IBM GLOBAL SERVICES
(Quantitative and Logical Aptitude)
1. A clerk multiplied a number by ten when it should have been divided by ten. The answer he got was
100. What should the answer have been?
Ans. 1
2. If Rs. 20/- is available to pay for typing a research report & typist A produces 42 pages and typist B
produces 28 pages. How much should typist A receive?
Ans. Rs. 12/-
3. The average salary of 3 workers is Rs.95 per week. If one earns Rs.115 and second earns Rs. 65
how much is the salary of the 3rd worker?
Ans. 105.
4. A 16 stored building has 12000 sq. feet on each floor. Company a rents 7 floors and company B rents
4 floors. What is the number of sq. feet of unrated floor space?
Ans. 60000
5. During a given week A programmer spends 1/4 of his time preparing flow chart, 3/8 of his time coding
and the rest of the time in debugging the programs. If he works 48 hours during the week, how many
hours did he spend debugging the program?
Ans. 18.
6. A company installed 36 machines at the beginning of the year. In March they installed 9 additional
machines and then disconnected 18 in August. How many were still installed at the end of the year.
Ans. 27
7. A man owns 2/3 of the market research beau rue business and sells 3/4 of his shares for Rs. 75000.
What is the value of Business?
Ans. 150000
8. If 12 file cabinets require 18 feet of wall space, how many feet of wall space will 30 cabinets require?
Ans. 45
9. A computer printer produced 176,400 lines in a given day. If the printer was in operation for seven
hours during the day, how many lines did it print per minute?
Ans. 420
10. From its total income, A sales company spent Rs.20, 000 for advertising, half of the remainder on
commissions and had Rs.6000 left. What was its total income?
Ans. 32000
11. On Monday a banker processed a batch of cheques, on Tuesday she processed three times as many,
and on Wednesday she processed 4000 cheques. In the three days, she processed 16000 cheques.
How many did she process on Tuesday?
Ans. 9000
12. The cost of four dozen proof machine ribbons and five dozen accounting machine ribbons was
Rs.160/-. If one dozen accounting machine ribbons cost Rs.20/-, what is the cost of a dozen proof
machine ribbons?
Ans. Rs.15
13. If a clerk can process 80 cheques in half an hour, how many cheques can she process in a seven and
one half hour day?
Ans. 1200
14. In a library, there are two racks with 40 books per rack. On a given day, 30 books were issued. What
fraction remained in the racks?
Ans. 5/8
15. The average length of three tapes is 6800 feet. None of the tapes is less than 6400 feet. What is the
greatest possible length of one of the other tapes?
Ans. 7600
16. A company rented a machine for Rs.700/- a month. Five years later the treasurer calculated that if
the company had purchased the machine and paid Rs.100/- monthly maintenance charge, the
company would have saved Rs.2000/-. What was the purchase price of the machine?
Ans. Rs.34000
17. Two computers each produced 48000 public utility bills in a day. One computer printed bills at the
rate of 9600 an hour and the other at the rate of 7800 an hour. When the first computer finished its
run, how many bills did the other computer still have to print?
Ans. 9000
18. If a salesman's average is a new order every other week, he will break the office record of the year.
However, after 28 weeks, he is six orders behind schedule. In what proportion of the remaining weeks
does he has to obtain a new order to break the record?
Ans. 3/4
19. On a given day, a bank had 16000 cheques returned by customers. Inspection of the first 800
cheques indicated that 100 of those 800 had errors and were therefore available immediately for data
processing. On this basis, how many cheques would be available immediately for data processing on
that day?
Ans. 14000
20. A company figured, it needed 37.8 sq. feet of carpet for its reception room. To allow for waste, it
decided to order 20% more material than needed. Fractional parts of sq. feet cannot be ordered. At
Rs. 9/- a sq. feet, how much would the carpet cost?
(A) Rs. 324 (B) Rs. 405 (C) Rs. 410 (D) Rs. 414 (E) Rs. 685
Ans. (D) Rs. 414
21. A tape manufacturer reduces the price of his heavy duty tape from Rs.30/- to Rs.28/- a reel and the
price of a regular tape from Rs.24/- to Rs.23/- a reel. A computing centre normally spends Rs.1440/- a
month for tapes and 3/4 of this is for heavy duty tapes. How much will they save a month under the
new prices?
Ans. Rs. 87
22. In a team of 12 persons, 1/3 are women and 2/3 are men. To obtain a team with 20% women how
many men should be hired?
Ans. 8
23. The dimensions of a certain machine are 48" X 30" X 52". If the size of the machine is increased
proportionately until the sum of its dimensions equals 156", what will be the increase in the shortest
Side?
Ans. 6"
24. In a certain company, 20% of the men and 40% of the women attended the annual company picnic. If
35% of all the employees are men, what percent of all the employees went to the picnic?
Ans. 33%
25. It cost a college Rs. 0.70 a copy to produce a Programmer for the homecoming football game. If Rs.
15,000/- was received for advertisements in the programmer, how many copies at Rs. 0.50 a copy must
be sold to make a profit of Rs.8000 ?
Ans. 35000
26. Which 3 consecutive prime numbers gives the total 49?
Ans. (13, 17, 19)
27. Rational numbers between 1 and 5 is
(A) 3 (B) 2 (C) 0 (D) Infinite (E) Finite
Ans. 5
28. A boat travels at 10km/hr in still water. It travels 14kmhr in upstream and 26km/hr downstream what is
speed of stream?
29. A cube of 3 units has 6 surfaces painted. If you cut the cube of 1 unit each how many cubes remain
unpainted on all sides?
Ans. 1
30 A person sold an article at Rs.141 at 6% loss. To gain a profit of 10%, at what price the article should
be sold?
Ans. 165
31. Three person shared bullets equally. After each of them fired 4 bullets, total no of bullets remaining is
equal to the no of bullets each of them got. What was the total number of bullets?
Ans. 18
32. 1st day of the year 1999 is Sunday and what will be last day of the same year?
Ans. Sunday
33. If a ball is dropped from 8ft and it bounces half the height each time, the total distance traveled will be
Ans. 24
34. 6 squares of equal size are placed side by side to form a rectangle whose perimeter is 182. Find the
perimeter of the single square.
Ans. 52
35. The average age of students in a class is 16. When a teacher of age 40 is added, the average
becomes 17. What is the total number of students in the class?
Ans. 23
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