TCS PHASE 2 Questions Cleaned
TCS PHASE 2 Questions Cleaned
2 QUESTIONS
What is the sum (in RS) which when divided among X Y Z in the proportion 3:5:7 provides rupees 8000 more to Z than
If the positive square root of (root 90 + root 80) is multiplied by (root (2) -1) and the product is raised to the power of four,
A man has to travel 50 km in 2 hours. He could cover 20 km in one hour, and then had to stop for 10 minutes for
refueling. By What factor should he increase his speed with reference to that during the first hour so as to be able to
X is four times as efficient as Y in respect of doing a particular work. Working together they complete the work in 16
days. In how many days y working alone will be able to half the work?
The collection of numbers which comprise the data given below is arranged in ascending order. (3, 7, 9, N - 1, 15, 18,
19, 20) if the median of the data is 12.5, what is the value of N?
After purchasing two copies of the same book, X sold them respectively at 0.8 and 1.4 times their cost prices. What was
A file of cadets consisting of ten rows and five columns measures 420 m in length along the direction of their marching.
How much time (in hours and minutes) would it take to march for a stretch of 3 km, if the stride ofeach cadet is 80 cm,
Two vessels X and Y of capacities one and two litres respectively are completely filled with mixtures of two chemicals A
and B. The ratio by volume of the chemicals A and B in X and Y are 3:2 and 4:5 respectively. The contents of A and B
are mixed and the combination is kept in a vessel C of capacity of four litres. How many litres of Chemical A should be
The diameter of a pizza is 30 cm. What is the area (in cm ^2 ) of the upper surface of a sector of the pizza whose arc
length is 8 cm?
In a test 5 marks are awarded for every correct answer and 2 marks are deducted for every incorrect answer. Sathwik
scores 32 marks in the examination. If 4 marks had been awarded for each correct answer and 1 mark had been
deducted for each incorrect answer, Sathwik would have scored 34 marks. If Sathwik attempted all the questions, how
An item was sold at a profit of 12% after giving a discount of 12.5% on the list price. What would be the gain or loss
The mean of a set of data is 5. What will be the mean if ten is subtracted from each data ?
If (x + 10)% of 240 is 60% more than x% of 180, then 15% of (x + 20) is what percent less than 25% of x ?
What is the diameter (in cm) of a solid right circular cylinder whose height is 6 cm and the area of the curved surface is
A sum invested on simple interest grows to Rs 22500/- and Rs 25500/- is seven and nine years respectively. What is the
The variation in temperatures throughout the day in a desert town was studied on the basis of the record of minimum
and maximum temperatures which were 36 and 8 degrees centigrade respectively. What was the standard deviation in
degree centigrade?
A sum of Rs. 30000 invested in a scheme where the interest gets compounded annually and grows to Rs. 51840 in
three years. How much interest in Rs. would have got accrued in six months in the same scheme had the interest been
compounded quarterly?
The diameter of a pizza is 60 cm. What is the area (in the upper surface of a sector) of the pizza whose arc length is
16cm?
96 men were engaged for a project of constructing a railway track of the length of 18 km in four weeks. After one week it
was observed that the work of 4km was completed. How many additional men should be engaged for timely completion
of the project?
If n is an integer such that 1nn352 is a six-digit number exactly divided by 24, what will be the sum of the possible value
of n?
What is the mean deviation of the data 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 30, 32, 34 ?
The marks scored by a student out of 100 in English and Mathematics at four consecutive monthly (January ? April) test
held in 2019 are presented through a Bar Graph shownbelow. In each case the marks is a multiple of five. In which
month is the difference of marks scored in the two subjects the highest?
On a thermometer, which measures temperature in degree Celsius, there are 10 small divisions between 1 ?C and 2
The present ages of three brothers are in the proportion 12:14:17. The difference between the ages of the elder and the
eldest is 6 years. What will be the proportion of their ages after four years?
Two ants of length 1cm and 1.2 cm crawl in opposite directions with average speeds 2 and 3 mm per second
respectively. How many seconds will they take to cross each other?
The index numbers of five commodities are 121, 123, 125, 126, 128 and the weights assigned to these are respectively
The Range and the Standard Deviation of a data are R & S respectively. With the shift of origin of the data change(s)
A sum was lent to X for three years by an organisation who fixed a yearly rate of 10% compound Interest for repayment
along with the condition of recovery in equal installments of Rs.31944. What percentage (correct to two decimal places)
A retailer purchased 25 identical toys for a price Rs P and sold some of them for Rs P. If he calculated his profit as 8%,
with selling price as base instead of cost price then how many did he sell?
A student obtained 60, 75 and 85 marks respectively in three monthly examinations in Mathematics and 95 marks in the
final examination. The three monthly examinations are of equal weightage whereas the final examination is weighted
A city water supply tank has two inlet pipes X and Y, which can fill it in 20 and 30 hours respectively, and an outlet pipe
Z which can empty a full tank in 40 hours. If the tank is empty and the taps are opened in succession for one hour each,
and the process continues, in how many hours will the tank get filled?
