1) When a merchant offers a discount of d% on the marked up price, he ends up selling the product at

the cost price, C. What was his mark up %?

1) 2) 3) 4)

2) How many litres of milk should be added to a mixture containing (m+n) litres of milk and water in the
ratio m : n (m < n) so the ratio of milk : water in the resultant mixture is n : m?
1) litres 2) litres 3) 4)

3) A cylinder of height h and radius r is melted and converted into a cone of height 2h. What is the
lateral height of this cone?
1) 2) 3) 4)
4) A retailer sells an article at a loss of x%. If he had managed to sell it for Rs. y more, he would have
made a profit of x%. What is the cost price of the article in terms of x and y?
1) 2) 3) 4)
5) The sum of the squares of the fifth and the eleventh term of an arithmetic progression is 3 and the
product of the second term by the fourteenth term is equal to k. Find the product of the first term by
the fifteenth term of the progression.
1) 2) 3) 8k (12 - 39k) 4) 4k (9 - 16k)
6) If the sum of the roots of the quadratic equation ax
2
+ bx + c = 0 is equal to the sum of the squares of
their reciprocals, then are in
1) Arithmetic Progression 2) Geometric Progression
3) Harmonic Progression 4) Depends on value of a, b and c
Questions 7 to 9:
The graph shows the variation of price indices for the three products A, B and C. The base index is for
year 1995, with the index being 100 for each of the products.

7) What is the annual compounded percentage growth for the price product A from 1995 to 2000?
1) 43% 2) 46% 3) 51% 4) 38%
8) Which product had the highest percentage growth in its price between any two years?
1) A 2) B 3) C 4) B and C
9) If the prices of A, B and C in 1995 were Rs 100, Rs 200 and Rs 300 respectively, in 1999, by what
percentage was Cs price higher than that of As ?
1) 63.63% 2) 72.72% 3) 66.67% 4) 81.81%
10) Direction for Question:
In this question Data Sufficiency problems in the test consists of a question and two statements labeled
(1) and (2), in which data are given. You need to decide whether the given data is sufficient to answer
the question and mark the answer appropriately as per the following guidelines:
(A) Statement (1) alone is sufficient but statement (2) alone is not sufficient, or
Statement (2) alone is sufficient but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
(B) Both statements (1) and (2) together are sufficient but neither statement is sufficient alone.
(C) Each statement alone is sufficient.
(D) Statements (1) and (2) are not sufficient and additional data is needed.
10) Is it possible to draw a circle such that its circumference includes all four vertices of a quadrilateral?
(1) All four sides of the quadrilateral are equal.
(2) Each of the interior angles of the quadrilateral measure 90
o
.
1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D
11) L
1
passes through (0, 0) and (1, 2): L
2
perpendicular to L
1
and passes through (1, 0). Which among
the following is not a point on L
2
?
1) -3,2 2) 7,-3 3) -9,3 4) 5,-2
12) A polygon has coordinates (0, 0), (1, 1), , (5, 0). Find the area of this polygon.
1) 2 2) 3) 4)
13) A bus of length 30 meters long travelling at 60 kmph, crosses a man running in the same direction in
3.6 seconds. Find the speed of the man in km/hr.
1) 15 km/hr 2) 6 km/hr 3) 30 km/hr 4) None of these
14) 48 litres of a mixture has milk and water in the ratio 7 : 5. How much milk should be added to this
mixture to get milk and water in the ratio 3 : 2?
1) 8 litres 2) 2 litres 3) 4 litres 4) 6 litres
15) A merchant sells 2 goods for Rs. 600 such that he makes no profit or loss in the overall transaction.
If he sells one at a profit of 8% and the other at a loss of 22%. What is the selling price of the good where
he makes a loss?
1) Rs. 440 2) Rs. 124.8 3) Rs. 160 4) Rs. 343.2
Directions for Questions 16 to 18:
Use the information about the percentage contribution to total Sales by value and percentage
contribution to total Profit by value of five product categories of a FMCG company during a three year
period FY 2000 to FY 2002. The FMCG Company has only these five product categories.


16) If the overall profit margin (Total profit as a percentage of total sales) for the year FY 2000 across the
5 product categories is 14%, then what was the profit margin in that year on Dental care products?
