What should come in the place of question mark (?) in the following number series?
3 4 4 3 4 4 5 3 4 4 5 6 ? 4 4 5 6 7 3 4 4 5 6 7 8
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If each vowel of the word PURPOSE is changed to the next letter in the English alphabetical series and each consonant is changed to the previous letter in the English alphabetical series and then the alphabetical thus formed are arranged in alphabetical order from the left to right, which of the following will be third letter from the right?
How many such pairs of letters are there in the word SIGNIFY each of which has as many letters between them in the word (in both forward and backward direction) as they have between them in the English alphabetical series?
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If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with the first, second, fifth, seventh and the eight letters of the word ‘INSPIRED’ which would be the second letter of the word from the left? If more than one such word can be formed, give ‘X’ as the answer and if no such word can be formed, give ‘Z’ as your answer.
The position of how many digits will remain the same if the digits in the number 7029351648 are rearranged in the ascending order from the left to right?
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In these questions, relationship between different elements is shown in the statements.
The statements are followed by the conclusions.
Statements: A > B = C $$\geq$$ D $$\leq$$ E = F > I $$\geq$$ J < G > H
Conclusions: I. J = I II. E = J
Statements: A > B = C $$\geq$$ D $$\leq$$ E = F > I $$\geq$$ J < G > H
Conclusions: I. A > H II. J < F
Statements: A > B = C $$\geq$$ D $$\leq$$ E = F > I $$\geq$$ J < G > H
Conclusions: I. I = D II. D > J
Statements: A > B = C $$\geq$$ D $$\leq$$ E = F > I $$\geq$$ J < G > H
Conclusions: I. B $$\geq$$ D II. H < B
Statements: A > B = C $$\geq$$ D $$\leq$$ E = F > I $$\geq$$ J < G > H
Conclusions: I. A > D II. A > C
In each question below are two statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statement to be true even if they seems to be at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusion logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
Statements: All letters are words
All words are sentences
Conclusions: I. No letter is sentence.
II. All letters are sentences.
Statements: Some letters are words
Some words are sentences
Conclusions: I. No letter is sentence
II. At least some sentences are letters
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Statements: Some letters are words
Some words are sentences
Conclusions: I. Some letters are sentences
II. At least some sentences are words
Statements: Some songs are longs
All songs are shorts
Conclusions: I. All longs are songs
II. All shorts are longs
Statements: Some songs are longs
All longs are shorts
Conclusions: I. At least some songs are shorts
II. At least some shorts are longs
Statements: All pencils are pens
No pencil is pin
Conclusions: I. No pin is pencil
At least some pencils are pins.
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What should come in the place of question-mark (?) in the following alphabetical series ?
BQF, DPK, FOO, ?, JMT
In a certain code language ‘ROUGH’ is written as ‘$$\star$$ # % & $’ and ‘MUCH’ is written as ‘+ % @ $’ How will HUMOUR be written in that code language?
Pointing towards a woman, a girl said, ‘’She is the only child of my grandmother and she is grandmother of two persons.’’ How is that girl related to that woman?
Six students --- A, B, C, D, E and F - have secured different marks in an Examination. F secured more marks than that of A. B scored more marks than that of E and F. A scored 85 per cent marks. The students who secured lowest marks got 62 per cent marks. C scored 92 per cent marks while D scored 94 per cent marks. Who among them scored the lowest marks?
Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below :
Nine persons - A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I - are sitting around a circular table facing the centre and at equal distance but not necessarily in the same order. B is immediate neighbour of neither I nor C. A is sitting third to the left of B. F is sitting third to the right of C. G is immediate neighbour of neither F nor A. D is sitting third to to left of I. H is an immediate neighbor of both A and G.
Four of the following five pairs are alike in a certain way based on above seating arrangement and hence form a group. Which one of the following ‘’does not’’ belong to that group?
Starting from A, if all the persons are made to sit in the alphabetical order in clock - wise direction, the position of how many (excluding A) will remain unchanged?
What is the position of G with respect to F?
Who among the following is sitting third to the left of H?
Who among the following sits exactly between G and I?
Which of the following statements is ‘’NOT TRUE’’ with respect to the given seating arrangement?
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The date of birth of Anup falls after 24th day of a particular month. The data of birth of his mother is a single digit date and matches with the first digit of Anup’s date of birth. If sum of the two digits of date of birth of Anup is 4, what is the date of birth of his mother ?
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Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below :
In a certain code language,
‘’the day was good’’ is written as ‘’ni ko ya se’’
‘’smile each day’’ is written as ‘’am se ch’’
‘’each was unique’’ is written as ‘’so am ko’’
What would be the code for ‘good’?
