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ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE TEST – 1

Problems on Numbers & AgesMARKS : 25

Date : 19.08.2009

Duration : 40mins

1. Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers is 3 more than twice the third.The third integer is:

a) 9 b) 11 c) 13 d) 15

2. The sum of four numbers is 64. If you add 3 to the first number, 3 is subtracted from the

secondnumber, the third is multiplied by 3 and the fourth is divided by 3, then all the results are

equal.What is the difference between the largest and the smallest of the original numbers?

a) 21 b) 27 c) 32 d) Cannot be determined e) None of these

3. At the time of playing with children a person places 55 bricks in such a way that "every rowcontains one brick less than the previous one and he ended with 1 brick on top". Then how many

number of bricks did he place in the bottom row?

a) 9 b) 10 c) 8 d) 12

4. In a certain office, of the workers are women, of the women are married and of the

married women have children. If of the men are married and of the married men have

children, what part of the workers are without children ?

a) b) c) d)

5. There are some benches in a classroom. If 4 students sit on a each bench, then 3 benches are leftunoccupied. However, if 3 students sit on each bench, 3 students are left standing. How many

students are there in the class ?

a) 36 b) 48 c) 56 d) 64

6. A software engineer has the capability of thinking 100 lines of code in five minutes and can type

100 lines of code in 10 minutes. He takes a break for five minutes after every ten minutes. How

many lines of codes will he complete typing after an hour?



a) 150 b) 300 c) 200 d) 250

7. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is of the difference between the number and the

number obtained by interchanging the positions of the digits. What is definitely the difference

between the digits of the number ?

a) 5 b) 9 c) 7 d) Data inadequate e) None of these

8. In a city, 40% of the adults are illiterate while 85% of the children are literate. If the ratio of the

adults to that of the children is 2:3, then what percent of the population is literate ?

a) 20% b) 25% c) 50% d) 75%

9. In a two-digit number, the digit in the unit’s place is more than twice the digit in ten’s place by 1.

If the digits in the unit’s place and the ten’s place are interchanged, difference between the newly

formed number and the original number is less than the original number by 1. What is the originalnumber ?

a) 25 b) 37 c) 52 d) 49 e) 73

10. The numerator and denominator of a fraction are in the ratio 2 : 3. If 6 is subtracted from the

numerator, the result is a fraction that has a value of the original fraction. The numerator of the

original fraction is :

a) 6 b) 18 c) 27 d) 36

11. A positive number which when added to 1000 gives a sum, which is greater than when it is

multiplied by 1000. The positive integer is ?

a)22 b) 31 c) 5 d) None of these

12. There are two numbers such that the sum of twice the first and thrice the second is 39, while the

sum of the thrice the first and twice the second is 36. The larger of the two is

a) 6 b) 8 c) 12 d) 9

13. A person says in 6th anniversary of his shop that " he is now 3 times more than his son's age, but

at the time of starting his shop he was 5 times to his sons age." Then what is the age of the personwhen his son born.

a) 23 b) 20 c) 24 d) 36

14. In 7 years’ time the combined age of my sister and her three children will be 92.What will it be in

4 years’ time?



a) 64 b) 80 c) 76 d) 86

15. The ratio of the ages of a man and his wife is 4 : 3. After 4 years, this ratio will be 9 : 7. If at thetime of marriage, the ratio was 5 : 3, then how many years ago were they married ?

a) 8 years b) 10 years c) 12 years d) 15 years

16. The sum of ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the age of

the youngest child ?

a) 4 years b) 8 years c) 10 years d) None of these

17. 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

18. If the digits of my present age are reversed then i get the age of my son.If 1 year ago myage was twice as that of my son.Find my present age.

a) 56 b) 73 c) 68 d) 72

19. Mal is one-and-a-half times as old as Sal, and Sal is one-and-a-half times as old as Al. How old

are Al, Sal and Mal if their combined ages total 114?

a) 24,36,54 b) 24,30,54 c) 18,27,69 d) 25,35,54

20. Yann will be x year old y years from now . How old was he z years ago?

a) x+y+z b) x+y-z c) x-y-z d) y-x-z e)z-y-x

21. My brother is 3 years elder to me. My father was 28 years of age when my sister was born while

my mother was 26 years of age when I was born. If my sister was 4 years of age when my brother

was born, then what was the age my father and mother respectively when my brother was born.

a) 32 yrs, 23yrs b)32 yrs, 29yrs c)35 yrs,29yrs d)35yrs,33 yrs

22. A father said to his son, “I was as old as you are at present at the time of your birth? If the father’s

age is 38 years now, the son’s age five years back was:




23. If 6 years are subtracted from the present age of Ramesh and the remainder is divided by

18, then the present age of his grandson Anup is obtained. If Anup is 2 years younger to Madan

whose age is 5 years, then what is Ramesh’s present age?


Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II are

given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to

answer the question. Read both the statements and give answer:(1) if the data in Statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in

Statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.

(2) if the data in Statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in

Statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.(3) if the data in Statement I alone or in Statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question.

(4) if the data in both the Statements I and II are not sufficient to answer the question.

(5) if the data in both the Statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

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24. What is the number of trees planted in the field in rows and columns?

I. Number of columns is more than the number of rows by 4.

II. Number of trees in each column is an even number. Ans:

25. On which day in April is Gautam’s birthday?

I. Gautam was born exactly 28 years after his mother was born

II. His mother will be 55 years 4 months and 5 days on Ans:

August 18 this year.

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