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Aptitude Questions

1. A software engineer returns from America. As he is fat he decided to have evening walk.....he started at 3pm. he walks along the road at 4km/hr for some time then he climbs a upward slope area at 3km/hr then downwards at the rate of 6km/hr. then back to the home through the road at 4km/hr. what is the distance he covered in one way if he reaches back home at 9pm.

2. men and lodge related question a)1 man related to 2lodges.b)each lodge has 3 men.c)only 1 man common b/w 2 lodges

3. A child questions his father, "What is your father's age", to which the father answers "He was aged X in year X^2 (X square) ". If the context is 20th Century, What is his Date of Birth?

4. A man rides cycle for two third of the distance to be covered. then his tyre got punctured. he walks the rest of the distance and found he took twice the time for walking compared to riding. How fast he can ride compared to walk.

5. 51 teams are there and they are to play basketball matches. A team is out of the tournament if that looses 2 games. what is the maximum number of games to be played to decide one winner.

6. who was the murderer(of smith) roger,o'neil,wait the waiter poisened smith with which friend. each of the friends tells 3 stmts 1 of which is false (1 stmt of each friend is false)

7. Nalanda,Rampur, Triloknagar, Maninagar etc some conditions are given....then u have to find which has the population below 5 lakhs.. whic is not the capital 2 industrial towns,2 harbours,longitude relation,latitude relation......etc (four questions based on these)

8. Another one on A,B,C , D and E younger and older relation + occupation of each nutritionist, doctor,planner etc. find who is who ?

9. Two lamps sold for Rs.12 each profit of 25% on 1 and loss 0f 20% on other? did he gain or lose?by how much?



Answers

1. Ans: 12 km (one way )( total distance:12* 2 = 24 km)
2. Ans: 6 men and 4lodges
3. Ans: 1892
4. Ans: V(riding)=4*V(walking)[4 times]
5. Ans:101 matches
6. Ans: Roger was the murderer.(not sure)
9. Ans:60 paise loss

A shopkeeper arranges his fruits in such a way that putting say either 3,or 9,or 7 apples in a row each time one apple is left. but when he puts say 11 apples in a row no apple is left.find no. of apples.
ans: take l.c.m. of earlier three nos. add 1 if divided by 11 fine else multiply by 2 add 1 divide by 11 .if not divisible keep on repeating.

2. A problem of staircase:if i start going down, having gone down 4 steps i see x coming up.i meet x in way going down.when i had still 7 steps to go down x had gone up .find no. of steps in the staircase.condition: for each of my one step down x goes up 2 steps.ans:22
solution:say total no. of steps x2(x-11)==xx="

3. Problem of merrygoround.tom on a merrygoround finds that one third of people ahead of him and three fourth of people behind him is equal to the no. of people on the merrygoround.find the no. of people on the merrygoround.
ans:13since merry gorund is circular so 3/4x+1/3x==x+1.

4. A problem of cards .four persons sitting on a table.infront of each one of them one card is lying not having same colours on both sides.2 blue,2 red,2 green faces. each one guesses the color of unseen face of card .(guesses i don?t remember) exactly 2 are lying.the front faces of card are red,blue,green,red respectively.find the colors of unseen faces of card.

5. five persons in a conference.a & b can communicate in english.when d joins the only coomon language of communication is spanish. a ,b,e can talk to each other in french only.exactly 3 people know portugese. the number of languages known by different persons are 1,2,3,4,5. some other similar conditions . you have to find answers to four questions based n these facts.

6. say ona sacle of 100:85 have phones,80 cars,75 married,70 have houses. how many minimum persons are married,have phone car and houses on a scale of 100.

7. some series given3 10 20 27 54 61 _ans .162some other seriestrick: find suare root then add some number etc.

8. some conditions on xz etc.

9. afternoon temperatures of five days are recorded.each temperature is different.multiple is 12.
ans:-1,1,2,-2,3