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1. A says " the horse is not black". B says " the horse is either brown or grey." c says " the hoese is brown" At least one is telling truth and atleast one is lying. tell the colour of horse. Answer : grey 2. A son and father goes for boating in river upstream . After rowing for 1 mile son notices the hat of his fathe falling in the river. After 5 min. he tells his father that his hat has fallen. So theyturn around and are able to pick the hat at the point from where they began boating after 5 min.Tell the speed of river.Ans...6 miles/hr 3 A+B+C+D=D+E+F+G=G+H+I=17 where each letter represent a number from 1 to 9. Find out what does letter D and G represent if letter A=4. 8 marks) ans. D=5 G=1 4. Argentina had football team of 22 player of which captain is from Brazilian team and goalki from European team. For remainig palayer they have picked 6 from argentinan and 14 from european. Now for a team of 11 they must have goalki and captain so out of 9 now they plan to select 3 from argentinian and 6 from European. Find out no.of methods avilable for it (2 marks)Ans : 160600( check out for right no. 6C3 * 14C6) 5 Three thives were caught stealing sheep, mule and camel. A says " B had stolen sheep " C says " B had stolen mule" B says he had stolen nothing. the one who had stolen horse is speaking truth.the one who had stolen camel is lying . Tell who had stolen what? (5marks)ans. A- camel B- mule C- horse 6 a group of friends goes for dinner and gets bill of Rs 2400 . Two of them says that they have forgotten their purse so remaining make an extra contribution of Rs 100 to pay up the bill. Tell the no. of person in that group. (3 marks)Ans - 8 person 7. In acolony there are some families. Each of them have children but different in numbers.Following are conditions a no of adult>no of sons>no of daughters>no of families. b>each sister must have atleast one brother and should have at the most 1 sister. c> no of children in one family exceeds the sum of no of children in the rest families. Tell the no of families.(5 marks) ans : 3 families 8.There are 6 people W,H,M,C,G,F who are murderer , victim , judge , police, witness, hangman. There was no eye witness only circumtancial witness. The murderer was sentenced to death.Read following statement and determine who is who. 1. M knew both murderer and victim.2. Judge asked C to discribe murder incident.3. W was last to see F alive.4. Police found G at the murder site.5 H and W never met.( 8 marks) The above mentioned questions are of 37 marks restI don't rememberas they had no of condition. One which mentionsabout hundustani music , Gazals ect. is to be solved through venn diagram.Its of 8 marks. and another was grading 5 student which was of 5 marks. Selection-1 select any one of the following for 5 questions;; A) only 1 is sufficient B) only 2 is sufficient insufficient E) either is sufficient

C) both nessary

D) both are

1. .......... (Don't know) 2. one composition contains... 5/4 L 6/14 L.... (Ans. both r insufficent) 3. x fabric.... 6.50 per meter , 25% wholesale... (Ans: both r required) 4 & 5 don't know.... Section 2 (Analitical...)

1. Average 3years 45,000, 1st 1.5 times, 2nd 2.5 times.. (Calculate in this way... (x+1.5x+2.5x)/3 =45000 i.e 5x/3 =45000 ) then calculate required value...) 2. Three vehecle speed ratio 1:2:3 & time ratio 3:2:1... Distance ratio ?? (Ans: 3:4:3.. check once)> 3. some km/hr problem... (Ans: 150 km/hr) 4 & 5 don't know.... Section 3 (English - 8 marks.. mutiple choice..) Don't know... Section 4 (True or Flase type..) 1. Square contains all angles , one object does not contain angles; 1.1 True 1.2 False 1.3 True CTS 98 12 -14: each sentense is broke to four sections a,b,c,d.choose which has mistake mark (e) if you find no mistake. 12:a)phylchologists pointout that b)there are human processes c)which does not involve d) the use of words(choice is A) 13:a)jack ordered for b)two plates of chicken c)and a glass d)of water (choice is A)14:a) politics is b) (choice is A) (are) 16 - 20: each question of group of questions is based on a passage or a set of conditions for each question,select the best answer choice given. (i).if it is fobidden by law if the object of agreement is the doing of an act, that is forbidden by law the agreement is void. (ii). if it is of the nature that,it would defeat the provision of any law is the agreement is void.if the object of agreement is such that thing got directly forbidden by law it would defeat the provision of statuary law. (iii). if the object of agreement is fraddulent it is void. (iv). an object of agreement is void if it involves or implies to the personnal property of another. (v). an object of agreement is void where the constant regards as ignored. (vi). an object of agreement is void where the constant regards is as opposed to public policy. 17. A,B,C enter an agreement for the division a many them of gains acqest or by be acquit by them by them by the argument is void as ans: ---(choice is D) 21-25) An algorithem follws a six step process za,zb,zc,zd,ze,zf, it is governed by follwing (i) zd should follw ze (ii) the first may be za,zd or zf (iii) zb and zc have to be performed after zd (iv) zc must be immediately after zb 21) ans:- D 22) if za the first set zd must be a) 3rd b)5th c)2nd d)4th ans:- A or D (probably a) 23) zf can be 3rd or 5th------any of the six, first, second or forth only, any of first four only none these ans:- B 24) if zb must follw za then a)za can only 3rd or fourth b) first or second c) can not be third d) fouth or fifth e)none ans:- A

25) ze is third term the no of diff operations possible is

ans:- D (dabad)

