IBPS RRB PO 2018

In each of these questions, a number series is given. Only one number is wrong in each series. You have to find out the wrong number

Study the following table and carefully answer the given questions.


Note :
(i) Net Revenue = Gross Revenue – Amount Allocated for commission – Amount allocated for discount and others
(ii) Few values are missing in the table (indicated by -). A candidate is expected to calculate the missing value, if it is required to answer the given question, on the basis of the given data and the information.

In July, if 40% of the gross revenue of the Magazine was collected from Advertisement, what was the amount of gross revenue collected from advertisement in that particular month ?

In March, if Net Revenue of the Magazine was 85% of its Gross Revenue, what was the amount allocated for discount and others?

Amount allocated for commission in March is what percent less than Amount allocated for commission in July?

What is the difference between Net Revenue of the Magazine in April and its Gross Revenue in June?

In May, the respective ratio of amount allocated for commission and amount allocated for discount and others was 4 : 3. What was the Gross Revenue of the Magazine in May?

In each of these questions, two equations are given. You have to solve these equations and nd out the values of x and y and :
Give answer
a:if x < y
b: if x > y
c: if x ≤ y
d: if x ≥ y
e: if x = y

I. $$8x^{2} + 6x = 5$$
II. $$12y^{2} - 22y + 8 = 0$$

I. $$17x^{2} + 48x= 9$$
II. $$13y^{2} = 32y- 12$$

I. $$18x^{2}+ 18x + 4 = 0$$
II.$$12y^{2}+29y+14=0$$

I. $$16x^{2} + 20x + 6 = 0$$
II. $$10y^{2} + 38y + 24 = 0$$

Study the information carefully to answer the following questions:

In an organisation consisting of 750 employees the ratio of Males to Females is 8:7 respectively. All the employees work in five different departments viz. HR, Management, PR, IT and Recruitment. 16 per cent of the Females work in Management Department. 32 per cent of Males are in HR Department. One-fifth of the Females are in the Department of Recruitment. The ratio of Males to Females in the Management Department is 3:2 respectively. 20 per cent of the total numbers of employees are in PR Department.Females working in Recruitment are 50 per cent of the Males working in the same Department.8 per cent of the Males are in IT Department.The remaining Males are in PR Department.22 per cent of the Females work in HR Department and the remaining Females are working in IT Department

What is the total number of females working in the IT and Recruitment Department together ?

Number of males working in HR Department forms approximately what per cent of total number of the employees in the organisation ?

Number of males working in PR Department forms what per cent of the numbers of Females working in the same Department ? (rounded off to two digits after decimal)

What is the total number of employees working in the Management Department ?

In the following pie charts the percentage of employees of a company working in 8 different countries has been given. Study these pie-charts carefully to answer the questions.


What is the ratio between male employees working in the country I and country II respectively ?

What is the ratio between the number of male employees and female employees in country II?

What is the approximate average number of male employees in countries I, II and III ?

What is the average number of female employees in the countries IV and VII?

If an increase of 40% is made in the average number of female employees, working in countries III, IV and V, then their resulting average number will be what per cent of the average number of female employees ?

For the following questions answer them individually

A boat takes a total time of eight hours to travel 63 kms upstream and the same distance downstream. The speed of the current is $${1 \over 8}$$th of the speed of the boat in still water. What is the speed of the boat in still water? (in km/hr)

From a container of milk, 5 litres of milk is replaced with 5 litres of water. This process is repeated again.Thus in two attempts the ratio of milk and water became 81 : 19. The initial amount of milk in the container was

Sonal’s age 4 years hence will be equal to Radhika’s age five years ago. If the respective ratio between Radhika’s present age and Komal’s present age is 3 : 2 and Komal’s present age is 22 years, what is Sonal's present age ? (in years)

The salary of an employee of a company increases every month by 4%. If his salary in August was Rs.6,300, what will be his approximate salary in month of October of the same year ?

A rectangular plot 55 m long and 45 m broad, has two concrete crossroads (of equal width) running in the middle of it - one parallel to the length and the other parallel to the breadth. The rest of the plot is used as a lawn. If the area of the lawn is 1911 m2, what is the width of each of the crossroads ? (in m)

The simple interest accrued on an amount of Rs. 16,500 at the end of three years is Rs. 5,940. What would be the compound interest accrued on the same amount at the same rate in the same period? (rounded off to two digits after decimal)

The respective ratio between the monthly salary of Om and that of Pihu is 7 : 9. Om and Pihu, both save 20% and 40% of their monthly salary respectively. Om invest $$\frac{1}{2}$$ of his savings in PPF and Pihu invests $$\frac{7}{9}$$ th of his savings in PPF. If Om and Pihu together saved Rs.17,500/in PPF, what is Pihu's monthly salary?

A, B and C. each working alone, can finish a piece of work in 27, 33 and 45 days respectively. A starts by working alone for 12 days, then B takes over from A and works for 11 days. At this stage C takes over from B and completes the remaining work. In how many days the whole work was completed ?

