Model Placement Paper - VI

1. A train meets with an accident and moves at 3/4 its original speed. Due to
this, it is 20 minutes late. Find the original time for the journey beyond the
point of accident.
2. A starts walking from a place at a uniform speed of 2 km/h in a particular
direction. After half an hour, B starts from the same place and walks in
the same direction as A at a uniform speed and overtakes A after 1 hour 48
minutes. Calculate the speed of B.
3. A person buys some Apples and Mangoes from the market. Cost price of
a Mango is twice that of an Apple and the selling price is thrice that of an
Apple. The selling price of apple is twice the cost price of apple and he makes
the profit of 150% on the whole. What is the ratio of number of mangoes to
the number of apples?
4. log9 (3 log2 (1 + log3 (1 + 2 log2 x ))) = 12 . Find x.
5. In how many ways 11 identical toys be placed in 3 distinct boxes such that
no box is empty?
6. In following question, a number series is given with one term missing. Choose
the correct alternative that will same pattern and fill in the blank spaces.: 1,
6, 15, , 45, 66, 91
7. How many factors of 24 × 53 × 74 are odd numbers?
8. A student scores 55% marks in 8 papers of 100 marks each. He scores 15% of
his total marks in English. How much does he score in English?
9. A software engineer creates a LAN game where an 8 digit code made up of
1,2,3,4,5,6, 7,8 has to be decided on as a universal code. There is a condition
that each number has to be used and no number can be repeated. What is
the probability that the first 4 digits of the code are even number?
10. A car is 250 meters behind the bus. The car and bus are moving at a speed
of 60 km/hr and 35 km/hr respectively. In what time will the car be ahead
of the bus by 250 meters.
11. A certain sum of money amounts to Rs. 2,420 in 2 years and Rs. 2,662 in
3 years at the same rate of compound interest, compounded annually. The
rate of interest per annum is

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12. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 30, 45, and 90 days. In how many days
can A alone do the work if he is assisted by B and C on every 4th day?
13. A starts a business with Rs.3500 and after 5 months, B joins with A as his
partner. After a year, the profit is divided in the ratio 2:3. What is B’s contri-
bution to the Capital?
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14. What will be the value of x 2 × x 4 × x 8 .....∞.
15. For the word SURITI, if you arrange the letters in dictionary order then what
is its rank?
16. There are two sections in a question paper each contains five questions. A
student has to answer 6 questions. The maximum number of questions that
can be answered from any section is 4. How many ways he can attempt the
paper?
17. If 5 men take an hour to dig a ditch, then how long should 12 men take a dig
to the ditch of the same type?
18. Sameer plants 7225 plants so that there are as many rows as there are trees
in a row. How many trees are there in a row?
19. If at 15% profit, the selling price of a dozen pencils is Rs.13.80; then what is
the cost price of a pencil?
20. In an annual sale, there was a flat discount of 40% on all items. Kamal bought
a pair of jeans for Rs. 480. What is labeled price of the pair of jeans?
21. B takes 12 more hours than A to complete a task. If they work together, they
take 16 fewer hours than B would take to complete the task. How long will
it take A and B together to complete a task twice as difficult as the first one?
22. A number when divided by 18 leaves a remainder 7. The same number when
divided by 12 leaves a remainder n. How many values can n take?
23. In how many ways can we stack n different coins so that two particular coins
are not adjacent to each other?
24. Consider the set S = {8, 5, 1, 13, 34, 3, 21, 2}. Akshay lists all the two element
subsets of S and takes the larger of the elements in each set. If he sums all
these numbers, the sum he will obtain is

