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1. What was the Minister’s diagnosis of the Elephant’s condition ?
(A) The Elephant hated his keeper
(B) The Elephant was lonely
(C) The Elephant was starving
(D) The Elephant had hurt his leg and as in pain
(E) None of these
Ans : (B)

2. What method did the Minister suggest to the King to get back the Dog ?
(A) To declare that whoever had that particular Dog would be punished
(B) To keep a bowl of rice for the dog in the Elephant’s shed so that he
could be lured
back to the palace
(C) To command the Elephantkeeper to look for the Dog in the village
(D) To persuade the Elephant to call out to the Dog
(E) None of these
Ans : (A)

3. Why had the Elephant become very sad ?
(A) He no longer got his daily bowl of rice
(B) He was unhappy with the King for having sold the Dog
(C) He missed his friend the Dog
(D) He was sold to an unknown man by his keeper
(E) None of these
Ans : (C)

4. What did the Elephant-keeper do to the Dog ?
(A) He sold the Dog to an unknown man for a price
(B) He hit the Dog as the Dog was eating the Elephant’s food
(C) He killed the Dog
(D) He complained to the King about the Dog
(E) None of these
Ans : (A)

5. Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the
passage ?
(A) Friends and Enemies
(B) The Playful Dog
(C) The King and the Minister
(D) The Elephant-keeper
(E) The Bond of Friendship

1. A certain type of mixture is prepared by mixing brand A at Rs.9 a kg.
with brand B at Rs.4 a kg. If the mixture is worth Rs.7 a kg., how many
kgs. of brand A are needed to make 40kgs. of the mixture?
Ans. Brand A needed is 24kgs.
2. A wizard named Nepo says “I am only three times my son’s age. My
father is 40 years more than twice my age. Together the three of us are
a mere 1240 years old.” How old is Nepo?
Ans. 360 years old.
3. One dog tells the other that there are two dogs in front of me. The
other one also shouts that he too had two behind him. How many are they?
Ans. Three.
4. A man ate 100 bananas in five days, each day eating 6 more than the
previous day. How many bananas did he eat on the first day?
Ans. Eight.
5. If it takes five minutes to boil one egg, how long will it take to
boil four eggs?
Ans. Five minutes.
6. Three containers A, B and C have volumes a, b, and c respectively; and
container A is full of water while the other two are empty. If from
container A water is poured into container B which becomes 1/3 full, and
into container C which becomes 1/2 full, how much water is left in
container A?
7. ABCE is an isosceles trapezoid and ACDE is a rectangle. AB = 10 and EC
= 20. What is the length of AE?
Ans. AE = 10.
8. In the given figure, PA and PB are tangents to the circle at A and B
respectively and the chord BC is parallel to tangent PA. If AC = 6 cm,
and length of the tangent AP is 9 cm, then what is the length of the
chord BC?
Ans. BC = 4 cm.
9 Three cards are drawn at random from an ordinary pack of cards. Find
the probability that they will consist of a king, a queen and an ace.
Ans. 64/2210.
10. A number of cats got together and decided to kill between them 999919
mice. Every cat killed an equal number of mice. Each cat killed more mice
than there were cats. How many cats do you think there were ?
Ans. 991.
11. If Log2 x – 5 Log x + 6 = 0, then what would the value / values of x
be?
Ans. x = e2 or e3.
12. The square of a two digit number is divided by half the number. After
36 is added to the quotient, this sum is then divided by 2. The digits of
the resulting number are the same as those in the original number, but

