Part - B: Data Sufficiency

PART – B
DATA SUFFICIENCY
Exercise – 11
Directions for questions 1 to 25: Each question is followed by two statements, 1 and 2. Indicate your responses based
on the following directions.
Mark (A) if the question can be answered using 1 alone but not using 2 alone.
Mark (B) if the question can be answered using 2 alone but not using 1 alone.
Mark (C) if the question can be answered using either statement alone.
Mark (D) if the question can be answered using 1 and 2 together but not using 1 or 2 alone.
1. In the island of Oslo, people use a new language. 8. Find the perimeter (in cm) of a triangle with integral
In that language, if every English word has sides (in cm) and having the largest side measuring
a corresponding word, what is the code for ‘who’? 7 cm.
1. The code for ‘who is it’ is “po so lo”. The code for 1. The perimeter (in cm) of the triangle is a prime
‘it is not good’ is “no lo go po”. number not less than 17.
2. The code for ‘who am I’ is “so to do”. The code 2. The perimeter (in cm) of the triangle is a prime
for ‘who are you’ is “yo jo so”. number less than 19.
2. All Ivy league colleges are located in cities. All the 9. A, B, C and D are four friends. A is the tallest of the
colleges located in cities have good placements. All four. Who is the shortest of the four?
Ivy league colleges are autonomous. No autonomous 1. The sum of the heights of A and B is less than
college has university affiliation. Is MII an Ivy league the sum of the heights of C and D.
college? 2. Four times the height of C is less than three times
1. MII has good placements. the height of B.
2. MII has an university affiliation.
10. X is a four-digit number with non-zero digits. Find X.
3. When a natural number is divided by 3d, the 1. X is a perfect square with the last digit being
remainder is 14. What is the remainder when it is twice the first digit.
divided by d? 2. The third digit equals one-third the sum of the first
1. When it is divided by 2d, the remainder is 9. and the fourth digits, while the sum of the first and
2. When it is divided by 2d, the remainder is 4. the third digits equals the fourth digit, which, in
turn, is six times the second digit.
4. Find the values of the real numbers x, y and z.
1. x + 2y + z = 8; 3x + y + z = 8; 2x + y + z = 7. 11. A work can be completed by a woman in 36 days.
2. x2 + y2 + z2  2x  4y  6z = 14. Find the time taken by two men and three women to
complete the work.
5. Five friends  A, B, C, D and E  decided to meet for 1. 2 men, 4 women and 4 boys take 3 days to
lunch at a restaurant. A arrived at the restaurant first complete the work. 4 men, 3 women and 6 boys
and took one of the five seats at a circular table. take 2 days to complete the work.
B joined him later, followed by C, D and E, in that 2. 6 men and 4 boys take one-third the time which
order. Who sits to the immediate right of A? one woman and 2 men take to complete the
1. No two friends who arrived successively work. 16 men and 12 boys take one-fourth the
occupied adjacent seats. time which 5 men take to complete the work.
2. B is sitting to the immediate right of E.
12. a, b, c and d are four integers. Is ac + bd odd, given
6. Pavan spends 15% of his salary on groceries, b + c is even?
25% on house rent and 35% on education. 1. ab + cd is even.
The corresponding figures for Bharath are 30%, 40% 2. ad + bc is odd.
and 20% respectively. Is the amount that Bharath
spends on groceries more than the amount that 13. Nine books – B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8 and B9 - are
placed in a 3 x 3 grid. Is book B1 heavier than
Pavan spends on education?
book B9?
1. The amount that Pavan spends on house rent is
1. Among the heaviest books of each row, B1 is the
less than the amount that Bharath spends on
lightest.
education.
2. Among the lightest books of each column, B9 is
2. The amount that Bharath spends on education is the heaviest.
more than twice the amount that Pavan spends
on groceries. 14. Six persons – A, B, C, D, E and F - were comparing
their scores in a DST. Each of the scores is a different
7. The angle from the hour hand to the minute hand, digit from 1 to 6. Is the difference in the scores of
measured in the clockwise direction, is 210°. A and B even?
