Paper: Aptitude Questions: Synapse-Training HCL Campus Placement Paper Pattern (Aptitude, C, Puzzles)
Paper: Aptitude Questions: Synapse-Training HCL Campus Placement Paper Pattern (Aptitude, C, Puzzles)
Paper: Aptitude Questions: Synapse-Training HCL Campus Placement Paper Pattern (Aptitude, C, Puzzles)
Aptitude Questions
10. Working independently, Tina can do a certain job in 12 hours. Working independently, Ann can do the same job in 9
hours. If Tina Works independently at the job for 8 hours and then Ann works independently, how many hours will it take
Ann to complete the remainder of the jobs?
(A) 2/3 (B) 3/4 (C) 1 (D) 2 (E) 3
11. A decorator bought a bolt of d m number of red chips in any one stack ?
(A) 7 (B) 6 (C) 5 (D) 4 (E) 3
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23. A man fixed an appointment to meet the manager, Manager asked him to come two days after the day before the day
after tomorrow. Today is Friday. When will the manager expect him?
24. A man said he spent 1/6 of his as a child, 1/12 as salesman in a liquor shop, 1/7 and 5 years as a politician and a good
husband respectively. At that time Jim was born. Jim was elected as Alderman four years back. when he was half of his
age. What is his age?
25. Jack, Doug and Ann, 3 children had a running race while returning from school. Mom asked who won the race. Then
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Jack replied" I won’t tell you I will give u clue, When Ann takes 28 steps Doug takes 24 steps, meantime
I take 21 steps. Jack explained that his 6 steps equals Droug's 7 steps and Ann's 8 steps. Who won the race?
26. Every day a cyclist meets a car at the station. The road is straight and both are traveling in the same direction. The
cyclist travels with a speed of 12 mph. One day the cyclist comes late by 20 min. and meets the car 5miles before the
Station. What is the speed of the car?
(a) 60 mph (b) 39 mph (c) 31 mph (d) 33 mph (e) None of these
27. A lady goes for shopping. She bought five shoestrings and eight handkerchiefs, if the cost price of four shoestrings is
same as the cost price of eight handkerchiefs. She paid each item with their count as each piece's cost. She totally spent
Rs. 3.24. How many handkerchiefs did she buy?
29. Lucia is a wonderful grandmother. Her age is between 50 and 70. Each of her sons have as many sons as they have
brothers. Their combined number gives Lucia’s age. What is the age?
30. There are two towers A and B. Their heights are 200 ft and 150 ft respectively and the foot of the towers are 250 ft
apart. Two birds on top of each tower fly down with the same speed and meet at the same instant on the ground to pick a
grain. What is the distance between the foot of tower A and the grain?
31. Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 40 days for 40 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat
the whole of the grass. How many days does it take for 20 cows to do the same?
32. Four tourists A, B, C, D and four languages English, German, French and Italian. They are not able to converse among
themselves in one language. Though A does not know English he can act as an interpreter between B and C. No one spoke
both French and German. A knows German and was able to converse with D who doesn't know a word in German. Only
one language was spoken by more than two persons. Each spoke two languages. Find who spoke what.
33. There is a five digit number. It has two prime digits (1 is not a prime number). Third digit is the highest. Second digit
is the lowest. First digit is one less than the third digit. The fifth digit is half of the fourth. The sum of 4 th and 5th is less
than the first. Find the number.
34. Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which has
two different colors on either side.
No card has the same color on both sides. The colors visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue respectively. They
see the color on the reverse side and give the following comment.
A: Yellow or Green B: Neither Blue nor Green C: Blue or Yellow D: Blue or Yellow
Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the cards each person.
35. A 1 km long wire is held by n poles. If one pole is removed, the length of the gap becomes 12/3 m. What is the
number of poles initially?
37. A man starts walking at 3 p.m., he walks at a speed of 4 kmph on level ground and at a speed of 3 kmph on uphill, 6
kmph downhill and then 4 kmph on level ground to reach home at 9 p.m. What is the distance covered on one way?
38. A grandma has many sons; each son has as many sons as his brothers. What is her age if it's the product of the no: of
her sons and grandsons plus no: of her sons? (age b/w 70 and 100).
39. An electric wire runs for 1 km b/w some no: of poles. If one pole is removed the distance b/w each pole increases by 1
2/6 (mixed fraction). How many poles were there initially?
40. There is a church tower 150 feet tall and another catholic tower at a distance of 350 feet from it which is 200 feet tall.
