Mindtree Aptitude Sample Paper-2011

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1: Aptitude Section 2: Technical Section

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Section: Aptitude Directions for Questions 1, 2, 3 and 4: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII.

P, Q, R, S, T and U are six members of family, each of them engaged in a different profession-Doctor, Lawyer, Teacher, Engineer, Nurse and Manager. Each of them remains at home on a different day of the week from Monday to Saturday. The lawyer in the family remains at home on Thursday. R remains at home on Tuesday. P, a Doctor, does not remain at home either on Saturday or on Wednesday. S is neither the Doctor nor the Teacher and remains at home on Friday. Q is the Engineer and T is the Manager.

1) Which of the following combinations is not correct? A) R-Teacher B) Q-Engineer C) T-Manager D) All of the above 2) Which of the following combinations is correct? A) Lawyer-Tuesday B) Manager-Friday C) Engineer-Thursday D) Nurse-Friday 3) Who is the Nurse? A) S B) R C) U D) Data Inadequate

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4) Who among them remains at home on the following days on which R stays at home? A) Q B) Q or T C) S D) Cannot be determined Direction for Questions 5, 6, 7 and 8: Read the following information and answer the questions given below it. Four couples decided to play Holi. Each couple used three different colours. No two couples used the same combination of colours. Asha, Bhavna, Chanchal and Divya are females whereas Pradeep, Qartar, Rajeev and Sanjay are males. The colours they use are Red, Green, Yellow and Black. I. Chanchal, who is not the wife of Sanjay, used Red colour. II. Pradeep’s wife used Yellow and Black colours but Qartar’s wife used only one of these colours. III. Asha is not the wife of Pradeep or Sanjay. IV. Bhavna and Sanjay’s wife both used Red and Yellow colours. 5) Who among the following is Asha’s husband? A) Pradeep B) Qartar C) Rajeev D) Data inadequate 6) Who is Qartar’s wife? A) Asha B) Chanchal C) Divya D) Data inadequate

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7) Which of the following couples are incorrectly matched? I. II. III. IV.

Asha & Rajeev Bhavna & Pradeep Chanchal & Sanjay Divya & Qartar

A) B) C) D)

Both I and II Both III and IV I, II and III II, III and IV

8) Which of the following is not correctly paired?

A) B) C) D)

Person Qartar Pradeep Rajeev All of the above

Colours Green, Yellow and Black Red, Yellow and Black Green, Yellow and Black

9) A survey of a village showed that 1 / 10 of the total population speak neither Hindi nor English. 1 / 5 of them cannot speak English and 3 / 7 of them cannot speak Hindi. What percentages of people know only one language? A) 42.86 % B) 40 % C) 35 % D) None of these 10) There are three sections of a class in a school. The number of students in the three sections is 38, 42 and 40 and the average age of the students in these sections separately is 15.3 years, 16.5 years and 15.9 years respectively. What is the average age of the class? A) 15.90 years B) 15.92 years C) 15.96 years D) None of these

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11) The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 7. When the digits are reversed, the number is increased by 27. Find the number. A) 20 B) 25 C) 16 D) 7 12) Rs. 4536 is divided among 4 men, 5 women and 2 boys. The ratio of share of a man, a woman and a boy is 7: 4: 3. What is the share of a woman? A) Rs. 336 B) Rs. 498 C) Rs. 166 D) Rs. 256 13) Find out the wrong number in the following series: 5, 15, 30, 80, 180, 540, 1080 A) B) C) D)

15 30 80 180

14) A year ago, a father was four times his son's age. In six years his age will be 9 more than twice his son's age. What is the present age of the son? A) 10 years B) 9 years C) 20 years D) None of these 15) A lady wants to select a cotton saree and one polyester saree from a textile shop. If there are 10 cotton varieties and 12 polyester varieties, in how many ways can she choose the two sarees? A) 80 B) 100 C) 96 D) 120 Copyright© 2010 HirePro Consulting Private Limited. All rights reserved. Page 5 of 9

16) How many triangles are there in the following diagram of a 5-cornered star? A) B) C) D)

6 10 12 14

17) In the given quadrilateral ABCD, AB =15cm, BC = 20cm and AD = 7cm,

ABC =

ADC = 90o.

Find the length of side CD. A) 12cm B) 18cm C) 24cm D) None of the above

18) Bhatia, Ashtikar and Singh begin to play with Rs 70 each. At the end the ratio of the amounts left with Ashtikar and Singh is 1 : 2 and of those with Singh and Bhatia is 4 : 1. What is Singh's gain (in Rs)? A) 30 B) 70 C) 20 D) 50 19) Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 24 minutes and 32 minutes respectively. If both the pipes are opened simultaneously, after how much time should B be closed so that the tank is full in 18 minutes? A) 8 min B) 10 min C) 9 min D) 12 min

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20) Ajit is 3 times as efficient as Bablu, then the ratio of number of days required by each to work alone, completely? A) 1 : 3 B) 3 : 1 C) 2 : 1 D) 1 : 2 Directions for Questions 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25: Study the following table, showing monthly sales of the cars of five types of five automobile shops to answer these questions. Type A B C D E

Automobile Shops P Q R S T 1250 3500 1360 2240 210 2100 3080 3700 4200 920 3460 4400 4860 4860 4760 900 680 700 1120 600 300 440 1200 1250 280

21) Which shop has the lowest sales of both type B and type E as compared to other shops? A) P B) Q C) R D) T 22) Which shop has a share of 15% sales of the total type D sold by all the shops? A) P B) Q C) T D) R 23) Which shop has the highest sale of cars of all types? A) P B) Q C) R D) None of these

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24) Which shop sells cars of type B seven times to that of type E sold by it? A) Only P B) Only Q C) Both P and Q D) Only T 25) Among all the shops the shop that is selling the lowest number of cars of type A is selling the highest number of cars of type: A) B B) C C) D D) E Directions for Questions 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30: Read the following information given in the table below and answer the questions. The following table gives the quarterly output of three production units of a machine manufacturing company. Year Unit 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

1st Quarter 1 2 3 30 34 38 34 45 42 35 45 43 54 58 57 80 82 87

2nd Quarter 1 2 3 40 44 42 52 54 56 58 53 58 76 77 79 92 97 93

3rd Quarter 1 2 3 36 37 39 50 49 48 54 56 56 68 69 70 86 88 87

4th Quarter 1 2 3 34 35 37 44 45 48 48 49 43 62 64 66 82 84 83

26) Incentives based on production are given on quarterly basis. In which quarter would the workers get maximum incentive? A) 1st quarter B) 2nd quarter C) 3rd quarter th

D) 4 quarter

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27) Which of the following statements is correct? I. II. III. IV.

The performance of Unit 1 has been the lowest during the five years period. The performance of unit 2 has been the highest during the five years period. The performance of unit 3 has been the highest during the five years period The performance of unit 2 has been the lowest during the five years period

A) B) C) D)

Only I Only III and IV Only I and III None of these

28) Which unit has shown the least growth in production during the period 1998-2002? A) Unit 1 B) Unit 2 C) Unit 3 D) Cannot say 29) During 1998 – 2002 the highest quarterly production has been achieved by Unit ___ in the ___ quarter of 2002. A) 1, 1st B) 2, 2nd C) 3, 3rd D) 4, 4

th

30) The highest increase in the yearly average has been over the period: A) 1998-1999 B) 2001-2002 C) 1999-2000 D) 2000-2001

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