1) 41% 2) 46.35% 3) 30% 4) Cannot be determined
17) If the overall profit margin for the three years remained at a constant of 14%, then which of the
following saw the highest profit margin?
1) Perfumes in 2000 2) Hair care in 2001 3) Dental care in 2002 4) Soaps in 2002
18) Which of the following can be inferred from the given information?
1) The sales of dental care products has increased year on year between FY 2000 and FY 2002
2) The sales of soaps has decreased between the years FY 2001 and FY 2002
3) Profit margin of perfumes has increased between the years FY 2001 and FY 2002
4) None of these
Questions 19 to 21 on the basis of the information given below:
The table below presents the marks of four students in three subjects. These students, Hari, Anita, Tarun
and Priya are disguised in the table as A, B, C and D in no particular order.
Subject Student A Student B Student C Student D
Math 45 82 77 55
Verbal 65 70 68 60
DI 70 58 70 60
Further, it is known that:
* In DI, Tarun has scored the highest marks.
* Anitas total marks differs from Haris by 5.
19) What can be said regarding the following two statements?
Statement 1: Hari has scored the highest mark in Math.
Statement 2: Anita has scored the highest mark verbal.
1) Both statements could be true. 2) At least one of the statements must be true
3) At most one of the statements is true. 4) Both statements are definitely false.
20) What can be said regarding the following two statements?
Statement 1: Priya has scored the lowest mark in DI.
Statement 2: Haris total mark in the three subjects is more than Priyas.
1) If Statement 1 is true then Statement 2 is necessarily true.
2) If Statement 1 is true then Statement 2 is necessarily false.
3) If Statement 1 is true then Statement 2 is necessarily false.
4) Neither Statement 1 nor Statement 2 is true.
21) If Priyas lowest mark is in Math, then which of the following is true?
1) Taruns lowest mark is in DI. 2) Taruns lowest mark is in verbal.
3) Taruns lowest mark is in Math. 4) No definite conclusion is possible.
22) In the figure below, P, Q and R are points on a circle with centre
O. The tangent to the circle at R intersects secant PQ at T. If QRT = 55 and QTR = 25, find POQ.

1) 110 2) 100 3) 90 4) 50
23) A sequence of 4 digits, when considered as a number in base 10 is four times the number it
represents in base 6. What is the sum of the digits of the sequence?
1) 7 2) 6 3) 9 4) 8
24) Some friends planned to contribute equally to jointly buy a CD player. However, two of them
decided to withdraw at the last minute. As a result, each of the others had to shell out one rupee more
than what they had planned for. If the price (in Rs.) of the CD player is an integer between 1000 and
1100, find the number of friends who actually contributed?
1) 21 2) 23 3) 44 4) 46
DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 28: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Mr Suzuki, a car dealer, sold cars of only two brands, A and B, in the previous year. This year, he
introduced a new brand, C. The number of cars of brand A and brand B sold in the previous year were
in the ratio 3 : 2, and the ratio of the number of cars sold in the previous year to that sold in this year
is 2 : 3 for brand A and 2 : 5 for brand B. Further, the number of cars of brand C sold this year forms
81% of the total number of cars sold this year.
25) Find the number of cars of brand C sold this year, given that a total of 24 cars of brand A were sold in
the previous year.
1) 324 2) 648 3) 162 4) 243
26) What is the percentage increase in the total number of cars sold this year when compared to the
total number of cars sold in the previous year?
1) 400% 2) 600% 3) 900% 4) 1000%
27) In the next year, Mr.Suzuki wants to increase the total sales by 80%, compared to the total sales this
year, by keeping the sales of each of A, B and C at the same level as that in this year and introducing a
new brand D. By what percent will the number of cars of brand D (to be sold next year) be more than
the total number of cars sold last year?
1) 400% 2) 600% 3) 900% 4) 700%
28) If a total of 380 cars were sold this year, and the sales of C this year were nil, instead of 81% of total
sales, then how many cars of brand A were sold in the previous year?
1) 140 2) 120 3) 100 4) 160
29) If the sum to infinity of the series 2 + (2 - d)2/3 + (2 + d) 4/9 + (2 + 3d) 8/27 + D.. is 5/2, what is the
value of d?
