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Infosys Test #1


1. Father's age is three years more than three times the 
son's age.
    After three years, father's age will be ten years more 
than twice 
the 
son's age.
    What is the father's present age.

Ans: 33 years.                 (2 marks)


2. Find the values of each of the alphabets.

     N O O N
     S O O N
+ M O O N
    ----------
      J U N E

Ans: 9326                         (2 marks)


3.  There are 20 poles with a constant distance between 
each pole
     A car takes 24 second to reach the 12th pole.
     How much will it take to reach the last pole.

Ans: 41.45 seconds              (2 marks)
        Let the distance between two poles = x
         Hence 11x:24::19x:?


4.  A car is travelling at a uniform speed.
     The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit number.
     After travelling for an hour the driver sees another 
milestone 
with the 
same digits in reverse order.
     After another hour the driver sees another milestone 
containing 
the 
same two digits.
     What is the average speed of the driver.

Ans: 45 kmph                                (4 marks)


5. The minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every 65 
minutes.
    How much does the watch lose or gain time and by how 
much?

Ans:  Gains; 5/11 minutes                   (4 marks)


6. Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends.
    Ram is a widower and lives alone and his sister takes 
care of him.
    Shyam is a bachelor and his neice cooks his food and 
looks after 
his 
house.
    Gumnaam is married to Gita and lives in large house in 
the same 
town.
    Gita gives the idea that all of them could stay 
together in the 
house 
and share monthly expenses equally.
    During their first month of living together, each 
person 
contributed 
Rs.25.
    At the end of the month, it was found that Rs 92 was 
the expense so 
the 
remaining amount was distributed equally
    among everyone.
    The distribution was such that everyone recieved a 
whole number of 
Rupees.
    How much did each person recieve?

Ans. Rs 2                                       (4 marks)
        (Hint: Ram's sister, Shyam's neice and Gumnaam's 
wife are the 
same 
person)


7. Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards.
    Each person has one card, laid down on the table below 
him, which 
has 
two different colours on either side.
    The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red 
and Blue.
    They see the color on the reverse side and give the 
following 
comment.

A: Yellow or Green
B: Neither Blue nor Green
C: Blue or Yellow
D: Blue or Yellow

Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the 
colours on the 
cards each person.


8.


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Infosys Test #2
                                                            
                 
               

                                                            
                 
    

1. At 6'o a clock ticks 6 times.
    The time between first and last ticks is 30 seconds.
    How long does it tick at 12'o clock.

Ans: 66 sec.                 (2 marks)


2. Three friends divided some bullets equally.
    After all of them shot 4 bullets the total number of 
bullets 
remaining 
is equal to the bullets each had after division.
    Find the original number divided.

Ans: 18                         (2 marks)

Initially   .    x          x        x
Now          x-4       x-4     x-4
Equation is   3x-12 = x


3. A ship went on a voyage.
    After it had travelled 180 miles a plane statrted with 
10 times the 
speed of the ship.
    Find the distance when they meet from starting point.

Ans: 200miles.              (2 marks)
        Distance travelled by plane = 1/10 distance 
travelled by ship + 
180


4.  Complete the Table given below:

      Three football teams are there. Given below is the 
group table. 
Fill 
in the x's

     Played
           Won
                Lost
                    Draw
                         Goals For
                                   Goals Against
  A
       2
             2
                 x
                      x
                             x
                                        1
  B
       2
             x
                 x
                      1
                             2
                                        4
  C
       2
             x
                 x
                      x
                             3
                                        7


Ans: The filled table is given 
below                                (4 
marks)

     Played
           Won
                Lost
                    Draw
                         Goals For
                                   Goals Against
  A
       2
             2
                 0
                      0
                             7
                                        1
  B
       2
             0
                 1
                      1
                             2
                                        4
  C
       2
             0
                 1
                      1
                             3
                                        7




5. There are 3 societies A, B, C.
   A lent cars to B and C as many as they had already.
   After some time B gave as many tractors to A and C
as many as they have.  After sometime c did the same thing. 
At the end 
of 
this transaction each one of them had 24.
Find the cars each orginally had.

Ans: A had 39 cars, B had 21 cars & C had 12 
cars                   (4 
marks)


6. There N stations on a railroad.
    After adding X stations on the rail route 46 additional 
tickets 
have to 
be printed.
    Find N and X.

Ans. x=2  and N=11

Let initially, N(N-1) = t
After adding,  (N+X)(N+X-1) =  t+46
By trail and error 
method                                       (4 
marks)


7. Given that April 1 is tuesday.
    A, B, C are 3 persons told that their farewell party 
was on

     A  - May 8, thursday
     B  - May 10,tuesday
     C  - June 5, friday

Out of A, B, C only one made a completetly true statement 
concerning 
date,day and month
The other told  two one told the day right and the other 
the date 
right..
What is correct date, month, day.

Ans:  B - (May 10) SUNDAY
        C  - June 6 
(Friday).                                     (5 
marks)


8. The Bulls, Pacers, Lakers and Jazz ran for a contest.
    Anup, Sujit, John made the following statements 
regarding results.

     Anup said either Bulls or Jazz will definitely win
     Sujit said he is confident that Bulls will not win
     John said he is confident that neither Jazz nor Lakers 
will win

When the result cameit was found that only one of the above 
three had 
made a 
correct statement.
Who has made the correct statement and who has won the 
contest.

