PRAGATI ENGINEERING COLLEGE

(Autonomous)
Training and Placement Cell

1. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at 11. The arithmetic mean of the scores of a group of
intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 seconds respectively. students in a test was 52. The brightest 20% of them
In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together? secured a mean score of 80 and the dullest 25% a
(a) 4 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 16 mean score of 31. The mean score of remaining 55%
2. A, B and C start at the same time in the same is :
direction to rn around a circular stadium. A (a) 45 (b) 50 (c) 51.4 approx (d) 54.6 approx
completes a round in 252 seconds, B in 308 seconds 12. The ratio between the school ages of Neelam and
and C in 198 seconds, all starting at the same point. Shaan is 5 : 6 respectively. If the ratio between the
After what time will they meet again at the starting one-third age of Neelam and half of Shaan’s age is
point? 5:9, then what is the school age of Shaan?
(a) 26 minutes 18 seconds (b) 42 minutes 36 seconds (a) 25 years (b) 30 years (c) 36 years
(c) 45 minutes (d) 46 minutes 12 seconds (d) Cannot be determined (e) None of these
3 4 8 9 13. The ratio between the present ages of A and B is
3. Arrange the fractions , , , and in their
5 7 9 11 5:3 respectively. The ratio between A’s age 4 years
descending order. ago and B’s age 4 years hence is 1:1. What is the ratio
8 9 3 4 8 9 3 4 between A’s age 4 years hence and B’s age 4 years
(a) > > > (b) > > > ago?
9 11 5 7 9 11 5 7
8 9 3 4 8 9 3 4 (a) 1:3 (b) 2:1 (c) 3:1 (d) 4:1 (e) None of these
(c) > > > (d) > > > 14. Gauri went to the stationers and bought things
9 11 5 7 9 11 5 7
0.05 ×0.05 ×0.05+ 0.04 ×0.04 ×0.04 worth Rs.25, out of which 30 paise went on sales tax
4. Simplify : . on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 6%, then
0.05 ×0.05−0.05 ×0.04 +0.04 × 0.04
what was the cost of the tax free items?
(a) 0.05 (b) 0.04 (c) 0.09 (d) 0.01
(a) Rs.15 (b) Rs. 15.70 (c) Rs. 19.70 (d) Rs. 20
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5. A man spends of his salary on house rent, of 15. 8% of the people eligible to vote are between 18
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and 21 years of age. In an election, 85% of those
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his salary on food and of his salary on conveyance. eligible to vote, who were between 18 and 21,
8 actually voted. In that election, the number of
If he has Rs. 1400 left with his, find his expenditure persons between 18 and 21, who actually voted, was
on food and conveyance. what percent of those eligible to vote?
(a) Rs. 8000 (b) Rs. 2400 (c) Rs.1000 (d) Rs. 3000 (a) 4.2 (b) 6.4 (c) 6.8 (d) 8
6. A third of Arun’s marks in Mathematics exceeds a 16. A dairyman pays Rs. 6.40 per liter of milk. He adds
half of his marks in English by 30. If he got 240 marks water and sells the mixture at Rs. 8 per liter, thereby
in the two subjects together, how many marks did he making 37.5% profit. The proportion of water to milk
get in English? received by the customers is :
(a) 60 (b) 180 (c) 240 (d) 120 (a) 1 : 10 (b) 1 : 12 (c) 1 : 15 (d) 1 : 20
7. A printer number the pages of a book starting with 17. Padam purchased 30 kg of rice at the rate of Rs.
1 and uses 3189 digits in all. How many pages does 17.50 per kg and another 30 kg rice at a certain rate.
the book have? He mixed the two and sold the entire quantity at the
(a) 1000 (b) 1074 (c) 1075 (d) 1080 rate of Rs. 18.60 per kg and made 20% overall profit.
8. The value of √ 0.01 + √ 0.81 + √ 1.21 + √ 0.0009 is : At what price per kg did he purchase the lot of
(a) 2.03 (b) 2.1 (c) 2.11 (d) 2.13 another 30 kg rice ?
9. √ .0025 x √ 2.25 x √ .0001 = ? (a)Rs. 12.50(b)Rs. 13.50(c)Rs. 14.50(d)Rs. 15.50 (e)
(a) .000075 (b) .0075 (c) .075 (d) None of these None
10. A certain factory employed 600 men and 400 18. The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a
women and the average wage was Rs. 25.50 per day. school is 3:2. If 20% of the boys and 25% of the girls
If a woman got Rs. 5 less than a man, then what are are scholarship holders, what percentage of the
their daily wages ? students does not get the scholarship?
(a) Man : Rs. 25; Woman : Rs. 20 (a) 56 (b) 70 (c) 78 (d) 80
(b) Man : Rs. 27.50; Woman : Rs. 22.50 19. A, B and C enter into a partnership. They invest
(c) Man : Rs. 30; Woman : Rs. 25 Rs. 25 lakhs and adds another Rs. 10 lakhs after one
(d) Man : Rs. 32.50; Woman : Rs. 27.50 year. B initially invests Rs. 35 lakhs and withdraws Rs.
10 lakhs after 2 years and C invests Rs. 30 lakhs. In 29. In how many years will a sum of Rs. 800 at 10%
what ratio should the profits be divided at the end of per annum compounded semiannually become Rs.
3 years? 926.10?
