Learn Aptitude: Miscellaneous

A train passes a station platform in 36 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 20 seconds. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr, what is the length of the platform?
A.	120 m	
B.	240 m
C.	300 m	
D.	None of these

If a person walks at 14 km/hr instead of 10 km/hr, he would have walked 20 km more. The actual distance travelled by him is:
A.	50 km	
B.	56 km
C.	70 km	
D.	80 km

In a certain store, the profit is 320% of the cost. If the cost increases by 25% but the selling price remains constant, approximately what percentage of the selling price is the profit?
A.	30%	
B.	70%
C.	100%	
D.	250%

Let N be the greatest number that will divide 1305, 4665 and 6905, leaving the same remainder in each case. 

Then sum of the digits in N is:
A.	4	
B.	5
C.	6	
D.	8

How many 3-digit numbers can be formed from the digits 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9, which are divisible by 5 and none of the digits is repeated?

A.	5	
B.	10
C.	15	
D.	20

A box contains 2 white balls, 3 black balls and 4 red balls. In how many ways can 3 balls be drawn from the box, if at least one black ball is to be included in the draw?
A.	32	
B.	48
C.	64	
D.	96
E.	None of these

On 8th Feb, 2005 it was Tuesday. What was the day of the week on 8th Feb, 2004?

A.	Tuesday	
B.	Monday
C.	Sunday	
D.	Wednesday

A pump can fill a tank with water in 2 hours. Because of a leak, it took 2 hours to fill the tank. The leak can drain all the water of the tank in:
A.13/3hours
B.7 hours
C.8 hours
D.14 hours

The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team?
A.	23 years	
B.	24 years
C.	25 years	
D.	None of these

A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth". If the father's age is 38 years now, the son's age five years back was:
A.	14 years	
B.	19 years
C.	33 years	
D.	38 years

If A = x% of y and B = y% of x, then which of the following is true?
A. A is smaller than B.
B.A is greater than B
C.Relationship between A and B cannot be determined.	
D.If x is smaller than y, then A is greater than B.
E.None of these

You are given two candles of equal size, which can burn 1 hour each. You have to measure 90 minutes with these candles. (There is no scale or clock). Also u r given a lighter.

A clock is started at noon. By 10 minutes past 5, the hour hand has turned through:
A.	145º	
B.	150º
C.	155º	
D.	160º

If one tyre of a car suddenly gets stolen.... and after sometime u find the tyrewithout the screws how will u make ur journey complete?

In order to obtain an income of Rs. 650 from 10% stock at Rs. 96, one must make an investment of:
A.	Rs. 3100	
B.	Rs. 6240
C.	Rs. 6500	
D.	Rs. 9600

How will you measure height of building when you are at the top of the building?And if you have stone with you.

find the odd  
396, 462, 572, 427, 671, 264

In one hour, a boat goes 11 km/hr along the stream and 5 km/hr against the stream. The speed of the boat in still water (in km/hr) is:
A.	3 km/hr	
B.	5 km/hr
C.	8 km/hr	
D.	9 km/hr

A man buys Rs. 20 shares paying 9% dividend. The man wants to have an interest of 12% on his money. The market value of each share is:
A.	Rs. 12	
B.	Rs. 15
C.	Rs. 18	
D.	Rs. 21

How many 4-letter words with or without meaning, can be formed out of the letters of the word, 'LOGARITHMS', if repetition of letters is not allowed?
A.	40	
B.	400
C.	5040	
D.	2520

Call rate of a sim company-A is 1 paisa for every 3 seconds. Another sim company-B charges 45  paisa per minute. A man talked 591 seconds from Sim Company-A and 780 seconds from sim company-B. What would be the total amount he spent? (A) Rs. 7.80 (B) Rs. 7.40 (C) Rs. 7.46 (D) Rs. 7.82 (E) Rs. 8.46

There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller thanB. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20 liters and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled of the 21 hours, what is total duration of hours required to fill itcompletely?a) 26 B)25 c)5 d)27

6 persons standing in queue with different age group, aftertwo years their average age will be 43 and seventh personjoined with them. Hence the current average age has become 45.Find the age of seventh person?a) 43 b) 69 c) 52 d) 31

In the reading room of a library, there are 23 readingspots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 9chairs placed around it. There are some readers such that ineach occupied reading spot there are different numbers ofreaders. If in all there are 36 readers, how many readingspots do not have even a single reader?a) 8 b) none c) 16 d) 15

A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks overthe same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for thejourney?a) 2.4 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4 mph d) 5 mph

((4x+3y)+(5x+9y))/(5x+5y) = ? as (x/2y) = 2a)8 b)none c)16 d)15

A toy train produces 10 different sounds when it movesaround a circular toy track of radius 5 m at 10 m per min.However, the toy train is defective and it now produces only 2different tunes at random. What are the odds that the trainproduces for consecutive music tones of the same type?a) 1 in 16 B) 1 in 4 c) 1 in 8 d) 1 in 32