What time is it? 1. The difference in the scores of A and D is odd.
1. The time is between 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. 2. The difference in the scores of B and C is even
2. The time is between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. and that of B and D is even.
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15. Akash and Sagar sell n notebooks each. While Akash 20. Seven persons – A, B, C, D, E, F and G - are sitting in
makes a profit of x%, Sagar incurs a loss of x%. a row facing East. Who is at the middle of the row?
If Akash’s profit is equal to the selling price of m of his 1. A is three places away to the left of B, who is
two places away to the left of C.
notebooks, and Sagar’s loss is equal to the selling 2. D, who is adjacent to neither A nor C, is not
price of p of his notebooks, what is the value of p? at the middle of the row.
1. nm = 1000
2. n – m = 90 21. Fifty students are standing in a queue. Is Rahul
standing ahead of Vindhya?
16. In triangle ABC, AB = 3 cm and AC = 4 cm, while 1. Anil is among the first 10% of the students in
X and Y are points on AB and AC respectively. the queue.
What is the length of AY? 2. Of the total students, 40% are boys and Vindhya
is among the last 50% of the girls. Anil is
1. AX = 2.5 cm
four places away from Rahul.
2. AXY = ACB.
22. Is A a sister of B?
17. The total cost of 2 pencils, 3 erasers and 1. A’s only sister-in-law’s only sister-in-law is B.
5 sharpeners is `37. What is the total cost of 2. A’s mother’s only son’s wife’s only sister-in-law
19 erasers and 1 sharpener? is B.
1. 3 pencils and 7 sharpeners cost `34 more than
5 erasers. 23. Five persons – A, B, C, D and E - are comparing their
2. 3 pencils and 6 sharpeners cost `31 more than heights. Each of them is of different height and A is
taller than B as well as C. Who is the tallest person?
4 erasers.
1. The number of persons taller than A is the same
as the number of persons shorter than D, who is
18. Exactly four persons – A, B, C and D – run a race. not the shortest.
Find the person who wins the race. 2. A is shorter than only E.
1. When the winner finishes the race, the average
of the distances run by A, B and C is equal to the 24. A three-digit number equals 138 times the arithmetic
mean of its digits. Is its units digit greater than 6?
average of the distances run by A and C. 1. Its tens digit is divisible by 3.
2. When the winner finishes the race, the average 2. Its units digit leaves a remainder of 2 when
of the distances run by A and D is equal to the divided by 4.
sum of the average of the distances run by A, B
25. If x is a year, find x.
and D and the average of the distances run by 1. Anand got married in the year x. His age when
A and B. he got married was the square root of his year of
marriage. His year of birth occurred in the
nineteenth century.
19. If a is a real number, is 3
a2  3 a 4 ? 2. Ashok was born in year x. His year of birth was
1. a4 > a2 and a3 > a5 the square of his age at the time he got married.
2. a2 > a3 and a7 > a5 His marriage occurred in the nineteenth century.
Exercise – 12
Mark (A) if the question can be answered using 1 alone but not using 2 alone.
Mark (B) if the question can be answered using 2 alone but not using 1 alone.
Mark (C) if the question can be answered using 1 and 2 together but not using 1 or 2 alone.
Mark (D) if the question cannot be answered even using 1 and 2 together.
1. S is a set of exactly six integers and p is the sum of 2. AB > 10/3.

the products of all the possible pairs of integers in S.
Is p odd? 4. Ram and Shyam started simultaneously from the
1. The sum of the six integers in S is odd. same point in the opposite directions on a circular
2. The number of odd integers in S is not equal to track, 200 m long, with speeds of 5 m/sec and
the number of even integers in S.
1 m/sec respectively. After every meeting they
2. In a certain year, Vamshi’s birthday fell on a Monday. exchanged their speeds and directions. Find the
Was that year a leap year? distance between the kth meeting point and their
1. In the next year, Vamshi's birthday falls on starting point.
a Wednesday. 1. k leaves a remainder of 3 when divided by 6.
