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SECTION - I
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The number of real values of x satisfying the equation log4 (x - 4)2 + log8 (28 - 6x )3 =

(1) one. (2) two. (3) zero. (4) three. Solution (Your Answer: NA)

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If k Z, identify the relation which best describes the graph given below. The circled ends of the line segments indicate that those points do not belong to the graph.

(1) y = k for k < |x | < k + 1 (2) y = k for k - 1 < |x | < k (3) x = k for k < |y | < k +1 (4) x = k for k - 1 < |y | < k Solution (Your Answer: NA)

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(1) (2) (3) (4) Solution (Your Answer: NA)

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Find the area enclosed by the lines 3x - 2y + 6 = 0 and 3x + 5y - 15 = 0 and the x axis.

(1) 3 sq.units (2) 7.5 sq.units (3) 10.5 sq.units (4) 4.5 sq.units Solution (Your Answer: 2)

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If x is real, and (a 2 + b2)x 2 + 2a (b + c)x + (a 2 + c2) = 0, then which of the following is always true?

(1) c2 = ab (2) b2 = ac (3) a 2 = bc (4) ab + bc + ca = 0 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

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(1) 2 (2) 1 (3) 6 (4) 5 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

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In the diagram given below, the coordinates of the points A, B, C and D are (5, 0), (7, 0), (7, 9) and (5, 4) respectively. Which of the following is closest to the area of the shaded region?

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(1) 12.7 sq.units (2) 14.3 sq.units (3) 13 sq.units (4) 14 sq.units Solution (Your Answer: 2)

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If for all values of x > k, the expressions 6x - 24, 5x + 25 and 7x - 12 can be the lengths of the sides of a triangle, then the least possible value of k is

(1) 4 (2) 75 /8 (3) 71 /8 (4) 65 /8 Solution (Your Answer: 2)

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The 19th and 182nd terms of an arithmetic progression are 2613/ 29 and 10226/ 29 respectively. What is the sum of the first 200 terms of the progression?

(1) 91000 (2) 18200 (3) 36400 (4) 72800 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

DIRECTIONS for question: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. In a class, there are 80 students. The following table gives the details regarding the distribution of the marks scored (in percentage terms) by the students in each of the six subjects - Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, History, English and Geography. Every student wrote all the six subjects.

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What is the minimum possible number of students who could have scored more than 40% but not more than 75% of marks in at least two of the six subjects?

(1) 11 (2) 9 (3) 15 (4) 13 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

DIRECTIONS for question: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. In a class, there are 80 students. The following table gives the details regarding the distribution of the marks scored (in percentage terms) by the students in each of the six subjects - Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, History, English and Geography. Every student wrote all the six subjects.

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What is the maximum possible number of students who could have scored more than 40% but not more than 60% of marks in at least four of the six subjects?

(1) 16 (2) 15 (3) 14 (4) None of these Solution (Your Answer: NA)

DIRECTIONS for question: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. In a class, there are 80 students. The following table gives the details regarding the distribution of the marks scored (in percentage terms) by the students in each of the six subjects - Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, History, English and Geography. Every student wrote all the six subjects.

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What is the minimum possible number of students who scored more than 60% but not more than 90% in at most three of the six subjects?
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(1) 40 (2) 38 (3) 36 (4) None of these Solution (Your Answer: NA)

DIRECTIONS for question: Answer the questions independently of each other.

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The total area of a square grid, comprising 10 10 identical small squares, is 10,000 sq.cm. A rectangle of area 1,800 sq.cm is to be selected from it such that a whole number of small squares are selected in the process. In how many ways can this be done?

(1) 112 (2) 118 (3) 114 (4) 116 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

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Whenever a two dimensional figure is rotated about a given axis, it sweeps through a certain volume in space. This volume is said to be generated by rotating the figure about the given axis. Now, a triangle is similarly rotated about an axis which coincides with one of the sides of the triangle. If the lengths of the sides of the triangle are 5 cm, 12 cm and 13 cm, then what is the maximum possible volume that can be generated in space by rotating the triangle?

(1) 240 p cm3 (2) 180 p cm3 (3) 330 p cm3 (4) 160 p cm3 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

15.

If cosec q - cotq = 1/3, then find the value of cos2q

(1) 16/25 (2) 7/25 (3) 9/25 (4) 8/25 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

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A genetically modified hen lays three eggs every day. One of the three eggs hatches and produces a hen on the same day. The newly formed hen can start laying eggs from the next day onwards and at the same rate as the first hen and the same applies for all the hens that are produced. The other two eggs laid by the first hen hatch on the second day and produce hens which can start laying eggs from the subsequent (third) day onwards and at the same rate as the first hen. This process continues indefinitely. What is the minimum number of days after which there are a total of at least 100 unhatched eggs, given that there was only one hen at the beginning of the first day?

(1) 4
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(2) 12 (3) 10 (4) 6 Solution (Your Answer: 3)

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There are a certain number of consecutive natural numbers written on a black board.

If one of them is erased, the average of the remaining numbers is 327/ 24. Which of the following could be the number that was erased?

