Set A

1. The rupee/coin changing machine at a bank has a flaw. It gives 10 ten rupee notes if you put a 100
rupee note and 10 one rupee coins if you insert a 10 rupee note but gives 10 hundred rupee notes
when you put a one rupee coin!Sivaji, after being ruined by his rivals in business is left with a one
rupee coin and discovers the flaw in the machine by accident. By using the machine repeatedly,
which of the following amounts is a valid amount that Sivaji can have when he gets tired and stops at
some stage (assume that the machine has an infinite supply of notes and coins):

a. 26975 b. 53947

c. 18980 d. 33966

2. Seven movie addicts- Guna, Isha, Leela, Madhu, Rinku, Viji and Yamini attend a film festival. Three
films are shown, one directed by Rajkumar Hirani ,one by S.Shankar,and one by Mani Ratnam. Each
of the film buffs sees only one of the three films. The films are shown only once, one film at a time.
The following restrictions must apply :- Exactly twice as many of the film buffs sees the S.shankar
film as see the Rajkumar Hirani film.- Guna and Rinku do not see the same film as each other.- Isha
and Madhu do not see same film as each other.- Viji and Yamini see the same film as each other.-
Leela sees the S.Shankar film.- Guna sees either the Rajkumar Hirani film or the Mani Ratnam
film.Which one of the following could be an accurate matching of the film buffs to films ?(A) Guna:
the S.Shankar film; Isha: the Mani Ratnam film; Madhu: the S.Shankar film(B) Guna: the Mani
Ratnam film; Isha: the Rajkumar Hirani film; Viji: the Rajkumar Hirani film(C) Isha : the S.Shankar film;
Rinku: the Mani Ratnam film; Viji: the Rajkumar Hirani film(D) Madhu: the Mani Ratnam film; Rinku:
the Mani Ratnam film; Viji: the Mani Ratnam film

a. A b. C

c. D d. B

3. Which of the following numbers must be added to 5678 to give a remainder of 35 when divided
by 460?

a. 955 b. 980

c. 797 d. 618

4. Find the probability that a leap year chosen at random will have 53 Sundays.

a. 1/7 b. 2/7

c. 1/49 d. 3/7

5. An ant starts moving on the mesh shown below along the wires towards a food particle.If the ant
is at the bottom-left corner of cell A and the food is at the top-right corner of cell F, then find the
number of optimal routes for the ant.
a. 13884156 b. 3465280

c. 4368 d. 6748

6. You have been given a physical balance and 7 weights of 52, 50, 48, 44, 45, 46 and 78 kgs. Keeping
weights on one pan and object on the other, what is the maximum you can weigh less than 183 kgs.

a. 180 b. 181

c. 182 d. 178

7. Two consecutive numbers are removed from the progression 1, 2, 3, ...n. The arithmetic mean of
the remaining numbers is 26 1/4. The value of n is

a. 60 b. 81

c. 50 d. Cannot be determined

8. You need a 18% acid solution for a certain test, but your supplier only ships a 13% solution and a
43% solution. You need 120 lts of the 18% acid solution. the 13% solution costs Rs 82 per ltr for the
first 67 ltrs, and Rs 66 per ltr for any amount in access of 67 ltrs. What is the cost of the 13% solution
you should buy?

a. 8002 b. 7012

c. 7672 d. 7342
9. A spherical solid ball of radius 58 mm is to be divided into eight equal parts by cutting it four times
longitudinally along the same axis.Find the surface area of each of the final pieces thus obtained( in
mm^2) ? (where pi= 22/7)

a. 3365pi b. 5046pi

c. 1682pi d. 3346pi

10. There is a lot of speculation that the economy of a country depends on how fast people spend
their money in addition to how much they save. Auggie was very curious to test this theory.Auggie
spent all of his money in 5 stores. In each store, he spent Rs.4 more than one-half of what he had
when he went in. How many rupees did Auggie have when he entered the first store?

a. 248 b. 120

c. 252 d. 250

11. A sudoku grid contains digits in such a manner that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box
accommodates the digits 1 to 9, without repetition. In the following Sudoku grid, find the values at
the cells denoted by x and y and determine the value of 6x + 15y.

a. 87 b. 75

c. 66 d. 99

12. In how many ways can the letters of the english alphabet be arranged so that there are seven
letter between the letters A and B, and no letter is repeated

a. 24P7 * 2 * 18! b. 36 * 24!

c. 24P7 * 2 * 20! d. 18 * 24!

