Test of the Day

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions asked:
When a word and number arrangement machine is given an input line words and number, it arranges them following a particular rule. The following is the illustration of input and re-arrangement-
Input : 87  78  agent  extra  26  clap  bold  31
Step I : agent  87  extra  26  clap  bold  31  78
Step II : agent  extra  26  clap  bold  31  87  78
Step III : agent  extra  bold  clap  31  26  87  78
This is the final arrangement and step V is the last step for this input



Input : exact double 40 unite 26 31 arrange 96 claim 41

1. Which of the following will be the 6th element in the left of 9th element from left in Step III?

A. Claim

B. Exact

C. Unite

D. 26

E. None of these

The answer is (3)

2. How many steps will be required to get the final output?

A. III

B. IV

C. V

D. VI

E. VII

The answer is (1)

3. What should be the last but one step of the given input?

A. arrange exact double unite 26 31 claim 40 41 96

B. arrange exact unite 26 31 double claim 40 41 96

C. arrange exact unite claim double 26 31 40 41 96

D. Can't be determined

E. None of these

The answer is (5)

4. Which of the following will be the 6th element in the right of 9th element from right in last but one step?

A. 41

B. Claim

C. 31

D. 40

E. 26

The answer is (4)

5. What will be the input of the arrangement whose step II is given below?
Step II : affair 28 magic current 11 car 13 86

A. affair 28 magic 86 current 11 car 13

B. affair current 11 86 car 13 28 magic

C. 13 28 magic 86 affair current 11 car

D. Can not be determined

E. None of these

The answer is (4)

6. ‘A’ can complete a piece of work in 12 days. ‘A’ and ‘B’ together can complete the same piece of work in 8 days. In how many days can ‘B’ alone complete the same piece of work?

A. 15

B. 18

C. 24

D. 28

E. None of these

The answer is (3)

7. Raman drove from home to a neighbouring town at the speed of 50 km/h and on his returning journey, he drove at the speed of 45 km/h and also took an hour longer to reach home. What distance did he cover each way?

A. 450 km

B. 225 km

C. 900 km

D. 500 km

E. None of these

The answer is (1)

8. The average weight of a group of 75 girls was calculated as 47 kg. It was later discovered that the weight of one of the girls was read as 45 kg. Whereas her actual weight was 25 kg. What is the actual average weight of the group of 75 girls? (Rounded off to two digits after decimal)

A. 46.73 kg

B. 46.64 kg

C. 36.76 kg

D. 56.63 kg

E. None of These

The answer is (1)

9. In how many different ways can the letters of the word ‘MIRACLE’ be arranged?

A. 720

B. 5040

C. 2520

D. 40320

E. None of these

The answer is (2)

10. The sum of the two digits of a two-digit number is 12 and the difference between the two digits of the two-digit number is 6. What is the two-digit number?

A. 38

B. 84

C. 93

D. Can’t be determined

E. None of these

The answer is (3)

Directions (11-15): Choose the correct phrase from the options below.

11. Although it was expected that workers under forty would show hostility to the plan, the research report indicates that both younger and the older people approve of governmental appropriations for Social Security.

A. younger and the older people

B. younger people and the older

C. the younger and the older people

D. younger and older people

E. people who are younger and those who are older

The answer is (4)

12. Although Napoleon’s army entered Russia with far more supplies than they had in their previous campaigns, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.

A. they had in their previous campaigns

B. their previous campaigns had had

C. they had for any previous campaign

D. in their previous campaigns

E. for any previous campaign

The answer is (5)

13. Although she had signed a pledge of abstinence while being an adolescent, Frances Willard was 35 years old before she chose to become a temperance activist.

A. while being an adolescent 

B. while in adolescence

C. at the time of her being adolescent

D. as being in adolescence 

E. as an adolescent

The answer is (5)

14. American productivity is declining in relation to Europe’s; the energy expended per unit of production in the United States is as much as twice that expended in West Germany.

A. as much as twice that expended in West Germany 

B. as much as twice that of West Germany’s expenditure 

C. up to two times of West Germany’s expenditure 

D. up to two times what West Germans expended

E. up to double the West German expenditure

The answer is (1)

15. Among the cossacks, vegetable farming was once so despised that it was forbidden on pain of death.

A. so despised that it was

B. so despised to be

C. so despised it had been

D. despised enough that it was 

E. despised enough as to be

The answer is (1)