ASSIGNMENT: Numerical Logic

Question: Given are the following three equations:

How many circles are equivalent to a square, as per the ratios in the three given equations?

Question: Each child in a family has at least 4 brothers and 3 sisters. What is the smallest number of
children the family might have?
(1) 7 (2) 8 (3) 9 (4) 10

Question: Four stacks containing equal number of chips are to be made from 11 orange, 9 white, 13 black
and 7 yellow chips. If all of these chips are used and each stack contains at least one chip of each color,
what is the maximum number of white chips in any one stack?
(1)3 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 6

Question: In the Sunday bazzar, Jamuna sells her lemons at Rs. 0.50 for two. Her neighbor Seema has a
little smaller lemons; she sells hers at Rs. 0.50 for three. After a while, when both ladies have the same
number of lemons left, Seema is called away. She asks her neighbor to take care of her goods. To make
things simple, Jamuna puts all lemons in one big pile, and starts selling five lemons per one rupee. When
Seema returns, at the end of the day, all lemons have been sold. But when they start dividing the money,
there appears to be a shortage of Rs. 3.50. Supposing they divide the money equally, how much does
Jamuna lose with deal?
(1)Rs. 10.50 (2)Rs. 11.50 (3)Rs. 42.00 (4)Rs. 52.50

Question: There are two cups, one containing orange juice and one containing an equal amount of
lemonade. One teaspoon of the orange juice is taken and mixed with the lemonade. Then a teaspoon of
this mixture is mixed back into the orange juice. Is there more lemonade in the orange juice or more
orange juice in the lemonade?
(1)More orange juice in the lemonade (2)More lemonade in the orange juice
(3)Equal amount of each juice between the two cups (4)None of the above

Question: From a book, a number of consecutive pages are missing. The sum of the page numbers of these
pages is 9808. Which pages are missing?
(1) The page 9808 is missing. (2) The Pages 291 up to 322 are missing.
(3) The pages 291 up to and including 322 are missing (4)Either a or c.

Question: In this question insert the missing number at the sign of interrogation.

(1)62 (2)72 (3)60 (4)70

Question: What number should replace the question mark in the image below?
(1) 18 (2) 20 (3) 22 (4) 24

Question: There are 3 societies A, B, C having some tractors each. A gives B and C as many tractors as they
already have. After some days B gives A and C as Many tractors as they have. After some days C gives A
and B as many tractors as they have. Finally each has 24 tractors. What is the original No. Of tractors each
had in the beginning?
(1) A-29, B-21, C-12 (2) A-39, B-21, C-12 (3) A-21, B-12, C-29
(4) A-21, B-12, C-39

Direction for Questions: There are two rows of numbers in each question. The upper row is complete and
in the lower one number is missing. Find a suitable number to fill the blank space so that the symmetry
with the upper row is maintained.
Question:

(1) 211 (2) 75 (3) 125 (4) 117

Question:

(1) 220 (2) 480 (3) 125 (4) 450

Question: A clock strikes once at 1 o’ clock and so on. If it takes 6 seconds to strike at 3 o’ clock, how much
time will it take to strike at 9 o’ clock?
(1) 24 seconds (2) 18 seconds (3) 20 seconds (4) None of these

Question: When Rafael entered the class, there were already 10 students in the class. 5 students entered
the class between Roger and Rafael. Total 10 students entered after Roger. Exactly how many students are
in the class finally?
(1) 15 (2) 25 (3) 27 (4) Cannot be decided
Question: Find the Missing Numbers in the following set

(1) 30 (2) 62 (3) 42 (4) 78

Question: Four children A, B, C & D are having some chocolates each. A gives B as many as he already has,
he gives C twice of what C already has and he gives D thrice of what D already has. Now, D gives (1/8)th of
his own chocolates to B. Then A gives l0% chocolates he now owns to C and 20% to B. Finally, all of them
have 35 chocolates each. What is the original number of chocolates each had in the beginning?
(1) A 110, B 10, C 10, D 10 (2) A 90, B 20, C 20, D 10 (3) A 70, B 25, C 25, D 20
(4) A 125, B 5, C 5, D 5

Question: There are two similar figures below with some numbers. The left one is complete whereas one
number is missing in the right one. Find a suitable number to fill in place of the question mark.

(1) 280 (2) 303 (3) 362 (4) 382

Question: Ramaswami was studying for his examinations and the lights went off. It was around 1:00 a.m.
He lighted two uniform candles of equal length but one thicker than the other. The thick candle is
supposed to last six hours and the thin one two hours less. When he finally went to sleep, the thick candle
was twice as long as the thin one. For how long did Ramaswami study in candle light?
(1)2 hours (2)3 hours (3)2 hours 45 minutes (4)4 hours
Question: A person wanted to withdraw X rupees and Y paise from the bank. But cashier made a mistake
and gave him Y rupees and X paise. Neither the person nor the cashier noticed that. After spending 20
paise, the person counts the money. To his surprise, he has double the amount he wanted to withdraw.
Find X and Y. (1 Rupee = 100 Paise)
(1) X = 3, Y = 6 (2) X = 26, Y= 53 (3) X = 15, Y = 30 (4) X = 9, Y = 36

