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TCS PAPERS 4

1. G(0)=-1, G(1)=1, G(N)=G(N-1) - G(N-2), G(5)= ?

ANS:-2



2. with 4/5 full tank vehicle travels 12 miles, with 1/3 full
tank how much distance travels

Ans: 5 miles.

3. two trees are there. one grows at 3/5 of the other. in 4
years, total growth of trees is 8 ft. what growth will smaller tree will
have in 2 years.



Ans: 1.5 ft

4. A storm will move with a velocity of towords the center in
hours. At the same rate how much far will it move in hrs.



Ans 8/3 or 2 2/3



5. There are 150 weights .Some are 1 kg weights and some are 2 kg weights. The sum of the weights is 260.What is the number of 1kg weights?



Ans. 40



6. A is driving on a highway when the police fines him for overspeeding and exceeding the limit by 10 km/hr.At the same time B is fined for overspeeding by twice the amount by which A exceeded the limit.If he was driving at 35 km/hr what is the speed limit for the road?



Ans. 15 kmph


7. A moves 3 kms east from his starting point . He then travels 5 kms north. From that point he moves 8 kms to the east.How far is A from his starting point?



Ans. 13 kms



8. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When 18 is added to the number, the digits are reversed. Find the number?



Ans. 35



9. The cost of one pencil, two pens and four erasers is Rs.22 while the cost of five pencils, four pens and two erasers is Rs.32.How much will three pencils, three pens and three erasers cost?



Ans. 27



10. Fathers age is 5 times his son's age. 4 years back the father was 9 times older than son.Find the fathers' present age.



Ans. 40 years







11. What number should be added to or subtracted from each term of the ratio 17 : 24 so that it becomes equal to 1 : 2.



Ans. 10 should be subtracted



12. What is the 12th term of the series 2, 5, 8, ....



Ans. 35



13. If 20 men take 15 days to to complete a job, in how many days can 25 men finish that work?



Ans. 12 days



14. In a fraction, if 1 is added to both the numerator at the denominator, the fraction becomes 1/2. If numerator is subtracted from the denominator, the fraction becomes 3/4. Find the fraction.



Ans. 3/7



15. If Rs.1260 is divided between between A, B and C in the ratio 2:3:4, what is C's share?



Ans. Rs. 560



16. A shopkeeper bought a watch for Rs.400 and sold it for Rs.500.What is his profit percentage?

Ans. 25%



16. What percent of 60 is 12?



Ans. 20%



17. Hansie made the following amounts in seven games of cricket in India: Rs.10, Rs.15, Rs.21, Rs.12, Rs.18, Rs.19 and Rs.17(all figures in crores of course).Find his average earnings.



Ans. Rs.16 crore



18. One night Ram was studying for his examination when the lights went out. He lighted two candles at the same time, both of equal length, one thicker than the other. The thick candle is supposed to last six hours and the thin one two hours less. When he finally went to sleep the thick candle was twice as long as the thin one. For how long did he study by candlelight?



Ans : 3

19. If one angle of a triangle is three times a second angle and the third angle is 20 degrees more than the second angle, the second angle is (in degrees)



20. A basketball team scored a total of 7865 points in a certain number of games, if they averaged 121 points per game, how many games did they play?



21. If the side of a square is doubled, the perimeter of the square is (doubled)



22. A party has 12 boys & 15 girls. How many different dancing pairs can be formed? Ans: 180



23. A truck driver must complete a 180-mile trip in 4 hours. If he averages 50 miles an hour for the first three hours of his trip; how fast must he travel in the final hour?



Ans: 30mph



24. If the product of 3 consecutive integers is 210 then the sum of the two smaller integers is:



Ans: 11



25. A worker is paid Rs. 20 for each day he works, and is paid proportionately for any fraction of a day he works. If during one week he works 1/8, 2/3, 3/4, 1/3, and 1 full day, what are his total earnings for the week?



Ans: 57.50



26. A drawer contains 6 red socks and 4 blue socks. What is the probability that if 2 socks are picked (without looking) from the drawer, both of the socks will be red?



Ans : 1/3



27. If a triangle has base B and the altitude of the triangle is twice the base then the are a of the triangle is:



Ans: B*B



28. If the side of a square increases by 40% then the area of the square increases by:

Ans: 96%



29. If 32 students in a class are female and there are 18 male students in the class, what percentage of the class is female?