What would be the code for ‘’smile was unique’’?
What would be the code for ‘’each’’?
Study the following arrangement of letters/numbers/symbols carefully and answer the questions given below :
J & B L E H $ 3 C % 8 I F M 4 1 A R 6 V $$\uparrow$$ 9 D 5 K U 2 T ? Z
If all the alphabets are deleted from the above arrangement, which of the following will be the third from the right end?
If all the numbers are deleted from the above arrangement, which of the following would be the seventh from the left end?
On the basis of the positions in the above arrangement if H is related to I, then F is related to
How many such symbols are there in the above arrangement each of which is immediately preceded by a digit and also immediately followed by a consonant?
Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below :
Ten persons - L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T and U - are standing in a straight line facing north, but not necessarily in the same order. Four persons are standing between Q and S. P is standing at one of the extreme ends. L is standing to the immediate right of Q. L is standing second to the left of P. U is standing second to the right of S and second to the left of N. Three persons are standing between R and M. O is not standing at any extreme end of the line. M is far away from O than that of P.
Who among them standing at extreme left end ?
If all persons are made to stand in the alphabetical order from right to left starting from L, the positions of how many persons (excluding L) will remain unchanged?
How many persons standing between M and O ?
Which of the following pairs represents the immediate neighbours of S ?
Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their positions in the above arrangement and hence form a group. Which is the one that ‘’does not’’ belong to that group ?
Who among the following is standing fourth to the left of M ?
Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below :
‘A $$\times$$ B’ means ‘A is son of B’
‘A + B’ means ‘A is daughter of B’
‘A $$\div$$ B’ means ‘A is mother of B’
‘A - B’ means ‘A is father of B’
The expression ‘M $$\div$$ N $$\div$$ T - Q + U’ , represents what relationship of N with U ?
The expression ‘M $$\div$$ N $$\div$$ T - Q $$\times$$ U’ represents what relationship of M with Q ?
In the expression, ‘E + H - K $$\times$$ B $$\div$$ A’ how is B related to E ?
In the expression ‘D - A + C $$\div$$ B’ who is the daughter of D ?
Which of the following means K is grandson of B ?
Each of the question below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.
Read both the statements and ----
What is the score of Rakesh in an examination ?
I. Rakesh scored 40 per cent more marks than Vipul in the examination.
II. Maximum marks in the examination are 75.
Is Usha eligible for appearing in the examination ?
I. The maximum age for appearing in the examination is 26 years but for other categories it is 30 years.
II. Usha is not a candidate of general category and her date of birth is November 11,1986.
When will Sameer retire from service ?
I. Sameer was born on January 1, 1955
II. The age of retirement for any employee is 62 years.
If X, Y and Z play football, cricket and hockey but not necessarily in the same order, who among them plays football?
I. Z plays hockey and Y plays cricket.
II. Neither Y nor Z plays football.
Among A, B, C and D, who are posted in the rural areas ?
I. A and C are friends of each other, D and C are posted in same area.
II. Friends are not posted in the same area. B is a friend of D. B is a friend of D and he is posted in the urban areas.
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Who among the following was the first person to have been conferred the highest civilian award of India?
As per the Census 2011, population of India was 1210.6 million on 1 March 2011. What was the rural population on this very date?
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Which Indian company is involved in the Indian-Malaysian low cost no-frill carrier, called AirAsia?
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Name the lead actor of the movie, titled ‘2 States’ which is based on a novel by Chetan Bhagat?
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Which of the following is known as the City of Lakes ?
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Whose latest album, titled ‘Raunaq, was recently launched by Salman Khan?
Who among the following was awarded the International Gandhi Award for the year 2013?
World Squash Federation (WSF) chief Narayana Ramachandran was recently elected as the new President of
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Where did the Malaysia Air-lines Flight 370 accident take place ?
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What is the process by government control usually in area of social and economic policy are relaxed or abolished away ?
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Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2013 ?
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P5+1 is a group of six world powers, five of which are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Which country represents ‘+1’ in P5+1 ?
Which type of credit/loan is provided to burrowers who lack steady employment and a verifiable credit history ?
Which article of Indian Constitution is invoked if there has been failure of the constitutional machinery in any state of India ?
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Who among the following is the new US Ambassador to India ?
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In the recently held general elections in India, NOTA was given as one of the options for voting. What is the full form of NOTA ?
Which is the first state of India to observe ‘’Child protection Day’’?
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Where was the India’s first electric zero-emission bus introduced recently ?
Who among the following has won the National Billiards Championship 2014 ?
There are 77 equidistant trees on each side of a 1444 metre long road. Find the distance between the two consecutive trees.
