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This section includes 69 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Cognizant knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
There are 8 football teams in a certain league and each team plays each of the other teams exactly once. If each game is played by 2 teams, what is the total number of games played? |
| A. | 15 |
| B. | 16 |
| C. | 64 |
| D. | 28 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
What is the smallest number which when decreased by 8 is divisible by 21, 27, 33, and 55? |
| A. | 1490 |
| B. | 10405 |
| C. | 15490 |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
In a meeting, there are 12 persons. All the persons of one country shake hands with all delegates of the other country. Find the number of handshakes possible? |
| A. | 72 |
| B. | 288 |
| C. | 144 |
| D. | 234 |
| Answer» D. 234 | |
| 4. |
In how many different ways, can the letters of the word ‘INHALE’ be arranged? |
| A. | 650 ways |
| B. | 360 ways |
| C. | 120 ways |
| D. | 720 ways |
| Answer» E. | |
| 5. |
A cistern can be filled by a tap in 4 hours while it can be emptied by another tap in 9 hours. If both the taps are opened simultaneously, then after how much time cistern will get filled? |
| A. | 7 hours |
| B. | 7.1 hours |
| C. | 7.2 hours |
| D. | 7.3 hours |
| Answer» D. 7.3 hours | |
| 6. |
Ram purchased 20 dozens of toys at the rate of Rs. 375 per dozen. He sold each one of them at the rate of Rs. 33. What was his percentage profit? |
| A. | 5.6 % |
| B. | 4.5 % |
| C. | 3.5 % |
| D. | 6.5 % |
| Answer» B. 4.5 % | |
| 7. |
There are two alarm clocks ringing at regular intervals of 50 seconds and 48 seconds. If they first beep together at 12 noon, at what time will they beep again together? |
| A. | 12:10 PM |
| B. | 12:20 PM |
| C. | 12:11 PM |
| D. | 12:12 PM |
| Answer» C. 12:11 PM | |
| 8. |
Aman completes a journey in 10 hours. He travels first half of the journey at the rate of 21 km/hr and second half at the rate of 24 km/hr. Find the total journey in km. |
| A. | 220 km |
| B. | 234 km |
| C. | 230 km |
| D. | 224 km |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
A reduction in the price of mangoes by 20% enables a farmer to purchase 12 more mangoes for Rs. 15. So what could be the price of 16 mangoes before the reduction of the price? |
| A. | Rs. 9 |
| B. | Rs. 7 |
| C. | Rs. 5 |
| D. | Rs. 6 |
| Answer» D. Rs. 6 | |
| 10. |
Three cubes of edges 6 cms, 8 cms and 10 cms are meted without loss of metal into a single cube. The edge of the new cube will be: |
| A. | 16 cm |
| B. | 14 cm |
| C. | 12 cm |
| D. | 8 cm |
| Answer» D. 8 cm | |
| 11. |
A secret can be said by only 2 persons in 5 minutes. The same person tells the secret to 2 more persons and so on. How long will take to tell it to tell 768 persons? |
| A. | 500 min |
| B. | 50 min |
| C. | 47.5 min |
| D. | 49 min |
| Answer» D. 49 min | |
| 12. |
There are 6 cities, and every city is connected to each other. How many different routes can one trace from A to B, such that no city is touched more than once in any one route? |
| A. | 72 |
| B. | 65 |
| C. | 60 |
| D. | 48 |
| Answer» C. 60 | |
| 13. |
The average temperature of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were 37°C and on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 34°C. If the temperature on Thursday was 4/5 th of that of Monday, then what was the temperature on Thursday? |
| A. | 36 °C |
| B. | 36.5 °C |
| C. | 34 °C |
| D. | 35.5 °C |
| Answer» B. 36.5 °C | |
| 14. |
What is the greatest number that will divide 964, 1238 and 1400 and leave a remainder of 41, 31 and 51 respectively? |
| A. | 71 |
| B. | 58 |
| C. | 64 |
| D. | 79 |
| Answer» B. 58 | |
| 15. |
There are 2 trucks facing each other at a distance of 500 cm from each other. Each truck moves forward by 100 cm at a speed of 50 cm/s and then moves backwards by 50 cm at a speed of 25 cm/s. How long will they take to collide? |
| A. | 12 sec |
| B. | 16 sec |
| C. | 13 sec |
| D. | 14 sec |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
