January 2011 Infosys Placement Paper - I:-
1. Fodder, pepsi and cereale often eat dinner out.
each orders either coffee or tea after dinner. if fodder orders coffee, then pepsi orders the drink that cereale orders if pepsi orders coffee, then fodder orders the drink that cereale doesnot oder if cereale orders tea, then fodder orders the drink that pepsi orders which person/persons always orders the same drink after dinner ?
Ans:Fodder
2. At a recent birthday party there were four mothers and their children. Aged 1,2,3 and 4. from the clues below can you work out whose child is whose and their relevant ages ?
It was jane?s child?s birthday party.
Brian is not the oldest child.
Sarah had Anne just over a year ago.
Laura?s Child will be next birthday.
Daniel is older than Charlie is.
Teresa?s child is the oldest.
Charlie is older than Laura?s child.
Ans: Jane ? Charlie -3
Laura ? Brian ? 2
Teresa ? Daniel ? 4
Sarah ? Anne - 1
3. We are given 100 pieces of a puzzle. If fixing two components together is counted as 1 move ( a component can be one piece or an already fixed set of pieces), how many moves do we need to fix the entire puzzle.
Ans: 99
4. Two guys work at some speed...After some time one guy realises he has done only half of the other guy completed which is equal to half of what is left !!! #$%#$ So how much faster than the other is this guy supposed to do to finish with the first.
Ans: one and half times or 3/2
5. There is a square cabbage patch.He told his sister that i have a larger patch than last year and hence more cabbages thios year.Then how many cabbages i have this year.?
Ans:106*106=11236
6. There are three guesses on the color of a mule
1 says:itz not black
2 says:itz brown or grey
3 says: itz brown
Atlest one of them is wrong and one of them is true.....Then whatz the color of mule?
Ans: Grey
7. Jim,Bud and sam were rounded up by the police yesterday. because one of them was suspected of having robbed the local bank. The three suspects made
the following statements under intensive questioning.
Jim: I'm innocent
Bud: I'm innocent
Sam: Bud is the guilty one.
If only one of the statements turned out to be true, who robbed the bank?
Ans:BUD.
8. There are two containers on a table. A and B . A is half full of wine, while B, which is twice A's size, is onequarter full of wine . Both containers are filled with water and the contents are poured into a third container C. What portion of container C's mixture is wine ?
Ans:33.33%
9. A man was on his way to a marriage in a car with a constant speed. After 2 hours one of the tier is punctured and it took 10 minutes to replace it. After that they traveled with a speed of 30 miles/hr and reached the marriage 30 minutes late to the scheduled time. The driver told that they would be late by 15 minutes only if the 10 minutes was not waste.
Find the distance between the two towns?
Ans: 120 miles
10. A bargainhunter bought some plates for $ 1.30 from a sale on saturday,where price 2cents was marked off at each article .On monday she went to return them at regular prices,and bought some cups and saucers from that much amount of money only.the normal price of plate were equal to the price of 'one cup and one saucer'.
In total she bought 16 items more than previous. saucers were only of 3 cents hence she brought 10 saucers more than the cups, How many cups and saucers she bought and at what price?
Ans: 8,18 Price: 12,3.
11. Mr. T has a wrong weighing pan.One arm is lengthier than other.1 kilogram on left balances 8 melons on right.1 kilogram on right balances 2 melons on left.If all melons are equal in weight,what is the weight of a single melon?
Ans:200 gms
12. A card boarb of 34 * 14 has to be attached to a wooden box and a total of 35 pins are to be used on the each side of the cardbox.Find the total number of pins used .
Ans: 210
13. There are two families Alens and smiths. They have two children each. There names are A,B,C,D whose ages are different and ages are less then or equal to 11. The following conditions are given:-
i) A's age is three years less then his brother's age .
ii) B is eldest among the four.
iii) C is half the age of the eldest in Alens family.
iv) The difference in sum of the ages of Alens children and smiths children is same as that of five years ago.
Find the ages of all the children.
14. a,b,c,d,e are having numerical values. There are some conditions given:-
a) a=c <=== b!=e
b) Difference between a and c as same as difference between c and b as same as difference between a and d.
c) cd.
Then find a,b,c,d,e.
15. There are six cards in which it has two king cards. all cards are turned down and two cards are opened.
a) What is the possibility to get at least one king.
b) What is the possibility to get two kings.
