PDA-CS APTITUDE TEST - 16

31/03/2009 Part-A 1)Bhanu spends 30% of his income on petrol on scooter. of the remaining on house rent and the balance on food. If he spends Rs.300 on petrol then what is the expenditure on house rent? a) Rs.525 b) Rs.1000 c) Rs.675 d) Rs.175 2) If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 25% and denominator decreased by 20%, the new value is 5/4. What is the original value? a) 3/5 b) 4/5 c) 7/8 d) 3/7 3) the length of a rectangle is increased by 60%. By what % would the width have to be decreased to maintain the same area? a) 30% b) 60% c) 75% d) 37.5% 4) The value of + 5 / 36 + 7 / 144 +17 / 5184 + 19 / 8100 is a) 0.94 b) 0.96 c) 0.95 d) None of these 5) A sporting goods store ordered an equal number of white and yellow balls. The tennis ball company delivered 45 extra white balls, making the ratio of white balls to yellow balls 1/5 : 1/6. How many white tennis balls did the store originally order for? a) 450 b) 270 c) 225 d) None of these 6) A student's grade in a course is determined by 6 quizzes and one examination. If the examination counts thrice as much as each of the quizzes, what fraction of final grade is determined by the examination? a) 1/6 b) 1/5 c) 1/3 d) 7) A sum of money is divided among A, B and C such that for each rupee A gets, B gets 65paise and C gets 35paise. If C's share is Rs.560, the sum is a) 2400 b) 2800 c) 3200 d) 3800 8) 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 9) A traveler walks a certain distance. Had he gone half a kilometer an hour faster , he would have walked it in 4/5 of the time, and had he gone half a Kilometer an hour slower, he would have walked 2 hr longer. What is the distance? a) 10 Km b) 15 Km c) 20 Km d) Data Insufficient 10) Two oranges, 3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15. 3 oranges, 2 bananas and 1 apple cost Rs.10. I bought 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples. How much did I pay? a) 10 b) 8 c) 15 d) Cannot be determined

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11) A report consists of 20 sheets each of 55 lines and each such line consists of 65 characters. This report is retyped into sheets each of 65 lines such that each line consists of 70 characters. The % reduction in the number of sheets is closest to a) 20 b) 5 c) 30 d) 35 12) A ship leaves on a long voyage. When it is 18 miles from the shore, a seaplane, whose speed is 10 times that of the ship, is sent to deliver mail. How far from the shore does the seaplane catch upon with the ship? a) 24 miles b) 25 miles c) 22miles d) 20 miles 13) Anand finishes a work in 7 days, Bittu finishes the same job in 8 days and Chandu in 6 days. They take turns to finish the work. Anand on the first day, Bittu on the second and Chandu on the third day and then Anand again and so on. On which day will the work get over? a) 3rd b) 6th c) 9th d) 7th 14) 3 men finish painting a wall in 8 days. Four boys do the same job in 7 days. In how many days will 2 men and 2 boys working together paint two such walls of the same size? a) 6 6/13 days b) 3 3/13 days c) 9 2/5 days d) 12 12/13 days 15) There are 5 distinct pairs of white socks and 5 pairs of black socks in a cupboard. In the dark, how many socks do I have to pull out to ensure that I have at least 1 correct pair of white socks? a) 3 b) 11 c) 12 d) 16 16) In a circular race track of length 100 m, three persons A, B and C start together. A and B start in the same direction at speeds of 10 m/s and 8 m/s respectively. While C runs in the opposite at 15 m/s. When will all the three meet for the first time on the after the start? a) After 4 s b) After 50 s c) After 100 s d) After 200 s 17) If the distance traveled (s) in time (t) by a particle is given by the formula s = 1+ 2t+3t2+4t3 , then what is the distance travelled in the 4th second of its motion? a) 141m b) 171m c) 243m d) 313m 18) There is a circular pizza with negligible thickness that is cut into 'x' pieces by 4 straight line cuts. What is the maximum and minimum value of 'x' respectively? a) 12,6 b) 11,6 c) 12,5 d) 11,5 19) When of a unit's digit is added to the ten's digit of a two number, the sum of the digits becomes 10. If of the ten's digit added to the unit's digit, then the sum of the digits is 1 less than the previous. Find the number. a) 94 b) 84 c) 48 d) 88 20) LCM of x and y is 36 and HCF of x and y is 4. If x = 4 then which of the following is definitely not true? a) Y is divisible by 3 b) Y is divisible by 6 c) Y is divisible by 9 d) X+Y is divisible by

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21) Amal bought 5 pens, 7 pencils and 4 erasers. Rajan bought 6 pens, 8 erasers and 14 pencils for an amount which was half more than what Amal had paid. What % of the total amount paid by Amal was paid for pens? a) 37.5% b) 62.5% c) 50% d) None of these 22) A non stop bus to Amritsar overtakes an auto also moving towards Amritsar at 10 am. The bus reaches Amritsar at 12.30 pm and starts on the return journey after 1 hr. On the way back it meets the auto at 2 pm. At what time the auto will reach Amritsar? a) 2.30pm b) 3.00pm c) 3.15pm d) 3.30pm 23) The total expense of a boarding house are partly fixed and partly variable with the number of boarders. The charge is Rs.70 per head when there are 25 boarders and Rs.60 when there are 50 boarders. Find the charge per head when there are 100 boarders. a) 65 b) 55 c) 50 d) 45 24) How many positive integer solutions does the equation 2x+3y = 100 have? a) 50 b) 33 c) 16 d) 35 25) A person had to multiply two numbers. Instead of multiplying by 35, he multiplied by 53and the product went up by 540. What was the raised product? a) 780 b) 1040 c) 1590 d) 1720 Part-B Answer the following questions based on the statements given below: In a sports event, six teams(A,B,C,D,E&F) are competing against each other. Matches are scheduled in two stages. Each team plays three matches in stage1 and two matches in stage2. No team plays against the same team more than once in the event. No ties are permitted in any of the matches. The observations after completion of stage1 and stage2 are as given below. Stage1: 1. One team one all the three matches. 2. Two teams lost all the matches. 3. D lost to A but won against C&F. 4. E lost to B but won against C&F. 5. B lost atleast one match. 6. F did not play against the top team in stage1. Stage2: 1. The leader of stage1 lost the next two matches. 2. Of the two teams at the bottom after stage1, one team won both the matches, while the other lost both the matches. 3. One more team lost both matches in stage2. 26. The teams that won exactly two matches in the event are a) A,D&F b)D & E c)D&F 27)The team(s) with the most wins in the event is(are) a)A b)A&C c)E

