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Zycus Placement Paper December 2012:-

Q. 01: In a class composed of x girls and y boys what part of the class is composed of girls?

a) y/(x + y)
b) x/xy
c) x/(x + y)
d) y/xy

Ans: c

Q. 02: In a group of 15,7 have studied Latin, 8 have studied Greek, and 3 have not studied
either. How many of these studied both Latin and Greek?

a) 0
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5

Ans: b

Q. 03: A company contracts to paint 3 houses. Mr. Brown can paint a house in 6 days while
Mr. Black would take 8 days and Mr. Blue 12 days. After 8 days Mr. Brown goes on vacation
and Mr. Black begins to work for a period of 6 days. How many days will it take Mr. Blue to
complete the contract?

a) 7
b) 8
c) 11
d) 12

Ans: c

Q. 04: 1/3 of girls , 1/2 of boys go to canteen .What factor and total number of classmates
go to canteen?

Ans: Cannot be determined.

Q. 05: If p/q = 5/4 , then 2p+q= ?

Q. 06: A worker is paid Rs.20/- for a full days work. He works 1,1/3,2/3,1/8.3/4 days in a
week. What is the total amount paid for that worker ?

Ans: 57.50

Q. 07: If A/B = 3/5,then 15A = ?

Ans: 9B

Q. 08: City A s population is 68000, decreasing at a rate of 80 people per year. City B
having population 42000 is increasing at a rate of 120 people per year. In how many years
both the cities will have same population?

Ans: 130 years

Q. 09: There are two circles, one circle is inscribed and another circle is circumscribed over
a square. What is the ratio of area of inner to outer circle?

Ans: 1 : 2

Q. 10: A can have a piece of work done in 8 days, B can work three times faster than the A,
C can work five times faster than A. How many days will they take to do the work together
?

a) 3 days
b) 8/9 days
c) 4 days
d) can t say


Q. 01: What is the maximum number of half-pint bottles of cream that can be filled with a
4-gallon can of cream (2 pt.=1 qt. and 4 qt.=1 gal) ?

a) 16
b) 24
c) 30
d) 64

Ans: d

Q. 02: If 13 = 13w/(1-w) ,then (2w)2 = ?

a) 1/4
b) 1/2
c) 1
d) 2

Ans: c

Q. 03: 2 hours after a freight train leaves Delhi a passenger train leaves the same station
travelling in the same direction at an average speed of 16 km/hr. After travelling 4 hrs the
passenger train overtakes the freight train. The average speed of the freight train was?

a) 30
b) 40
c) 58
d) 60

Ans: b

Q. 04: The price of a product is reduced by 30% . By what percentage should it be
increased to make it 100% ?

Ans: 42.857%

Q. 05: If PQRST is a parallelogram what it the ratio of triangle PQS & parallelogram PQRST?

Ans: 1:2

Q. 06: If the value of x lies between 0 & 1 which of the following is the largest?

a) x
b) x2
c) x
d) 1/x

Ans: d

Q. 07: Each side of a rectangle is increased by 100% .By what percentage does the area
increase?

Ans: 300%

Q. 08: Two cars are 15 kms apart. One is turning at a speed of 50kmph and the other at
40kmph . How much time will it take for the two cars to meet?

Ans: 3/2 hours

Q. 09: Three types of tea the a,b,c costs Rs. 95/kg,100/kg and70/kg respectively. How
many kgs of each should be blended to produce 100 kg of mixture worth Rs.90/kg, given
that the quantities of band c are equal?

a)70,15,15
b)50,25,25
c)60,20,20
d)40,30,30

Ans: b

Q. 10: A car travels a certain distance taking 7 hrs in forward journey, during the return
journey increased speed 12km/hr takes the times 5 hrs.What is the distance travelled?

