COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS. Cit june 11th 2004 1.Eight people enter a partnership. Six of them bring in Rs.

30 each. The seventh brings in Rs.10 more than the average of all eight brings in Rs.55.What is the total sum brought in? a) 300 b) 280 c) 250 d) 265 2.A certain sum doubles its volume every minute. At 9 a.m. a small amount is placed in a container and at 10 a.m. the jar just fills. At what time was the container quarter full? a) 9.15a.m. b) 9.30a.m. c) 9.45a.m. d) 9.58a.m. 3.A team of workers had to carry out a job in 12 days. By over working the norm by 25% each day, the team not only completed its assignment after 10 days of work, but also manufactured 42 parts above and beyond it. How many parts did the team manufacture per day now? a) 105 b) 110 c) 115 d) 95 Questions 4-6: Refer to the following data There are four engines, which are used to ply the Rajdhani train between Bombay and Delhi, only one engine being used on any day If engine A is used on any day, neither A nor C can be used on the next day. If B is used on any day, neither B nor D can be used on the next day. If C is used on any day, A has to be used the next day. If D is used on any day, B has to be used the next day.

4.If different engines are used on different days and D is used on the 4 th day, which engine was used on the 2nd day? a) A b) B c) C d) D 5.If the same engine is used on 1st and 3rd day and a different engine is used on 2nd and 4th day, which engine was used on the 2nd day? a) A b) C c) D d) None of these.

6.A Shop-keeper needs to weigh items which weigh anywhere between 1 to 250kgs.Assuming he can put only weights on one side of the pan and only items on the other side of the pan, the minimum number of weights is a) 7 b) 31375 c) 8 d) 250 7.Ram made two mistakes in an exam where all questions carried equal marks, and obtained 72%. If he had attempted 4 more questions and made 3 mistakes, he would have obtained 84%. If there was no negative marking for wrong answers, how many questions were asked? a) 25 b) 30 c) 20 d) None of these. 8.In a Fair, one stall owner offered a prize for guessing the number of balls under the mugs, as he placed 4 upturned mugs on the counter in front of him. Each concealed the same number of balls and on each mug was a statement about the number of balls underneath; one or four; two or four; two or three; one or two. Only one of the statements was correct. How many balls were under the mug? a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4.

Directions for Questions 9-10.Read the short passages and answer the Questions based on their content. 9.Spiritualism, the doctrine that it is impossible to communicate with the spirits of the deceased through especially talented persons called mediums, is fraudulent. As long ago as the 1870s. Professor Edwin Lankester showed that the purported spirit writing of the famed medium Henry Slade was present on a slate before the spirit were supposed to have begun writing on it. This example demonstrates that the doctrine of Spiritualism is worthless. If the example above is correctly reported, which of the following is the best argument against the conclusion drawn above? a) There cannot be proof that the spirits of the deceased doesnt exist. b) The conclusion depends on a historical report and such reports of past events do not recount all of the circumstances.

c) The sited evidence presupposes what is to be proved. d) A single instance of fraud cannot show that the doctrine is false in general. 10.Some would have you believe that the economic problems of Western Europe have been caused by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil eartel. This is nonsense. After all, Great Britain is not dependent on OPEC oil and yet Great Britain suffers from the same economic problems problems that afflict France ans West Germany. The authors point is made primarily by a) Offering Great Britain as a counter example. b) Analyzing the economic difficulties of France and West Germany. c) Point out a misconception in reasoning. d) Proposing an alternative explanation. Directions for Questions 11 to 13: There are 100 boxes each with n balls. Balls from different boxes can be differentiated. All balls weigh 100 grams except for ball in only one of the boxes wherein each ball weighs 90 grams. Any number of balls can be taken from any of the boxes and exact weight can be found with a digital weighing machine .Let m be the least number of weighing required for finding the lighter ball? 11.n=9,then, m=? a) 1 12.n=1,then, m=? a) 1 a) 8 b) 4 b) 1 c) 9 c) 4 d) None of these d) None of these 13.n=8,then m=? 14.A worker attended 16 automatic lathes. The output of each lathe is a pieces per hour. The worker switched on the first lathe at 80 clock in the morning and then all the remaining lathes successively after each 5 minutes. How many pieces does the worker manufacture during the first 2 hours? b) 2 c) 3 d) None of these

