TCS APTITUDE QUESTION PAPER - 2

Synonyms:


· Cliché -trite, platitude, remark

· Muggy - hot, warm, humid

· Bouillon - A thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock, broth

· Incubate- Develop under favorable conditions, hatch, develop slowly

· Prolixity- verbose, wordiness

· Inclement –bad whether

· Misapprehension- misunderstanding, misconception

· Estrange –alienate, isolate, make unfriendly

· Predominant - main, major, principal

· Mawkish – over sentimental, mushy, over emotional

· Whimsical – capricious

· Conclusive – end, final, beyond question

· Awry - crooked, twisted

· Avid – enthusiastic, passionate, eager

· Fidelity – loyalty, faithfulness, trustworthy

· Transient - temporary, momentary

· Aplomb – self-confidence, confidence

· Acerbity- A sharp bitterness

· Tarry- linger, leave slowly, related to pitch

· Dollish-

· Mullet – several kinds of marine fish

· Godly- religious

· Ignominious – shameful, humiliating

· Hidebound –narrow-minded

· Reticence- shyness, uncommunicative

· Tantamount- the same as, identical

· Probate –official proving of a bill

· Misdemeanor- misbehavior

· Bombastic- pompous, pretentious

· Repellent- repulsive

· Tenacious – stubborn, obstinate

· Dangle- hang down, swing, suspend

· Ensue – result, follow

TCS APTITUDE QUESTION PAPER - 1

1.Two pencils costs 8 cents, then 5 pencils cost how much ?
Answer : 2 pencils = 8 cents => 1 pencil = 4 cents. Therefore 5 pencils cost = 5 * 4 = 20 cents

2. Question : A work is done by two people in 24 min. one of them can do this work a lonely in 40 min. how much time required to do the same work for the second person.
Answer : In 1 minute (A+B) can do 1/24 work. A alone can 1/40 work in 1 minute
B alone can do in 1 minute = (A+B)’s – A’s = 1/24 – 1/40 = 1/60 work
Therefore, b can do the same work in = 60 min

3. Question : A car is filled with four and half gallons of oil for full round trip. Fuel is taken 1/4 gallon more in going than coming. What is the fuel consumed in coming up?
Answer : Before the trip, car is filled with = 4 ½ gallon of oil.
Let ‘X’ be the quantity of fuel consumed for the trip in one direction
The fuel consumed while going = X + ¼
The fuel consumed while coming = X
Therefore, the fuel consumed for the trip = (X + ¼) + X = 4 ½
2X + ¼ = 4 ½ => 2X = 4 ½ - ¼ => 2X = 4 ¼ => X= 2 1/8 . approx
Therefore the fuel consumed while coming = 2.125 gallon

4. Question : Low temperature at the night in a city is 1/3 more than 1/2 high as higher temperature in a day. Sum of the low temperature and highest temp. is 100 degrees. Then what is the low temp?
Answer : 40 deg.

5. Question : A person, who decided to go to weekend trip should not exceed 8 hours driving in a day. Average speed of forward journey is 40 m/h. Due to traffic in Sundays, the return journey average speed is 30 m/h. How far he can select a picnic spot?
a) 120 miles
b) Between 120 and 140 miles
c) 160 miles
Answer : 120 miles

6. Question : A salesperson multiplied a number and got the answer 3, instead of that number divided by 3.What is the answer he actually has to get?
Answer : (1/3) *1 * 3 = 3, so number = 1
Divided by 3
Answer: 1/3.