A shopkeeper sells two watches for Rs308 each. On one he gets 12% profit and on the other 12% loss. His profit or loss in the entire transaction was

The ratio between the present ages of P and Q is 3:4 respectively.Four years hence Q will be five years older than P.What is P’s present age ?

The compound interest accrued on an amount at the end of two years at the rate of 16% per annum is Rs 3041.28. What is the amount ?

56 workers can finish a piece of work in 14 days. If the work is to be completed in 8 days, then how many extra workers are required?

A shopkeeper purchased 15 kg of variety A rice at X per kg and 10 kg of variety B rice at ‘X+ 5’ per kg. The shopkeeper sold the whole quantity of variety A rice at 10% profit and that of variety B rice at 20% profit. The total selling price of variety A rice was 30/- more than that of variety B rice. Had the two varieties been mixed and sold at an overall profit of 20%, what would have been the selling price of the mixture per kg?

Which process checks to ensure the components of the computer are operating and connected properly?

A train 350 m long takes 36 seconds to cross a man running at a speed of 5 km/h in the direction opposite to that of train. What is the speed of the train?

Study the given information carefully to answer the given questions.
Seven boxes— J, K, L; M, N, 0 and P are kept one above the other, but not necessarily in the same order. Each box contains different elements — Cookies, Pencils, Spoons, Diaries, Colours, Jewellery and Watches, but not necessarily in the same order. Only two boxes are kept between M and N. The Pencil box is kept immediately below M. Only two boxes are kept between the Pencil box and the Watch box. N is kept above the Watch box. The Diary box is kept immediately below the Watch box. Only three boxes are kept between the Diary box and J. The Jewellery box is kept immediately above J. 0 is kept immediately above K. 0 is not a Pencil box. P is kept immediately above the Cookie box. Only one box is kept between P and the Spoon box.

Which of the following boxes is kept immediately above M ?

What is the position of 0 in the given stack of boxes ?

Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group. Which of the following does not belong to the group ?

Study the given information carefully to answer the given questions. Point M is 15m to the east of Point L. Point C is 3m to the north of Point M. Point Q is 6m to the east of Point C. Point P is 3m to the south of Point Q. Point V is to the north of Point L. A person walks 9m from Point V towards south, reaches Point R, takes a left turn and reaches Point C.

In which direction is Point V with respect to Point P ?

If a person walks 15m towards east from Point V, takes a right turn and walks 4m, how far will he be from Point M ?

What is the difference of the distance between Points V, L and Points R, Q ?

Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below : 

Eight persons- P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W - are sitting around a square table in such Question : way that four of them sit at four corners of the square while other four sit in the middle of each of the four sides. P, Q, R and S are facing towards the centre of table while T, U, V and W are facing outside. The ones who sit at the four corners face towards the centre while those who sit in the middle of the sides face outside. Each one of them has different legislative post viz, Defence Secretary, Finance Minister, Home Minister, Foreign Minister, HRD Minister, Education Minister, Prime Minister and Leader of Opposition but not necessarily in the same order. W is the second to the right of the Leader of Opposition. The Leader of Opposition is facing outside. T is the third to the left of Finance Minister. Finance Minister is not the immediate neighbour of W or Defence Secretary. R is not the Prime Minister and he is not the immediate neighbour of HRD Minister. U is to the immediate left of Prime Minister. Prime Minister is not the immediate neighbour of Defence Secretary. Home Minister and Foreign Minister are immediate neighbours of each other. Foreign Minister is not the immediate neighbour of the Leader of Opposition. There is only one person between Home Minister and S. V is Education Minister and he is not the immediate neighbour of P. S is not the Prime Minister.

What is the position of the Leader of Opposition with respect to the Prime Minister ?

Which of the following statements is/are true on the basis of given arrangement ?

Who among the following sits exactly between the Prime Minister and Q ?

Which of the following pairs represents the immediate neighbours of Education Minister ?

Study the following information to answer the given questions.

Eight friends—P, Q R, S, T, U, V and W are seated in a straight line with equal distance between each other, but not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing north while some are facing south.
♦ V is an immediate neighbour of the person sitting at an extreme end of the line. R sits second to the left of V.
♦ Only one person sits between R and T.
♦ As many people sits to the right of T as to the left of P. V and P face the same direction (i.e., if V faces north then P also faces north and viceversa.)
♦ Immediate neighbours of P face opposite directions (i.e., if one neighbour faces north then the other faces south and viceversa.)
♦ Q sits fourth to the left of S. Q is not an immediate neighbour of V.
♦ Persons sitting at the extreme ends face opposite directions (i.e., if one person faces north then the other person faces south and viceversa.)
♦ W faces south. W does not sit at an extreme end of the line: U sits to the immediate right of W.
♦ U and Q face the same direction (i.e., if U faces north then Q also faces north and viceversa.)

