SBI PO 2017

For the following questions answer them individually

Instructions: In the following number series only one number is wrong. Find out the wrong number.

7, 12, 40, 222, 1742, 17390, 208608

Instructions: In the following number series only one number is wrong. Find out the wrong number.

6, 91, 584, 2935, 11756, 35277, 70558

Instructions: In the following number series only one number is wrong. Find out the wrong number.

9050, 5675, 3478, 2147, 1418, 1077, 950

Instructions: In the following number series only one number is wrong. Find out the wrong number.

1, 4, 25, 256, 3125, 46656, 823543

Instructions: In the following number series only one number is wrong. Find out the wrong number.

8424, 4212, 2106, 1051, 526.5, 263.25, 131.625

Direction: Study the given table carefully to answer the questions that follow:
Number of people staying in five different localities and the percentage breakup of men, women and children in them LOCALITY TOTAL NO. PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE MEN WOMEN CHILDREN

Total number of people staying in locality J forms approximately what percent of the total number of people staying in locality F ?

What is the total number of children staying in localities H and I together ?

The number of women staying in which locality is the highest ?

What is the total number of men and children staying in locality I together

What is the respective ratio of number of men staying in locality F to the number of men staying in locality H ?

Study the following table carefully and answer the questions.

What is the respective ratio between the number of pages printed by the printer B in 2nd week and the number of pages printed by printer F in 5th week?

What will be the average number of pages printed by all the given printers in 4th week?

Which of the following printer printed maximum number of pages in all the given weeks together?

Number of pages printed by Printer A in 3rd week is what per cent of the total number of pages printed by the Printer D in all the given weeks?

What is the difference between the total number of pages printed by the Printer E in 1st, 2nd and 4th week together and total number of pages printed by Printer C in all the given weeks together.

In each of these question two equations I & II with variables a & b are given You have to solve both the equations to find the values of a & b
Mark answer if
a) a<b

b) $$a\leq b$$

c) relationship between a & b cannot be established

d) a>b

e) $$a\geq b$$

I.$$2a^{2}+a-1=0$$
II.$$12b^{2}-17b+6=0$$

I.$$a^{2}-5a+6=0$$
II. $$2b^{2}-13b+21=0$$

I.$$a^{2}+5a+6=0$$
II.$$b^{2}+7b+12=0$$

I.$$16a^{2}=1$$
II.$$3b^{2}+7b+2=0$$

I.$$a^{2}+2a+1=0$$
II.$$b^{2}=\pm4$$

Instructions: What will come in place of question mark (?) in the following questions?

(23.1)2 + (48.6)2 - (39.8)2 = ? + 1147.69

$$\frac{28}{65}$$ x $$\frac{195}{308}$$ ÷ $$\frac{39}{44}$$ + $$\frac{5}{26}$$ = ?

[(3$$\sqrt{8}$$+ $$\sqrt{8}$$ ) (8$$\sqrt{8}$$ + 7$$\sqrt{8}$$ )] - 98 = ?

$$\sqrt{11449}$$x$$\sqrt{6241}$$ - (54)2 = $$\sqrt{?}$$ + (74)2

For the following questions answer them individually

10 years ago, the ages of A and B were in the ratio of 13: 17. 17 years from now the ratio of their ages will be 10: 11. What is the age of B at present ?

Ramola’s monthly income is three times Ravina’s monthly income, Ravina’s monthly income is fifteen percent more that Ruchika’s monthly income. Ruchika’s monthly income is Rs. 32,000. What is Ramola’s annual income?

A person travels from P to Q at a speed of 40 kmph and returns to Q by increasing his speed by 50%. What is his average speed for both the trips?

The LCM of two numbers x and y is 20. Find the number of unordered pairs (x,y)?

What is the difference between the simple and compound interest on Rs.7,300 at the rate of 6 p.c.p.a. in 2 years?

3 pipes when opened for 3 hours can fill 3 buckets. How many buckets can 2 pipes open for 2 hours approximately fill?

