Showing posts with label logical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label logical. Show all posts
Feb 26, 2011
Jan 20, 2011
Solve Aptitude question
In an examination, a student scores 4 marks for every correct answer and loses 1 mark for every wrong answer.
If he attempts all 75 questions and secures 125 marks, the number of questions he attempts correctly, is
(a) 35
(b) 40
(c) 42
(d) 46
• 40 is the right answer (40*4 – 35*1)
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 questions
If MADRAS is written as ARSARS, how can we write ARKONAM in that code?
(1) ROAAKNM
(2) ROKANAM
(3)NONE
Ans is (1) – we are picking alternate digits – to form the code – so logically the answer is (1).
In a certain code, SUBSTITUTION is written as ITSBUSNOITUT.
How is DISTRIBUTION written in that code ?
(a) IRTSIDNOITUB
(b) IRTSIDNOIBUT
(c) IRTDISNOITUB
(d) IRTDISNOIUTB
(e) None of these
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS IRTSIDNOITUB – AS THE LOGIC IS TO BREAK THE WORD AND REVERSE THE SEQUENCE.
Dec 23, 2010
Brain teasers
1. Take the letters ERGRO. Put three letters in front of it, and the same three letters behind to form a common English word. – underground
2. What number gives the same result when it is added to 1.5 as when it is multiplied by 1.5? -3
3. Unscramble the letters to find the name of a
4. Find Anagram with a similar meaning of the given word: Angered - Enraged
5. Divide 110 into two parts so that one will be 150 percent of the other. What are the 2 numbers? 44 & 66
6. The following number is the only one of its kind. Can you figure out what is so special about it? 8,549,176,320. It's the only number that contains all of the digits in alphabetical order.
7. There are 2 different colors of socks in a drawer. Without being able to see inside the drawer, how many socks must you remove from the drawer to ensure that you will have a pair that match? 3 socks. (the 1st sock you take could be blue or black, the 2nd sock you take could also be blue or black. This means you may have 1 of each color, but on the 3rd try you must make a pair match with either color.)
8. If a snail crawls halfway around a circle then turns around and crawls halfway back, is it now back where it started? No,( it crawls halfway around the circle, but halfway back is only 1/4 of the return trip ( half of a half ).)
9. A man and his son are driving home from a basketball game when they have a terrible accident. The man is taken to the emergency room for treatment and the boy is taken straight to the operating table. The surgeon comes over to the operating table, sees the boy and says " I can't operate on this patient, he's my son! How can this be? The surgeon is the boy's mother.
1 What English word can have 4 of its 5 letters removed and still retain it's original pronunciation? Queue
Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name? Johnny
1 Rearrange the following letters to form a single word. MAN USES METER. Measurements
13. Combine the word pair to find an animal name as its anagram: Neat Help. Elephant
1 I am a struggle, a fight, and a contest. My first four letters are an everyday device used for hairstyle. (6 letters) combat
1 I am a family member, if you remove one of my words you’ll find it annoying. Bother(Brother)
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