Aptitude Questions 2011-2012 Test 4

1. The teacher is testing a student’s proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question.of a number is 3 more than of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student to find the answer?

a) 18

b) 21

c) 12

d) 6

2. A greengrocer was selling apple at a penny each, chickoos at 2 for a penny and peanuts at 3 for a penny. A father spent 7 penny’s and got the same amount of each type of fruit for each of his three children. What did each child get?

a) 1 apple, 2 chickoos, 1 peanut

b) 1 apple, 1 chickoo, 1 peanut

c) 1 apple, 2 chickoos, 2 peanuts

d) 1 apple, 3 chickoos, 2 peanuts

3. There are two water tanks A and B. A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one liter 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 liters, second hour it has 20 and so on) If of B’s volume is filled after 3 hours what is the total duration to fill it completely?

a) 7 hours

b) 9 hours

c) 10 hours

d) 8 hours

4. A hunter leaves his cabin early in the morning and walks one mile due south. Here he sees a bear and starts chasing it for one mile due east before he is able to shoot the bear. After shooting the bear, he drags it one mile due north back to his cabin where he started that morning. What color is the bear?

a) Brown

b) Black

c) White

d) Grey

5. There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, Woody and Mimosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and Mimosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except:

a) Balsamic and Lilac

b) Woody and Lemon

c) Mimosaic and Woody

d) Mimosaic and Lilac

6. A number is doubled and 9 is added. If the resultant is trebled, it becomes 75. What is that number?

a) 3.5

b) 6

c) 8

d) None of these

7. Three friends Sunny, Bobby and Jackie weigh themselves in different ways. First they weigh themselves individually, and then Sunny and Bobby, Bobby and Jackie and Sunny and Jackie and finally all the three weigh themselves respectively. If the weight recorded for the last measure is 180 kg, then the average of the seven measures is:

a) 320 kg

b) 360/7 kg

c) 720/7 kg

d) Data insufficient

8. A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are 21cm, 24cm and 28cm. What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?

a) 280.5625

b) 333.0625

c) 333.6025

d) 400

9. Out of 7 children the youngest is boy. Find the probability that all the remaining children are boys.

a) 1/32

b) 1/64

c) 1/256

d) 1/128

10. There is a factory which is producing the bicycles and four wheelers. On weekdays the total production of wheels is 158 wheels per day. Find out the possible number of bicycles produced on Tuesday.

a) 6

b) 10

c) 9

d) 8

11. Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 42 years. Peter is twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the present age of Paul?

a) 24

b) 18

c) 20

d) 23

12. A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of 77 inches wide of length 333 yards. He found that roll B was much better when compared to A. the time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Find the time taken to cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each?

a) 242

b) 282

c) 280

d) 140

13. One train travels 200km from A to B with 70kmph and returns to A with 80kmph. Find the average speed of the train.

a) 75kmph

b) 74.99kmph

c) 74.67kmph

d) 74.33kmph

14. An equation is of the form 7x+17y+3z=54. Find the distance between x intercept and z intercept?

a) 72/7

b) 37/3

c) 122/8

d) 123/7

15. Inspired by Fibonacci series Sangeet decided to create his own series which is 1, 2, 3, 7, 7, 22, 15, 67, …….. What number will come immediately before 63?

a) 76

b) 202

c) 302

d) 62

16. There are 7 friends (A1, A2,…, A7). First A1 is shaking hands with other friends. If A2 have to shake hands without repetition how many handshakes possible?

a) 6

b) 5

c) 7

d) 15

17. There are 50 men and 49 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true:

a) There are 2 men who danced with one woman.

b) There are 2 women who danced with one man.

c) Either a or b

d) None

18. Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?

a) 4

b) 5

c) 6

d) 7

19. Arun cut small cubes of 1000 cubic cm each. He joined it to make a cuboid of length 100cm, width 50cm and depth 50cm. How many more cubes does he need to make a perfect cube?

a) 250

b) 1000

c) 750

d) 700

20. Find the value of Y/X

a) 5/3

b) 3/5

c) 5/9

d) 9/5

21. 20 people are there, they are shaking hands together. How many handshakes possible if they are in no pair of cyclic sequence?

a) 210

b) 190

c) 19

d) 20

22. There is a toy car which produces 8 musical sounds. Now due to certain problems it produces only 2 sounds. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively?