26-31) ravi plans six sep-- x,y,z,w,u,v in rows no 1 to 6 ,according to the follwing conditions he must plant x before y and u he must plant y "w the 3rd has to be z 26) which could be in order a) xuywzv b) xvzyuw c)zuyxwv d)zvxuwy e) wyzuvx ans:- B 27) which is true a) z before v b) z before x c) w before u d) y before u e) x before w ans:- D 28) if he plans v first which is second x,y,z,w,u so ans is 'x'. choice is A. 29) which is true a) x,3 b)y,6 c)z,1 d)w,2 e)u,6 ans:- E 30) if he plans b 6th which would be first and second a) x and w b) x and y c)y and x d)w and z e) w and u ans:- B 31) if he plans w before u and after v he should plan w at a) first b)second c)fourth d)fifth e)sixth ans:- D 32)thursday 33)a&d 34)south hit 35) 36)at a certain moment a watch showes 2 min lag althogh it is fast.if it showed a 3 min lag at that moment ,but gain 1/2 min more a day than it does. it would show the true time one day sooner than it usually does .how many mins does the watch gain per day. a).2 b).5 c).6 d).4 e).75 ans : e ---->(discount problem) 20%->15%then->32% (ans:32%) 37)in 400m race a gives b a start of 7 sec & beats by 24m.in another race a beats by 10 sec.the speeds are a)8,7 b)7,6 c)10,8 d)6,8 e)12,10 ans:c(10,8) 38)3x+4y=10 x cube+y cube=6 minimum value of 3x+11y=? ans=? 39)0.75 40)41)sink---7.7kms---> fills 2 1/4 t is 5.5 min. 92 tonnes enough.. sink throws out 18 tonnes/hr. avg. speed to a)1.86 b)8.57 c)9.4 d)11.3 e)10.7 42) . ______ /\ 2 2 cms /_a_\ ______ / \3 2 cms area of the d=50 cm square /___b___\ ______ what is the area of the b=? / \ 4 2 cms /_____c_____\ ______ / \ 5 2 cms ans=(10.7) /_______d________\ ______ 43)600 tennis players 4% ->wrist band on one wristof remain 96%->25%>on both hands remain no of ---(ans:312) 44)312(doubt) or 432 45)in how many ways 5e,6s,3f be arranged if books of each language are to be kept together 17,64800,90,58400,3110400 ans:e(3!*5!*6!*3!=3110400) 46)--47)three types of the a,b,c costs Rs. 95/kg,100/kg&70/kg .how many kg of each be blended to produce 100 kg of mixture worth Rs.90/kg,gives that the quntities of b&c are equal a)70,15,15 b)50,25,25 c)60,20,20 d)40,30,30 ans:b 48)water milk problem 49)x+y+z=w 50)two distinct no's are taken from 1,2,3,4......28 a)probably that the no is 6 -->1/14 b)probably that it exceeds 14 -->1/28 c)both exceed 5 is 3/28 d)less than 13->25/28 (24/28) e)none ans:d

51)1200 died 6 55)170% 56)c

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CTS '99 SECTION I - 8 questions. Series. 1. Interchange of letters in a word and the adjacent letters are also tobe changed. given letters series like [also few condotions] AAABBB= ABABAB= LET QUESTION IS ABBAABIf we apply 25 on this it means we have to interchange the letters at positions 2 and 5, and we have to change the adjacent letters 2 and 5 from A to B and B to A. That is q's A B B A A B after Step 1 i.e interchange 2 and 5. now change adjacent elements of 2 and 5...finally answer becomes Ans: B A A B B A //Hint: As per question papers 5 questions above like but numbers change. REMAINING 3 QUESTIONS: 6. To get AAABBD from BBBAAA what ot apply:a) 25 b) 34 c)25 & 34 d) none SECTION II 1. Given the function f(n a b c ) = ac if n=1 f(n a b c) = f( n-1 a b c) + f( 1 a b c) + f( n-1 b a c ) if n > 1 f( 2) = ? Ans: f( 2 a c b ) = ab + ac + bc. 2. similar question in functions. 3. [ based on function in 1.] f( 4 a b c ) the number of terms is...? Ans: f( 4 a b c ) = f( 3 a c b ) + f( 1 a b c ) + f( 3 b a c ) etc. = 5ab + 5ac + 5bc. 4. f( 5 a b c ) = ? SECTION III Permutations and Combinations.8 questions. 1. r = number of flags; n = number of poles; Any number of flags can be accommodated on any single pole. i) r=5,n=5 The no. of ways the flags can be arranged ? ii) to iv) are based on this. 6. r= 5 n = 3 . If first pole has 2 flags ,third pole has 1 flag how many ways the remaining can be arranged? 7.& 8. same as above. SECTION IV Question consising of figures consist of 4 small squares and every square having an arrow pointing in one Direction. GRE test of reasoning. hint: What is the next sequence if we tilt the figure by 90 degrees like that( clockwise and mirror images ? ). CTS -REC'99(TRICHY) SECTION-1: Find the sequence: ( d is always NONE

1. BC CE EG GK ? a)KN b)KU c)KM d) 2. AA AB BC CE? a)EG b)EH c)EI d) 3. AB EF JK QR ? a)YZ b)ZA c)AB d) 4.ACD EGL IKT MOB? a)QST b)QSZ c)QSY d) 5.AC CG GO OE? a)EJ b)EI c)EL d) 6.AE BH CM DU? a)EH b)EZ c) EB d) 7. AD DP PL LV a)VS b)VK c)VI d)

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SECTION-II: FIND THE VALUES FOR FOLLOWING PROBLEM:F(X)= 2X-1 + f(X-1) if X NOT EQUAL TO ZERO if f(X=0)=0 9. f(5) VALUE a)15 b)24 c)22 d)NONE 10.f(f(2)) 11.f(16)- f(15) 12.f(16)+f(15)-480 13.f(f(x))=81 THEN VALUE OF X= 14.f(X)=4f(X-1) THEN VALUE OF X= 15.f(X)= f(X-1)+f(X-2) FOR X>1 THEN X= 16.f(X)-f(X-1)=f(X-8) FOR X>5 THEN X= SECTION -III: In the follwing questins we r giving 'aword' which may not have any meaning.Find differnet possible words or palandrams for the word as per que.I. for the following find no of distinct words that can be formed. 17. TYGHHTT A).420 B)1540 C)840 D)NONE 18. TYGHHTY 19. TYGHHTT 20. TYGHHTT 21. TYGHASD 22. TYGHHTY II Find NO OF POSSIBLE PALANDRAMS for following 23. TYGHHTY 24. TYHHHTYH. /*dEAR FRIENDS DON,T CONFUSE WITH THE WORDS REPEATED.Iam sure.Words are same.They might have changed the questionsfor20,21,22.Concentrate on that respect*/ 25 to 32 are figures.Uhave to analyse them.He will give five figs.One is not correct SECTION IV: It having complete of figs.(26 -32) SECTION -V: For following first find out the anagram and then note the corresponding meaning. 33.TABLET(anagram means first u arrange the letters in correct order like (TABLET===BATTLE . so ans is FIGHT i.e. B) 34.RUGGED 35.GORE. 36.STASSI. For all above choices are. A) resentment B)Fight c)Help d) Monster 37. ENFOLD 38. LAMB 39. RECEDE. 40. PLEASE. For above 4 choices are same A)cuddle B)sleeping c)proclamination d)ointment.

