Select ALL that apply)

A. The total number of Techno magazines printed over the given 6-month period was less than
200,000

B. In May approximately 28,000 copies of Techno magazine were sold

C. The average (arithmetic mean) monthly number of copies of Techno printed in this period
was less than 30,000

D. Both A &C.

2. Between which two of the months shown was there a twenty percent rise in online
advertising revenues?

A. Jan & Feb B.Feb & March C.March and April D.April and May E.May and June

3. If in February each magazine printed cost $1.50 to produce, which of the following is closest to
the fraction of the production costs that were covered by the advertising revenues from the
print version?

A. 1/5 B. 2/5 C.3/5 D. 4/5 E.9/10

4. The total advertising revenues (printed version + online version) were highest in which of the
following months?

A. February B. March C. April D. May E.June

5. During the six-month period shown, the median number of copies printed per month was most
nearly

A. 30,000 B. 29,000 C.28,000 D.25,000 E.22,000

Data Interpretation - 2

Questions 1-5 refer to the data given in the two figures relating to Pharmacom LLC.

6. According to the data provided, in 2005 the total expenditure (outgoings) on Advertising and
Sales and Distribution was closest to which of the following amounts?
A. $50,000,000 B. $35,000,000 C. $30,000,000 D. $5,000,000
E. $3,000,000

7. In how many of the years 2001-2006 did the ratio of expenditure (outgoings) on clinical trials to
the outgoings on other Research and Development exceed 1.0?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 3 D. 5 E. 6
8. What was the approximate dollar amount spent (outgoings) on clinical trials in 2005 by
Pharmacom?
A. 80 million B. 50 million C. 25 million D. 15 million
E. cannot be determined
 9. In which of the years shown was the amount Pharmacom spent on clinical trials less than 50
million dollars?
A. 6 B. 4 C. 2 D. 1 E. cannot be determined

10. If in 2006 Pharmacom spent the same dollar amount on administration (administration
outgoings) as in 2005, but the total outgoings increased by ten percent, approximately what
fraction of the total outgoings in 2006 would administration outgoings represent?
A. 1/2 B. 1/3 C. 1/4 D. 1/10 E. 1/20

Reasoning:

Directions (Q. 1 5): Study the following information and answer the questions given below:
In a certain code, the symbol for 0 (zero) is @ and for 1 is $. There are no other symbols for all other
numbers greater than one. The numbers greater than 1 are to be written only by using the two symbols
given above. The value of the symbol for 1 doubles itself every time it shifts one place to the left. Study
the following examples:
0 is written as @ 1 is written as $
2 is written as $@ 3 is written as $$
4 is written as $@@ and so on

1. Which of the following represents 14?

(a) $@@@ (b) $$$@ (c) $$@@ (d) $$@$

2. Which of the following numbers is represented by $$@@$$?

(a) 47 (b) 48 (c) 49 (d) 51

3. What is the average of $$$@@ and $$@@?

(a) $@@@@ (b) $$$$@ (c) $@$@@ (d) $@@$@

4. What is the value of [( $@ + $@ $@]$@?

(a) $@@$@ (b) $@$@$ (c) $$$ x $$ - $@ (d) ($$)$@

5. What is the value of [(8 + 16) (4 x 3)]3?

(a) $@@$ (b) $$@@ (c) $$$@ (d) $@@@

Directions (Q.6 10): Read the following set of information and then answer the questions that
follow:
(i) There is a group of six persons living in a four-storied building. The persons are A, B, C,
D, E and F. Each storey of the building has two flats; thus there are eight flats in all, two
of them being empty.
(ii) The heaviest of the group lives on top floor while the lightest lives on the ground floor.
(iii) C is heavier than B, who, in turn, is heavier than F.
(iv) E is lighter than D.
(v) One of the flats on the first floor is vacant while on the second floor is also vacant.
(vi) A is neither the heaviest nor the lightest.
(vii) There are only two people heavier than C; A is not one of them.
 (viii) B shares the floor with the heaviest of the group while C shares it with the lightest.

6. Who among the following is the heaviest of the group?

(a) D (b) C (c) A (d) Cannot say

7. Who does C share the floor with?

(a) F (b) E (c) A (d) Cannot say

8. On which floor does A live?

(a) Ground floor (b) First floor (c) Second floor (d) Cannot say

9. E and A live ..
(a) on the same floor (b) on two continuous floors
(c) with one floor between their floors (d) with two floors between their floors

10. Starting from the heaviest of the group, what is the rank of A in order of weight?
(a) fourth (b) fifth (c) sixth (d) fourth or fifth

Technical:

1. What is the output of the following program

#include<stdio.h>
void main(){
char a=250;
int expr;
expr= a+ !a + ~a + ++a;
printf("%d",expr);
}

A. 249
B. 250
C. 0
D. -6
E. Compilation Error

2. What will be output of following c code?

#include<stdio.h>
int main(){
int x=123;
int i={
printf("c" "++");
};
for(x=0;x<=i;x++){
 printf("%x ",x);
}
return 0;
}
A. C++

B. Error

C. C123

D. C++ 1 2 3

3. How many times the program will print Welcome?

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
printf("Welcome");
main();
return 0;
}
A. Infinite Times

B. 232767 times

C. 65535 times

D. Till Stack Overflows

4. How many bytes are occupied by near, far and huge pointers (DOS)?

A. near=2 far=4 huge=4 B. near=4 far=8 huge=8

C. near=2 far=4 huge=8 D. near=4 far=4 huge=8

5. Point out the error in the following program:

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
int a[] = {10, 20, 30, 40, 50};
int j;
for(j=0; j<5; j++)
{
printf("%d\n", a);
a++;
}
return 0;
}
A. Error: Declaration syntax B. Error: Expression syntax
C. Error: LValue required D. Error: Rvalue required

6. A machine took 200sec to sort 200 names, using bubble sort in 800 sec, it can approximately sort?

A. 400 names

B. 800 names

C. 750 names

D. 850 names

7. The number of the binary trees with 3 nodes which when traversed in post order gives the sequence
A,B,C is?

A. 3

B. 9

C. 7

D. 5

8. The post fix expression for *+ab-cd is?

A. ab+cd-*

B. abcd+-*

C. ab+cd*-

D. ab+-cd*

9. Object oriented inheritance models the

A. "is a kind of" relationship

B. "has a" relationship
C. "want to be" relationship
D. inheritance does not describe any kind of relationship between classes
E. contains of relationship.

10. Re-implementing an inherited method in a sub class to perform a different task from the parent class is
called

A. Binding
B. Transferring
C. Hiding
D. Coupling
E. extending.