PERCENTILE CLASSES

LOGICAL REASONONG- 08

Directions for Questions 1 to 3: Answer the following questions based on the statements given below:
There are three houses on each side of the road.
These six houses are labeled as P, Q, R, S, T and U.
The houses are of different colours,namely,Red,Blue,Green,Orange, Yellow and White.
The houses are of different heights.
T, the tallest houese, is exactly opposite to Red coloured house.
The shortest house is exactly opposite to the Green Coloured house.
U, the Orange coloured houese, is located between P and S
R, the yellow coloured house, is exactly opposide to P.
Q, the green coloured house, is exactly opposide to U
P, the white coloured houese, is taller than R,but shorter than S and Q.

1. What is the colour of the house diagonally opposite to the Yellow coloured house?
a. White b. Blue c. Green d. Red e. None of these

2. Which is the second tallest house?

a. P b. S c. Q d. R d. Cannot be determined

3. What is the colour of the tallest house ?

a. Red b. Blue c. Green d. Yellow e. None of these

Directions for Questions 4 to 8:  Anser the following questions based on the information given below:
Abdul, Bikram and Chetan are three professional traders who trade in shares of a company  XYZ Ltd. Abdul follows the strategy of
buying at the opening of the day at 10 am and selling the whole lot at the close of the day at 3 pm. Bikram follows the strategy of
buying at hourly intervals: 10 am , 11 am, 12 noon, 1 pm and 2 pm, and selling the whole lot at the close of the day. Further, he
buys an equal number of shares in each purchase Chetan follows a similar pattern as Bikram but his strategy is somewhat
different Chetan’s total investment amount is divided equally among his purchases. The profit or loss made by each investor is the
difference between the sale value at the close of the day less the investment in purchase. The “return” for eachinves tor is defined
as the ratio of the profit or loss to the investment amount expressed as a percentage.

4. On a day of fluctuating market prices, the share price of  XYZ Ltd. ends with a gain, i.e., it is higher at the close of the day compared to the
opening value. Which trader got the maximum return on that day?
a. Bikram b. Chetan c. Abdul d. Bikram or Chetan e. Cannot be determined

5. Which one of the following statements is always true?

a. Abdul will not be the one with the minimum return
b. Return for Chetan will be higher than that of Bikram
c. Return for Bikram will be higher than that of Chetan
d. Return for Chetan cannot be higher than that of Chetan
e. None of these

6. On a “boom” day the share price of XYZ Ltd. Keeps rising throughout the day and peaks at the close of the day. Which trader got the minimum
return on that day?
a. Bikram b.. Chetan c.. Abdul d.. Abdul or Chetan e.. Cannot be dtermined

One day, two other traders, Dane and Emily joined Abdul, Bikram and Chetan for trading in the shares of XYZ Ltd. Dane followed a
strategy of buying equal number of shares at 10am, 11am and 12noon and selling the same numbers at 1pm, 2pm and 3pm. Emily
on the other hand, followed the strategy of buying shares using all her money at 10am and selling all of them at 12 noon and again
buying the shares for all the money at 1pm and again selling all of them at the close ofb the day at 3pm. At the close of the day the
following was observed:
i. Abdul lost money in the transactions.
ii. Both Dane and Emily made profits.
iii. There was an increase in shares price during the closing hour compared to the price at 2pm.
iv. Share price at 12 noon was lower than the opening price.
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7. Share price was at its highest at:
a. 10: 00 AM b.. 11:00 AM c.. 12:00 Noon d.. 1:00 PM e. Cannot be determined

8. Which of the following is necessarily false?

a. Share price was at its lowest at 2 pm
b. Share price was at its lowest at 11am
c. Share price at 1pm was higher than the share price at2pm
d. Share price at 1pm was higher than the share price at12noon
e. None of these

DIRECTIONS for questions 9 to 15: Answer each of the questions independent of each other.