(1) 28 (2) 25 (3) 35 (4) 16 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

DIRECTIONS for question: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. In Tennis, in any calendar year, there are four grand slam tournaments, each with 128 players participating in it and there is an year-end ATP tournament, which has exactly 32 players - selected on the basis of the total number of wins in the four grand slam tournaments put together - participating in it. Suppose 31 players are selected for ATP tournament and to select 32nd player, if there is a tie between two or more players, then exactly one among these players would be selected by considering certain parameters. All the tournaments are played on a knockout basis, where in each round of the tournament each player who is still left plays exactly one match and then moves on to the next round, only if he wins his match in that round. If a player wins the last round in any of the four grand slam tournaments or the ATP tournament, he is awarded the title for that particular tournament.

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In a calendar year, what is the maximum possible number of wins that a player can have but still not be selected for the ATP tournament?

(1) 11 (2) 12 (3) 3 (4) 4 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

DIRECTIONS for question: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. In Tennis, in any calendar year, there are four grand slam tournaments, each with 128 players participating in it and there is an year-end ATP tournament, which has exactly 32 players - selected on the basis of the total number of wins in the four grand slam tournaments put together - participating in it. Suppose 31 players are selected for ATP tournament and to select 32nd player, if there is a tie between two or more players, then exactly one among these players would be selected by considering certain parameters. All the tournaments are played on a knockout basis, where in each round of the tournament each player who is still left plays exactly one match and then moves on to the next round, only if he wins his match in that round. If a player wins the last round in any of the four grand slam tournaments or the ATP tournament, he is awarded the title for that particular tournament.

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In a calendar year, what is the least number of wins that the winner of the ATP tournament can have?
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(1) 12 (2) 9 (3) 13 (4) 7 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

DIRECTIONS for question: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. In Tennis, in any calendar year, there are four grand slam tournaments, each with 128 players participating in it and there is an year-end ATP tournament, which has exactly 32 players - selected on the basis of the total number of wins in the four grand slam tournaments put together - participating in it. Suppose 31 players are selected for ATP tournament and to select 32nd player, if there is a tie between two or more players, then exactly one among these players would be selected by considering certain parameters. All the tournaments are played on a knockout basis, where in each round of the tournament each player who is still left plays exactly one match and then moves on to the next round, only if he wins his match in that round. If a player wins the last round in any of the four grand slam tournaments or the ATP tournament, he is awarded the title for that particular tournament.

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If no player won more than one title in the whole year, what can be the maximum number of matches won in these five tournaments by the top four players (in terms of their respective number of wins)?

(1) 101 (2) 104 (3) 98 (4) 88 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

DIRECTIONS for question: Answer the questions independently of each other.

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Ram started from P towards Q at 3:00 am. and Ravi started from Q towards P at 8:00 am. If they met each other at 12:00 noon and later reached their destinations simultaneously, at what time did Ram reach Q?

(1) 12:10 p.m. (2) 5:30 p.m. (3) 6:00 p.m. (4) 8:00 p.m. Solution (Your Answer: 3)

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Four unit squares are chosen at random on a chessboard. What is the probability that three of them are of one colour and the fourth is of the opposite colour?

(1) 80/427 (2) 160/427 (3) 320/1281 (4) 640/1281 Solution (Your Answer: NA)
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Given

, (x -1) and f 1 (x ) = f (f (x )), f 2(x ) = f (f (f (x ))), f 3(x ) = f (f (f (f

(x )))) then find the value of f 199(5).

(1) -2/3 (2) 2/3 (3) -5 (4) 5 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

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Amar, Bhavan, Charan and Dinesh contribute a total of 120 to buy a gift. Amar contributes one-fifth of what the others contribute. Bhavan contributes one-fourth of what the others contribute. Charan contributes one-third of what the others contribute. Find the amount contributed by Dinesh. (1) 46 (2) 24 (3) 20 (4) 30 Solution (Your Answer: 2)

DIRECTIONS for question: Answer these questions on the basis of information given below. A company has four sales outlets - L, M, N and O. Financial details of these sales outlets are given below.

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(1) L (2) M (3) N (4) O

Which outlet has the highest profit percentage?

Solution

(Your Answer: 1)

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Which of the following is/are true? (a) The fixed costs of L are more than the marketing costs of O. (b) The marketing costs of N are more than the fixed costs of N. (c) The total salary of employees of L is more than the marketing costs of O.

(1) Only (a) (2) Only (b) (3) Only (c) (4) (a) and (b) Solution (Your Answer: 4)

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DIRECTIONS for question: Answer these questions on the basis of information given below. A company has four sales outlets - L, M, N and O. Financial details of these sales outlets are given below.

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If the number of employees in L, M, N and O are 10, 8, 7 and 7 respectively, then the average salary per employee of which outlet is the second highest?

(1) L (2) M (3) N (4) O Solution (Your Answer: 2)

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Let P be the set of all the integers satisfying the inequality 5x 2 - 47x + 56 0. If an element from P is selected at random, what is the probability that it is even?

(1) 4/7 (2) 0 (3) 3/7 (4) 2/7 Solution (Your Answer: 2)

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In the figure given below, A, B, C, D and F are points on the circle, such that DF and DC intersect AB at E and Q respectively. If DQE = ACB = CAD = 90, DE = 12 cm and EF = 6 cm, find the area (in sq.cm) of the circle.

(1) 98p (2) 108p (3) 120p (4) 132p Solution (Your Answer: NA)

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Out of 17 points on a plane, seven points lie on a circle. No other group of four or more points lie on a circle and no three points are collinear. What is the maximum number of distinct circles that can be drawn such that each circle passes through at least three of the given points?

(1) 680 (2) 235 (3) 645 (4) 646 Solution (Your Answer: NA)

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