2. Four years ago, Vamshi's birthday fell on
2. k is divisible by 3.
a Wednesday.
3. In a quadrilateral ABCD, AB and CD are parallel. 5. If x + 2y + 3z = 8 and 2x + 3y + z = 5, find the values
CD = 10, AB < CD and the distance between AB and of x, y and z.
CD is 4. What is the length of AB? 1. x, y, z are non-negative integers.
1. AD = 5 and BC = 20/3. 2. x, y, z have distinct values.
6. Who won the election among A, B and C, if no 2. The number of people in the office who can either
two among them got the same number of votes? align the Rubik’s cube or cannot solve Sam
1. A got more votes than C, who did not get more Loyd’s puzzle is 23.
votes than B.
2. B didn't get less votes than A, who did not get 16. If the last day of the previous month was Wednesday,
less votes than C.
then what day of the week is the first day of the
7. There are a total of 80 residents (men, women and next year?
children) in the three blocks  A, B and C  of 1. The last day of this month is Thursday.
a residential complex. If there are 25 women in blocks 2. The last day of the next month is Sunday.
A and B put together, how many women are there in
block C? 17. How much time does a cyclist take to cycle a distance
1. There are 20 and 30 residents in blocks A and C of 24 km against the wind? (Assume that the wind
respectively. blows at a uniform speed in a particular direction)
2. There are 25 men and 20 children in all the 1. The time taken by the cyclist to cover a distance
three blocks put together. against the wind is three times the time he takes
8. Four distinct prime numbers have an average of 15. to cover the same distance with the wind.
Find the greatest among them. 2. The speed of the cyclist when there is no wind is
1. At most two of them exceed 5. 3 kmph more than the speed of the wind.
2. At least two of them exceed 5.
18. The shape of a structure is a cylinder perfectly
9. Is (x – 2)2 + (y – 3)2 > 4? surmounted by a hemisphere. What is the ratio of the
1. x > 4 volume of the hemisphere to that of the cylindrical
2. y < 2 portion?
10. Four persons – A, B, C and D - came to a party in the 1. The radius of the hemispherical portion is 4 cm.
given order. While leaving none of these four persons 2. The height of the cylindrical portion is twice the
retained the position at which he came to the party. radius of the hemispherical portion.
Who is the third person to leave the party?
1. A left the party at a position which is adjacent to 19. Find the three-digit number in which the hundreds
that of neither C nor D. digit is less than the tens digit, which in turn is less
2. C is not the first person to leave the party. than the units digit. Also, the hundreds digit, the tens
digit and the units digit are in geometric progression.
11. The population of country X increased by 5% from 1. The product of the hundreds digit and the units
2002 to 2003 and by 10% from 2003 to 2004, while digit is a perfect square.
that of country Y increased by 10% from 2002 to 2003 2. The product of the tens digit and the units digit is
and by 5% from 2003 to 2004. What is the difference a perfect cube.
in the populations of X and Y in 2004?
1. The difference in the populations of X and Y in 20. Among three men – A, B and C and three women – P,
2002 is 50,000. Q and R, three married couples exist. They are sitting
2. The populations of X and Y in 2003 are equal. around a circular table. Who is sitting opposite A?
1. No person is adjacent to his/her spouse. Q is
12. If the GNP of India is greater than $400 bn and the sitting between P and R.
GDP of China is 300 Yuan, the foreign investment 2. C is the husband of R but not adjacent to A.
flows into Asia. Is the GNP of India greater than
$400 bn? 21. Does the equation, ax2 + bx + c = 0 (where a, b, and
1. GDP of China is 450 Yuan. c are real numbers) have a real root?
2. Foreign investment flows into Asia. 1. 4a + 2b < –c
2. 9a + 3b > –c
13. Six persons – Amar, Balu, Chandu, Dev, Eshwar and
Farooq – are seated around a circular table. Who are 22. Each of the four persons – A, B, C and D – are of
adjacent to Amar? a different height and a different weight, if it is known
1. Balu and Chandu are adjacent to each other. that the tallest person is the lightest, who is the
2. Dev is opposite Amar and adjacent to Eshwar. shortest person?
1. A is shorter than B, who is heavier than C and
14. There are three members – X, Y and Z – in a family. shorter than D.
Each of them either always tells truth or always lies. 2. The heaviest person is the third tallest person.
