English Verbal - 12

English Verbal - 12

Read the following passage and then, answer the questions that follow:

In Rome, defeated enemies were generally put to death as criminals for having offended the emperor. In the middle Ages, however, the practice of ransoming, or returning prisoners in exchange for money, became common. Though some saw this custom as a step towards a more humane society, the primary reason behind it was economic rather than humanitarian. In those times, rulers had only a limited ability to raise taxes. They could neither force their subjects to fight nor pay them to do so. The promise of material compensation in the form of goods and ransom was

therefore the only way of inducing combatants to participate in a war. In the middle Ages, the predominant incentive for the individual soldier to participate in a war was the expectation of spoils. Although collecting ransom clearly brought financial gain, keeping a prisoner and arranging for his exchange had its costs. Consequently, several procedures were devised to reduce transaction costs.

One such device was a rule asserting that the prisoner had to assess his own value. This compelled the prisoner to establish a value without much distortion; indicating too low a value would increase the captive’s chances of being killed, while indicating too high a value would either ruin him financially or create a prohibitively expensive ransom that would also result in death.

A second means of reducing costs was the practice of releasing a prisoner on his word of honour. This procedure was advantageous to both parties since the captor was relieved of the expense of keeping the prisoner while the captive had freedom of movement. The captor also benefited financially by having his captive raises the ransom himself. This ‘parole’ was a viable practice since the released prisoner risked recapture or retaliation against his family. Moreover, in medieval society, breaking one’s word had serious consequences. When, for example, King Francois I broke his

word to the Emperor Charles V in 1525, his reputation suffered immensely. A third method of reducing costs was the use of specialized institutions to establish contact between the two parties.

Two types of institutions emerged: professional dealers who acted as brokers, and members of religious orders who acted as neutral intermediaries. Dealers advanced money for the ransom and charged interest on the loan. Two of the religious orders that became intermediaries were the Mercedario’s and the Trinitarians who between them arranged the ransom of nearly one million prisoners.

1. The primary purpose of the passage is to

(a) discuss the economic basis of the medieval practice of exchanging prisoners for ransom.

(b) examine the history of the treatment of prisoners of war.

(c) emphasize the importance of a warrior’s ‘word of honour’ during the Middle Ages.

(d) explore three ways of reducing the costs of ransom.

Ans: (b)

2. It can be inferred from the passage that a medieval soldier

(a) was less likely to kill captured members of opposing armies than was a soldier of the Roman

Empire.

(b) was similar to a 20th-century terrorist in that he operated on a basically independent level and was motivated solely by economic incentives.

(c) had few economic  options and choose to fight because it was the only way to earn an adequate

living.

(d) was motivated to spare prisoners’ lives by humanitarian rather than economic ideals.

Ans: (c)

3. Which of the following best describes the change in policy from executing prisoners in Roman times to ransoming prisoners in the Middle Ages?

(a) The emperor of Rome demanded more respect than did medieval rulers, and thus Roman subjects went to greater lengths to defend their incentives.

(b) It was a reflection of the lesser degree of direct control medieval rulers had over their subjects.

(c) It became a show of strength and honour for warriors of the Medieval Ages to be able to capture

and return their enemies.

(d) Medieval soldiers were not as humanitarian as their ransoming practices might have indicated.

Ans: (d)

4. The author uses the phrase ‘without much distortion’ in order

(a) to indicate that prisoners would fairly assess their worth.

(b) to emphasize the important role medieval prisoners played in determining whether they should be ransomed.

(c) to explain how prisoners often paid more than an appropriate ransom to increase their chances

for survival.

(d) suggest that captors and captives often had understanding relationships.

Ans: (a)

5. All of the following are mentioned in the passage as actions that were taken to ensure that ransoming prisoners was a profitable operation EXCEPT

(a) each prisoner was made to designate the amount of ransom to be paid for his return.

(b) prisoners were released on the condition that they guaranteed that their ransoms would be paid.

(c) professional intermediaries were employed to facilitate the smooth exchange of prisoner and

ransom, at a price to the prisoner.

(d) medieval rulers promised to aid soldiers in their efforts to collect ransom.