There is one each bird sitting on top of both the towers. They fly at a constant speed and time to reach a grain in b/w the
towers at the same time. At what distance from the church is the grain?
41. A person wants to meet a lawyer and as that lawyer is busy he asks him to come three days after the day before the
day after tomorrow. Today is Sunday. On which day the lawyer asks the person to come?
42. A person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which year is he celebrates 100 th birthday?
43. A person says that their speed while going to a city was 10 mph however while returning as there is no much traffic
they came with a speed of 15 mph. what is their average speed?
44. At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are purchased at the sale, the
amount saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5 tickets?
(a) 20% (b) 33.3% (c) 40% (d) 60% (e) 66.6%
45. There is a peculiar island where a man always tells truth and a women never says two 2 consecutive truth or false
statements that is if she says truth statement then she says false statement next and vice versa. A boy and girl also goes
in the same way. one day i asked a child " what r u a boy or a girl" however the child replied in their language that i dint
understand but the parents knew my language and one parent replied that " kibi is a boy" the other one said that "no kibi
is a girl, kibi lied".
a: is kibi a boy or a girl
b: who answered first either mother or father?
46. The boy goes to school reaches railway station at his 1/3 of his journey and mill at 1/4 of his journey the time taken
him to walk between railway station and mill is 5 minutes. Also he reaches railway station at 7.35 a.m., when he started
from house and when he reaches school?
47. If a person is sitting in a exam having 30 questions (objective type) the examiner use the formula to calculate the
score is S =30+ 4c, where c is number of correct answers and w is number of wrong answers, the examiner find the score
is more than 80, then how many questions are correct?
48. If a person having Rs.1000 and he want to distribute this to his five children in the manner that each son having Rs.20
more than the younger one, what will be the share of youngest child?
49. Raju having some coins want to distribute to his 5 son, 5 daughter and driver in a manner that, he gave fist coin to
driver and 1/5 of remaining to first son he again gave one to driver and 1/5 of remaining to 2 nd son and so on.... at last he
equally distributed all the coins to 5 daughters. How many coins raju initially have?
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50. if ravi binded his book and the binder cut the pages of the book, ravi decided to mark the pages by himself own, what
he found that number of three appears 61 times find of number of pages answer
51. a painter went in a exhibition to purchases some pictures where T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z pictures were remaining , he want
to buy only five in the condition on that
if T is there then X should not be there,
if U is there then y should be there
if if v is there then X should be there
which is the combination the painter can have
(a) T, U, V, W, Y (b) T, Z, U, W, X (c) T, X, U, V, W (d)T, U, Y, W, Z
52. There are 100 men in town. Out of which 85% were married, 70% have a phone, 75% own a car, 80% own a house.
What is the maximum number of people who are married, own a phone, own a car and own a house ? ( 3 marks)
53. There are 10 Red, 10 Blue, 10 Green, 10 Yellow and 10 White balls in a bag. If you are blindfolded and asked to pick
up the balls from the bag, what is the minimum number of balls required to get a pair of at least one colour? ( 2 Marks)
54. Triplet who usually wear same kind and size of shoes, namely, Annie, Danny, Fanny. Once one of them broke a glass
in kitchen and their shoe prints were there on floor of kitchen. When their mother asked who broke? Annie said: I didn't
do it; Fanny said: Danny did it; Danny said: Fanny is lying; here two of them are lying, one is speaking truth. Can you find
out who broke it? (3 Marks)
55. 4 players were playing a card game. Cards had different colours on both sides. Neither of cards had same colour on
both sides. Colors were 2 Red, 2 Blue, 2 Green, 2 Yellow. Cards were lying in front of each player. Now, each player knew
the colour on other side of his card. They are required to tell their colour. Statement given by each of them was:
Annie: Blue or Green Bobby: Neither Blue nor Green Cindy: Blue or Yellow Danny: Blue or Yellow
colours of cards that are visible to all were Red, Blue, Green, Blue in order of their names. Exactly two of them are telling
truth and exactly two of them are lying. Can you tell the colour on other face of card for each player? (6 Marks)
56. In a game i won 12 games, each game if i loose i will give u one chocolate, You have 8 chocolates how many games
played.
57. 75 persons Major in physics, 83 major in chemistry, 10 not at major in these subjects, find number of students
majoring in both subjects.
58. If A wins in a race against B by 10 m in a 100 Meter race. If B is behind of A by 10 m. Then they start running race,
who will win?