Who is the lone truth teller in the family?
1. X said, “I am a truth teller”. 23. Seven persons – P, Q, R, S, T, U and V – are sitting
2. Y said, “Z is a truth teller”.
in a row facing the same direction. Who is sitting to
the immediate left of Q?
15. Anybody who can align the Rubik’s cube can also
1. P and R are sitting at the ends of the row and are
solve Sam Loyd’s puzzle. Of the 25 people in the
office, how many can align the Rubik’s cube? equidistant from S.
1. 13 people in the office can solve Sam Loyd’s 2. T is to the immediate right of U and V is not
puzzle. adjacent to S.
24. Six persons – P, Q, R, S, T and U – are sitting around 25. An island is inhabitated by two tribes – truth-tellers,
a circular table. P and Q are neither adjacent who always tell the truth and liars, who always lie. P,
nor opposite each other. Who is sitting opposite R? Q and R belong to that island. P says, “Neither Q nor
1. R is sitting between P and T. R is a liar”. Find the tribes of P, Q and R.
2. S is two places away to the right of U, who is 1. R says, “Neither P nor Q is a truth-teller”.
opposite T. 2. Q says, “Exactly one of P and R is a liar”.
Exercise – 13
Mark (A) if the question can be answered using one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered using the other
statement alone.
Mark (B) if the question can be answered using either statement alone.
Mark (C) if the question can be answered using 1 and 2 together but not using 1 or 2 alone
1. Given that X is an integer, find X. 7. Who scored the maximum number of points among
1. 12X2 – 9X is prime. three players  A, B and C  where each player played
2. X2 – X3 is prime. exactly four games with every other player?
(In each game, the winner gets two points while the
2. Seven children  A, B, C, D, E, F and G  have 4, 6, loser loses one point and no game ends in a tie.
8, 9, 12, 16 and 18 marbles, not necessarily in that
Further, no two players scored the same number of
order. How many marbles does B have?
points).
1. The difference between the number of marbles
with D and G is 6 and the number of marbles with 1. The number of matches that A won is one more
B is 4/3 times that with C. than half of the number of points that he scored.
2. The number of marbles with B is 3/2 times that 2. C won three points more than B, who won the
with C and the number of marbles with D is least number of matches.
4/3 times that with F.
8. In a three-digit number, the hundreds digit, the tens
3. Did Shivani qualify in AIMCAT601, which had digit and the units digit are in arithmetic progression
five sections in it? and in ascending order. Find the ratio of its middle
1. Shivani qualifies in all those AIMCATs that have digit and the common difference.
not more than three sections in them. 1. If each digit in it is multiplied by the sum of the
2. Shivani fails to qualify in an AIMCAT unless the other two digits and the results are added, the
AIMCAT does not have five sections in it.
final result will be the sum of 7/4 times the
4. Is the population of Country X more than that of product of the sum of its digits and its middle digit
Country Y? and the square of its common difference.
1. Four years ago, the population of country X was 2. The sum of the products of its digits taken two at
less than 80% of that of country Y, and since then a time is 11/30 times the ratio of the product of
the populations of X and Y have grown by the sum of its digits taken two at a time and its
12% p.a. and 8% p.a. respectively. middle digit.
2. Four years ago, the population of country Y was
less than 80% of that of country X, and since then 9. The lengths of trains A and B are 400 m and
the populations of X and Y have grown by 350 m respectively. What is the speed of train B?
10% p.a. and 20% p.a. respectively. 1. Train B crosses train A which is travelling at
60 km/hr in 22 seconds.
