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Q406CSAT 2013Squares and Square Roots

A gardener has 1000 plants. He wants to plant them in such a way that the number of rows and the number of columns remains the same. What is the minimum number of plants that he needs more for this purpose?

Q408CSAT 2013Time and Distance

A person can walk one way and drive back in 6 hours. If he walks both ways, he takes 10 hours. How much time will he take to drive both ways?

Q409CSAT 2013Time and Distance

A thief runs at 8 km/h and a policeman follows him at 10 km/h. The thief is 100 m ahead. How long will the policeman take to catch him?

Q410CSAT 2013Time and Work

A garrison has enough food for 1,000 soldiers for one month. After 10 days, another 1,000 soldiers join the garrison. For how many more days will the remaining food last?

Q411CSAT 2013Venn DiagramsRatio and Proportion

Out of 120 applications for a post, 70 are male and 80 have a driver's license. What is the ratio between the minimum to maximum number of males having driver's license?

Q412CSAT 2012Blood Relations

A is the brother of B.

2. C is the father of A.

3. D is the brother of E.

4. E is the daughter of B.

Then the uncle of D is

Q413CSAT 2012Cube and Dice

The views of a cube following a particular motion are given below:

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 What is the letter opposite to A?

Q414CSAT 2012Cube and Dice

Six squares are coloured, front and back, red (R), blue (B), yellow (Y), green (G), white (W) orange (O) and are hinged together as shown in the figure below. If they were folded to form a cube, what would be the face opposite to white face?

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Q415CSAT 2012Data Interpretation

Consider the following information regarding the performance of a class of 1000 students in four different tests:

Tests I II III IV
Average marks 60 60 70 80
Range of marks 30 to 90 45 to 75 20 to 100 0 to 100

If a student scores 74 marks in each of the four tests, in which one of the following tests is her performance the best comparatively?

Q416CSAT 2012Mixtures and AlligationsRatio and Proportion

Two equal-sized glasses contain milk up to 1/2 and 3/4 of their respective capacities. Each glass is then filled completely with water. The contents are mixed in another vessel. What is the ratio of milk to water in the final mixture?

Q417CSAT 2012Puzzle

Four men are waiting at Delhi airport for a Mumbai flight. Two are doctors and the other two are businessmen. Two speak Gujarati and two speak Tamil. No two of the same profession speak the same language. Two are Muslims and two are Christians. No two of the same religion are of the same profession, nor do they speak the same language. The Tamil-speaking doctor is Christian.

Consider the following statements:

  1. The Christian businessman speaks Gujarati.

  2. The Gujarati-speaking doctor is a Muslim.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Q418CSAT 2012PuzzleAnalytical Reasoning

Three persons A, B and C wore shirts of black, blue and orange colours and pants of green, yellow and orange colours. No person wore shirt and pants of the same colour.

Further:

  1. A did not wear a black shirt.

  2. B did not wear a blue shirt.

  3. C did not wear an orange shirt.

  4. A did not wear green pants.

  5. B wore orange pants.

What were the colours of the pants and shirt worn by C, respectively?

Q419CSAT 2012PuzzleLogical Reasoning

Ten new TV shows started in January — 5 sitcoms, 3 dramas and 2 news magazines. By April, only seven of the new shows were still on, five of them being sitcoms.

Which one of the following logically follows?

Q420CSAT 2012PuzzleLogical Reasoning

Only six roads A, B, C, P, Q and R connect a military camp to the rest of the country. Only one out of A, P and R is open at any one time. If B is closed, so is Q. Only one of A and B is open during storms. P is closed during floods.

Which one of the following statements is correct?

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