60. One guy has Rs. 100/- in hand. He has to buy 100 balls. One football costs Rs. 15/, One Cricket ball costs Re. 1/- and
one table tennis ball costs Rs. 0.25 He spend the whole Rs. 100/- to buy the balls. How many of each balls he bought?
61. The distance between Station A and Station B is 90 miles. A train starts from A towards B. A bird starts at the same
time from B straight towards the moving train. On reaching the train, it instantaneously turns back and returns to B. The
bird makes these journeys from B to the train and back to B continuously till the train reaches B. The bird finally returns to
B and rests. Calculate the total distance in miles the bird travels in the following two cases:
(a) The bird flies at 90 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 60 miles per hour.
(b) The bird flies at 60 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 90 miles per hour
62. A tennis championship is played on a knock-out basis, i.e., a player is out of the tournament when he loses a match.
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(a) How many players participate in the tournament if 15 matches are totally played?
(b) How many matches are played in the tournament if 50 players totally participate?
63. When I add 4 times my age 4 years from now to 5 times my age 5 years from now, I get 10 times my current age.
How old will I be 3 years from now?
64. A rich merchant had collected many gold coins. He did not want anybody to know about them. One day, his wife
asked, "How many gold coins do we have?" After pausing a moment, he replied, "Well! If I divide the coins into two
unequal numbers, then 37 times the difference between the two numbers equals the difference between the squares of
the two numbers." The wife looked puzzled. Can you help the merchant's wife by finding out how many gold R
65. A set of football matches is to be organized in a "round-robin" fashion, i.e., every participating team plays a match
against every other team once and only once. If 21 matches are totally played, how many teams participated?
66. Glenn and Jason each have a collection of cricket balls. Glenn said that if Jason would give him 2 of his balls they
would have an equal number; but, if Glenn would give Jason 2 of his balls, Jason would have 2 times as many balls as
Glenn. How many balls does Jason have?
68. It was vacation time, and so I decided to visit my cousin's home. What a grand time we had! In the mornings, we both
would go for a jog. The evenings were spent on the tennis court. Tiring as these activities were, we could manage only
one per day, i.e., either we went for a jog or played tennis each day. There were days when we felt lazy and stayed home
all day long. Now, there were 12 mornings when we did nothing, 18 evenings when we stayed at home, and a total of 14
days when we jogged or played tennis. For how many days did I stay at my cousin's place?
69 A 31" x 31" square metal plate needs to be fixed by a carpenter on to a wooden board. The carpenter uses nails all
along the edges of the square such that there are 32 nails on each side of the square. Each nail is at the same distance
from the neighboring nails. How many nails does the carpenter use?
70. Given that A, B, C, D and E each represent one of the digits between 1 and 9 and that the following multiplication
holds:
ABCDE
X4
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EDCBA
-------------- what digit does E represent?
(a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 7
71. HCL prototyping machine can make 10 copies every 4 seconds. At this rate, How many copies can the machine make
in 6 min.?
(a) 900 (b) 600 (c) 360 (d) 240 (e) 150
73. Worker W produces n units in 5 hours. Workers V and W, workers independently but at the same time, produce n
units in 2 hours. how long would it take V alone to produce n units?
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(a) 1 hr 26 min (b) 1 hr 53 min (c) 2 hr 30 min (d) 3 hr 30 min (e) 3 hr 20 min
81. Which of the following about the following two declaration is true
(i) int *F()
(ii) int (*F)()
Choice :
(a) Both are identical (b) The first is a correct declaration and the second is wrong
(c) The first declaraion is a function returning a pointer to an integer and the second is a
pointer to function returning int (d) Both are different ways of declarin pointer to a function
82. What are the values printed by the following program?
#define dprint(expr) printf(#expr "=%d\n",expr)
main()
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{
int x=7;
int y=3;
dprintf(x/y);
}
Choice:
(a) #2 = 2 (b) expr=2 (c) x/y=2 (d) none
86. When an array is passed as parameter to a function, which of the following statement is correct choice:
(a) The function can change values in the original array
(b) In C parameters are passed by value. The function cannot change the original value in the array
(c) It results in compilation error when the function tries to access the elements in the array
(d) Results in a run time error when the function tries to access the elements in the array
87. The type of the controlling expression of a switch statement cannot be of the type
(a) int (b) char (c) short (d) float (e) none
6
88. What is the value of a in the expression3 +6 a=3 a( 3+2a )?
(a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) a + 18 (e) None of these
Questions 90-94
Six knights - P, Q, R, S, T and U - assemble for a long journey in Two traveling parties. For security, each travelling party
Consists of at least two knights. The two parties travel by separate routes, northern and southern. After one month, the
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routes of the northern and southern groups converge for a brief time and at that point the knights can, if they wish,
rearrange their travelling parties before continuing, again in two parties along separate northern and southern routes.
