Workshop on Number & Reasoning

Question 1
Question

Given a set of four consecutive integers, a possible value of their

product is

(1) 144 (2) 1728

(3) 625 (4) None of the above
Question 2

The number of positive integers n in the range 2 < n < 20, such that
(n –1)! is not divisible by n is:

(1) 0 (2) 7 (3) 8 (4) 17

 Question 3

Some children stand in a queue and share a box of chocolates in

the following manner:
1
First, Child 1 takes 100 chocolates plus th of whatever remains
10
1
in the box. Then Child 2 takes 200 chocolates plus th of
10

whatever remains, then Child 3 takes 300 chocolates plus

1
th of whatever remains, and so on for each child in the queue.
10
It turns out that each child gets the same number of chocolates.
Then
(1) there must be exactly 7 children in the queue.
(2) each child must have received 900 chocolates.
(3) the total number of chocolates initially in the box must have been
6300.
(4) none of the above is necessarily true.
Question 4

An integer yields a perfect square if you add it to 100. The same

integer also yields another perfect square if you add it to 168. The
sum of the digits of this integer is

(1) 9 (2) 10 (3) 11 (4) 12

Question 5

Four couples together drank 44 bottles of Coca Cola. The ladies

were named Blue, Red, Pink, and White. The gentlemen were named
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. It was seen that Red had 2, Blue 3,
Pink 4, and White 5 bottles to drink. Mr. Delta drank just as many as
his wife, but each of the other men drank more than his wife: Mr.
Gamma twice, Mr. Beta three times, and Mr. Alpha four times as
many bottles. Then

(1) Mr. Alpha is the husband of Red.

(2) Mr. Beta is not the husband of Blue.
(3) Mr. Gamma is the husband of White.
(4) Mr. Delta is the husband of Pink.
Question 6

Multiplication of a four digit number by 9 produces a four digit

number with the same digits in reverse order. The sum of the
digits of the number must be

(1) 9 (2) 12 (3) 15 (4) 18

 Question 7

If a, b, c, and d are integers in the range 10 to 15 (both inclusive), the

greatest value of (a + b) (c + d) is:

(1) 750 (2) 731

(3) 729 (4) 700
Question 8

How many numbers between 5 and 95 (both inclusive) have odd

number of distinct factors?

(1) 7 (2) 9
(3) 16 (4) None of these
Question 9

When 5555 is divided by 8, the remainder must be

(1) 1 (2) 3 (3) 5 (4) 7

Question 10

How many integers between 1 and 500 divisible by exactly two of

the three numbers 3, 5 and 7?

(1) 64 (2) 66 (3) 70 (4) 58

Question 11

A teacher writes 101 numbers on the blackboard, of which 50 are

zeros, and 51 are ones. A student is asked to perform the following
operation 100 times on the board: strike out any two numbers. If
they are equal, write another zero. If they are unequal, write a one.
What are the numbers left on the board?

(1) Single One (2) Single Zero

(3) Two Ones. (4) None of the above
Question 12

The Institute of Perfect Management uses a unique scheme in

generating roll numbers for its students. Each roll number has four
distinct digits where the first digit is never a zero. The maximum
number of students who can be assigned roll numbers using this
scheme is

(1) 5040 (2) 4320

(3) 4536 (4) 4532
Question 13

The Principal of a college issues an order that, for administrative

reasons, every student of the college must take exactly four of the
seven courses offered in a semester. In addition, he also wants to
ensure that each course has the same number of takers. If the actual
number of students is 53, how many of the students would have to
leave the college to make the Principal's plan feasible?

(1) 5 (2) 6
(3) 4 (4) 7
Question 14

A plane is uniformly covered by square cells of unit side. A cell is

uniquely identified by a pair of integers (i, j). A cell (k, l) is at a distance
d from the cell (i, j), provided that k – i  l – j  d . For example,

the cell (0, 0) has 4 cells (0, 1), (1, 0), (0, –1) and (–1, 0) which are at
distance 1; and has 8 cells (1, 1), (–1, 1), (1, –1), (–1, –1), (0, 2), (2, 0),
(0, –2) and (–2,0) which are at distance 2. The d-neighbourhood of a
cell C consists of all the cells which are at distance d or less (of course
excluding the cell C itself). Thus, the 1neighbourhood of any cell
contains 4 cells; and the 2–neighbourhood contains 12 cells.
Therefore, the total number of cells in the d-neighbourhood of any cell
is

(1) 2d (d + 1) (2) 2d (d – 1)
(3) 2d2 (4) d2
Question 15

The first and the last digits of 243 respectively are

(1) 8 and 6 (2) 4 and 6

(3) 8 and 8 (4) None of these
Question 16

ABC is interested in determining the minimum cost schedule for

picking up goods from a warehouse where all its suppliers send the
shipments. Estimated arrivals of shipments in the next four periods
are 16, 5, 12, 9 hundred cubic feet respectively. ABC has to pay
Rs.50/period/hundred cu.ft of space it utilises. ABC can hire a truck
(capacity 50 hundred cu.ft) in any period for picking up the goods.
Cost of such truck service is Rs.1000. The following pick-up is
optimal.

