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It takes five minutes to pass a rumour from one person to two other persons. The tree of rumour continues. Find how many minutes does it take spread the rumour to 729 persons ?

A) 45 min B) 25 min
C) 30 min D) 36 min
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 30 min

Explanation:

After 5 mins ..... 3 persons will get rumour
After 10 mins .... 3x2 + 3 = 9 = 32 persons will get
after 15 =5x3 min ......9x2 + 9 =27 = 33 persons will get news.
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after 5x6 mins ... 36 = 729 persons will get news.

 

Therefore, time taken to spread the rumour to 729 persons is 30 minutes.

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Read the following information and answer the following questions below.

 

Bindu is standing exactly in the middle of a line of girls. Asha is 6th to the left of Bindu and Ritu is 16th to Bindu's right.

 

What should be the minimum number of girls in the line?

 

A) 22 B) 28
C) 33 D) 32
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 33

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Use the following passage for the questions based on it.

 

There are 6 flats on a floor in two rows. Out of these, three are north facing and the other three are south facing flats. The flats are to be allotted amongst Arun, Biswajyot, Chitra, Derek, Evan, and Fatima. Biswajyot gets a north facing flat and is not next to Derek. Derek and Fatima get diagonally opposite flats. Chitra is next to Fatima, and gets a south facing flat. Evan gets a north facing flat.

 

Which of the following combination gets south facing flats?

A) Arun, Chitra and Fatima B) Chitra, Biswajyot and Derek
C) Evan, Arun and Fatima D) Derek, Arun and Biswajyot
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Arun, Chitra and Fatima

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Select the option that represents the number of parallelograms in the given figure.

 

 

A) 4 B) 2
C) 3 D) 1
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 4

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Select the missing number from the given responses?

 

A) 6 B) 9
C) 7 D) 8
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 7

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Consider the following information and answer questions based on it.

 

Six cars S, T, V, W, X and Y are parked in a parking lot, in a random order, from left to right, such that -

 

A. T is parked on the extreme right.

B. V is parked to the immediate right of Y and is one car away from W.

C. X is to the immediate left of T and is three cars away from S.

 

Which of the following statement is true?

 

A) There are two cars between T and V. B) There is one car between X and Y.
C) There are three cars between Y and S. D) There is no car between X and W.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) There is one car between X and Y.

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Select the missing number from the given responses?

 

A) 36 B) 41
C) 55 D) 65
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 41

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Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it.

 

There are 6 persons in a family - three males and three females. Out of these, there are two married couples and two persons who are unmarried. Each one of them likes different colour, viz. Blue, Red, Pink, Green, Yellow and white.

Seema, who likes Red colour, is Anitha's mother-in-law and Anitha is Raja's wife. Dinesh is Rohan's father and he does not like the blue colour or white colour. Bavya likes the yellow colour and is Rohan's sister, who likes Pink colour, Raja does not use White colour.

 

Which of the following colours is liked by Anitha?

A) White B) Yellow
C) Pink D) Green
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) White

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