Ans : 64%



30. Dictionaries weigh 6 pounds each and a set of encyclopedias weighs 75 pounds. 20 dictionaries are shipped in each box, 2 sets of encyclopedias are shipped in each box. A truck is loaded with 98 boxes of dictionaries and 50 boxes of encyclopedias. How much does the truckload weigh?



Ans: 19260 pounds



31. A clerk multiplied a number by ten when ten should have divided it. The answer he got was 100.what should the ans have been? A:



Ans: 1



32. A 16-stored building has 12000 sq.feet on each floor. Company A rents 7 floors and company B rents 4 floors. What is the number of sq.feet of unrented floor space?



Ans: 60000



33. From its total income, A sales company spent Rs.20, 000 for advertising, half of the remainder on commissions and had Rs.6000 left. What was its total income?



Ans: 32000



34. On Monday a banker processed a batch of cheques, on Tuesday she processed three times as many, and on Wednesday she processed 4000 cheques. In the three days, she processed 16000 cheques. How many did she process on Tuesday?



Ans: 9000



35. In a certain company, 20% of the men and 40% of the women attended the annual company picnic. If 35% of all the employees are man, what percent of all the employees went to the picnic?



Ans: 33%



36. There are two tanks X and Y with some fluid. X is having 600 gallons of more fluid than Y at present. When 100 gallons of fluid is removed from both X and

Y, X will have 3 times that of Y. Find the volume of fluid in X and Y.



Ans:



38. Given that n= 15*24*28. Which of the following is not an Integer.

(a. n/7 b. n/14 c. n/21 d. n/39)



Ans: n / 39



40. A boy is born when his father is 27 years old. How old will he be when he is exactly half his fathers' age?



Ans: 27



41. A train running between two towns' arrives at its destination 10 minutes late when it goes 40 miles per hour and 16 minutes late when it goes 30 miles per hour. The distance between the towns is?



Ans: 720





42. If one angle of a triangle is three times a second angle and the third angle is 20 degrees mkre than the second angle, the second angle is(in degrees)

a 32 b 34 c 40 d 50 e 54



Ans:a



43. If the side of a square is doubled, the perimeter of the square is

a unchanged b doubled c halved d multiplied by 4 e. divided by 4



Ans: b



44. A truck driver must complete a 180-mile trip in 4 hours. If he averages 50 miles an hour for the first three hours of his trip; how fast must he travel in the final hour?

a 30 mph b 35mph c 40 mph d 45mph e 50 mph



Ans: a



45. The dimensions of a certain machine are 48" X 30" X 52". If the size

of the machine is increased proportionately until the sum of its

dimensions equals 156", what will be the increase in the shortest side?



Ans. 6"



46. 30 poles are planted in a field such that the distance between each pair is 15mts. What is the distance between 1st and 30th pole? (435)

TCS PAPERS 3

1. If two pencils cost 8 cents, then how much do 5 pencils cost?



Ans. 20 cents





2. Some work is done by two people in 24 minutes. One of them can do this work alone in 40 minutes. How much time does the second person take to do the same work ?



Ans. 60 minutes





3. A car is filled with four and half gallons of fuel for a round trip.If the amount of fuel taken while going is 1/4 more than the amount taken for coming, what is the amount of fuel consumed while coming back?



Ans.2 gallons





4. The lowest temperature in the night in a city A is 1/3 more than 1/2 the highest during the day. Sum of the lowest temperature and the highest temperature is 100 degrees. Then what is the low temp?



Ans.40 degrees





5. Javagal, who decided to go to weekened trip should not exceed 8 hours driving in a day. The average speed of forward journey is 40 miles/hr.Due to traffic on sundays, the return journey's average speed is 30 m/h. How far he can select a picnic spot?



a) 120 miles

b) between 120 and 140 miles

c) 160 miles



Ans. 120 miles



6. A salesperson by mistake multiplied a number and got the answer as 3, instead of dividing the number by 3.What is the answer he should have actually got?



Ans. 3



7. A building with height D shadow upto G. What is the height of a neighbouring building with a shadow of C feet.



Ans. (C*D)/G

8. A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10 mph. Another person was also fined for exceeding the same speed limit by twice the same. If the second person was travelling at a speed of 35 mph, find the speed limit.



Ans. 15 mph





9. A bus started from bustand at 8.00am, and after staying for 30 minutes at a destination, it returned back to the busstand. The destination is 27 miles from the busstand. The speed of the bus is 18mph. During the return journey bus travels with 50% faster speed.At what time does it return to the busstand?