a) 1 in 32

b) 1 in 8

c) 1 in 16

d) 1 in 64

23. There are 3 boys A, B, C and 2 girls D, E. D always sit left to A. Girls never sit in extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. Who is sitting immediate right to E?

a) B

b) C

c) Either B or C

d) None

24. A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from the second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many matches are to be played to declare the winner?

a) 256

b) 255

c) 512

d) 511

25. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m.

a) 30

b) 28.8

c) 27.8

d) 27.5

26. A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 10 different toppings. In how many ways she can make pizzas with 4 different toppings?

a) 210

b) 5040

c) 1680

d) 2100

27. In a reading room of a library there are 22 reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 9 chairs placed around it. In each table different numbers of people are seated. If in all there are 36 readers how many reading spots will be left out without atleast 1 reader?

a) 8

b) 12

c) 16

d) None of these

28. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 26 blue, 30 red and 56 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite 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 color?

a) 84

b) 6

c) 88

d) 58

29. . Find the value of .

a) 64

b) 52

c) 76

d) 72

30. A pupil’s marks were wrongly entered as 83 instead of 63. Due to that the average marks for the class got increased by half. The number of pupils in the class is:

a) 20

b) 10

c) 40

d) 73

31. Dhoni and Ponting select batting by using a dice, but dice is biased. So to resolve the problem, Dhoni takes out a coin. What is the probability that the coin shows the correct option?

a) 1

b) 1/6

c) 1/2

d) 1/12

32. In a family there are some boys and girls. All girls told that they are having equal number of brothers and sisters and boys told that they are having twice the number of sisters than brothers. How many boys and girls are there in that family?

a) 4 boys and 3 girls

b) 3 boys and 4 girls

c) 2 boys and 4 girls

d) 2 boys and 5 girls

33. 59 members attended the party. In that 35 are males, 20 are females. They shake hands between males, females, male and female. Total 17 people given handshakes. How many such kinds of handshakes possible?

a) 35C2+20C2

b) 59C2

c) 17C2

d) 55C2

34. Smita was making a cube with dimensions 6X6X6 using 1X1X1 cubes. What is the number of cubes needed to make a hollow cube looking of the same shape?

a) 216

b) 98

c) 152

d) 64

35. If , find the value of .

a) 8/7

b) 9/7

c) 11/7

d) 6/7

Aptitude Questions 2011-2012 Test 3

. It is the class with the seating arrangement in 4 rows and 8 columns. When the teacher says 'start' the girl who is sitting in first row and first column will say 1, then the next girl sitting behind her will say 4, the next girl sitting behind that girl will say 7, in a particular order each girl is telling a number, the following girls told 10, 13 next turn is yours what u will say?
a) 15 b) 17 c) 14 d) 16

2. It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color?
a) 2 b) 3 c) 48 d) 25

3. The age of the two friends were in the ration of 6:5. If the sum of their ages is 66. Then after how many years their ratio will become 7:6?
a) 11 b) 6 c) 10 d) 12

4. A person runs from A to B. He took ¼ of the time less to reach B when compare to run at normal Speed. Then how many percentage he has increased his speed?
a) 40 b) 44.4 c) 33.3 d) 22.2

5. In a building there are 5 rooms. Each having a equal area .The length of the room is 6m and breadth is 5 m. The height of the rooms is 2m. If 17 bricks are needed to make a square meter then how many bricks are needed to make the floor of a particular room?
a) 320 b) 510 c) 340 d) 300

6. One man want to build a wall .The length and breadth of the wall are 20 and 30 respectively. He needs 35 bricks for one square centimeter then how many bricks he need?
a) 21,500 b) 30,000 c) 21,000 d) 20,000

7. In a hotel we can order two types of varieties, but we can make 6 more varieties in home. One can choose the four varieties with two from hotel as must. Find how many ways one can order.
a) 14 b) 15 c) 56 d) 28

8. If a pipe can fill the tank within 6hrs.But due to leak it takes 30 min more. Now the tank is full then how much time will it take to empty the tank through the leak?
a) 78 b) 56 c) 66 d) 59

9. There is bacteria which has the probability of die 1/3 of its total number or it may tripled. Find out the probability
A) P=1/3+(2/3)^3 B) P=2/3+(2/3)^3 C) P=2/3+(1/3)^3 D)P=2/3+(2/3)^3