As per the given arrangement, which of the following statements is not true with respect to U ?

What is the position of Q with respect to W ?

Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and hence form a group. Which of them does not belong to that
group ?

For the following questions answer them individually

How many meaningful English words can be formed with the letters CFAE using each letter only once in each word?

How many meaningful English words can be formed with the letters MASTE using each letter only once in each word ?

Read the following information and answer the given question.

Seven people, namely O, P, Q, R, S, T and U have to attend a practical but not necessarily in the same order, on seven different months (of the same year) namely February, March, April, June, August, September and November. Each of them also likes a different subject namely Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Hindi, English, Geography and Account but not necessarily in the same order. The one who likes Hindi will attend a practical in a month which has 31 days. Only two people will attend a practical between the one who likes Hindi and T. Only three people will attend a practical between T and Q. Only one person will attend a practical between Q and the one who likes Accounts. The one who likes Chemistry will attend a practical in one of the months before the one who likes Accounts. The one who likes Chemistry will attend a practical in the month which has less than 30 days. Only two people will attend a practical between the one who likes Chemistry and S. Only one person will attend a practical between S and the one who likes Psychology. The one who likes Psychology will attend a practical on one of the months after S. Only two people will attend a practical between the one who likes Psychology and P. The one who likes Geography will attend a practical immediately before P. Only three people will attend a practical between P and the one who likes English. Only ,one people will attend a practical between 0 and R. 0 will attend a practical in a month which has 31 days.

Which of the following represents the people who will attend a practical immediately before and immediately after O ?

As per the given arrangement February is related to T and March is related to P following a certain pattern, which of the following is August related to following the same pattern ?

Which of the following represents the month in which U will attend a practical ?

In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements :
Some flowers are bins.
Some bins are handles.
All handles are sticks.
Conclusions :
I : Some sticks are bins.
II : Some handles are flowers.
III: Some sticks are flowers.

Statements :
Some towers are windows.
All windows are houses.
Some houses are temples.
Conclusions :
I : Some towers are temples.
II : Some houses are towers.
III : Some temples are windows.

Statements :
Some walls are doors.
Some doors are cots.
Some cots are chairs.
Conclusions :
I : Some chairs are doors.
II : Some cots are walls.
III : No chair is door.

Statements :
All trees are gardens.
All gardens are stones.
All stones are fences.
Conclusions
I : Some fences are gardens.
II : All gardens are fences.
III : Some stones are trees.

Statements :
All books are leaves.
Some leaves are jungles.
No jungle is box.
Conclusions :
I : Some jungles are books.
II : No book is box.
III : Some leaves are boxes.

Study the following information and answer the questions. 

Seven people, namely, A, B, C, D, E, F and G have an appointment but not necessarily in the same order, on seven different months (of the same year) namely January, February, April, June, August, October and December. Each of them also likes a different activity namely Drawing, Singing, Painting, Boxing, Karate, Craft and Running but not necessarily in the same order. The one who likes Craft has an appointment on one of the months before April. Only two people have an appointment between the one who likes craft and the one who likes painting. Only one person has an appointment between the one who likes painting and the one who likes running The one who likes running has an appointment in a month which has 31 days. Only three people have an appointment between the one who likes running and E. G has an appointment on one of the months before E. G does not have an appointment in the month which has the least number of days. Only three people have an appointment between G and C. Only one person has an appointment between C and the one who likes Karate. The one who likes Karate has an appointment before C. The one who likes singing has an appointment immediately before B. B has an appointment in a month which has less than 31 days. Only one person has an appointment between A and F. A has an appointment before F. Only one person has an appointment between F and the one who likes drawing.

Who amongst the following has an appointment before the one who has an appointment in December ?

In which of the following pairs, both the persons have an appointment in months which have less than 31 days ?

Which of the following combinations is correct ?

As per the given arrangement Craft is related to April and Karate is related to June following a certain pattern, which of the following is Drawing related to following the same pattern ?

Read the information carefully and answer the following questions:
If A + B means A is the father of B
If A x B means A is the sister of B
If A $ B means A is the wife of B
If A % B means A is the mother of B
If A $$\div$$ B means A is the son of B

What should come in place of the question mark, to establish that J is the brother of T in the expression?
J $$\div$$ P % H ? T % L

Which among the given expression indicate that M is the daughter of D?

Which among the following options is true if the expression ‘I + T % J x L $$\div$$ K’ definitely true?

Read the following information and answer the given questions.
Point J is 20m to the north of Point G. Point G is 10m to the west of Point K. Point K is 15m to the south of Point L. Ashish is standing at Point T which is 30m to the east of Point L. He starts walking towards south and walks for 35m. He takes a right turn and stops at Point M after walking for 40m.

How far and in which direction is Point G with respect to Point M ?

If Ashish walks for 10m towards north from his final position to reach Point D, how much distance will he have to cover in order to reach Point J ?

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