Ans. 11.00am





10. In a mixture, R is 2 parts and S is 1 part. In order to make S to 25% of the mixture, how much of R is to be added?



Ans.One part of R





11. Wind flows 160 miles in 330 min, for travelling 80 miles how much time does it require?



Ans. 2 hrs 45 mins





12. With a 4/5 full tank a vehicle can travel 12 miles, how far can it travel with a 1/3 full tank



Ans. 5 miles





13. There are two trees in a lawn. One grows at a rate 3/5 of the other in 4 years. If the total growth of trees is 8 ft. What is the height of the smaller tree after 2 years



Ans. 1 1/2 feet





14. Refer to the figure below.A ship started from P and moves at a speed of I miles per hour and another ship starts from L and moving with H miles per hour simultaneously.Where do the two ships meet?



||---g---||---h---||---i---||---j---||---k---||---l---||



PG H I J K L are the various stops in between denoted by || . The values g, h, i, j, k, l denote the distance between the ports.



Ans. Between I and J, closer to J





15. If A is travelling at 72 km per hour on a highway. B is travelling at a speed of 25 meters per second on a highway. What is the difference in their speeds in m/sec.



Ans. 1 m/sec



Part – C



1) ONE RECTANGULAR PLATE WITH LENGTH 8INCHES, BREADTH 11 INCHES AND

2 INCHES THICKNESS IS THERE.WHAT IS THE LENGTH OF THE CIRCULAR ROD

WITH DIAMETER 8 INCHES AND EQUAL TO VOLUME OF RECTANGULAR PLATE?

ANS: 3.5 INCHES



2) WHAT IS THE NUMBER OF ZEROS AT THE END OF THE PRODUCT OF THE NUMBERS

FROM 1 TO 100



3) In some game 139 members have participated every time one fellow will get bye what is the number of matches to choose the champion to be held?

ans: 138

4) one fast typist type some matter in 2hr and another slow typist type the same matter in 3hr. if both do together in how much time they will finish.

ans: 1hr 12min



5) in 8*8 chess board what is the total number of squares refer Model

ans:204



6) 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.



7) 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



8)2 oranges, 3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15. 3 oranges 2 bananas 1 apple costs Rs.10. what is the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples?

Ans: Rs.15



9) In 80 coins one coin is counterfeit what is minimum number of weighing to find out counterfeit coin



10)In a company 30% are supervisors and 40% employees are male. if 60% of supervisors are male. What is the probability that a randomly chosen employee is a male or female?



Part – D



1) Bhanu spends 30% of his income on petrol on scooter. ¼ of the remaining on house rent and the balance on food. If he spends Rs.300 on petrol then what is the expenditure on house rent?

a) Rs.525

b) Rs.1000

c) Rs.675

d) Rs.175



2) If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 25% and denominator decreased by 20%, the new value is 5/4. What is the original value?

a) 3/5

b) 4/5

c) 7/8

d) 3/7



3) The length of a rectangle is increased by 60%. By what % would the width have to be decreased to maintain the same area?

a) 30%

b) 60%

c) 75%

d) 37.5%



4) The value of ¾ + 5 / 36 + 7 / 144 + …….+17 / 5184 + 19 / 8100 is

a) 0.99

b) 0.98

c) 0.95

d) None of these



5) A sporting goods store ordered an equal number of white and yellow balls. The tennis ball company delivered 45 extra white balls, making the ratio of white balls to yellow balls 1/5 : 1/6. How many white tennis balls did the store originally order for?

a) 450

b) 270

c) 225

d) None of these



6) A student's grade in a course is determined by 6 quizzes and one examination. If the examination counts thrice as much as each of the quizzes, what fraction of final grade is determined by the examination?

a) 1/6

b) 1/5

c) 1/3

d) ¼



7) A sum of money is divided among A, B and C such that for each rupee A gets, B gets 65paise and C gets 35paise. If C's share is Rs.560, the sum is …

a) 2400

b) 2800

c) 3200

d) 3800


8) Joe's father will be twice his age 6 years from now. His mother was twice his age 2 years before. If Joe will be 24 two years from now, what is the difference between his father's and mother's age?