5. Two persons start running around a circular track. 2. The speed of train B is more than the speed of
They start running in the same direction, from the train A.
same point and at the same time. The distance
10. Find a and b, given that they are non-negative single
covered by the faster person is how much more than
-digit integers, and a + b > 1.
that covered by the slower person, when they meet
1. (a + b) = (a – b)!
for the sixth time (excluding the start)?
2. 2(a – b) = (a + b)!
1. The ratio of their speeds is 5 : 3.
2. The length of the track is 500 m. 11. A group had N workers. They were assigned a job.
6. What is the difference between m and n, given that They started it. The ith worker where 1  i  N left the
they are positive integers? job at the end of the ith day. The ith worker can
1. If all the numbers between m and n, including complete i units / day. The job was completed at the
m and n, are considered, then there are a total of end of Nth day. Find N.
five even numbers. 1. The job to be done was a total of 385 units.
2. If all the numbers between m and n + 1, including 2. The number of units of the job completed on the
m and n + 1, are considered, then there are first day was 45 more than that completed on the
a total of six odd numbers. last day.
12. How many craters are there on moon? 19. A four-digit number has its thousands digit, hundreds
1. The number of craters on the moon is equal digit, tens digit and units digit in the descending order.
to the number of pins in a box packed with pins. The sum of its digits is a perfect cube. Find its units
2. A box packed with pins weighs 16 kg and digit.
1. At least two of its digits are prime.
each pin weighs 0.005 kg.
2. At most two of its digits are prime.
13. Is x + 1 < y?
20. An island is inhabitated by three tribes – truth-tellers,
1. x2 + 4x + 3 > y2 + 2y
who always tell the truth, liars, who always lie and
2. x3  6x2 + 12x  7 > y3  3y2 + 3y alternators, who always alternate between a true and
a false statement, in any order. A, B and C belong to
2xy2  3 x 2 z  4 y 2 z  5 xyz that island. A says “Both B and C are liars. I am
14. What is the value of ? an alternator”. To which tribe does C belong to?
6 xyz  7 xz2  8 xy2  9 yz2
1. B says, “Both A and C are truth-tellers. I am not
1. (2x + 3y) : (3y + 4z) : (4z + 2x) = 3 : 5 : 6 a truth-teller”.
2. x : y = 3 : 1 and z = 4 2. C says, “Both A and B are alternators. I am not
a liar”.
15. What is the length of the train?
1. The train crosses a pole, 20 m high, in 20 seconds 21. How many children does X have?
1. Y, X’s daughter has twice the number of brothers
and a tunnel, 450 m long, in 50 seconds.
as sisters.
2. The train crosses a bridge, 300 m long, in 2. Z, X’s son has twice the number of sisters
40 seconds and a platform, 600 m long, in as brothers.
60 seconds.
22. Did Ramu play cricket today?
16. An article was marked up by a certain amount. What is 1. If Ramu goes to school, then he plays cricket.
the percentage by which the article was marked up? If it is not raining, then Ramu goes to school. It is
1. If the discount percentage is equal to the raining today.
mark-up percentage, the loss percentage will be 2. If Ramu plays cricket, then he does not attend
half the discount percentage. the class. If Ramu wakes up early, then he
2. If the discount percentage is half the mark-up attends the class. Ramu woke up early today.
percentage, the profit percentage will be half the
23. All the students of a class are made to stand in
discount percentage. a queue. What is the position of D in the queue from
the front end, if D is ahead of her brother C?
17. Was the year X a leap year? 1. D is the fifth girl from the front end and eighth girl
1. In the year X, there was no month which did not from the rear end.
have at least one day of the week occurring 2. The number of boys ahead of C is two and the
at least five times. number of girls between C and D is two.
2. If only the days in the year X are considered, then
there was no day which had as many days before 24. Who is the topper among A, B, C, D and E?
it as after it. 1. C got more marks than B, who got less marks
than D.
2. A, who is not the topper, got more marks than E.
18. Amar took x days to complete a job. Bhavan took
y days less than him to complete it. Chetan took 25. In a queue, there are ten persons between Vijay and
y days more than Amar to complete it. David took x. Suman. How many persons are there in the queue?