Ans: Sujith; Lakers                      (5marks )


9. Five people A ,B ,C ,D ,E are related to each other.
    Four of them make one true statement each as follows.

(i)  B is my father's brother.
(ii) E is my mother-in-law.
(iii)C is my son-in-law's brother
(iv)A is my brother's wife.

Ans: (i)   D
        (ii)  B
        (iii) E
        (iv) C                                 (10 marks)


10.  Some statements are given below:

     L says all of my other four friends have money
     M says that P said that exactly one among them has 
money
     N says that L said that precisely two among them have 
money
     O says that M said that three of the others have money
     P, L and N said that they have money

All the above statement are false..
Who has money & who doesn't have any money?

(5 marks)

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Infosys Test #3
                                                            
                 
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    1. Mr.Mathurs jewels have been stolen from his bank 
locker .
    The bank has lockers of 12 people which are arranged in 
an array of 
3 
rows and 4 columns like:

                                            1
                                              2
                                                 3
                                                   4
                                            5
                                              6
                                                 7
                                                   8
                                            9
                                             10
                                                11
                                                   12


     The locker belonging to JONES was to the right of 
BLACK'S locker 
and 
directly above MILLAR'S.
     BOOTH'S locker was directly above MILLAR'S.
     SMITH'S locker was also above GRAY's (though not 
directly).
     GREEN'S locker was directly below SMITH'S.
     WILSON'S locker was between that of DAVIS and BOOTH.
     MILLAR'S locker was on the bottom row directly to the 
right of 
HERD'S.
     WHITE'S locker was on the bottom right hand corner in 
the same 
column 
as BOOTH'S.

Which box belonged to Mr.Mathurs?

Ans: Box number 9 belongs to Mr.Mathurs.


2. Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes 
past three 
o'clock,how many minutes is it to six o'clock?

Ans: Twenty six minutes.


3. If a clock takes 7seconds to strike 7, how long will the 
same clock 
take 
to strike 10?

Ans: The clock strikes for the first time at the start and 
takes 7 
seconds 
for 6 intervals-thus for one interval time
        taken=7/6.
        Therefore, for 10 seconds there are 9 intervals and 
time taken 
is 
9*7/6=10 and 1/2 seconds.


4. Three criminals were arrested for shop lifting.
    However, when interrogated only one told the truth in 
both his 
statements, while the other two each told one true
    statement and one lie.
    The statements were:

     ALBERT :(a)Chander passed the merchandise.  (b)Bruce 
created the 
diversion.
     BRUCE   :(a)Albert passed the merchandise.      (b)I 
created the 
diversion.
     CLIVE     :(a)I took the goods out of the shop.    (b)
Bruce passed 
them 
over.

Ans: Albert passed the goods.Bruce created the 
diversion..Clive took 
the 
goods out of the shop.


5. Everyday in his business a merchant had to weigh amounts 
from 1 kg 
to 121 
kgs, to the nearest kg.
    What are the minimum number of weight required and how 
heavy should 
they 
be?

Ans: .The minimum number is 5 and they should weigh 
1,3,9,27 and 81 
kgs.


6. A hotel has 10 storeys.Which floor is above the floor 
below the 
floor, 
below the floor above the floor, below the
    floor above the fifth.

Ans: The sixth floor.


7. Seven members sat around a table for three days for a 
conference.
    The member's names were Abhishek, Amol, Ankur, 
Anurag,Bhuwan ,Vasu 
and 
Vikram.
    The meetings were chaired by Vikram.
    On the first evening members sat around the table 
alphabetically.
    On the following two nights, Vikram arranged the 
seatings so that 
he 
could have Abhishek as near to him as
    possible and abesent minded Vasu as far away as he 
could.
    On no evening did any person have sitting next to him a 
person who 
had 
previously been his neighbour.
    How did Vikram manage to seat everybody to the best 
advantage on 
the 
second and third evenings?

Ans:
Second evening:Vikram,Ankur,Abhishek,Amol,Vasu,Anurag and 
Bhuwan.
Third 
evening   :Vikram,Anurag,Abhishek,Vasu,Bhuwan,Ankur,Amol.


8. Two trains start from stations A and B spaced 50 kms 
apart at the 
same 
time and speed.
    As the trains start, a bird flies from one train 
towards the other 
and 
on reaching the second train, it flies back to the
    first train.This is repeated till the trains collide.
    If the speed of the trains is 25 km/h and that of the 
bird is 
100km/h.
    How much did the bird travel till the collision.

Ans: 100 kms.


9. Four prisoners escape from a prison.
    The prisoners, Mr East, Mr West, Mr South, Mr North 
head towards 
different directions after escaping.
    The following information of their escape was supplied:

     The escape routes were The North Road, South Road, 
East Road and 
West 
Road.
     None of the prisoners took the road which was their 
namesake.
     Mr.East did not take the South Road
     Mr.West did not the South Road.
     The West Road was not taken by Mr.East

What road did each of the prisoners take to make their 
escape?

Ans: Mr.East took the North Road
        Mr.West took the East Road
        Mr.North took the South Road
        Mr.South took the West Road.


