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INFOSYS Latest Fresher Placement Question Paper 33

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written test.

There are passages from A to M.Each one is havingfour questions.

A.My father had no brothers.but his three.....1.My father was only child. (F)2.Three of my aunts have sons. (C)3.I have six cousins on my mothers side (C)4.I have only one uncle. (F)B.Senoir manegers in a leading company..........1.Some senoir managers said that more people willwant to buy newcars in the future. (F)

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2.Managers told workers that Japanese workers aretaking jobsaway form India Workers in the car industry (F)3.The managers issued their warning after a rise ininterest rates(T).4.The increased rate of interest will mean thatJapanese firmswill cease to operate in this country.C.Reaserchers in Mumbai have found that............1.Injecting eather into the gallbladdre dissolvesmost gallastones.(T)2.Surgery is the only treatment for calcium basedgallastones(T)3.Only a few hundred people suffer from calciumbased gallastones(C)4.It takes more than one day for the eather todissolve calcium gallastones.(F)

Here is a small trick for D,E,F,GD. T F T F

E.F F T C

F.F F T C

G.T F T F

D and G are same and E and F are same.Be carefull.-------------------------------------------------

H. Every form of art is proteted bycopyright...........(Tagore)1.Tagore plays are not protected by copyright(F)2.Tagore's desecendents should be asked to make some


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contributionto the arts.(T)31.Instead of buying a ticket,theatregoers shouldpay a fee to atrust for the benifit of the arts. (F)32.More people could go to the theatre if copyrightwere

abolished (C)I. Hacking is a crime..............

33.Most hackers are authorised to breaks intonetworks34.Computers are only vulnerable to the unauthorisedmanipulation

of thier data via another computer if they arenetworked. (C)35.The main reason why it is relatively easy. (T)36.Hackers do not work for the firms whose networksthey break into(C)J. In this only two questions

37.F38.TK.Electronics......

39.F40. to 42 all are TrueL.All are true.(43 to 46)

M. All are true (47 to 50)No of candidates appeared : 220For the Interview : 90.

GEORGE SUMMERS puzzle books are suggested.-----------------------------INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED.-----------------------------Question Paper--------------Part 1.------(1) 9 cards are there. u have to arrange themin a 3*3 matrix.cards are of 4 colors.they arered,yellow,blue,green.

conditions for arrangement: one red card mustbe in first rowor second row.2 green cards should be in 3rdcolumn.Yellowcards must be in the 3 corners only. Two blue

cards must be inthe 2nd row. Atleast one green card in eachrow.Solution:Yello Red Gren


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Blu Blu GrenYello Gren Yello2. 4 cards are placed on a table, each card hastwo colors. Udon't know the color of the back side ofeachcard.4 persons AB C and D are sitting on the table before the

cards. They cansee Red, Green Red and blue .Out of the 4poeple 2 always lie.They see the color on the reverse side and givethe followingcommentA: Yello/greenB: Neither Blue/nor Greenc: Blue/YelloD: Blue/ Yellofind out the color on the other side of the 4cards.

3.Red and brown tribes [FROM BARRONS GRE]

Conditions toget married with each other.

4. Venn diagram regarding Rich, muscular,soft-skinned,employed, etc.,( Refer BARRONS GRE GUIDE)

------------------------------------------------------------------------PART 2.-------1. SAKUNTALA DEVI'S PUZZLE BOOK : PUZZLES TOPUZZLE YOU.problem no: 3. ( Brothers and Sisters)

A family I know has several children. Eachboy in thisfamily has as many sisters as brothers buteach girl hastwice as many brothers as sisters. Howmany brothersand sisters are there?ans: 4 boys and 3 girls.2. No. of animals is 11 more than the no. ofbirds. If theno. of birds were the no. of animals andno. of animalswere the no. of birds( ie., interchangingno.s of animals

and birds.), the total no. of legs getreduced by one fifth(1/5). How many no. of birds and animalswere there?ans: birds:11,animals:22

3. In a soap company a soap is manufacturedwith 11 parts.For making one soap you will get 1 part asscrap. At theend of the day u have 251 such scraps.