1) 7/12 2) -7/12 3) -5/12 4) 5/12
30) The first n natural numbers, 1 to n, have to be arranged in a row from left to right. The n numbers
are arranged such that there are an odd number of numbers between any two even numbers as well as
between any two odd numbers. If the number of ways in which this can be done is 72, then find the
value of n.
1) 6 2) 7 3) 8 4) More than 8
Questions 31 to 33:
Choose the most appropriate answer for the questions based on the passage:
This century was history's bloodiest. At a time they didn't choose, and in a way they didn't foresee, more
than a hundred million persons in Europe found their lives brutally taken from them.
And yet the world has drawn four painful lessons from the ashes of our century. First, even under
conditions of nihilism, better than cowardice is fidelity to truth. From fidelity to truth, inner liberty is
wrested. Second, the boast of Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler that dictatorship is more vigorous than
"decadent democracy" was empty. It led to concentration camps. Third, the claim that socialism is
morally superior to capitalism, and better for the poor, was also empty. It paved the road to serfdom.
Fourth, vulgar relativism, now widely ascendant, undermines the culture of liberty. If it triumphs, free
institutions may not survive the twenty-first century.
One principle that today's intellectuals most passionately disseminate is vulgar relativism, "nihilism with
a happy face." For them, it is certain that there is no truth, only opinion: my opinion, your opinion. They
abandon the defence of intellect. There being no purchase of intellect upon reality, nothing else is left
but preference, and will is everything. They retreat to the romance of will.
But this is to give to Mussolini and Hitler, posthumously and casually, what they could not vindicate by
the most wilful force of arms. It is to miss the first great lesson rescued from the ashes of World War II:
Those who surrender the domain of intellect make straight the road of fascism. Totalitarianism, as
Mussolini defined it, is la feroce volanta. It is the will-to-power, unchecked by any regard for truth. To
surrender the claims of truth upon humans is to surrender Earth to thugs. It is to make a mockery of
those who endured agonies for truth at the hands of torturers.
And yet, in this dark night of a century, a first fundamental lesson was drawn from the bowels of nihilism
itself: Truth matters. Even for those unsure whether there is a God, a truth is different from a lie.
Torturers can twist your mind, even reduce you to a vegetable, but as long as you retain the ability to
say "Yes" or "No" as truth alone commands, they cannot own you.
This is the plain insight that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn expressed when he wrote in his 1970 Nobel Address
that one single truth is more powerful than all the weapons in the world, and that, dark as that hour
then seemed in the world, with communism everywhere advancing, truth would prevail against the lie;
and that those who clung to truth would overturn tyranny.
31) Nihilism can be connected to:
1) Obliteration of truth on account of extreme actions initiated against protectors of truth
2) A society where rules are considered paramount, leaving very little scope for individual freedom
3) The discovery of a covenant that truth will help you retain your freedom even under dire
circumstances
4) The universal truth that suppressing the inner liberty can cause damages that last for centuries.
32) Which of the following comprehensively presents the rationale behind the authors thought that
relativism undermines the culture of liberty?
1) The will to succeed takes a beating with the practice of relativism and this encourages
authoritarianism.
2) Intellect starts paying homage to arms power, thus making slaves out of free thinkers.
3) With relativism, dictators get a free rein to carry out atrocities on the weak and oppressed population
4) Will power suppresses intellect leading to the surrender of truth, and the will of the stronger person
prevails
33) Will power suppresses intellect leading to the surrender of truth, and the will of the stronger person
prevails
1) The twentieth century was the bloodiest century till date
2) Dictatorship is not better than democracy and that it leads only to deaths at the hands of tyrants
3) Dictators cannot taste success with use of arms when truth prevails.
4) Tyrants can never be successful for long since their love for power will cause their downfall.
Directions for Questions 34 to 35:
34) In each question, there are five sentences. The sentence labelled A is in its correct place. The four
that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
(A) Dependency, although less known among linguists than constituent analysis, is an intuitive concept.
(B) If we are ready to accept that, on the morphological level, a masculine article evidently depends on
a masculine noun, we can start to develop dependency to a concept.
(C) In constituency, a sentence consists of certain elements which in turn consist of other elements or
words.
(D) Especially morphological dependencies, so-called agreement, are self-evident.
(E) While in dependency, one word form depends on the other.