they are in reverse order. The ten’s place of the original number is
equal to twice the difference between its digits. What is the number?
Ans. 46
13.Can you tender a one rupee note in such a manner that there shall be
total 50 coins but none of them would be 2 paise coins.?
Ans. 45 one paisa coins, 2 five paise coins, 2 ten paise coins, and 1
twenty-five paise coins.
14.A monkey starts climbing up a tree 20ft. tall. Each hour, it hops 3ft.
and slips back 2ft. How much time would it take the monkey to reach the
top?
Ans.18 hours.
15. What is the missing number in this series? 8 2 14 6 11 ? 14 6 18 12
Ans. 9
16. The minute hand of a clock overtakes the hour hand at intervals of 64
minutes of correct time. How much a day does the clock gain or lose?
Ans. 32 8/11 minutes.
17. Solve for x and y: 1/x – 1/y = 1/3, 1/x2 + 1/y2 = 5/9.
Ans. x = 3/2 or -3 and y = 3 or -3/2.
18. Daal is now being sold at Rs. 20 a kg. During last month its rate was
Rs. 16 per kg. By how much percent should a family reduce its consumption
so as to keep the expenditure fixed?
Ans. 20 %.
19. Find the least value of 3x + 4y if x2y3 = 6.
Ans. 10.
20. Can you find out what day of the week was January 12, 1979?
Ans. Friday.
21. A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days, when given at a
rate of 850 grams per head. At the end of 7 days a reinforcement arrives
and it was found that now the provisions will last 8 days less, when
given at the rate of 825 grams per head. How, many more men can it feed?
Ans. 1700 men.
22. From 5 different green balls, four different blue balls and three
different red balls, how many combinations of balls can be chosen taking
at least one green and one blue ball?
Ans. 3720.
23. Three pipes, A, B, & C are attached to a tank. A & B can fill it in
20 & 30 minutes respectively while C can empty it in 15 minutes. If A,
B & C are kept open successively for 1 minute each, how soon will the
tank be filled?
Ans. 167 minutes.
24. A person walking 5/6 of his usual rate is 40 minutes late. What is
his usual time?

Ans. 3 hours 20 minutes.
25. Mr. Shah decided to walk down the escalator of a tube station. He
found that if he walks down 26 steps, he requires 30 seconds to reach
the bottom. However, if he steps down 34 stairs he would only require 18
seconds to get to the bottom. If the time is measured from the moment the
top step begins to descend to the time he steps off the last step at
the bottom, find out the height of the stair way in steps?
Ans.46 steps.

Qs. 1-4. In the following number series only one
number is wrong. Find out the wrong number.
1. 14 13 22 55 212 1035
(1) 55 (2) 13 (3) 212
(4) 22 (5) None of these
2. 217 224 213 226 210 228
(1) 213 (2) 226 (3) 210
(4) 228 (5) None of these
3. 153 495 712 837 901 928
(1) 712 (2) 837 (3) 901
(4) 928 (5) None of these
4. 488 245 124 64 35 20.25
(1) 124 (2) 64 (3) 245
(4) 35 (5) None of these
5. A 250 metres long train crosses a platform in 10
seconds. What is the speed of the train?
(1) 25 metres/second
(2) 20 metres/second
(3) 22 metres/second
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
6. The compound interest earned on an amount of
Rs 15,000 at the end of 3 years is Rs 3895.68. What is the rate
of interest p.c.p.a.?
(1) 8 (2) 6.5 (3) 5
(4) 12 (5) None of these
7. 16 men can complete a piece of work in 8 days. 20
women take 16 days to complete the same piece of work. 12
men and 10 women work together for 6 days. How many
more days would 10 women alone require to complete the
remaining piece of work?
(1) 8 (2) 10 (3) 4
(4) 16 (5) None of these
8. In how many different ways can the letters of the
word ‘FORMULATE’ be arranged?
(1) 81,000 (2) 40,320 (3) 3,62,880
(4) 1,53,420 (5) None of these
9. The frogs in a pond increase by 10% at the end of
every year. If at the start of the year 2004, there were 2,14,000
frogs in the pond, then what would be the number of frogs
in the pond by the end of the year 2006?
(1) 2,35,400 (2) 2,68,940 (3) 2,64,328
(4) 2,98,644 (5) None of these