a) 210 kms
b) 30 kms
c) 20 kms
d) none of these

Ans: b


1. 2 persons start from a point & go in opposite directions. After going 3km each, they
turn left & walk 4 km. How far are they now from each other?
Ans : 10 km (Pythagoras theorem)
2. In an objective test, a correct answer scores 4 marks, and a wrong answer scores 2
marks. A student scores 480 marks from 150 questions. how many answers are
correct?
Answer: 120
3. With which smallest no should 2880 be divided by, to make it a perfect square.
Ans: 20
4. Which common no should be added or substracted to 17/24 to make it 1/2.
Ans : -10
5. If each side of a rectangle is increased by 100%, by wat % the area increases?
Ans: 100%
6. Father is 30 years older than the son. He will only be thrice as old as his son after 5
years. Fathers present age?
Ans: 40 years
7. If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give
10% discount, then wat % profit they make?(3 marks)
Ans: 35%
8. Successive discounts of 20% and 15% are equal to a single discount of ?
Ans: 17.5%
9. Sum of digits of a 2 digit number is 8. When 18 is added to the no, the digits gets
reversed. Wat is the no?
Ans:
10. If a & b are 2 positive integers and
(a-b)/3.5 = 4/7 then
options:
1) ba 3) b=a 4) b>=a
Ans: Option 1) b
11. A's population is 68000 and it decreases by 80 per year. B's population is 42000 and it
increases by 120 per year. After how many years both cities will have same population?
Ans: 130
12. An exam consists of 200 questions to be solved in 3 hours, out of which 50 are maths
questions. It is suggested that twice as much time be spent on each math question as for each
other question. How many minutes should be spent on maths problems?
Ans: 1hr 72 mins

1. A's population is 68000 and it decreases by 80 per year. B's population is 42000 and it increases by 120 per year.
After how many years both cities will have same population?

Ans: 130

2. An exam consists of 200 questions to be solved in 3 hours, out of which 50 are maths questions. It is suggested
that twice as much time be spent on each math question as for each other question. How many minutes should be
spent on maths problems?

Ans: 1hr 72 mins

3. fresh mango consists of 70% water and dry mango consists of 10% water then 20Kg of fresh mango is equivalent
to how much of dry mango

Ans: 6.66 kg

4. sum of the consequent 7 integers some 1613. Find the no. of prime numbers in that sequence.

5. total no. of players is 99 other than me.50 plays soccer,45 plays basket ball,50 play valley ball.15 play al l three.
How many will play only 2 games/

6. fresh mangoes have 70% of water in weight, dry mangoes 20% of water in weight. what is the weight of dry
mangoes if weight of fresh mangoes is 20kg .ans(d)

a) 6.68kg b) con not be determined c) 6.0kg d)6.6kg

7. total 63 matches are conducted in Knockout match type. How many players will be participated in that tournament?

Ans:64

8.find out next one. B A C B D C E D F ?

Ans: E

9. X is min of { n+5,6-n} then what is the min of X if,0 <1?

Ans 5.5

10. 2 can type 2 pages in 2 minutes. how many typist can type 18 pages in 6 minutes?

Ans . 6

11.Coconuts are arranged in piles in the order of 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2.Hence he got shortage of 1.what is the min no. of
smallest coconuts?

Ans . lcm of above - 1 = 2219

12. p+q+r-=0,then what is value of p2/qr+q2/pr+r2/pq=?

Ans.3

13. In a class boys are 25% more than girls what is ratio of total boys and girls

Ans .5:4( actually ans is given like 5.;3)

14. How many 3 digit no. are there when divided by 7 or 8 leaves remainder 4?

Ans .17

15. A works thrice as much as B. If A takes 60 days less than B to do a work then find the number of days it would
take to complete the work if both work together?
Ans. 22days

16. How many 1's are there in the binary form of 8*1024 + 3*64 + 3
Ans. 4

17. A boy has Rs 2. He wins or loses Re 1 at a time If he wins he gets Re 1 and if he loses the game he loses Re 1.
He can loose only 5 times. He is out of the game if he earns Rs 5. Find the number of ways in which this is possible?

Ans. 16

18. There are total 15 people. 7 speaks french and 8 speaks spanish. 3 do not speak any language. Which part of
total people speaks both languages.

Ans: 1/5

19. A jogger wants to save ?th of his jogging time. He should increase his speed by how much %age.

Ans: 33.33 %

20. A is an integer. Dividing 89 & 125 gives remainders 4 & 6 respectively. Find a ?

Ans: 17