TCS papers

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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)

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