10. In T.nagar many buildings were under residential category. For buildings they number as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime numbers. How many times 6 will appear in building numbering?

a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21

11. A man is standing in front of a painting of man, and he tells us the following: Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man’s father is my father’s son. Who is on the painting?

a) he himself b) his grandfather c) his Father d) his son

12. The difference between the ages of two of my three grandchildren is 3. My eldest grandchild is three times older than the age of my youngest grandchild and my eldest grandchild’s age is two years more than the ages of my two youngest grandchildren added together. How old is my eldest grandchild

a) 18 b) 12 c) 30 d) 15

13. In a school, for a student out of 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 74 marks in the 8th subject. What is the average of all the subjects?
a) 76.251 b) 74 c) 74.265 d) 74.625

14. 3 persons A, B, C were there A always says truth, B lies on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. But C lies on Thursday, Friday & Saturday. One day A said that B & C said to A that” B said “yesterday way one of the days when I lies”, C said that” yesterday way one of the days when I lies too”. Then which day was that?
a) Sunday b) Thursday c) Saturday d) Tuesday

15. A lady builds 9cm length, 10cm width, 3 cm height box using 1 cubic cm cubes. What is the minimum number of cubes required to build the box?
a) 730 b) 270 c) 720 d) 310

16. Which is the smallest no which divides 2880 and gives a perfect square?
a) 4 b) 9 c) 3 d) 5

17. How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 which are divisible by 4 if the repetition is allowed?
a)5^7 b)5^6 c)5^9 d)5^8

18. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement n says "At least and of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false?
a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.
b) The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true.
c) The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false.
d) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.

19. Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Marane llo, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 952 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.
a) 476 b) 15.88 c) 14.88 d) 6.18

20. Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea. One spoon of water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the first bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above?
a) There is less tea in the first bowl than water in the second bowl
b) There is more tea in the firs bowl than water in the second bowl
c) There is as much tea in the first bowl as there is water in the second bowl
d)None of the statements holds true

21. In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100. Then how many 1’s will be present in the numbers?
a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21

22. Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One friend suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of cards numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulate a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear less – 8,9 or 10?

a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10

23. A man goes 50Km north, then turned left walked 40Km, and then turned left. In which direction he is?
a) North b) South c) East d) West

24. A horse chases a pony 3 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 4 hours to reach the pony. If the average speed of the horse is 35 kmph, what is the average speed of the pony
a) 15 b) 20 c) 35 d) 40

25. A person is manufacturing a house. He bought 20 ropes of wire which has a density of 300 Kg/m3. The height of the building to be constructed is 40 m. If the capacity of the current passed in the wire is 20 A and the voltage capacity is 80 Volts. Then what will be the opposing force to the current if the wire is used?
a) 2 b) 4 c) 8 d) 1600

26. A man goes north 37km.turns left goes 2km.turns right goes 17km.turns right goes 2km. find distance b/w starting ending point.
a) 54 b) 27 c) 81 d) 67

27. There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, Woody and Mimosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and Mimosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except:

a) Balsamic and Lilac

b) Woody and Lemon

c) Mimosaic and Woody

d) Mimosaic and Lilac

28. (1/3) of a number is 5 more than the (1/6) of the same number?
a) 6 b) 36 c) 30 d) 72

29. Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 42 years. Peter is twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the present age of Peter?

a) 24

b) 18

c) 20

d) 23

30. An equation is of the form 7x+17y+3z=54. Find the distance between x intercept and z intercept?

a) 72/7

b) 37/3

c) 122/8

d) 133/7

31. There are 7 friends (A1, A2,…, A7). First A1 is shaking hands with other friends. If A2 have to shake hands with repetition how many handshakes possible?

a) 6

b) 5

c) 7

d) 15

32. There are 50 men and 51 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true:

a) There are 2 men who danced with one woman.

b) There are 2 women who danced with one man.

c) Either a or b

d) None

33. A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from the second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many matches are to be played to declare the winner?

a) 256

b) 255

c) 512

d) 511

34. A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 10 different toppings. In how many ways she can make pizzas with 4 different toppings?

a) 210

b) 5040

c) 1680

d) 2100

35. In a reading room of a library there are 23 reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 9 chairs placed around it. In each table different numbers of people are seated. If in all there are 36 readers how many reading spots will be left out without atleast 1 reader?

a) 8

b) 12

c) 17

d) None of these