a) 4

b) 6

c) 8

d) 10



9) A traveler walks a certain distance. Had he gone half a kilometer an hour faster \, he would have walked it in 4/5 of the time, and had he gone half a Kilometer an hour slower, he would have walked 2 ½ hr longer. What is the distance?

a) 10 Km

b) 15 Km

c) 20 Km

d) Data Insufficient

10) Two oranges, 3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15. 3 oranges, 2 bananas and 1 apple cost Rs.10. I bought 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples. How much did I pay?

a) 10

b) 8

c) 15

d) Cannot be determined



11) A report consists of 20 sheets each of 55 lines and each such line consists of 65 characters. This report is retyped into sheets each of 65 lines such that each line consists of 70 characters. The % reduction in the number of sheets is closest to

a) 20

b) 5

c) 30

d) 35



12) A ship leaves on a long voyage. When it is 18 miles from the shore, a seaplane, whose speed is 10 times that of the ship is sent to deliver mail. How far from the shore does the seaplane catch upo with the ship?

a) 24 miles

b) 25 miles

c) 22miles

d) 20 miles



13) 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



14) 3 men finish painting a wall in 8 days. Four boys do the same job in 7 days. In how many days will 2 men and 2 boys working together paint two such walls of the same size?

a) 6 6/13 days

b) 3 3/13 days

c) 9 2/5 days

d) 12 12/13 days












15) There are 5 distinct pairs of white socks and 5 pairs of black socks in a cupboard. In the dark, how many socks do I have to pull out to ensure that I have at least 1 correct pair of white socks?

a) 3

b) 11

c) 12

d) 16



16) In a circular race track of length 100 m, three persons A, B and C start together. A and B start in the same direction at speeds of 10 m/s and 8 m/s respectively. While C runs in the opposite at 15 m/s. When will all the three meet for the first time on the after the start?

a) After 4 s

b) After 50 s

c) After 100 s

d) After 200 s



17) If the distance traveled (s) in time (t) by a partile is given by the formula s = 1+ 2t+3t2+4t3 , then what is the distance travelled in the 4th second of its motion?

a) 141m

b) 171m

c) 243m

d) 313m



18) There is a circular pizza with negligible thickness that is cut into 'x' pieces by 4 straight line cuts. What is the maximum and minimum value of 'x' respectively?

a) 12,6

b) 11,6

c) 12,5

d) 11,5



19) When ¾ of a unit's digit is added to the ten's digit of a two number, the sum of the digits becomes 10. If ¼ of the ten's digit added to the unit's digit, then the sum of the digits is 1 less than the previous. Find the number.

a) 94

b) 84

c) 48

d) 88



20) LCM of x and y is 36 and HCF of x and y is 4. If x = 4 then which of the following is definitely not true?

a) Y is divisible by 3

b) Y is divisible by 6

c) Y is divisible by 9

d) X+Y is divisible by

21) Amal bought 5 pens, 7 pencils and 4 erasers. Rajan bought 6 pens, 8 erasers and 14 pencils for an amount which was half more than what Amal had paid. What % of the total amount paid by Amal was paid for pens?

a) 37.5%

b) 62.5%

c) 50%

d) None of these


22) A non stop bus to Amritsar overtakes an auto also moving towards Amritsar at 10 am. The bus reaches Amritsar at 12.30 pm and starts on the return journey after 1 hr. On the way back it meets the auto at 2 pm. At what time the auto will reach Amritsar?

a) 2.30pm

b) 3.00pm

c) 3.15pm

d) 3.30pm



23) The total expense of a boarding house are partly fixed and partly variable with the number of boarders. The charge is Rs.70 per head when there are 25 boarders and Rs.60 when there are 50 boarders. Find the charge per head when there are 100 boarders.

a) 65

b) 55

c) 50

d) 45



24) How many positive integer solutions does the equation 2x+3y = 100 have?

a) 50

b) 33

c) 16

d) 35



25) A person had to multiply two numbers. Instead of multiplying by 35, he multiplied by 53and the product went up by 540. What was the raised product?

a) 780

b) 1040

c) 1590

d) 1720

TCS PAPERS 2

1. In a two-dimensional array, X (9, 7), with each element occupying 4 bytes of memory, with the address of the first element X (1, 1) is 3000; find the address of X (8, 5).



Ans: 3212



2. In the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first and second, third and forth, forth and fifth, fifth and sixth words are interchanged up to the last letter, what would be the tenth letter from right?



Ans: I



3. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in an 8-bit memory?



