TCS questions on aptitude

Quantitative Ability 1) Bhanu spends 30% of his income on petrol on scooter. of the remaining on house rent and the balance on food. If he spends Rs.300 on petrol then what is the expenditure on house rent? a) Rs.525 b) Rs.1000 c) Rs.675 d) Rs.175

2) If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 25% and denominator decreased by 20%, the new value is 5/4. What is the original value? a) 3/5 b) 4/5 c) 7/8 d) 3/7

3) The length of a rectangle is increased by 60%. By what % would the width have to be decreased to maintain the same area? a) 30% b) 60% c) 75% d) 37.5%

4) The value of + 5 / 36 + 7 / 144 + .+17 / 5184 + 19 / 8100 is a) 0.99 b) 0.98 c) 0.95 d) None of these

5) A sporting goods store ordered an equal number of white and yellow balls. The tennis ball company delivered 45 extra white balls, making the ratio of white balls to yellow balls 1/5 : 1/6. How many white tennis balls did the store originally order for? a) 450 b) 270

c) 225 d) None of these

6) A student's grade in a course is determined by 6 quizzes and one examination. If the examination counts thrice as much as each of the quizzes, what fraction of final grade is determined by the examination? a) 1/6 b) 1/5 c) 1/3 d) 1/4 7) A sum of money is divided among A, B and C such that for each rupee A gets, B gets 65paise and C gets 35paise. If C's share is Rs.560, the sum is a) 2400 b) 2800 c) 3200 d) 3800 8) Joe's father will be twice his age 6 years from now. His mother was twice his age 2 years before. If Joe will be 24 two years from now, what is the difference between his father's and mother's age? a) 4 b) 6 c) 8 d) 10

9) A traveler walks a certain distance. Had he gone half a kilometer an hour faster \, he would have walked it in 4/5 of the time, and had he gone half a Kilometer an hour slower, he would have walked 2 hr longer. What is the distance? a) 10 Km b) 15 Km c) 20 Km d) Data Insufficient

10) Two oranges, 3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15. 3 oranges, 2 bananas and 1 apple cost Rs.10. I bought 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples. How much did I pay? a) 10 b) 8 c) 15 d) Cannot be determined 11) A report consists of 20 sheets each of 55 lines and each such line consists of 65 characters. This report is retyped into sheets each of 65 lines such that each line consists of 70 characters. The % reduction in the number of sheets is closest to a) 20 b) 5 c) 30 d) 35 12) A ship leaves on a long voyage. When it is 18 miles from the shore, a seaplane, whose speed is 10 times that of the ship is sent to deliver mail. How far from the shore does the seaplane catch upo with the ship? a) 24 miles b) 25 miles c) 22miles d) 20 miles 13) Anand finishes a work in 7 days, Bittu finishes the same job in 8 days and Chandu in 6 days. They take turns to finish the work. Anand on the first day, Bittu on the second and Chandu on the third day and then Anand again and so on. On which day will the work get over? a) 3rd b) 6th c) 9th

d) 7th 14) 3 men finish painting a wall in 8 days. Four boys do the same job in 7 days. In how many days will 2 men and 2 boys working together paint two such walls of the same size? a) 6 6/13 days b) 3 3/13 days c) 9 2/5 days d) 12 12/13 days 15) There are 5 distinct pairs of white socks and 5 pairs of black socks in a cupboard. In the dark, how many socks do I have to pull out to ensure that I have at least 1 correct pair of white socks? a) 3 b) 11 c) 12 d) 16 16) In a circular race track of length 100 m, three persons A, B and C start together. A and B start in the same direction at speeds of 10 m/s and 8 m/s respectively. While C runs in the opposite at 15 m/s. When will all the three meet for the first time on the after the start? a) After 4 s b) After 50 s c) After 100 s d) After 200 s 17) If the distance traveled (s) in time (t) by a partile is given by the formula s = 1+ 2t+3t2+4t3 , then what is the distance travelled in the 4th second of its motion? a) 141m b) 171m c) 243m

d) 313m 18) There is a circular pizza with negligible thickness that is cut into 'x' pieces by 4 straight line cuts. What is the maximum and minimum value of 'x' respectively? a) 12,6 b) 11,6 c) 12,5 d) 11,5 19) When of a unit's digit is added to the ten's digit of a two number, the sum of the digits becomes 10. If of the ten's digit added to the unit's digit, then the sum of the digits is 1 less than the previous. Find the number. a) 94 b) 84 c) 48 d) 88 20) LCM of x and y is 36 and HCF of x and y is 4. If x = 4 then which of the following is definitely not true? a) Y is divisible by 3 b) Y is divisible by 6 c) Y is divisible by 9 d) X+Y is divisible by 21) Amal bought 5 pens, 7 pencils and 4 erasers. Rajan bought 6 pens, 8 erasers and 14 pencils for an amount which was half more than what Amal had paid. What % of the total amount paid by Amal was paid for pens? a) 37.5% b) 62.5% c) 50%

d) None of these 22) A non stop bus to Amritsar overtakes an auto also moving towards Amritsar at 10 am. The bus reaches Amritsar at 12.30 pm and starts on the return journey after 1 hr. On the way back it meets the auto at 2 pm. At what time the auto will reach Amritsar? a) 2.30pm b) 3.00pm c) 3.15pm d) 3.30pm