A sum of Rs.12500 is invested on 1st January 2016 at 4% simple interest p.a. How much interest in Rs. gets accrued on
A man who has to walk 11Km, finds that in 30 minutes he has travelled two-ninth of the remaining distance. What is his
speed in Km/h?
Six square plots are connected end to end to obtain a rectangular plot area 726 m2. If we take, ? = 22/7, by what factor
is the perimeter of this plot more than that of the circumference of a circle of radius 10m?
The mean and standard deviation of the data which is comprised of a set of ten positive numbers are 8 and 2
respectively. If the sum of squares of nine among with ten numbers is 599. What is the tenth number?
With what value should the highest quantity in data 65, 52, 14, 26, 18, 35, 32, 38 be replaced so that the mean and
A work is assigned to 6 men and 12 women and they could complete it in 3 days. It was also observed that together they
can do 7 times as much work a man and a woman can do. In how many days would 14 women have done the work?
If the HCF of 180 and 432 is expressed as (180m + 432n), where m and n are integers, then what is the difference
between m and n?
If (x + 10)% of 240 is 60% more than x% of 180, then 15% of (x + 20) is what percent less than 25% of x?
A sales representative?s commission is 6% on all sales upto Rs.15000 and 5% on all sales exceeding this. He remits
Rs.47350 to his company after deducting his commission. What were the total sales?
The given Bar Graph presents the sale of a particular brand of car by three showrooms, A, B and C (in multiples of 100)
What is the ratio of number of cars sold by A in Jan-Feb, 2016 to that of cars sold by B during Mar-Apr, 2016?
The List Price of an item was kept 40% above what the shopkeeper had paid to the manufacturer. On selling the item a
profit of 8.64% was earned after allowing two successive discounts, the first one of which was 20%. What was the
What is the mean proportional (MP) between the MPs of (2/7 & 32/343) and (2 & 1/5000)?
If the positive square root of ((90^0.5)+(80^0.5) is multiplied by (2^0.5 - 1), and the product is raised to the power of four,
Calculate the mean deviation about the mean of the set of the first 10 natural numbers.
An item was sold at a profit of 12% after giving a discount of 12.5% on the List Price. What would be the gain or loss
percentage if a discount of 25% is given on the List Price?
What is the diameter in cm of a solid right circular cylinder whose height is 6 cm and the area of the curved surface is
Find the variance for the following data: 57, 64, 43, 67, 49, 59, 44, 47, 61, 59
The Collection of numbers which comprise the data given below is arranged in ascending order. (12, 16, 18, N ? 1, 24,
27, 28, 29). If the median of the data is 21.5, what is the value of N?
If the alphabets are written in the sequence of a, bb, ccc, dddd, eeeee, ffffff, ?. What will be the 120th letter?
A man who has to walk 15 km, finds that in 90 minutes he has travelled one-fourth of the remaining distance. What is his
speed in km/hr?
Ram earns an interest of 600 over two years on a simple interest basis. On a compound interest basis, at the same
interest rate, he would earn Rs. 630. What is the rate of interest?
A hollow cylinder of radius 5cm takes six turns about its axis on a horizontal plane, and here by covers a distance which
is 6? times its length. What is the area of the curved surface (in cm2) of the cylinder?
The Range and the variance of a data are R & V respectively. With the shift of the origin of the data, change(s) occur in
the value(s) of :
With what value should be lowest quantity in the data 65, 52, 14, 26, 18, 35, 32, 38 be replaced so that the mean and
The index numbers of five commodities are 122, 120, 124, 125, 127 and the weight assigned to these are respectively 5,
The present ages of three brothers are in the proportion 12:17:20. The difference between the ages of elder and the
eldest is 6 years. What will be the proportion of their ages after 6 years?
A sum was lent to X for three years by an organization, who fixed a yearly rate of 10% compound interest for repayment
along with the condition of recovery in equal annual installments of Rs. 31944. The borrowed amount is how much
percentage (correct to 2 decimal places) less than the total installment had X to pay to the organization?
With what value should the second lowest quantity in the data : 65, 52, 14, 26, 18, 35, 32, 38 be replaced so that the
Three numbers are in the ratio 1/2: 1/3: 1/4. If the sum of their squares is 244, find the first numbers.
An alloy consists of 27 ? kg of copper and 2 ? kg of tin. Find the ratio by weight of tin to the alloy.
The sales(in multiples of hundred) of three brands A, B, C of car from a showroom during four consecutive years,
2012-2015 have been presented through the bar graph given below :
What is the simplified value of (10 ? 15 ? 6)[22 ? 2/5 of {(64 ? 2 ? 8) + 2)}] ? 4/5?
In case of frequency distribution of ten continuous classes, the class width is 4 and the lower class limit of the lowest
class is 8. What is the upper class limit for the highest class?
What is the fourth proportional of the mean proportional between (4, 6.25): (0.0027, 300) :: (1.2 x 10-3, 3) : ?
Instead of calculating the sum of a proper fraction, less than 1/2 , with its reciprocal, the difference was worked out, as a
result of which there was an error of ??????? %. What was the fraction?
A takes 10 days less than B to complete a work, and together they do it in 12 days. In how many days can B alone do
the work?