What will be the simple interest accrued on a sum of Rs. 15755 for a period 3 years at the rate of 5% per annum ?
The difference between two numbers is 14 and one-fourth of the sum of the number is equal to 22. Find the numbers.
If an article is sold for Rs. 1320, a loss of 12% incurs. What is the cost price of the article ?
Which of the following set of fractions is in ascending order ?
Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4 and their L.C.M. is 84. Which of these is larger number ?
If the sum of four consecutive odd number is 56, what will be the largest number ?
Read the following table carefully and answer the questions given below it.
What is the respective ratio between the total number of employees working in units A, B and C and that in units D, E and F in the year 2004 ?
What is the average number of employees working in unit B during the given years?
By what per cent ‘’approximately’’ is the number of employees in unit E in 2002 more than that in unit F in the year 2005 ?
By what per cent ‘’approximately’’ is the number of employees in unit F in the year 2006 less than total employees working in units C and E in the year 2002 ?
What is the difference between the average number of employees working in unit D and unit E in the given years ? (Approximated to nearest integer)
The population of a city 2 years ago was 360000. If the population decreases at 16% per year, what will be the present population of the city ?
What value will come in the place of the question mark (?) in each of the following questions.
$$(17)^{13}\times (17)^{9}\div (17\times17\times17)^{6}=(17)^{?}$$
$$\frac{4}{7}of \frac{6}{11}of\frac{5}{13}of4004$$ = ?
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$$108\div 2.5 \div16$$ =?
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$$\sqrt{1369}\times\sqrt{784}$$=?
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775.23 - 342.65 + 83.01 = ?
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$$2772 \div 42\div6$$=?
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$$11\times81\div9-14+23$$=?
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$$6429-6049\div23$$=?
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$$3.2\times4.6\div2.3+19.6-14.6$$=?
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$$\frac{(589+187)^{2}-(589-187)^{2}}{589\times187}$$=?
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$$12\times ? = 3036\div22$$
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$$\sqrt{?}+19=\sqrt{2209}$$
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$$(\sqrt{6084\div}13)^{2}$$=?
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$$(14.5)^{2}-(13.5)^{2}$$=?
1884 + 1597 = $$(?)^{2}$$
$$12876\div\sqrt{?}$$=111
$$8484-666+315\div7$$=?
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In a quadrilateral, the ratio of the three angles is 6 : 4 : 9. The remaining fourth angle is equal to 113°. Find the difference between the largest and smallest angles of a quadrilateral.
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A person brought 35 kg of wheat at Rs. 40 per kg and 40 kg of other variety of wheat at Rs. 65 per kg. He mixed the two varieties together and sold the mixture at a gain of 20%. Find the selling price per kg of the mixture.
Find the circumference of the circle if its diameter is 42 cm.
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If a person spends Rs. 1715 to buy 40 pens and pencils, how much amount will have to be paid by him to buy 16 pens and 28 pencils ?
What will come in the place of question mark (?) in the following number series ?
36.2 37.6 39.4 41.6 ? 47.2 50.6
14 9 11 18.5 ? 99.5 300.5
11 ? 87 258 771 2310
9 ? 161 504 1233 2564
13 14 22 31 95 120 ?
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A boatman rows upstream at the rate of 13 kmph and downstream at the rate of 20 kmph for the same distance. Find the rate of boat in still water.
The respective ratio between the present ages of two persons A and G is 3 : 4. After 14 years the age of G is 70 years. What will be the present age of A?
A 153 metre long train is running at 144 kmph. What time will it take to cross a 207 metre long platform ?
In what ratio should be shopkeeper mix two varieties of tea in which one costs Rs. 300 per kg and the other costs Rs. 400 per kg so that the cost of mixture be Rs. 330 per kg ?
The length of the rectangular hall is 4 metre more than its breadth. Its area is 1365 sq.meter. What is the perimetre of the hall ?
In an election there are two contestants. One contestant gets 71% of votes and win by 756 votes. What is the total number of votes polled?
If the height of the A is 20% less than that of B, by what per cent is the height of B more than that of A?
A man gets Rs. 60 more if he sells an article at 20% gain in comparison to selling it at 20% loss. What is cost price of article ?
If $$\frac{4a-5b}{4a+5b}=\frac{1}{6}$$ ,then a : b = ?
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6 boys or 4 men can complete a piece of work in 18 days. In how many days will 3 boys and 10 men together complete the same work ?
If the ratio of the heights of two right circular cones be 1 : 2 and the ratio of their circumferences of bases be 3 : 4, what will be the respective ratio of their volume?