Question: A drawer contains 10 black and 10 brown socks which are all mixed up. What is the fewest
number of socks you can take from the drawer without looking and be sure to get a pair of the same color?
(1) 7 pairs (2) 7 pieces only (3) 10 pieces only (4) 3 pieces only

Question: The numbers in these series are arranged in a triangle which has a logic as shown below. Find
the missing numbers shown as (?) from the choices given below:

(1) {16, 32, 64} (2) {8, 1024, 32} (3) {24, 1024, 64} (4) {16, 32, 64}

Direction for Questions: Refer to thefollowing data and answer the questions that follow:
A numerical machine accepts two values X and Y. Then it updates these values as X = XY and Y = Y + 1 in
every step. The machine stops at X ≥ N.

Question: For X = 3, Y = 2 and N = 100, how many steps are performed before the machine stops?
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) 5

Question: In the above question, what is the final value of X?

(1) 6 (2) 20 (3) 72 (4) 360

Question: In the above question(1), what is the final value of Y?

(1) 4 (2) 5 (3) 6 (4) 20
Question: If the value of N is changed to 500, what would be the final value of X?
(1) 360 (2) 500 (3) 560 (4) 2160

Question: If X = 2 and Y = 3, what should be the minimum value of N such that final value of Y is 7?
(1) 300 (2) 360 (3) 720 (4) 860

Question: What number should replace the question mark?

(1) 1 (2) 4 (3) 12 (4) 6

Direction: Answer the following questions based on the information given below.
There are five sets of digits - Set A, Set B, Set C, Set D and Set E as shown in given diagram. Set A contains
one digit, Set B contains two digits, Set C contains three digits, Set D contains two digits and Set E contains
one digit. Rearrange the digits, across the sets such that the number formed out of digits of Set C is
multiple of the numbers formed from digits in the sets on either side. For example; in the given diagram,
Set C is a multiple of digits in Set A and Set B but not of Set D and Set E.

Question: What is the minimum number of rearrangements required to arrive at the solution? A
rearrangement is defined as an exchange of positions between digits across two sets. For example: when 1
from set C is exchanged with 5 of set E, it is counted as one rearrangement.
(1) 2 (2) 5 (3) 8 (4) 3 (5) 7

Question: Which of the following pair of digits would occupy set A and E?
(1) 2 and 4 (2) 2 and 6 (3) 3 and 6 (4) 3 and 9 (5) 4 and 8

Question: On 1st March, Timon arrived in a new city and was looking for a place to stay. He met a landlady
who offered to rent her apartment at a reasonable price but wanted him to pay the rent on a daily basis.
Timon had a silver bar of 31 inches, and an inch of the silver bar was exactly equal to a day’s rent. He
agreed to pay an inch of the silver bar towards the daily rent. Timon wanted to make minimum number of
pieces of the silver bar but did not want to pay any advance rent. How many pieces did he make?
(1) 5 (2) 8 (3) 16 (4) 20 (5) 31

Directions: Answer the questions based on the following information:

There was an effort to study the relative importance that beneficiaries of five stages assigned to five
different development programmes implemented by their governments. The programmes were
JawaharmRozgarYmojana (JRY), Indira Awas Yozna (IAY), Mid-Day Meal (MDM), Rural Health Mission
(RHM) and National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREG). The level of dissimilarity between two
states is the maximum difference in the ranks allotted by the two states to any of the five programmes.
The following table indicates the rank order of the five programmes for each state.

Question: Which of the following states is least dissimilar to Orissa?

1. Bihar
2. Rajasthan
3. Kerala
4. Karnataka

Question: Which of the following states is most dissimilar to Orissa?

 1. Bihar
2. Rajasthan
3. Kerala
4. Karnataka

Question: Three of the following states have identical levels of dissimilarity. Which is the odd one out?
1. Kerala and Bihar
2. Bihar and Karnataka
3. Rajasthan and Kerala
4. Karnataka and Rajasthan

Direction: Mother Dairy sells milk packets in boxes of different sizes to its vendors. The vendors are
charged Rs. 20 per packet up to 2000 packets in a box. Additions can be made only in a lot size of 200
packets. Each addition of one lot to the box results in a discount of one rupee on all the packets in the box.
What should be the maximum size of the box that would maximize the revenue per box for Mother Dairy?
1. 2400 packets
2. 3000 packets
3. 4000 packets
4. None of the above

Direction: All employees have to pass through three consecutive entrance doors to enter into the office
and one security guard is deployed at each door. These security guards report to the manager about those
who come to office after 10 AM. Ms. Rani is an employee of this office and came late on the annual day. In
order to avoid report to the manager she had to pay each security guard half of the money she had in her
purse and 2 rupees more besides. She found only one rupee with her at the end. How much money Ms.
Rani had before entering the office on the annual day?
1. Rs. 40
2. Rs. 36
3. Rs. 25
4. Rs. 40