9. Four friends Ashok, Bashir, Chirag and Deepak are out shopping. Ashok has less money than three times the amount that Bashir
has. Chirag has more money than Bashir. Deepak has an amount equal to the difference of amounts with Bashir and Chirag. Ashok
has three times the money with Deepak. They each have to buy a least one shirt, or one shawl, or one sweater, or one jacket, that are
priced Rs.200, Rs. 400, Rs.600 and Rs.1000 apiece, respectively. Chirag borrows Rs.300 from Ashok and buys a jacket. Bashir buts a
sweater after borrowing Rs. 100 from Ashok and is left with no money. Ashok buys three shirts. What is the costliest item that
Deepak could buy with his own money?
a. A Shirt b. A Shawl c. A sweater d. A jacket

10. In a family gathering there are two males who are grandfathers and four males who are fathers. In the same gathering there are
two females who are grandmothers and four females who are mothers. There is at least one grandson or a granddaughter present in
this gathering. There are two husband wife pairs in this group. These can either be a grandfather and a grandmother, or a father and
a mother. The single grandfather (whose wife is not present) has two grandsons and a son present. The single grandmother (whose
husband is not present) has two grand daughters and a daughter present. A grandfather or a grandmother present with their
spouses does not have any grandson or granddaughter present. What is the minimum number of people present in this gathering?
a. 10 b. 12 c. 14 d. 16

11. Eight people carrying food baskets are going for a picnic on motorcycles. Their names are A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H. They have four
motorcycles Ml, M2, M3 and M4 among them. They also have four food baskets O, P, Q and R of different size and shapes and which
can be carried only on motorcycles Ml, M2, M3 or M4 respectively. No more than two persons can travel on a motorcycle and no
more than one basket can be carried on a motorcycle. There are two husband-wife pairs in this group of eight people and each pair
will ride on a motorcycle together. C cannot travel with A or B, E cannot travel with B or F. G cannot travel with F, or H, or D. The
husband-wife pairs must carry baskets O and P. Q is with A and P is with D. F travels on Ml and E travels on M2 motorcycles. G is with
Q, and B cannot go with R. Who is travelling with H?
a. A b. B c. C d. D

12. I have a total of Rs.1000. Item A costs Rs.110, item B costs Rs.90, item C costs Rs.70, item D costs Rs.40 and item E costs Rs.45.
For every item D that I purchase, I must also buy two of item B. For every item A, I must buy one of item C. For every item E, I must
also buy two of item D and one of item B. For every item purchased I earn 1000 points and for every rupee not spent I earn a penalty
of 150 points. My objective is to maximise the points I earn. What is the number of items that I must purchase to maximise my
points?
a. 13 b. 14 c. 15 d. 16

13. On her walk through the park, Sheetal collected 50 coloured leaves, all either maple or oak. She sorted them by category when
she got home, and found the following:
A. The number of red oak leaves with spots is even and positive.
B. The number of red oak leaves without any spot equals the number of red maple leaves without spots.
C. All non-red oak leaves have spots, and there are five times as many of them as there are red spotted oak leaves.
D. There are no spotted maple leaves that are not red.
E. There are exactly 6 red spotted maple leaves.
F. There are exactly 22 maple leaves that are neither spotted nor red.
How many oak leaves did she collect?
a. 22 b. 17 c. 25 d. 18

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14. A King has unflinching loyalty from eight of his ministers Ml to M8, but he has to select only four to make a cabinet committee.
He decides to choose these four such that each selected person shares a liking with at least one of the other three selected, The
selected persons must also hate at least one of the liking of any of the other three persons selected.
M1 likes fishing and smoking, but hates gambling.
M2 likes smoking and drinking, but hates fishing.
M3 likes gambling, but hates smoking.
M4 likes mountaineering, but hates drinking.
M5 likes drinking, but hates smoking and mountaineering.
M6 likes fishing, but hates smoking and mountaineering.
M7 likes gambling and mountaineering, but hates fishing, and
M8 likes smoking and gambling, but hates mountaineering .
Who are the four people selected by the king?
a. M1, M2, M5, M6 b. M3,M4, M5, M6 c. M3,M4, M5, M6 d. M1, M2, M4, M7

15. In a “keep-fit” gymnasium class there are fifteen females enrolled in a weight-loss program. They all have been grouped in any
one of the five weight-groups W1, W2, W3, W4, or W5. One instructor is assigned to one weight-group only. Sonali, Shalini, Shubhra,
and Shahira belong to the same weight-group. Sonali and Rupa are in one weight-group, Rupali and Renuka are also in one
weightgroup. Rupa, Radha, Renuka, Ruchika, and Ritu belong to different weight-groups. Somya cannot be with Ritu, and Tara
cannot be with Radha. Komal cannot be with Radha, Somya, or Rim. Shahira is in W1 and Somya is in W4 with Ruchika. Sweta and
Jyotika cannot be with Rupali, but are in a weight-group with total membership of four. No weight-group can have more than five or
less than one member. Amita, Babita, Chandrika, Deepika, and Elina are instructors of weight groups with membership sizes 5,4,3,2
and 1, respectively. Who is the instructor of Radha?
a. Babita b. Elina c. Chandrika d. Deepika

DIRECTIONS for questions 16-18: Answer the following questions based on the passage below.

