PLACEMENT AND TRAINING CENTRE

TCS - APTITUDE TEST

No.of Questions:35

Time

Duration:80

min
1.

Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy.

Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers
and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles
in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its
continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed
great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old
Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled
by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.
a) 20.72

b) 3.5

c) 238.25

d) 6.18

Directions(2-3) Three cities A,B,c are situated are shown in the fig.
A

Given AB= 30 kms, BC= 60 kms and CA= 60 kms

Rahul start from A on his bike, travels to B, from there he goes to C and
finally returns to A.
i)

From A to B his average speed was 30 kmph

ii)

His average speed for the complete journey is

iii)

His average speed while travelling from B to C was double his

average speed while travelling from C to A.

300
11

kmph

Q2. Rahuls average speed during the journey from B toC is

a) 20 kmph

b) 30 kmph

c) 40 kmph d) None

3. The time that Rahul take to travel from C to A is.

a) 2 hrs

b) 2.5 hrs

c) 3 hrs

d) None

4. There are two friends peter and Paul.Peter age of is twice as old as Paul was when
peter was old as Paul is now. Sum of the present ages of peter and Paul is 35.What
is the present age of peter?
a) 8

b) 20

c) 16

d) 15

(Directions5-6) In a class consisting of 75 students, 25 did not know typing, 45

knew shorthand and 10 knew neither nor shorthand.
Q5.How many students knew both typing and shorthand?
a) 20

b) 25

c) 30

d) cant determined.

Q6. How many students knew only typing?

a) 20

b) 25

c) 30

d) 35

7. Let ABCD be square. Alex wants to draw 5 circles of radius r with their centers
on BD such that the two extreme circles touch two sides AB,BC,AD and CD of the
square respectively and each middle circle touches two circles on either side. Find
the ratio of r to that of BD.
a) 2:11.828 b) 5:19.214 c) 1:10.828 d) 1:12.515
8. A certain box of health drink powder is obtained by mixing the makers as 3 parts
of milk powder with 5 parts of energy powder. If 2 kg of the mixture is needed and
the individuals makers can be purchased only in one kg or half kg box. What is the

least amount of makers in kgs that must be purchased in order to measure out the
portions needed for the mixture?
a) 2 kg

b) 3 kg

c) 4.5 kg

d) 2.5 kg

9. A chocolate maker has to make 25 piece each of length 3 cm from a square

shaped bar of length 75 cm . If he takes 5 seconds to cut a single piece , then the
time (seconds) taken to make 25 pieces is
a) 125

b) 120

c)115

d) 110

10.On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years
after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina
grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle
and the age of echina is given by the formula
d = 4* (t-9) for t 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of
years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular
spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?
a) 17

b) 21.25

c) 12.25

d) 14.05

11. A toy train produces 10 different sounds when it moves around a circular toy
track of radius 5 m at 10 m per min. However, the toy train is defective and it now
produces only 2 different tunes at random. What are the odds that the train
produces for consecutive music tones of the same type?
a) 1 in 16
B) 1 in 4
c) 1 in 8
d) 1 in 3
12.36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other
words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ...,
{a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest
have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is
a)12

b)11

c)13

d)18

13. Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and men.
The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives and
appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The
game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that play a
match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different
rounds, where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the
tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many
matches were played?
a) 257

b) 256

c) 72

d) 255

14. Spores of a fungus, called late blight, grow and spread infection rapidly. These
pathogens were responsible for the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century.
These seem to have attacked the tomato crops in England this year. The tomato
crops have reduced and the price of the crop has risen up. The price has already
gone up to $45 a box from $27 a box a month ago. How much more would a
vegetable vendor need to pay to buy 27 boxes this month over what he would have
paid last month?
a) $27

b) $18

c) $45

d) $486

14. Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm volume to make a block ,3
small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide and 5 small cubes deep. She realizes that she
has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realized that she could have
glued a fewer number of cubes together to lock like a block with same dimensions,
if it were made hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she needs to
make the block?
a) 114

b) 135

c) 21

d) 71

15. The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 15,000 and earnings of
$7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continuous to
lead the way in products and services in India. At tirnop, all programmers are equal
in every respect. They receive identical salaries and also write code at the same
rate. Suppose 14 such programmers take 14 min to write 14 lines of code in total.
How long will intake 5 programmers to write 5 lines of code in total?
a) 14

b)12

c) 72

d) 6

16. On the planet OZ, there are 8 days in a week Sunday to Saturday and another
day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hour 90 min while each
minute has 60 sec. Also on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day.
Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz when the time is
12.40 am
a) 80