a) 18a

b) 42a

c) 120a

d) 22a

15.A task can be completed by 3 men working for a day or by 8 women working for threefourth of a day, or by 18 children working for half a day. If 3 women and 3 children have already been working for a day, how many men should be hired and for how many days? a) 1 man for 1.5 days not true? a) The probability that the sum of the digits is 5 is 1/10. b) The probability that the sum will exceed 13 is 1/14. c) The probability that the sum is less than 13 is 6/7. d) The probability that the both digits exceed 5 is 3/28. 17.In an examination, the number of students who passed was 4 times the number who failed. If there had been 35 candidates less and 9 more had failed, the number of students who passed and the number of students who failed would have been in the ratio 2:1.The total number of candidates was a) 100 b) 150 c) 155 d) 165 DIRECTIONS: for questions 18-22 :In each of the following sentences, parts of the sentence are left blank. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of completing the sentence are indicated. Choose the best alternative from among the four. 18.Older people can feel__________from the rest of society, and society may become impatient with them particularly for their relative lack of ability to keep pace with_____of modern life. a) Alienated, intricacies b) indifferent, chimera c) rejected, complications d) allof, confusion 19.Companies often find new market space when they are willing to _____the functional emotional________-of their industry. a) Transmute, brand b) unleash, conduct c) challenge, orientation d) skip, niceties 20.Von Thunens model has been dismissed by various writers as being_____and of no relevance to the ______economic situation. b) 1 man for 2 days c) 1 man for1/2 day d) 3 men for a day 16.Two distinct digits are chosen at random from 1,2,3,8.Which of the following statement is

a) Protracted, declining b) anachronistic, contemporary c) pricery, abounding d) nifty, thriving. 21.Faced with ____differences in levels of economic development and social welfare, governments have first to decide whether or not to ______to reduce them. a) Frivolous, eliminate b) amiable, neglect c) petty, implement d) spatial, intervene 22.The real world is ______ confusion, and one of the basic questions to be answered in geography is whether this reality is chaos or just______ a) Frightful, authencity b) part, belief c) characteristic, delusion d) apparent, complexity 23.400 men stand in an array of 20 rows and columns. The shortest man in each row steps out, and the tallest of these is called A. The men return to their original places, and the tallest man in each column now steps out. The shortest of these is called B. Assuming that A and B are different people. Which of them is taller? a) A is taller b) B is taller c) Both will be of the same height. D) Cannot say. 24.A 3-digit number consists have, 95 and one more digits. When these digits are reversed and then subtracted from the original number, the answer is a number consisting of the same digits arranged in a different order. What is the digit? a) 2 b) 6 c) 8 d) 4 25.Rohit, Harsha and Sanjeev are three typists who working simultaneously can type 216 pages in 4 hours. In one hour Sanjeev can type as many pages more than Harsha as Harsha can type more than Rohit.During a period of 5 hours, Sanjeev can type as many pages as Rohit can during 7 hours. How many pages do each of this type per hour? a) 16,18,22 b) 14,17,20 c) 15,17,22 d) 15,18,21 26.A man sells chocolates that come in boxes. Either full boxes or half a box of chocolate can be brought from him. A customer comes and buys half the number of boxes the seller has plus half a box. A second customer comes and buys half the remaining number of boxes plus half a box. After this the seller is left with no boxes. How many boxes did the seller have before the first customer came? a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) cannot say.