10. Complete the series:
        5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, ?

Ans: 12 (as 5*4=20, 20+4=24, 24/4=6, 6-4=2, 2*4=8, 8+4=12).


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Infosys Test #4
                                                            
                 
               
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1.  Replace each letter by a digit.
     Each letter must be represented by the same digit and 
no beginning 
letter of a word can be 0.

O N E
O N E
O N E
O N E
-------
T E N

Ans:  0 =1, N = 8 ,E = 2, T = 7



2. Ann, Boobie, Cathy and Dave are at their monthly 
business meeting.
    Their occupations are author, biologist, chemist and 
doctor, but 
not 
necessarily in that order.
    Dave just told the biologist that Cathy was on her way 
with 
doughnuts.
    Ann is sitting across from the doctor and next to the 
chemist.
    The doctor was thinking that Boobie was a goofy name 
for parent's 
to 
choose,but didn't say anything.
    What is each person's occupation?

Ans: Since Dave spoke to the biologist and Ann sat next to 
the chemist 
and 
across the doctor, Cathy must be the author
        and Ann the biologist.
        The doctor didn't speak, but David did, so Bobbie 
is the doctor 
and 
Dave the chemist.



3. Sometime after 10:00 PM a murder took place.
    A witness claimed that the clock must have stopped at 
the time of 
the 
shooting.
    It was later found that the postion of both the hands 
were the same 
but 
their positions had interchanged.
    Tell the time of the shooting (both actual and claimed).

Ans: Time of shooting = 11:54 PM
        Claimed Time     = 10:59 PM



4. Next number in the series is
      1 , 2 , 4 , 13 , 31 , 112 , ?

Ans: 224.
        No number has digits more than 4. All of them are 
1 , 2, 4, 8 , 
16 , 
32 , 64 converted to numbers in base 5



5. Shahrukh speaks truth only in the morning and lies in 
the afternoon, 
whereas Salman speaks truth only in the afternoon.      A
says that B is Shahrukh. Is it morning or afternoon and who 
is A - 
Shahrukh 
or Salman.

Ans: Afternoon ; A is Salman.



6. Two trains starting at same time, one from Bangalore to 
Mysore and 
other 
in opposite direction arrive at their
    destination 1 hr and 4 hours respectively after passing 
each other. 
How 
nuch faster is one train from other?

Ans: Twice



7. There are 6 volumes of books on a rack kept in order ( 
ie vol.1, 
vol. 2 
and so on ).
     Give the position after the following changes were 
noticed.

     All books have been changed
     Vol.5 was directly to the right of Vol.2
     Vol.4 has Vol.6 to its left and both weren't at 
Vol.3's place
     Vol.1 has Vol.3 on right and Vol.5 on left
     An even numbered volume is at Vol.5's place

Find the order in which the books are kept now.

Ans: 2 , 5 , 1 , 3 , 6 , 4



8. I bought a car with a peculiar 5 digit numbered licence 
plate which 
on 
reversing could still be read.
    On reversing value is increased by 78633.Whats the 
original number 
if 
all digits were different?

Ans: Only 0 1 6 8 and 9 can be readupside down.So on 
rearranging these 
digits we get the answer as 10968



9. The shape in the sketch below is that of a square 
attached to half 
of a 
similar square.Divide it into four equal pieces



Ans: Hint : the figure can be divided into 12 equal 
triangles



10. Supposing a clock takes 7 seconds to strike 7. How 
mlong will it 
take to 
strike 10?

Ans: 10 1/2 seconds.


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Infosys Test #5
                                                            
                 
               

                                                            
                 
    
1) A man collects cigarette stubs and makes one full 
cigarette with 
every 8 
stubs.
   If he gets 64 stubs how many full cigarettes can he 
smoke.

Ans: 8+1=9


2) A soldier looses his way in a thick jungle. At random he 
walks from 
his 
camp but mathematically in an interesting fashion.
First he walks one mile East then half mile to North. Then 
1/4 mile to 
West, 
then 1/8 mile to South and so on making a loop.
Finally how far he is from his camp and in which direction.

Ans: Distance travelled in north and south directions
        1/2 - 1/8 + 1/32 - 1/128 + 1/512 - and so on
        = 1/2/((1-(-1/4))
       Similarly in east and west directions
        1- 1/4 + 1/16 - 1/64 + 1/256 - and so on
        = 1/(( 1- ( - 1/4))
Add both the answers


3)  How can 1000000000  be written as a product of two 
factors neither 
of 
them containing zeros

Ans: 2 power 9 x 5 power 9


4)  Conversation between two mathematcians:
First : I have three childern. The product of their ages is 
36.
          If you sum their ages, it is exactly same as my 
neighbour's 
door 
number on my left.
The second mathematician verfies the door number and says 
that it is 
not 
sufficient.
Then the first says " Ok one more clue is that my youngest 
is really 
the 
youngest". Immmediately the second mathematician
answers .
Can you answer the question asked by the first 
mathematician?
What are the childeren ages?

Ans 1,6 and 6


5) Light glows for every 13 seconds . How many times did it 
glow 
between 
1:57:58 and 3:20:47 am.

