Aptitude 18 1) A person is traveling from A to B and a friend of his is traveling from B to A.

The person started at noon from A to B and friend started at 2.00PM from B to A. They both met at five minutes past 4.00PM. They both reach the destination at the same time. At what time will they reach the destination? 2) A train after running for one hour blasted something and runs with 3/5th of its original speed and reaches the destination two hour late. If the blast had occurred after more 50 miles it would have reached the destination 40 minute earlier. Determine the total distance traveled 3) The diameter of the driving wheel of a bus is 1.40 meters. How many revolutions per min. must the wheel make in order to keep a speed of 66 kmph. 4) What are the numbers of ending zero's after multiplying numbers from 1 to 100? 5) The length of a rectangle is reduced by 4 and the breadth is increased by 3 than the resultants squares area is equal to the area of the rectangle. Find the perimeter of the rectangle. 6) A person gives a secret to two other persons in 5 Minutes. How long will it take to tell the secret to 728 people? 7) Mr A meets Mrs B. Mr B has a son and a daughter. Son is Moti and is married and has a son. Mrs Moti is Mr As mother. How is Mr A related to Mr B. 8) Which is greater 1000 to the power 1001 or 1001 to the power 999. 9) A cube is of size 5*5*5. Every side has been coloured. It is divided into 125 equal parts. a) What is the number of parts having only one side coloured. b) What is the number of parts having Two sides coloured c) What is the number of parts having no side coloured. 10) A beats B by 20 Meters, while C beats B by 40 meters in a 100 meters race. By how much can C beat A. 11) If you start your journey 30 Minutes late you have to increase your speed by 250 Kmph to cover up 1500 Kms in the same time. What is your usual speed? 12) A rectangle has a length 100 Meters and Breadth 60 Meters. There is a road 5 Meters wide on each side of the rectangle. Find the area of the road.

13) A man sells a product at 10% discount and still earns a profit of 10%. If the marked price of the product is Rs 330/- what is his buying price? 14) There is a five digit number. The fifth digit is one fourth of the third digit and one half of the fourth digit. Third digit is one half of the first digit. second digit is 5 more than the fifth digit. What is that 5 digit No.? 15) A cyclist got his tyre punctured when he had covered two third of the distance to be covered. Finishing on foot,He takes twice the time taken before to reach the destination. How fast does he ride than walking? 16) company's director said during the board meeting: " The company's income from roads will be sufficient to pay 6% of the entire stock issue, but since we are paying 7.5% interest on the preferred stock of Rs.4,000,000 we are able to pay only 5% of the common stock". Find the value of the common stock. 17) Alpha, Beta , gamma, delta and epsilon are friends and have birthdays on consecutive days though may Not be in order. Gamma is as many days old to Alpha as Beta is younger to Epsilon. Delta is two days older then Epsilon. Gammas Birthday is on Wednesday. Tell when whose birthday it is? 18) The quarter of the time from midnight to present time added to the half of the time from the present to midnight gives the present time. What is the present time? 19) Mr. ANYMAN left ANYTOWN by car to attend a wedding at ANYCITY. He had been driving for exactly two hours when the car got punctured. It took his driver exactly ten minutes to change the wheel. In order to play safe they covered the remaining distance at a speed of 30 mph. Consequently, Mr. ANYMAN was at wedding half an hour behind schedule. Had the car got the puncture only 30 miles later, I would have been only FIFTEEN minutes late he told the driver. How Far is ANYCITY from ANYTOWN? 20) Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. The road is straight before the crossing and both are traveling in the same direction. Cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph. One day the cyclist comes late by 25 min. and meets the train 5km before the crossing. What is the speed of the train? 21) Find the number in the series 1,2,3,8____,224 22) Four persons A,B,C,D were there. All were of different weights. All Four gave a statement. Among the four statements only the person who is lightest in weight of all others gave a true statement. A Says: B is heavier than D. B Says: A is heavier than C. C Says: I am heavier than D.