Q. 10-14. In each of these questions, two equations
are given. You have to solve these equations and find out
the values of x and y and
Give answer If
(1) x<y
(2) x>y
(3) x y ≤
(4) x y ≥
(5) x=y or if the relationship cannot be
established
10. I. 12x2 = 6x
II. y + x2 = 0.45
11. I. x 6.25 
II. y2 = 6.25
12. I. 20x2 – 33x + 7 = 0
II. y 0.0625 
13. I. 6x2 + 28x + 16 = 0
II. 14y2 + 15y + 4 = 0
14. I. 4x + 3y = 16
II. 2x + 4y = 13
15. On children’s day sweets were to be equally
distributed amongst 540 children. But on that particular day,
120 children were absent. Thus, each child got 4 sweets extra.
How many sweets was each child originally supposed to
get?
(1) 18 (2) 25 (3) 14
(4) 20 (5) None of these
16. A boat covers a distance of 24 kms in 10 hours
downstream. To cover the same distance upstream, the boat
takes two hours longer. What is the speed of the boat in still
waters?
(1) 2 km/hr (2) 2.8 km/hr (3) 4 km/hr
(4) 4.2 km/hr (5) None of these
17. The circumference of a circle is equal to the
perimeter of a square whose area is 121 sq cms. What is the
area of the circle?
(1) 44 sq cms (2) 154 sq cms (3) 121 sq cms
(4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these
18. Sonia started a business by investing Rs 60,000. Six
months later Vivek joined her by investing Rs 1,40,000. After
one year Kirti joined them by investing Rs 1,20,000. At the
end of two years from the commencement of the business,

they earn a profit of Rs 4,50,000. What is Vivek’s share in the
profit?
(1) Rs 1,40,000 (2) Rs 1,98,500 (3) Rs 2,15,000
(4) Rs 2,10,000 (5) None of these
19. An urn contains 4 green and 7 blue marbles. If three
marbles are picked at random, what is the probability that
only two of them are blue?
(1)
49
55 (2)
7
11 (3)
28
55
(4)
11
28 (5) None of these

Qs. 20-24. What should come in place of the question
mark (?) in the following questions?
20.
3 5 4 1
1 1 –2 ?
4 8 5 2

(1)
7
2
40 (2)
7
1
40 (3)
3
2
40
(4)
3
1
40 (5) None of these
21. 14 × 18.6 ÷ 12 + 19.3 = ?
(1) 41 (2) 33.5 (3) 291.9
(4) 8.32 (5) None of these
22. 84.2 × 642.1 × 78.4 × 563.5 = 56?
(1) 18.2 (2) 9.8 (3) 11.9
(4) 12.6 (5) None of these
23. (4)2 + (3)2 = ?
(1) 25 (2) 5 (3) 125
(4) 425 (5) None of these
24. 53% of 120 + 25% of 862 = ?% of 500
(1) 42.50 (2) 55.82 (3) 63.68
(4) 38.89 (5) None of these

Qs. 25-29. 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 is sufficient to
answer the question, while the data in Statement
II alone is not sufficient to answer the question.
(2) if the data in statement II alone is sufficient to
answer the question, while the data in Statement
I alone is not sufficient to answer the question.
(3) if the data in Statement I alone or in Statement II
alone is 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.
25. What is the area of the square?
I. Measure of the diagonal of the square is 80 cms.
II. The perimeter of the square is equal to the
circumference of a circle.
26. What is Asha’s present salary?
I. Her salary increases every year by 15 per cent.
II. She joined the organization seven years ago.
27. What is the rate of interest p.c.p.a.?
I. The compound interest acurred on an amount
of Rs 1,500 at the end of 2 years is Rs 660.
II. An amount doubles itself in 5 years with simple
interest.
28. What is the total staff strength of the organization?
I. 75% of the staff consists of male employees.
II. The ratio of female to male employees in the
organization is 1 : 3 respectively.
29. What is the two digit number?
I. The sum of the two digits of the number is 8.
II. The number obtained by interchanging the two
digits of the number is lesser than the original
number by 18.

