MICA Memory Based Questions Paper 2011 QA/LRDI

Direction for Q. 1-3: Ramona set up a catering firm named, DAILY TIFFIN meant to cater to office employees within 5 km from her home. After investing Rs. 100000.00 in building required infrastructure, she could spend Rs. 15000/day till she earns from business. Cost of preparing one meal was worked out as follow.
Type Packing (Rs.) Raw Material (Rs.) Labour (Rs.) Price (Rs.) Vegetarian 2 20 5 40 Non-Vegetarian 4 30 8 60

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If Ramona continues to cater 500 meals per day, then in how many days, will she recover her investment of infrastructure and daily incurring cost? (A) 18 days (B) 15 days (C) 20 days (D) 10 days Ramona decides to cater 10 Jain Vegetarian meals. The cost of a Jain meal is Rs. 25.00 and selling price is Rs. 35.00. If total number of meals and total expenses per day remain the same, which of the following is correct? I Ramona would make a loss by catering Jain meals II Ramona would make a profit by catering Jain meals III Ramonas profit will be reduced by catering Jain meals IV Ramonas profit will increase by catering Jain meals (A) II only (B) II and IV (C) II and III (D) I only

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If ramona decides to cater a total number of 500 meals per day for the first month, what would be the number of vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals so that profit is maximum? (A) Vegetarian 250, Non Vegetarian 250 (B) Vegetarian 300, Non Vegetarian 200 (C) Vegetarian 400, Non Vegetarian 100 (D) Vegetarian 100, Non Vegetarian 400 Let f(x) = (A) (0, 5) (B) [0, 5) (C) ( 5,0) [1,5) (D) ( ,0) (5, + )

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1 x and g(x) = . Find the value(s) of x such that, f(x) g(x) x x5

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1 If f (y) is inverse of function f(y), then f1(y) of f(y) =

y3 27 , y 3 is, y3

(A) y 4 1 (B) y 9 1 (C) y 3 1 (D) y 8 1 6. If a four digit number is chosen at random, the probability that the product of the digits is 16 is, (A) 18/4500 (B) 72/4500 (C) 31/9000 (D) 37/9000 Two buildings, Maruti Vihar and Samarth Sadan are located on the same side of the road. Top floor residents of both the buildings overlook the vendor on the road selling panipuri forming 30 degree angle of depression. Maruti Vihar is three times taller than Samarth Sadan. If height of Maruti Vihar is K meters, what is the distance in meters between Maruti Vihar and Samarth Sadan (A) (B)

7.

3 k 2
1 k 3

(C) (D) 8.

2 3

3k

Ajay buys a car paying 25% of the amount as down payment and takes loan for the remaining amount at 9% annual interest rate for 4 years to be repaid by monthly instalment. Ajay paid Rs. 6000 as his first instalment. After paying instalments for two years, Ajay refinanced his remaining loan amount at 6% annual interest rate for 3 years to be paid on easy monthly instalment. How much money did Ajay pay as interest alone? (A) Rs. 95235.7 (B) Rs. 102155.3 (C) Rs. 98000.0 (D) Rs. 104475.5 A cylindrical tank of height 7 m with radius of 3 m is to be filled with petrol using the cone of radius 0.5 m and height 1.2 m. If tank is to be fully filled, how many cones needs to be emptied in the tank?

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( = 3.14) (A) 950 (B) 900 (C) 975 (D) 990

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Direction for 10-11: There are three junior auditors; Gajjar, Tarakesh and Ramendu in the office of a charter accountant. Gajjar checked 45% and Tarakesh checked 30% of the total documents. Remaining were checked by Ramendu. Error rate for Gujjar, Tarakesh and Ramendu is 6%, 9% and 4% respectively. The senior auditor picked up a document randomly and found mistakes in auditing. 10. What is the probability that document was audited by either Ramendu or Gajjar? (A) 0.100 (B) 0.134 (C) 0.293 (D) 0.024 What is the probability that document was audited by Gajjar? (A) 0.133 (B) 0.025 (C) 0.500 (D) 0.450

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Directions for 12-13: Three thousand participants of social survey were classified according to their religious belief and level of education as shown in table below.
Religious Beliefs Fundamentalist Moderate Liberal 178 180 208 570 648 442 240 270 264 988 1098 914

Education Less than high school High school or college Graduate Total

Total 566 1660 774 3000

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What is the probability that a randomly selected respondent is liberal and has education less than high school? (A) 0.14 (B) 0.23 (C) None of these (D) 0.07 What is the probability that randomly selected fundamentalist is graduate? (A) 0.31 (B) 0.14 (C) None of these (D) 0.08