1. Train A starts from station A at 11.am.Train B starts from station B at 12 noon. the speed of train A is 4 kmph ,train B is 1 kmph for the first hour,2 kmph for the 2nd hour,3 kmph for the 3rd hour etc. At what time do the two trains meet? Ans: 2 PM 2. There is a coin collection.100 coins in all.4 people collect coins. Each collects a minimum of 10 coins. And each has different number of coins. The numbers are even. (4 questions based on this) 3. Moped problem based on time and distance 4. Find the number of integers divisible by either 3 or 12 from 1 to 999. 5. Find the number of integers divisible by either 3 or 2 from 100 to 200 including both, 6. There is a cube of side 4 cm. The faces are colored in red. The cube is cut into pieces of size 1 cm. How many cubes have no color Ans: 8 7. There are 80 coins. One coin is counterfeit in weight. How many minimum weighing are required to find out the counterfeit coin? Ans: 4 8. There are 31 kgs of rice .With a 1 kg weight, Find out the minimum number of weighing required to weigh 31 kgs. 9. There are four contestants in a beauty contest. They are Ms.UP ,Ms.MP, Ms.AP and Ms.WB. each is wearing a different color saree(red,blue,green and white).They are seated in a row. The winner and runner are not sitting near each other .Ms.WB is neither the winner nor is the runner.the green and white saree contestants are sitting in either end or the green color saree contestant the runner up. 4 questions based on this 10. There is a pack of cards. Find the sum of integers excluding all the picture cards. Ans.216 11. Two questions based on figure. Given at the end. 12. There are 2 cars moving in opposite directions. the distance between them is 300cm.They move forward for 100cm with a speed of 50 cm/s, and comes back 50 cms at 25cm/s.after how many seconds will the cars collide? 13) There is a room with 12 slots for painting. The details about the paintings are as follows: 18th century paintings - 3 19th century paintings - 2 20th century paintings - 4 Make up a sequence so that the paintings may be arranged with the following rules. 1) The 5th slot is always empty. 2) There must be an empty slot between paintings of different groups (century). 3) The paintings of the same group can be placed together. A set of questions were asked with the pattern that was framed.

14)

Find the area of the square which is covered by the circle. The area is 1/3 area of the square. Find the side of the square. 15)

Find the number of squares. CTS Questions 28th May 2003: GCT, coimbatore Paper colour:pink There are 60 questions to be answered in 60 minutes 1) In a club there are certain no. of males and females. If 15 females are absent then no. of males will be twice that of females. If 45 males are absent then female strength will be 5 times that of males. Find no. of males actually present. 2) Three men A, B, C plays Cards. If one loses the game he has to give Rs.3. If he wins the game he will gain Rs.6. If A has won 3 Games, B loses Rs.3, C wins Rs.12.What is the total no. of games played? 3) A can swim & cross 50m(the length of swimming pool) in 2 min. B can swim & cross 50m in 2min 15sec. Every time when they meet a bell gong is struck. For 2000m how many bell sounds might be produced? 4) When I was married 10 years ago my wife is the 6th member of the family. Today my father died and a baby born to me. The average age of my family during my marriage is same as today. What is the age of Father when he died?ans:70. 5) There are 9 balls of equal size and same weight(they look similar) except 1. How may weighs required to find the dissimilar ball using a weighing balance? 6) Product of Prime no. between 1 to 20? 7) Find out the total numbers between 1 to 999 that are neither divisible by 8 nor by 12? 8) Find out the distinct numbers that can be formed by 2, 3, 7, 6(dont now exactly) that should be divided by 4? 9) Two trains at speed 60 km/hr comes in the opposite direction. At a particular time the distance between the two trains is 18km. A shuttle flies

between the trains at the speed of 80 km/hr. At the time the two trains crashes what is the distance traveled by shuttle? 10) There are n urns and m balls. If we put 3 balls in each urn 3 balls will be excess. If we put 4 balls in each urn 1 urn will be excess. Find no. of Urns (or) Balls? 11) Find the area not occupied by circles: Given length =y breadth =x (Answer: 3x2(1-pie/4))

12)A man gets x/y of Rs.10 and y/x of Rs.10. He returns Rs.20. The Answer choices are a) He may not lose b) He may lose c) He always loses d) Cannot be Determined 13)Three men A,B,C can complete a work separately in some specified days(may be6,7,8). If they do the work together by alternate days. Then how many days need to complete the work? 14)Four Members A,B,C,D are playing a game .A person losing a game should double the amount of others .B,C,D are losing in order after three games .The amount after 3 games are A&B having 40,D is having 16&C 80. Each questions carry one mark: a) who started with small amount of money? Ans)A 15)who started with greatest amount of money?Ans)B 16)what amount did B have? Ans)93 Hint: I solved and found the answers to be A->5,B->93 17)There are some houses in a street back to back .And they that house behind 10 was 23.How many houses in the street? Ans)32 18) There are 1997 doors in a auditorium and as many as people as the no of doors open enter the auditorium .A door was closed and as many as people as no of doors open leave the auditorium . the process was repeated till the no of doors is equal to1.find the total no of peoples enter the auditorium? 19)A batsman average was 15.at last innings he took 23 runs then his average became 16.how much run he should take to make his average 18? 20)Find the number WXYZ divisible by 36?i)let the digits be5,4,3,6 not in that order ii)sum of last two digits is 9 iii) sum of middle two digits is 7 ->if one is sufficient then ans as A || if two is sufficient then ans as B || if all are necessary then ans as C|| if nothing is needed then ans as D 21)X and Y live in a North-South parallel street. X travels 10 km towards North to reach the east-west street . Y travels 6 km towards south to reach the east west street . X travels now 4km towards east and y travels 8km towards west and they met each other. What is the distance between x and y? 22)The houses are numbered 1,2,3, and reach the end of the street and backtracks toward s the starting point. The house numbered 10 is opposite to 23. there are even no of houses. Find the total no of houses. 23)A seller has a set of apples out of which he sells one half of it and half an apple to his first customer.then he sells half of the remaining apples and a half apple to his second customer.Then he sells half of the remaining apple and apple to his third customer and so on.This repeats upto 7th customer and no more apples are remaining . Find the total no of apples he had.