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From that how manysoaps can be manufactured? ans: 22 + 2+ 1= 25.4. 2 * * |3 * * | No. 7 does notoccur in this---------------- |

5 * * | multiplication.* 4 * |* * 3 | Find theproduct.---------------- |* * * * * |---------------- |

--------------------------------------------------ans 2 8 13 2 2-----5 6 25 6 2 0

8 4 3 0 0---------9 0 4 8 2---------5. There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum iseleven each.Last digit is 3 times the first one.3 rd digit is 3 less than the second.4 th digit is 4 more than the secondone.Find the digit.ans : 25296.6. There are five thieves, each loot abakery one after the

other such that the first one takes 1/2of the total no.of the breads plus 1/2 of a bread.Similarly 2nd, 3rd,4thand 5fth also did the same. After thefifth one no. ofbreads remained are 3. Initially how manybreads were there?ans : 31.7.ESCALATOR PROBLEM OF SAKUNTALA DEVI'PUZZLES TO PUZZLE'book.Problem No: Problem 27( Down theescalator)ans : the no of steps in the stair way :

46.8.Harbour line and Main line Problem ofSakuntala Devi Puzzlebook. Ans : 4/5.( More Puzzles book)

9.There are some chicken in a poultry. Theyare fed with cornOne sack of corn will come for 9 days.Thefarmer decides tosell some chicken and wanted to hold 12


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chicken with him.He cuts the feed by 10% and sack of corncomes for 30 days.So initially how many chicken are there?10.Two people X & Y walk on the wall of agodown in oppositedirection. They meet at a point on one

side and then goahead. X after walking for some time,walks in oppositedirection for 15 mtrs.Then again he turnsback and walksin the original direction. What distancedid Y walk beforethey met again, if X walks 11 mtrs by thetime Y walks8 mtrs.11.Problem from SAKUNTALA DEVI 'PUZZLES TOPUZZLE U'.Problem no: 23( Walking back tohappiness.)

The walking time : 55 mins.

With this The paper has been completed. Forthe lack timeI have'nt typed those probs, which are inSakuntala DeviPuzzle books. I wish all of you the best.Send me the mail immediately after thewritten test willbe over. thank you.

-Sarma. B. Y.

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1. Father's age is three years more than three times
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the son's age.After three years, father's age will be ten yearsmore than twice the son's age.What is the father's present age.

Ans: 33 years. (2 marks)

2. Find the values of each of the alphabets.

N O O NS O O N+ M O O N----------J U N E

Ans: 9326 (2 marks)

3. There are 20 poles with a constant distancebetween each pole

A car takes 24 second to reach the 12th pole.How much will it take to reach the last pole.

Ans: 41.45 seconds (2 marks)Let the distance between two poles = xHence 11x:24::19x:?

4. A car is travelling at a uniform speed.The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digitnumber.After travelling for an hour the driver seesanother milestone with the same digits in reverseorder.

After another hour the driver sees anothermilestone containing the same two digits.What is the average speed of the driver.

Ans: 45 kmph (4 marks)

5. The minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every65 minutes.How much does the watch lose or gain time and byhow much?

Ans: Gains; 5/11 minutes (4 marks)

6. Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends.Ram is a widower and lives alone and his sistertakes care of him.Shyam is a bachelor and his neice cooks his food

and looks after his house.Gumnaam is married to Gita and lives in largehouse in the same town.Gita gives the idea that all of them could staytogether in the house and share monthly expenses


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equally.During their first month of living together, eachperson contributed Rs.25.At the end of the month, it was found that Rs 92was the expense so the remaining amount wasdistributed equallyamong everyone.

The distribution was such that everyone recieved awhole number of Rupees.How much did each person recieve?

Ans. Rs 2 (4marks)(Hint: Ram's sister, Shyam's neice andGumnaam's wife are the same person)

7. Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards.Each person has one card, laid down on the tablebelow him, which has two different colours on eitherside.

The colours visible on the table are Red, Green,Red and Blue.They see the color on the reverse side and givethe following comment.

A: Yellow or GreenB: Neither Blue nor GreenC: Blue or YellowD: Blue or Yellow

Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find outthe colours on the cards each person.

8.