(1) Pick up on 2nd and the 4th day.

(2) Pick up all on the last day.
(3) Pick up on every day.
(4) None of these.
Question 17

In practical inventory problems, the total cost (TC) of ordering and

 C  D   Q  K  
carrying the inventory, is expressed as, TC       ,
 Q   2  

where C is the cost incurred for each order, D is the annual demand
for the item, k is the per unit inventory holding cost of the term, and
Q is the number of items procured per order. Assuming that C, D
and k are constant, the minimum value of TC is

CK D
(1) CK D (2)
2

(3) 2CK D (4) CK D

Question 18
If you have 3 tickets to a lottery for which 10 tickets were sold and 5
prizes are to be given, the probability that you will win at least one
prize is:

(1)
7 (2)
9
12 12

(3)
1 (4)
11
12 12
Question 19

Two circles C1 and C2 having the same radius of 2 cm and centres at P

and Q respectively intersect each other such that the line of centres PQ
intersects C1 and C2 at F and E respectively. EF = 1 cm. The whole
assembly is enclosed in a rectangle of minimum area. The perimeter of
rectangle is:

(1) 20 units (2) 22 units

(3) 24 units (4) 26 units
Question 20
The smallest positive value of x for which the fractions

x  2 x  13 x  26 x  41
, , , ,   ,
10 11 12 13
x  1913 x  2002
,
49 50

are in their simplest form is

(1) 47 (2) 49
(3) 51 (4) 53
Question 21
1
The age of Mr. Chetan in 2002 was of his birth year. What is his
age in 2006? 90

(1) 30 (2) 28
(3) 26 (4) 22
Question 22

In a family of husband, wife and a daughter, the sum of the husband’s

age, twice the wife’s age, and thrice the daughters age is 85; while the
sum of twice the husband’s age, four times the wife’s age, and six times
the daughter’s age is 170. It is also given that the sum of five times the
husband’s age, ten times the wife’s age and fifteen time the daughter’s
age equals 450. The number of possible solutions, in terms of the ages
of the husband, wife and the daughter, to this problem is

(1) 0 (2) 1
(3) 2 (4) infinitely many
Question 23

When 4101 + 6101 is divided by 25, the remainder is

(1) 20 (2) 10
(3) 5 (4) 0
Question 24

For non-zero real numbers a, b and c the set of possible values the

a b c abc
quantity    can take is
a b c abc

(1) {0} (2) {– 4, 0,4}

(3) { – 4, –2, 2, 2, 4} (4) {– 4, –2, 0, 2, 4}
Question 25
8
The number of distinct real number x for which is a positive
2
integer is 4x  x

(1) 3 (2) 4
(3) 5 (4) Infinite
Question 26
Company BELIANCE hosted a party for 8 members of Company
AXIAL. In the party no member of AXIAL had interacted with more than
three members of BELIANCE. Out of all the members of BELIANCE,
three members – each interacted with four members of AXIAL and the
remaining members – each interacted with two members of AXIAL. The
greatest possible number of members of company BELIANCE in the
party is:

(1) 9 (2) 10
(3) 11 (4) 12
(5) None of the above
Question 27

In an examination there are 30 questions. I mark is given for each

correct answer and 0.25 is deducted for every incorrect answer.
Ankur attempted all the questions and scored 13.75. How many
incorrect answers did he have?

(1) 10 (2) 11
(3) 12 (4) 15
(5) None of the above.
Instructions: Consider the information given below for questions
28 and 29.
In the diagram below, the seven letters correspond to seven unique
digits chosen from 0 to 9. The relationship among the digits is such
that:

P .Q .R = X .Y .Z = Q .A .Y

P X
Q A Y
R Z
Question 28

The value of A is:

(1) 0 (2) 2 (3) 3

(4) 6 (5) None of the above.
Question 29

The sum of digits which are not used is:

(1) 8 (2) 10 (3) 14

(4) 15 (5) None of the above.
Question 30

Let X be a four-digit number with exactly three consecutive digits being

same and is a multiple of 9. How many such X’s are possible?