16. There are 5 persons a,b,c,d,e and each is wearing a block or white cap on his head. A person can see the caps of the remaining four but can't see his own cap. A person wearing white says true and who wears block says false.
i) a says i see 3 whites and 1 block.
ii) b says i see 4 blocks.
iii) e says i see 4 whites.
iv) c says i see 3 blocks and 1 white.
Now find the caps weared by a,b,c,d and e.
17. There are two women, kavitha and shamili and two males shyam, aravind who are musicians. Out of these four one is a pianist, one flutist, violinist and drummer.
i) Across aravind beats pianist.
ii) Across shyam is not a flutist.
iii) Kavitha's left is a pianist.
iv) Shamili's left is not a drummer. v) Flutist and drummer are married.
17. When Arthur is as old as his father Hailey is now, he shall be 5 times as old as his son Clarke is now. By then, Clarke will be 8 times older than Arthur is now. The combined ages of Hailey and Arthur are 100 years. How old is Clarke?
18. A girl has 55 marbles. She arranges them in n rows. The nth row consists of n marbles, the (n-1)th row consists of (n-1) marbles and so on. What are the number of marbles in nth row?
19. This question is of analogy type. Some sentences regarding tastes of people to poetry are given like all who like A's Poem, like the poems of B. Like this 7 or 8 sentences were given. Questions were based on this.
20. This question is also of analogy type. Four persons are there A,B,C,D. Each of the four persons own either P,Q,R,S. 10 sentences using if clause were given. We have to find out which belongs to whom.
21. Every station in N railroad issues every other station's ticket. Some stations are added. Now they have to issue 46 more tickets. Give the No. of stations after and before added.
22. There was a race between 3 people. Me, Doug and Anne. When I take 21 steps the distance covered is equal to Doug's 24 steps and Anne's 28 steps. I take 6 steps to every 7 steps of Doug and 8 steps of Anne. Who won the race?
23.How many bearers will an explorer need for a 6 day march if each man can carry the food stuff of one man for 4 days.
24.Consider the following statements:
Albert: Dave did it.
Dave: Tony did it.
Gug: I did not do it.
Tony: Dave lied when he said that i did it.
(a)If only one out of all above statements is true, who did it?
(b)If only one out of all above statements is false, who did it?
25. A contribution of Rs. 500 was raisedfrom 500 people. The fee was as follows:
Men: Rs.3.00 each
Women: Rs. 2.00 each
Childern: 0.48 each
If number of women is more than number of men, how many childern are there?
26. Alice and Liu had some berries. The total of Alice's berries and square of number of berries with Liu is 62. The total of Liu's berries and square of number of berries with Alice is 176. How many berries does each of them have?
27. A rope ladder was left down from a ship. 12 steps of the ladder were exposed at 10:00 am. The queen who was going to visit the ship, said she would visit at 1:00 pm as she would have to climb lesser number of steps then. The tide in the sea increases from morning to afternoon at the rate of 1.2 meters per hour. The distance between any 2 steps of the ladder is 0.4 mts. How many steps will the queen have to climb?
28. 4 mathematician has x apples. If he arranges them in rows of 3 one will be left. The same is the case with 5,7,9 apples. But when he arranged them in rows of 11, non will be left. Find the no. of apples.C h e ta na S
Ans: 946. (Hint: 11*6 11*11 11*16 11*21 =2E......11*76 =3D946).
29. H starts running after T reaches 1/5th they must when H reach 1/6th, if H wants win at what speed H should be run? Note: One circle is there, you show this type of problem.
30. There are 4 mothers, 4 daughters and the colour of their dresses, and they are aged 1, 2, 3 & 4. Details of the dresses are given & then it asked about the remaining dresses.
31. There are 5 levels of dolls and each of different colors & condition are given. Note: This type of problem also refer.
32. 5 student A, B, C, D, E. One student knows 5 languages. Like that up to one langauge. Conditions:-
*) Spanish is most popular langauge.
*) 3 persons knows Porchigese.
*) B & C normally speak English, but when D gathered, they switched to Spanish because that is only common between the three.
*) Only langauge common between A, B, E is French.
*) Only langauge common between C & E is Italian.