A sum invested in compound interest (CI) at a certain rate for 3 years earns the same interest as it would earn by the
way of an investment in Simple Interest (SI) at the rate of 18.2% for four years. How much more or less in the
The total surface area of a solid hemisphere is 75 times the area of a circle whose diameter is 6 cm. What is the radius
10 men can complete a work in 8 days and 10 women take 12 days to complete the same work. How many days will 3
The ratio of the average speeds of two sprinters A and B is 8:7. In a racing track if B starts at a distance of 2m ahead of
A. At what distance (in metre) from the starting point of B would A catch up with B?
Raju lends Rs 3000 to Bharath and a certain sum to Charan at the same time of 6% per annum simple interest. If after 5
years, Raju altogether receives Rs 1650 as interest from Bharath and Charan, What is the sum lent to charan ?
With Symbols having their usual meaning the mean of the data given is 39.2
What is the difference between the Range and the Standard Deviation of all natural numbers between 81 and 90 , both
inclusive?
The value of 1 gm gold is 90 times that of 1 gm silver. If the weights of equal volumes of silver and gold are in the ratio
10:19, what is the value of a bar of silver that is equal in bulk to a bar of gold of value Rs 99180.
When the list price (L.P) of an article is fixed at 30% above the cost price (C.P), and while selling the same it is subject
to a discount of x%, the profit percentage is 80% of that when the L.P is fixed at 25% above the C.P and the discount is
A shopkeeper calculated his profit as 12% with the selling price of an article as the base. What would have been his
The percentage marks scored by two students A and B at four consecutive monthly tests are depicted in the Bar Graph
below. In which month is the percentage marks scored by B 40% more than that by A.
The sum of the ages of two friends is 74. After one year the ratio of their ages will be 9:10. What was the ratio of their
The area of a sector, with central angle 15?, of a circle is 231 sq cm. what is the circumference (in cm) of the circle?
A retailer purchase several pens of same cost for Rs 384 and then sells some of them for Rs 114 at no loss or gain.
What is the least possible number of pens that he will be left with?
A leak in the body of a ship which can admit 5 units of water in 16 minutes got detected when it is 40km away from the
shore. Entry of 60 units of water will cause the ship to sink which has a pump that can throw out 12 units of water in an
hour. Aided by the pump, what should be the average speed (in km/h) of the ship in order to reach the shore just before
it starts sinking?
What is the mean deviation from the median for the data given below?
After purchasing two copies of the same book, X sold them respectively at 0.75 and 1.35 times their cost prices. What
What is the sum (in Rs) which when divided among A, B, C, D in the proportion 2:3:5:8 provides Rs 8420 less to D, what
it provides to him when the proportion is 1/2:1/3:1/5:1/8?
A number is to be divided by 1001 ( = 7 x 11 x 13) and it was divided in succession by 7, 11 and 13, to obtain the
remainders 4, 6 and 12 respectively. What would have been theremainder if the number was divided directly by 1001?
A room, measuring 6m 65cm long and 4m 55cm broad is to be paved with least number of squared tiles. Then the
The radius of a solid sphere and a solid right circular cone are equal and the height of the cone is equal to the diameter
of its base. They are melted and the combined matter is recast into a solid hemisphere. What is the ratio of the radius of
The table shows the Distribution of the Scores obtained by 155 shooters in a shooting competition.
A person gains Rs. 357 on selling a table at 13% gain and a chair at 6% gain. If he sells the table at 15% gain and the
chair 8% loss, he gains Rs.203. what is the actual cost of the chair?
X working alone takes 75 days more than Y do a work, and working together they complete it in 20 days. If a certain
sum has been earmarked as wages for this work, in what ratio should it get distributed among X and Y?
P,Q,R are three cups having capacities of 120,180 and 200 cc respectively which are completely filled with tea of three
different varieties. They are all mixed in a separate vessel of capacity more than that of P,Q,R taken together, and then
the mixture is poured successively into P,Q,R Then how much (in cc) of P and Q?s tea will be there in R?
A is B's brother. C is D's father. E is B's mother. A andD are brothers. How is E related to C?
In a certain code, P + R means P is the Son of R; P ? R means P is the wife of R and P / R means P is the father of R. If
In a school, 30% of the boys are illiterate while 80% of the girls are literate. If the ratio of the boys to that of the girls is
In a certain code, P + Q means P is the daughter Q: P ? Q means P is the wife of Q and P x Q means P is the husband
In a factory, the coefficients of variation of the wages of urban and rural workers are 52% and 66% respectively and their
standard deviations are 2600 and 2640 respectively. If 60% of the workers are urban, What is the overall average wage
150km and stops for half an hour each at two stages in between, what will be the total time (in hours) he had been on
move?
Krithi has a two ? digit number. The unit?s digit is thrice as ten?s digit. If she reverse the number and subtract 54 from it,
she gets the initial number. What?s the number started with ?