Ans: 251



4. Select the odd one out…..a. Java b. Lisp c. Smalltalk d. Eiffel. Ans: Eiffel



5. Select the odd one out a. SMTP b. WAP c. SAP d. ARP. Ans: SAP



6. Select the odd one out a. Oracle b. Linux c. Ingress d. DB2 Ans: Linux



7. Select the odd one out a. WAP b. HTTP c. BAAN d. ARP Ans: BANN



8. Select the odd one out a. LINUX b. UNIX c. SOLARIS d. SQL SEVER Ans: d



9. Select the odd one out a. SQL b. DB2 c. SYBASE d. HTTP Ans: HTTP



10. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square root of 100N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much memory now occupied?



Ans: 0.5 % ( sqrt( 101 N ) )



11. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work?



Ans: 16 DAYS



12. In which of the system, decimal number 184 is equal to 1234?



Ans: 5



13. Find the value of the 678 to the base-7.



Ans: 1656

14. Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube



Ans: 6,8,12



15. Complete the series 2, 7, 24, 77,__



Ans: 238



16. Find the value of @@+25-++@16, where @ denotes "square" and + denotes "square root".



Ans: 621



17. Find the result of the following expression if, M denotes modulus operation, R denotes round-off, T denotes truncation: M(373,5)+R(3.4)+T(7.7)+R(5.8)



Ans: 19



18. If TAFJHH is coded as RBEKGI then RBDJK can be coded as?



Ans: qcckj





19. G(0)= -1, G(1)=1, G(N)=G(N-1) - G(N-2), G(5)= ?



Ans: -2



20. What is the max possible 3 digit prime number?



Ans: 997



21. A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 750 meters width. A cable is made from power unit to power plant opposite to that of the river and 1500mts away from the power unit.The cost of the cable below water is Rs.15/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.12/-per meter. Find the total of laying the cable.



Ans : 1000 (24725-cost)



23. In Madras, temperature at noon varies according to -t^2/2 + 8t + 3, where t is elapsed time. Find how much temperature more or less in 4pm to 9pm.



Ans: At 9pm 7.5 more







24. 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?



Ans: 30



26. If the vertex (5,7) is placed in the memory. First vertex (1,1) `s address is 1245 and then address of (5,7) is ----------



Ans: 1279



27. Which of the following are orthogonal pairs?

a. 3i+2j b. i+j c. 2i-3j d. -7i+j



Ans: a ,c ( HINT: orthogonal pairs obtained when i or j is multiplied )



28. If VXUPLVH is written as SURMISE, what is SHDVD?



Ans: PEASE



29. If A, B and C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the wastage of fuel by 30%, 20% and 10%.What will be the fuel economy if they were used combined.



Ans: 20%



30. What is the power of 2? a. 2068 b.2048 c.2668



Ans: 2048



31. Complete the series. 3, 8, --, 24, --, 48, 63.



Ans: 15,35 ( 3 + 5 = 8 + 7 = 15 + 9 = 24 + 11 = 35 …)



32. Complete the series. 4, -5, 11, -14, 22, --



Ans: -27



33. A, B and C are 8 bit no's. They are as follows:

A -> 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1

B -> 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0

C -> 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1

Find ((A-B) u C)=?



Ans: Hint: 109…. A-B is {A} - {A n B}



34. A Flight takes off at 2 A.M from northeast direction and travels for 11 hours to reach the destination, which is in northwest direction. Given the latitude and longitude of source and destination. Find the local time of destination when the flight reaches there?



Ans: 7 am



35. A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers in 10 hours. Then for how many hours required for B to copy 26 papers?



Ans: 13



36. A is twice efficient than B. A and B can both work together to complete a work in 7 days. Then find in how many days, A alone can complete the work?



Ans: 10.5



37. A finish the work in 10 days. B is 60% efficient than A. So how many days do B takes to finish the work?



Ans :100/6



38. A finishes the work in 10 days & B in 8 days individually. If A works for only 6 days then how many days should B work to complete A's work? Ans: 3.2 days



Ans: 3106



39. Given the length of the 3 sides of a triangle. Find the one that is impossible? (HINT: sum of smaller 2 sides is greater than the other one, which is larger)



Ans:



40. Sum of slopes of 2 perpendicular st.lines is given. Find the pair of lines from the given set of options, which satisfy the above condition?



Ans:



42. (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance). Find units.