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Electronics City, Bangalore 561 229.ph: 080 8520261 (extn. 52180)

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1. Number of null pointers in any binary tree = n+1

2. max(t1,t2,...tn) = pipelining

3. 50% -DBETXXXXXX - density

4. print (Head(T))Traverse(left(T))print (Head(T))Traverse(right(T)) - ans: none of the above

5. Boolean expn Evalvate

6. Common subexpn : - ans : a + e

7. LRU : 1, 2, 3.

8. Tr. Delay - 10000 bits ans. 10.01

9. Grammar of Number of shift / reduce operator :

ans. 4

10. CPU scheduling 9,8 ?

11. if even x/2else p(p(3x+1))

2^k + 1: 3 . 2^(k-1) clarify this with sans

12. allocation ans: (ii) only

13. swapping : ans: reference only

14. Compiler - related Qn.

15. LAN frames - ? related Qn.

16. parameter passing (35,20)

17. sliding window protocol- BUFFER SIZE large

18. kernel mode - deallocate resource

19. logic circuitans . Minimum OR = 3

20. Combinatorics related

21. priority scheduling

22. cobeginbegin x = y; x= x+1; y= x

begin x =y; z= z+1; y= zcoend

ans. Number of values possi = 2


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23. 2 bits flip / 2 bits exchange

ans : the word with one '1'

24. any addrK^+ v(a) + 2I - 2a

clarify with SANS.

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1.An escalator is descending at constant speed.A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach the

bottom.B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time asA takes 10 steps.How many steps are visible when the escalator isnot operating?

Ans: 150 steps

2. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particularcrossing.The road is straight before the crossing and bothare travelling in the same direction.The cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph.

One day the cyclist comes late by 25 min. andmeets the train 5km before the crossing.What is the speed of the train?

Ans: 60 kmph

3. There are five persons with surnames Mukherjee,Misra, Iyer, Patil and Sharma.There are 4 persons having first or middle name of


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Kumar, 3 persons with Mohan, 2 persons with Dev and 1Anil.Either Mukherjee and Patil have a first or middlename of Dev or Misra and Iyer have their first ormiddle name of Dev.Of Mukherkjee and Misra, either both of them havea first or middle name of Mohan or neither have a

first ormiddle name of Mohan.Either Iyer or Sharma has a first or middle nameof Kumar but not both.Who has the first or middle name of Anil?

Ans: Kumar Misra DevMohan Iyer DevKumar Patil MohanMohan Sharma Kumar

4. Boys are allowed to watch football at C.V.Ramanauditorium subjected to conditions.

The boy over age 16 can wear overcoatNo boy over age 15 can wear capTo watch the football either he has to wear overcoator cap or bothA boy with an umberella or above 16 or both cannotwear sweater.Boys must either not watch football or wear sweater.What is the appearence of the boy who is watchingfootball.

5. A bird keeper has got P pigeons, M mynas and Ssparrows.

The keeper goes for lunch leaving his assistant towatch the birds.

Suppose p=10, m=5, s=8 when the bird keeper comesback, the assistant informs the x birds have escaped.The bird keeper exclaims: "Oh no! All my sparrows aregone."How many birds flew away?When the bird keeper comes back, the assistant toldhim that x birds have escaped. The keeper realisedthat atleast 2 sparrows have escaped.What is minimum no of birds that can escape?

6. Answer the following questions based on the

conditions from the choices A, B, C, D, E as describedbelow:(A) if a definete conclusion can be drawn fromcondition 1(B) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from

condition 2(C) if a definete conclusion can be drawn fromcondition 1 and 2(D) if a definete conclusion can be drawn fromcondition 1 or 2


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(E) no conclusion can be drawn using both conditions

person 1 says N


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The 4th digit is 4 greater than second digit,while 3rd digit is 3 less than 2nd digit.The 1st digit is thrice the last digit.There are 3 pairs whose sum is 11.Find the number.

Ans: 65292

10. A hotel has two wings,the east wing and the westwing.Some east wing rooms but not all have an oceanview.All west wing rooms have a harbour view.The charge for all rooms is identical, except asfollows :

Extra charge for all harbour view rooms on or abovethe 3rd floorExtra charge for all ocean view rooms except thosewithout balcony

Extra charge for some harbour rooms on the first twofloor & some east wing rooms without ocean view buthaving kitchen facilities.Which of the following cannot be determined on thebasis of the nformation given:

I. Whether there are any rooms without a balcony forwhich an extra charge is imposed.II. Whether any room without a kitchen or a viewinvolves an extra charge.III. Whether two extra charges are impsed for anyroom.