24) A hollow cube of size 5cm is taken , with the thickness of 1cm . it is made of smaller cubes of size 1cm . if the outer surface of the cube is painted how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? 25)if a 36 cm thread is used to wrap a book , lengthwise twice and breadthwise once, what is the size of the book?6)

the various degrees of the vertices are marked in the dig. Find y. 27)if 4 circles of equal radius are drawn with vertices of a square as the centre , the side of the square being 7 cm, find the area of the circles outside the square? 28)A bus has 40 seats and the passengers agree to share the total bus fare among themselves equally. If the total fair is 80.67 , find the total no of the seats unoccupied. 29) A 4 digit no may consist of the digits 6,2,7,5 where none of the nos are repeated. Find the possible no of combinations divisible by 36? 30) if u r traveling from Mumbai to Bangalore and return back .To find the speed of the car which of the following r needed. a) The distance between them. b) Time taken c) Avg speed towards Mumbai and the avg speed towards Bangalore. Choices: 1) a only. 2) a and b 3) a,b,c 4)b only 5) c only ( ans not in order) 31)

(Diagram drawn approximate not to scale.) if all the blocks are squares and the complete fig is also a square and the area of the a is 1 cm2,b=81 cm2what is the area of i? 32) A secret can be told only 2 persons in 5 minutes .the same person tells to 2 more persons and so on . How long will take to tell it to 768 persons? a)47.5 min b)50 min c) 500 min d). Ans: 47.5 min 33) Three birds cross a point in a same st. line and of that 2 fly in opposite directions. If a triangle is formed with the position of the birds what kind of the triangle will be formed? a)isosceles b)right angle c)equilateral d)right angle and isosceles. 34)

When the angle a, b, c, d are given find x. 35) One question is given for explaining the working of cornea (in eyes) & the window Ans: drawing analogy 36) m<n, & x<y which of the following is definitely false A) m-n < x-y b)m+n < x+y c) &d) similar options using all 4 variables 37) Four circles are drawn from the corners of a square of area 49 cm 2 . Find the area of 4 circles outside the square(They didnt mention that circles have radius=1/2 side of a square)Ans: intermediate 38)In a pond ecosystem, large fishes and small fishes will be there. If we want to remove small amount of pollutants, small fishes are to be employed. In a foodchain food passes through a number of mouths and en route the mouth of the super feeder-the eagle. The size of the ecosystem is determined by its population. But this has been proved false. What can you infer from above? (4 choices) 39)In Bangalore, during income tax deduction for a single person, the percentage increased by 3% and for middle house-holders, it decreased by 3%.What can you infer? 40)In China, Mao-Tse Tung was responsible for organizing its people and taking China into success path. It evolved into a great economic power by improved industrial and economical statistics. China prospered in those years, but_________________ Which of the following best completes the sentence? (4 choices) 41) A ridge formed over Pacific Ocean was because of the intersection of two volcanoes. But in history it was written that it was not due to those volcanoes. It proves a contradictory to form the view that history will be proved wrong in the future. Inference? 42) In a poultry form because of cloning, a large breed of hens was produced. This increased the production but the maintenance was very difficult because of the large number. This does not mean that cloning is a disaster in the scientific world but it is a tool which in some ways is constructive but in other ways, it is destructive. Inference? (The remaining verbal questions are easy and they can be answered by seeing the question carefully) 1. Product of prime number between 1 and 20. 2. Number of terms between 1 and 999 not divisible by 8 or 12. 3. There are number of hours on both sides of a road. On one side houses are numbered in increasing order (1,2,3). On other sides houses are numbered in down order. It house number 10, opposite house is house no.23. Find no of houses (Even number of houses are provided).; 4. What is the area of the shaded region? Ans.3*x*X(1-(pi/4)). 5. An apple seller is having some apples. He is selling half of the apple what he has plus half the apple to the first customer. In the same way he sells the remaining apple to 7 customers. After selling to 7 customer, he has no apples with him. Ans.127 6. In the combinations of 2,3,6,7 how many possible combinations divisible by 4? Ans. 8 7. If x>y & n>m which of the following data is false.