Ans : 383 + 1 = 384


6) 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 
columns according 
to 
their heights.
     Tallest among each row of all are asked to fall out.
     And the shortest among them is A.
     Similarly after resuming that to their original 
podsitions that 
the 
shortest among each column are asked to fall out.
     And the tallest among them is B .
     Now who is taller among A and B ?

Ans A


7)  A person with some money spends1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of 
the remaining 
for 
food and 1/4 of the remaining for travel.
     He is left with Rs 100/- .
     How much did he have with him in the begining ?

Ans: Rs 250/-


8)  There are six boxes containing 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 
29 balls of 
either 
red or blue in colour.
     Some boxes contain only red balls and others contain 
only blue.
     One sales man sold one box out of them and then he says
   " I have the same number of red balls left out as that 
of blue ".
     Which box is the one he solds out ?

Ans: Total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2) = 60/2 = 30
and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30


9)  A chain is broken into three pieces of equal lenths 
containing 3 
links 
each.
     It is taken to a backsmith to join into a single 
continuous one .
     How many links are to to be opened to make it ?

Ans : 2.


10)  Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform 
rate.
       It takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 days for 30 cows 
to eat the 
whole 
of the grass.
       How many cows are needed to eat the grass in 96 
days.?

Ans : 20
g - grass at the beginning
r - rate at which grass grows, per day
y - rate at which one cow eats grass, per day
n - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days
g + 24*r = 70 * 24 * y
g + 60*r = 30 * 60 * y
g + 96*r = n * 96 * y
Solving, n = 20.

                                            
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Infosys Test #6
                                                            
                 
               
                                                            
               
    
1. From a vessel, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates on the 
first day.
    On the second day 3/4th of the remaining liquid 
evaporates.
    What fraction of the volume is present at the end of 
the second 
day.

Ans: 50%

2. An orange glass has orange juice and white glass has 
apple juice 
both of 
equal volumes.
    50ml of the orange juice is taken and poured into the 
apple juice.
    50ml from the white glass is poured into the orange 
glass.
    Of the two quantities, the amount of apple juice in the 
orange 
glass and 
the amount of orange juice in the white glass,
which one is greater and by how much?

Ans: The two quantities are equal

3. There is a 4 inch cube painted on all sides.
    This is cut down into of 1 inch cubes.
    What is the no of cubes which have no pointed sides.

Ans:  8

4. Sam and Mala have a conversation.

     Sam says I am certainly not over 40
     Mala says I am 38 and you are atleast 5 years older 
than me
     Now Sam says you are atleast 39

All the statements by the two are false.
How old are they really?

Ans: Mala = 38 yrs
        Sam  = 41 yrs.


5. Ram Singh goes to his office in the city, every day from 
his 
suburban 
house.
    His driver Gangaram drops him at the railway station in 
the morning 
and 
picks him up in the evening.
    Every evening Ram Singh reaches the station at 5 O' 
Clock.
    Gangaram also reaches at the same time.
    One day Ram Singh started early from his office and 
came to the 
station 
at 4 O' Clock.
    Not wanting to wait for the car he starts walking home. 
Mangaram 
starts 
at normal time, picks him up on the way
    and takes him back house, half an hour early.
How much time did Ram Singh walk?

6. In a railway station, there are two trains going.
   One in the harbour line and one in the main line, each 
having a 
frequency 
of 10 minutes.
   The main line service starts at 5 o'clock and the 
harbour line 
starts at 
5.02A.M.
   A man goes to the station every day to catch the first 
train that 
comes.
   What is the probability of the man catching the first 
train?

Ans: 0.8

7. A family X went for a vacation.
    Unfortunately it rained for 13 days when they were 
there.
    But whenever it rained in the mornings, they had clear 
afternoons 
and 
vice versa.
    In all they enjoyed 11 mornings and 12 afternoons.
    How many days did they stay there totally?

Ans: 18

8. A survey was taken among 100 people to find their 
preference of 
watching 
T.V. programmes.
    There are 3 channels. Given the no of people who watch

     at least channel 1
     at least channel 2
     at least channel 3
     no channels at all
     atleast channels 1and 3
     atleast channels 1 and 2
     atleast channels 2 and 3

Find the no of people who watched all three.

9. Albert and Fernandes have two leg swimming race.
      Both start from opposite ends of the pool.
      On the first leg, the boys pass each other at 18 m 
from the deep 
end 
of the pool.
      During the second leg they pass at 10 m from the 
shallow end of 
the 
pool.
      Both go at constant speed but one of them is faster.
      Each boy rests for 4 seconds at the end of the first 
leg.
     What is the length of the pool?

10. Each alphabet stands for one digit in the following 
multiplication.

      T H I S
      x     I S
    ---------
    X F X X
    X X U X
------------
X X N X X
------------

What is the maximum value T can take?

Ans:  T max value = 4

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Infosys Test #7
    
1.An escalator is descending at constant speed.
   A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach the bottom.
   B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time as A 
takes 10 steps.
   How many steps are visible when the escalator is not 
operating?

Ans: 150 steps

2. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular 
crossing.
    The road is straight before the crossing and both are 
travelling in 
the 
same direction.
    The cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph.
    One day the cyclist comes late by 25 min. and meets the 
train 5km 
before 
the crossing.
    What is the speed of the train?

