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Aptitude Test Question Paper-1

1. Father's age is three years more than three times the son's age. After three years, father's age
will be ten years more than twice the son's age. What is the father's present age.

Ans. 33 years. (2 marks)

2. Find the values of each of the alphabets.

NOON
SOON
+MOON
----------
JUNE

Ans. 9326 (2 marks)

3. A car is travelling at a uniform speed. The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit number.
After travelling for an hour the driver sees another milestone with the same digits in reverse
order. After another hour the driver sees another milestone containing the same two digits. What
is the average speed of the driver.

Ans. 45 kmph (4 marks)

4. The minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every 65 minutes. How much does the watch
lose or gain time and by how much?

Ans. Gains; 5/11 minutes (4 marks)

5. Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends. Ram is a widower and lives alone and his sister takes
care of him. Shyam is a bachelor and his niece cooks his food and looks after his house.
Gumnaam is married to Gita and lives in large house in the same town. Gita gives the idea that
all of them could stay together in the house and share monthly expenses equally. During their
first month of living together, each person contributed Rs.25. At the end of the month, it was
found that Rs 92 was the expense so the remaining amount was distributed equally among
everyone.  The distribution was such that everyone received a whole number of Rupees. How
much did each person receive?

Ans. Rs 2 (4 marks)
6. At 6'o a clock ticks 6 times. The time between first and last ticks is 30 seconds. How long does
it tick at 12'o clock.

Ans. 66 sec. (2 marks)

7. Three friends divided some bullets equally. After all of them shot 4 bullets the total number of
bullets remaining is equal to the bullets each had after division. Find the original number
divided.

Ans. 18 (2 marks)

8. Played Won Lost Draw Goals For Goals Against

A22xxx1
B2xx124
C2xxx37

Ans : The filled table is given below (4 marks)

Played Won Lost Draw Goals For Goals Against

A220071
B201124
C201137

9. There are 3 societies A, B, C.  A lent cars to B and C as many as they had already.
After some time B gave as many tractors to A and C as many as they have. After sometime c did
the same thing. At the end of this transaction each one of them had 24. Find the cars each
originally had.

Ans. A had 39 cars, B had 21 cars & C had 12 cars (4 marks)

10. Given that April 1 is Tuesday. A, B, C are 3 persons told that their farewell party was on
A - May 8, Thursday
B - May 10,tuesday
C - June 5, Friday
Out of A, B, C only one made a completely true statement concerning date, day and month
The other told two one told the day right and the other the date right..
What is correct date, month, day.

Ans: B - (May 10) SUNDAY

C - June 6 (Friday). (5 marks)

11. The Bulls, Pacers, Lakers and Jazz ran for a contest. Anup, Sujit, John made the following
statements regarding results.
Anup said either Bulls or Jazz will definitely win
Sujit said he is confident that Bulls will not win
John said he is confident that neither Jazz nor Lakers will win
When the result came it was found that only one of the above three had made a correct
statement.  Who has made the correct statement and who has won the contest.

Ans. Sujit; Lakers (5marks )

12. Five people A ,B ,C ,D ,E are related to each other. Four of them make one true statement
each as follows.
(i) B is my father's brother.
(ii) E is my mother-in-law.
(iii)C is my son-in-law's brother
(iv)A is my brother's wife.

(i) D
(ii) B
(iii) E
(iv) C (10 marks)

13. A man collects cigarette stubs and makes one full cigarette with every 8 stubs. If he
gets 64 stubs how many full cigarettes can he smoke.

Ans: 8+1=9

14. A soldier looses his way in a thick jungle. At random he walks from his camp but
mathematically in an interesting fashion. First he walks one mile East then half mile to
North. Then 1/4 mile to West, then 1/8 mile to South and so on making a loop.  Finally how
far he is from his camp and in which direction.

Ans: Distance travelled in north and south directions

1/2 - 1/8 + 1/32 - 1/128 + 1/512 - and so on
= 1/2/((1-(-1/4))
Similarly in east and west directions
1- 1/4 + 1/16 - 1/64 + 1/256 - and so on
= 1/(( 1- ( - 1/4))
Add both the answers

15. How can 1000000000 be written as a product of two factors neither of them containing
zeros

Ans: 2 power 9 x 5 power 9

16. Conversation between two mathematicians:
First : I have three children. The product of their ages is 36. If you sum their ages, it is
exactly same as my neighbor's door number on my left.
The second mathematician verifies the door number and says that it is not sufficient.
Then the first says " Ok one more clue is that my youngest is really the youngest".
Immediately the second mathematician answers .
Can you answer the question asked by the first mathematician? What are the children ages?

Ans 1,6 and 6

17. Light glows for every 13 seconds . How many times did it glow between 1:57:58 and
3:20:47 am.

Ans: 383 + 1 = 384

18. 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns according to their heights.
Tallest among each row of all are asked to fall out.
And the shortest among them is A.
Similarly after resuming that to their original positions that the shortest among each
column are asked to fall out.
And the tallest among them is B .
Now who is taller among A and B ?

Ans A

19. A person with some money spends1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of the remaining for food and 1/4
of the remaining for travel. He is left with Rs 100/- . How much did he have with him in the
beginning ?

Ans: Rs 250/-

20. There are six boxes containing 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 29 balls of either red or blue in
color. Some boxes contain only red balls and others contain only blue. One sales man sold
one box out of them and then he says " I have the same number of red balls left out as that
of blue ". Which box is the one he sold out ?

Ans: Total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2) = 60/2 = 30

and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30

21. A chain is broken into three pieces of equal lengths containing 3 links each. It is taken
to a blacksmith to join into a single continuous one . How many links are to to be opened to
make it ?

Ans: 2.

22. Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 24 days for 70 cows
and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass. How many cows are needed to eat
the grass in 96 days.?

Ans: 20
g - grass at the beginning
r - rate at which grass grows, per day
y - rate at which one cow eats grass, per day
n - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days
g + 24*r = 70 * 24 * y
g + 60*r = 30 * 60 * y
g + 96*r = n * 96 * y
Solving, n = 20.

23. From a vessel, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates on the first day. On the second day 3/4th
of the remaining liquid evaporates. What fraction of the volume is present at the end of the
second day.

Ans: 50%

24. An orange glass has orange juice and white glass has apple juice both of equal volumes.
50ml of the orange juice is taken and poured into the apple juice.
50ml from the white glass is poured into the orange glass. Of the two quantities, the
amount of apple juice in the orange glass and the amount of orange juice in the white glass,
which one is greater and by how much?

Ans: The two quantities are equal

25. There is a 4 inch cube painted on all sides. This is cut down into of 1 inch cubes.
What is the no of cubes which have no pointed sides.

Ans: 8

26. Sam and Mala have a conversation.

Sam says I am certainly not over 40
Mala says I am 38 and you are atleast 5 years older than me
Now Sam says you are atleast 39
All the statements by the two are false.
How old are they really?

Ans: Mala = 38 yrs

Sam = 41 yrs.