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Numerical Ability

Q1. What is the fourth proportional of 0.006,1.2 & 6/25 ?
A. 36
B. 48
C. 4.8
D. 3.6
Answer: Option B

Q2. 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?
A. 14:16:19
B. 40:46:55
C. 16:18:21
D. 13:15:18
Answer: Option A

Q3. Two ants of length 1cm and 1.2 cm crawl in opposite directions with average speeds 2 and
1 mm per second respectively. How many seconds will they take to cross each other?
A. 4.4
B. 2.8
C. 0.4
D. 1.5
Answer: Option A

Q4. The index numbers of five commodities are 121,123,125,126,128 and the weights assigned
to these are respectively 5,11,10,8,6. Then what is the weighted average index number?
A. 123.8
B. 124.2
C. 124.6
D. 125.2
Answer: Option C

Q5. Which one among the following has the least value?
A. √75 - √74
B. √74 - √73
C. √77 - √76
D. √76 - √75
Answer: Option C

Q6. The Range and the Standard Deviation of a data are R & S respectively. With the shift of
origin of the data change(s) occur in the value(s) of:
A. Both R & S
B. Neither R nor S
C. R only
D. S only
Answer: Option B

Q7. 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) above the borrowed amount had X
to pay the organization?
A. 18.43
B. 21.25
C. 16.52
D. 20.63
Answer: Option D

Q8. 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. 24
B. 20
C. 21
D. 23
Answer: Option D

Q16. 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 time along with ten numbers is
599.What is the tenth number?
A. 7
B. 8
C. 9
D. 11
Answer: Option C

Q17. With what value should the highest quantity in data 65,52,14,26,18,35,32,38 be replaced
so that the mean and median become equal?
A. 51
B. 66
C. 64
D. 53
Answer: Option D

Q18. 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?
A. 10
B. 6
C. 12
D. 9
Answer: Option D

Q19. 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?
A. 3
B. 7
C. 9
D. 8
Answer: Option B

Q20. 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. 16
B. 15
C. 15 ½
D. 19 1/21
Answer: Option A

Q21. A sales representative ‘s commission is 6% on all sales upto Rs.15000nand 5% on all sales
exceeding this. He remits Rs.47350 to his company after deducting his commission. What were
the total sales?
A. Rs.49000
B. Rs.47500
C. Rs.50500
D. Rs.50000
Answer: Option D

Q23. 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 percentage of the second discount?
A. 3.25
B. 3.6
C. 3.84
D. 3
Answer: Option D

Verbal Ability

Q1. For the four sentence (S1 to S4) paragraph given below, sentences S1 & S4 are given. From
the options P,Q and R, choose appropriate sentences for S2 & S3.
S-1: Some of the earliest currencies were objects from nature
S-2:
S-3:
S-4: They were similar in size, small and durable

P. Although they may seem a pretty random choice the shells had a number of advantages
Q. A notable example is cowne shells first used as money about 1200 BCE
R. Counterfeiting dates to the invention of money.
A.Q P
B.R
Q
C.PQ
D.PR
Answer: Option A

Nikhil researched the topic well. He was able to do his Viva Voce well.
A. Nikhil researched the topic well unless he was able to do his Viva Voce well.
B. Nikhil was able to do his Viva Voce well despite he researched the topic well.
C. Nikhil researched the topic well therefore he was able to do his Viva Voce well.
D. Nikhil was able to do his Viva Voce well although he researched the topic well.
Answer: Option C

Q12. Which one of the following sentences uses formal language?
A. This presentation takes the cake!
B. Shall we put this on our agenda for the next client week?
C. I apologize for the technical glitch that occurred during our webinar yesterday.
D. I’m disappointed with the sales figures, they need to look up!
Answer: Option C

Reasoning Ability
Q1. Among 5 objects P,Q,R,S and T
i. R is twice as heavy as T
ii.S is one and half times as heavy as Q
iii.Q and R together weigh as much as S and T together
iv.P and S together are one and half time as heavy as Q and T together

Which among the five is the heaviest of all?
A. Q
B. S
C. P
D. R
Answer: Option B
D. Functional Primitive
Answer: Option B

Q8. We cannot overload operator.
A. : :
B. []
C. ()
D. +
Answer: Option A
Q9. Which of the following functions is used to accept strings with white spaces?
A.getWhiteSpaceString();
B. scanf();
C. gets();
D.getstrings();
Answer: Option C

Q10.Which data structure is used to convert expression from one form to another form?
A. Graph
B. Stack
C. Linked List
D. Queue
Answer: Option B

Q11.What is the mathematical function used to round off 6.23 to 7?
A. floor(6.23)
B. ceil(6.23,7)
C. floor(6.23,7)
D. ceil(6.23)
Answer: Option D

Q12. Which combination of the integer variables a, b and c makes the variable m get the value
4 in the following expression?
m = (a > b) ? (( a > c ) ? a : c) : ((b > c ) ? b : c )
A. a=6, b=3, c=5
B. a=6, b=5, c=3
C. a=5, b=4, c=5
D. a=3, b=4, c=2
Answer: Option D

Q13. Which of the following options best suits for ‘Memory Leak Occurred’
A. Resource allocation pending while debugging the code
B. Program releases resources allocated in the memory
C. Program does not free the memory which is allocated dynamically
D. Occurs due to address assignment failure.
Answer- Option C

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