Ans: (d)

Direction for questions 6 to 9: Select the odd word from the given set of four alternatives.

6. (a) juvenile    (b) immature     (c) old   (d) childish

Ans: (c) (All the others means the same)

7. (a) slack           (b) draconian     (c) rigorous         (d) severe

Ans: (a) (All the others have the same meaning)

8. (a) Achilles     (b) Thetis             (c) Paris                (d) Pandora

Ans: (c) (All the others are Greek Mythological persons)

9. (a) divulge      (b) inform           (c) secret             (d) reveal

Ans: (c) ( All the others means the same )

Direction for questions 10 to 14: Identify the part of the sentence that has an error.

10. The reason (a) he has been (b) such a success is because (c) he never gives up (d)

Ans: (a)  The reason that

11. Consider all the possibilities; (a) I really believe (b) that I would prefer not to (c) make any changes (d).

Ans: (a) Considering all the possibilities

12. The fact that he was (a) disinterested in politics (b) was clear from the way (c) he shunned political news (d)

Ans: (a) The fact that he is

13. After every student (a) had turned in (b) their paper, the teacher (c) dismissed the class (d).

Ans: (a) After the  students

14. Any help (a) that you can (b) give me (c) will be appreciate (d)

Ans: (d) will be appreciated

Direction for questions 15 to 19: Fill in the blanks in the passage below with the appropriate choice.

For a novelist, a ... 15... call from Oprah Winfrey is like a house...16... from the prize patrol: the big ... 17 ... has arrived. The ... 18 ... appears on Oprah’s show, and sales go through the ... 19...

15. (a) phone     (b) clarion            (c) timid               (d) cat

Ans: (a)

16. (a) check       (b) call                   (c) cheque          (d) hold

Ans: (b)

17. (a) dog           (b) fire                  (c) cheque          (d) girl

Ans: (c)

18. (a) police      (b) don                                 (c) manager        (d) author

Ans: (d)

19. (a) door         (b) window         (c) wall                  (d) roof

Ans: (d)

CTS - Verbal - 7

CTS – Verbal - 7

Questions are based on the following passage.

"I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work, at its most intense." Virginia Woolf's provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics, since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the "poetic" novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness. But Virginia Woolf was are ballistic as well as a poetic novelist satirist and social critic as well as a visionary: literary critics' cavalier dismissal of Woolf's social vision will not withstand scrutiny. In her novels, Woolf is deeply engaged by the questions of how individuals are shaped (or deformed) by their social Environments, how

historical forces impinge on people's lives, how class, wealth, and gender help to determine

people's fates. Most of her novels are rooted in a realistically rendered social setting and in a

precise historical time. Woolf's focus on society has not been generally recognized because of

her intense antipathy to propaganda in art. The pictures of reformers in her novels are usually

satiric or sharply critical. Even when Wolfe is fundamentally sympathetic to their causes, she portray people anxious to reform the society and possessed of a message or programme as arrogant or dishonest, unaware of how their political ideas serve their own psychological needs. (Her writer’s Diary notes: ‘the only honest people are the artists’ whereas "these social reformers and philanthropists...harbour...discreditable desires under the disguise of loving their kind....")

Woolf detested what she called "preaching" in fiction, too, and criticized novelist D.H.Lawrence (among others) for working by this method. Woolf's own social criticism is expressed in the language of observation rather than in direct commentary, since for her, fiction is a contemplative, not an active art. She describes phenomena and provides materials for a judgment about society and social issues; it is the reader's work to put the observation together and understand the coherent point of view behind them. As a moralist, Woolf works by indirection, subtly undermining officially accepted mores, mocking, suggesting, calling into question, rather than asserting, advocating, bearing witness: hers is the satirist's art. Woolf's literary models were acute social observers like Checkhov and Chaucer. As she put it in the Common Reader, "It is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote; and yet, as we read him, we are absorbing morality at every pore." Like Chaucer, Woolf chose to understand as well as to judge, to know her society root and branch-decision crucial in order to produce art rather than

polemic.

