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Quantitative Aptitude Quiz for MBA entrance exams

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1.
Three Vice Presidents (VP) regularly visit the plant on different days. Due to
labour unrest, VP (HR) regularly visits the plant after a gap of 2 days. VP
(Operations) regularly visits the plant after a gap of 3 days. VP (Sales)
regularly visits the plant after a gap of 5 days. The VPs do not deviate from
their individual schedules. CEO of the company meets the VPs when all the three
VPs come to the plant together. CEO is on leave from January 5th to January
28th, 2012. Last time CEO met the VPs on January 3, 2012. When is the next time
CEO will meet all the VPs?

A. February 6, 2012

B. February 7, 2012

C. February 8, 2012

D. February 9, 2012

E. None of the above

2.
Ramesh analysed the monthly salary figures of five vice presidents of his
company. All the salary figures are integers. The mean and the median salary
figures are Rs.5 lakh, and the only mode is Rs.8 lakh. Which of the options
below is the sum (in Rs.lakh) of the highest and the lowest salaries?

A. 9                  B.
10                C. 11                D. 12                E. None of the above.

3.
Tina, Mina, Gina, Lina, and Bina are 5 sisters, aged in that order, with Tina
being the eldest. Each of them had to carry a bucket of water from a well to
their house. Their buckets’ capacities were proportional to their ages. While
returning, equal amount of water got splashed out of their buckets. Who lost
maximum amount of water as a percentage of the bucket capacity? 

A. Tina             B.
Mina           C. Gina            D. Lina                         E. Bina

4.
Ram, a farmer, managed to grow shaped-watermelons inside glass cases of
different shapes. The shapes he used were: a perfect cube, hemi-spherical,
cuboid, cylindrical along with the normal spherical shaped watermelons.
Thickness of the skin was same for all the shapes. Each of the glass cases was
so designed that the total volume and the weight of all the water-melons would
be equal irrespective of the shape. A customer wants to buy water-melon for
making juice, for which the skin of the water-melon has to be peeled off, and
therefore is a waste.

Which shape should the
customer buy?

A. Cube            B.
Hemi-sphere           C. Cuboid         D. Cylinder      E. Normal spherical

5.
A man borrows Rs.6000 at 5% interest, on reducing balance, at the start of the
year. If he repays Rs 12 at the end of each year, find the amount of loan
outstanding, in Rs, at the beginning of the third year.

A. 3162.75       B.
4125.00       C. 4155.00       D. 5100.00       E. 5355.00         

6. A spherical metal of
radius 10 cm is molten and made into 1000 smaller spheres of equal sizes. In
this process the surface area of the metal is increased by:          

A. 1000 times              B.
100 times                C. 10 times      D. No change             E. None of the above

7.
Nikhil’s mother asks him to buy 100 pieces of sweets worth Rs.100/-. The sweet
shop has 3 kinds of sweets, kajubarfi, gulabjamun and sandesh. Kajubarfi costs
Rs.10/- per piece, gulabjamun costs Rs.3/- per piece and sandesh costs 50 paise
per piece. If Nikhil decides to buy at least one sweet of each type, how many
gulabjamuns should he buy?       

A. 1      B. 2      C. 3      D.
4      E. 5

8. A potter asked his two
sons to sell some pots in the market. The amount received for each pot was same
as the number of pots sold. The two brothers spent the entire amount on some
packets of potato chips and one packet of banana chips. One brother had the
packet of banana chips along with some packets of potato chips, while the other
brother just had potato chips. Each packet of potato chips costs Rs.10/- and
the packet of banana chips costs less than Rs.10/-. The packets of chips were
divided between the two brothers so each brother received equal number of
packets. How much money should one brother give to the other to make the
division financially equitable?

A. 1      B. 2      C. 4      D.
5      E. 7

9. A city has a park shaped
as a right angled triangle. The length of the longest side of this park is 80m.
The Mayor of the city wants to construct three paths from the corner point
opposite to the longest side such that these three paths divide the longest
side into four equal segments. Determine the sum of the squares of the lengths
of the three paths.

A. 4000 m        B.
4800 m        C. 5600 m        D. 6400 m       E. 7200 m          

10. Ram prepares solutions of
alcohol in water according to customers’ needs. This morning Ram has prepared
27 Iitres of a 12% alcohol solution and kept it ready in a 27 litre delivery
container to be shipped to the customer. Just before delivery, he finds out
that the customer had asked for 27 litres of 21% alcohol solution. To prepare
what the customer wants, Ram replaces a portion of 12% solution by 39%
solution. How many litres of 12% solution are replaced?          

A. 5                  B.
9                  C. 10                D. 12                E. 15

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Answers

1(c)    2(a)    
3(e)    4(e)     5(c)   
 6(e)   7(a)   
8(b)     9(c)    10(b)   

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