The muzzle velocity of a bullet in 5.56 INSAS rifle (Indian version of AK47) is 882 meters / sec. A sergeant holds this
rifle facing the sky and shoots a bullet. What?s the bullet?s maximum reachable altitude? Assume g = -9.8 m/sec . Write
Two Twin sisters learned that by using principle of moments, one can weigh any item using a single weighing stone in
their school. In one such experiment, they tried hanging their teddy bear at a distance of 20 cm to the left of a rod?s
center. It was countered by a 200 gm weighing stone, kept at a distance of 50 cm to the right of the center, what?s the
weight of teddy bear? Write your answer as a numeral without any unit, space or any other character anywhere.
Kevin Systrom in his annual Instagram report said that youth are spending even more time on social media, - 8.8 hours
a day in 2020 is up 10 percent from the year before. How much time do generally spend on social media in 2019 ?
There was a competition between Rama and Lakshmana. Rama scored 38% and got 10 marks below the cut off.
Lakshmana scored 48% and got 10 marks above cut-off and won the competition. What was the maximum marks for
that competition?
In an IPL Season 1, Chennai Super kings won 60% of the matches they played. They played 2 more games of which it
won 1 and lost 1. Its loss percentage changed to 45%. How many games did they play overall?
A rabbit and a tortoise are in a race. The tortoise, being the slower of the two, is given a headstart. The rabbit runs at a
speed of 40 mi/h and the tortoise at 10 mi/h. If the rabbit catches up with the tortoise in 2 minutes, how much of a
Ananthapuri Express running at a speed of 120 kmph and Cholan Express at 150 kmph take 12 seconds to cross each
other, when they are running in opposite directions (these two trains operate in the same route only as a mathematical
fantasy and not in reality). If Cholan express is 160 meters longer than Ananthapuri Express. What?s the length in
A police car starts chasing a fugitive in a BMW 4 hours after the BMW escapes from the scene of crime at 10 AM. The
BMW drives for 10 km through crowded roads of Shanghal and then drives into a highway, where the traffic allows
vehicles to move twice as fast, after a while, the police car finally catches up with the BMW after a chase that lasted 5
hours. By this time moon was up in the sky for 4 hours. If the average speed of the police car is 50 kmph, then the
Bhang has been consumed in India for centuries. It a strongly distilled drink and is traditionally distributed during the
spring festival. A 30 liters cask initially contains pure bhang (which is not included of milk), up to the brim. The bhang is
diluted by removing 6 liters and replacing that quantity with milk, if bhang is further diluted twice, How many liters of
Two alloys containing copper and zinc are in the ratios 5:8 and 5:3. If they are melted in equal quantities. The ratio of
In a city Dubai there is a Princess tower which contains 100 floors. Floors that are numbered from 1 to 100. How many
5?s are used by the corporate general of United Arab Emirates to number the floors ?
12 liters of water is poured into an aquarium of dimensions 50 cm length, 30 cm breadth and 40 cm height. By what
6 task and 6 persons. P1 and P2 does not do task T1. T2 is assigned to P3 or P4;. Each person should be assigned with
Virat had Rs.850 in his purse made up entirely of notes of Rs.50 denomination. His wife Latha, on the other hand, has
only notes of Rs.20 denomination in her purse and they amount to Rs.400. Virat and Latha redistribute the notes
between the two purses so that if one were to choose one of the purses at random and they randomly draw a note from
it, the probability of note being of Rs.50 denomination is maximized. After this distribution, there will be a total of Rs__ in
An equilateral triangle of side 9 cm is inscribed in a circle. Find the radius of the circle (in cm)
The speed of a common snail is about 1 mm per second. It secretes a bit of mucus that coats the ground beneath and
helps it to move along. This snail we are interested in now has a problem with this secretion and so it moves one mm in
the first second and in the subsequent seconds it moves only half the distance covered in the previous second . Algae,
the food it cherishes is at 3mm distance from this snail. In how much time it will reach its food?
Samuel writes a number. He sees that the number of two digits exceeds four times the sum of its digits by 3. If the
number is increased by 18, the result is the same as the number formed by reversing the digits. Find the next
The informer wanted to send some digit code to the police, He didn?t want to risk sharing that code directly so, he called
the police. He did not give the pin code directly, He said, ?The first four digits are 2120 in hexadecimal and the last four
digits are 3058 in octal?, Informer passed the information indirectly now, what is the actual digit code?
W, X, Y, Z are integers. The expression X ? Y ? Z is even and the expression Y ? Z ? W is odd. If X is even what must
be true? (a) W must be odd (b)Y?Z must be odd (c) Z must be even (d) Z must be odd
In a village 3/4th of the men and 5/6th of the women participated in an event. Total there were 86 people out of which 36
are male. Total how many people were there in the village?
An automobile service company named as A sells a service for Rs. 40 per hour then which of the following could be a
Three people are waiting for a bus at the bus stop. The difference between the ages of two of the three persons is 10.
The elder person is three times older than the age of the youngest person and the eldest person?s age is five years
more than the ages of two younger persons added together. How old is the eldest person?