Ans: 60 kmph

3. There are five persons with surnames Mukherjee, Misra, 
Iyer, Patil 
and 
Sharma.
    There are 4 persons having first or middle name of 
Kumar, 3 persons 
with 
Mohan, 2 persons with Dev and 1 Anil.
    Either Mukherjee and Patil have a first or middle name 
of Dev or 
Misra 
and Iyer have their first or middle name of Dev.
    Of Mukherkjee and Misra, either both of them have a 
first or middle 
name 
of Mohan or neither have a first or
    middle name of Mohan.
    Either Iyer or Sharma has a first or middle name of 
Kumar but not 
both.
    Who has the first or middle name of Anil?

Ans: Kumar Misra Dev
        Mohan Iyer Dev
        Kumar Patil Mohan
        Mohan Sharma Kumar

4.  Boys are allowed to watch football at C.V.Raman 
auditorium 
subjected to 
conditions.

     The boy over age 16 can wear overcoat
     No boy over age  15 can wear cap
     To watch the football either he has to wear overcoat 
or cap or 
both
     A boy with an umberella or above 16 or both cannot 
wear sweater.
     Boys must either not watch football or wear sweater.

   What is the appearence of the boy who is watching 
football.


5. A bird keeper has got P pigeons, M mynas and S sparrows.
    The keeper goes for lunch leaving his assistant to 
watch the birds.

     Suppose p=10, m=5, s=8 when the bird keeper comes 
back, the 
assistant 
informs the x birds have escaped. The bird
     keeper exclaims: "Oh no! All my sparrows are gone."
     How many birds flew away?
     When the bird keeper comes back, the assistant told 
him that x 
birds 
have escaped. The keeper realised that atleast 2
     sparrows have escaped.
     What is minimum no of birds that can escape?


6. Answer the following questions based on the conditions 
from the 
choices 
A, B, C, D, E as described below:
(A) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 1
(B) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 2
(C) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 
and 2
(D) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 
or 2
(E) no conclusion can be drawn using both conditions

     person 1 says N<5
     person says N>5
     person 3 says 3N>20
     person 4 says 3N>10
     person 5 says N<8

What is the value of N?


a) 1. No of persons who speak false being less than no of 
persons who 
tells 
the truth.
    2. Person 2 is telling the truth.

b) 1. no of persong telling the truth is greater than no of 
persons 
telling 
lies
    2. person 5 is telling the truth.


7. There are N coins on a table and there are two players A 
& B.
    You can take 1 or 2 coins at a time.
    The person who takes the last coin is the loser.
    A always starts first.

     If N=7
     (a) A can always win by taking two coins in his first 
chanse
     (b) B can win only if A takes two coins in his first 
chance.
     (c) B can always win by proper play
     (d) none of the above
     2. A can win by proper play if N is equal to
     (a) 13  (b) 37  (c) 22  (d) 34  (e) 48
     Ans: (e.)
     3. B can win by proper play if N is equal to
     (a) 25  (b)26  (c) 32  (d) 41  (e) none
     4. if N<4, can A win by proper play always?
     (a) Yes  (b) No


8. Two twins have vertain peculiar charcteristics.
    One of them always lies on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
    The other always lies on Tuesdays, Thursdays and 
Saturdays.
    On the other days they tell the truth. You are given a 
conversation.

     Person A-- today is Sunday my name is Anil
     Person B -- today is Tuesday, my name is Bill

What day is today?

Ans: Today is Tuesday.


9. There is a safe with a 5 digit number as the key.
    The 4th digit is 4 greater than second digit, while 3rd 
digit is 3 
less 
than 2nd digit.
    The 1st digit is thrice the last digit.
    There are 3 pairs whose sum is 11.
    Find the number.

Ans: 65292


10. A hotel has two wings,the east wing and the west wing.
      Some east wing rooms but not all have an ocean view.
      All west wing rooms have a harbour view.
      The charge for all rooms is identical, except as 
follows :

     Extra charge for all harbour view rooms on or above 
the 3rd floor
     Extra charge for all ocean view rooms except those 
without balcony
     Extra charge for some harbour rooms on the first two 
floor & some 
east 
wing rooms without ocean view but
     having kitchen facilities.

Which of the following cannot be determined on the basis of 
the 
nformation 
given:

I.   Whether there are any rooms without a balcony for 
which an extra 
charge 
is imposed.
II.  Whether any room without a kitchen or a view involves 
an extra 
charge.
III. Whether two extra charges are impsed for any room.

(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) II and III only
(E) I, II and III

(This question is from 1999 Barrons GRE Guide model Test 3 -
 section 6, 
question 22)

Ans: (A)


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ENGLISH:
1.Reading comprehension = 5 questions 
2.correction of sentencs=5
3.correct verb completion in the senteces=10
4.spellings
5.sentecnes(exact meanings that match the sentence)
 
and there are 2 other section in English .


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Infosys Test #1


1. Father's age is three years more than three times the 
son's age.
After three years, father's age will be ten years more than 
twice the 
son's age.
What is the father's present age.

Ans: 33 years. (2 marks)


2. Find the values of each of the alphabets.

N O O N
S O O N
+ M O O N
----------
J U N E

Ans: 9326 (2 marks)


3. There are 20 poles with a constant distance between each 
pole
A car takes 24 second to reach the 12th pole.
How much will it take to reach the last pole.

