Quiz – 407

Quant Quiz

Q1.The Binary Ice-cream Shopper sells two flavors: Vanilla and Chocolate. On Friday the ratio of Vanilla cones sold to Chocolate cones sold was 2 : 3. If the store had sold 4 more Vanilla cones, then, the ratio of Vanilla cones sold to the Chocolate cones sold would have been 3 : 4. How many Vanilla cones did the store sell on Friday?
(a) 32             (b) 35             (c) 42             (d) 48             (e) None of the above

Q2.When the price of every T.V was reduced by 10%, its sale increased by 80%. What was the net effect on the revenue?
(a) 62% increase              (b) 44% increase             (c) 90% increase             (d) 81% increase             (e) None of the above

Q3.The average age of a board of 8 functional directors in a company is the same as it was 3 years ago, a younger man having been substituted for one of the directors. How much younger was the new man than director whose place he took.
(a) 24 years              (b) 26 years              (c) 28 years              (d) 22 years             (e) None of the above

Q4.A person invested in three banks in the ratio of 1 : 2 : 3 and the rates were in the ratio of 2 : 3 : 4 at SI, also he got the income in the ratio of 3 : 4 : 5 then find the ratio of time periods?
(a) 5 : 8 : 13             (b) 18 : 8 : 7             (c) 18 : 8 : 5              (d) 18 : 6 : 5              (e) None of the above

Q5.A person travels one-fourth of a certain distance at x kmph, one-third of the remaining distance at 3x kmph and the remaining distance at 2x kmph. If his average speed for the entire journey is (x + 14) kmph, then find the total distance he covers.
(a) 60 km             (b) 50 km             (c) 40 km             (d) Cannot be determined             (e) None of the above

Directions (Q.6-10): Find the wrong number in each of the following series.

Q6. 13, 25, 40, 57, 79, 103, 130 
(a) 25             (b) 40              (c) 57             (d) 79             (e) None of the above

Q7. 850, 600, 550, 500, 475, 462.5, 456.25
(a) 600             (b) 550             (c) 500             (d) 462.5             (e) None of the above

Q8. 2, 10, 18, 54, 162, 486, 1458
(a) 8             (b) 54             (c) 162              (d) 10              (e) None of the above

Q9. 8, 12, 24, 46, 72, 108, 152
(a) 12             (b) 24             (c) 46             (d) 72             (e) None of the above

Q10. 142, 119, 100, 83, 65, 59, 52 
(a) 65             (b) 100             (c) 59             (d) 119              (e) None of the above

Answer & Explanation

1.a
2.a
3.a
4.c
5.d

 

  1. (c)

Series pattern

13 + 12 = 25

25 + 15 = 40

40 + 18 = 58

58 Should come in place of 57

58 + 21 = 79

79 + 24 = 103

103 + 27 = 130

  1. (a)

Series pattern

850 – 200 = 650

650 Should come in place of 600

650 – 100 = 550

550 – 50 = 500

500 – 25 = 475

475 – 12.5 = 462.5

462.5 – 6.25 = 456.25

  1. (d)

Series pattern

2 × 3 = 6

6 Should come in place of 10

6 × 3 = 18

18 × 3 = 54

54 × 3 = 162

162 × 3 = 486

486 × 3 = 1458

  1. (c)

Series pattern

8 + 4 = 12

12 + 12 = 24

24 + 20 = 44

44 Should come in place of 46

44 + 28 = 72

72 + 36 = 108

108 + 44 = 152

  1. (a)

Series pattern

142 – 23 = 119

119 – 19 = 100

100 – 17 = 83

83 – 13 = 70

70 Should come in place of 65

70 – 11 = 59;  59 – 7 = 52

 

English Quiz

Directions (1-10) : Pick up the correct synonyms for each of the following words.
Q1. HAUGHTY
(a) imperial             (b) imperious             (c) adamant             (d) empire             (e) None of these

Q2. LOQUACIOUS
(a) Victorian             (b) bombastic             (c) verbose             (d) ambiguous             (e) None of these