1.       Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?

a)      Virginia Woolf: Critic and Commentator on the Twentieth – Century Novel.

b)      Trends in contemporary Reforms  Movements as a key to understanding

Virginia Woolf’s Novels.  

c)       Society as Allegory for the individual in the Novels of Virginia Wolfe.

d)      Virginia Woolf’s Novels: Critical Reflections on the Individual and on Society.

Ans: (d)

2.       In the first paragraph of the passage, the author's attitude toward the literary critics mentioned can best be described as?

a)      Disparaging

b)      Ironic

c)       Factious

d)      Sceptical but resigned

Ans: (a)

3.       It can be inferred from the passage that Woolf chose Chaucer as literary model because she believed that:

a)      Chaucer was an honest and forthright author, whereas novelists like D.H Lawrence did not sincerely wish to change society

b)      Chaucer was more concerned in understanding his society than with calling its accepted mores into question

c)       Chaucer’s writing was greatly, if subtly, effective in influencing the moral attitudes of his readers

d)      Her own novels would be more widely read if, like Chaucer she did not overtly and vehemently criticize contemporary society

Ans: (c)

4.       It can be inferred from the passage that the most probable reason Woolf realistically described the social setting in the majority of her novels was that she?

a)      Was interested in the effect of a person’s social milieu on his or her character and actions  

b)      Needed to be as attentive to detail as possible in her novels in order to support the arguments she advanced in them

c)       Wanted to show that a painstaking fidelity in the representation of reality did not in any way hamper the artist

d)      Wishes to prevent critics from charging that her novels were written in an ambiguous and inexact style

Ans: (a)

5.       The author implies that a major element of the satirist’s art is the satirist

a)      Consistent adherence to a position of loft

b)      Insistence on the helplessness of individuals against the social forces that seek to determine an individual’s fate

c)       Cynical disbelief that visionary can either enlighten or improve their societies

d)      Fundamental assumption that some ambiguity must remain in a work of art in order for it to reflect society and social mores accurately

e)      Refusal to indulge in polemics when presenting social mores to readers for their scrutiny

Ans: (e)  

Questions 6- 8 are based on the following passage.

It is a popular misconception that nuclear fusion power is free of radioactivity; in fact, the deuterium-tritium reaction hat nuclear scientists are currently exploring with such zeal produces both alpha particles and neutrons, (The neutrons are used to produce tritium from a lithium blanket surrounding the reactor.) Another common conception is that nuclear fusion power is a virtually unlimited source of energy because of the enormous quantity of deuterium in the sea. Actually, its limits are set by the amount of available lithium, which is about as plentiful as uranium in the Earth's crust.

Research should certainly continue on controlled nuclear fusion, but no energy program should be premised on its existence until it has proven practical. For the immediate future, we must continue to use hydroelectric power, nuclear fission, and fossil fuels to meet our energy needs. The energy sources already in major use are in major use for good reason.

6.       The primary purpose of the passage is to

a)      Admonish scientists who have failed to correctly calculate the amount of lithium

b)      Defend the continuous short term use of fossil fuel as a major energy source

c)       Caution against uncritical embrace of nuclear fusion power as a major energy source

d)      Correct the misconception that nuclear fusion power is entirely free of radio activity

Ans: (c)

7.       The passage provides information that would answer which of the following questions?

a)      What is likely to be the principal source of deuterium for the nuclear fusion power?

b)      How much incidental radiation is produced in the deuterium – tritium fusion reaction

c)       Why are scientists exploring the deuterium – tritium fusion reaction with such zeal?

d)      Why must the tritium for nuclear fusion be synthesized from lithium?

Ans: (a)

8.       Which of the following statements concerning Nuclear Scientists is most directly suggested in the passage?

a)      Nuclear scientists exploring the deuterium – tritium reaction have overlooked key facts in their eagerness to prove nuclear fusion practical

b)      Nuclear scientists may have overestimated the amount of lithium actually available in the Earth’s crust

c)       Nuclear scientists have not been entirely dispassionate in their investigation of the deuterium – tritium reaction

d)      Nuclear scientists have insufficiently investigated the lithium to tritium reaction in nuclear fusion.

