2011 Hexaware Aptitude Paper, Aptitude questions with answers

December 2011 Hexaware Aptitude Paper

1.The cost of an item is Rs 12.60. If the profit is 10% over selling price what is the selling price ?

Ans : Rs 13.86/-

2.There are 6 red shoes & 4 green shoes . If two of red shoes are drawn what is the probability of getting red shoes

Ans : 6c2/10c2

3.To 15 lts of water containing 20% alcohol, we add 5 lts of pure water. What is % alcohol.

Ans : 15%

4. There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each. Last digit is 3 times the first one. 3 rd digit is 3 less than the second.4 th digit is 4 more than the second one. Find the digit.

Ans : 25296.

5. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. The road is straight before the crossing and both are traveling in the same direction. The cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph. One day the cyclist comes late by 25 min. and meets the train 5km before the crossing. What is the speed of the train?

Ans: 60 kmph

6. There is a church tower 150 feet tall and another catholic tower at a distance of 350 feet from it which is 200 feet tall. There is one each bird sitting on top of both the towers. They fly at a constant speed and time to reach a grain in b/w the towers at the same time. At what distance from the church is the grain?

Ans: 90

7. A person wants to meet a lawyer and as that lawyer is busy he asks him to come three days after the before day of the day after tomorrow? on which day the lawyer asks the person to come?

Ans: thursday


Aptitude Section
 
Directions for questions 1-6: Find the correct meaning of the following phrases:-
 
1. A man of letters
 
2. A man of straw
 
3. To be in the air
 
4. To bite the dust
 
5. Man of few words
 
6. Penny wise pound foolish.
 
7. Find the reminder when 333666777888999 is divided by 3 or 9 or 11 ?
 
8. Which is the biggest perfect square amongst the following:-
 
15129, 12348, 23716, 20736
 
9. The greatest area of the following
 
(a) The radius of circle is 4
 
(b) The square of diagonal is 4
 
(c) The square of side is 4
 
10. The area of the maximum size of the circle described from the 10 square inch square?
 
11. In the series 0, 3, 8, 15,__, What is the next number?
 
12. X < 0, Y <> 0
 
then what is the possibility that the result is always positive?
 
Ans: xy
 
13. 3 red and 4 blue balls are in a basket. A member of PPTeam is drawing balls from the basket. What is the probability of getting the 3 red balls simultaneously?
 
14. Let ax2 + bx + c = 0
 
If the sum of the equal roots is equal to the product of the same roots. Then which of the following hold true?
 
(a) a + b = 0
 
(b) a = 0
 
(c) c = 0
 
(d) a + c = 0
 
15. A fold density is 19 times greater than the water and for copper it is 9 times. At what ratio you can mix gold and copper to get 15 times denser than water.
 
Ans: 3 : 2
 
16. Find the value of (1.99)2
 
Ans: 3.9601
 
17. There is a room with 6' x 8'. A 1' tile is fixed along the 4 walls in one row. How many 1" tiles require to finish the work.
 
Ans: 24
 
18. 2 persons can finish a job in 8 days. First person alone can finish the work in 24 days. How many days does the second person take to finish the job?
 
Ans: 12 days
 
19. A 4" cube is painted in all its faces and then it is cut down into 1" blocks. How many 1" blocks are there even without a single face being painted?
 
Ans: 8
 
20. A cylinder is inserted in a sphere d/h = 2/3. Find the surface area of the cylinder?
 
21. In a car wheel, two spokes cover 15 degree. Then for the entire car, how many spokes are there?
 
Ans: 24
 
22. What is the angle of degree suspended when two hands of clock showing the time 2:30?
 
Ans: 105 degrees
 
23. The age difference between two brothers is 3 years. After 6 years the ratio between the age is 9:8. What are their ages?
 
Ans: 21 and 18
 
24. A person's salary is getting reduced by 20%. What percentage should be added to get back his original salary?
 
Ans: 25%
 
25. Two persons start at the same point, walk in opposite directions with 5 km/hr and 5.5 km/hr respectively. What is the distance separated after 2 and half hrs?
 
Ans: 26.25 (approx)
 
26. A person starts walking at a speed of 5 km/hr through half the distance, rest of the distance he covers with a speed 4km/hr. Total time of travel is 9 hours. What is the maximum distance he can cover?
 
Ans: 40km
 
27. Initially two cups of same volume are present with milk filled upto 3/5th and 4/5th of their volumes. Water is then filled. Then two mixtures are mixed. Find the ratio of water to milk in the mixture.
 
Ans: 3 : 7
 
28. 16 grams of radioactive material decays into 8 grams in 10 years. How long will it take to decay to 1 gram?
 
Ans: 70 yrs
 
29. In a rectangle the length is increased by of the original length. By what proportion should the width be reduced so that the area will be the same?
 
Ans: 33
 
30. Find the nth number in the series is 1, -3, 5, -7.___
 
Ans: (-1)*(2n-1)
 
31. If a square is formed by the diagonal of the square as an edge, what is the ratio between the area?
 
Ans: 2
 
32. The perimeter of a rhombus is 52 units. One of its diagonal is 24 units. What is its second diagonals length?
 
Ans: 10
 
33. A cubical rectangular bar has the dimensions with the ratio 5 : 4 : 3. Its volume is 7500. What is the surface area of the bar?
 
Ans: 2350
 
34. In a class total 34 students, 16 are have a brother, 15 are have sisters, 9 students don't have either brothers or sisters. Find the number of students having both brother and sisters.
 
Ans: 6
 
35. A batsman scored 18 runs in his 18th innings and that makes his average 18. Find his average upto the 17th innings?
 
Ans: 19
 
36. 6 women can do 75 units of work in 8 days by working 5 hrs/day. In how many days can 4 women do 30 units of work by working 8 hrs/day?
 
37. A persons salary is decreased by steps of 20%, 15% and 10%. What will be the percentage decrease, if the salary is decreased in a single shot?
 
38. The ratio of the length : breadth : height of a cuboid is 5 : 4: 3, and the volume is 7500. What will be its surface area?
 
39. If the circumference of a circle is 100 units, Then what will the length of the arc described by an angle of 20 degree?
 
40. 3 Persons started placement papers with a capital of Rs.3000. B invest Rs.600 less than A, C invest Rs.300 less than B. Then what is the share amount of B in a profit of Rs.886?

Directions for 41-50: Which of the following is the correct spelling for the word.
 
41. Supercede and Supersede
 
42. Recommend and Reccomend
 
43. Superintendent and Superitendant
 
44. Separate and Seperate

45. Succeed and Suceed
 
46. Coolly and Cooly
 
47. Despair and Dispair

48. Ridiculous and Rediculous
 
49. Indespensible and Indepensable
 
50. Tranquility or Tranquillity
 
C Test:
 
Directions: For the given sample program give the output of the program.
 
51. main()
 
{
int a[]={ 2,4,6,8,10 };
 
int i;
 
change(a,5);
 
for( i = 0; i <= 4; i++)
 
printf("
%d",a[i]);
 
}
change( int *b, int n){
int i;
for( i = 0; i < n; i++)
 
*(b+i) = *(b+i) + 5;

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