Raj sold an item for Rs. 6384 and incurred a loss of 30%. At what price should he have sold the item to have gained a profit of 30%?

Niraj incurred a loss of 55 per cent on selling an article for Rs. 9549. What was the cost price of the article?

The average speed of a bus is 8 times the average speed of a bike. The bike covers a distance of 186 km in 3 hours. How much distance will the bus cover in 10 hours ?

Three friends J, K and L jog around a circular stadium and complete one round in 12, 18 and 20 seconds respectively. In how many minutes will all the three meet again at the starting point

In these questions, relationships between different elements is shown in the statements. The statements is followed by two conclusions. Study the conclusions based on the given statement and select the appropriate answer.

Statement: K > I $$ \geq $$ T $$ \geq $$ E; O < R < K
Conclusions: I. R < E 2. O < T

Statement C < L < O = U = D $$ \geq $$ S > Y
Conclusions I. O > Y II. C<D

Statement K $$ \geq $$ L > M $$ \geq $$ N
Conclusions I. N $$ \leq $$ K II. N<K

Statement: Z $$ \geq $$ Y = W $$ \geq $$ X
Conclusions I. W<Z II. W=Z

Statement: B > A > S < I > C > L >Y
Conclusions I. B>L II. A>Y

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

Eight people - E, F, G, H, J, K, L and M - are sitting around a circular table, facing the centre. Each of them is of a different profession - Chartered Accountant, Columnist, Doctor, Engineer, Financial Analyst, Lawyer, Professor and Scientist, but not necessarily in the same order. F is sitting second to the left of K. The Scientist is an immediate neighbour of K. There are only three people between the Scientist and E. Only one person sits between the Engineer and E. The Columnist is on the immediate right of the Engineer. M is second to the right of K. H is the Scientist. G and J are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither G nor J is an Engineer. The Financial Analyst is on the immediate left of F. The Lawyer is second to the right of the Columnist. The Professor is an immediate neighbour of the Engineer. G is second to the right of the Chartered Accountant.

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

What is the position of L with respect to the Scientist?

Which of the following statements is true according to the given arrangement?

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees of an organization working in three departments viz. Personnel, Administration and Marketing with not more than three of them in any department. Each of them has a different choice of sports from football, cricket, volleyball, badminton, lawn tennis, basketball, hockey and table tennis not necessarily in the same order. D works in Administration and does not like either football or cricket. F works in Personnel with only A who likes table tennis. Eand H do not work in the same department as D. C likes hockey and does not work in marketing. G does not work in administration and does not like either cricket or badminton. One of those who work in administration likes football. The one who likes volleyball works in personnel. None of those who work in administration likes either badminton or lawn tennis. H does not like cricket.

Which of the following groups of employees work in Administration department ?

In which department does E work ?

Which of the following combinations of employee-department-favourite sport is correct?

What is E's favourite sport?

What is G's favourite sport ?

Directions: Study the following information and answer the following questions: A, B, C, D, E, G, and I are seven friends who study in three different standards, namely 5th, 6th, and 7th, such that not less than two friends study in the same standard. Each friend has a different favourite subject, namely History, Civics, English, Marathi, Hindi, Maths and Economics also but not necessarily in the same order.

A likes Maths and studies in the 5th standard with only one other friend who likes Marathi. I studies with two other friends. Both the friends who study with I like languages (here languages include only Hindi, Marathi and English). D studies in the 6th standard with only one person and does not like Civics. E studies with only one friend. The one who likes History does not study in the 5th or 6th standard. E does not like languages. C does not like English, Hindi or Civics.

Which combination represents E's favourite subject and the standard in which he studies?

Which of the following is I's favourite subject?

Which of the following combinations is definitely correct?

Which of the following subjects does G like?

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

M, J, K, D, R, P, and V are seven employees of an organization. Three of them are in one Grade and two each in the other two Grades among A, B and C. Each of them earns different amounts as salary. There are ladies among them in each grade. K and her husband only are in Grade B. V earns the maximum and he along with the only D are in Grade A. D earns more than only M. P and her friend J are in Grade C. M is not in Grade C. P earns less than K but more than J. R earns less than J.