13. A certain function f satisfies the equation f(x)+2*f(6-x)=x for all real numbers x. The value of f(1)
is

a. 1 b. 2

c. 3 d. Cannot be determined

14. Professor absentminded has a very peculiar problem, in that he cannot remember numbers
larger than 15. However, he tells his wife, I can remember any number up to 100 by remembering
the three numbers obtained as remainders when the number is divided by 3, 5 and 7 respectively.
For example (2,2,3) is 17. Professor remembers that he had (1,1,6) rupees in the purse, and he paid
(2,0,6) rupees to the servant. How much money is left in the purse?

A. 59
B. 61
C. 49
D. 56

15. The sum of three from the four numbers A, B, C, D are 4024, 4087, 4524 and 4573. What is the
largest of the numbers A, B, C, D?

a. 1712
b. 1650
c. 1164
d. 1211

16. Anand packs 304 marbles into packets of 9 or 11 so that no marble is left. Anand wants to
maximize the number of bags with 9 marbles. How many bags does he need if there should be
atleast one bag with 11 marbles

a. 33
b. 32
c. 31
d. 30

17. When Usha was thrice as old as Nisha, her sister Asha was 25, When Nisha was half as old as
Asha, then sister Usha was 34. their ages add to 100. How old is Usha?

a. 37
b. 44
c. 45
d. 40

18. Find the number of zeroes in the expression 15*32*25*22*40*75*98*112*125

a. 12
b. 9
c. 14
d. 7

19. Two vehicles A and B leaves from city Y to X. A overtakes B at 10:30 am and reaches city X at
12:00 pm. It waits for 2 hrs and return to city Y. On its way it meets B at 3:00 pm and reaches city Y
at 5:00 pm. B reaches city X, waits for 1hr and returns to city Y. After how many hours will B reach
city Y from the time A overtook him from the first time?

a. 50 hrs
b. 49.5 hrs
c. 41.5 hrs
d. 37.5 hrs

20. Two identical circles intersect so that their centres, and the points at which they intersect, form a
square of side 1 cm. The area in sq. cm of the portion that is common to the twocircles is:
a. (π/2) – 1
b. 4
c. √2 – 1
d. √5

Set B
1. What are the total number of divisors of 600(including 1 and 600)?

a. 24

b. 40

c. 16

d. 20

2. What is the sum of the squares of the first 20 natural numbers (1 to 20)?

a. 2870

b. 2000

c. 5650

d. 44100

3. What is 28∑K=0K2(28KC)∑K=028K2(K28C) where 28KCK28C is the number of ways of choosing k

a. 406 * 227227

b. 306 * 226226

c. 28 * 227227

d. 56 * 227227

4. What is 28∑K=03K(28KC)∑K=0283K(K28C) where 28KCK28C is the number of ways of choosing k

a. 256256

b. 3* 227227

c. 329329

d. 3* 427427
5. A call center agent has a list of 305 phone numbers of people in alphabetic order of names (but
she does not have any of the names). She needs to quickly contact Deepak Sharma to convey a
message to him. If each call takes 2 minutes to complete, and every call is answered, what is the
minimum amount of time in which she can guarantee to deliver the message to Mr Sharma.

a. 18 minutes

b. 610 minutes

c. 206 minutes

d. 34 minutes

6. The times taken by a phone operator to complete a call are 2,9,3,1,5 minutes respectively. What
is the average time per call?

a. 4 minutes

b. 7 minutes

c. 1 minutes

d. 5 minutes

7. The times taken by a phone operator to complete a call are 2,9,3,1,5 minutes respectively. What
is the median time per call?

a. 5 minutes

b. 7 minutes

c. 1 minutes

d. 3 minutes

8. Eric throws two dice, and his score is the sum of the values shown. Sandra throws one die, and
her score is the square of the value shown. What is the probability that Sandra’s score will be strictly
higher than Eric’s score?

a. 137/216

b. 17/36

c. 173/216

d. 5/6

9. What is the largest integer that divides all three numbers 23400,272304,205248 without leaving a
remainder?

a. 48
b. 24

c. 96

d. 72

10. Of the 38 people in my office, 10 like to drink chocolate, 15 are cricket fans, and 20 neither like
chocolate nor like cricket. How many people like both cricket and chocolate?