D Says: C is heavier than B. Find the lightest & List the persons in ascending order according to their weights. 23) There is a number when divided by 5 gives a remainder 3 and when divided by 7 gives a remainder of 5. Find the number. 24) Glubs tried to enter England. The knights killed five of them and placed them in a tail-to-head manner. All the glubs covered a dist of 200ft. there is a dist. of 5ft b/w a glubs tail and the next one. The ht(from tail to head) of the first is same as that of the third and fifth; the second and fourth has the same height .Each has a height that is 10ft more or 10ft less than that of its immediate neighbors. All their heights are multiples of 10.What are the heights of each glub. 25) A bag contains 20 yellow balls, 10 green balls, 5 white balls, 8 black balls, and 1 red ball. How many minimum balls one should pick out, to make sure that he gets at least 2 balls of same colour. 26) A man wearing a hat stands on a bridge across a river. At an instant his hat falls into the river and starts flowing along with the stream at the same speed of the stream. At the same instant the man jumps into the river and starts swimming in the direction opposite to the stream, like that he swims for 10 minute , then he turns back and starts swimming in the direction of the stream to retrieve the hat. He retrieves the hat under another bridge which is 1000 yards away down the stream from the first bridge. What is the speed of the river? 27) Two trains each 1/6 mile in length run in opposite directions to each other with equal speed of 60 miles/hour. What is the time taken to completely cross over the two trains? 28) A man has 50 mangoes and place the 50 mangoes like this the distance between 1and 2 is 1 yard and the distance between 2&3 is 3yard and the distance between 3&4 is 5yard. Like this he increases the distance between Mangoes in steps of two. After arranging them like that and if he start picking them up how much yard he has to walk? 29) How many squares with sides 1/2 inch long are needed to cover a rectangle that is 4 ft long and 6 ft wide? 30) Two trains start from stations A and B spaced 50kms apart at the same time and speed. As the trains start, a bird fliesj from one train towards the other and on reaching the second train, it flies back to the first train. This is repeated till the trains collide. If the speed of the trains is 25 km/h and that of the bird is 100km/h. How much did the bird travel till the collision?

31) Each alphabet stands for one digit in the following multiplication. THIS x IS -------*F** **U* -----------**N** -----------What is the maximum value T can take? 32) A prisoner tried to escape from the jail in five different ways in five consecutive days from monday to friday, but in vain. The five ways are.... a) Tried to bribe the jailer, of the prison. b) Tried to escape in the giuse of a jailer. c) Tried to dig a tunnel in the jail cell. d) Escape in the guise of visitor to the jail. e) Escape in the guise of work party who came to work in the jail. Condition: I. Two days before he tried to dig the tunnel he tried to bribe the jailer. II. It was not Monday or Friday when he tried to escape in the guise of a visitor, to the jail. III. The day before he tried to escape in the guise of a jailer he tried to bribe the Jailer. IV. The day after he tried to escape in the guise of a visitor to the jail, he tried to escape in the guise of work party person. On each of the five days which method he used to escape 33) Two boats start from opposite banks of river perpendicular to the shore. One is faster then the other. They meet at 720 yards from one of the ends. After reaching opposite ends they rest for 10 minutes each. After that they start back. This time on the return journey they meet at 400 yards from the other end of the river. Calculate the width of the river 34) There are twelve consecutive flags at an equal interval of distance. A man passes the 8th flag in 8 seconds. How many more seconds will he take to pass the remaining 4 flags? 35) There are three switches on the ground floor and Three bulbs in the first floor. One switch is for one bulb. You are allowed to go only once to the first floor and find out which switch pertains to which bulb. 36 to 39