8. There are no of urns &no of balls. If three balls are placed in each urn then 3 balls is left. If 4 balls are placed in each urn then 1 urn is left. What is the total no of balls? Ans. None of these. 9. There are 1997 doors in the courts. 1997 people came out from each door. One door is closed. That many people came out from each door. This continues till a single person come out of the single open door. Find the no of people inside the court? There dare four teams A,B,C, D playing game. If any one team loses, it will play twice the money to all other teams. They play 3 games B,C,D loses one game each in the order. Finally A& B has Rs. 40 each & C has Rs. 80 & D has Rs. 16. 10. Which team has started with minimum money?i) A ii) B iii) C iv) D ans. I) A 11. Which team has started with maximum money? i) A ii) B iii) C iv) D Ans. ii) B 12. Two trains are traveling in 60 kmph on same trace, towards each other. When the distance between them is 18 km, a fly is going to start, flying between them in 80 kmph speed. Find the traveling path distance of the fly upto when it is going to crush by the 2 trains? Ans. 12 km 13. A batsman outs for 23 runs in one inning which increases his average 15 to 16. If he has to got 18 as average, what score is to made by him in the same innings?Ans. 39 14. There are 4 numbers as 5,8,2,1Form 4, four digit numbers as A ,B and find the sum?A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I are all of squares which are combined in a square. Area of B is 81 cm2.Side of A is 1 cm. Then find area of I? Ans. 324 cm2. 15. Death rate in a village (drought ridden ) decreases. Naidu Govt claims it free health camps. This goes in valid when Ans. i. Two water supply tanks were built supplying clean water. 16. In 1996, income after taxdeduction of upperclasses increases by 3% than in 1995.Choices: 1) No of upper class population increases 2) ,, ,, decreases 17. A Man gets x/y of Rs. 10 & y/x of Rs. 10, He gives out Rs. 20. i) He loses always ii) May or maynot less iii) cannot always lose. Petrol prices increased by 40% expected hike in taxi & auto charges so, people may use public transport systems. What do you infer? 18. All people use a bus paid equalty. 40 seats in the bus.Bus charge is Rs. 70.37How many seats we left unfilled. 19. 4 men can cross a bridge in 3,7,13, 17 minutes. Only two can cross the bridge at a time. The time taken by the two to cross the bridge is equal to the time taken by the slowest person of the two. Find the mininmum time to all of them cross the bridge.Ans. 47 20. 1000 doors I man open all II man 2 multiples close III man 3 multiples open IV man 4 multiples close How many doors are open? 21. I was married 10 years before my wife was sixth member of my family and now I have a baby and today father died and the average age of my family was same as it was 10 years before. Find my fathers age when I was married.Ans. 60

22. Square side 7 cm Find the area 4 equal circles of the circle lying drawn at the . 23. It takes five minutes to pass a rumour from one person to two other persons. The tree of rumour continues. Find how many minutes does it take spread the rumour to 768 persons. 24. There are 9 coins. One of 9 is less weighted and others have equal weigtheds. Find the minimum no of balances to find the defective coin? Ans. 2 25. (Train did not stop at Calcutta) 26. 2500 km distance between Mumbai & Calcutta, Calculate the average speed. 1) from Mumbai to calculate 25 hrs 2) speed during the return journey was 150 km/hr. 3) speed during the forward journey is 100 km/hr. a) if it can be answered using each of the given above . Mark b) if it can be answered using two of them . Mark c) If it can be answered using non of them. Mark d) if non of them is required to answer. Ans. (b) 27. Three brids cross a point at the same instant with equal speed. Two of the birds fly exactly in opposite direction. After they cross the point at any instant of time. The tree birds are joined by straight lines to form a triangle. The nature of the triangle is i) isoceles ii) equilateral iii) Right angled iv) rightangle isosceles 28. There are two parallel street in North-South direction . A lives in street 1, B lives in street 2, A goes 10 km north and B goes south 8 km to meet the east west road. A moves 4 km east and B moves 6 km west to meet each other. Find distance between houses owned by A & B. 29. A question on eco system. Inference: Food energy in the eco system dependson the type of population. CTS 2003 Anna University. June 2, 2003 Booklet color : Blue 1)

Diameter of circle is d, Find length of string.(outer string that covers the circle) Ans: d (pi + 3) 2) Diamond\s value is proportional to its weight 2 .When the diamond broke wts of pieces in ratio 1:2:3:4:5. Total loss in value is 85,000.What is the value of the diamond twice the wt of the original diamond.Ans : 450,000 3)Person X join a job at 20 yrs.First 3 years sal =10,000 p.a. Afterwards every year inc of 2,000 per year for 10 year. Then sal become const till retirement. at retirement avg sal is 25,000. ( throout career) what age he retires.?

4)In an island there r tribals who speak lang of atmost 4 words.Lang consists of 4 alphabets.How many words can be formed in that language? Ans 340 5) It was found that the cause for the malaria was the swamp marsh and so r swamps were drained .Mosquito the real cause for malaria due to lack of breeding grounds (Swamps) also was wiped out. What does this illustrate? (Ans : (Possible) when many conditions form a result eradication of one cause also eradicates the result) 6)An officer kept files on his table at various times in the order 1,2,3,4,5,6 .Typist can take file from top whenever she has time and type it.What order she cant type.?(Ans : 4,5,6,2,3,1) 7)A and B r fighting .B fires 3 times as many missiles as A. Total hits: total misses = 1/7 .Bs misses 357.Bs hits As hits = 66.As hits? 8)40 shots taken.50p for a hit.10p for a miss.(he have to give).Finally he has Rs.5.How many hits.? Ans 15 9)Find avg of a,b,c,d,e .Given data : avg of any 4 num =avg of any 3 num 2) (a+b) = 36 Which of the abv are sufficient? 10)What is the difference in times btwn clk 1 & clk2. 1) both show same time 6 hrs back 2 ) 1 clk gains 1 min an hr,clk2 gains 2 min an hour. Like abv. 11)A takes 9 strides to Bs 7 strides. A stride = 1meter.B stride =1.2m B gets the start of 24m.What dist should A travel to overtake B? 12) Tortoise gets 100 m head start. Hare is 10 times faster as tort. What is the dist traveled by hare to catch up tort.? 13)4 weights r weighed in pairs. Weights of pairs are determined as 103,105,106,106,107,109 What is the min wt?Ans 51 14) Constant cost = 300 and 1.75 / copy. How many copies should he sell at 7.75 /copy to make a profit.15) 15.Find the perimeter ? ANs 28

16) 20 members avg =10.5. 3 memb of 11.5,12.5,13.5 left and 3 memb of 10.5,12.5,14.5 joined along with a teacher of 21 yr.Now avg = .Ans 11. 17)

Find the area of shaded. Radius of circle = 1cm..Arcs r drawn with center at circumference. 18)

Find the area of the shaded portion?