× y days to complete it and Eswar took x. × y2 days to 1. Three-fourths of the persons in the queue are
complete it. Is the combined efficiency of Bhavan and ahead of Vijay and 16 persons are behind Suman.
Chetan less than that of David and Eswar? 2. Two-thirds of the persons in the queue are
1. y  1 behind Suman and eighteen persons are ahead
2. y  1 of Vijay.
Exercise – 14
statement alone.
1. Is  x  < 1?
1. x5 > x3
2. x2 > x3
2. In a class, how many boys play cricket? 14. If a > bd and a, b and d are real, is b < 0?
1. The total number of boys in the class is 100. d
The number of boys who learn music and play 1. >0
b
cricket is 51. 2. a<d
2. All boys who learn music, also play cricket.
15. There are three different solutions – A, B, and C – of
3. On a certain item, a discount of x% on the marked salt in water. The ratio of the weights of water in
price gives a trader a profit of 2x% on the cost price. B and C is 4 : 3 respectively. What is the ratio of the
Is his profit more than 40% of the cost price?
weights of water in A and B?
1. The marked price is more than 1.8 times the cost
1. The ratio of the weights of salt in A, B, and C
price.
2. The marked price is less than 1.7 times the cost is 4 : 3 : 2.
price. 2. The ratio of the total weights of A, B and C is
14 : 23 : 17.
4. Find the value of the sum of a and b, if a > b, and
a and b are positive integers 16. In a triangle, k denotes the ratio of the product of its
1. a2 + b3 = 145 circumradius and inradius to the square of its
2. a3 + b3 = 1729 perimeter. Is the triangle equilateral?
1
5. Are the points A, B and C collinear? 1. k .
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1. AC < BC + AB.
1
2. AC > BC and AC > AB. 2. k .
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6. If ABCD is a cyclic quadrilateral, is ABCD a rectangle?
1. AB is parallel to CD. 17. Ram had N chocolates with him. Find N.
2. A + C = 180° 1. He can distribute all the chocolates with him
among the children of group B such that each
7. Is the difference between the two-digit number ‘XY’ child gets as many chocolates as the number of
and the number ‘YX’ more than 69? children in it. If he had 9 chocolates less, he could
1. The remainder when ‘XY’ is divided by 11 is 3. have distributed all the chocolates with him
2. The remainder when ‘XY’ is divided by 11 is 4. among the children of group A such that each
child gets as many chocolates as the square of
8. P, Q and R are single digit natural numbers with
the number of children in it.
Q < P < R.
2. He can distribute all the chocolates with him
(P2 + R2) x2 – 2P (Q + R) x + (P2 + Q2) = 0 has real
roots. Find Q. among the children of group C such that each
1. P + Q + R  15. child gets as many chocolates as the number of
2. P + Q + R  15. children in it. If he had 28 more chocolates he
could have distributed all the chocolates with him
9. If a and b are integers, is (a2 – b2)/2 an even integer? among the children of group D such that each
1. ab is even. child gets as many chocolates as the square of
2. ab is odd. the number of children in it.
10. C1 is a circle with radius 5 cm and C2 is another circle 18. In a football game between teams X and Y how many
with radius 2 cm. If C2 is internally tangent to C1 at P, goals did X score?
while X and Y are points on C1 such that
1. In the first half, X scored one goal more than
PX = PY, does XY intersect C2?
1. PX < 6 Y and in the second half Y scored one goal more
2. PX > 7 than X.
2. The score of Y is 5 goals.
11. The series Si is obtained from the series of natural
n 19. If triangle ABC is right-angled at B, is the length of AC
numbers ti by the relation Sn =  t i . Are there more
( i  1) less than 11 cm?
than two even terms from t1 to t9? 1. The area of triangle ABC is 32 sq.cm.
1. Of the terms S1 to S9, six are even. 2. The area of triangle ABC is 36 sq.cm.
2. Of the terms S1 to S9, five are even.
20. There are 200 students in a class. 80 students play
12. What is the time shown by the clock given that the football. How many students play at most one of
two hands are together? football and cricket?