Q3. BEQUEST
(a) Parsimony             (b) matrimony             (c) heritage             (d) patrimony             (e) None of these

Q4. RECUPERATE
(a) recapture             (b) reclaim             (c) recover             (d) regain              (e) None of these

Q5. ATTENUATE
(a) repent             (b) make thin             (c) force             (d) divide             (e) None of these

Q6. ABSTINENCE
(a) synchronic             (b) torrential             (c) restraint             (d) gluttony             (e) None of these

Q7. TACITURNITY
(a) dumbness             (b) changeableness             (c) hesitation             (d) reserve             (e) None of these

Q8. BLITHE
(a) joyless             (b) grudging             (c) somnolent             (d) cheerful             (e) None of these

Q9. CAPTIVATE
(a) repel             (b) subjugate             (c) dangerous             (d) fascinate             (e) None of these

Q10. HONORARY
(a) honest             (b) dignified             (c) unpaid             (d) praiseworthy             (e) None of these

Answer & Explanation

S1. Ans. (b)

Sol. imperial means of an empire or its rulers, adamant means firmly or stubbornly, determinedly.

 

S2. Ans. (c)

Sol. Verbose means using or containing more words than are needed, ambiguous means having more than one meaning.

 

S3. Ans. (c)

Sol. heritage

 

S4. Ans. (c)

Sol. Once I fall ill, it takes me long to recuperate. That is, I take a long time to recover my health or strength after I have been ill. Convalesce is another synonym of recuperate. Convalescence is the period or process of becoming healthy and well again after an illness or operation.

 

S5. Ans. (b)

Sol. You are familiar with the word tenuous. Attenuate also comes from the same Latin root tenuis (= thin). If you attenuate something, you make it slender or thin; you reduce it in force or value.

 

S6. Ans. (c)

Sol. If you abstain from something, you deliberately do not do it. Abstinence, however, is a particular kind of abstaining —that from alcoholic drink, sex etc, often for health or religious reasons. If you abstain from drinking, you do not get drunk. Abstinence does not refer to “drink” only,

 

S7. Ans. (d)

Sol. A taciturn person is not dumb. A dumb person can’t speak. A taciturn person can speak but does not want to. In other words, he maintains a reserve.

 

S8. Ans. (d)

Sol. One who is blithe is carefree and cheerful.

 

S9. Ans. (d)

Sol. You are captivated by something attractive; It fascinates you.

 

S10. Ans. (c)

Sol. Government servants are not allowed to receive money from any other job. Suppose an income-tax officer desired to edit this book. He would then have to be the honorary editor of this book. That is, he cannot receive any payment as wages for editing the book. An honorary job is thus unpaid for.

 

Computer Quiz

Q1. Which of the following are machine-independent languages?
(a) High-level languages             (b) Low-level languages             (c) Assembly languages             (d) Machine languages
(e) None of these

Q2. FORTRAN is a programming language. It is more suitable for
(a) business applications             (b) marketing applications             (c) scientific applications             (d) statically calculative applications             (e) None of these

Q3. Which of the following threads is used in an operating system?
(a) User-level thread             (b) Kernel-level thread             (c) Hardware-level thread             (d) Both (a) and (b)
(e) None of these

Q4. Which of the following conditions is responsible for occurrence of context switching?
(a) When one process expires and a new one is loaded from a ready queue             (b) No processes are in the ready queue
(c) When a process is running             (d) When the CPU is at rest             (e) None of these

Q5. What does DOS stands for?
(a) Digital Operating Session             (b) Disk Operating System             (c) Digital Operating System              (d) Disk Opening System             (e) Digital Open System

Q6. What acts as master software that works as a mediator between a computer user and the hardware of a computer?
(a) Application Program             (b) Hardware             (c) Software             (d) Operating System             (e) User

Q7. Which of the following is the type of software that controls the internal operations in the computer and controls how the computer works with all its parts?
(a) Shareware             (b) Public domain software             (c) Application software             (d) Operating system software
(e) None of these