The difference between the ages of two of my three grandchildren is 3. My eldest grand child 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
Sathvika has a sugar business. She purchases sugar from a local wholesaler of a particular cost per kg. The price of
the sugar in her stores is Rs.20 per kg. Her faulty spring balance reads 0.9 kg for a KG. Also in the festival season, she
gives a 5% discount on the sugar. She found that she made neither a profit nor a loss in the festival season. At what
In 2019, there are 28 days in February and there are 365 days in the year. In 2020, there are 29 days in February and
there are 366 days in the year. If the date November 21, 2019 is Thursday, then which of the following would the date
per hour when he had walked at 4 and 4 km per hour when he had walked at 6 he would have walked only 26 km. The
Two cars start from the same point at the same time towards the same destination which is 420 km away. The first and
second car travel at respective speeds of 60 kmph and 90 kmph. After travelling for some time the speeds of the two
cars get interchanged. Finally, the second car reaches the destination one hour earlier than the first. Find the time after
Anusha, Banu and Esha run a running race of 100 meters. Anusha is the fastest followed by Banu and then Esha.
Anusha, Banu and Esha maintain constant speeds during the entire race. When Anusha reached the goal post, Banu
was 10m behind. When Banu reached the goal post Esha was 10m behind. How far the latter was behind Anusha when
In a famous Art gallery works there are 20 painters, it took them to draw 20 3D paintings in 20 hours. How long will it
take 50 painters to paint 50 paintings? Fill the correct answer in hours. ______
In a technical team Ashok, Chandhu and Srikanth can each individually complete a project in 4, 8 and 10 hours
respectively. Due to some requirement, the individual time required for each to complete the work has increased by
25%, 50% and 50% respectively. How long will they take to finish the project work if they work together?
Arjun is 6 times faster than Bheem. Arjun completes a work 25 days before Bheem. If both of them work together, when
If all the numbers between 611 and 700 are written on a board. How many times will the number 7 be used?
There is a 9-digit digital locker as a security for a private bank with all different digits. If the digit at extreme right and
extreme left are 0 and 9 respectively, find how many such numbers are possible?
Amit owes Bhanu Rs.70. He agrees to pay Bhanu over a number of consecutive days on a Monday, paying single note
are Rs.10 or Rs.20 on each day. In how many different ways can Amit repay Bhanu.
Twin brothers Ajit and Ashok wrote the TCS NQT test. While Ajit scored 55% and got 5 marks below the cut off, Ashok
scored 70% and got 10 marks above cut-off and got selected for interview. ?What was the maximum marks in the
test____
Your friend places 100 cards in row. One of which contains the jack of clubs that you need to guess. You pick the card
at position 15. The host removes all the cards except the card chosen by you at position 15 and another card at position
87. He now says "one of the two cards is the jack of clubs". What is probability that card is at position 87?
For the world cup, Peter the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored
that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Peter picks A with the same probability as A?s chances of winning. Let?s
assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Gavin and Ben; Gavin the stronger team has a probability
of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Peter will correctly pick the winner of the Gavin-Ben game?
If n is the sum of two consecutive odd integers and less than or equal to 180, What is the greatest possibility of n?
Ms. Alakananda wants to decorate her abode?s frontage with a triangular lawn. The two sides of this lawn are of four
and five meters. Subtending an angle of 30 degrees. If the lawn maintainer charges Rs. 15 per square meter, how much
would Alakananda pay to him for the entire lawn? You answer should contain only the numeric value.
A hollow cube of size 6 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the
outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted?
A two-digit number is 18 less than the square of the sum of its digits. How many such numbers are there?
If there were no ties and exactly 3 children told the truth, then who finishes 4th?
Two friends Tina and Reena are measuring 2 cylindrical shaped tanks containing some liquid solution. The tank which is
measured by Tina holds 400 liters more than the other tank which is measured by Reena. After that both friends
pumped out 150 liters from each tank. Now the tank which is measured by Tina contains twice the amount of the fuel
compared to the other tank. How many liters of fuel does the tank initially holds which is measured by Reena?
Find the number of ways a batsman can score a century only in terms of 4's & 6's.
There are 6 rice bags in a room and their weights are 67, 68, 64, 69, 88, 65 kgs. Keeping weights on one pan and object
on the other, What is the maximum weight you can weigh less than 230 kgs.
Out of a group of hens, 2 times the square root of the total are playing outside the farm. The remaining 15 are inside the
Four friends plan to go to an exhibition. There they saw a weighing machine. When 1st person stands on a weighing
machine, 2nd also climbs on, and the weight shown was 200 kg. When 2nd person stands, 3rd person also climbs on,
and the machine shows 198 kg. Similarly, the weight of 3rd and 4th person is found as 170 kg and that of 2nd and 4th
In base 7, a number is written only using the digits 0, 1, 2, ....6. The number 135 in base 7 is ? ? ?2 + ? ? ? + ? = ? in
base 10. What is the sum of the base 7 numbers 1245 and 3245 in base 7.
Oranges costs A rupee per kilogram for first 25 kgs and B rupees per kilogram for each additional kilogram. If the price
of 28 kgs of oranges is 1210 and for 31 kgs of Oranges is 1390 then the cost of the first 15 kgs of Oranges is
In a school, five-eighth of the boys and one-fourth of the girls participate in a farewell celebration. If the total number of
participants is 72, and out of them 20 are boys then the total number of students in school is?