1. The time is between 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. 1. 100 students play exactly one of the two games.
2. The time is between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. 2. 60 students play only cricket.
13. There are two geometric progressions – A and B – 21. Five persons – A, B, C, D and E - are sitting around
with common ratios 1.1r and r respectively. Is the third a circular table. Who is sitting to the immediate left of A?
term of A greater than the third term of B? 1. The number of persons between A and B is the
1. The first term of A is 0.9 times the first term of B. same as that between A and C.
2. The second terms of both A and B are positive. 2. C is to the immediate left of D.
22. Six persons – P, Q, R, S, T and U - are sitting in a row 24. A bowl has coins of three denominations – `5, `2 and
facling the same direction. Who are sitting at the `1 coins. If the total number of coins is 13, what is the
extreme ends? number of coins of each denomination?
1. No two of P, Q and R are adjacent to each other. 1. The total value of `5 coins is less than that of
2. S is adjacent to both Q and R, R is adjacent to `2 coins, which in turn is less than that of `1 coins.
2. The difference in the number of `5 coins and
both S and T.
`2 coins is less than the difference in the number
of `2 coins and `1 coins.
23. Two persons A and B played 21 games of Chess. In
every game that A wins, B gives `3 to A and in every
25. In a city, each person either always tells truth or
game that B wins, A gives `2 to B. There were no
always lies. A person from another city met three
draws. How much money did each of them have
persons P, Q and R from the city one of whom is the
when they started the first game?
mayor of the city. Who is the mayor of the city?
1. No person won any two consecutive games.
1. P said, “Q always tells truth. R is the mayor”.
2. By the end of the last game, A has `10 and B
2. R said, “The mayor always lies. Q is the mayor”.
has `15.
Exercise – 15
statement alone.
1. Two men Viru and Prasad have a total of `200 with 6. The area of a right-angled triangle is 6 sq.cm.
them. Find the amount with Viru. Find the inradius.
1. If Viru gives `10 to Prasad, the difference of the 1. The circumradius of the triangle is 2.5 cm.
amounts with them would be `20. 2. The value of sum of the reciprocals of the lengths
2. If Prasad gives `20 to Viru, the difference of the 7
(in cm) of the perpendicular sides is .
amounts with them would be `40. 12
2. Eshwar, Ganesh and Harish ran a race. Who is the 7. The average of four distinct prime numbers is 10.
winner? Find the largest among them.
1. The average of the speeds of the three exceeds 1. At most two of them are single digit numbers.
the average of the speeds of Eswar and Ganesh 2. Two of the four prime numbers have a sum equal
by one fourth the sum of the average of the to that of the other two.
speeds of Eswar and Harish and the average of
the speeds of Ganesh and Harish. 8. A scalene triangle has the length of each side
10 (in cm) as an integer. Its largest side is 40 cm. Its
2. times the average of the speeds of the three
9 perimeter (in cm) is prime. The sum of the lengths of
equals the excess of the sum of the average of its shorter two sides (in cm) is also prime. Find the
the speeds of Eswar and Ganesh and the length of its shortest side.
average of the speeds of Ganesh and Harish 1. The shorter two sides differ by 1 cm and one of
over the average of the speeds of Eswar and them, measured in cm, is a prime number.
Harish. 2. Neither of the shorter two sides, measured in cm,
is a perfect square.
3. Find the value of x.
1. log(x + 3) (2x2 + 3x  9) + log(2x – 3) (2x2 + 3x  9) = 4 9. Everytime her grandmother visits Hyderabad,
2. x3 + 12x  6  6x2 = 2 Shivmala goes to a movie provided she is also in
Hyderabad. How many movies would Shivmala have
4. Find the minimum value of the quadratic expression seen in 1995?
ax2 + bx + c, if a is a non-negative integer and b and 1. Shivmala's grandmother visits Hyderabad once
c are positive single-digit integers. every month.
1. a = 2b – 16c.