b) 81

c) 87

d) 89

17. The pace length P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive
footprints. For men, the formula n/p = 144 gives approximate relationship between
n and P where n = no. of steps per minute and P = pace length in meters.Bernads
know his pace length is 164 cm. The formula applies to Bernards walking. Calculate
Bernards walking speed in kmph
a) 8.78

b) 11.39

c) 236.16

d) 23.28

18. In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having
equal no. of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of
brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?
a) B5,G3

b)B4,G5

c) B4,G2

d)B4,G3

19. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N =
9+X+Y-Z where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok
would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end,
Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her
choice(X, Y or Z) .Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu , the variable to
substitute the value . Finally, Alok purpose the value for the remaining variable
.Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the
would be..
a) 27

b)18

c) 9

d0 20

20. Last year vivek saved 10 percent of his annual earnings .This year he earned 5
percent more than the last year and he saved 12 percent of his annual earnings
.The amount saved this year was what percent of the amount saved last year?
a) 124%

b)126%

c)128%

d)122%

21.Alok is attending a workshop How to do more with less and todays theme is
working with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous
mathematics can be achieved if mankind (as well as
womankind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the
workshop is How many 5 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
(but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer?
a.425

b.125

c.230

d.None of these

22. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in an hour, B can fill 20 liters in
same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80, 160. If B filled in 1/16 of a tank in 3
hours, how much time will it take to fill the tank completely?
a) 9
b) 8
c) 7
d) 6
23. A man whose age is 45 yrs has 3 sons named John, Jill, jack. He went to a park
weekly twice. He loves his sons very much. On a certain day he found the shop
keepers selling different things. An apple cost 1penny, 2chocalate costs 1penny & 3
bananas cost 1 penny. He has bought equal number of apple, chocolate & banana

for each son. If the total amount he invest is 7 penny then how many he has bought
from each piece for his son?
a) 1app, 1cho, 1 banana b)1 app, 2cho,3 banana c)1app, 2cho, 1banana
d)none
24. One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She knows that pal lies on
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and tells the truth on the other days of the
week byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells
the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to
Alice pal. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie byte. Yesterday was one of
those days when I lie too. What day is it?
a) Thursday
b) Tuesday
c) Monday
d) Sunday
25. Find the next number 1,2,4,13,31,112,224,..
a)448
b)421
c)1003
d) 847
26. Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged
in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and
the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary
coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they
again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each
other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are
separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true?
a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.
b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on
his first turn.
c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn.
d) Alok has no winning strategy
27. In the adjoining diagram, the rectangle ABCD and EFGH each with 1 unit width
and 3 unit long are arranged suchtaht , they intersect in a square of diagonal CE of
length 1 unit. The total area covered by the rectangle is..
a) 11/2

b) 6

c) 13/2

d) cant be determined

28. A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 8 and when divided by 3D

leaves a reaminder of 21. What is the remainder left, when twice the number is
divided by 3D?
a)13

b)23

c) 3

d) none of these

29. Let N= 80pq2pq( 7 digit number) . If N is exactly divisible by 120 then the sum
of the digits in N is equal to.
a) 18

b) 22

c) 24

d) 12

30. The citizens of planet negate are 8 fingered and have thus developed their
decimal system in base 8. A certain street in negate contains 1000( in base 8)
buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3 s are used in numbering these
buildings?
a)54

b) 64

c) 265

d) 192

31. For the FIFA world cup, paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each
match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and
B, Paul picks A with the same probability as As chances of winning. Lets assume
such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia , Ghana the
stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game . What is the probability
that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?
a) 1/9

b) 2/9

c) 5/9

d) 2/3

32. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the
letters randomly in to the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability
that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?
a) 1/12

b) 0

c) 12/212

d) 11/12

33. A and B plays a game of dice between them. The consist of colors on their faces
( instead of numbers). When the dices are thrown, A wins if both show the same
color. Otherwise B wins. One die has 4 re face and 2 blue faces. How many red and

blue faces should the other die have if the both players have the same chances of
winning?
a)3 red and 3 blue b) 2 red and remaining blue

c) 6 red and 2 blue d) 4 red and

2 blue

34. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You
throw a dart at it and the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the
probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle that the periphery?
a)0.75

b) 1

c) 0.5

d) 0.25

35. 6 persons standing in a queue with different age group, after two years their
average will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. Hence the current average
age has becomes 45. Find the age of seventh person?
a) 43

b) 69

c) 52

d) 31