Which of the following groups represents the three ladies ?

Which of the following combinations of persons are in Grade C?

Each of the questions 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

Among V, D, K, T, J and R who is shorter than only tallest among them ?
I. D is taller than V and J.
II. R is taller than V but shorter than T.

A is sister of B. How are B and D related to each other ?
I. D is brother of B.
II. F is sister of D.

Study the given information and answer the given questions.
Point A is 11 m North of point B.
Point C is 11 m East of point B
Point D is 6 m North of point C
Point E is 7 m West of point D
Point F is 8 m North of point E
Point G is 4 m West of point F

What is the shortest distance between point F from point A ?

How far and in which direction is point G from point A ?

Directions : Read the information carefully and answer the following questions:
If A + B means A is the father of B.
If A × 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 ÷ B means A is the son of B.

Which of the given expressions indicates that M is daughter of D?

In a family of 8 people, G is the mother of B. H has two daughters - G and D. F is H’s only granddaughter. E is D’s father. C is the brother of B. B is A’s son.

For the following questions answer them individually

In a column of 20 boys D is fourteenth from the front and F is ninth from the bottom How many boys are there between D and F ?

In a row of thirty-seven boys facing South R is the eighth to the right of T who is fourteenth to the left of D. How many boys are there between D and R in the row ?

Direction: In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III & IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements:
All cups are bottles.
Some bottles are jugs.
No jug is plate.
Some plates are tables.

Conclusions:
I. Some tables are bottles.
II. Some plates are cups.
III. No table is bottle.
IV. Some jugs are cups.

Statements:

Some chairs are handles.

All handles are pots.

All pots are mats.

Some mats are buses.

Conclusions:

I. Some buses are handles.

II. Some mats are chairs.

III. No bus is handle.

IV. Some mats are handles.

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.


Governments have traditionally equated economic progress with steel mills and cement factories. While urban centers thrive and city dwellers get rich, hundreds of millions of farmers remain mired in poverty. However, fears of food shortages, a rethinking of antipoverty priorities and the crushing recession in 2008 are causing a dramatic shift in world economic policy in favour of greater support for agriculture.

The last time when the world's farmers felt such love was in the 470s. At that time, as food prices spiked, there was real concern that the world was facing a crisis in which the planet was simply unable to produce enough grain and meat for an expanding population. Governments across the developing world and international aid organisations plowed investment into agriculture in the early 470s, while technological breakthroughs, like high-yield strains of important food crops, boosted production. The result was the Green Revolution and food production exploded.

But the Green Revolution became a victim of its own success. Food prices plunged by some 60% by the late 480s from their peak in the mid- 470s. Policymakers and aid workers turned their attention to the poor's other pressing needs, such as health care and education. Farming got starved of resources and investment. By 2004, aid directed at agriculture sank to 3.5% and 'Agriculture lost its glitter'. Also, as consumers in high-growth giants such as China and India became wealthier, they began eating more meat, so grain once used for human consumption got diverted to beef up livestock. By early 2008, panicked buying by importing countries and restrictions slapped on grain exports by some big producers helped drive prices upto heights not seen for three decades. Making matters worse, land and resources got reallocated to produce cash crops such as biofuels and the result was that voluminous reserves of grain evaporated. Protests broke out across the emerging world and fierce food riots toppled governments.

This spurred global leaders into action. This made them aware that food security is one of the fundamental issues in the world that has to be dealt with in order to maintain administrative and political stability. This also spurred the U.S. which traditionally provisioned food aid from American grain surpluses to help needy nations, to move towards investing in farm sectors around the globe to boost productivity. This move helped countries become more productive for themselves and be in a better position to feed their own people.

Africa, which missed out on the first Green Revolution due to poor policy and limited resources, also witnessed a 'change'. Swayed by the success of East Asia, the primary poverty?fighting method favoured by many policymakers in Africa was to get farmers off their farms and into modern jobs in factories and urban centers. But that strategy proved to be highly insufficient. Income levels in the countryside badly trailed those in cities while the FAO estimated that the number of poor going hungry in 2009 reached an all time high at more than one billion.