7. Question : A ship started from port and moving with I miles per hour and another ship started from L and moving with H miles per hour. At which place these two ships meet?
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port G H I J K L
Answer : Answer is between I and J and close to J or (L*I*H)/(H+I)

8. Question : A building with height D shadow up to G. A neighbor building with what height shadows C feet.
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A B C D E F G H
Answer : B Ft. or CD/G

9. Question : A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10mph. Another person was also fined for exceeding the same speed limit by twice the same. If the second person was traveling at a speed of 35 mph, find the speed limit.
Answer : Let ‘x’ be the speed limit. Person ‘A’ was fined for exceeding the speed limit by = 10mph
Person ‘B’ was fined for exceeding the speed limit by = twice of ‘A’ => 2*10mph=20mph
given that the second person was traveling at the speed of 35mph => 35mph – 20mph = 15mph
Therefore the speed limit is =15 mph

10. Question : A bus started from bus stand at 8.00am, and after 30 minutes staying at destination, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The speed of the bus is 18mph. In return journey bus travels with 50% fast speed. At what time it returns to the bus stand?
Answer : 11.00am

11. Question : In a mixture, R is 2 parts S is 1 part. In order to make S to 25% of the mixture, how much r is to be added?
Answer : One Part

12. Question : Wind flows 160 miles in 330 min, for 80 miles how much time required.
Answer : 115min

13. Question : With 4/5 full tank vehicle travels 12 miles, with 1/3 full tank how much distance travels.
Answer : 5 miles

14. Question : Two trees are there. One grows at 3/5 of the other in 4 years, total growth of trees is 8 ft. what growth will smaller tree will have in 2 years
Answer : < 2 ft.

INFOSYS APTITUDE QUESTION PAPER - 1

1). A beggr collects cigarette stubs and makes one ful cigarette
with every 7 stubs. Once he gets 49 stubs . How many cigarettes
can he smoke totally.
Ans. 8

2). A soldiar looses his way in a thick jungle at random walks
from his camp but mathematically in an interestingg fashion.
First he walks one mile east then half mile to north. Then 1/4
mile to west, then 1/8 mile to south and so on making a loop.
Finally hoe far he is from his camp and in which direction.
ans: in north and south directions
1/2 - 1/8 + 1/32 - 1/128 + 1/512 - and so on
= 1/2/((1-(-1/4))
similarly in east and west directions
1- 1/4 + 1/16 - 1/64 + 1/256 - and so on
= 1/(( 1- ( - 1/4))
add both the answers

3). hoe 1000000000 can be written as a product of two factors
neither of them containing zeros
Ans 2 power 9 x 5 ppower 9 ( check the answer )

4). Conversation between two mathematcians:
first : I have three childern. Thew pproduct of their ages is 36
. If you sum their ages . it is exactly same as my neighbour's
door number on my left. The sacond mathematiciaan verfies the
door number and says that the not sufficient . Then the first
says " o.k one more clue is that my youngest is the youngest"
Immmediately the second mathematician answers . Can you aanswer
the questoion asked by the first mathematician?
What are the childeren ages? ans 2 and 3 and 6

5). Light glows for every 13 seconds . How many times did it
between 1:57:58 and 3:20:47 am
ans : 383 + 1 = 384

6). 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns .
ALL tallest among each row aare asked to fall out . And the
shortest among THEM is A. Similarly after resuming that to their
originaal podsitions that the shorteest among each column are
asked to fall out. And the longest among them is B . Now who is
taller among A and B ?
ans A

7). A person spending out 1/3 for cloths , 1/5 of the remsaining
for food and 1/4 of the remaining for travelles is left with
Rs 100/- . How he had in the begining ?
ans RS 250/-

8). there are six boxes containing 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 29
balls of either red or blue in colour. Some boxes contain only
red balls and others contain only blue . One sales man sold one
box out of them and then he says " I have the same number of red
balls left out as that of blue ". Which box is the one he solds
out ?
Ans : total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2 = 60/2 = 30
and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30

9). A chain is broken into three pieces of equal lenths
conttaining 3 links each. It is taken to a backsmith to join into
a single continuous one . How many links are to tobe opened to
make it ?
Ans : 2.

10). Grass in lawn grows equally thickand in a uniform rate. It
takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 for 30 cows . How many cows can
eat away the same in 96 days.?
Ans : 18 or 19

11). There is a certain four digit number whose fourth digit is
twise the first digit.
Third digit is three more than second digit.
Sum of the first and fourth digits twise the third number.
What was that number ?
Ans : 2034 and 4368