a. 7

b. 10

c. 15

d. 18

11. If f(x) = 2x+2 what is f(f(3))?

a. 18

b. 8

c. 64

d. 16

12. If f(x) = 7 x +12, what is f-1(x) (the inverse function)?

a. (x-12)/7

b. 7x+12

c. 1/(7x+12)

d. No inverse exists

13. A permutation is often represented by the cycles it has. For example, if we permute the
numbers in the natural order to 2 3 1 5 4, this is represented as (1 3 2) (5 4). In this the (132) says
that the first number has gone to the position 3, the third number has gone to the position 2, and
the second number has gone to position 1, and (5 4) means that the fifth number has gone to
position 4 and the fourth number has gone to position 5. The numbers with brackets are to be read
cyclically. If a number has not changed position, it is kept as a single cycle. Thus 5 2 1 3 4 is
represented as (1345)(2). We may apply permutations on itself If we apply the permutation
(132)(54) once, we get 2 3 1 5 4. If we apply it again, we get 3 1 2 4 5 , or (1 2 3)(4) (5) If we consider
the permutation of 7 numbers (1457)(263), what is its order (how many

times must it be applied before the numbers appear in their original order)?

a. 12
b. 7

c. 7! (factorial of 7)

d. 14

14. What is the maximum value of x3y3 + 3 x*y when x+y = 8?

a. 4144

b. 256

c. 8192

d. 102

15. Two circles of radii 5 cm and 3 cm touch each other at A and also touch a line at B and C. The
distance BC in cms is?

a. √6060

b. √6262

c. √6868

d. √6464

16. In Goa beach, there are three small picnic tables. Tables 1 and 2 each seat three people. Table 3
seats only one person, since two of its seats are broken. Akash, Babu, Chitra, David, Eesha, Farooq,
and Govind all sit at seats at these picnic tables. Who sits with whom and at which table are
determined by the following constraints:

a. Chitra does not sit at the same table as Govind.

b. Eesha does not sit at the same table as David.

c. Farooq does not sit at the same table as Chitra.

d. Akash does not sit at the same table as Babu.

e. Govind does not sit at the same table as Farooq.

Which of the following is a list of people who could sit together at table 2?

a. Govind, Eesha, Akash

b. Babu, Farooq, Chitra

c. Chitra, Govind, David.

d. Farooq, David, Eesha.

17. There are a number of chocolates in a bag. If they were to be equally divided among 14 children,
there are 10 chocolates left. If they were to be equally divided among 15 children, there are 8
chocolates left. Obviously, this can be satisfied if any multiple of 210 chocolates are added to the
bag. What is the remainder when the minimum feasible number of chocolates in the bag is divided
by 9?

a. 2

b. 5

c. 4

d. 6

18. Let f(m,n) =45*m + 36*n, where m and n are integers (positive or negative) What is the
minimum positive value for f(m,n) for all values of m,n (this may be achieved for various values of m
and n)?

a. 9

b. 6

c. 5

d. 18

19. What is the largest number that will divide 90207, 232585 and 127986 without leaving a
remainder?

a. 257

b. 905

c. 351

d. 498

20. We have an equal arms two pan balance and need to weigh objects with integral weights in the
range 1 to 40 kilo grams. We have a set of standard weights and can place the weights in any pan. .
(i.e) some weights can be in a pan with objects and some weights can be in the other pan. The
minimum number of standard weights required is:

a. 4

b. 10

c. 5

d. 6
21. A white cube(with six faces) is painted red on two different faces. How many different ways can
this be done (two paintings are considered same if on a suitable rotation of the cube one painting
can be carried to the other)?

a. 2

b. 15

c. 4

d. 30

22. How many divisors (including 1, but excluding 1000) are there for the number 1000?

a. 15

b. 16

c. 31

d. 10

23. In the polynomial f(x) =2*x^4 - 49*x^2 +54, what is the product of the roots, and what is the
sum of the roots (Note that x^n denotes the x raised to the power n, or x multiplied by itself n
times)?

a. 27,0

b. 54,2

c. 49/2,54

d. 49,27

24. In the polynomial f(x) = x^5 + a*x^3 + b*x^4 +c*x + d, all coefficients a, b, c, d are integers. If 3 +
sqrt(7) is a root, which of the following must be also a root?(Note that x^n denotes the x raised to
the power n, or x multiplied by itself n times. Also sqrt(u) denotes the square root of u, or the
number which when multiplied by itself, gives the number u)?

a. 3-sqrt(7)

b. 3+sqrt(21)

c. 5

d. sqrt(7) + sqrt(3)

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