1) BCED 2) CEDB 3) CEBD 4) DBCE
35) (A) Aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are tightly coupled by the exchange of materials
(B) Loss of terrestrial vegetation and increased impervious surface area can influence
evapotranspiration and infiltration, and alter natural flow regimes.
(C) Research has demonstrated that the conversion of forests to pastures and/or residential areas may
influence in-stream habitat and subsequent structure and function of stream ecosystems.
(D) Many land-use practices increase sediment inputs to streams, changing substrate characteristics and
channel morphology, reducing macroinvertebrate biodiversity, and altering the rate of organic matter
processing.
(E) This relationship is particularly important in forested headwaters that are largely dependent upon
allochthonous organic matter as the primary energy source.
1) CDBE 2) BCDE 3) ECBD 4) BDCE
Directions for Questions 36 to 37:
36) In each question, there are four sentences. Each sentence has pairs of words/phrases that are
italicized and highlighted. From the italicized and highlighted word(s)/phrase(s), select the most
appropriate word(s)/phrase(s) to form correct sentences. Then, from the options given, choose the best
one.
Attempting bungee-jumping can sometimes be an act of mere bravado/bravura.
Not all creative ideas are practicable/practical, no matter how ingenious.
Prices of the yellow metal have always been liable/labile to erratic fluctuations.
The management was compelled to revoke/provoke its policy.
1) AAAA 2) ABAA 3) AAAB 4) AAAB
37) The former captain made an impudent/imprudent remark about the coachs ineffectiveness.
The prince surprised his entire kingdom with his adjuration/abjuration of all wordly pleasures.
Relief measures did little to ameliorate/alleviate the misery of those families who had lost all their kith
and kin.
Players put in long hours of arduous/ardent practice.
1) ABBA 2) ABAB 3) ABBB 4) BAAB
Directions for Questions 38 to 39:
Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From
the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
38) People in organization have self-evident hygiene needs for safety and security, pay, comfort
facilities, and physical safety. They need to know what their duties are and the standards that are
expected. They need to be trained and coached. They need to have opportunities for advancement. In
well-managed organizations, the practices, systems and procedures for meeting these expectations have
become routine.
1) They are the basics that managers deliver.
2) In the absence of such systems, manager-subordinate conflicts become inevitable and such conflicts
have severe cons
3) Pay hikes and bonus payments are decided based on a system put in place for that purpose.
4) Employees need to feel secure in their jo
39) This millennium, digital technology rendered many an accessory redundant. Catch your favourite
tunes on the iPod, dump the over-sized music system. The keyboard has written the obituary of
stationery, and pens look quaint. But, despite the digital time display on your mobile, the watch isnt
going out of fashion in a hurry.
1) The regular consumer is showing interest in the tachymeter that enables the watch to measure time
in split seconds.
2) Many exemplary watches have hit the market this summer.
3) Clearly, its a fascination that promises to grow with time.
4) If anything, more people are aspiring to own limited edition watches and more makes and styles are
available than ever before.
Questions 40 to 41:
40) In the following questions, select the sentence that does not form a part of the paragraph.
(A) Greeces election on May 6th will reveal deep resentment over the severe recession that austerity
has brought. Ireland will hold a referendum soon afterwards on the fiscal compact, which enshrines
balanced-budget rules across the euro zone.
(B) For them European integration is not the solution, but the problem. And the French and Dutch are
by no means alone.
(C) All this raises the question of whether Germany and the EU can hold the line on budget discipline.
(D) In both countries it is the low-skilled and poorly educatedthe supposed losers from
globalisationwho are most openly in revolt
1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D
41) (A) That's how the story has long been told and it's still the most-widely accepted theory.
(B) The more species there were, the better the overall clade was doing; the fewer there were
particularly after the K-T the closer to extinction all dinosaurs came. But that method was never
entirely reliable, mostly because paleontologists do their digging in so many different places.
(C) The asteroid impact known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction was always thought to
have been an equal-opportunity annihilator, and there was good evidence to support that.
(D) Tracking the rise and fall of the dinosaurs was always done simply by counting how many species
were around at any given moment in history.