19) Solid cube of 6 * 6 * 6. This cube is cut into to 216 small cubes.(1 * 1 *
1).the big cube is painted in all its faces. Then how many of cubes are painted at least 2 sides. (Ans 56) 20) A Bacteria is doubling at every 4 min. After 40 min 1024 bact. Then 256 when>..? Ans : 32 min 21) A bag contains 3 balls of 11 different colors each. Find the min no of chances to find at least 3 balls of same color? Ans : 23 22) If x < 4 then 100/x is.? Ans : 100/x > 50 & 100/x < -50. 23) If [x] is the int less than x and |x| is the abs val of x.Then max of [x]/|x| is Ans d)none 24) A work in 12 days b in 15 days. Find the no of days if they work on alternate days. Ans 13 25) A,B,C r positive int.Out of them 2 r odd. Then 5a + ( b-5)3 (c-3) = ? Ans : always odd. 26) A squarer side is 5cm.If a square of side 10cm is hinged @ the center of the prev square. when they r rotated common area to both squares (Ans : Does not change) 27) 3p + pq + 5q is even. If a) If p is odd, q is odd b) If p is even, q is odd c) If p is odd ,p is even

d) Atleast one of p and q is odd. Choices are given. Ans : 4) None of these 28) A lady has to feed a dog for the one week from Monday to Sunday .She has food types M,N,O,P,Q,R,S . MNOP protein enriched RS - vitamin enriched. Vitamin enriched cannot be fed on consecutive days. Conditions given : M should be fed before S. M should be fed before Q. R Should be fed before S. Before N and Q there should be four types. Based on this 3 ?s are asked.All r easy to answer 29) A man bought at the cost of 5 plums a rupee and 2 oranges a rupee.He sells 10 plums and 6 oranges at the selling price of 4 plums a rupee and 3 oranges a rupee.What is his gain or loss? Ans loss of 50p. 30) Out of 32 books the cost of 10 books is Rs. 50 each and he got a profit of 4%. He sells 15 books at a profit of 3.8461% on the selling price of Rs 70. The remaining cost is 576. The remaining books are sold at Rs 74. What is his total profit. 31) Two solutions have milk & water in the ratio 7:5 and 6:11.Find the proportion in which these two solutions should Be mixed so that the resulting solution has 1 part milk and 2 parts water? a)35:3 b)21:36 c)not possible Ans :c Further ?s are from reading comprehension.(verbal reasoning) All are easy to answer if u read carefully. CTS Apti Question paper (Colour: Yellow) There are other three colours also. We received only yellow Question papers. 1. If all the 6 are replaced by 9, then the algebraic sum of all the numbers from 1 to 100(both inclusive) varies by Ans: 330 2. The total no. of numbers that are divisible by 2 or 3 between 100 and 200(both inclusive) are Ans:67 3. From a pack of cards Jack, Queen, King & ace are removed. Then the algebraic sum of rest of the cards is Ans:216 4. The average temperature of days from Monday to Wednesday is 37 degree Celsius and that of from Tuesday to Thursday is 34 degrees. The temperature of Thursday is 4/5th of Monday. Then the temperature of Thursday is Ans: 36 degrees 5. Swetha, Tina, Uma and Vidya are playing a gambling. In this different people lose in different games-in the reverse alphabetical order. The rule is that if one loses she should double the amount of others. At the end of 4th game each of them have same amount of money (Rs.32). Which one of them started with the least amount? (6) Which one of them started with the largest amount of money? (7.) At the end of the 2nd game what is the amount of money with uma? Ans: Vidya, Swetha, Rs.8 8. A cube of 12 mm is painted on all its side. If it is made up of small cubes of size 3mm. If the big cube is splitted into those small cubes, the number of cubes that remain unpainted is Ans: 8

9. B is 50% faster than A. If A starts at 9 A.M. and B starts at 10 A.M. A travels at a speed of 50 km/hr. If A and B are 300 kms apart, The time when they meet when they travel in opposite direction is Ans:12 noon 10. A graph will be there. Inside the graph sheet there will be a Quadrilateral. We have to count the number of squares in the Quadrilateral. 11. You are having 31kg of rice. You are provided with a 1kg stone for weighing. In how many weights the 31kg of rice can be weighed. Ans: 5 12. A starts at 11:00AM and travels at a speed of 4km/hr. B starts at 1:00PM and travels at 1km/hr for the first 1hr and 2km/hr for the next hr and so on. At what time they will meet each other. Ans: 13. There are 80 coins, among them one coin weighs less compared to other. You are given a physical balance to weigh. In how many wieghings the odd coin can be found. 14. Dia of the circle 4cm. The shaded part is 1/3 of the square area. What is the side of the square. Ans: root of 3pi 15. A,B,C, can do a work in 8,14,16 days respectively. A does the work for 2 days. B continues from it and finishes till 25% of the remaining work. C finishes the remaining work. How many days would have taken to complete the work 16. Raja went to a beauty contest .his wife was eager to know the result he told that the lady wear a yellow sari was winner. Miss. Andhra Pradesh Miss. Utter Pradesh, Miss. Maharashtra, Miss. West Bengal were the participants all the participants sat in a row. The conditions are (A) The woman wore yellow sari won the competition. (B) Miss. West Bengal was neither the runner-up or winner.(C) Miss. West Bengal was not at either ends.(D) Miss. Maharastra wore the white sari.(E) The women wore white sari and yellow sari sat at extreme ends.(F) The runner-up and winner did not sit together. [This was the passage given and the questions were easy]

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The ratio of white balls and black balls is 1:2. If 9 gray balls is added it becomes 2:4:3. Then what is number of black balls. Ans:12 18. There are 10 coins. 6 coins showing head. And 4 showing tail. Each coin was randomly flipped (not tossed) seven times successively.after flipping the coins are 5 heads 4 tails one is hided the hided coin will have what. 19. Two cars are 500 cm apart. each is moving forward for 100 cm at a velocity of 50 cm/s and receding back for 50 cm at 25 cm/s at what time they will collide with each other. 20. People near the sea shore are leading a healthy life as they eat fish.but people at other part of the city are also healthy. Inference. 21. It is found from research that if u r a drunken then u have a less chance for chronic heart diseases. Inference. 22. A-B+c>A+B-C i) B is +ve, ii) B is ve when it will hold true. 23. i) C.P is Rs 120 and profit is 30% ii) C.P is Rs 210 and profit is 20% we can find the S.P by using i)only ii)only both i &ii neither i&ii 24. How will u find distance between Nagpur and Mumbai? I took one hour more when I travel at 80 km/hr than at 90 km/hr.