A group of three or four has to be selected from seven persons. Among the seven are two women, Fiza and Kavita, and five men:
Ram, Shyam, David, Peter and Rahim. Ram would not like to be in the group if Shyam is also selected. Shyam and Rahim want to
be selected together in the group. Kavita would like to be in the group only if David is also there. David, if selected, would not like
Peter in the group. Ram would like to be in the group only if Peter is also there. David insists that Fiza be selected in case he is
there in the group.

16. Which of the following statements is true?

a. Kavita and Ram can be part of a group of four. b. A group of four can have two women.
c. A group of four can have all four men. d. None of the above

17. Which of the following is a feasible group of four?

a. Ram, Peter, Fiza, Rahim b. Shyam, Rahim, Kavita, David
c. Shyam, Rahim, Fiza, David d. Fiza, David, Ram, Peter

18. Which of the following is a feasible group of three?

a. David, Ram, Rahim b. Peter, Shyam, Rahim
c. Kavita, David, Shyam d. Fiza, David, Ram

DIRECTIONS for questions 19-20: Answer the following questions based on the information given below:

Elle is three times older than Yogesh, Zaheer is half the age of Wahida. Yogesh is older than Zaheer.

19. Which of the following information will be sufficient to estimate Elle’s age?
a. Zaheer is 10 years old.
b. Both Yogesh and Wahida are older than Zaheer by the same number of years.
c. Both a and b above.
d. None of the above.

20. Which of the following can be inferred?

a. Yogesh is older than Wahida. b. Elle is older than Wahida.
c. Elle may be younger than Wahida. d. None of the above.

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Directions for question 21 to 24: Answer the questions independent of each other.

21. At a village mela, the following six nautankis (plays) are schedule as shown in the table below.
No. Nautanki Duration Show times
1. Sati Savitri 1 hour 9,00 am and 2.00 p.m.
2. Joruka Gulam 1 hour 10.30 am and 11.30 am.
3. Sunder Kand 30 minutes 10.00 a.m. and 11.00 a.m.
4. Veer Abhimanyu 1 hour 10.00 a.m. and 11.00 am.
5. Reshma aur Shera 1 hour 9.30 am, 12.00 noon and 2.00 p.m.
6. Jhansi ki Rani 30 minutes 11.00 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.
You wish to see all the six nautankis. Further you wish to ensure that you get a lunch break from 12:30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. Which of the following
ways can you do this?
a. Sati-Savitri is viewed first; Sunder Kand is viewed third and Jhansi Ki Rani is viewed last
b. Sati-Savitri is viewed Last; Sunder Kand is viewed third and Jhansi Ki Rani is viewed last
c. Sati-Savitri is viewed first; Sunder Kand is viewed third and Joru ka Gulam is viewed fourth
d. Veer Abhimanyu is viewed third; Reshma aur Shera is viewed fourth and Jhansi Ki Rani is viewed fifth.

22. While Balbir had his back turned, a dog ran into his butcher shop, snatched a piece of meat off the counter and ran off. Balbir was
mad when he realised what had happened. He asked three other shopkeepers, who had seen the dog, to describe it. The shopkeepers
really didn’t want to help Balbir. So each of them made a statement which contained one truth and one lie.
A. Shopkeeper Number 1 said: “The dog had black hair and a long tail.”
B. Shopkeeper Number 2 said: “The dog had a short tail and wore a collar.”
C. Shopkeeper Number 3 said: “The dog had white hair and no collar.”
Based on the above statements, which of the following could be a correct description?
a. The dog had white hair, short tail and no collar.
b. The dog had white hair, long tail and a collar.
c. The dog had black hair, long tail and a collar.
d. The dog had black hair, long tail and no collar.