Qs. 30-34. Study the table carefully to answer the
following questions:
Percentage of marks obtained by six students in six
different subjects
30. What are the approximate average marks obtained
by all students in Hindi?
(1) 45 (2) 51 (3) 62
(4) 59 (5) 66
31. What is the respective ratio of marks obtained by
students A, B and C together in Maths to the marks obtained
by students D, E and F together in Marathi?
(1) 7 : 22 (2) 23 : 7 (3) 23 : 4
(4) 4 : 21 (5) None of these
32. Which student has scored the second highest in
all the subjects together?
(1) D (2) F (3) A
(4) B (5) None of these
33. In order to pass the exam, if the students need
minimum 75 marks in Social Studies and minimum 85 marks
in Science, how many students have passed the exam?
(1) None (2) One (3) Two
(4) Three (5) None of these
34. What is the percentage of marks obtained by B in
all the subjects together? (rounded off to two digits after
decimal)
(1) 68.62 (2) 66.83 (3) 69.24
(4) 64.84 (5) None of these
Subject English Maths Social Studies Science Hindi Marathi
Student (Out of 100) (Out of 150) (Out of 120) (Out of 150) (Out of 80) (Out of 50)
A 52 84 65 76 65 60
B 63 70 85 56 75 64
C 80 66 70 64 60 50
D 71 78 60 80 70 60
E 77 80 65 54 55 74
F 67 75 55 86 60 76

Qs. 35-38. Study the graph carefully to answer the
following questions:
35. If the profit of Company B in the year 2003 was
Rs 7,83,000, then what was its profit in the year 2000?
(1) Rs 2,25,000 (2) 3,75,000
(3) Rs 4,16,000 (4) Rs 4,05,000
(5) None of these
36. What is the approximate average per cent profit of
Company B over the years?
(1) 58 (2) 40 (3) 53 (4) 62 (5) 46
37. If the profit of Company A in the year 1999 was
Rs 1.5 lakhs, what was its profit in the year 2001?
(1) Rs 2.65 lakhs (2) Rs 4.25 lakhs
(3) Rs 3.15 lakhs (4) Rs 4.90 lakhs
(5) None of these
38. Which of the following statements is definitely
true?
(1) Company B has made more profit than Company A
in the year 2003.
(2) Profit made by Company A and Company B in the
year 2000 is the same.
(3) Increase in per cent rise in profit of Company B in
the year 1999 from the previous year is 10 per cent.
(4) Company A has made lowest profit in the year 1999.
(5) Profit of Company A remained the same in the year
1999 and 2000.
39. What is the per cent increase in per cent rise in
profit of Company A in the year 2001 from the previous
year?
(1) 15 (2) 20 (3) 10
(4) 25 (5) None of these

Qs. 40-44. Study the table carefully to answer the
following questions:
Number (in crores) of ball bearings manufactured by
Six Companies over the years
40. What is the respective ratio of number of ball
bearing manufactured by Company R in the year 1999 to
those manufactured by Company T in the year 2003?
(1) 16 : 17 (2) 17 : 16
(3) 23 : 21 (4) 21 : 23
(5) None of these
41. What is the approximate per cent increase in the
number of ball bearings manufactured by Company P in he
year 2004, from the previous year?
(1) 143 (2) 157 (3) 59
(4) 122 (5) 94
42. What is the average number of ball bearings
manufactured by all companies together in the year 2002?
(1) 3360000 (2) 336000000
(3) 3360000000 (4) 33600000
(5) None of these
43. Number of ball bearings manufactured by
Company Q in the year 2000 is approximately what per cent
of the total number of ball bearings manufactured by it in all
the years together?
(1) 24 (2) 32 (3) 11
(4) 29 (5) 17
44. How many more ball bearings need to be
manufactured by Company S in the year 2004 to make the
ratio between the number of ball bearings manufactured by
Company S to those manufactured by Company U in the
year 2004, 54 : 83 respectively?
(1) 80000000 (2) 2500000 (3) 34000000
(4) 5000000 (5) None of these