(A) I only

(B) II only(C) III only(D) II and III only(E) I, II and III

(This question is from 1999 Barrons GRE Guide modelTest 3 - section 6, question 22)

Ans: (A)

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1. From a vessel, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates on

the first day.On the second day 3/4th of the remaining liquidevaporates.What fraction of the volume is present at the endof the second day.


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Ans: 50%

2. An orange glass has orange juice and white glasshas apple juice both of equal volumes.50ml of the orange juice is taken and poured into

the apple juice.50ml from the white glass is poured into theorange glass.Of the two quantities, the amount of apple juicein the orange glass and the amount of orange juice inthe white glass, which one is greater and by howmuch?

Ans: The two quantities are equal

3. There is a 4 inch cube painted on all sides.This is cut down into of 1 inch cubes.What is the no of cubes which have no pointed

sides.

Ans: 8

4. Sam and Mala have a conversation.

Sam says I am certainly not over 40Mala says I am 38 and you are atleast 5 years olderthan meNow Sam says you are atleast 39All the statements by the two are false.How old are they really?

Ans: Mala = 38 yrsSam = 41 yrs.

5. Ram Singh goes to his office in the city, every dayfrom his suburban house.His driver Gangaram drops him at the railwaystation in the morning and picks him up in theevening.Every evening Ram Singh reaches the station at 5O' Clock.Gangaram also reaches at the same time.One day Ram Singh started early from his officeand came to the station at 4 O' Clock.

Not wanting to wait for the car he starts walkinghome. Mangaram starts at normal time, picks him up onthe wayand takes him back house, half an hour early.How much time did Ram Singh walk?

6. In a railway station, there are two trains going.One in the harbour line and one in the main line,each having a frequency of 10 minutes.


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The main line service starts at 5 o'clock and theharbour line starts at 5.02A.M.A man goes to the station every day to catch thefirst train that comes.What is the probability of the man catching thefirst train?

Ans: 0.8

7. A family X went for a vacation.Unfortunately it rained for 13 days when they werethere.But whenever it rained in the mornings, they hadclear afternoons and vice versa.In all they enjoyed 11 mornings and 12 afternoons.

How many days did they stay there totally?

Ans: 18

8. A survey was taken among 100 people to find theirpreference of watching T.V. programmes.There are 3 channels. Given the no of people whowatch

at least channel 1at least channel 2at least channel 3no channels at allatleast channels 1and 3atleast channels 1 and 2atleast channels 2 and 3Find the no of people who watched all three.

9. Albert and Fernandes have two leg swimming race.Both start from opposite ends of the pool.On the first leg, the boys pass each other at 18m from the deep end of the pool.During the second leg they pass at 10 m from theshallow end of the pool.Both go at constant speed but one of them isfaster.Each boy rests for 4 seconds at the end of thefirst leg.What is the length of the pool?

10. Each alphabet stands for one digit in thefollowing multiplication.

T H I S

x I S---------X F X XX X U X------------


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X X N X X------------

What is the maximum value T can take?

Ans: T max value = 4

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1) A man collects cigarette stubs and makes one fullcigarette with every 8 stubs.If he gets 64 stubs how many full cigarettes can hesmoke.

Ans: 8+1=9

2) A soldier looses his way in a thick jungle. Atrandom he walks from his camp but mathematically in aninteresting fashion. First he walks one mile East thenhalf mile to North. Then 1/4 mile to West, then 1/8mile to South and so on making a loop.Finally how far he is from his camp and in whichdirection.

Ans: Distance travelled in north and south directions1/2 - 1/8 + 1/32 - 1/128 + 1/512 - and so on= 1/2/((1-(-1/4))

Similarly in east and west directions1- 1/4 + 1/16 - 1/64 + 1/256 - and so on= 1/(( 1- ( - 1/4))Add both the answers

3) How can 1000000000 be written as a product of twofactors neither of them containing zeros

Ans: 2 power 9 x 5 power 9

4) Conversation between two mathematcians:First : I have three childern. The product of their

ages is 36.If you sum their ages, it is exactly same asmy neighbour's door number on my left.The second mathematician verfies the door number andsays that it is not sufficient.