d)D,E&F

d)B&E

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28)The two teams that defeated the leader of stage1 are a)F&D b)E&F c)E&D

d)B&D

29)the only team(s) that won both the matches in stage2 is(are) a)B b)A,E&F c)B,E&F d)B&F The questions are based on the following data. A survey was conducted among 600 TV owners. It was found that 200 people had ONIDA, 250 people had PHILIPS and 300 people had SONY . Seventy of them had exactly 2 out of 3 brands. Each owns atleast one of the three brands mentioned above. 30) How many people had all the three brands? a)70 b)40 c)60 d)110 31)if 16 owners had only Philips and SONY with them, then how many people have only ONIDA with them? a)54 b)72 c)98 d)106 32)if 160 people had only PHILIPS ,then how many have only ONIDA and PHILIPS with them? a)10 b)20 c)30 d)40 33)How many owners have only one brand of cycle with them? a)70 b)200 c)490 d)250 Select the alternative that logically follows from the two given statements, but not from the one statement alone. 34)Some hammers are tools All tools are made of iron a)Some hammers are made of iron b) All hammers are made of iron c)Some hammers are not made of iron d) none of the above 35)No Negro is fair Some europeans are fair a)No negro is european c)all europeans are negroes

b)Some negroes are european d)None of the above Part-C

Find the Synonyms: 36)FAMISHED 37)STALWART 38)BEDLAM 39)PALPABLE 40)VAPID Find the Antonyms: 41)IMMACULATE 42)IMPUDENT

a)agricultural a)watchful a)comfortable a)visible a)insipid

b)hungry b)delicate b)fleshy b)perceivable b)inspiring

c)pretigious c)sturdy c)lament c)audible c)vacuous

d)feasible d)encomium d)tumult d)presentable d)lazy

a)unclean a)rude

b)immobile b)courteous

c)motherly d)accumulated c)impertinent d)insolent

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43)DISPARAGE 44)FORTITUDE 45)PEDESTRIAN

a)evolve a)benefit a)Mobile

b)expose b)eruption b)regular Part-D

c)appreciate c)chivalry c)exciting

d)converge d)cowardice d)imaginative

46)How many bytes of memory will be freed in the following program..? #include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> int main() { int *p; p=(int *)malloc(10); p++; free(p); return 0; } a) 9 bytes of memory c) compilation error 47)what will be the output...? #include<stdio.h> int main() { if("the"=="the") printf("equal\n"); else printf("not equal\n"); return 0; } a) not equal b) compilation error c) runtime error 48)what will be the output of the following program..? #include<stdio.h> int main() { int num=(int)"MIT"; printf("%s\n",num); return 0; } a) garbage value b) compilation error

b) 10 bytes of memory d) runtime error

d) equal

c) MIT d) none of the above

49) In a 'C' program all the global and static variables will be stored in...? a) code segment of memory b) data segment of memory c) stack part of program memory d) heap part of program memory 50) what is happening in the following program...? int main() {

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static int i; strcpy((char *)main,"something"); printf("%s",main); if(i++==0) main(); } a) b) c) d) its an attempt to write in code segment its an attempt to copy one string to another nothing can be said something can be said

51) What is the output ? main() { int arr2D[3][3]; printf("%d\n", ((arr2D==* arr2D)&&(* arr2D == arr2D[0])) ); } a) 1 b) 0 c) compiler error d) no output 52) What is the output ? main() { char *p = ayqm; printf(%c,++*(p++)); } a) segmentation fault b) compiler error 53) What is the output ? main() { char *p = ayqm; char c; c = ++*p++; printf(%c,c); } a) segmentation fault b) compiler error 54) What does the following statement mean ? void ( * abc( int, void ( *def) () ) ) (); 55) What is the output ? int DIM(int array[]) { return sizeof(array)/sizeof(int ); } main() { int arr[10]; printf(The dimension of the array is %d, DIM(arr)); } a) 40 b) 10 c) 1 d) 4

c) b

d) a

c) a

d) b

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56) What is the output ? main() { char * str = "hello"; char * ptr = str; char least = 127; while (*ptr++) least = (*ptr<least ) ?*ptr :least; printf("%d",least); } a) 1 b) 127 c) compiler error

d) 0

57) Declare an array of N pointers to functions returning pointers to functions returning pointers to characters? 58) What is the functionality of the following function for the given a and b variable address? void func(int *a,int *b) { *a = *a * *b; *b = *a / *b; *a = *a / *b; } 59) What is the output ? int main() { char a[4]="hello"; printf("%s",a); } a) hell c) hello b) hello<followed by garbage strings> d) compiler error

60) What is the output ? main() { char *p="hai friends",*p1; p1=p; while(*p!='\0') ++*p++; printf("%s %s",p,p1); } a)ibj!gsjfoet b)hai friends c)compiler error

d)segmentation fault

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