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Direction for 14: Two competing companies A and B produce MP3 players, Company A starts production at 1000 MP3 players per week and plans to increase its output by 200 each week. Company B starts productions with 500 MP3 players per week and plans to increase its output by 20% each week. 14. Total production during the first 10 weeks for company A and B respectively is, (A) 19000, 12980 (B) 19000, 14280 (C) 36000, 12980 (D) 36000, 16280

Directions for 15-16: Manubhai wants to invest in the Stock Market through a Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) fund. If Manubhai invests in SIP for 10 years expecting a return of 7.5% per annum. 15. If Manubhai wishes to earn Rs. 40000 at the end of 10 years through SIP fund, how much should he invest every year? (A) 3870.5 (B) 2827.5 (C) 4827.5 (D) 1848.5 What will be the value of the SIP fund at the end of 10 years for a single deposit of Rs. 2000 per year? (A) 28294 (B) 20892 (C) 30020 (D) 35246 Mina and Sheena are two typists working in a office with the speed of 120 words/minute and 150 words/minute respectively. Both of them were assigned to type the documents with 15000 and 20000 words. Mina started typing at 10:00:00 and had break of 30 minutes for lunch. Sheena started her typing at 13:00:00. At what time (HH:MM:SS) will both of them complete their task? (A) Mina at 12:35:00 and Sheena at 15:13:20 (B) Mina at 13:35:00 and Sheena at 15:12:20 (C) Mina at 12:35:00 and Sheena at 15:30:30 (D) Mina at 12:05:00 and Sheena at 14:13:30

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The cost of printing for three daily news papers; Hindu, TOI and Indian Express is Rs. 9, 8.5, 8 per copy respectively. Available advertisement space and its rate for three newspapers are as given in the following table
Daily Hindu TOI Indian Express Advertisement Space (Column centimetre-CC) 900 1000 800 Rate per CC (Rs) 4000 3500 3000

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The number of newspaper copies printed by Hindu, TOI and Indian Express are in ratio of 3:5:2. The day total number of the copies printed by all three dailies was 200000; demand for advertisement space was in ratio 5:3:7. Which of the statements given below is not correct? (Assumption: no. of copies printed = no. of copies sold) (A) Indian Express earned minimum profit through advertisement. (B) TOI earned maximum profit through advertisement. (C) Hindu earned maximum revenue through advertisement alone. (D) All newspapers recovered their printing cost through advertisement alone. Following figures shows the structure of steps placed to reach the dais. What size of the carpet is required to cover the entire structure?

0.3 m 0.2 m 0.3 m 0.2 m 0.3 m 0.2 m

0.5 m

(A) 2.02 m2 (C) 2.22 m2

(B) 2.42 m2 (D) 1.82 m2

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Total number of employees in an organization is 729. Management decided to divide the organisational hierarchy into levels so that each supervisor controls three persons. How many levels will be created and how many supervisors will be required at each level of the organization. (A) 7 levels, 364 supervisors (B) 6 levels, 364 supervisors (C) 6 levels, 243 supervisors (D) 7 levels, 363 supervisors Three managers are to be a assigned three projects considering their ability to complete the projects. Table below exhibits the number of months required for each project by each manager. One manager can handle only one project.
Manager Gadgil Bagga Patel Completion Time (No. of Months) Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 15 12 8 17 9 7 10 6 12

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What will be the minimum number of months required to complete all the projects? (A) 27 (B) 28 (C) 25 (D) 21 22. Find the value of k such that following set of equations has solution x+y+z=1 x + 2y + 4z = k x + 4y + 10z = k2 (A) 2 (B) (A) or (D) (C) (A) and (D) (D) 1 Directions for Questions 23-24: A manufacturer products tyre tubes and sells in two cities Mumbai and Delhi. Demand function in Mumbai and Delhi is P1 = 50 4X1, and P2 = 80 3X2 respectively. Where P1 and X1 are the price and quantity in Mumbai and P2 and X2 are the price and quantity in Delhi. 23. If manufacturer decides to keep the same price as in Mumbai, then what should be total demand without compromising revenue? (A) 20 (B) 27.58 (C) 25 (D) 19.58

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What should be the price and quantity of tyre tubes in Mumbai and Delhi market which maximise the revenue? (A) Price: 37.5, 55 and Quantity: (B) Price: 25, 40 and Quantity: (C) Price: 25, 40 and Quantity:
25 50 , 2 3