Ans: 41.45 seconds (2 marks)
Let the distance between two poles = x
Hence 11x:24::19x:?


4. A car is travelling at a uniform speed.
The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit number.
After travelling for an hour the driver sees another 
milestone with the 
same digits in reverse order.
After another hour the driver sees another milestone 
containing the 
same two digits.
What is the average speed of the driver.

Ans: 45 kmph (4 marks)


5. The minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every 65 
minutes.
How much does the watch lose or gain time and by how much?

Ans: Gains; 5/11 minutes (4 marks)


6. Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends.
Ram is a widower and lives alone and his sister takes care 
of him.
Shyam is a bachelor and his neice cooks his food and looks 
after his 
house.
Gumnaam is married to Gita and lives in large house in the 
same town.
Gita gives the idea that all of them could stay together in 
the house 
and share monthly expenses equally.
During their first month of living together, each person 
contributed 
Rs.25.
At the end of the month, it was found that Rs 92 was the 
expense so the 
remaining amount was distributed equally
among everyone.
The distribution was such that everyone recieved a whole 
number of 
Rupees.
How much did each person recieve?

Ans. Rs 2 (4 marks)
(Hint: Ram's sister, Shyam's neice and Gumnaam's wife are 
the same 
person)


7. Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards.
Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, 
which has 
two different colours on either side.
The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and 
Blue.
They see the color on the reverse side and give the 
following comment.

A: Yellow or Green
B: Neither Blue nor Green
C: Blue or Yellow
D: Blue or Yellow

Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the 
colours on the 
cards each person.


8.

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Infosys Test #2


1. At 6'o a clock ticks 6 times.
The time between first and last ticks is 30 seconds.
How long does it tick at 12'o clock.

Ans: 66 sec. (2 marks)


2. Three friends divided some bullets equally.
After all of them shot 4 bullets the total number of 
bullets remaining 
is equal to the bullets each had after division.
Find the original number divided.

Ans: 18 (2 marks)

Initially . x x x
Now x-4 x-4 x-4
Equation is 3x-12 = x


3. A ship went on a voyage.
After it had travelled 180 miles a plane statrted with 10 
times the 
speed of the ship.
Find the distance when they meet from starting point.

Ans: 200miles. (2 marks)
Distance travelled by plane = 1/10 distance travelled by 
ship + 180


4. Complete the Table given below:

Three football teams are there. Given below is the group 
table. Fill 
in the x's

Played
Won
Lost
Draw
Goals For
Goals Against
A
2
2
x
x
x
1
B
2
x
x
1
2
4
C
2
x
x
x
3
7


Ans: The filled table is given below (4 
marks)

Played
Won
Lost
Draw
Goals For
Goals Against
A
2
2
0
0
7
1
B
2
0
1
1
2
4
C
2
0
1
1
3
7




5. There are 3 societies A, B, C.
A lent cars to B and C as many as they had already.
After some time B gave as many tractors to A and C
as many as they have. After sometime c did the same thing. 
At the end of 
this transaction each one of them had 24.
Find the cars each orginally had.

Ans: A had 39 cars, B had 21 cars & C had 12 cars (4 
marks)


6. There N stations on a railroad.
After adding X stations on the rail route 46 additional 
tickets have to 
be printed.
Find N and X.

Ans. x=2 and N=11

Let initially, N(N-1) = t
After adding, (N+X)(N+X-1) = t+46
By trail and error method (4 marks)


7. Given that April 1 is tuesday.
A, B, C are 3 persons told that their farewell party was on

A - May 8, thursday
B - May 10,tuesday
C - June 5, friday

Out of A, B, C only one made a completetly true statement 
concerning 
date,day and month
The other told two one told the day right and the other the 
date right..
What is correct date, month, day.

Ans: B - (May 10) SUNDAY
C - June 6 (Friday). (5 marks)


8. The Bulls, Pacers, Lakers and Jazz ran for a contest.
Anup, Sujit, John made the following statements regarding 
results.

Anup said either Bulls or Jazz will definitely win
Sujit said he is confident that Bulls will not win
John said he is confident that neither Jazz nor Lakers will 
win

When the result cameit was found that only one of the above 
three had made a 
correct statement.
Who has made the correct statement and who has won the 
contest.

Ans: Sujith; Lakers (5marks )


9. Five people A ,B ,C ,D ,E are related to each other.
Four of them make one true statement each as follows.

(i) B is my father's brother.
(ii) E is my mother-in-law.
(iii)C is my son-in-law's brother
(iv)A is my brother's wife.

Ans: (i) D
(ii) B
(iii) E
(iv) C (10 marks)


10. Some statements are given below:

L says all of my other four friends have money
M says that P said that exactly one among them has money
N says that L said that precisely two among them have money
O says that M said that three of the others have money
P, L and N said that they have money

All the above statement are false..
Who has money & who doesn't have any money?