23) The total expense of a boarding house are partly fixed and partly variable with the number of boarders. The charge is Rs.70 per head when there are 25 boarders and Rs.60 when there are 50 boarders. Find the charge per head when there are 100 boarders. a) 65 b) 55 c) 50 d) 45

24) How many positive integer solutions does the equation 2x+3y = 100 have? a) 50 b) 33 c) 16 d) 35 25) A person had to multiply two numbers. Instead of multiplying by 35, he multiplied by 53and the product went up by 540. What was the raised product? a) 780 b) 1040

c) 1590 d) 1720 Key to Mock Test 2 1. d 2. b 3. d 4. a 5. c 6. c 7. c 8. c 9. b 10. c 11. a 12. d 13. d 14. d 15. c 16. c 17. b 18. d 19. c 20. d 21. b 22. b 23. b 24. c 25. c

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE 1. 232 expressed in base-5 is 1412. (Similar Q in different form & number also appeared.) 2. Pick the odd one out: A) SMTP B) HTTP C) ARP D) SAP E) 3. Pick the odd one out: A) DB2 B) ORACLE C) WAP D) ARP E) (I might have interchanged some choices for Qs 2 & 3. Please check.) 4. The following is not a triangle: A) (60o, 80o, 20o) B) (90o, 60o, 30o) C) (54o, 66o, 60o) D) (69o, 51o, 60o) Ans: A (since sum of the angles in a triangle = 180o.) 5. The following is a planar cube (E, V, F): A) (12, 8, 6) B) (12, 6, 8) C) (6, 6, 8) D) (6, 8, 6) E - no. of edges V - no. of vertices F - no. of faces Ans: A 6. The greatest prime number among the following which can be stored in a 6-bit word computer is: A) 61 B) 63 C) 65 D) 67 E) 69 7. Calc. A-(B C) and represent the resulting 8-bit word in decimal form. A00110011 B01010101 C00001111 A-(B C) (I might have interchanged the values of A, B & C but still try this.) 8. Fit a suitable curve with the given data. xy 1000 3

 A) y = log x B) y = log 10x C) y = -10log x D) y = ex Ans: A 9. How many B's are followed by G's which are not followed by S's in the following series: BBGMPQBGSKOBGASBBGDEFBGSTI Ans: 4 (Another Q on the same logic was also asked.) 10. M(373,5) + R(3.4) + T(7.7) - R(5.8) = ___ M - Modulo R - Round-off T - Truncate Ans: 3 + 3 + 7 - 6 = 7 (In the above, first term means the remainder obtained after dividing 373 by 5.) 11. Match the following: A) Female - Girl i) A type of B) Bug - Reptile ii) A superset of C) Beagle - Dog iii) A part of D) Piston - Engine iv) Not a part of (Another set like this was also asked.) 12. There is a matrix X of order 7 9 whose elements will be filled column-wise. The address of the first element X(1,1) is 1258. Each element occupies 4 bytes of memory. Then the address of the element X(5,8) is 1473. 13. 5 7 11 ? 25 Ans: 17 14. A, B & C can do a piece of work in 8 days. A alone can do it in 12 days and B alone can do it 16 days. Then C alone can do it in ___. 15. The line equation of the following curve is A) y = ex B) y = tan x C) y = cos x D) x + y = 0 Ans: D (For some others, tan x and cos x curves were asked.) 16. A & B can do a piece of work in 12 days. A is capable of doing twice the work as B. In how many days A alone can complete the work? 17. If the first/second, third/fourth, fifth/sixth etc. letters of the word PSYCHIATRIST are interchanged, then the letter which is 8th from right is I . 18. If DCPRY is coded as CBOQX then SPEND can be coded as RODMC. 19. The following is not a triangle:

A) (2,3,4) B) (3,4,5) C) (5,5,5) D) (1,3,5) Ans: D (Clue: Sum of any two sides should be greater than the third side.) 20. Temperature in Chennai is measured since 12 noon is given by (t2/9) + 4t + 16. Then the difference in temperatures between 4 pm and 9 pm is ___. (I don't remember the question but can only outline it.) 21. Aeroplane - 12oN 26oE - 20oS 30oW - Longitude - 8 hours to reach destination. (I don't remember the question but can only outline it. Ans: 5 hr. 40 min.) 22. Three savings 20%, 40%, 10% - Net saving? (I don't remember this question also but can only outline it.) 23. _____ A) Distance B) Time C) Velocity D) 24. n 100 or 100 n (I don't remember exactly). If n increases by 1% then ---