25 80 , 2 3

25 40 , 4 3 (D) Price: 50, 80 and Quantity: 25, 75

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If type all number from 1 to 1000000 how many times will I have to press a key in the keyboard? (A) 488890 (B) 488889 (C) 488880 (D) 488879 A person travels 340 kms within 5 hrs. He travels at 60 km/hr or 80 km/hr. For how many hours he would have traveled at 60 km/hr? (I) I (II) 2 (III) 3 (IV) 4 (A) I and II (C) Only I (B) I and III (D) Only IV

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A train at 90 kmph crosses a platform in 25 seconds and a person 16 seconds.What is the length of the platform? (A) 225 m (B) 250 m (C) 270 m (D) 280 m A person who is in Surat, 500 kms from Ahmedabad has to reach his village which is 104 kms from Ahmedabad at 14:00 hours He starts at 7 : 00 and reaches Ahmedabad at a speed of 90 kmph. At what speed he should drive from Ahmedabad to village? (A) 72 kmph (B) 64 kmph (C) 80 kmph (D) 75 kmph QA/LRDI Answer Key

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1. B 6. C 11. D 16. C 21. A

2. C 7. C 12. D 17. A 22. C

3. C 8. 13. * 18. * 23. B

4. A 9. * 14. A 19. C 24. C 26. A

5. * 10. * 15. B 20. A

25. B* (Correct answer is 488895) 28. A * No option match.

27. A

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General Awareness
General Awareness- The section had a good mix of questions from the field of marketing, advertising, media, general knowledge and general global awareness. The level of the section was moderate to difficult. The number of options per question was 4 and total number of questions was 25 1. Country which attracts highest number of tourist in the world in 2010 is: (A) Switzerland (B) France (C) Hong Kong (D) Thailand Recently, Amitabh Bachchan, while opening a film festival in Macau, planted the following plant which is the official flower of both the countries (A) Bramha kamal (B) Rose (C) Lotus (D) Jasmine Sector that earned 2nd highest foreign currency for India is (A) Tourism (B) IT (C) Diamond (D) Tobacco Match the following: I. NDTV II.CNN IBN III. CNBC IV. Times now (A) (I) (b), (II) (a), (III) (c), (IV) (d) (B) (I) (a), (II) (b), (III) (d), (IV) (c) (C) (I) (c), (II) (d), (III) (a), (IV) (b) (D) (I) (d), (II) (c), (III) (b), (IV) (a) 5. CEO of Zee Turner is: (A) Virad Kaul (C)Samarth Singh

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a. Rajdeep Sardesai b. Prannoy Roy c. Udyan Mukherjee d. Arnab Goswami

(B) Dinesh Jain (D) Subhash Chandra

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Adhaar stands for and what it would replaces (A) Unique Identification Card, replaces all existing ID cards (B) Ration Cards, replaces voter ID cards (C) Voter ID cards, replaces all ID cards (D) Driving License, replaces all ID cards Match the following: I. Cuba II. China III. Pakistan IV. Bhutan V. Australia (A) (I) (e), (II) (b), (III) (a), (IV) (d), (V) (c) (B) (I) (b), (II) (e), (III) (d), (IV) (c), (V) (a) (C) (I) (e), (II) (d), (III) (c), (IV) (a), (V) (b) (D) (I) (d), (II) (c), (III) (b), (IV) (e), (V) (a)

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(a) Field Hockey (b) Table Tennis (c) Cricket (d) Archery (e) Baseball

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The U.S.S.R disintegrated into independent states in the year _____, when ______took over the power after failed coup in which _____ was overthrown. (A) 1990, Boris Yeltson, Mikhail Gorbachev (B) 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltson (C) 1991, Boris Yeltson, Mikhail Gorbachev (D) 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltson Which Indian company recently severed the link with its Japanese counterpart (A) ACC (B) Munjal owned group (C) L & T (D) Kinetic Honda group parted its way with which of the Indian group (A) in 1992, Bharti (B) in 2010, Hero group (C) B & D (D) in 1998, Kinetic group Match the following: I. DHL II. British Airways III. Audi IV. Burger King V. American Airlines

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a. Yellow, The new brown b. The way to fly c. Never follow d. It just tastes better e. Something special in the air

