TCS Pool Campus Drive: Aptitude Test-5

1. Letters in the word ABUSER are permuted in all possible ways and arranged in alphabetical order then
find the word at position 49 in the permuted alphabetical order?
a) ARBSEU
b) ARBESU
c) ARBSUE
d) ARBEUS
2. 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?
a) 11.5
b)10.5
c)14
d)16
3. In an 8 x 8 chess board what is the total number of squares.
a)1296
b)256
c)204
d)296
4. X, Y, W and Z are integers and the expressing X-Y - Z is even and Y - W - Z is odd.
If X is even then which of the following is true?
(a) Y must be odd(b) Y-Z must be odd (c) W must be odd (d) Z must be odd
5. The remainder when 1!+2!+3!...+50! divided by 5! will be
a) 101
b)99
c)66
d)33
6. If there are six periods in each working day of a school, in how many ways can one arrange 5 subjects
such that each subject is allowed at least one period?
a)6 x 5!
b)5 x 5!
c) 7 x 6!
d)6 x 7!
7. An article manufactured by a company consists of two parts X and Y. In theprocess of manufacturing
of part X, 9 out 100 parts many be defective. Similarly, 5 out of 100 are likely to be defective in the
manufacturer of Y. Calculate the probability that the assembled product will not be defective?
a) 0.6485
b) 0.6565
c) 0.8645
d) none of these
8. Ray writes a two digit number. He sees that the number exceeds 4 times the sum of its digits by 3. If
the number is increased by 18, the result is the same as the number formed by reversing the digits.
Find the number.
a) 35
b) 42
c) 49
d) 57
9. a, b, c are non-negativeintegers such that 28a + 30b + 31c = 365. Then a + b + c = ?
a) Greater than 14
b) less than or equal to 11
c) 13
d)12
10.George can do a piece of work in 8 hours. Paul can do the same work in 10 hours, Hari can do the
same work in 12 hours. George, Paul and Hari start the same work at 9 am, while George stops at 11
am, the remaining two complete the work. What time will the work complete?
a) 11.30 am
b) 12 noon
c) 12.30 pm
d) 1 pm
11. Find last two digits of (11413843) + (19614181)
a) 02
b) 82
c) 42
d) 22
12. J can dig a well in 16 days. P can dig a well in 24 days. J, P, H dig in 8 days. H alone can dig the well
in how many days?
a) 32
b) 48
c) 96
d) 24
13. If a lemon and apple together costs Rs.12, tomato and a lemon cost Rs.4 and an apple costs Rs.8
more than a lemon. What is the cost of lemon?
a)1
b)2
c)3
d)4
14. 3 mangoes and 4 apples costs Rs.85. 5 apples and 6 peaches costs 122. 6 mangoes and 2 peaches
costs Rs.144. What is the combined price of 1 apple, 1 peach, and 1 mango?
a) 37
b) 39
c) 35
d) 36
15. An organization has 3 committees, only 2 persons are members of all 3 committee but every pair of
committee has 3 members in common. What is the least possible number of members on any one
committee?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 1
16. There are 5 sweets - Jammun, kaju, Peda, Ladu, Jilebi which can be consumed in 5 consecutive days.
Monday to Friday. A person eats one sweet a day, based on the following constraints.
(i) Ladu not eaten on Monday
(ii) If Jamun is eaten on Monday, Ladu should be eaten on Friday.
(iii) Peda is eaten the day following the day of eating Jilebi

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(iv) If Ladu eaten on Tuesday, kaju should be eaten on Monday based on above, peda can be eaten on
any day except
a) Tuesday
b) Monday
c) Wednesday
d) Friday
17. If Y-W-V-S-Q is 25-23-21-19-17,then M-K-I-G-F
a) 13-11-8-7-6
b) 1-2-3-5-7
c) 9-8-7-6-5
d) 7-8-5-3
18. Addition of 641 + 852 + 973 = 2456 is incorrect. What is the largest digit that can be changed to
make the addition correct?
a) 5
b) 6
c) 4
d) 7
19. Value of a scooter depreciates in such a way that its value at the end of each year is 3/4th of its value
at the beginning of the same year. If the initial value of scooter is 40,000, what is the value of the
scooter at the end of 3 years?
a) 23125
b) 19000
c) 13435
d) 16875
20.At the end of 1994, R was half as old as his grandmother. The sum of the years in which they were
born is 3844. How old R was at the end of 1999
a) 48
b) 55
c) 49
d) 53
21. When numbers are written in base b, we have 12 x 25 = 333, the value of b is?
a) 8
b) 6
c) None
d) 7
22. How many polynomials of degree >=1 satisfy f (x 2 ) = [ f (x)]2= f [ f (x ) ]
a) More than 2 b) 2
c) 0
d) 1
23. Figure shows an equilateral triangle of side of length 5which isdivided intoseveral unit triangles. A
valid path is a path from the triangle in the top row to the middle triangle in the bottom row such that
the adjacent triangles in our path share a common edge and the path never travels up (from a lower
row to a higher row) or revisits a triangle. An example is given below. How many such valid paths are
there?

a) 120
b) 16
c) 23
d) 24
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24. In the question, A B means, A raised to power B. If x*y *z < 0, then which one of the following
statements must be true?
(i) xz < 0
(ii)z < 0
(iii) xyz < 0
a) (i) and (iii) b)
(iii) only
c) None
d) (i) only
25. The marked price of a coat was 40% less than the suggested retail price. Eesha purchased the coat
for half the marked price at the fiftieth anniversary sale. What percentage less than the suggested
retail price did Eesha pay?
a) 60
b) 20
c)
70
d)
30
26. A cow and horse are bought for Rs.2, 00,000. The cow is sold at a profit of 20% and the horse is sold
a t a loss of 10%. The overall gain is Rs.4000, the Cost price of cow?
a) 130000
b) 80000
c) 70000
d) 120000
27. A circle has 29 points arranged in a clock wise manner from o to 28. A bug moves clockwise manner
from 0 to 28. A bug moves clockwise on the circle according to following rule. If it is at a point i on
the circle, it moves clockwise in 1 sec by (1 + r) places, where r is the remainder (possibly 0) when i
is divided by 11. If it starts in 23rd position, at what position will it be after 2012 sec?
a)20
b)15
c)7
d)3
28. In a city 100% votes are registered, in which 60% vote for congress and 40% vote for BJP. There is a
person A, who gets 75% of congress votes and 8% of BJP votes. How many votes got by A?
a)48
b)56
c)64
d)77

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29. Mean of 3 numbers is 10 more than the least of the numbers and 15 less than greatest of the 3. If the
median of 3 numbers is 5, find the sum of the 3 numbers?
a)10
b)20
c)30
d)40
30. A and B start from house at 10am. They travel from their house on the MG road at 20kmph and 40
kmph. There is a Junction T on their path. A turns left at T junction at 12:00 noon, B reaches T
earlier, and turns right. Both of them continue to travel till 2pm. What is the distance between A and
B at 2 pm?
a)140
b)150
c)160
d)170

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