(a) 2 : 3 : 5 (b) 3 : 4 : 7 (c) 4 : 5 : 9 (d) None of these 1 1 1 1
(a) 1 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 2
20. A, B and C enter into a partnership in the ratio 3 2 3 2
7 4 6 30. 2/3 rd of the balls in a bag are blue, the rest are
: : . After 4 months, A increases his share by
2 3 5 pink. If 5/9th of the blue balls and 7/8 th of the pink
50%. If the total profit at the end of one year e Rs. balls are defectives, find the total number of balls in
21,600, then B’s share in the profit is : the bag given that the number of non defective balls
(a) Rs. 2100 (b) Rs. 2400 (c) Rs. 3600 (d) Rs. 4000 is 146.
21. A can finish a work in 18 days and B can do the (a) 216 (b) 649 (c) 432 (d) 578
same work in 15 days. B worked for 10 days and left 31. In a country, 60% of the male Citizens and 70% of
the job. In how many days, A alone can finish the the female citizens are eligible to vote. 70% of the
remaining work? male citizens eligible to vote voted. And 60% of
1 female citizens eligible to vote voted. What fraction
(a) 5 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) 8
2 of the citizens voted during the election ?
22. A and B can do a piece of work in 30 days, while B (a) 0.49 (b) 0.42 (c) 0.48 (d) 0.54
and C can do the same work in 24 days and C are A in 32. In a 3x3 square grid comprising 9 tiles, each the
20 days. They all work together for 10 days when B can be painted in red or blue color. When the is
and C leave. How many days more will A take to rotated by 1800, there is. No difference which can be
finish the work? spotted. How many such possibilities are there?
(a) 18 days (b) 24 days (c) 30 days (d) 20days (a) 16 (b) 32 (c) 64 (d) 256
23. A car travels the first one-third of a certain 33. Two breaker are kept on a table. The capacity of
distance with a speed of 10 km/hr, the next one-third the first beaker is x liters and that of the second
distance with aspeed of 20 km/hr, and the last one- beaker is 2x liters. Two thirds of the first beaker and
third distance with a speed of 60km/hr. The average one fourth of the second beaker is filled with wine.
speed of the car for the whole journey is. The remaining space in both the beaker is filled with
(a) 18 km/hr (b) 24 km/hr (c) 30 km/hr (d) 36 km/hr water. If the content in both these beaker are mixed
24. Robert is travelling on his cycle and has calculated in a large beaker of volume 3x iters, what is the
to reach point A at 2 P.M. if he travels at 10 kmph; he proportion of wine the beaker?
will reach there at 12 noon if he travels at 15 kmph. (a)11/12 (b) 11/36 (c) 7/6 (d) 7/18
At what speed must he travel to reach A at 1 P.M.? 34. Of a set of 30 numbers, average of first 10
(a) 8 kmph (b) 11 kmph (c) 12 kmph (d) 14 kmph numbers=average of last 20 numbers. Than the sum
25. A boat running downstream covers a distance of of thelast 20 numbers is?
16 km in 2 hours while for covering the same (a) 2 X sum of last ten numbers
distance upstream, it takes 4 takes 4 hours. What is (b) 2 X sum of first ten numbers
the speed of the boat in still water? (c) Sum of first ten numbers
(a) 4 km/hr (b) 6 km/hr(c)8 km/hr(d) Data inadequate (d) Can’t be determined with given data
26. Tea worth Rs. 126 per kg and Rs. 135 per kg are 35. When all possible six letter arrangements of the
mixed with a third variety in the ratio 1 : 1 : 2. If the letters of the word “ MASTER” are sorted in
mixture is worth Rs. 153 per kg, the price of the third alphabetical order. What will be the 49th word?
variety per kg will be: (a)AREMST (b) ARMEST (c) AMERST (d) ARMSET
27. Nitin borrowed some money at the rate of 6% 36. Three dice are rolled. What is the probability that
p.a for the first three years, 9% p.a for the next five you will get the sum of the numbers as 10?
years and 13% p.a. for the period beyond eight years. (a) 27/126 (b) 25/216 (c) 10/216 (d) 1/11
If the total interest paid by him at the end of eleven 37. In a telecom assembly factory, there are 250 men
years is Rs. 8160, how much money did he borrow? and 150 women. The average productivity of all
(a) Rs. 8000 (b) Rs. 10,000 (c) 12,000 workers is 12 units per day.The average productivity
(d) Data inadequate (e) None of these of me is 15 units per day. What is the average
28. The compound interest on Rs. 30,000 at 7% per productivity of a woman per day?
annum is Rs. 4347. The period ( in years) is : (a) 6 (b) 9 (c) 7 (d) 8
1 38. Raju can do a piece of work in 10 days. Vicky in 12
(a) 2 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4 days. Tinku in 15 days they all started work together.
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But raju leaves after2 days. Vicky leaves 3 days before
the work is completed. In how many days work 40. A man standing at a point P is watching the top of
incomplete? a tower, which makes an angle of elevation of 30 0
(a) 7 (b) 5 (c) 9 (d) 6 with the man’s eye. The man walks some distance
39. Two ships are sailing in the sea on the two sides towards the tower to watch its top and the angle of
of a lighthouse. The angles of elevation of the top pf elevation becomes 600. What is the distance between
the lighthouse as observed from the two ships are the base of the tower and the point P?
300 and 450 respectively. If the lighthouse is 100 m (a) √
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3 units(b) 8 units (c) 13 units
high, the distance between the two ships is : (d)Data inadequate (e) None of these
(a) 173 m (b) 200m (c) 273 m (d) 300 m
KEY
1.D 2.D 3.A 4.C 5.C 6.A 7.B 8.D 9.D 10.B
11.C 12.D 13.C 14.C 15.C 16.A 17.B 18.C 19.B 20.D
21.C 22.A 23.A 24.C 25.B 26.C 27.A 28.A 29.B 30.C
31.B 32.B 33.D 34.A 35.B 36.A 37.C 38.A 39.C 40.C