2. Shivmala was in Hyderabad for the whole of 1995,
2. c3 – 19 = 4b2 and a = b – c.
except for the complete month of December.
5. ABCD is a quadrilateral with its sides AB, BC, CD and
DA forming tangents to the circle inscribed in it at E, 10. A certain english word has three vowels (not
F, G and H respectively. If the perimeter of ABCD is necessarily distinct). What is the number of O’s in
the word?
68 cm, find the length of AB.
1. The word has two vowels in common with the
1. ABCD is a parallelogram. word – dinner.
2. AEGD and EGCB are both cyclic quadrilaterals 2. The word has no letter in common with the word
and EG is the diameter of the inscribed circle. – republic day.
11. What is the value of {2 log x + 4 log xy} in terms of a? 18. All the employees in an organisation contributed
1. a². x3/2 . y3/4 = (a3/2 . x1/2 . y1/2) (a1/2 . x4 . y9/4) equally to pay a total of `10,000 towards tsunami
2. a². x1/2 . y3/2 = (a2/3 . x² . y) (a4/3 . x3/2 . y1/2) victims. How much did each employee contribute?
1. If there had been five more employees in the
12. A three-digit perfect square N has its non-adjacent organisation, each employee would have
contributed `100 less.
digits equal. The sum of its digits is S. If none of the
2. There were not more than 20 employees in the
digits is zero, then find the middle digit of N.
organisation and no one contributed more than
1. S is a perfect square. `500.
2. N is divisible by its units digit.
19. Is the golden ball heavier than the iron ball?
13. If m and n are positive integers, is m > n? 1. Among the golden ball, the iron ball and the silver
1. 4m + 5n = 87 ball, exactly two have the same weight.
2. m3 < 45n 2. The silver ball is lighter than the iron ball.
20. A cube is painted using three colours red, blue and

14. If m and n are integers, is n even?
green on one, two and three faces respectively. What
1. 2m + 3n is divisible by 4. is the colour of the face opposite to the face painted
2. 17n + 19m is divisible by 9. in red?
1. The faces painted in blue are adjacent to each
15. What is the index of the highest power of 7 in K!? other.
1. The index of the highest power of 2 in K! is 46. 2. Two of the faces painted in green are opposite to
2. The index of the highest power of 2 in K! is 42. each other.
21. Is P a sister of Q?
16. What day of the week will it be on the same date next
1. Q is the only aunt of R.
year? 2. Q is the sister of P.
1. The same date this year is Tuesday.
2. The same date last year was Sunday. 22. Jagan invited his three friends – Varun, Kiran and
Ravi – to a party. Varun did not attend the party.
17. In a football match, the Golden Foot award is given to Did Kiran attend the party?
the player who scored the maximum number of goals. 1. If and only if Kiran attends the party, Ravi attends
In case of a tie, the player (out of those locked in the the party.
tie) who has saved the highest number of goals for 2. Unless Varun attends the party, Ravi did not
attend the party.
his team is chosen. Even after this if there is a tie, the
player (out of those locked in the tie) who has 23. Did Arvind pass in Maths?
dropped the least number of chances (of making 1. Arvind passed in only one of Maths and Physics.
a goal for his team) is chosen. 2. Arvind got 40% of marks in Physics.
In a match there were exactly three contenders
– Amar, Binod and Kamal – for the Golden Foot 24. X has four children – P, Q, R and S. How is P related
award. It is known that Binod dropped two chances to S?
more than Amar did and he saved exactly two goals. 1. S has twice as many brothers as sisters.
2. P has twice as many sisters as brothers.
If Kamal dropped three chances and Amar dropped
more than one, then who received the Golden Foot 25. What is the angle between the hands of a clock?
award in that match? 1. The angle between the hands of the clock after
1. The number of goals scored by each of Amar and 10 minutes will be 70°.
Binod is four more than that by Kamal. 2. The angle between the hands of the clock after
2. The number of chances dropped by Binod is one 20 minutes will be 15°.
more than the number of goals saved by Amar.

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