Aptitude sample questions -II

Statements:

All young scientists are openminded.

No open-minded men are superstitious.

Conclusions:

I. No scientist is superstitious.

II. No young people are superstitious

• Neither conclusion is valid conclusion.

Before reaching his office from home, Ram had to turn right 7 times, and left 8 times. His home is
facing East. Is his office North facing or south facing or east or west facing?

• Ans: The office is South Facing .

In a group of persons travelling in a bus, 6 persons can speak Tamil, 15 can speak Hindi and 6 can speak Gujarati.

In that group, none can speak any other language. If 2 persons in the group can speak two languages and 1 one person can speak all the three languages, then how many persons are
there in the group ?

(a) 21

(6)22
(c)23

(d) 24

• 23 is the answer.

Aptitude sample questions

• If alphabet are written, only the first half of alphabet is reversed, Which letter is 3rd to the left of 7th letter to the right of E?

• A is the answer – as you can see it -• mlkjihgfedcbanopqrstuvwzyz

• In what proportion must water be mixed with spirit to gain 16.66% by selling at cost price?

• Add approx. 1/6th water to the spirit.

• I have a few sweets to be distributed. If I keep 2, 3 or 4 in a pack, I am left with one sweet, if I keep 5 in a pack, l am left with none, What is the minimum number of sweets that I have to pack and, distribute ?

A)25

b)37

c)54

(d)65

• 25 is the right answer.

• A, B, C, D and E play a game of cards. A says to B, “If you give me three cards,you will have as many as E has and if I give you three cards, you will have as many as D has." A and B together have 10 cards more than what D and E together have. If E has 2 card more than what C has, and the total number of cards be 133, how many cards does B have ?

(a) 22

(b)23

(c) 25

(d) 35

Logical Reasoning -sample questions

Statements :

Some camels are ships.

No ship is a boat.

Conclusions :

I. Some ships are camels.

II. Some boats are camels.

III.Some camels are not boats.

IV.All boats are camels.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II and III follow

(c) Only I and III follow

(d) Only I and II follow

(e) Only either III or IV follows

• Option C is correct – solve by venn diagrams

A bus starts from city X. The number of women in the bus is half of the number of men. In the city Y, 10 men leave the busand five women enter. Now, number of men and women is equal. In the beginning, how many passengers entered the bus ?

(a)15

(6)30

(c)36

(d) 45

• 45 is the right answer

Between two book-ends in your study are displayed your five favourite puzzle books.

If you decide to arrange the five books in every possible combination and moved just One book every minute, how long would it take you ?

(a) 1 hour

(2) hours

(c) 3 hours

(d) 4 hours

• 2 hours is the right answer.