Ans: (c)

Correct the following sentence by suitably substituting the word/s from the choices:  

9.       Balding is much more common among White males than males of other races.

a)      Than

b)      Than among

c)       Than is so of

d)      Compared to

Ans: (b)

In the following questions identify whether the given statement is correct or incorrect

10.   She cleaned the house and after she ironed the clothes

a)      Correct

b)      Incorrect

Ans: (b)   She cleaned the house and after that she ironed the clothes

11.   I haven’t finished the homework and my brother hasn’t either.

a)      Correct

b)      Incorrect

Ans: (a)

12.   So hoarse he was that he could not make the speech

a)      Correct

b)      Incorrect

Ans: (a)

13.   She both speaks and she writes German very well

a)      Correct

b)      Incorrect

Ans: (b)   She both speaks and writes German very well

14.   She has never been too demanding , nor does she plan to be so now

a)      Correct

b)      Incorrect

Ans: (a)

15.   Never I have had such bad experience in life.

a)      Correct

b)      Incorrect

Ans: (b)  Never have I had such bad experience in life

16.   The more they have, the more they want

a)      Correct

b)      Incorrect

Ans: (a)

17.   He is very mature despite of his age.

a)      Correct

b)      Incorrect

Ans: (b)  He is very mature despite his age

18.   It is essential that he participates in the show

a)      Correct

b)      Incorrect

Ans: (b)  It is essential that he participate in the show

19.   I wish I had studied for the exam

a)      Correct

b)      Incorrect

Ans: (a)

Synonym & Antonym - 2

Synonym & Antonym – 2

Synonym:

1.       Destination.

a)      Start              b) Source             c) Beginning       d) Target

Ans: (d)

2.       Ooze

a) Drip                   b) Pour                 c) Discharge        d) Tip

Ans: (a)

3.       Rattle

a) Shake               b) Silent               c) Still                    d) Quiet

Ans: (a)

4.       Will

a)      Desire           b) Neglect           c) Pass                  d) Avoid

Ans: (a)

5.       Quash  

a)      Permit          b) Destroy           c) Start                  d) Support

Ans: (b)

6.       Mission

a)      Task               b) Fun                   c) Activity            d) Unburden

Ans: (a)

7.       Revive

a)      End                b) Ruin                  c) Stimulate        d) Destroy

Ans: (c)

8.       Rebuke

a)      Scold             b) Compliment  c) Demand          d) Love

Ans: (a)

9.       Claim

a)      Deny             b) Question        c) Disclaim           d) Demand

Ans: (d)

10.   Flame

a)      Fire                                b) Blaze                c) Flare                 d) All of these

Ans: (d)

Antonym:

1.       Confine

a)      Impound     b) Detain             c) Release           d) Jail

Ans: (c)

2.       Trigger

a)      Prompt         b) Generate       c) Elicit                  d) Halt

Ans: (d)

3.       Range

a)      Limited         b) Variety            c) Choice              d) Series

Ans: (a)

4.       Creepy

a)      Sinister         b) Divine              c) Weird                               d) Eerie

Ans: (b)

5.       Amiable

a)      Affable         b) Likable             c) Kind                  d) Disagreeable

Ans: (d)

6.       Expert

a)      Skilled           b) Specialist        c) Amateur         d) Proficient

Ans: (c)

7.       Shamble

a)      Stride            b) Amble             c) Waddle            d) Shuffle

Ans: (a)

8.       Douse

a)      Drench         b) Soak                 c) Dry                    d) Souse

Ans: (c)

9.       Refuse

a)      Rebuff          b) Decline            c) Snub                 d) Agree

Ans: (d)

10.   Revel

a)      Party             b) Hate                 c) Celebration    d) Paint the town red

Ans: (b)

 

Infosys Reasoning (Recent) - 4

Infosys Reasoning (Recent) - 4

1.       There are 2 persons each having the same amount of marbles in the beginning. After that one person gain 20 more from the other person and he eventually lose two third of it during the play.  The second person now has 4 times the marbles the first person is now having. Find out how much marble did each had in the beginning.
Ans: Each had 100 marbles.
Let ‘x’ be the number of marbles each had initially.

