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MAR IVANIOS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Reg. No. :.………………… Name:………………….
First Semester B.Voc. Degree Examination, November 2016
First Degree Programme under CSS
General Course II: (for Software Development)
AUSD162: Aptitude Logical Reasoning
for 2015 Admissions Only
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80
SECTION A
Answer ALL questions in one or two sentences.
1. 80, 10, 70, 15, 60, ... What number should come next
i). 20 ii). 25 iii). 30 iv). 50
2. Choose the odd one from the list
i). Ice ii). Water iii). Rain iv). Sugar
3. One day Pradeep left home and walked 9 km towards south, turned right and walked 4 km, turned right and walked 9 km and turned left and walked 10 km. How many km will he have to walk to reach his home straight
4. Let A means minus B means multiplied by C means divided by and D means plus What is value of 10 D 9 A 20 C 10 B 2
5. Find the next letter for the series MPSV i). X ii). Y iii). Z iv). A
6. If X is the brother of the son of son how is X related to Y i). Son ii). Cousin iii). Grandson iv). Uncle
7. A garden is 30 feet by 40 feet. A fence is built around the garden, at a cost of Rs:1.75 per foot. What was the cost of the fencing
8. Psychology Mind Trigonometry i). Triangle ii). Mathematics iii). Geometry iv). Body
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9. There are 100 plates in a box. 60 painted red. 30 painted white. 20 painted neither red nor white. How many painted both red and white 10. If Ramu can run around the playground 5 times in 10 minutes. How many times he can run around the playground in one hour i). 10 ii). 20 iii). 60 iv). 30
(10 1 10 Marks)
SECTION B
Answer any EIGHT questions, not exceeding a paragraph of 50 words.
11. A person crosses a 500 m long road in 5 minutes. What is his speed in km per hour
12. At present a person is 4 times older than his son and is 3 years older than his wife. After 3 years the age of the son will be 15 years. How old the person's wife will be after 5 years
13. The average of four consecutive even numbers is 27. Which is the largest number
14. Pointing out to a lady, Rajan said, "She is the daughter of the woman who is the mother of the husband of my mother. "Who is the lady to Rajan
15. A train covers a distance in 50 min, if it runs at a speed of 48 kmph on an average. Find the speed at which the train must run to reduce the time of journey to 40 min.
16. Find the missing number in the series 30, 62, 126, 510, 1022
17. The ratio of Gita's age to the age of her mother is 3:11. The difference of their ages is 24 yrs. What will be the ratio of their ages after 3 yrs
18. A boy goes to school from his village at 3 km/hr and return back at 2 km/hr. If he takes 5 hrs in all, find the distance between the village and the school
19. The average mark obtained by a class of 40 students is 65. The average mark of half of the students is found to be 45. What is the average mark of the remaining students
20. The sum of two numbers is 80. If three times of one number is equal to five times of other number. Find the numbers.
21. If S T means S is the wife of S T means S is the daughter of T and S T means S is the son of T. What will M J K means
22. Choose the correct word: i). Shoot is to Gun as Eat is to
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Hunger Thirst Dinner Fruit
ii). Leader is to follower as is to Soldier.
Captain Army Unit Barrack
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SECTION C
Answer any SIX questions, in a page of 100 words.
23. Select a figure from amongst the Answer Figures which will continue the same
series as established by the five Problem Figures.
Problem Figures: Answer Figures:

i).
ii).
iii).
24. If M N means M is the daughter of M N means M is the father of M
N means M is the mother of N and M N means M is the brother of N then P Q
R T K indicates which relation of P to K
25. Agency Y employs 13,800 people. Of these, 42% are male, and 50% of the males
are age 30 or younger. How many males are there in Agency Y who are older than
30
26. In the given figure below, the triangle represents female graduates, rectangle
represents self employed females and the circle represents self employed females
with bank loan facility. Numbers are shown. Based on these numbers answer the
following questions:
i). How many female graduates are self employed
ii). How many female graduates are not self employed
iii). How many non graduates females are self employed
iv). How many self employed female graduates are with bank loan facility
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27. A is the father of C. But C is not his son. E is daughter of C. F is spouse of A. B is
the brother of C. D is the son of B. G is the spouse of B. H is the Father of G.
i). Who is the son in law of H
ii). Who is the grand daughter of A
iii). Who is the common grand child of both F and H
iv). How many male and female members are there in this family
28. The speed of a boat in still water is 12 km/hr and speed of the stream is 5 km/hr.
Calculate the time (in minutes), taken 6.8 km down stream.
29. A ladder is resting with one end in contact with the top of a wall of height 12 m and
the other end on the ground is a distance 5 m from the wall. Find length of the ladder.
30. S and R are brothers. T is the daughter of S. U is the spouse of R and mother of Q.
P is the daughter of who is the spouse of T.
i). Who is the cousin of Q
ii). How is S related to P
iii). How is V related to S
31. A train covered half of the distance between stations A and B at the speed of
48 km/hr, but then it had to stop for 15 min. To make up for the delay, it increased
its speed by
3
5
m/sec and it arrived to station B on time. Find the distance between
the two stations and the speed of the train after the stop.
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SECTION D
Answer any TWO questions, not exceeding four pages.
32. Eight persons S and T are sitting around a circular table facing
the centre. Q is not the neighbour of P or R. M is second to the left of T and third
to the right of P. R is third to the left of N who is to the immediate left of T. L is
second to the right of P.
i). Who is the immediate left to P
S R Q L none of these
ii). In which of the following pairs of persons the second person is to the
immediate left of the first person
S T L L none of these
iii). Which of the following pairs of persons represent the neighbours of T
S N P L none of these
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iv). Who is to the immediate right to T
S R Q N none of these
v). Which of the following is definitely true
Q is to the immediate right of S R is to the immediate right of
P M is between N and Q R is between P and S none of these
33. The following table gives the percentage of marks obtained by five students in four
different subjects in an examination. The Numbers in the Brackets give the
Maximum Marks in Each Subject.
Maths Chemistry Physics Geography(100)
Ayush 90 50 90 60
Aman 100 80 80 40
Sajith 90 60 70 80
Rohit 80 65 80 80
Tarun 65 35 50 80
i). What are the average marks obtained by all the five students in Physics
(Rounded off to two digit after decimal)
ii). Write the number and name of students who obtained 60% and above marks in
all subjects
iii). What was the aggregate of marks obtained by Sajith in all the four subjects
iv). In which subject is the overall percentage the best
v). What is the overall percentage of Tarun
34. The Pie graph given below shows the spending of a family items and its savings a
year. Study the graph and answers the following questions.
i). If the total income of the family is
Rs.75000. The expenditure on
children's education is
ii). Out of the total amount of Rs.75000,
the difference of the Housing and
Transport was
iii). If the total income of the family is
Rs.75000, the expenditure on food was
more than that on clothing by
iv). If the total income of the family is
Rs.75000, The amount spent on
clothing, food and transport is
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v). If the savings of the year is Rs.7500, then what will be the total income of the
family
35. Answer the following:
i). Raja was on a long distance trip. He travelled by air
5
2
of the distance which
was 1200 km. Then he hired a car and travelled
3
1
of the whole trip. Thereafter,
he completed the rest of the journey by train. Calculate the distance that Raja
travelled by train.
ii). A train of length 150 m takes 40.5 seconds to cross a tunnel of length 300 m.
Find the speed of the train in km/hr.
iii). A car during its journey travels 40 minutes at a speed of 30 km/hr, another
50 minutes at a speed of 60 km/hr and 1 hour at a speed of 30 km/hr. Find the
average speed of the car.
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