33. An escalator is descending at constant speed. A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach the bottom. B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time as A takes 10 steps. How many steps are visible when the escalator is not operating. ANS. 150.
34. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. The road is straignt before the crossing and both are travelling in the same direction. Cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph. One day the cyclist comes late by 25 min. and meets the train 5km before the crossing. What is the speed of the train.
Ans:- 60 kmph.
35. Five persons muckerjee, misra, iyer, patil and sharma, all take then first or middle names in the full names. There are 4 persons having first or middle name of kumar, 3 persons with mohan, 2 persons with dev and 1 anil.
-- Either mukherjee and patil have a first or middle name of dev or misra and iyer have their first or middle name of dev.
-- Of mukherkjee and misre, either both of them have a first or middle name of mohan or neither have a first or middle name of mohan.
-- Either iyer of sharma has a first or middle name of kumar but not both.
Who has the first or middle name of anil?
Today is Mukherjee.
36. There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each.Last digit is 3 times the first one.
3 rd digit is 3 less than the second. 4 th digit is 4 more than the second one.
Find the digit.
ans : 25296.
37. There are five thieves, each loot a bakery one after the other such that the first one takes 1/2 of the total no. of the breads plus 1/2 of a bread. Similarly 2nd, 3rd,4th and 5fth also did the same. After the fifth one no. of breads remained are 3. Initially how many breads were there?
ans : 31.
38.There are some chicken in a poultry. They are fed with corn One sack of corn will come for 9 days.The farmer decides to sell some chicken and wanted to hold 12 chicken with him. He cuts the feed by 10% and sack of corn comes for 30 days. So initially how many chicken are there?
39.Two people X & Y walk on the wall of a godown in opposite direction. They meet at a point on one side and then go ahead. X after walking for some time, walks in opposite direction for 15 mtrs.Then again he turns back and walks in the original direction. What distance did Y walk before they met again, if X walks 11 mtrs by the time Y walks 8 mtrs.
40. A man starts his walking at 3PM from point A, he walks at the rate of 4km/hr in plains and 3km/hr in hills to reach the point B. During his return journey he walks at the rate of 6km/hr in hills and 4km/hr in plains and reaches the point A at 9PM. What is the distance between A and B?
Ans: 12km
1. Fodder, pepsi and cereale often eat dinner out.
each orders either coffee or tea after dinner. if fodder orders coffee, then pepsi orders the drink that cereale orders if pepsi orders coffee, then fodder orders the drink that cereale doesnot oder if cereale orders tea, then fodder orders the drink that pepsi orders which person/persons always orders the same drink after dinner ?
Ans:Fodder
2. At a recent birthday party there were four mothers and their children. Aged 1,2,3 and 4. from the clues below can you work out whose child is whose and their relevant ages ?
It was jane?s child?s birthday party.
Brian is not the oldest child.
Sarah had Anne just over a year ago.
Laura?s Child will be next birthday.
Daniel is older than Charlie is.
Teresa?s child is the oldest.
Charlie is older than Laura?s child.
Ans: Jane ? Charlie -3
Laura ? Brian ? 2
Teresa ? Daniel ? 4
Sarah ? Anne - 1
3. We are given 100 pieces of a puzzle. If fixing two components together is counted as 1 move ( a component can be one piece or an already fixed set of pieces), how many moves do we need to fix the entire puzzle.
Ans: 99
4. Two guys work at some speed...After some time one guy realises he has done only half of the other guy completed which is equal to half of what is left !!! #$%#$ So how much faster than the other is this guy supposed to do to finish with the first.
Ans: one and half times or 3/2
5. There is a square cabbage patch.He told his sister that i have a larger patch than last year and hence more cabbages thios year.Then how many cabbages i have this year.?
Ans:106*106=11236
6. There are three guesses on the color of a mule
1 says:itz not black
2 says:itz brown or grey
3 says: itz brown
Atlest one of them is wrong and one of them is true.....Then whatz the color of mule?
Ans: Grey
7. Jim,Bud and sam were rounded up by the police yesterday. because one of them was suspected of having robbed the local bank. The three suspects made
the following statements under intensive questioning.
Jim: I'm innocent
Bud: I'm innocent
Sam: Bud is the guilty one.
If only one of the statements turned out to be true, who robbed the bank?
Ans:BUD.