Throughout the entire trip, the composition of traveling parties must be in accord with the following conditions P and R are
deadly enemies and, although they may meet briefly, can never travel together. p must trave in the same party with sQ
can't travel by the southern route U can't change.
90. If one of the two parties of knights consists of P and U and two other knights and travels by the southern route,the
other members of this party besides P and U must be
(a) Q and S (b) Q and T (c) R and S (d) R and T (e) S and T
91. If each of the two parties of knights consists of exactly three members, which of the following is not a possible
travelling party and route?
(a) P, S, U by the northern route (b) P, S, T by the northern route (c) P, S, T by the southern route
(d) P, S, U by the southern route (e) Q, R, T by the southern route
92. If one of the two parties of knights consists of U and two other knights and travels by the northern route, the other
memnbers of this party besides
U must be
(a) P and S (b) P and T (c) Q and R (d) Q and T (e) R and T
93. If each of the two parties of knights consists of exactly three members of different parties, and R travels by the
northern route,then T must travel by the
(a) southern route with P and S (b) southern route with Q and R (c) southern route with R and U
(d) northern route with Q and R (e) northern route with R and U
94. If when the two parties of knights encounter one another after a month, exactly one knight changes from one
travelling party to the other traveling party, that knight must be
(a) P (b) Q (c) R (d) S (e) T
96. If taxi fares were Rs 1.00 for the first 1/5 mile and Rs 0.20 for each 1/5 miles thereafter. The taxi fare for a 3-mile ride
was
(a) Rs.1.56 (b) Rs.2.40 (c) Rs.3.00 (d) Rs.3.80 (e) Rs.4.20
97. A computer routine was developed to generate two numbers (x,y) the first being a random number between 0 and
100 inclusive, and the second being less than or equal to the square root of the first. Each of the followin pair satisfies the
routine EXCEPT
(a) (99, 10) (b) (85, 9) (c) (50, 7) (d) (1, 1) (e) (1, 0)
98. A warehouse had a square floor with area 10,000 sq.meters. A rectangular addition was built along one entire side of
the warehouse that increased the floor by one-half as much as the original floor. How many meters did the addition extend
beyond the original buildings?
(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 50 (d) 200 (e) 500
99. A digital wristwatch was set accurately at 8.30 a.m. and then lost 2 seconds every 5 minutes. What time was indicated
on the watch at 6.30 p.m. of the same day if the watch operated continuously that time?
(a) 5 : 56 (b) 5 : 58 (c) 6 : 00 (d) 6 : 23 (e) 6 : 26
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100. A 5 litre jug contains 4 litres of a salt water solution that is 15 percent salt. If 1.5 litres of the solution spills out of the
jug, and the jug is then filled to capacity with water, approximately what percent of the resulting solution in the jug is salt?
(a) 7.5% (b) 9.5% (c) 10.5% (d) 12% (e) 15%
101. A millionaire bought a job lot of hats 1/4 of which were brown. The millionaire sold 2/3 of the hats including 4/5 of
the brown hats. What fraction of the unsold hats was brown?
(a) 1/60 (b) 1/15 (c) 3/20 (d) 3/5 (e) 3/4
102. How many integers n greater than and less than 100 are there such that, if the digits of n are reversed, the resulting
integer is n+9?
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 8 (e) 9
103. An investor purchased a shares of stock at a certain price. If the stock increased in price Rs 0.25 per share and the
total increase for the x shares was Rs 12.50, how many shares of stock had been purchased?
(A) 25 (b) 50 (c) 75 (d) 100 (e) 125
ANSWER KEY
32. Ans: A- German, Italian; B- French, Italian; C- German, English; D- Italian, English
34. Ans: A- Yellow; B- Yellow; C- Green; D- Red
45. Ans: kibi is a girl and mother answered first
55. Sol: Annie: Yellow (Lying); Bobby : Yellow (Telling truth); Cindy : Blue (Telling
truth); Danny : Green (Lying) 60. F = 3, T = 56 and E = 1.
83. Ans: The code functions properly releasing all the memory allocated