(1) 12 (2) 16 (3) 19

(4) 21 (5) None of the above.
Question 31

A rural child specialist has to determine the weight of five children of

different ages. He knows from his past experience that each of the
children would weigh less than 30 Kg and each of them would have
different weights. Unfortunately, the scale available in the village can
measure weight only over 30 Kg. The doctor decides to weigh the
children in pairs. However, his new assistant weighed the children
without noting down the names. The weights were: 35, 36, 37, 39, 40,
41, 42, 45, 46 and 47 Kg. The weight of the lightest child is:

(1) 15 Kg. (2) 16 Kg. (3) 17 Kg.

(4) 18 Kg. (5) 20 Kg.
Question 32

Sangeeta and Swati bought two wristwatches from Jamshedpur

Electronics at 11.40 A.M. IST. After purchasing they found that when
60 minutes elapses on a correct clock (IST), Sangeeta’s wristwatch
registers 62 minutes whereas Swati’s wristwatch registers 56
minutes. Later in the day Sangeeta’s wristwatch reads 10 P.M., then
the time on Swati’s wristwatch is:

(1) 8:40 PM (2) 9:00 PM

(3) 9:20 (4) 9:40 PM
(5) Cannot be calculated.
Question 33

A manufacturer produces two types of products- A and B, which are

subjected to two types of operations, viz. grinding and polishing.
Each unit of product A takes 2 hours of grinding and 3 hours of
polishing whereas product B takes 3 hours of grinding and 2 hours of
polishing. The manufacturer has 10 grinders and 15 polishers. Each
grinder operates for 12 hours/day and each polisher 10 hours/day.
The profit margin per unit of A and B are Rs. 5/- and Rs. 7/-
respectively. If the manufacturer utilises all his resources for
producing these two types of items, what is the maximum profit that
the manufacturer can earn?

(1) Rs. 280/- (2) Rs. 294/-

(3) Rs. 515/- (4) Rs. 550/-
(5) None of the above
Question 34

a, b, c d and e are integers such that 1  a  b  c  d  e. If a, b, c,

d and e are in geometric progression and lcm(m, n) is the least
common multiple of m and n, then the maximum value of
1 1 1 1
   is
lcm(a,b) lcm(b,c) lcm(c,d) lcm(d,e)

15 79
(1) 1 (2) (3)
16 81
7
(4) (5) None of the above
8
Question 35

Let X be a four-digit positive integer such that the unit digit of X is prime
and the product of all digits of X is also prime. How many such integers
are possible?

(1) 4 (2) 8 (3) 12

(4) 24 (5) None of the above
Question 36
Given x1 = 5; x2 = 25 & xn+2 = gcd (xn+1, xn) + xn; gcd = greater common
divisor. Then the least common multiple of x19 and x20 is:-

(1) 2560 (2) 1280

(3) 5120 (4) None of these
Direction for questions 37 and 38: Answer the questions based on
the following information.
A salesman enters the quantity sold and the price into the computer.
Both the numbers are two-digit numbers. But, by mistake, both the
numbers were entered with their digits interchanged. The total sales
value remained the same, i.e. Rs. 1,148, but the inventory reduced by
54.
Question 37

What is the actual price per piece?

(1) Rs. 82 (2) Rs. 41

(3) Rs. 6 (4) Rs. 28
Question 38
What is the actual quantity sold?

(1) 28 (2) 14
(3) 82 (4) 14
Direction for questions 39 and 40: Answer the questions based on
the following information.
Production pattern for number of units (in cubic feet) per day.

Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Number of units 150 180 120 250 160 120 15

For a truck that can carry 2,000 cubic ft, hiring cost per day is Rs.
1,000. Storing cost per cubic feet is Rs. 5 per day.
Question 39

If all the units should be sent to the market, then on which days
should the trucks be hired to minimize the cost?

(1) 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th (2) 7th

(3) 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th (4) None of these
Question 40

If the storage cost is reduced to Re 0.80 per cubic feet per day, then
on which day(s), should the truck be hired?

(1) 4th (2) 7th

(3) 4th and 7th (4) None of these
Question 41

Shyam visited Ram during his brief vacation. In the mornings they both
would go for yoga. In the evenings they would play tennis. To have
more fun, they indulge only in one activity per day, i.e. either they went
for yoga or played tennis each day. There were days when they were
lazy and stayed home all day long. There were 24 mornings when they
did nothing, 14 evenings when they stayed at home, and a total of 22
days when they did yoga or played tennis. For how many days Shyam
stayed with Ram?

(1) 32 (2) 24

(3) 30 (4) None of these

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