First person gains 20. He now has (x + 20) marbles. He loses 2/3 of it during the play.

Hence the first person now has only 1/3(x+20) marbles.

The second person after losing 20 has (x-20) marbles. After gaining 2/3 of marbles from first person during play now has (x-20) + 2/3(x+20) marbles.

It is said the second person now has four times the number of marbles the first person has.

Thus we have an equation:   4 * 1/3(x+20) = (x-20) + 2/3(x+20)

Solving we get the value of ‘x’ as 100.

2.       There are certain diamonds in a shop. The first thief came and stole half of the diamonds plus 2. The second thief came and stole half of the remaining plus 2. The third thief came and he also stole half of the remaining diamonds plus 2. When the fourth thief came and stole half of the remaining plus 2 there remained no diamond. How many diamonds were there originally?

Ans: 60 Diamonds.

Let ‘x’ be the total number of diamonds initially.

First thief stole Half plus 2 ->   x/2 – 2 …….. Let this be A

Second thief stole half of remaining plus 2  ->  A/2 – 2 …….. B

Third thief stole half of remaining plus 2  ->  B/2 -2 …………..C

Fourth thief stole half of remaining plus 2 and there remained Nil diamonds.

Now going up from the last thief we have ->  C/2 – 2 = 0. Hence, C = 4

B/2 – 2 = 4. Hence, B = 12

A/2  - 2 = 12. Hence A = 28.

x/2 – 2 = 28. Hence ‘x’ = 60.

3.       There are three friends A B C.
1. Either A or B is oldest.
2. Either C is oldest or A is youngest.
Who is Youngest and who is Oldest?
Ans:  A is youngest and B is oldest.

4.       Father says my son is five times older than my daughter. My wife is 5 times older than my son. I am twice as old as my wife and together (sum of our ages) is equal to my mother 's age and she is celebrating her 81 birthday. So what is my son's age?
Ans: 5 years.

Let the Daughter’s age be ‘x’. Then the Son’s age is 5x. The mother’s age is 5 * 5x = 25x.

I am twice the age of my wife and so, I am 2 * 25x = 50x. The sum of our ages is equal to my mother’s age which is 81. So, we now have an equation

X + 5x + 25x + 50x = 81 -> 81x = 81 and ‘x’ = 1.

My son’s age 5x = 5

5.       In Mulund, the shoe store is closed every Monday, the boutique is closed every Tuesday, the grocery store is closed every Thursday and the bank is open only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Everything is closed on Sunday.
One day A, B, C and D went shopping together, each with a different place to go. They made the following statements:
A. D and I wanted to go earlier in the week but there wasn’t a day when we could both take care of our errands.
B. I did not want to come today but tomorrow I will not be able to do what I want to do.
C. I could have gone yesterday or the day before just as well as today.
D. Either yesterday or tomorrow would have suited me.
Which place did each person visit?
Ans:  A-BOUTIQUE
          B-BANK
          C-GROCERY
          D-SHOE

6.       Five hunters Doe, Deer, Hare, Boar and Row kill 5 animals. Each hunter kills an animal that does not correspond to his name. Also each hunter misses a different animal which again does not correspond to his name.
a) The Deer is killed by the hunter, known by the name of the animal killed by Boar.
b) Doe is killed by the hunter, known by name of animal missed by Hare.
c) The Deer was disappointed to kill only a Hare and missed the Roe.

Name the animals killed and missed by the five hunters.

Ans:

 
Doe killed Deer and missed Hare. 
Hare killed Roe and missed Boar. 
Roe killed Boar and missed Doe. 
Boar killed Doe and missed Deer.

7.       A person needs 6 steps to cover a distance of one slab. If he increases his foot length (step length) by 3 inches he needs only 5 steps to cover the slabs length. What is the length of the each slab?
Ans:  90 inches.

Let ‘x’ be the distance of each step. Then the length of the slab -> 6x

Now the step length is increased by 3”. The new step length is (x + 3)

The length of the slab now is -> 5 (x+3) Since the slab length is the same we have

6x = 5 (x+3) Solving we get the value of ‘x’ as 15 and the length of the slab 90 innches.

