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A building, which has 200 floors, has exactly three elevators - Elevator A, Elevator B and Elevator C. Only Elevator A stops at the ground floor (i.e., floor 0). Elevator A stops additionally at floors 5, 10, 15 and so on; Elevator B stops only at floors 4, 8, 12 and so on; Elevator C stops only at floors 6, 12, 18, 24 and so on. Further, all the floors are connected by a staircase and any floor can be reached from any other floor using this staircase. Tarun, a network engineer who visits various offices in this building everyday, always tries to reach the desired floor by taking the elevators so that he minimizes the number of floors that he has to walk using the staircase. Q1.     D I R E C T I O N S   f o r   q u e s t i o n s   1   a n d   2 :  Select the correct alternative from the given choices. Tarun got into Elevator A at the ground floor. He got down from Elevator A at the p t h  floor. He got into Elevator B a...

Five teams - A through E - participated in a hockey tournament in which each team played against each of the other teams exactly once. In any match, the winning team is awarded four points and the losing team no points. In case of a draw, the two teams are awarded one point each. At the end of the tournament, B had two points more than E, which, in turn, had two points more than A, which, in turn, had one point less than D, which, in turn, had three points more than C. 1)How many matches did C draw? 2)How many matches did B win? 3)What is the result of the match between C and D? Solutions:-

D I R E C T I O N S   f o r   q u e s t i o n s   1 3   t o   1 6 :   Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. Harish, a manager at an FMCG company, conducted a survey to find the most preferred brand of soaps among Luck, Smenthol and Tears. The survey had 240 respondents and each respondent must vote for at least one and at most three brands as his preferred brand. After the survey, Harish found that Luck received twice the number of votes as Smenthol, which, in turn, received forty votes more than Tears. Further, the number of respondents who voted for exactly one, exactly two and all three brands are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 1. Q13.     D I R E C T I O N S   f o r   q u e s t i o n s   1 3   a n d   1 4 :  Type your answer in the text box provided below the question. What is the total number of votes that Luck received? Q14.     D I R E C T I O N S   ...

Six cities, A through F, are connected by certain two-way roads, such that any of the six cities can be reached from any of the other cities, using these roads, either directly or after passing through some of the other cities. The following table provides partial information about the minimum number of cities that one must pass through when travelling between any pair of cities: Q1.     D I R E C T I O N S   f o r   q u e s t i o n   1 :  Select the correct alternative from the given choices. Which of the following pairs of cities are directly connected? E and C D and F B and E   a)  Only (i) and (ii)        b)  Only (ii)        c)  Only (iii)       d)  Only (ii) and (iii)      Q2.     D I R E C T I O N S   f o r   q u e s t i o n s   2   a n d   3 :  Type yo...

ABC is a right angled triangle. The longest side is 10 cm, and the sum of two of its sides is 12 cm. What is the maximum possible area (in cm) of the triangle ABC? Solution-

Directions for questions 1 to 5: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below. Sixteen teams have been invited to participate in the ABC Gold Cup cricket tournament.The tournament is conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the teams are divided into two groups. Each group consists of eight teams, each team playing with every other team in its group exactly once. At the end of the first stage, the top four teams from each group advance to the second stage while the rest are eliminated. The second stage comprises of several rounds. Every round involves exactly one match for every team. The winner of a match in a round advances to the next round, while the loser is eliminated. The team that remains undefeated in the second stage is declared the winner and claims the Gold Cup. The tournament rules are such that each match results in a winner and a loser with no possibility of a tie. In the first stage, a team earns one point for each win and no points for a...

ABCD is a perfect square.Given that C:D=4:1.Find Max[ABCD] Solution:- Search for squares whose last two digits are in the ratio of 4:1 21^2=441 (50(n)+21=21,51)...where n=0,1 (50(n)-21=29,79)...where n=0,1 79^2=6241 Note:-Do memorize Squares upto 25