Q. No. 1: Government of Tamil Nadu conducted a Trade Fair in Island grounds, Chennai from 3rd January to 31st January 2012. The Fair attracted stalls from different business activities such as banking, BPO, software companies, educational institutions, furniture makers, luxury goods dealers etc. The fair also had a drama festival conducted every day. Surprisingly the trend observed in the number of spectators for the drama was following a trend. On the first day 120 people attended. On the second day it had only 80 people i.e. number was less by 40. On the third day again the number increased by 120 from the previous day and on the fourth day the number came down by 40 from the third day figure. Assuming this trend continued on which day the drama would have had full capacity of auditorium with 1080 seats?
A. 21 January
B. 27 January
C. 20 January
D. 30 January
Q. No. 2: Marco Polo, the adventurous traveler was travelling through the thick forests of Assam. It was quite dark and he had problem in wading through the forest. Suddenly he fell inside an un-walled well of 130 meter depth. He struggled to climb up to get on to the level ground and escape. But unfortunately he found it difficult. He was climbing up 10 meters in the first hour whereas in the next hour he was getting dropped by four meters on account of slippery surface. This process continued viz. in the first hour he was climbing up 10 meters and in the next hour he was slipping down by 4 meters. How many hours he would have taken to climb to top of well?
A. 21 hours
B. 20 hours
C. 41 hours
D. None of these
Q. No. 3: Mr. King Kong an European aged 52 years was suffering from various ailments such as high blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol. He was 5 feet 6 inches tall. Optimal weight for his height is 130 pounds. On 10th January 2012 he found his weight was 223 pounds. The doctors advised him to adopt weight planning. They prescribed exercises, food etc. On the first day he found he was able to reduce his weight by 8 pounds. He felt very happy. But he found that on the next day his weight increased by 3 pounds. He continued to perform exercises. On which date he would have been able to reduce his weight to optimal weight?
A. 14 February 2012
B. 16 February 2012
C. 20 February 2012
D. 15 February 2012
Q. No. 4: A group of students from Netherlands visited Chennai to study about the various aspects of life prevalent in Chennai. They also studied about the weather forecasts. The average temperature of days from Sunday to Wednesday was 36 degrees and that of from Monday to Thursday was 33.5 degrees, the temperature on Thursday was 2/3 of Sunday. What was the temperature on Sunday?
A. 20
B. 30
C. 40
D.38
Q. No. 5: A prominent School in Chennai had classes from LKG to XII standard. A study was made about the marks scored by students of XII in a government examination. The average marks of 60 students in a class were 45. The average marks of the boys in the class is 40 and the average marks of the girls in the class is 50. What is the ratio between the number of boys and girls in the class?
A. 1: 1
B. 2:1
C. 3:1
D. None of these
Q. No. 6: The average number of visitors to a museum from Wednesday to Saturday was 2345. Average number of visitors to it from Thursday to next Sunday was 2100. If the number of visitors to the museum on Sunday was 1820, find the number of visitors to the museum on Wednesday.
A. 2700
B. 2900
C. 2500
D. 2800
Q. No. 7: A prominent School at Siliguri had three batches of students numbering 35, 40 and 50 respectively. The average marks of these batches are 40, 45 and 55 respectively. What is the average mark of all the three batches students put together?
A. 40.6
B. 55.6
C. 50.6
D. 47.6
Q. No. 8: The Coramandal Express leaves Chennai Central at 7.30 a.m. and reaches Howrah 6.00 a.m. the next day. Between Chennai and Howrah, there are 15 halts and the total time the train stopped is 90 minutes. If the distance between Chennai and Howrah is 1400 km, what is the average speed of Coramandal Express?
A. 66 kmph
B. 75 kmph
C. 70 kmph
D. 88 kmph
Q. No. 9: An Air France jet flight from the City of Chicago to Bentenwel started its journey at 9.00AM from Chicago domestic air port. Another flight Airway International started from Chicago to Bentenwel at 10.00 a.m. (exactly one hour later), Airway International was within the minimum separation distance, following Air France jet at 12.00 noon. What is the average speed of Air France jet?
A. 740 kmph
B. 450 kmph
C. 370 kmph
D. 430 kmph
Q. No. 10: The famous Denali Star train starts from Anchorage and travels towards Fair Banks at a speed of 50 mph. After some time, another train Glacier Discovery starts (from a parallel track to the Denali Star train) at Fair Banks and moves towards Anchorage at a speed of 70 mph. Both the trains Denali Star and Glacier Discovery have a length of 1/6 miles each. After the trains meet, how many seconds will the faster train take to overtake the slower one?
A. 60 secs
B. 20 secs
C. 40 secs
D. 50 secs
Answers to the above questions-
1 – B2 – C
3 – A
4 – B
5 – A
6 – D
7 – D
8 – C
9 – C
10 – A