Then the first says " Ok one more clue is that myyoungest is really the youngest". Immmediately thesecond mathematician answers .Can you answer the question asked by the firstmathematician?


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What are the childeren ages?

Ans 1,6 and 6

5) Light glows for every 13 seconds . How many timesdid it glow between 1:57:58 and 3:20:47 am.

Ans : 383 + 1 = 384

6) 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50columns according to their heights.Tallest among each row of all are asked to fallout.And the shortest among them is A.Similarly after resuming that to their originalpodsitions that the shortest among each column areasked to fall out.And the tallest among them is B .Now who is taller among A and B ?

Ans A

7) A person with some money spends1/3 for cloths, 1/5of the remaining for food and 1/4 of the remaining fortravel.He is left with Rs 100/- .How much did he have with him in the begining ?

Ans: Rs 250/-

There are six boxes containing 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 ,18 , 29 balls of either red or blue in colour.Some boxes contain only red balls and otherscontain only blue.One sales man sold one box out of them and thenhe says" I have the same number of red balls left out asthat of blue ".Which box is the one he solds out ?

Ans: Total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2) = 60/2 = 30

and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30

9) A chain is broken into three pieces of equallenths containing 3 links each.It is taken to a backsmith to join into a singlecontinuous one .How many links are to to be opened to make it ?

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10) Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in auniform rate.It takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 days for 30cows to eat the whole of the grass.How many cows are needed to eat the grass in 96days.?

Ans : 20g - grass at the beginningr - rate at which grass grows, per dayy - rate at which one cow eats grass, per dayn - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 daysg + 24*r = 70 * 24 * yg + 60*r = 30 * 60 * yg + 96*r = n * 96 * ySolving, n = 20.

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From [email protected] 12 21:11:49 1998Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 09:52:12 PDTFrom: satish kandanuru


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THE TRAINS HAVE A FREQUENCY OF 10 min. INTHE MORNING OFFICEHOURS.THE HARBOUR LINE TRAINS ARRIVE EVARY 10min.STARTING FROM5:00a.m.AND THE MAIN LINE TRAINS ARRIVE AT EVERY

10min. STARTING FROM5:02a.m

II. IN A CERTAIN DEPARTMENT STORE THEPOSITION OFBUYER,CASHIER,CLERK

, FLOORWALKAR, & MANAGER ARE HELD, THOUGH NOTNECESSARILYRESPECTIVELY ,BY M$

THE CASHIER & THE MANAGER WERE ROOMMATES INCOLLEGE.

THE BUYER IS BACHELOR,EVANS & MISS AMES HAVE ONLY BUSINESS CONTACTSWITH EACH OTHERMRS CONROY WAS GREATLY DOSAPPOINTED WHEN HERHUSBAND TOLD HERTHAT THEMANAGER HAD REFUGE TO GIVE HIM A RAISE.DAVIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST MAN WHEN THECLErk & THE CASHIERARE MARRIED .

WHAT POSITION DOES EACH PERSON HELD.?

III.TANVEER AND KUNAL WENT DOWN A DESCENDINGESCALATOR . THE ESCALATORWASGOING DOWN AT A CONTANT SPEED . KUNAL WALKEDDOWN THE STEPS ANDHAD TOCOVER 50 STEPS TO REACH THE BOTTOM.TANVEER ONTHE OTHER HAND , RANDOWNTHE STEPS OF THE ESCALATOR AND HENCE HAD TO TAKE75 STEPS TO REACHTHE

BOTTOM . ACTUALLY , TANVEER TOOK 3 STEPS IN THESAME TIME IT TOOKKUNALTO TAKE 1 STEP . HOW MANY STEPS WOULD BE visiblewhen the ecalator

isstopped and not operating.?

Iv. In A four team foot-ball tournament , all the


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teams played eachotherin three rounds of matches are shown in thetable -A . some oftheresults of the tournament are shown in thetable _B . Using the

cluesgiven below, please fill -in the blank columnsin the resulttable-B(goals for & goals for against ? ).

Note : two points for win , one point for draw &zero points fordefeatare awarded .