27.A square piece of cardboard of side x inches is taken and four equal square pieces of side y inches are removed at the corners. The sides are then turned up to form an open box. Then the volume of such a box is: a)x2+2xy2+4y2 b)(x-2y)y2 c)y(x-2y)2 d)(x-2y)3 28.The set of natural numbers is divided into groups (1), (2,3,4), (4,5,6,7,8,9,10). Find the sum of numbers in the nth group. a)(2n)2 b)(2n-1)2 c)(2n+1)2 d)2n2+n 29.John purchased 100 units at Rs.10.30 per unit. He purchased another lot of 200 units at Rs.10.40, a lot of 400 units at Rs.10.50 and a further lot of 300 units at Rs.10.8 per unit. He then observed a decrease in the price and desired to purchase as many units at Rs.10.25 per unit as it would make the average cost of his holding come down to Rs.10.50.The number of units purchased by him at Rs.10.25 per unit is a) 100 b) 400 c) 200 d) 300 30.A and B can complete a job together in 75 minutes .B and C can do it in 55 minutes and C and A can do it in 50 minutes. A and C individually can finish it in a) 15 min and 35 minutes resp b) 35 and 75 minutes resp. None 31.The children, grand children, great grand children and great-great grand children of old women are 2800 in all. All of them are alive. Great-great grand children do not have children. Each one of the rests has equal number of children. What is the number of children the old women has? a) 6 b) 7 c) 8 d) 9 32.In an election between three contestants, the winner gets 20 votes more than his nearest rival and 35 votes more than the third candidate. The winner and the first runner-up polled an average 90 votes each. Find the total number of votes cast? Assume there are no invalid votes. a) 245 b) 260 c) 275 d) 290 c) 132 and 80 minutes resp. d)

33.Directions for Questions 33-34:A Veterinary doctor are doing an informal study on the growth of exactly 7 dogs. -A, B, C, D.E, F and G all six month old puppies from the same litter. The doctor collected the following comparative data on the dogs heights: E is taller than G, D is taller than F, A is taller than G, C is taller than B, but G is taller than C.None of the dogs is exactly the same height as any other dog from the litter. 33.Which of the following could be the correct ordering of the dogs from the tallest to the shortest? a) AEGBDCF b) DFAGCEB c) EAGCDBF d) EGDCFAB 34.Which of the following must be true? a) A is taller than C a) 12344321 b) A is taller than E c) D is taller than C d) F is taller than B c) 11111111 d) 1111111 35.If n2 =1234567654321,what is n? b) 1235789 Directions for Questions 36-37:Read the passage and answer the Questions that follows it? The automobile industry in India is coming of age at least as far as activity on the advertising front is concerned. Advertising industry sources say that auto companies have been powering the billing growth in the last 12 months. According to Madd Media estimates, total auto billing in fiscal 2002-2003 was Rs.390 crore, up from Rs.278 crore in 2000-2001.The current fiscal should be even better at an estimated Rs.500 crore. Which of the following is the most likely reason for increased advertising expenditure by auto companies? a) Media buying rates had gone up by 8 % over the period. Thus it costs more to advertise with the same frequency in a particular medium. b) The top 5 companies that contribute 96 % towards the total industry expenditure on advertising have launched 19 new models and each launch witnesses a higher spend in advertising. c) Auto companies are keen to develop an association with their Indian consumers. d) All of the above.

37.The following are an excerpt from the Ministers speech-The government has taken great steps in promoting education in the state. Apart from increasing spends on primary education in the state; Scheduled caste students have already been disbursed Rs.157.21 lakhs for higher education. This will enable a larger number of them to become eminent professionals like scientists and doctors Which of the following if true, contradicts the ministers claims: a) 38% of the states children still do not have access to primary education. b) Latest enrollment figures in Bangalore medical Colleges do not show significant increase in the number of scheduled castes students. c) The amount claimed by the minister had been distributed among 22 students all related to highly placed bureaucrats. d) The scheme for disbursing aid to scheduled caste students is already under review of a legislative committee. DIRECTIONS for Questions 38 to 40:Refer to the data below In Morse code, letters are formed of dots and dashes. Each letter of the English alphabet is expressed as a combination of a particular number of dots and dashes in a particular order. A bar separates two letters in a word. A dot, a dash, and a bar are called characters.It is ensured that the letters in the alphabet are expressed with the help of the minimum number of characters.A word where the writer has forgotten to insert the bars to separate the letters is called a barless word. 38.There is a barless word(._.)Which of the following words cannot be denoted? a)I b)BOY c)DAD d)DO b). . _ ._ .._ . _. _ _ d)20 c). . _ . _ . _ . 39.If A is denoted by a dot(.)Which of the following barless words can denote ALLAHABAD? a). _ . _ _ . _ _ _. _ _ _ _ a)11 b)13 c)19 40.What is the least number of characters that should be used to denote ALLAHABAD?