25. 100 coins were collected by four persons each collected more than 10 each collected a different number each was an even number find what is the max possible no of coins, two more questions based on the same passage. 26. A car travels from B at a speed of 20 km/hr. The bus travel starts from A at a time of 6 A.M. There is a bus for every half an hour interval. The car starts at 12 noon. Each bus travels at a speed of 25 km/hr. Distance between A and B is 100 km. During its journey , The number of buses that the car encounter is 27. The ratio of the ages of the father and the son is 5:3, After 10 years it will be in the ratio 3:2. What will be their ages. 28. There was a Island. In that Island there was Rubys and Emeralds. Those were available in plenty. 0.3 kg of ruby is 4 lakhs and 0.4 kg of emeralds is 5 lakhs. Jayanth is buying 12 kg of Ruby and emerald. Choices will be given . Jayanth has to carry both ruby and emerald to the maximum profit. 29. Varun buys 8 books,10 pens and 2 pencils and Babu buys 6 books, 5pens and 5 pencils. Babu pays 50% more than Varun. What is the amount Varun spends in buying pencils. 30. Prakash and Revathi rent a fancy shop. Prakash imposes the following restrictions on Revathi for buying clips,stickers and lip sticks. The number of clips is twice the no. of stickers. The no. of lipsticks should be more than the sum of clips and stickers. Cost of clip is 1 rupee. Cost of lipstick is twice the clips. Cost of 1 lipstick is the cost of four stickers. Then What is the amount that Prakash spents for Revathi. Answer choices will be given.

1. Numbers between 1 to 100 divisible by 2 or 3. 2. Sum of the numbers from 1 to 100 if the digit 6 is replaced by 9 in those
numbers ( An : 330)

3. You have an one Kg weight with you. In how many weighs can a 31 Kg
rice bag be weighed? (Ans : 5) 4. Priya bought 6 pens, 7 notebooks, and 8 pencils and she had spent all the money she had for that. Rama bought 13 pens,12 notebooks and 9 pencils and Rama had 50% of money more than what Priya had. How much % Rama spends more than Priya on Priya? 5. This is an analytical question There are four numbers a,b,c and d. Conditions: a+b+c+d=100.A,b,c,d>=10All are even numbers Each number is different from the other. What is the maximum possible value for a? (Four choices given) 6. If a=54 then what is the difference between the biggest (54) and the second biggest number? 7. if a=54; c=2+2d then c=? 8. What is the Selling price of x? if the profit % =5% and the cost price =100 9. Similar question to the above one. 10. Calculate the ages of a son and his father if their present ages are in the ratio 1:2 and before 10 years the ratio was 3:4 11. Same type as the previous one. Sum of their present ages is 80, before 5 years their ages were in the ratio 3:4.(some more questions were from this category) 12. Two cars start from terminals A and B and travel towards B and A respectively. The distance between A and B is 500 metres. The cars move forward with a speed of 50 m/s and they move backwards with a speed of 25 m/s. For every 100 cms movement of the cars in the forward direction

they should move backwards by 50 cms. What is the time taken for the cars to collide or meet? 13. In a pack of 52 cards if Ass, Jack, queen and king is removed (from all the four sets) , what is the sum of the remaining cards? 14. An Analytical question from Barrons, having the keywords such as 18 th century,19th century and 20th century in the question 15. The diameter of the circle is 4cm. The area of the shaded portion is 1/3rd area of the square. Find the side of the square 16.Four girls participate in a the Ms.India competition. Each were wearing a saree of different color. They were made to sit in a row. The winner was wearing a yellow saree. The runner up was not in the corners. Ms.AP was next to Ms.West Bengal. Ms.west Bengal is neither the winner nor the runner. Ms.Maharastra was wearing a green saree. Ms.UP was the runner up. Both winner and the runner are not adjacent and have a person between them. Who was wearing a Red saree? Ms.WB Who was the winner? Ms.AP And one more question of the same order. Plz frame the order. All analytical are very simple. Mostly paragraphs are given and the question will be what you infer from this type. Only one question from each paragraph. XX) What is the number that divides (3 nos), leaving the remainders( 3 nos) . sums of this type are in RS.A plz refer. 16.In 400m race a gives b a start of 7 sec &amp; beats by 24m.in another race a beats by 10 sec. the speeds are a)8,7 b)7,6 c) 12,10 d) 10,8 17. A is thrice as good as a workman as B and takes 10 days less to do a piece of work than B takes. B alone can do the same work in : a) 12 days b)15 c)20 d)30 ans available in Agarwal: pp 261 (13) 18. Again from Agarwal: the mean temperature of Monday to Wednesday was 37 deg. The mean temperature of Tuesday to Thursday was 34 deg. If the temperature on Thursday was 4/5 of Monday, what is the temperature on Thursday? Ans:36. pp=104 (47) in RS. Agarwal 19 A travels at 4 kmph. Two hours after the start of A, B travels at a speed of 1 kmph for the first one hour, 2 kmph for the next one hour and so on. At what time will they meet. Ans: 9 hours and 48 mts. 20. Given 80 coins with one defective. What is the minimum number of weighing that you will take to determine the defective (less weight) coin. Minimum of 5 is available in the question paper. Six is also possible. 21.