In India on the other hand, with only 40% of its farmland irrigated, entire economic boom currently underway is held hostage by the unpredictable monsoon. With much of India's farming areas suffering from drought this year, the government will have a tough time meeting its economic growth targets. In a report, Goldman Sachs predicted that if this year too receives weak rains, it could cause agriculture to contract by 2% this fiscal year, making the government's 7% GDP-growth target look 'a bit rich'. Another green revolution is the need of the hour and to make it a reality, the global community still has much backbreaking farm work to do.

What is the author's main objective in writing the passage

Which of the following is an adverse impact of the Green Revolution ?

What is the author trying to convey through the phrase making the government's 7% GDP growth target look 'a bit rich' ?

Which of the following factors was/were responsible for the neglect of the farming sector after the green revolution ?

(A) Steel and cement sectors generated more revenue for the government as compared to agriculture.

(B) Large scale protests against favouring agriculture at the cost of other important sectors such as education and healthcare.

(C) Attention of policy makers and aid organizations was diverted from agriculture to other sectors.

What prompted leaders throughout the world to take action to boost the agriculture sector in 2008?

What motivated the U.S. to focus on investing in agriculture across the globe ?

What impact did the economic recession of 2008 have on agriculture ?

What encouraged African policymakers to focus on urban jobs ?

Which of the following had contributed to exorbitant food prices in 2008 ?

(A) Hoarding of food stocks by local wholesalers which inadvertently created a food shortage.

(B) Export of foodgrains was reduced by large producers.

(C) Diverting resources from cultivation of foodgrains to that of more profitable crops.

Which of the following is true about the state of agriculture in India at present ?

(A) Of all the sectors, agriculture needs the highest allocation of funds.

(B) Contribution of agriculture to India's GDP this year would depend greatly upon the monsoon rains.

(C) As India is one of the high-growth countries, it has surplus food reserves to export to other nations.

Directions: In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words/ phrases are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/ phrase in each case.

There is a considerable amount of research about the factors that make a company innovate. So is it possible to create an environment (I) to innovation? This is a particularly pertinent (II) for India today. Massive problems in health, education etc (III) be solved using a conventional Approach but (IV) creative and innovative solutions that can ensure radical change and (V). There are several factors in India's (VI). Few countries have the rich diversity that India or its large, young population (VII). While these (VIII) innovation policy interventions certain additional steps are also required. These include (IX) investment in research and development by (X) the government and the private sector, easy transfer of technology from the academic world etc. To fulfill its promise of being prosperous and to be at the forefront, India must be innovative.

Direction: Which of the phrases a), b), c) and d) given below each statement should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct ?

If the sentence is correct as it is given and 'No correction is required', mark e) as the answer.

Soon after the Tsunami had killed thousands of people along the coasts of southern India, parliament passes a bill that proposed to set up an institutional mechanism to respond promptly to natural disasters.

Denial of wages forced scientists and teachers at the agriculture universities throughout the country to go on strike, crippling crucial research that could help the state of agriculture in the country.

In an attempt to boost their profits many edible oil producing companies have been engaging themselves in propaganda against commonly used oils and promoting exotic and expensive varieties of oils as healthier options.

Thanks to numerous government initiatives, rural masses which was earlier unaware of the luxuries of urban ways of living are now connected to the same lifestyle.

Over the last few months, while most industries are busy in restructuring operations, cutting costs and firing, the Indian pharmaceutical and healthcare industry was adding manpower and giving salary hikes.

Which of the phrases at (a), (b),(c)and (d) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark(e) as the answer.

The bank is overstaffed, has led to low productivity.

You delay in taking a decision conveys a negative impression

Today management student it self are opted to work for NGOs even though salaries offered to them are low

Absence off any guidelines they are unwilling to take up the project

Without the development of rural people country can no claim to be developed.

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