How many prime numbers between 1 and 100 are factors of 7150?
There is a horse and a saddle. The sum of their cost is Rs. 1100 the cost of the horse is Rs. 1000 greater than saddle.
In 4 years, Ranjitha's father age is twice as Ranjitha, two years ago, Ranjitha's mother?s age twice as Ranjitha. If
Ranjitha is 32 years old in eight years from now, what is the age of Ranjitha's mother and father?
How many pairs (p, q) of integers satisfy the equation ?P = ?2 + ??? Please do not add white space around the answer
_____________
Find the number of positive integers Z < 2000 which can be expressed as ? = ?P + ?Q where p and q are integers (for
example, 33 = ?0+ ?5 ?
A tank which contains measuring unit which measures the level of the tank. 1/8 of the tank contains water. When 15
liters of the water is poured into the tank, the indicator rests at 3/4 mark. Capacity of the tank _____ (in liters).
3 persons A, B and C can each individually complete a work in 4, 8 and 10 days respectively. Due to some requirement
the individual time required for each to complete the work is increased by 25%, 25% and 50% respectively. How long
will they take to complete the work if they work together?
How many arrangements will be possible in a word CARTOONS if it starts and ends with a vowel?
Two letters of the English alphabets (A-Z) followed by two digits (0-9) if the repetition of digits or alphabets is not
How many 7-digit odd numbers can be formed from the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 so that the digits should not repeat
There are 4 different balls colored red, yellow, green and blue. If 2 balls are selected, how many combinations are there
Manu likes both ice cream and chocolate, but she is only allowed to eat one. She is given a tetrahedral dice to choose
between them. She has given the dice to roll two times. If she rolls first number less than second number, she will have
a chance to eat ice cream. What is the probability that she rolls first number less than second number? The tetrahedral
is numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 on its four sides and all numbers are equally likely to appear.
In rectangular coordinate system, what is the area of a triangle whose vertices have the coordinates (2,1), (4,5) and
(3,-2)
15 liters of water is poured into an aquarium of dimensions 40 cm length, 20 cm breadth and 30 cm height. Water will
A man is constructing a stadium, Find the length of the longest pole that can be placed in an indoor stadium 24m long,
A call center agent has a list of 410 phone numbers of people in alphabetic order of names (but she does not have any
of the names). She needs to quickly contact Raghuvaran to convey a message to him. If each call takes 1 minutes to
complete, and every call is answered, what is the minimum amount of time in which she can guarantee to deliver the
A city in the India has a Cricket league with three Cricket teams, the A, the B and the C. One of the sportswriter notices
that the tallest player of the A is shorter than the shortest player of the B. The shortest of the C is shorter than the
shortest of the A, while the tallest of the B is shorter than the tallest of the C. The tallest of the B is taller than the tallest
of the A.
(a) Both X and Y (b) X only (c) Y only (d) Neither X nor Y
Of all the nonempty subsets P of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}, how many do not contain the number |P|, where |P| denotes the
number of elements in P? For example, {3, 4} is one such subset, since it does not contain the number 2.
A Volvo bus from Chennai to Ongole has 5 stops in between. At each stop half of the people will get down. After
reaching Ongole there are only 2 people left out. How many people are there in bus at starting?
Balu called his friend Shima to celebrate his wedding anniversary. Shima reached the street where he was living but
forgot the door number. She called Balu for his door number. Being a geek in Maths he didn?t give the door number
directly. But told this ?it is the middle number of the three numbers where the differences between first and second
numbers is same as that between second and third, the product of first and last is 273 and sum of all three is 51?.
A certain company retirement plan has a "rule of 70" provision that allows an employee to retire when the employee's
age plus years of employment with the company total at least 70. In what year could a female employee hired in 1986
There are two water tanks P and Q, P is much smaller than Q. While water fills at the rate of one liter every hour in P, it
gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank Q. (At the end of first hour, Q has 10 liters, second hour it has 20, third hour
it has 40 and so on). If tank Q is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?
A calculator has a key for squaring and another key for inverting. So if x is the displayed number, then pressing the
square key will replace x by ?? and pressing the invert key will replace x by ?/?. If initially the number displayed is 6 and
one alternatively presses the invert and square key 16 times each, then the final number displayed (assuming no round
Jack is a student of horticulture in the University of Hope. In a horticultural experiment in his final year, 100 seeds were
planted in plot I and 100 were planted in plot II. If 50% of the seeds in plot I germinated and 40% of the seeds in plot II
In a country, 70% of the male citizen and 60% of the female citizen are eligible to vote. 60% of the male citizen eligible
to vote voted, and 70% of female citizens eligible to vote voted. What fraction of the citizens voted during the election?
Hemanth speaks truth 40% of the time and Kumar speaks truth 60% of the time. Percentage of cases Hemanth and
Kumar are likely to contradict each other in starting the same fact is ______.
A shop sells chocolates. It used to sell chocolates for Rs.2 each, but there were no sales at that price. When it reduced
the price, all chocolates sold out enabling the shopkeeper to realize Rs.164.90 from the chocolates alone. If the new
price was not less than half the original price quoted. How many chocolates were sold (at the reduced price)?