(A) (I) (a), (II) (b), (III) (c), (IV) (d), (V) (e) (B) (I) (b), (II) (a), (III) (d), (IV) (c), (V) (e) (C) (I) (d), (II) (c), (III) (a), (IV) (b), (V) (e) (D) (I) (a), (II) (d), (III) (c), (IV) (b), (V) (e) 12. Match the following: I. Nivea II. Nevise III. Planet IV. Himalaya V. Google

a. Snow b. Blue c. M d. Brand e. Earth

(A) (I) (a), (II) (b), (III) (c), (IV) (d), (V) (e) (B) (I) (b), (II) (d), (III) (c), (IV) (a), (V) (e) (C) (I) (d), (II) (c), (III) (a), (IV) (b), (V) (e) (D) (I) (e), (II) (d), (III) (c), (IV) (b), (V) (a) 13. The authors of three books short listed for Booker Prize: Fasting Feasting, Sea of poppies, The family Matters. (A) Anita Desai, Amitabha Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry (B) Kiran Desai, Amitabha Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry (C) Arundhati Roy, Amitabha Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry (D) Manu Joseph, Amit Choudhury, Amitabha Ghosh

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In which Indian city has Facebook recently opened its branch(A) Hyderabad (B) Mumbai (C) Bangalore (D) Pune Math the following I II III IV Mother Pious Lady The immortals of Meluha We are like that only Stay Hungry Stay Foolish A1 A2 A3 A4 Rama Bijapurkar Santosh Desai Amish Tripathi Rashmi Bansal

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(A) I-A1; II-A3; III-A2; IV-A4 (B) I-A4; II-A3; III-A4; IV-A4 (C) None (D) I-A2; II-A3; III-A1; IV-A4 16. Math the following I II III IV (A) (B) (C) (D) 17. Lowe Synovate Karat Fractal I-A2; II-A3; III-A1; IV-A4 I-A4; II-A1; III-A2; IV-A3 I-A2; II-A4; III-A1; IV-A3 I-A2; II-A1; III-A4; IV-A3 A1 A2 A3 A4 Media Agency Ad Agency Data Analytics firm Market Research Agency

Match the following I II III IV V Flickr Twitter LinkedIn MySpace Netlog A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 Reid Hoffman Ludicorp Jack Dorsey Lorenz Bogeart Tom Anderson

(A) I-A3; II-A1; III-A2; IV-A5; V-A4 (B) I-A4; II-A1; III-A5; IV-A3; V-A2 (C) None (D) I-A2; II-A3; III-A1; IV-A5; V-A4

GK Answer Key 1. B 8. C 15. D 2. C 9. B 16. C 3. ? 10. B 11. A 17. D

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4. A 12. B

5. A

6. A 13. A

7. A 14. A

Reasoning
Directions: There are four clues on the left, only one word (out of the five words) given on the right is related to all the four clues. Find out the word which is related to all the four clues. 1. Fee Salute Unbalance Cue (A) Tax (B) Tip (C) Corruption (D) Bend (E) Charge (A) Clean (B) Dirty (C) White (D) Heap (E) Iron (A) Match (B) Sex (C) Females (D) Worker (E) Copulation (A) Secret (B) Pin (C) Air (D) Lock (E) Open

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Laundry Will Pig Harmonize

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Union Sensex Typing people Exciting

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Key Free Hair Safe

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Phrase Position Link Descent

(A) Chain (B) Joint (C) Rope (D) Ancestor (E) Line (A) Wind (B) Glory (C) Boat (D) Raid (E) Balloon (A) Journalist (B) Press (C) Information (D) Beat (E) Force

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Curve Sail Bag Resistance

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News Flatten Emphasize Pursue

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Cancer Fire Cooking Screen

(A) Rumour (B) Spread (C) Smoke (D) Laser (E) Sun (A) Exile (B) Child (C) Like (D) Identical (E) Ambiguity (A) Action (B) Glue (C) Chain (D) Trigger (E) Catalyst (A) Watch (B) Observation (C) Sight (D) Reader (E) Clock (A) Army (B) Bank (C) News (D) Treaty (E) Force (A) Love (B) China (C) Storm (D) Rejection (E) Red (A) Accident (B) Dope (C) Stop (D) End (E) Jam (A) Incense (B) Perfume (C) Revolution (D) Discovery (E) Rose 3. A 13. E 4. D 14. C 5. E 15. E 6. A 7. B 8. C 9. C 10. C

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Relationship Love Twin Simile

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Reaction Bind Link Key appendage

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Time Eye Follow Tower

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Draft Rely Border World

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Blush Left Anger Sea

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Red Full Stay Cease

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Fragrance On feet Revolt Sore

1. B 11. A

2. E 12. B

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