In a group of persons travelling in a bus, 6 persons can speak Tamil, 15 can speak Hindi and 6 can speak Gujarati. In that group, none can speak any other language. If 2 persons in the group can speak two languages and one person can speak all the three languages, then how many persons are there in the group? |
| A. | 21 |
| B. | 22 |
| C. | 24 |
| D. | 23 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
Rajesh and Prabhu went to a bookshop. Rajesh purchased 5 pens, 3 notebooks and 9 pencils and used up all her money. Prabhu purchased 6 pens, 6 notebooks and 18 pencils and paid 50% more than what Rajesh paid. What % of the Rajesh money was spent on pens? |
| A. | 12.5 |
| B. | 62.5 |
| C. | 75 |
| D. | Cannot be determined |
| Answer» B. 62.5 | |
| 18. |
If all 6s get inverted and become 9s, between 1 and 100 then by how much will the sum of all numbers change including both? |
| A. | 300 |
| B. | 330 |
| C. | 333 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. 333 | |
| 19. |
Find the number, the second digit of which is smaller than its first digit by 4, and if the number was divided by the digit’s sum, the quotient would be 7. |
| A. | 51 |
| B. | 62 |
| C. | 73 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
There are forty students in a class out of which there are 14 who are taking Maths and 29 who are taking Computer. What is the probability that a randomly chosen student from this group is taking only the Computer class? |
| A. | 40% |
| B. | 55% |
| C. | 65% |
| D. | 70% |
| Answer» D. 70% | |
| 21. |
If Reena says, “Anjali's father Raman is the only son of my father-in-law Ramanand”, then how is Piyu, who is the sister of Anjali, related to Ramanand ? |
| A. | Wife |
| B. | Sister |
| C. | Grand-daughter |
| D. | Daughter |
| Answer» D. Daughter | |
| 22. |
A reduction of 20% in the price of mangoes enables a person to purchase 12 more for Rs. 15. What was the price of 16 mangoes before reduction of price ? |
| A. | Rs. 6 |
| B. | Rs. 5 |
| C. | Rs.7 |
| D. | Rs. 9 |
| Answer» C. Rs.7 | |
| 23. |
√0.0081 is equal to : |
| A. | 0.09 |
| B. | 0.9 |
| C. | ±0.08 |
| D. | 0.81 |
| Answer» B. 0.9 | |
| 24. |
In 24 minutes, the hour hand of a clock moves through an angle of: |
| A. | 60° |
| B. | 24° |
| C. | 12° |
| D. | 5° |
| Answer» D. 5° | |
| 25. |
What is the number which when multiplied by 13 is increased by 180? |
| A. | 13 |
| B. | 15 |
| C. | 23 |
| D. | 35 |
| Answer» C. 23 | |
| 26. |
How many numbers between 1 and 100 are divisible by 7 ? |
| A. | 9 |
| B. | 11 |
| C. | 17 |
| D. | 14 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
The difference of two numbers is 11 and one fifth of their sum is 9. The numbers are : |
| A. | 31, 20 |
| B. | 30, 19 |
| C. | 29, 18 |
| D. | 28, 17 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
Simplify (0.001344 / 0.3 x 0.7) = ? |
| A. | 0.0064 |
| B. | 0.064 |
| C. | 0.64 |
| D. | 6.4 |
| Answer» B. 0.064 | |
| 29. |
A person travels 48 kms at 12 kms/hour and further 48 kms at 16km.s/hour. His average speed for the whole |
| A. | 14 km/hour |
| B. | 13(4/7)km/hour |
| C. | 12(5/7)km/hour |
| D. | 13(5/7)km/hour |
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. |
If 378 coins consist of rupee, 50 paise and 25 paise coins, whose values are proportional to 13 :11 : 7, the number of 50 paise coins will be : |
| A. | 128 |
| B. | 132 |
| C. | 133 |
| D. | 136 |
| Answer» C. 133 | |
| 31. |
X, Y and Z can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively depending on their capacity of doing work. If X is assisted by Y and Z on every third day, then in how X will complete the work? |
| A. | 12 days |
| B. | 15 days |
| C. | 16 days |
| D. | 18 days |
| Answer» C. 16 days | |
| 32. |
A box contains 15 marbles out of which 4 are white, 5 are red and 6 are blue. Three balls are to be drawn at random from the bag. What is the probability that all of them are red is: |
| A. | 1/22 |
| B. | 2/89 |
| C. | 2/77 |
| D. | 2/91 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. |
In a group of 6 men and 4 women, four are to be selected. In how many different ways can they be selected such that at least one man should be there in the group? |
| A. | 209 ways |
| B. | 194 ways |
| C. | 205 ways |
| D. | 120 ways |
| Answer» B. 194 ways | |
| 34. |
