Aptitude Papers with solutions

1. A shopkeeper arranges his fruits in such a way that putting say either 3,or 9,or 7 apples in a row each time one apple is left. but when he puts say 11 apples in a row no apple is left.find no. of apples.

ans: take l.c.m. of earlier three nos. add 1 if divided by 11 fine else multiply by 2 add 1 divide by 11 .if not divisible keep on repeating.

2. A problem of staircase:if i start going down, having gone down 4 steps i see x coming up.i meet x in way going down.when i had still 7 steps to go down x had gone up .find no. of steps in the staircase.condition: for each of my one step down x goes up 2 steps.ans:22

solution:say total no. of steps x2(x-11)==xx="

3. Problem of merrygoround.tom on a merrygoround finds that one third of people ahead of him and three fourth of people behind him is equal to the no. of people on the merrygoround.find the no. of people on the merrygoround.

ans:13since merry gorund is circular so 3/4x+1/3x==x+1.

4. A problem of cards .four persons sitting on a table.infront of each one of them one card is lying not having same colours on both sides.2 blue,2 red,2 green faces. each one guesses the color of unseen face of card .(guesses i don’t remember) exactly 2 are lying.the front faces of card are red,blue,green,red respectively.find the colors of unseen faces of card.

5. five persons in a conference.a & b can communicate in english.when d joins the only coomon language of communication is spanish. a ,b,e can talk to each other in french only.exactly 3 people know portugese. the number of languages known by different persons are 1,2,3,4,5. some other similar conditions . you have to find answers to four questions based n these facts.

6. say ona sacle of 100:85 have phones,80 cars,75 married,70 have houses. how many minimum persons are married,have phone car and houses on a scale of 100.

7. some series given3 10 20 27 54 61 _ans .162some other seriestrick: find suare root then add some number etc.

8. some conditions on xz etc.

9. afternoon temperatures of five days are recorded.each temperature is different.multiple is 12.

ans:-1,1,2,-2,3

Aptitude Question - Self Practice

Aptitude Questions

1. There r some bees in a garden..1/5th of them went to a particular flower,1/3rd went to another flower,3 times the difference of the above two went to third flower..n one was remaining n it was roamingaround..how many bees were there

Ans:15

2. Jim n Harry have the same number of marbles when they start playing..n then afterwards...Jim gains 20 marbles and later he loses 2/3rds of what he had..now Harry has 4 times as many marbles as Jimhas..What r the initial number of marbles that each of them had?Ans:100 each

3. F,G,H,J,K are some juniors and P,Q,R,S are some seniors...and there are 3 communities Cultural,Recreation n Ethics..n each contained 3 members each..n each one was a member of only one committee..

i)F,Q are in Cultural committee.

ii)P is in recreation committee.

iii)J wont be in a committee where H or Q are there.

iv)G will be in recreation committe if S also works in recreation committee.

v)there will be atleast one senior in each committee.

vi)R wont be in a committee is S is there In this 4 parts were there

They will give some conditions and ask you to choose from the options. Now form the own options that you can make by seeing the question so that you will be able to solve similar problems by yourselves.

4. There was a community in which there were 1000 couples.In that 2/3rd of men who r taller r also heavier n 3/4th of the men who r heavier r also taller n there were 120 women who were both heavier n taller than men.So how many men r both taller n heavier than men

5. A man drives with constant speed..n he after some time he sees a milestone with 2-digits..then he travels for an hr n sees the same 2 digits in reverse order..n then after an hr he sees that themilestone has the same 2 digits with a 0 between them..so whats the man speed?Ans:45km/hr

6. There were 2 systems A n B.14 degrees in A is equivalent to 36 in system B.and 133 in A is equivalent to 87 in B.now what is the temperature where they both r equal?

Ans:51.25 (conversion A=(7/3)B-70)

7. X Y Z X Y ZA B + A B -------- ----- ------------- C D E F B G A

find X,Y,Z,G

8. A women buys some shoestrips n then 4 times of that she buys packet pins n then 8 times of shoestrips she buys handkerchiefs..n she has a bill of Rs3.24..n she pays for each article as many paise as there r articles(of tht particular item).Now whats the number of handkerchiefs?

Ans:16

9. Ms.Anitha got her salary n she spent half of it in shopping n gave 1RS to a beggar.After that 1/2 of the remaining money she spends in a hotel n she gives Rs.2/- as a tip to waiter.n then 1/2 of the remaining she spends again n she gives 3 RS as charity..n after thatfinally she is left with Rs 1/- when she comes out.Whats the actual money she had?

Rs 42/-

10. There r 2 children..one of them lies on Monday,wednesday n friday n tell truth on every other day.the other will lie on Tuesday,thursday n saturday.n always tells truth on other days..n both of them tell the truth on sundays.. then which of the following can be deduced?

i)If its a sunday both will say so

ii)if one of then says a correct day then other will lie everything.