ALTIUS 2016

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE

Rajesh is 10 years younger to Baskar. 10 years back, Rajesh's age was two-thirds that of Baskar's. How old is Baskar now?

How many litres of water should be added to a 30 litre mixture of milk and water containing milk and water in the ratio of 7:3 such that the resultant mixture has 40% water in it?

A zookeeper counted the heads of the animals in a zoo and found it to be 80. When he counted the legs of the animals he found it to be 260. If the zoo had either pigeons or horses, how many horses were there in the zoo? In the zoo, each horse had four legs and each pigeon had two legs.

A college has 10 basketball players. A 5-member team and a captain will be selected out of these 10 players. How many different selections can be made?

In how many ways can the letters of the word EDUCATION be rearranged so that the relative position of the vowels and consonants remain the same as in the word EDUCATION?

If each interior angle of a regular polygon is 150 degrees, then it is a/an ______________.

If 201 digits were used to number the pages of a book, starting from 1, find the number of pages in the book.

Let x, y and z be distinct integers. x and y are odd and positive, and z is even and positive. Which one of the following statements cannot be true?

There is a gap of 200Km between two trains which simultaneously starts towards each other. If they cross each other at a distance of 110KM from one of the stations, then what is the ration of their speeds?

Two rational numbers lying between 4/5 and 6/7 are

LOGICAL REASONING

Direction for questions 11 to 13:Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below.

Four students, Upasana, Anu, Madhuri and Geeta, each working under the guidance of one of the four professors - Jagmohan, Kabir, Sivapriya, and Sudhanshu, made their final year M.Sc. project presentations one by one, one each in the area of Statistics, Real Analysis (RA), Operation Research (OR), and Complex Analysis (CA). Each professor is an expert in only one of the above areas, and has supervised exactly one of the above students in her/his own area. The following clues are provided.
(i) The first presentation was made by Madhuri.
(ii) Prof. Kabir works in Statistics.
(iii) Prof. Sudhanshu was Upasana’s supervisor.
(iv) The last presentation was in the OR area.
(v) Geeta’s project was in CA area.
(vi) Prof. Kabir’s student’s presentation followed Prof. Sivapriya’s student’s presentation.

In which area was Madhuri’s project?

What is Prof. Sudhanshu’s area of expertise?

Which student completed her/his project under Prof. Kabir’s supervision?

Renu left her house and walked 25 m East, then turned left and walked 10 m, then turned right and walked 20 m and reached a point X. In which direction is the point X from the starting point?

Directions for questions 15 to 17: Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below.

Six employees of GID Pvt. Ltd. company namely, Ankush, Bharat, Chetan, Deepanshu, Emanuel and Fardeen are playing Futsal. Ankush and Emanuel are brothers. Fardeen is the sister of Emanuel. Chetan is the only son of Ankush’s uncle. Bharat and Deepanshu are the daughters of the brother of Chetan’s father.

How is Chetan related to Fardeen?

How many male employees are there in the group?

How many of these employees are real brothers?

A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in a row in a cinema hall. A is sitting between F and D. F is sitting next to C. C is sitting next to B. B is sitting on the extreme left and E is sitting next to D. Who are sitting adjacent to F?

Directions for questions 19 and 20 : Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below.
Seven friends named Preeti, Neelesh, Wasim, Jiya, Amir, Nitai and Khyati are sitting in a circle facing center while playing some games. Every pair of friends are equidistant from each other. Jiya is sitting two places to the left of Nitai, who is sitting third to the right of Wasim. Preeti is sitting second to the left of Amir and second to the right of Neelesh.

Who is the only person sitting between Wasim and Neelesh?

Amir is not sitting at equal distance from:

VERBAL ABILITY

Directions for questions 21 to 22: Select the correct preposition/phrase from the choices that complete the given sentence as your answer.

Whenever we have ventured into new experimental territory, we’ve ——— that our previous “knowledge” was woefully incomplete.

Every groundbreaking technological turn, always ———— a redefined perspective on the nature of reality.

From the list of punctuation marks given below, choose the one that is missing in the following sentences and key it in as your answer:

Most of the boys belongings had been shipped off to the foster care house, much before he was himself sent there.

Vituperative means

Fill in the blanks with the correct pair of words.
If the world seems cold ——— you, kindle fires ——— warm it.

Directions for questions 26 and 27: Choose the most appropriate sentence which can replace the sentence in ‘bold’.

As Smith rightly notes, what count as philosophy has always been up for grabs.

There is the Ascetic, who disclaims such ersatz value as wealth or honor or pleasure for the real values: goodness, reflection, simplicity.

Directions for questions 28 and 29: In each of the following questions the part that is underlined has a grammatical error. Replace the underlined part with the grammatically correct option.

Although the book is framed by its author’s own experience, it wouldn’t be accurate to describe it as memoir.

The Earth is the cradle for humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four choices given to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. The young director whom they all want to sign up with is a person with creative insight and commercial sense that only the great agent can divine, and the said marriage between a talented person and his worldly representative is one of the odder sorts of arrangement that our culture has devised.

B.It was in the 1970s that agenting in Hollywood got to the point where the agents were in charge, ‘packaging’ their talent in a manic, prodigiously cross-fertilising way.

C.Their marriage vows are based on the notion that nothing is luck and everything is knowledge.

D.The great agent becomes great not by knowing everything, but by seeming to know something.

E-COMMERCE

What is online Marketplace?

What is COD?

Which of the following are shipping carriers?

Which of the following type of website is Flipkart?

What is Freight Charge?

Which of the following is a State in USA?

What is used to Track your Shipped order.

Which of the following are the payment methods?

Which of the following is not a Time Zone in USA?

Which of the following is not an E-Commerce Website?