For the equation px2 + px + q = 0, the value of thediscriminant is zero. The roots of this equation are:(a) imaginary(b) irrational(c) rational and unequal(d) rational and equal(e) real and equal

The sum of two times one natural number and three times another natural number is less than 24. If the first naturalnumber is less than or equal to eight, the highest value of thesecond natural number is:(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7(d) 8 (e) 9

Mr X gets a salary of Rs 1,44,000 p.a. Assuming the salary to be the same every month, what will happen to hisaverage income per day?(a) Maximum for (Jan, Feb, March) period(b) Maximum for (Feb, March, April) period(c) Minimum for (July, Aug, Sep) period(d) All three above are true(e) Both (b) and (c) above

Series A: 2 11 47 128 ...Series B: 5 m n o ...The value of n is ...(a) 27 (b) 50 (c) 25(d) 21 (e) 62

A, B, C, D, E are five positive numbers.A + B < C + D, B + C < D + E, C + D < E + A.Is ‘A’ the greatest?Statement 1: D + E < A + BStatement 2: E < C

Steel Express runs between Tatanagar and Howrah and has five stoppages in between. Find the number of different kinds of one-way second class ticket that Indian Railways will have to print to service all types of passengers who might travel by Steel Express?(A) 49 (B) 42(C) 21 (D) 7

12. If x > 8 and y > – 4, then which one of the followingis always true?(A) xy < 0(B) x2 < – y(C) – x < 2y(D) x > y

If R = {(1, 1), (2, 2), (1, 2), (2, 1), (3, 3)} andS = {(1, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (3, 2), (3, 3)} are two relations in theset X = {1, 2, 3}, the incorrect statement is:(A) R and S are both equivalence relations(B) R ∩ S is an equivalence relations(C) R ∪ S is an equivalence relations

A number when divided by 342 gives a remainder 47. When the same number is  divided by 19 what would be the remainder

Find the sum of all odd numbers up to 100?

The difference between two numbers s 1365. When the larger number is  divided by the smaller one the quotient is 6 and the remainder is 15. The smaller number is? (a) 240 (b) 270 (c) 295 (d) 360 

In doing a division of a question with zero  remainder, a candidate took 12 as divisor instead of 21. The quotient  obtained by him was 35. The correct   quotient is? (a) 0 (b) 12 (c) 13 (d) 20

A man has Rs. 480 in the denominations of one-rupee notes, five-rupee notes and ten-rupee notes. The number of notes of each denomination is equal. What is the total number of notes that he has ?A.	45	B.	60C.	75	D.	90

There are two examinations rooms A and B. If 10 students are sent from A to B, then the number of students in each room is the same. If 20 candidates are sent from B to A, then the number of students in A is double the number of students in B. The number of students in room A is:A.	20	B.	80C.	100	D.	200

In a regular week, there are 5 working days and for each day, the working hours are 8. A man gets Rs. 2.40 per hour for regular work and Rs. 3.20 per hours for overtime. If he earns Rs. 432 in 4 weeks, then how many hours does he work for ?A.	160	B.	175C.	180	D.	195

A man has some hens and cows. If the number of heads be 48 and the number of feet equals 140, then the number of hens will be:A.	22	B.	23C.	24	D.	26

The last day of a century cannot beA.	Monday	B.	WednesdayC.	Tuesday	D.	Friday

My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed 10 Hrs later at a place with coordinates 36N70W. What is the local time when my plane landed?6:00 am b) 6:40am c) 7:40 d) 7:00 e) 8:00 

A plane moves from 9°N40°E to 9°N40°W. If the plane starts at 10 am and takes 8 hours to reach the destination, find the local arrival time ?

The size of the bucket is N kb. The bucket fills at the rate of 0.1 kb per millisecond. A programmer sends a program to receiver. There it waits for 10 milliseconds. And response will be back to programmer in 20 milliseconds. How much time the program takes to get a response back to the programmer, after it is sent?

Y catches 5 times more fishes than X. If total number of fishes caught by X and Y is 42, then number of fishes caught by X?

The ratio of incomes of C and D is 3:4.the ratio of their expenditures is 4:5. Find the ratio of their savings if the savings of C is one fourths of his income?

If A can copy 50 pages in 10 hours and A and B together can copy 70 pages in 10 hours, how much time does B takes to copy 26 pages?

Falling height is proportional to square of the time. One object falls 64cm in 2sec than in 6sec from how much height the object will fall.

Gavaskar average in first 50 innings was 50. After the 51st innings his average was 51 how many runs he made in the 51st innings

Anand finishes a work in 7 days, Bittu finishes the same job in 8 days and Chandu in 6 days. They take turns to finish the work. Anand on the first day, Bittu on the second and Chandu on the third day and then Anand again and so on. On which day will the work get over?a) 3rd   b) 6th   c) 9th   d) 7th