1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D
Questions 42 to 44:
Choose the most appropriate answer for the questions based on the passage:
What is morality? A good definition is provided by Gert (1998) who says that morality is an informal
public system applying to all rational persons, governing behavior that affects others, and has the
lessening of evil or harm as its goal. The important parts of the definition are that morality is public and
morality affects others. This idea that morality is public and applies to all rational persons is called the
normative (as opposed to the descriptive) approach. The word normative derives from the
sociological term norm, and norms are those parts of our culture which contain the mostly
unspoken, yet commonly shared expectations about appropriate and inappropriate behavior. Norms are
the building blocks of social group formation (and what a sociologist might say holds society together),
since, within limits, norms define the boundaries of what constitutes conformity and what constitutes
deviance. Norms are the mental expectations that people share about the acceptable range of
behaviors, not the behaviors themselves.
The normative approach to morality is also called moral skepticism, which denies that there is an
objective basis to truth, honest differences of opinion are possible, and there are multiple ethical
theories each deserving of separate study. If you make too much out of the part of this which says that
there is no truth (and nothing is inherently wrong), then that is called moral nihilism. Skepticism is a less
extreme position than nihilism, and in many ways, skepticism is just keeping an open mind.
On the other hand, if one follows the descriptive approach to morality, instead of the normative
approach, this is called moral relativism because what you would be doing is describing a person,
society, or standard, and comparing or relating it to all other persons, societies, or standards. There
are different varieties of moral relativism. A focus on individual persons and whether they live by their
own principles is called moral subjectivism. A focus on any particular society or culture as the dominant
one which should serve as a guide for the rest of the world is called moral absolutism, which also refers
to the idea that there exists just one moral principle from which all others derive. Most moral relativists
hold to the idea of moral objectivism, which is that there exists a set of fundamental moral principles
(perhaps as many as ten or so) that are so fundamental as to be not overridden by other moral
principles in cases of conflict. When analyzing societies via the descriptive approach, it is important to
make sure you are describing morality, and not the laws, customs, etiquette, and folkways of a people.
Moral does not mean legal. Laws and customs, it is true, affect others, but in searching for morality, we
are looking for the fundamental rules of behavior that transcend person, place, and time.
42) Which of the following is not true according to the passage?
1) Moral absolutism advocates the theory that all moral principles are derived from just one moral
principle.
2) When a person believes that nothing is wrong and there is no such thing as the truth he is then
practicing moral nihilism.
3) The normative approach to morality focuses on individual persons and not their ability to compare
themselves with others
4) Academic experts may advocate skepticism but certainly not nihilism.
43) Moral relativists differ from supporters of normative approach to morality in which of the following
ways?
1) Moral relativists use comparison to define morality while the normative approach dictates that
morality is widespread and all rational persons come under its banner.
2) Moral relativism focuses on the individual and his set of principles whereas the normative approach
caters to the public.
3) Choices (A) and (B)
4) Neither (A) nor (B)
44) Choose the term that advocates the following viewpoint - Should any disagreement arise there is
no room for any change in the basic principles of morality.
1) Moral absolutism 2) Moral Objectivism 3) Moral relativism 4) Moral Subjectivism
DIRECTIONS for questions 45 to 47: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it.
Some artists go out in a blaze of glory. Pierre-Auguste Renior went out in a blaze of kitsch. At least,
that's the received opinion about the work of his final decades: all those pillowy nudes, sunning their
abundant selves in dappled glades; all those peachy girls, strumming guitars and idling in bourgeois
parlors; all that pink. In the long twilight of his career, the old man found his way to a kissable classicism
that modern eyes can find awfully hard to take. All the same, the Renoir of this period - the three very
productive decades before his death in 1919 at the age of 78 - fascinated some of the chief figures of
modernism. Picasso was on board; his thick -limbed 'neoclassical' women from the 1920 are indebted to
Renior.
So was Matisse, who had one eye on Renoir's Orientalist dress-up fantasies like the Concert, with its
flattened space and overall patterning, when he produced his odalisques. Given that so much of late
Renior seems saccharine and semi comical to us, is it still possible to see what made it modern to them?
Yes and no. To understand the Renoir in the 20th Century you have to remember that before he became
a semiclassicist, he was a consummate Impressionist. You need to picture him in 1874, 33 years old,
painting side by side with Monet in Argenteuil, teasing out the new possibilities of sketchy brushwork to
capture fleeting light as it fell across people and things in an indisputably modern world.