8.       There is one lily in the pond on 1st June. There are two in the pond on 2nd June, four on the 3^rd June, eight on 4^th June and so on. The pond is full of lilies by the end of June.  

i)                    On which date the pond is half full?
Ans: 29th. (The month of June has 30 days).

ii)                   If we start with 2 lilies on 1st June, then when will the pond be full with lilies?
Ans: 29th June.

9.       a) 10 1 9 2 8 3 7 4 6 5 5 6 4 7 3 8 2 _ _
Ans: 9, 1

10.   From a vessel, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates on the first day. On the second day 3/4th of the remaining liquid evaporates. What fraction of the volume is present at the end of the second day?
Ans:  1/6 of the original volume.

Let as assume the original volume as 300 ml. (for easy working)

On the first day 1/3 evaporates ie. 100 ml is evaporated. Remaining is 200 ml.

On the second day ¾ of this is evaporated ie 150 ml is evaporated and

Remaining is 50 ml which is 1/6^th of the original volume.

Infosys Verbal and Reasoning

Infosys – Verbal & Reasoning

Directions 1- 8: In each question, a part of sentence is printed in italics. Below each sentence, some phrases are given which can substitute the italicized part of the sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, the answer is 'No correction required' 

 1.           He did many mischiefs

a) made many a mischiefs            b) made much mischief         
c) Committed many mischiefs      d) No Correction required
Ans: (c)

2.            Rohit is as fast as or perhaps faster than Manish.
a) Equally fast        b) almost as fast            c) as fast        d) No Correction required

Ans: (d)

3.            All his family members are in Kanpur.
a) All of his family members

b) All the family members if his
c). All the members of his family
d). No Correction required
Ans: (c)

4.            I often see him dancing the top
a) rotating
b) encircling
c) dodging
d) No Correction required
Ans: (d)

5.            What is the time in your watch?
a) on        b) by        c) from      d) No Correction required 
Ans: (c)

6.            Columbus invented America
a) searched        b) traced    c) discovered        d) No Correction required 
Ans: (c)

7.            Wise men catch time by the forelock.

a) Hold        b) seize        c) take         d) No Correction required 
Ans: (c)

8.            A bird in hand is worth two in bush
a) two in the bush        b) two at a bush         c) two on bush        d) No Correction required   
Ans: (a)

Reasoning Questions:

1.       A boy asks his father, "What is the age of grand- father?". Father replied " He is x years old in x^2 years", and also said, "we are talking about 20th century". What is the year of birth of grand- father?

Ans: 1892.

The clue for this question is “we are talking about the 20^th century”.  Hence the grand-fathers present age should be between 1901 – 1999. Further it is said the grand-father will be x years in x^2 years.

Let us assume x = 43 years.   Then x^2 will be 1849.

If x = 44 years then  x^2 will be 1936.

If x is 45 years then  x^2 will be 2025.   Of these three only 44 years fits in the conditions given.

Hence the grand-father age is 44 years and he was born in 1936 – 44 -> 1892.

2.       A boy travels in a scooter and after covering 2/3rd of the distance the wheel got punctured. He covered the remaining distance by walk. The walking time was twice that of the boy’s riding time. The riding speed was how many times that of the walking speed?
Ans: 4 times.
A simple question.  If the time taken for riding in the scooter was 1 hour then the time taken for walking was 2 hours.

The boy takes 2 hours to walk the distance of 1/3. So to walk the distance of 2/3 he would have taken 4 hours. Thus the riding speed was 4 times the walking speed.

3.       A man sold 2 pens the initial cost of each was Rs. 12. If he sells them together one at 25% profit and another at 20% loss find the amount of his loss or gain.  

Ans: 60 Paise gain

The total cost of two pens ->  12 x 2 = Rs 24.

The sale price on selling one pen at 25% profit -> 12 * 125/100 -> Rs 15.00

The sale price on selling one pen at 20% loss    ->  12 * 80/100  ->  Rs  9.60

The total sale price ->  15 + 9.60 -> Rs 24.60

Gain 0.60 paise.