A clock is started at noon. By 10 minutes past 5, the hour hand has turned through.
P and Q start from their house at 10 am. They travel from their house on MG road at 20 kmph and 40 kmph. There is a
T junction on their path P turn left at the T junction at 12:00 noon. Q reaches the T junction earlier and turns right. Both
of them continue travelling till 2:00 pm. What is the distance between P and Q at 2:00 pm?
Each of A, B and C need a certain unique time to do certain work. C needs 1 hour less than A to complete the work.
Working together they require 30 minutes to complete 50% of the work. The work also gets completed if A and B start
working together and A leaves after 1 hour and B works further 3 hours. How much work does C do per hour?
In the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth basketball games of the session a player scored 23, 14, 11, 20 points
respectively. Her points per game average was higher after nine games than it was after the first five games. If her
average after ten games was greater than eighteen what is the least number of points that she could have scored in the
tenth game?
A lady had some socks and hats in her closet ? 17 black, 47 green, and 24 white. The light is out and its totally dark. In
spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and sock. She takes out an items out of the closet
only if she is sure that it is a sock. How many socks must she take out to make sure she has two socks of each color?
In how many ways a team of 10 must be selected from 4 men and 10 women such that the team comprises of not more
What is the sum of all the 4 digit numbers that can be formed using all of the digits 2, 3, 5 and 7? (Without repetition)
The letters in the word ROADIE are permuted in all possible ways and arranged in alphabetical order. Find the word in
Mahitha has 50 green and 50 black balls. She has two bowls with her. She has to distribute the balls in these two bowls
in such a way that none of the bowls are left empty. If one were to choose one of the two bowls at random and then
randomly draw a ball from it, the probability of the ball being green is maximized. After this distribution, there will be a
total of ________balls in the bowl with larger number of balls.
A closed cylindrical tank contains 81? cubic feet of water and it is filled to half its capacity. When the tank is placed
upright on its circular base on level ground, the height of water in the tank is 9 feet. When the tank is placed on its side
on level ground, what is the height, in feet, of the surface of the water above the ground?
There is a conical tent in which 10 persons can stand. Each person need 6m2 to stand and 60m3 air to breath. What is
P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are 8 people. They need to grouped into two with the following conditions:
(a)PS, TU, VW,QR (b) PR, SU, VW,QT (c) PS, RU, VW,QT (d) PS, RU, VW,QR
The letter of the alphabet is numbered from 1 to 26 consecutively with 1 assigned to A and 26 assigned to Z. By 27th
letter we mean A, 28th we mean B etc. In general, 26m+n where m, n are positive integers is same as the letter
numbered n. Let p = 6. the Strange County Military General sends his secret messages according to the following
codification scheme. In codifying a sentence, the first time a letter occurs it is replaced by the Pth letter from it, second
time it occurs it is replaced by p^2nd letter from it, third time it occurs, it is replaced by p^3rd letter from it etc. What is the
Three sisters are identical triplets. The oldest by minutes is Rinky, and Rinky always tells anyone the truth. The next
oldest is Pinky, and Pinky always will tell anyone a lie. Lucky is the youngest of the three. She sometimes lies and
sometimes tells the truth. Vicky, an old friend of the family?s, came over one day and as usual he didn?t know who was
who, as he asked each of them one question. Vicky asked the sister that was sitting on the left, ?Which sister is in the
middle of you three?? and the answer he received was, ?Oh, that?s Rinky?. Vicky then asked the sister in the middle,
?What is your name?? The response given was, ?I?m Lucky.? Vicky turned to the sister on the right, then asked, ?Who
is that in the middle?? The sister then replied, ?She is Pinky?. This confused Vicky; he had asked the same question
three times and received three different answers. Who was actually sitting in the middle?
In function ? (?,) = ??? ? (??? + ??????). What value indicates the increases in P that correspondence to increase in a,
A very crowded street in T.Nagar contains 100 buildings. The buildings are numbered from 1to 100. How many 9's are
An equilateral triangle ABO is inscribed in a circle as shown in the figure. AC is a diameter of the circle. If the radius of
The statement All fathers are men, some fathers are teachers or politicians but no teacher a politician" can be
represented in Venn diagram as (M - Men, F - Father, T = Teacher, P - Politician) which of the following options?
Mary Meeker in her annual internet Trends Report said that Americans are spending even more time digital media. ?6.3
hours a day in 2018, up 5 percent from the year before. ?How much time did Americans spend with digital media in
2017?
Two alloys A and B are both made of iron and zinc. The ratios of iron to zinc in the two alloys are 5:3 and 1:2
respectively. A and B are combined in the ratio 4:3 to yield a new alloy C. What is the ratio of iron and zinc in C?