But in the decade that followed, Renoir became one of the movement's first apostates. Impressionism
affected many people in the 19th century in much the way the internet does now. It both charmed and
unnerved them. It brought to painting a novel immediacy, but it also gave back a world that felt
weightless and unstable. What we now call post - Impressionism was the inevitable by-product of that
anxiety. Artists like Seurat and Gauguin searched for an art that owed nothing to the stale models of
academicism but possessed the substance and authority that Impressionism had let fall away.
For Renoir, a turning point came during his honeymoon to Rome and Naples in 1881. Face to face with
the firm outlines of Raphael and the musculature of Michelangelo, he lost faith in his flickering
sunbeams. He returned to France determined to find his way to lucid, distinct forms in an art that
reached for the eternal, not the momentary. By the later years of that decade, Renoir had lost his taste
for the modern world anyway. As for modern women, in 1888 he could write, "I consider that women
who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters". ("The woman who is an artist," he added
graciously, "is merely ridiculous.")
Ah, but the woman who is a goddess - or at least harks back to one - that's different matter. It would be
Renoir's aim to reconfigure the female nude in a way that would convey the spirit of the classical world
without classical trappings. Set in "timeless" outdoor settings, these women by their weight and scale
and serenity alone - along with their often recognizably classical poses - would point back to antiquity.
For a time, Renior worked with figures so strongly outlined that they could have been put down by
Ingres with a jackhammer. By 1892, he had drifted back toward a fluctuating impressionist brushstroke.
Firmly contoured or flickering, his softly scalped women are as fullbodied as Doric columns. This was one
of the qualities that caught Picasso's eye, especially after his first trip to Italy, in 1917. He would
assimilate Renoir along-side his own sources in Iberian sculpture and elsewhere to come up with a
frankly more powerful, even haunting, amalgam of the antique and the modern in paintings like Woman
in a White Hat.
Renior was most valuable as a stepping - stone for artists making more potent use of the ideas he was
developing. The heart of the problem is the challenge. Renoir set for himself: to reconcile classical and
Renaissance models with the 18th century French painters he loved. To synthesize the force and clarity
of classicism with the intimacy and charm of the Rococo is a nearly impossible trick. How do you cross
the power of Phidias with the delicacy of Fragonard? The answer: at your own risk - especially the risk of
admitting into your work the weaknesses of the Rococo. It's fine line between charming and insipid, and
18th century French painters crossed it all the time. So did Renoir.
45) All of the following are true in light of the passage EXCEPT.
1) Fragonard is an 18th century artist.
2) Picasso combined classicism and modernism in 'Woman in a white Hat".
3) Renoir was a semi - Classicist, who became an Impressionist.
4) Gauguin suffered from post - Impressionism anxiety.
46) We can infer from the passage that the word 'odalisques' means
1) pillars 2) landscapes 3) figures 4) women
47) The passage suggests that
1) Renoir was greatly misunderstood in his lifetime.
2) Classicism and modernism don't go together.
3) Renoir's later work appealed to modern tastes.
4) Renoir's artistic appeal waned in the twilight of his career.
Answer questions 48 to 50 using the information given below:
A philanthropic lady goes with a bag of gold coins to four orphanages. She gives the first orphanage 4
coins and a quarter of the remaining coins. She applies the same procedure to the second, third and
fourth orphanage and returned with a few coins left over. Needless to say, at every orphanage she gave
away a whole number of coins.
48) If she came home with fewer than 100 coins, then how many coins did the first orphanage get?
1) 36 2) 64 3) 272 4) More than one possibility exists
49) If at least one of the orphanages got more than 100 coins, then what is the least number of coins
that the lady leave home with?
1) 756 2) 1024 3) 500 4) None of the these
50) If all four orphanages got at least 100 coins, then what is the minimum number of coins the lady
should have left home with?
1) 500 2) 1012 3) 756 4) None of these
Directions for Questions 51 to 54: Read the information given below:
Jacob, Lalith, Ned, Mona, Paul, Sara, Chitra, Albert, Babu, Raghav, Kamal and Richard all live in the same
six-floor building. There are two apartment flats per floor. No more than two persons live in any
apartment. Some apartments may be empty. The lowest floor is named first floor and the uppermost
one 6th floor.