Tom wishes to enroll in Latin AA, Sanskrit A, Armenian Literature 221, and Celtic Literature 701. Latin AA meets five days a week, either from 9 to 11 A.M or from 2 to 4 P.M. Sanskrit A meets either Tuesday and Thursday from 12 noon to 3 P.M., or Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 A.M to 12 noon. Armenian Literature 221 meets either Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 12:30 to 2 P.M., or Tuesday and Thursday from 10:30 A.M to 12:30 P.M Celtic Literature 701 meets by arrangement with the instructor, the only requirement being that it meet for one four-hour session or two two-hour sessions per week, between 9A.M and 4 P.M from Monday to Friday, beginning on the hour. 36) Which combination is impossible for Tom? a) Latin in the morning, Sanskrit on Tuesday and Thursday, and Armenian Literature on Monday, Wednesday, Friday b) Latin in the afternoon and Sanskrit and Armenian Literature on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. c) Latin in the afternoon, Sanskrit on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,and Armenian Literature on Tuesday and Thursday d) Latin in the morning and Sanskrit and Armenian Literature on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday e) Latin in the afternoon, Armenian Literature on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and Celtic Literature on Tuesday 37) Which of the following gives the greatest number of alternatives for scheduling Celtic Literature, assuming that all other courses a) Latin in the afternoon and Armenian Literature Monday, Wednesday and Friday b) Sanskrit on Tuesday and Thursday and Armenian Literature on Monday, Wednesday and Friday c) Latin in the afternoon and Armenian Literature Tuesday and Thursday d) Latin in the morning and Sanskrit on Tuesday and Thursday e) Sanskrit on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. and Armenian Literature on Tuesday and Thursday

38) If the Celtic instructor insists on holding at least one session on Friday, in which of the following can Tom enroll? I. Armenian Literature on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday II. Sanskrit on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday a) I only b) II only

c) both I and II d) I or II but not both e) neither I nor II 39) Which of the following additional courses, meeting as indicated, can Tom take? Maths--Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10A.M to 12 noon French--Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11A.M to 12:30 P.M English--Tuesday and Thursday from 2 to 4 P.M Japenese--Tuesday and Thursday from 1 to 3 P.M Old Norse-Icelandic--Monday only from 12 to 3 P.M 40) If x/y=4 and y is not '0' what % of x is 2x-y. 41) A and B play a game of dice between them. The dice consists of colors on their faces instead of numbers. A wins if both dice show same color. B wins if both dice show different colors. One dice consists of 1 red and 5 blue. Chances of winning for A and B are even. What must be the color in the faces of other dice.(i.e. how many blue and how many red?). 42) The combined age of Reena and Seena are 44 years and Reena is twice as old as Seena was when Reena was half old as Seena will be when Seena is three times as old as Reena was when Reena was three times as old as Seena.How old is Reena. 43) How can 1000000000 be written as a product of two factors neither of them containing zeros? 44) Boys are allowed to watch football at C.V.Raman auditorium subjected to conditions. The boy over age 16 can wear overcoat No boy over age 15 can wear cap To watch the football either he has to wear overcoat or cap or both A boy with an umberella or above 16 or both cannot wear sweater. Boys must either not watch football or wear sweater. What is the appearence of the boy who is watching football. 45) Two twins have certain peculiar characteristics. One of them always lies on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. The other always lies on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. On the other days they tell the truth. You are given a conversation. Person A-- today is Sunday my name is Anil Person B -- today is Tuesday, my name is Bill

What day is today? 46) Major Roy [Param Veer Chakra 1948] died at the age when his age was 1/39 th of the year of his birth year.what was the year of his birth? 47) A person has his own coach, whenever he goes to railway station he takes his coach. One day he was supposed to reach the railway station at 5 Oclock. But he finished his work early and reached at 3 O'clock. Then he rung up his residence and asked to send the coach immediately. He came to know that the coach has left just now to the railway station. He thought that the coach has left just now to the railway station. He thought that he should not waste his time and started moving towards his residence at the speed of 3miles/hr.On the way, he gets the coach and reaches home at 6 oclock. How far is his residence from railway station? 48) At What time after midnight is the no. of minutes since midnight is 9 times the no.of minutes before noon? 49) Find the next in the sequence: BC CE EG GK ? 50) AA AB BC CE?