(5 marks)

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Infosys Test #3


1. Mr.Mathurs jewels have been stolen from his bank locker .
The bank has lockers of 12 people which are arranged in an 
array of 3 
rows and 4 columns like:

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12


The locker belonging to JONES was to the right of BLACK'S 
locker and 
directly above MILLAR'S.
BOOTH'S locker was directly above MILLAR'S.
SMITH'S locker was also above GRAY's (though not directly).
GREEN'S locker was directly below SMITH'S.
WILSON'S locker was between that of DAVIS and BOOTH.
MILLAR'S locker was on the bottom row directly to the right 
of HERD'S.
WHITE'S locker was on the bottom right hand corner in the 
same column 
as BOOTH'S.

Which box belonged to Mr.Mathurs?

Ans: Box number 9 belongs to Mr.Mathurs.


2. Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes 
past three 
o'clock,how many minutes is it to six o'clock?

Ans: Twenty six minutes.


3. If a clock takes 7seconds to strike 7, how long will the 
same clock take 
to strike 10?

Ans: The clock strikes for the first time at the start and 
takes 7 seconds 
for 6 intervals-thus for one interval time
taken=7/6.
Therefore, for 10 seconds there are 9 intervals and time 
taken is 
9*7/6=10 and 1/2 seconds.


4. Three criminals were arrested for shop lifting.
However, when interrogated only one told the truth in both 
his 
statements, while the other two each told one true
statement and one lie.
The statements were:

ALBERT :(a)Chander passed the merchandise. (b)Bruce created 
the 
diversion.
BRUCE :(a)Albert passed the merchandise. (b)I created the 
diversion.
CLIVE :(a)I took the goods out of the shop. (b)Bruce passed 
them 
over.

Ans: Albert passed the goods.Bruce created the 
diversion..Clive took the 
goods out of the shop.


5. Everyday in his business a merchant had to weigh amounts 
from 1 kg to 121 
kgs, to the nearest kg.
What are the minimum number of weight required and how 
heavy should they 
be?

Ans: .The minimum number is 5 and they should weigh 
1,3,9,27 and 81 kgs.


6. A hotel has 10 storeys.Which floor is above the floor 
below the floor, 
below the floor above the floor, below the
floor above the fifth.

Ans: The sixth floor.


7. Seven members sat around a table for three days for a 
conference.
The member's names were Abhishek, Amol, Ankur, 
Anurag,Bhuwan ,Vasu and 
Vikram.
The meetings were chaired by Vikram.
On the first evening members sat around the table 
alphabetically.
On the following two nights, Vikram arranged the seatings 
so that he 
could have Abhishek as near to him as
possible and abesent minded Vasu as far away as he could.
On no evening did any person have sitting next to him a 
person who had 
previously been his neighbour.
How did Vikram manage to seat everybody to the best 
advantage on the 
second and third evenings?

Ans:
Second evening:Vikram,Ankur,Abhishek,Amol,Vasu,Anurag and 
Bhuwan.
Third 
evening :Vikram,Anurag,Abhishek,Vasu,Bhuwan,Ankur,Amol.


8. Two trains start from stations A and B spaced 50 kms 
apart at the same 
time and speed.
As the trains start, a bird flies from one train towards 
the other and 
on reaching the second train, it flies back to the
first train.This is repeated till the trains collide.
If the speed of the trains is 25 km/h and that of the bird 
is 100km/h.
How much did the bird travel till the collision.

Ans: 100 kms.


9. Four prisoners escape from a prison.
The prisoners, Mr East, Mr West, Mr South, Mr North head 
towards 
different directions after escaping.
The following information of their escape was supplied:

The escape routes were The North Road, South Road, East 
Road and West 
Road.
None of the prisoners took the road which was their 
namesake.
Mr.East did not take the South Road
Mr.West did not the South Road.
The West Road was not taken by Mr.East

What road did each of the prisoners take to make their 
escape?

Ans: Mr.East took the North Road
Mr.West took the East Road
Mr.North took the South Road
Mr.South took the West Road.


10. Complete the series:
5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, ?

Ans: 12 (as 5*4=20, 20+4=24, 24/4=6, 6-4=2, 2*4=8, 8+4=12).

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infosys Test #4


1. Replace each letter by a digit.
Each letter must be represented by the same digit and no 
beginning 
letter of a word can be 0.

O N E
O N E
O N E
O N E
-------
T E N

Ans: 0 =1, N = 8 ,E = 2, T = 7



2. Ann, Boobie, Cathy and Dave are at their monthly 
business meeting.
Their occupations are author, biologist, chemist and 
doctor, but not 
necessarily in that order.
Dave just told the biologist that Cathy was on her way with 
doughnuts.
Ann is sitting across from the doctor and next to the 
chemist.
The doctor was thinking that Boobie was a goofy name for 
parent's to 
choose,but didn't say anything.
What is each person's occupation?

Ans: Since Dave spoke to the biologist and Ann sat next to 
the chemist and 
across the doctor, Cathy must be the author
and Ann the biologist.
The doctor didn't speak, but David did, so Bobbie is the 
doctor and 
Dave the chemist.



3. Sometime after 10:00 PM a murder took place.
A witness claimed that the clock must have stopped at the 
time of the 
shooting.
It was later found that the postion of both the hands were 
the same but 
their positions had interchanged.
Tell the time of the shooting (both actual and claimed).