Ans: kg



43. The number 362 in decimal system is given by (1362) x in the X System of numbers find the value of X a} 5 b) 6 c) 7 d) 8 e) 9



Ans:



44. Given $ means Tripling and % means change of sign then find the value of $%$6-%$%6



Ans: -74



45. 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



Ans: (Hint: Every 1 deg longitude is equal to 4 minutes. If west to east add time else subtract time)



46. Which of the following set of numbers has the highest Standard deviation?

a)1,0,1,0,1,0 b) -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1

c)1,1,1,1,1,1 d) 1,1,0, -1,0, -1



Ans: d ( hope so )

TCS PAPERS 1

1. 232 expressed in base-5 is 1412. (Similar Q in different form & number also appeared.)

2. Pick the odd one out:
A) SMTP B) HTTP C) ARP D) SAP E)

3. Pick the odd one out:
A) DB2 B) ORACLE C) WAP D) ARP E)
(I might have interchanged some choices for Qs 2 & 3. Please check.)

4. The following is not a triangle:
A) (60o, 80o, 20o) B) (90o, 60o, 30o) C) (54o, 66o, 60o) D) (69o, 51o, 60o)
Ans: A (since sum of the angles in a triangle = 180o.)

5. The following is a planar cube (E, V, F):
A) (12, 8, 6) B) (12, 6, 8) C) (6, 6, 8) D) (6, 8, 6)
E - no. of edges V - no. of vertices F - no. of faces
Ans: A

6. The greatest prime number among the following which can be stored in a 6-bit word computer is:
A) 61 B) 63 C) 65 D) 67 E) 69

7. Calc. A-(B C) and represent the resulting 8-bit word in decimal form.
A 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
B 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
C 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
A-(B C)
(I might have interchanged the values of A, B & C but still try this.)

8. Fit a suitable curve with the given data.
x y
1000 3
… …
… …
… …
A) y = log x B) y = log 10x C) y = -10log x D) y = ex
Ans: A

9. How many B's are followed by G's which are not followed by S's in the following series:
B B G M P Q B G S K O B G A S B B G D E F B G S T I
Ans: 4 (Another Q on the same logic was also asked.)

10. M(373,5) + R(3.4) + T(7.7) - R(5.8) = ___
M - Modulo R - Round-off T - Truncate
Ans: 3 + 3 + 7 - 6 = 7
(In the above, first term means the remainder obtained after dividing 373 by 5.)

11. Match the following:
A) Female - Girl i) A type of
B) Bug - Reptile ii) A superset of
C) Beagle - Dog iii) A part of
D) Piston - Engine iv) Not a part of
(Another set like this was also asked.)

12. There is a matrix X of order 7 9 whose elements will be filled column-wise. The address of the first element X(1,1) is 1258. Each element occupies 4 bytes of memory. Then the address of the element X(5,8) is 1473.

13. 5 7 11 ? 25
Ans: 17

14. A, B & C can do a piece of work in 8 days. A alone can do it in 12 days and B alone can do it 16 days. Then C alone can do it in ___.

15. The line equation of the following curve is

A) y = ex B) y = tan x C) y = cos x D) x + y = 0
Ans: D (For some others, tan x and cos x curves were asked.)

16. A & B can do a piece of work in 12 days. A is capable of doing twice the work as B. In how many days A alone can complete the work?

17. If the first/second, third/fourth, fifth/sixth etc. letters of the word PSYCHIATRIST are interchanged, then the letter which is 8th from right is I .

18. If DCPRY is coded as CBOQX then SPEND can be coded as RODMC.

19. The following is not a triangle:
A) (2,3,4) B) (3,4,5) C) (5,5,5) D) (1,3,5)
Ans: D (Clue: Sum of any two sides should be greater than the third side.)

20. Temperature in Chennai is measured since 12 noon is given by (t2/9) + 4t + 16. Then the difference in temperatures between 4 pm and 9 pm is ___. (I don't remember the question but can only outline it.)

21. Aeroplane - 12oN 26oE - 20oS 30oW - Longitude - 8 hours to reach destination.
(I don't remember the question but can only outline it. Ans: 5 hr. 40 min.)

22. Three savings 20%, 40%, 10% - Net saving? (I don't remember this question also but can only outline it.)

23. _____
A) Distance B) Time C) Velocity D)

24. n 100 or 100 n (I don't remember exactly). If n increases by 1% then ---

25. Data Interpretation from Charts