Lalith and his roommate live two floors above Albert and his roommate, Chitra
Jacob lives alone, three floors below Sara and two floors below Kamal
Mona lives one floor below Albert and Chitra
Ned lives three floors above the floor on which Babu and Raghav have single apartments
Richard and Paul live in single apartments two floors below Mona.
51) Which of the following lists the persons named in the correct order, going from bottom floor to the
top?
1) Richard, Babu, Mona, Albert, Lalith, Ned 2) Richard, Raghav, Ned, Kamal, Lalith, Chitra
3) Paul, Babu, Jacob, Chitra, Ned, Lalith 4) Lalith, Kamal, Albert, Mona, Raghav, Richard
52) Which of the following pairs must live on the same floor?
I. Ned, Kamal
II. Jacob, Mona
III. Albert, Lalith
1) I only 2) III only 3) I and II only 4) II and III only
53) Richard lives on the
1) First floor, below Babu or Raghav 2) Second floor, below Jacob or Albert and Chitra
3) Third floor, above Mona or Kamal 4) Third floor, opposite Albert and Chitra
54) Jacob arranges to move into an apartment two floors down, whose occupant moves into an
apartment one floor up. The occupant of this apartment moves into one three floors up, whose
occupant takes Jacobs old apartment. The new occupant of Jacobs old apartment is
1) Babu or Raghav 2) Ned or Kamal 3) Mona 4) Richard
DIRECTIONS for questions 55 to 58: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
A waiting room has 'n' equally spaced seats in a single row. The 1
st
person who enters the room can sit
anywhere in the row. The 2
nd
person who enters, sits in the row such that he maintains maximum
distance from the 1st person. The distance between any two persons is the number of seats between
them (excluding their own seats). The 3rd person who enters, sits in the row such that the sum of his
distances from the 1st and the 2nd person is maximum, and the process continues in the same way for
all the remaining persons who enter the room.
55) If n = 17, find the maximum possible sum of distances of the 7
th
person from the 1st person to the
6th person.
1) 35 2) 37 3) 36 4) 40
56) If the maximum possible sum of distances of the 9th person from the 1st person to the 8th person is
36, find the value of 'n'.
1) 17 2) 15 3) 19 4) Cannot be determined
57) If n = 9, which of the following is not a possible seating arrangement, where '_' and 'p' denote an
empty seat and an occupied seat respectively?
1) p _ _ p _ _ _ p p 2) p p _ _ p _ _ _ p 3) p p _ _ _ _ _ p p 4) p _ p _ _ _ p _ p
58) If n = 13, then which among the following cannot be the sum of the distances of the 8th person from
the 1st person to the 7th person?
1) 29 2) 28 3) 26 4) 25
DIRECTIONS for questions 59 and 60: Answer the questions independently of each other.
59) It is believed by some cardiologists that a mechanical pump can be used as an artificial heart for
those who suffer from a heart attack. Some experts however are in favour of only a human heart being
used for patients who need a heart transplant.
Which of the following most seriously undermines the recommendation of mechanical pumps as an
artificial heart?
1) A heart transplant may not help patients who do not restrict the amount of salt in their diet.
2) A major part of treatment for heart aliments is the post-operative regimen that results in
strengthening of heart tissue and muscle.
3) Only the human heart secretes a particular hormone that regulates blood pressure in the patient
recuperating from a heart attack.
4) There aren't many cardiologists who understand how a mechanical pump could be made to work
efficiently.
60) Szymanski suggests that the problem of racism in football may be present even today. He begins by
verifying an earlier hypothesis that clubs' wage bills explain 90% of their performance. Thus, if players'
salaries were to be only based on their abilities, clubs that spend more should finish higher. If there is
pay discrimination against some group of players - fewer teams bidding for black players thus lowering
the salaries for blacks with the same ability as whites - that neat relation may no longer hold. He
concludes that certain clubs seem to have achieved much less than what they could have, by not
recruiting black players. Which one of the following findings would best support Szymanski's conclusion?
1) Certain clubs took advantage of the situation by hiring above-average shares of black players.
2) Clubs hired white players at relatively high wages and did not show proportionately good
performance.
3) During the study period, clubs in towns with a history of discrimination against blacks, under-
performed relative to their wage bills.
4) Clubs in one region, which had higher proportions of black players had significantly lower wage bills
than their counterparts in another region which had predominantly white players.