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25. Vipul lighted two uniform candles of equal length, but of different girth.
One lasts for six hours, and the other for four hours. When he finally slept,
one candle was twice the length of the other. How long did he study?
26. In a parking place, there are a total of 20 vehicles (bikes and cars) are parked.
If the total number of tyres of all these vehicles is 70, find the ratio of the
number of bikes and cars. (No vehicle has spare tyres).
27. If a + b – c : b + c – a : a + c – b = 3 : 4 : 5, find a : b : c.
28. The distance a stone falls under free fall varies directly with the square of
the time for which it falls. If a stone falls at a distance of 35 m in the fourth
second, find the total distance it falls in the first 5 seconds.
29. The ratio of the incomes of A and B is 3 : 2. The ratio of their expenditures
is 5 : 4. If the savings of A is twice that of B, find the ratio of the income and
expenditure of B.
30. Mohit has 290 toffees with him. He distributes all his toffees among his
friends, such that each of his friends gets a different number of toffees, which
is at least 5 and at most 29. What could be the least number of friends?
31. How many five letter words can be formed using the letters of the word
“QUESTION” so that the word contains 2 vowels and 3 consonants?
32. There are 12 men and 7 women. In how many ways can a team of six mem-
bers be formed such that there are at most two women?
33. The number of non-negative integral solutions to the equation a + b + c = 14
is
34. A man purchases a certain number of chocolates at 2 per rupee and the same
number of pepper-mints at 5 per rupee. He mixes them together and sells
them at 3 per rupee. What is his approximate profit or loss percentage?
35. A sum of money is invested at a certain rate of simple interest. Find the
annual rate of interest if the sum becomes 84% more in 6 years.
36. The first term of an arithmetic progression consisting of 30 terms is 10 and
the common difference is 5. Find the ratio of the sum of the 30 terms of the
arithmetic progression to the sum of the last 20 terms of the A.P.

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37. P can do a piece of work in 12 days working 6 hrs a day. Q can do the same
work in 18 days working 5 hrs a day. If P and Q work together 4 hrs a day,
then in how many days can they complete the work?
38. A pipe can fill a 1000 litre tank in 10 minutes while another pipe can empty
a 600 litre tank in 8 minutes. If they work together, then how long will they
take (in minutes) to fill a 500 litre tank?
39. In a race, A gives B a start of 25 m and C a start of 50 m. If B runs 50% faster
than C and all the three reach the finishing point simultaneously, then find
the ratio of the speeds of A and C.
40. There are two cars 80 km apart. When they travel in the same direction, they
would take twice the time to meet compared to the time they would take to
meet while travelling towards each other. Find the ratio of their speeds.
41. In the following sequence of alphabets and digits, which element is the eighth
to the left of the 17th element from the right end? B L 2 M Z 4 A Q R 3 F 7 E
R8AZ13CMZTOP47
42. How is A’s sister’s grandfather’s only son’s only child related to A?
43. Which of the following is the next number in the series? 1010, 1111, 10110,
11111, 101010,
44. Find the missing number. 35 : 143 : : : 667
45. What is the angle between the two hands of a clock when the time in the
clock is 20 minutes past 7?
46. If ‘+’ means ‘–’, –’ means ‘x’, ‘x’ means ‘÷’ and ‘÷’ means ‘+’, then fi nd the
value of the expression 25 + 32 × 2 ÷ 3 – 8.
47. David travels 5 km towards north followed by 3 km towards his right. Fur-
ther he travels 11 km to his left followed by 2 km to his right followed by
another 7 km to his left. What is the vertical distance between the initial and
the final positions of David?
48. Introducing Kareena, Karishma said, “She is the daughter of my mother’s
only son”. How is Karishma related to Kareena?
49. Ajay’s birthday is 5 days before Vijay’s birthday and Pradeep’s birthday is
21 days after Vijay’s birthday. If Pradeep’s birthday is on Thursday, Ajay’s
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50. If the code for ‘AMBITION’ is ‘GSHOZOUT’, then which of the following is
coded as ‘VXOTZUAZ’?

Answers:
1. 60 minutes, 2. 23 1
9 , 3. 1 : 2, 4. 2, 5. 45, 6. 28, 7. 20, 8. 66, 9. 70 , 10. 72 sec, 11.
10%, 12. 24 days, 13. 9000, 14. x, 15. 236, 16. 200, 17. 25 minutes, 18. 85, 19. 1,
20. Rs.800, 21. 16 hrs, 22. 2, 23. (n-1)!(n-2), 24. 484, 25. 3 hrs, 26. 1 : 3, 27. 8 : 7 : 9,
28. 125 m, 29. 3 : 2, 30. 13, 31. 2880, 32. 16863, 33. 120, 34. 5% loss, 35. 14%, 36.
99 : 86, 37. 10, 38. 20, 39. 2 : 1, 40. 3 : 1, 41. R, 42. Cousin, 43. 110111, 44. 323, 45.
100◦ , 46. 33, 47. 23 km. 48. Aunt, 49. Saturday, 50. PRINTOUT