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1. Ram went to market for selling his melons. He first sells his half of total melon and half a melon. Then he sells half of the remaining melon and half a melon. Then he saw that he has only one melon in his basket. How many melons he had? Ans--7
3 marks
2. Some body said me that now his son's age is the only reverse of his age's digit.
A year ago his age was two times of his son's age. Can you tell me the age of the father and his son.? Ans-73,37. 4 marks
3. One rooster of 5 pound, one hen of 3 pound and 3 checks of 1 pound. How can you
arrange these as 100 type of birds of 100 pounds? 2x3=6 marks
Solution:-- rooster hen checks
a) 8 11 81 ( 8x5=40 p;11x3=33 p;81/3=27 p)
b) 12 4 84 ( 12x5=60 p;4x3=12 p;84/3=28 p)
c)

4. In a school there are 500 students. One day one fourth of the students are whole number, then one fifth, one sixth, one seventh are present in the school. How many students are present in that day? Ans-420(L.C.M of 4,5,6,7) 5 marks

5. There are 12 black mice, 1 white mouse. If one cat wants every times to eat the thirteenth no. white mouse then from where he should start? 4 marks
Ans-form white mouse.

6. In a class , there are five students A,B,C,D,E . In an exam they saw that between them one is 1st ,one is 2nd ,one is 3rd ,one is 4th,one is 5th. Then they said the following arguments: 6 marks

A : " I am not the last and C also not the worst students"
B : " C is third".
C : " A stands after E".
D : " B is the best student among all"
E : " A is the worst student"

Among these the worst students tells the truth. And the best two students tells lie.
Then find the sequence of the students according to their positions.

Ans-B E A C D.
1 2 3 4 5
7. There are four friends Jack, Jim, Seth, and Robert. They are stock broker, doctor, lawyer and musician but not sequentially as their name. They have also cars of one each from Ferrari, Cardilac, Covert and Porches. The stock broker said that the lawyer and jack are the owner of Cardilac and Covert. Musician don't like these two, he has a fascination of Porches.Seth said that the Doctor don't like Cardilac.The stock broker likes Ferrari. Find their occupation and the name of their cars?
8 marks
Solution: -(use tick mark where it matches)

Doctor Lawyer Stockbroker Musician Cardilac Covert Ferrari Porsches Jack

Jim

Seth
Robert


8. One tea seller sells tea of one type in 6Rs/-per gm and other in 3Rs/- per gm. He mixed those teas of total 40 gms and sells 5Rs/- per gm and he gains 33 and1/3 percent. What kind of each tea he mixed? Ans-10 gm,30 gm (check it ) 4 marks

9. One farmer cultivates beans, corns, kale, squash and wheat in a year. But he follows the following condition:
In one year if he ploughs corns then must plough beans. He repeats only one in two succession in a year. He plough kale in one session only. Then what would be the possibilities of his cultivation:
A : beans,corns,kale ; corn,wheat,squash .
B : corns,squash,kale ; corn,beans,wheat . 6 marks
C : beans,squash,kale ; corn,beans,wheat .
D : beans,wheat,kale ; corn,beans,squash .
E : wheat,kale,corns ; beans, corns, squash .

Solution: - The ans is (D). (**note :he can plough bean without corns but can't
plough corns without beans and the repetitions is only one and that is beans )
10.There was arithmetic problem I can't remember that but huge calculation was there 4 marks