8. There are two containers on a table. A and B . A is half full of wine, while B, which is twice A's size, is onequarter full of wine . Both containers are filled with water and the contents are poured into a third container C. What portion of container C's mixture is wine ?
Ans:33.33%
9. A man was on his way to a marriage in a car with a constant speed. After 2 hours one of the tier is punctured and it took 10 minutes to replace it. After that they traveled with a speed of 30 miles/hr and reached the marriage 30 minutes late to the scheduled time. The driver told that they would be late by 15 minutes only if the 10 minutes was not waste.
Find the distance between the two towns?
Ans: 120 miles
10. A bargainhunter bought some plates for $ 1.30 from a sale on saturday,where price 2cents was marked off at each article .On monday she went to return them at regular prices,and bought some cups and saucers from that much amount of money only.the normal price of plate were equal to the price of 'one cup and one saucer'.
In total she bought 16 items more than previous. saucers were only of 3 cents hence she brought 10 saucers more than the cups, How many cups and saucers she bought and at what price?
Ans: 8,18 Price: 12,3.
11. Mr. T has a wrong weighing pan.One arm is lengthier than other.1 kilogram on left balances 8 melons on right.1 kilogram on right balances 2 melons on left.If all melons are equal in weight,what is the weight of a single melon?
Ans:200 gms
12. A card boarb of 34 * 14 has to be attached to a wooden box and a total of 35 pins are to be used on the each side of the cardbox.Find the total number of pins used .
Ans: 210
13. There are two families Alens and smiths. They have two children each. There names are A,B,C,D whose ages are different and ages are less then or equal to 11. The following conditions are given:-
i) A's age is three years less then his brother's age .
ii) B is eldest among the four.
iii) C is half the age of the eldest in Alens family.
iv) The difference in sum of the ages of Alens children and smiths children is same as that of five years ago.
Find the ages of all the children.
14. a,b,c,d,e are having numerical values. There are some conditions given:-
a) a=c <=== b!=e
b) Difference between a and c as same as difference between c and b as same as difference between a and d.
c) cd.
Then find a,b,c,d,e.
15. There are six cards in which it has two king cards. all cards are turned down and two cards are opened.
a) What is the possibility to get at least one king.
b) What is the possibility to get two kings.
16. There are 5 persons a,b,c,d,e and each is wearing a block or white cap on his head. A person can see the caps of the remaining four but can't see his own cap. A person wearing white says true and who wears block says false.
i) a says i see 3 whites and 1 block.
ii) b says i see 4 blocks.
iii) e says i see 4 whites.
iv) c says i see 3 blocks and 1 white.
Now find the caps weared by a,b,c,d and e.
17. There are two women, kavitha and shamili and two males shyam, aravind who are musicians. Out of these four one is a pianist, one flutist, violinist and drummer.
i) Across aravind beats pianist.
ii) Across shyam is not a flutist.
iii) Kavitha's left is a pianist.
iv) Shamili's left is not a drummer. v) Flutist and drummer are married.
17. When Arthur is as old as his father Hailey is now, he shall be 5 times as old as his son Clarke is now. By then, Clarke will be 8 times older than Arthur is now. The combined ages of Hailey and Arthur are 100 years. How old is Clarke?
18. A girl has 55 marbles. She arranges them in n rows. The nth row consists of n marbles, the (n-1)th row consists of (n-1) marbles and so on. What are the number of marbles in nth row?
19. This question is of analogy type. Some sentences regarding tastes of people to poetry are given like all who like A's Poem, like the poems of B. Like this 7 or 8 sentences were given. Questions were based on this.
20. This question is also of analogy type. Four persons are there A,B,C,D. Each of the four persons own either P,Q,R,S. 10 sentences using if clause were given. We have to find out which belongs to whom.
21. Every station in N railroad issues every other station's ticket. Some stations are added. Now they have to issue 46 more tickets. Give the No. of stations after and before added.
22. There was a race between 3 people. Me, Doug and Anne. When I take 21 steps the distance covered is equal to Doug's 24 steps and Anne's 28 steps. I take 6 steps to every 7 steps of Doug and 8 steps of Anne. Who won the race?
23.How many bearers will an explorer need for a 6 day march if each man can carry the food stuff of one man for 4 days.
24.Consider the following statements:
Albert: Dave did it.
Dave: Tony did it.
Gug: I did not do it.
