Wednesday 28 September 2011

Infosys Placement Papers Aptitude Maharashtra 2009

1. Mr. Mathurs jewels have been stolen from his bank locker. The bank has lockers of 12 people which are arranged in an array of 3 rows and 4 columns like:

1 2 3 4


5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12
. The locker belonging to JONES was to the right of BLACK’S locker and directly above MILLAR’S.

. BOOTH’S locker was directly above MILLAR’S.

. SMITH’S locker was also above GRAY’s (though not directly).

. GREEN’S locker was directly below SMITH’S.


. WILSON’S locker was between that of DAVIS and BOOTH.

. MILLAR’S locker was on the bottom row directly to the right of HERD’S.

. WHITE’S locker was on the bottom right hand corner in the same column as BOOTH’S.
Which box belonged to Mr.Mathurs?
Ans: Box number 9 belongs to Mr.Mathurs.




2. Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past three o’clock,how many minutes is it to six o’clock?

Ans: Twenty six minutes.
3. If a clock takes 7seconds to strike 7, how long will the same clock take to strike 10?
Ans: The clock strikes for the first time at the start and takes 7 seconds for 6 intervals-thus for one interval time taken=7/6.

Therefore, for 10 seconds there are 9 intervals and time taken is 9.7/6=10 and 1/2 seconds.


4. Three criminals were arrested for shop lifting. However, when interrogated only one told the truth in both his statements, while the other two each told one true statement and one lie. The statements were:
. ALBERT :(a)Chander passed the merchandise. (b)Bruce created the diversion.

. BRUCE :(a)Albert passed the merchandise. (b)I created the diversion.

. CLIVE :(a)I took the goods out of the shop. (b)Bruce passed them over.
Ans: Albert passed the goods.Bruce created the diversion..Clive took the goods out of the shop.



5. Everyday in his business a merchant had to weigh amounts from 1 kg to 121 kgs, to the nearest kg. What are the minimum number of weight required and how heavy should they be?


Ans: .The minimum number is 5 and they should weigh 1,3,9,27 and 81 kgs.



6. A hotel has 10 storeys. Which floor is above the floor below the floor, below the floor above the floor, below the floor above the fifth.

Ans: The sixth floor.
7. Seven members sat around a table for three days for a conference.

The member’s names were Abhishek, Amol, Ankur, Anurag,Bhuwan ,Vasu and Vikram. The meetings were chaired by Vikram. On the first evening members sat around the table alphabetically. On the following two nights, Vikram arranged the seatings so that he could have Abhishek as near to him as possible and abesent minded Vasu as far away as he could. On no evening did any person have sitting next to him a person who had previously been his neighbour. How did Vikram manage to seat everybody to the best advantage on the second and third evenings?
Ans:

Second evening:Vikram,Ankur,Abhishek,Amol,Vasu,Anurag and Bhuwan.

Third evening :Vikram,Anurag,Abhishek,Vasu,Bhuwan,Ankur,Amol.



8. Two trains start from stations A and B spaced 50 kms apart at the same time and speed.


As the trains start, a bird flies from one train towards the other and on reaching the second train, it flies back to the first train.This is repeated till the trains collide. If the speed of the trains is 25 km/h and that of the bird is 100km/h. How much did the bird travel till the collision.
Ans: 100 kms.



9. Four prisoners escape from a prison.

The prisoners, Mr East, Mr West, Mr South, Mr North head towards different directions after escaping. The following information of their escape was supplied:
. The escape routes were The North Road, South Road, East Road and West Road.

. None of the prisoners took the road which was their namesake.

. Mr.East did not take the South Road


. Mr.West did not the South Road.

. The West Road was not taken by Mr.East
What road did each of the prisoners take to make their escape?
Ans: Mr.East took the North Road

Mr.West took the East Road

Mr.North took the South Road

Mr.South took the West Road.

10. Complete the series:


5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, ?
Ans: 12 (as 5.4=20, 20+4=24, 24/4=6, 6-4=2, 2.4=8, 8+4=12).



11. 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



12. 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




13. A person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which year is he born?

Ans: 470



14. A person says that their speed while going to a city was 10mph however while returning as there is no much traffic they came with a speed of 15mph. what is their average speed?

Ans: 12mph




15. There is a peculiar island where a man always tells truth and a women never says two 2 consecutive truth or false statements that is if she says truth statement then she says false statement next and vice versa. A boy and girl also goes in the same way. one day i asked a child ” what are you a boy or a girl” however the child replied in their language that i dint understand but the parents knew my language and one parent replied that ” kibi is a boy” the other one said that “no kibi is a girl, kibi lied”.
a: is kibi a boy or a girl

b: who ansered first mother or father?



Ans: kibi is a girl and mother answered first.



16. The boy goes to school reaches railway station at his 1/3 of his journey& mill at 1/4 of his journey the time taken him to walk between railway station & mill is 5 mins. Also he reaches railway station at 7.35amwhen he started from house& when he reaches school?
Ans: 7:15to8.15




17. if a person is sitting in a exam having 30 questions (objective type) the examiner use the formula to calculate the score is S=30+4c-w here c is number of correct answer and w is number of wrong answer , the examiner find the score is more than 80, tell how may questions are correct ? if the score is little less but still more than 80 then u wont be able to answer.
Ans:- 16



18. if a person having 1000 rs and he want to distribute this to his five children in the manner that ecah son having 20 rs more than the younger one , what will be the share of youngest child
ans- 160



19. Raju having some coins want to distribute to his 5 son , 5 daughter and driver in a manner that , he gave fist coin to driver and 1/5 of remaining to first son he again gave one to driver and 1/5 to 2nd son and so on. At last he equally distributed all the coins to 5 daughters. how many coins raju initially have?


Ans:-881



20. If Ravi binded his book and the binder cut the pages of the book , ravi decided to mark the pages by himself own , what he found that number of three appears 61 times find of number of pages answer

ans – 300



21. a painter went in a exhibition to purchases some pictures where T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z pictures were remaining , he want to buy only five in the condition on that

if T is there then X should not be there,


if U is there than y should be there

if if v is there then X should be there
which is the combination the painter can have

(a) T,U,V,W,Y

(b)T,Z,U,W,X

(c)T,X,U,V,W

(d)T,U,Y,W,Z
ans (d)




22.There are 100 men in town. Out of which 85% were married, 70% have a phone, 75% own a car, 80% own a house. What is the maximum number of people who are married, own a phone, own a car and own a house ?

Sol: 15%
23. There are 10 Red, 10 Blue, 10 Green, 10 Yellow, 10 White balls in a bag. If you are blindfolded and asked to pick up the balls from the bag, what is the minimum number of balls required to get a pair of at least one colour?

Sol :6 balls.
24. Triplet who usually wear same kind and size of shoes, namely, Annie, Danny, Fanny. Once one of them broke a glass in kitchen and their shoe prints were there on floor of kitchen. When their mother asked who broke Annie said, ‘I didnt do it’; Fanny said ‘Danny did it’ ; Danny said ‘Fanny is lying’ ; here two of them are lying, one is speaking truth. Can you find out who broke it?
25. In a game I won 12 games, each game if I loose I will give you one chocolate, You have 8 chocolates how many games played.

Ans: 32

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