CLUES :1. EAST ZONE WON THE TOURNAMENT DESPITE SCORINGONE LESS GOAL THAN

THERUNNERS -UP.2. NORTH ZONE SCORED AN ODD NUMBER OF GOALS INTHEIR FIRST ROUNDGAME3. SOUTH ZONE , WHO FAILED TO SCORE IN THEIRFINAL MATCH , WEREBEATENBY A TWO -GOAL MARGIN IN THE FIRST ROUND.4. EAST ZONE LOST THEIR MATCH AGINST WEST ZONE.5. ALL FOUR TEAMS SCORED GOALS IN THE SECONDROUND MATCHES6. WEST ZONE SCORED THE SAME NUMBER OF GOALSAGAINST EAST ZONE AS

NORTHZONE SCORED AGINST THEM.7. EAST ZONE SCORED FOUR GOALS IN ROUND TWOMATCH.Table - A ( MATCHES PLAYED )~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Round 1 North zone vs south zonewest zone vs east zone.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~round 2 south zone vs west zoneeast zone vs north zone~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Round 3 south zone vs east zonewest zone vs north zone

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Table - B ( RESULTS )~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Played won draw lost

golas for goalspoints

against


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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

$East Zone 3 - - -? 34

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~North zone 3 - - -? ?4~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~West zone 3 - - -4 33~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~South Zone 3 - - -

2 51

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V.At six o'clock the wall clock struck 6 times .Checking with mywatch, I noticed that the time between the first &last strokes was 30seconds

. How long will the clock take to stike 12 atmid night (Ans 66seconds)

VI. PLESE ANSWER THE Q'S WITH REFERENCE TO THEFACTS GIVEN BELOW ( 8MARKS )

1 . THE MEMBERS OF A CERTAIN TRIBE ARE DIVIDEDINTO THREE CASTES-ABHOR

, DRAVID , & MAGAR CASTES

2. AN ABHOR WOMEN CANNOT MARRY A DRAVID MAN3. A MAGAR MAN CANNOT MARRY A DRAVID WOMEN.4. A SON TAKES THE CASTE OF HIS FATHER , A

DAUGHTER TAKES THECASTE OFHER MOTHER .5. ALL MARRIAGES EXCEPT THOSE MENTIOND ABOVE AREPERMITTED


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6 . THERE ARE NO CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WED LOCK.

Q'S

1) AN ABHOR WOMAN MARRIES AND HAS THREE CHILDREN, ALL OF WHOM ARE

MEMBER$

I) IF SHE WERE TO BE MARRIED to amagar MAN , THEY HAVENO MALE$II) IF SHE WERE TO BE MARRIED TO ABHORMAN ,THEY MAY HAVEMALE CHI$

III) IF HER FOURTH CHILD IS MALE , HEMAY BE A DRAVID,.

A) I ONLYB) III ONLY

C) I & II ONLY

D) II & III ONLYE) I , II & III

2) IT CAN BE INFERRED FROM THE CONDITION DESCRIBEDTHAT A MAGAR MAN

I) CANNOT HAVE A DRAVID GRAND MOTHERII) CANNOT HAVE A DRAVID MOTHER

III ) MAY HAVE A ABHOR MOTHERA) I ONLYB) II ONLYC) I & II ONLYD) II & III ONLYE) I , II & III

3) WHEN TWO DRAVIDS ARE MARRIED , IT IS IMPOSSIBLEFOR THEM TO HAVE

I) ANY FEMALE ABHOR DESCENDENTSII ) AN ABHOR GREAT_ GRAND DAUGHTER \III) AN ABHOR GRAND DAUGHTER

A)I ONLYB) III ONLYC) I & II ONLYD) II & III ONLY

E) I , II & III

4) AN ABHOR WOMAN

A)CAN HAVE A DRAVID GRANDSON


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B) CANNOT HAVE A MAGAR SONC) CANNOT HAVE A MAGAR GRAND SOND) CAN HAVE A MAGAR DAUGHTER -IN - LAWE) CANNOT HAVE A DRAVID GRAND DAUGHTER

VII. ( 2 MARKS )

IN CERTAIN COMMUNITY THERE ARE THOUSANDMARRIED COUPLES .TWOTHIRDS OF THE HUSBANDS WHO ARE TALLER THAN THEIRWIVES ARE ALSOHEAVIERAND THREE QUARTERS OF THE HUSBANDS WHO AREHEAVIER THAN THEIR WIVESAREALSO TALLER . IF THERE ARE 120 WIVES WHO ARETALLER AND HEAVIERTHAN THEIRHUSBANDS, HOW MANY HUSBANDS ARE TALLER ANDHEAVIER THAN THEIR WIVES

?