Ans: Time of shooting = 11:54 PM
Claimed Time = 10:59 PM



4. Next number in the series is
1 , 2 , 4 , 13 , 31 , 112 , ?

Ans: 224.
No number has digits more than 4. All of them are 1 , 2, 4, 
8 , 16 , 
32 , 64 converted to numbers in base 5



5. Shahrukh speaks truth only in the morning and lies in 
the afternoon, 
whereas Salman speaks truth only in the afternoon. A
says that B is Shahrukh. Is it morning or afternoon and who 
is A - Shahrukh 
or Salman.

Ans: Afternoon ; A is Salman.



6. Two trains starting at same time, one from Bangalore to 
Mysore and other 
in opposite direction arrive at their
destination 1 hr and 4 hours respectively after passing 
each other. How 
nuch faster is one train from other?

Ans: Twice



7. There are 6 volumes of books on a rack kept in order ( 
ie vol.1, vol. 2 
and so on ).
Give the position after the following changes were noticed.

All books have been changed
Vol.5 was directly to the right of Vol.2
Vol.4 has Vol.6 to its left and both weren't at Vol.3's 
place
Vol.1 has Vol.3 on right and Vol.5 on left
An even numbered volume is at Vol.5's place

Find the order in which the books are kept now.

Ans: 2 , 5 , 1 , 3 , 6 , 4



8. I bought a car with a peculiar 5 digit numbered licence 
plate which on 
reversing could still be read.
On reversing value is increased by 78633.Whats the original 
number if 
all digits were different?

Ans: Only 0 1 6 8 and 9 can be readupside down.So on 
rearranging these 
digits we get the answer as 10968



9. The shape in the sketch below is that of a square 
attached to half of a 
similar square.Divide it into four equal pieces



Ans: Hint : the figure can be divided into 12 equal 
triangles



10. Supposing a clock takes 7 seconds to strike 7. How 
mlong will it take to 
strike 10?

Ans: 10 1/2 seconds.

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Infosys Test #5

1) A man collects cigarette stubs and makes one full 
cigarette with every 8 
stubs.
If he gets 64 stubs how many full cigarettes can he smoke.

Ans: 8+1=9


2) A soldier looses his way in a thick jungle. At random he 
walks from his 
camp but mathematically in an interesting fashion.
First he walks one mile East then half mile to North. Then 
1/4 mile to West, 
then 1/8 mile to South and so on making a loop.
Finally how far he is from his camp and in which direction.

Ans: Distance travelled in north and south directions
1/2 - 1/8 + 1/32 - 1/128 + 1/512 - and so on
= 1/2/((1-(-1/4))
Similarly in east and west directions
1- 1/4 + 1/16 - 1/64 + 1/256 - and so on
= 1/(( 1- ( - 1/4))
Add both the answers


3) How can 1000000000 be written as a product of two 
factors neither of 
them containing zeros

Ans: 2 power 9 x 5 power 9


4) Conversation between two mathematcians:
First : I have three childern. The product of their ages is 
36.
If you sum their ages, it is exactly same as my neighbour's 
door 
number on my left.
The second mathematician verfies the door number and says 
that it is not 
sufficient.
Then the first says " Ok one more clue is that my youngest 
is really the 
youngest". Immmediately the second mathematician
answers .
Can you answer the question asked by the first 
mathematician?
What are the childeren ages?

Ans 1,6 and 6


5) Light glows for every 13 seconds . How many times did it 
glow between 
1:57:58 and 3:20:47 am.

Ans : 383 + 1 = 384


6) 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 
columns according to 
their heights.
Tallest among each row of all are asked to fall out.
And the shortest among them is A.
Similarly after resuming that to their original podsitions 
that the 
shortest among each column are asked to fall out.
And the tallest among them is B .
Now who is taller among A and B ?

Ans A


7) A person with some money spends1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of 
the remaining for 
food and 1/4 of the remaining for travel.
He is left with Rs 100/- .
How much did he have with him in the begining ?

Ans: Rs 250/-


8) There are six boxes containing 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 29 
balls of either 
red or blue in colour.
Some boxes contain only red balls and others contain only 
blue.
One sales man sold one box out of them and then he says
" I have the same number of red balls left out as that of 
blue ".
Which box is the one he solds out ?

Ans: Total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2) = 60/2 = 30
and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30


9) A chain is broken into three pieces of equal lenths 
containing 3 links 
each.
It is taken to a backsmith to join into a single continuous 
one .
How many links are to to be opened to make it ?

Ans : 2.


10) Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate.
It takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat 
the whole 
of the grass.
How many cows are needed to eat the grass in 96 days.?

Ans : 20
g - grass at the beginning
r - rate at which grass grows, per day
y - rate at which one cow eats grass, per day
n - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days
g + 24*r = 70 * 24 * y
g + 60*r = 30 * 60 * y
g + 96*r = n * 96 * y
Solving, n = 20.

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Infosys Test #6



1. From a vessel, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates on the 
first day.
On the second day 3/4th of the remaining liquid evaporates.
What fraction of the volume is present at the end of the 
second day.

Ans: 50%

2. An orange glass has orange juice and white glass has 
apple juice both of 
equal volumes.
50ml of the orange juice is taken and poured into the apple 
juice.
50ml from the white glass is poured into the orange glass.
Of the two quantities, the amount of apple juice in the 
orange glass and 
the amount of orange juice in the white glass,
which one is greater and by how much?

Ans: The two quantities are equal


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