4.       Find the 3 digit no. whose last digit is the square root of the first digit and second digit is the sum of the other two digits.
Ans: 462   (The answer could also be 121)

5.       Meera was playing with her brother using 55 blocks. She gets bored playing and starts arranging the blocks such that the no. of blocks in each row is one less than that in the lower row. Find how many were there in the bottom most row?
Ans: 10   (Clue : The sum of digits from 1 to 10 is 55)

6.       Three persons A, B &C went for a robbery in different directions and they theive one horse, one mule and one camel. They were caught by the police and when interrogated gave the following statements
A: B has stolen the horse
B: I didn't rob anything.
C: both A & B are false and B has stolen the mule.
The person who has stolen the horse always tells the truth and
the person who has stolen the camel always tell the lie.
Find who has stolen which animal?
Ans:
A- camel
B- mule
C- horse

If A is telling the truth then B has stolen Horse. The one who has stolen the Horse always tell the truth. But, B says he didn’t rob anything. Thus it would confirm that both A and B are lying and C alone is telling the truth.

7.        A, B, C, D & E are having their birthdays on consecutive days of the week not necessarily in the same order. A 's birthday comes before G's as many days as B's birthday comes after E's. D is older than E by 2 days. This time G's birthday came on Wednesday. Then find the day of each of their birthdays?
Ans:
Birthday of D on SUNDAY
Birthday of B on MONDAY
Birthday of E on TUESDAY
Birthday of G on WEDNESDAY
Birthday of A on THURSDAY

8.       A girl 'A' told to her friend about the size and colour of a snake she has seen in the beach. It is one of the colours brown/black/green and one of the sizes 35/45/55.
If it were not green or if it were not of length 35 it is 55.
If it were not black or if it were not of length 45 it is 55.
If it were not black or if it were not of length 35 it is 55.
a) What is the colour of the snake?
b) What is the length of the snake?
Ans:
a) brown
b) 55

9.       After World War II three departments did as follows First department gave some tanks to 2nd &3rd departments equal to the number they are having. Then 2nd department gave some tanks to 1st & 3rd departments equal to the number they are having. Then 3rd department gave some tanks to 2nd &1st departments equal to the number they are having. Then each department has 24 tanks. Find the initial number of tanks of each department?
Ans :      A-39       B-21       C-12

Let us start from the last transaction.

C gives to A and B equal number of tanks that they have. After this all the three have 24 tanks. In other words both A and B were having 12 tanks each prior to getting from C. Hence we know that C had 48 tanks before giving to A and B.

Now coming to B, both C and A receives an equal number of tanks they had. After receiving from B, C had 48 tanks. Hence it is evident B gave C 24 tanks. Before C giving A had 12 tanks that includes tanks received from B. B gave an equal number of tanks to A. Hence A was having only 6 tanks before getting from B. It now transpires B should have had 12 + 6 + 24 (the final number left over) -> 42 tanks.

Now A gave B and C equal number of tanks they had. Thus A gave B 21 tanks and C 12 tanks leaving a balance of 6 tanks.

Hence, initially A has -> 6 + 21 + 12 = 39 tanks.

B has 21 tanks and C 12 tanks making a total of 72 tanks.

10.   A lady was out for shopping. She spent half of her money in buying A and gave 1 dollar to a beggar.  Further she spent half of her remaining money and gave 2 dollar to charity. Further she spent half of remaining money and gave 3 dollar to some children. Now she is left with 1 dollar. How much she had in the beginning?

Ans: $42.
Let ‘x’ be the amount the lady had initially.

1^st transaction ->  x/2 – 1 let the reminder be ‘A’.

2^nd transaction ->  A/2 – 2 let the reminder be ‘B’

3^rd transaction ->  B/2 – 3 = 1

Now solving the 3^rd transaction we get the value of ‘B’ as 8

Solving the 2^nd transaction we get the value of ‘A’ as 20

Solving the 1^st transaction we get the value of ‘x’ as 42. (Initial amount she had)