23. The Bannerjees, the Sharmas and the Pattabhirmans each have a tradition of eating Sunday lunch as a family. Each family serves
a special meal at a certain time of day. Each family has a particular set of chinaware used only for this meal. Use the clues below to
answer the following question.
A. The Sharma family eats at noon.
B. The family that serves fried brinjal uses blue chinaware
C. The Bannerjee family eats at 2 o’ clock
D.The family that serves sambar does not use red chinaware.
E. The family that eats at 1 o’ clock serves fried brinal.
F. The Pattabhiraman family does not use white chinaware.
G. The family that eats last likes makki-kiroti.
Which one of the following statements is true?
a. The Bannerjees eat makki-ki-roti at 2 o’ clock, the Sharmas eat fried brinjal at 12’o clock and the Pattabhiramans eat sambar from red chinaware.
b. The Sharmas eat sambar served in white chinaware, the Pattabhiramans eat fried brinjal at 1’o clock and the Bannerjees eat makki-ki-roti in blue
chinaware.
c. The Sharmas eat sambhar at noon, the Pattabhirmanas eat fried brinjal served in blue chinaware and the Bannerjees eat makki-ki-roti served in
red chinaware.
d. The Bannerjees eat makki-ki-roti served in white chinaware, the Sharmas eat fried brinjal at 12’o clock and the Pattabhiramans eat sambar from
red chinaware.

24. Mrs. Ranga has three children and has difficulty remembering their ages and the months of their birth. The clues below may help
her remember.
A. The boy, who was born in June, is 7 years old.
B. One of the children is 4 years old, but is not Anshuman
C. Vaibhav is older than Supriya.
D. One of the children was born in September but it was not Vaibhav.
E. Supriya’s birthday is in April.
F. The youngest child is only 2 years old.
Based on the above clues, which one of the following statements is true?

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a. Vaibhav is the oldest, followed by Anshuman who was born in September, and the youngest is Supriya who was born in April.
b. Anshuman is the oldest being born in June, followed by Supriya who is 4 year old, and the youngest is Vaibhav who is 2 years old.
c. Vaibhav is the oldest being 7 years old, followed by Supriya who was born in April, and the youngest is Anshuman who was born in September
d. Supriya is the oldest; who was born in April, followed by Vaibhav who was born in June, and Anshuman who was born in September

DIRECTIONS for questions 25 to 31: Each item is followed by two statements, A and B, Answer each question using the following instructions.
Choose 1 if the question can be answered by one of the statements alone and not by the other.
Choose 2 if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.
Choose 3 if the question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot be answered by using either statement alone.
Choose 4 if the question cannot be answered even by using both statements together.

25. Two friends, Ram and Gopal, bought apples from a wholesale dealer. How many apples did they buy?
A. Ram bought one-half the number of apples that Gopal bought.
B. The wholesale dealer had a stock of 500 apples.

26. Is country X’s GDP higher than country Y’s GDP

A. GDPs of the countries X and Y have grown over the past five years at compounded annual rate of 5% and 6% respectively.
B. Five years ago, GDP of country X was higher than that of country Y.

27. What is the value of X?

A. X and Y are unequal even integers, less than 10, and X/Y is an odd integer.
B. X and Y are even integers, each less than 10, and product of X and Y is 12

28. On a given day a boat ferried 1500 passengers across the river in twelve hours. How many round trips did it make?
A. The boat can carry two hundred passengers at any time.
B. It takes 40 minutes each way and 20 minutes of waiting time at each terminal.

29. What will be the time for downloading software?

A. Transfer rate is 6 Kilobytes per second.
B. The size of the software is 4.5 megabytes.

30. A square is inscribed in a circle. What is the difference between the area of the circle and that of the square?
A. The diameter of the circle is 25/2 cm
B. The side of the square is 25 cm.

31. What are the values of m and n?

A. n is an even integer, m is an odd integer, and m is greater than n.
B. Product of m and n is 30.

Directions for questions 32 to 41: Each question is followed by two statements, A and B. Answer each question using the following instructions:
Choose 1 if the question can be answered by one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered by using the other statement alone.
Choose 2 if the question can be answered by using either statement alone.
Choose 3 if the question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot be answered by using either statement alone.
Choose 4 if the question cannot be answered even by using both statements together.

31. Consider three real numbers, X, Y, and Z. Is Z the smallest of these numbers?
A. X is greater than at least one of Y and Z.
B. Y is greater than at least one of X and Z.

33. Let X be a real number. Is the modulus of X necessarily less than 3?

A. X(X + 3) < 0
B. X(X - 3) > 0

34. How many people are watching TV programme P?

A. Number of people watching TV programme Q is 1000 and number of people watching both the programmes, P and Q, is 100.
B. Number of people watching either P or Q or both is 1500.