Q8. Linux is an example of :
(a) Freeware             (b) Open source software             (c) Shareware             (d) Complimentary             (e) None of these

Q9. Which of the following system programs translate the source program to its corresponding machine language?
(a) Interpreter             (b) Assembler             (c) Compiler             (d) Debugger             (e) None of these

Q10. In MS Word, __________ is a predefined decorative text that you can add to a document.
(a) ClipArt             (b) SmartArt             (c) Charts             (d) WordArt             (e) References

Q11. Which of the following features of Excel allows you to create small charts that you can insert in individual cells?
(a) Sparkline             (b) Slicer             (c) Macro             (d) All of the above             (e) None of these

Q12. In Excel, a new workbook contains __________ worksheets by default.
(a) One             (b) three             (c) five             (d) ten             (e) None of these

Q13. In a Windows-based application, when you click the Maximize button, it changes to the 
(a) Minimize button             (b) Close button             (c) Open button             (d) Restore Down button             (e) None of these

Q14. You cannot save an Excel file in a/an __________ format.
(a) PDF             (b) PSD             (c) TXT             (d) XML             (e) None of these

Q15. In PowerPoint, __________ refers to the process of displaying images in a sequence to create an illusion of movement.
(a) transition             (b) animation             (c) theme             (d) style             (e) None of these

Answer & Explanation

S1. Ans.(a)

Sol. High-level languages, such as FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal and Algol, allow the programmer to write programs that are not bound to be used only on particular types of computers. The benefits of these high-level languages are very close to the human understandable language, that is, they are written in simple English language with some numeric characters.

 

S2. Ans.(c)

Sol. FORTRAN is the best and only major programming language for scientific applications. It is designed for performing large and complex scientific numerical computing.

 

S3. Ans.(d)

Sol. There are only two types of threads present in an operating system. One is user-level thread and the other is kernel-level thread. User-level threads are the threads which are controlled and managed by the user of the computer system. Kernel-level threads are the threads which are controlled and created by the operating system. These threads are at the kernel level of the computer system. Kernel is the one who creates the threads.

 

S4. Ans.(a)

Sol. A context switching comes into the picture when the time period provided for one process is over and a new process is loaded from the ready queue for processing.

 

S5. Ans.(b)

Sol. DOS stands for Disk Operating System. It is the first operating system developed by Microsoft.

 

S6. Ans.(d)

Sol. Operating system provided an interface between a user and computer hardware. It enables a user to utilize hardware resources efficiently.

 

S7. Ans.(d)

Sol. An operating system (OS) is a program or software that manages and coordinates the functions of all the components of a computer. It also acts as an interface between the user and the hardware of a computer.

 

S8. Ans.(b)

Sol. Linux is an open source operating system.

 

S9. Ans.(b)

Sol. An assembler refers to a system program that transforms (translates) a source program written in Assembly Language (AL) into its respective machine language of a computer. The assembly program uses symbolic representation of machine language statements and hence is closer to machine language.

 

S10. Ans.(d)

Sol. WordArt includes predefined and predecorated text that can be added to a document for enhancing its appearance. You can also customize the font size and font colour of the wordArt.

 

S11. Ans.(a)

Sol. Sparklines are minicharts that you can place inside a cell of a worksheet to represent numerical data.

 

S12. Ans.(b)

Sol. A new workbook contains only three worksheets, namely, Sheet 1, Sheet 2 and Sheet 3, by default. You can rename your worksheets at any point according to your requirements.

 

S13. Ans.(d)

Sol. The user interface of a Windows-based application contains Window control buttons, namely, Minimize, Maximize and Restore Down, and Close buttons. When the Maximize button is clicked, it is changed to the Restore Down button. Similarly, when the Restore Down button is clicked, the name of the button is changed to the Maximize button.

 

S14. Ans.(b)

Sol. PSD is an extension for Photoshop files.

 

S15. Ans.(b)

Sol. The process of rapidly displaying static images in a sequence such that an illusion of motion is created is known as animation. You can apply different animation effects to different objects in a presentation.

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