What is the number of squares under the figure? Latest.

ans: 16

There is one graph question. in which it was told that there are many tubes connected to each other. each tube has its capacity and charge to get the milk transferred from that section. questions like what is minimum amount to transfer 1litre from one point to other point There is a clock question. 2 lines drawn on the face of the clock divides into equal sums. what is the sum. one bug problem. towers of hanoi problm. There are some differences in the question of different papers. MY Query is how will be the interview. i am from electronics branch. any one have idea of how the interview will be. i have got my interview on 29th *************************************** 1) A and B r two single digit no.s such that the produst B*(AA)^3 has 1 in its 10th place. What is B? 2) One bacterium gives rise to 8 more. But only 50% of each generation is fertile. If there are xxxx (some no. was given, cant remember) bacteria in the 7th generation, how many were in the 1st? 3) Mary has 3 toys and Quincy has 7 toys, in how many ways can they exchange their toys such that each one retains their original no.? 4) A no. of men shift 546 crates in 5 working days. If on the every second day 6 more men join them and each man shifts 5 crates lesser than what he did the prev. day, then how many crates were shifted on the 3rd day? (there were some more q.s based on this) 5) Two no.s r on the board-16 and 24 . the difference b/w them is to be written (24-16) then the procedure is to be continued (24-8, 168 so on) but no number should be repeated. If this goes on, how many no.s will be on the board at the end? 6) A & B play a marble game in which a player can pick 3,2 or 1 marble at a time. And the one who picks the last marble looses. a) if B starts and A wins, what is the min. no. of marbles that has to be there on the floor? i) 5 ii) 9 iii) 13 iv) 15 b) if there are 17 marbles on the floor, in how many moves, the game will get over? i) 6 ii) 9 iii) 13 etc. (and there was one more q. on this ) 7) There is a charity match being played. People will be divided

into 2 groups and each person will play against each one from the other team. And the one who loses will contribute Rs.100. what is the max. difference b/w the money collected if 15 ppl. R playing instead of 31? 8) A and B r playing a game of placing coins on a round table of dia. 15 m. whoever places the last coin wins the game. A starts the game, if he has to win, he should place the coin a) at the center of the table b) .25cm from the center c) at the edge d) wherever he may place, the one who starts will win (/lose,I'm not very sure of this) 9) which are the no.s that can divide 111, 222, 333, ....999 completely? i) 7,11,31 ii) 9, 11, 37 iii) 3, 11, 31 etc. 10)there r 3 cube of 3 diff. colors, in how many ways can these be arranged in a 3*3 matrix such that all 3 colors appear in each row and column? I)2 ii) 5 etc. This was the only repeated q. from earlier CTS papers 10.Varun buys 8 books,10 pens and 2 pencils and Babu buys 6 books, 5pens and 5 pencils. Babu pays 50% more than Varun. What is the amount Varun spends in buying pencils.

Paper colour was blue.

Same pattern as before..40 questions 60 mins.Each carries 1 mark and 0.25 negative marks for wrong ans. The test wasnt difficult but you should work out faster.I didnt clear the test. But i think i can give some questions that i got so that others can make use of it. 1) The face of a clock is divided into 3 parts by two straight lines such that the sum of the numbers of each part is equal to the sum of the other two.What is the sum of each part? 2)A graph was given with vertices in each node(Like (2,3) ), where first element denotes the cost(in RS) of carrying one litre of liquid in between the nodes and second element denotes litres of liquid that can be carried between the nodes in 1 day by the medium. Based on the graph 3 questions were asked to find out (i) the min cost to carry from a particular node to another (ii) minimum cost of all possible routes 4) A passage was given like ... There were two types of inhabitants W and X.Assumptions made by W about others and also by themselves are always correct.Assumptions made by X about others and themselves are always wrong.Based on the above questions were asked...like I cant remember the questions but they were easy to answer. 5) A man has to go to airport from post office to collect mails.One day the airplane arrived very soon than the usual time to the airport and delivered the mails. The mails were carried by the horse.After half an hour travel by the post man he meets the horse on the way,collects the mails and returns with the mail to post office thus saving 20 minutes. How soon the airplane arrived the airport than the usual time? choices: a)10 mins b) 20 mins c) 30 mins d) Indeterminate 6) There are 4 colours of balls red,yellow,pink and green.Each ball is put into 4 bags of colour red,yellow,pink, and green not necessarily in that order.Two conditions were given(i dont remember exactly,so dont want to confuse others).Based on that one question. But it was easy to answer.

7) Another figure question to find out the area of the shaded region. 8) p,q,r,s tells the time as 15 to twelve,10 past twelve,5 to twelve,2 past twelve(Cant remember exactly but similar).None of them correct and all the watch differs by 10 mins.No two watches gives the same time.Which one among the 4 shows very drastic difference in the time? 8-10 questions were of critical reasoning type which needs attention to details and inference and understanding to answer the questions.Should read in between the lines. CTS paper had 40 questions ,the questions were mostly logical reasoning questions,3D problems like : Q)there were 4 people vinay,vijay.,bhaskar,arun , from differnt professions engineer,architect,doctor,artist & having differnt hobbies among tabla,violin,guitar,badminton......u have to find the right match (5-6 questions on that) There were no questions based on antonyms & the likei will keep sending the questions as i remember them now please help me i have CTS interview on feb 28 please tell me the interview pattern what to study as i am from electronics field also help me in finding an answer for the question : -why do u want to shift from electronics to computer field ? concentrate more on combinations,permutations,logical inferencing....we were given blue set todayi.e.,21 feb.one problem on finding the cost of shortest path..given a graph diagram.also some of maths calculating areas... 1)THere r two types of people.(R & W).R category people are always right about themselves and about judjing others.W people are always wrong about themselves and others as well. a) X says "I am always right".which type does he belong to....R, W ,either of them,cant say,? couple of questions on the same topic 2)4 boxes and 4 balls are there of clours pink yellow red green.no box can have same colour ball.red is in yelow box.yellow ball is in the box as of colour the red bal is in.where is Y ball. 3)A bug jumps 1m distance in all four directions NORTH,East,West,South therby making a ink mark on every position it sits.then after again from rvey mark made,it repeats the process......so totally how many marks are left at end.........dont forgetto count to initail position. 4)two lines are drawn on a clock,dividing the nos into three parts.the sum of all nos in each part is equal to other parts.what is the total sum of any of the parts. 5)motorist starts from postoffice to airport to collect mail.the plain arrives early.so the parcel is sent on a cart.after half an hour the motorist meets the cart ,collects it,and returns to postoffice therby saving 20 mins.HOwmuch early does the plain arrive?