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35. Triangle PQR has angle PRQ equal to 90 degrees. What is the value of PR + RQ?
A. Diameter of the inscribed circle of the triangle PQR is equal to 10 cm.
B. Diameter o the circumscribed circle of the triangle PQR is equal to 18 cm

36. Harshad bought shares of a company on a certain day, and sold them the next day. While buying and selling he had to pay to the
broker one percent of the transaction value of the shares as brokerage. What was the profit earned by him per rupee spent on buying
the shares?
A. The sales price per share was 1.05 times that of its purchase price.
B. The number of shares purchased was 100.

37. For any two real numbers:

a + b = 1 if both a and b are positive or both a and b are negative. = - 1 if one of the two numbers a and b is positive and the other
negative.
What is (2 + 0)(-5 + -6)?
A. a + b is zero is a is zero
B. a + b = b + a

38. There are two straight lines in the x-y plane with equations:
ax + by = c
dx + ey = f
Do the two straight lines intersect?
A. a, b. c, d, e and fare distinct real numbers.
B. c and fare non-zero.

39. O is the centre of two concentric circle. AE is a chord of the outer circle and it intersects the inner circle at points B and D. C is a
point on the chord in between B and D. what is the value of AC/CE?
A. BC/CD=1
B. A third circle intersects the inner circle at B and D and the point C is on the line joining the centres of the third circle and the inner
circle.

40. Ghosh Babu has decided to take a non-stop flight from Mumbai to No-man’s-land in South America. He is scheduled to leave
Mumbai at 5 am, Indian Standard Time on December 10, 2000. What is the local time at Non-man-land when he reaches there?
A. The average speed of the plane is 700 kilometres per hour.
B. The flight distance is 10,500 kilometres.

41. What are the ages of two individuals, X and Y?

A. The age difference between them is 6 years.
B. The product of their ages is divisible by 6.

Directions for Q. 42 to 46: Read each of the problems given below and chose the best answer from among the four given choices.

42. Persons X, Y, Z and Q live in red, green, yellow or blue coloured houses placed in a sequence on a street. Z lives in a yellow house.
The green house is adjacent to the blue house. X does not live adjacent to Z. The yellow house is in between the green and red
houses. The colour of the house X lives in is:
a. blue b. green c. red d. not possible to determine

43. My bag can carry no more than ten books, I must carry at least one book each of management, mathematics, physics and fiction.
Also, for every management book I carry I must carry two or more fiction books, and for every mathematics book I carry I must carry
two or more physics books. I earn 4, 3, 2 and I points for each management, mathematics, physics and fiction book, respectively, I
carry in my bag. I want to maximise the points I can earn by carrying the most appropriate combination of books in my bag. The
maximum points that I can earn are:
a. 20 b. 21 c. 22 d. 23

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44. Five persons with names P, M, U, T and X live separately in any one of the following: a palace, a hut, a fort, a house or a hotel.
Each one likes two different colours from among the following: blue, black, red, yellow and green. U likes red and blue. T likes black.
The person living in a palace does not like black or blue. P likes blue and red. M likes yellow. X lives in a hotel. M lives in a:
a. hut b. palace c. fort d. house

45. There are ten animals — two each of lions, panthers, bison, bears, and deer — in a zoo. The enclosures in the zoo are named X, Y,
Z, P and Q and each enclosure is allotted to one of the following attendants: Jack, Mohan, Shalini, Suman and Rita. Two animals of
different species are housed in each enclosure. A lion and a deer cannot be together. A panther cannot be with either a deer or a
bison. Suman attends to animals from among bison, beer and panther only. Mohan attends to a lion and a panther. Jack does not
attend to deer, lion or bison. X, Y and Z are allotted to Mohan, Jack and Rita respectively. X and Q enclosures have one animal of the
same species. Z and P have the same pair of animals. The animals attended by Shalini are:
a. bear & bison b. bison & deer c. bear & lion d. bear & panther

46. Eighty kilograms (kg) of store material is to be transported to a location 10 km away. Any number of couriers can be used to
transport the material. The material can be packed in any number of units of 10,20 or 40kg. Couriers charges are Rs. 10 per hour.
Couriers travel at the speed of 10 km/ hr if they are not carrying any load, at 5 km/hr if carrying 10kg, at 2 km/hr if carrying 20kg and
at 1 km/hr if carrying 40 kg. A courier cannot carry more than 40 kg of load. The minimum cost at which 80kg of store material can
be transported to its distinction will be:
a. Rs.180 b. Rs.160 c. Rs.140 d. Rs.120

Directions for questions 47 to 51:

Sixteen teams have been invited to participate in the ABC Gold Cup cricket tournament. The tournament is conducted in two
stages. In the first stage, the teams are divided into two groups. Each group consists of eight teams, with each team playing every
other team in its group exactly once. At the end of the first stage, the top four teams from each group advance to the second
stage while the rest are eliminated. The second stage comprises of several rounds. A round involves one match for each team. The
winner of a match in a round advances to the next round, while the loser is eliminated, The team that remains undefeated in the
second stage is declared the winner and claims the Gold Cup.
The tournament rules are such that each match results in a winner and a loser with no possibility of a tie. In the first stage a
team earns one point for each win and no points for a loss. At the end of the first stage teams in each group are ranked on the
basis of total points to determine the qualifiers advancing to the next stage. Ties are resolved by a series of complex tie-breaking
rules so that exactly four teams from each group advance to the next stage.

47. What is the total number of matches played in the tournament?

a. 28 b. 55 c. 63 d. 35

48. The minimum number of wins needed for a team in the first stage to guarantee its advancement to the next stage is:
a. 5 b. 6 c. 7 d. 4

49. What is the highest number of wins for a team in the first stage in spite of which it would be eliminated at the end of first stage?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4

50. What is the number of rounds in the second stage of the tournament?’
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4

51. Which of the following statements is true?

a. The winner will have more wins than any other team in the tournament.
b. At the end of the first stage, no team eliminated from the tournament will have more wins than any of the teams qualifying for the second stage.
c. It is possible that the winner will have the same number of wins in the entire tournament as a team eliminated at the end of the first stage.
d. The number of teams with exactly one win in the second stage of the tournament is 4.

Directions for 52 to 54: These questions are based on the situation given below:
Recently, Ghosh Babu spent his winter vacation on Kyakya Island. During the vacation, he visited the local casino where he came
across a new card game. Two players, using a normal deck of 52 playing cards, play this game. One player is called the Dealer and
the other is called the Player. First, the Player picks a card at random from the deck. This is called the base card. The amount in
rupees equal to the face value of the base card is called the base amount. The face values of Ace, King, Queen and Jack are ten.
For other cards, the face value is the number on the card. Once, the Player picks a card from the deck, the Dealer pays him the
base amount. Then the dealer picks a card from the deck and this card is called the top card.

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If the top card is of the same suit as the base card, the Player pays twice the base amount to the Dealer. If the top card is of the
same colour as the base card (but not the same suit) then the Player pays the base amount to the Dealer. If the top card happens
to be of a different colour than the base card, the Dealer pays the base amount to the Player.
Ghosh Babu played the game 4 times. First time he picked eight of clubs and the Dealer picked queen of clubs. Second time, he
picked ten of hearts and the dealer picked two of spades. Next time, Ghosh Babu picked six of diamonds and the dealer picked ace
of hearts. Lastly, he picked eight of spades and the, dealer picked jack of spades. Answer the following questions based on these
four games.

52. If Ghosh Babu stopped playing the game when his gain would be maximized, the gain in Rs. would have been
a. 12 b. 20 c. 16 d. 4

53. The initial money Ghosh Babu had (before the beginning of the game sessions) was Rs. X. At no point did he have to borrow any money. What is
the minimum possible value of X?
a. 16 b. 8 c. 100 d. 24

54. If the final amount of money that Ghosh Babu had with him was Rs. 100, what was the initial amount he had with him?
a. 120 b. 8 c. 4 d. 96

55. Three travelers are sitting around a fire and are about to eat a meal. One of them has five small loaves of bread, the second has three small
loaves of bread. The third has no food, but has eight coins. He offers to pay for some bread. They agree to share the eight loaves equally among the
three travelers and the third traveler will pay eight coins for his share of the eight loaves. All loaves were of the same size. The second traveler (who
had three loaves) suggests that ha be paid three coins and that the first traveler be paid five coins. The first traveler says that he should get more
than five coins. How much the first traveler should get?
a. 5 b. 7 c. 1 d. None of these

ANSWER
1 D 6 A 11 C 16 D 21 C 26 31 36 41 46 51 C
2 E 7 A 12 B 17 C 22 B 27 32 37 42 47 C 52 A
3 B 8 A 13 B 18 B 23 C 28 33 38 43 48 B 53 D
4 E 9 B 14 D 19 C 24 C 29 34 39 44 49 D 54 B
5 E 10 B 15 B 20 B 25 30 35 40 45 50 C 55 B

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