A team won 80% of the games it played. It played 5 more games of which it won 3 and lost 2. Its loss percentage
A has Rs.850 in his purse made up entirely of notes of Rs. 50 denominations. B has only notes of Rs. 20 denominations
in her purse and they amount to Rs. 460. A and B redistribute the notes between the two purses so that if one were to
choose one of the two purses at random and then randomly draw a note from it, the probability of the note being of
Rs.50 denominations is maximized. After this redistribution, there will be a total of Rs._______ in the purse with the
Sura, a strongly distilled alcoholic drink was used in ancient India as an anesthetic by surgeons. A 15 liters cask initially
contains pure Sura up to the brim. The Sura is diluted by removing 5 liters and replacing that quantity with water. If Sura
The speed of a common snail is about 2 mm per second. It secretes a bit of mucus that coats the ground beneath and
helps it to move along. This snail we are interested in now has a problem with this secretion and so it moves one mm in
the first second and in the subsequent seconds it moves only half the distance covered in the previous second. Algae,
the good it cherishes, is at 5 mm distance from this snail. In how much time it will reach its food.
The muzzle velocity of a bullet in 5.551NSAS rifle (Indian version of AK47) is 1120 meters/sec. A sergeant holds this
rifle facing the sky and shoots a bullet. What's the bullet's maximum reachable altitude? Assume g = 9.8 m/sec/sec.
Write your answer as numeral without any other character. Hint: v2 = u2 + 2gs
Ahilyanagari Express running at a speed of 60 kmph and Cholan Express at 120 kmph take 10 seconds to cross each
other, when they are running in opposite directions (these two trains operate in the same route only as a mathematical
fantasy and not in reality). If Cholan express is 120 meters longer than Ahilyanagari Express. what's the length in meters
of the latter?
A police car starts chasing a fugitive in a BMW 3.5 hr hours after the BMW escapes from the scene of crime at 9 AM.
The BMW drives for 10 Km through crowded roads of Shanghai and then drives into a highway, where the traffic allows
vehicles to move twice as fast. After a while, the police car finally catches up with the BMW after a chase that lasted 7
hours. By this time the moon was up in the sky for 4 hours. If the average speed of the police car is 60 kmph, then the
1, 7, 8, 49, 50, 56, 57, 343, 344, 350, 351, 392, 393, 399, 400 ?. The above sequence contains sums of distinct powers
of 7 in the increasing order (70, 71, 71 + 70, 72 etc.) What is the value of term number 36? ----------------------
George?s salary is 20% more than Mark?s, Harry?s salary is 30% greater than George?s. Tony?s salary is 40% more
than Albert?s. Albert?s salary is 20% lesser than George?s. What is Albert?s salary as a percentage of Tony?s salary
3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald's restaurant and there they measure their weights in some order
in 7 rounds. A, B, C, AB, BC, AC, ABC. Final round measure is 155 kg, then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds?
Which of the following number must be added to 5678 to give a remainder of 35 when divided by 460?
How many prime numbers are there which are less than 100 and greater than 3 such that they are simultaneously of the
In a certain store, the profit is 320% of the cost. If the cost increases by 25% but the selling price remains constant,
Totally 3 beakers A, B, C are present. A of capacity X lit, B of capacity 2X lit, C of capacity 3X lit. If A contain 2/3 of wine
and rest with water. B contains 1/4 of wine and rest with water. if these two liquids are poured in to the 3rd beaker what
Raj writes a number. He sees that the number of 2digits exceeds 4times the sum of its digits by 3. If the number is
increased by 18, the result is the same as the number formed by reversing its digits. Find the number
p, q, r, s are distinct integers numbered from 1 to 12. what is possible smallest value for
George can do some work in 8 hours. Paul can do some work in 10 hours while Hari can do the same work in 12 hours.
All three of them start working at 9.00 am. While George stops work at 11.00 am and the remaining two complete the
If (?) = ??4 + ??3 + ??2 + ?? + ? has roots at ? = ?,?,?,? and P(0) = 48, what is P(5) ?
?WHO ? World Health Organization? predicts that the number of Covid-19 cases will increase exponentially in India.
This Pandemic disease is doubling the number of cases each weeks. It took just 3 weeks to acquire a thousands of
In how many ways can we give change for Rs.100 using 1 rupee and 2 rupee coins? For example for 5 rs, we can give
Study the following graph and answer the questions that follow.
If in 1986 tins were exported at the same rate per tin as in 1985, then what would be the value of exports in 1986?
(Crores of Rupees)
Bhaskar and Shakuntala challenge each other in math and are at loggerheads always. At the end of a milestone in their
project, the team had dinner and were seated in a circular table. If there were 16 people for dinner, what are the odds
against the event that Bhaskar and Shakuntala will sit together. (Give the answer as a : b)
Two finals are scheduled ? The Wimbledon match and the World Cup Cricket at the same time. Anu wants to watch the
Wimbledon finals and her brother Vinu wants to watch WCC final. They decide to roll a tetrahedral die twice. The
tetrahedral is numbered 1,2,3,4 on its four sides and all numbers are equally likely to appear. Anu rolls first and then
Vinu rolls. If the number on the first roll is strictly greater than the number on the second roll. Anu wins and gets to watch
Wimbledon. What is the probability that Anu will get to watch Wimbledon?
A semicircle is drawn on one of the sides of the square with the side of the square as the diameter of the circle. If the
length of the side of the square is 2 cm. What is the radius of the smallest circle that can contain this figure ?