Tony: Dave lied when he said that i did it.
(a)If only one out of all above statements is true, who did it?
(b)If only one out of all above statements is false, who did it?
25. A contribution of Rs. 500 was raisedfrom 500 people. The fee was as follows:
Men: Rs.3.00 each
Women: Rs. 2.00 each
Childern: 0.48 each
If number of women is more than number of men, how many childern are there?
26. Alice and Liu had some berries. The total of Alice's berries and square of number of berries with Liu is 62. The total of Liu's berries and square of number of berries with Alice is 176. How many berries does each of them have?
27. A rope ladder was left down from a ship. 12 steps of the ladder were exposed at 10:00 am. The queen who was going to visit the ship, said she would visit at 1:00 pm as she would have to climb lesser number of steps then. The tide in the sea increases from morning to afternoon at the rate of 1.2 meters per hour. The distance between any 2 steps of the ladder is 0.4 mts. How many steps will the queen have to climb?
28. 4 mathematician has x apples. If he arranges them in rows of 3 one will be left. The same is the case with 5,7,9 apples. But when he arranged them in rows of 11, non will be left. Find the no. of apples.C h e ta na S
Ans: 946. (Hint: 11*6 11*11 11*16 11*21 =2E......11*76 =3D946).
29. H starts running after T reaches 1/5th they must when H reach 1/6th, if H wants win at what speed H should be run? Note: One circle is there, you show this type of problem.
30. There are 4 mothers, 4 daughters and the colour of their dresses, and they are aged 1, 2, 3 & 4. Details of the dresses are given & then it asked about the remaining dresses.
31. There are 5 levels of dolls and each of different colors & condition are given. Note: This type of problem also refer.
32. 5 student A, B, C, D, E. One student knows 5 languages. Like that up to one langauge. Conditions:-
*) Spanish is most popular langauge.
*) 3 persons knows Porchigese.
*) B & C normally speak English, but when D gathered, they switched to Spanish because that is only common between the three.
*) Only langauge common between A, B, E is French.
*) Only langauge common between C & E is Italian.
33. An escalator is descending at constant speed. A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach the bottom. B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time as A takes 10 steps. How many steps are visible when the escalator is not operating. ANS. 150.
34. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. The road is straignt before the crossing and both are travelling in the same direction. Cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph. One day the cyclist comes late by 25 min. and meets the train 5km before the crossing. What is the speed of the train.
Ans:- 60 kmph.
35. Five persons muckerjee, misra, iyer, patil and sharma, all take then first or middle names in the full names. There are 4 persons having first or middle name of kumar, 3 persons with mohan, 2 persons with dev and 1 anil.
-- Either mukherjee and patil have a first or middle name of dev or misra and iyer have their first or middle name of dev.
-- Of mukherkjee and misre, either both of them have a first or middle name of mohan or neither have a first or middle name of mohan.
-- Either iyer of sharma has a first or middle name of kumar but not both.
Who has the first or middle name of anil?
Today is Mukherjee.
36. There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each.Last digit is 3 times the first one.
3 rd digit is 3 less than the second. 4 th digit is 4 more than the second one.
Find the digit.
ans : 25296.
37. There are five thieves, each loot a bakery one after the other such that the first one takes 1/2 of the total no. of the breads plus 1/2 of a bread. Similarly 2nd, 3rd,4th and 5fth also did the same. After the fifth one no. of breads remained are 3. Initially how many breads were there?
ans : 31.
38.There are some chicken in a poultry. They are fed with corn One sack of corn will come for 9 days.The farmer decides to sell some chicken and wanted to hold 12 chicken with him. He cuts the feed by 10% and sack of corn comes for 30 days. So initially how many chicken are there?
39.Two people X & Y walk on the wall of a godown in opposite direction. They meet at a point on one side and then go ahead. X after walking for some time, walks in opposite direction for 15 mtrs.Then again he turns back and walks in the original direction. What distance did Y walk before they met again, if X walks 11 mtrs by the time Y walks 8 mtrs.
40. A man starts his walking at 3PM from point A, he walks at the rate of 4km/hr in plains and 3km/hr in hills to reach the point B. During his return journey he walks at the rate of 6km/hr in hills and 4km/hr in plains and reaches the point A at 9PM. What is the distance between A and B?
Ans: 12km
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