Identify the odd number from the series: 835, 734, 642, 751, 853, 981, 532 |
| A. | 532 |
| B. | 853 |
| C. | 981 |
| D. | 751 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 35. |
In a 100 m race, Aman takes 36 seconds to complete the race and Bijay takes 45 seconds. By what distance Aman beats Bijay in the race? |
| A. | 20 meters |
| B. | 25 meters |
| C. | 22.5 meters |
| D. | 9 meters |
| Answer» C. 22.5 meters | |
| 36. |
A whole number n which when divided by 4 gives 3 as remainder. What will be the remainder when 2n is divided by 4? |
| A. | 0 |
| B. | 1 |
| C. | 2 |
| D. | 4 |
| Answer» D. 4 | |
| 37. |
January 1, 2008, is Tuesday. What day would lie on Jan 1, 2009? |
| A. | Thursday |
| B. | Sunday |
| C. | Tuesday |
| D. | Wednesday |
| Answer» B. Sunday | |
| 38. |
In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes and got 20% invalid votes. At the end of the day when the total number of votes were counted, the total number was found to be 7500. So what was the total number of valid votes that the winning candidate got, was: |
| A. | 2800 |
| B. | 3300 |
| C. | 3100 |
| D. | 2700 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
A sum fetched a total simple interest of Rs. 4016.25 at the rate of 9 % p.a. in 5 years. What is the sum of the money or the principal amount? |
| A. | Rs. 4462.50 |
| B. | Rs. 8032.50 |
| C. | Rs. 8900 |
| D. | Rs. 8925 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
A train running at 5 km/hr and 125 meters long passes a man moving in the same direction in which the train is going, in 10 seconds. The speed of the train is: |
| A. | 50 km/hr |
| B. | 54 km/hr |
| C. | 55 km/hr |
| D. | 60 km/hr |
| Answer» B. 54 km/hr | |
| 41. |
A hall is 15 m long and 12 m broad. If the sum of the areas of the floor and the ceiling is equal to the sum of the areas of four walls, the volume of the hall is: |
| A. | 720 |
| B. | 1200 |
| C. | 900 |
| D. | 1800 |
| Answer» C. 900 | |
| 42. |
In a mixture 60 litres, the ratio of milk to water is 2:1. If this ratio is to be 1:2, then what is the quantity of water needed to be further? |
| A. | 60 litres |
| B. | 50 litres |
| C. | 40 litres |
| D. | 30 litres |
| Answer» B. 50 litres | |
| 43. |
A ship, whose speed in 15 km/hr in still water goes 30 km downstream and comes back in a total of 4 hours 30 minutes. What is the speed of the stream in km/hr? |
| A. | 4 |
| B. | 6 |
| C. | 5 |
| D. | 10 |
| Answer» D. 10 | |
| 44. |
A tap can fill a bucket in 6 hours. After half the bucket is filled, three more similar taps are opened. What is the total time taken to fill the bucket completely? |
| A. | 3 hrs 45 min |
| B. | 3 hrs 15 min |
| C. | 4 hrs 15 min |
| D. | 4 hrs 45 min |
| Answer» B. 3 hrs 15 min | |
| 45. |
Rohit’s father is three times elder than Rohit. After 8 years, he would be two and a half times of Rohit’s age. After a further 8 years, how many times would he be of Rohit’s age? |
| A. | 2 times |
| B. | 2.5 times |
| C. | 2.75 times |
| D. | 3 times. |
| Answer» B. 2.5 times | |
| 46. |
A hollow iron pipe is 21 cm long and its external diameter is 8 cm. If the thickness of the pipe is 1 cm and iron weighs 8 g/cm3, then the weight of the pipe is: |
| A. | 3.6 kg |
| B. | 3.696 kg |
| C. | 36 kg |
| D. | 36.9 kg |
| Answer» C. 36 kg | |
| 47. |
Aman’s speed with the current is 15 km/hr and the speed of the current is 2.5 km/hr. What is Aman’s speed against the current? |
| A. | 8.5 km/hr |
| B. | 9 km/hr |
| C. | 10 km/hr |
| D. | 12.5 km/hr |
| Answer» D. 12.5 km/hr | |
| 48. |
One pipe can fill a bucket three times as fast as another pipe. If together the two pipes can fill the bucket in 36 minutes, then the slower pipe alone will be able to fill the bucket in: |
| A. | 144 minutes. |
| B. | 81 minutes. |
| C. | 108 minutes |
| D. | 192 minutes. |
| Answer» B. 81 minutes. | |
| 49. |
Find the remainder when (100!)^100 is divided by 23? |
| A. | 3 |
| B. | 2 |
| C. | 1 |
| D. | 0 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 50. |
There are 8 football teams in a certain league and each team plays each of the other teams exactly once. If each game is played by 2 teams, what is the total number of games played? |
| A. | 15 |
| B. | 16 |
| C. | 64 |
| D. | 28 |
| Answer» E. | |