VIII. BOTH THE GUPTHAS AND SINHAS HAVE TWO YOUNGSONS WHOSE AGES AREANDER ELEVEN. THE NAMES OF THE BOYS, WHOSEAGES ROUNDEDOFF TOTHENEAREST YEAR ARE ALL DIFFERENT, ARE RAJESH,PRAVEEN,LALITH ANDPRATHAP.TAKING THE AGES OF THE AGES OF THE BOYS ONLYTO THE NEARESTYEAR, THE

FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ARE TRUE.RAJESH IS THREE YEARS YOUNGER THAN HISBROTHER IS.PRAVEEN IS THE OLDEST.PRATHAP IS 5YRS OLDER THAN THE YOUNGERSINHAS BOY.LALITH IS HALF AS OLD AS ONE OF THEGUPTHA BOYS.THE TOTAL AGES OF THE BOYS IN EACHFAMILY DIFFER BY THESAMEAMOUNT TODAY AS THEY DID FIVE YEARSAGO. --- 7 MARKS.

IX. A LONG DIVISION SUM ---- 7MARKSxx)xxxxxxxxx(xxxxxxxxx

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xx---xxxx--xxxxxx

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in the complete solution there arefour 5's.Find the missing digits.

X. FOLLOWING SERVICES ARE OPERATED BY ASIAN AIRLINESBETWEEN THE TWO

ARE LOCATED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WITHDIFFERENT TIME ZONES.AS IS

IS NORMALLY DONE, THE TIME SHOWN IS THELOCAL TIME- VIZ IST& TST.REGULAR FLIGHTSUPERSONICFLIGARRIVE ALEXANDRIA 17:10 TST15:40 TSTDEPART " " 20:50 TST22:50 TSTARRIVE RAMPUR 23:40 IST? IST

THE ARRIVAL TIME OF SUPERSONIC FLIGHTINTO RAMPUR FROM

ALEXANDR$ARRIVAL TIME OF THE SUPER SONIC FLIGHTASSUMING EACHSERVICE-REGULAR AND SUPERSONIC MAINTAINS ITSOWN CONSTANT SPEEDOF FLIG$

DON'T ANSWER FOR ALL THE PUZZULES. 8ARE THE SAFE ONE.

INFOSYS

Release : '97

ROBERT,RAJ AND RASUL ALWAYS TAKE DINNER TOGETHER.AFTERDINNER EACH

WILL ORDER EITHER COFFEE OR TEA.


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(a) IF RASUL ORDERS COFFEE, RAJ ORDERS WHAT ROBERTORDERS

(b)IF RAJ ORDERS COFFEE,RASUL ORDERS WHAT ROBERTDOESN'T ORDER

(c) IF ROBERT ORDERS TEA,RASUL ORDERS WHAT RAJ ORDERS

WHO ORDERS ALWAYS SAME DRINK?

(i) RASUL (ii)RASUL&ROBERT

(iii)ALL (iv)------- ans:ALL

(2) MAJOR RAJ ,HIS BROTHER ,DAUGHTERS AND SON AREALWAYS PLAYING

MIXED DOUBLES

(i)MJ.RAJ BROTHER IS PLAYING ACROSS THE NET DIRECTLYOPPOSITE TO

MJ.RAJ'S DAUGHTER.

(ii) MJ.RAJ'S SON IS PLAYING DIAGONALLY ACROSS THE NETOF THE WORSTE

PLAYERS SIBLING.

(iii)EACH TEAM MADE UP OF BEST AND WORSTE PLAYER OFTHE SLOT.

WHO IS THE BEST PLAYER?

(a)MJ.RAJ (b)HIS BROTHER (c)HIS SON (d) INSUFFICIENT

DATA.

(1) THERE ARE NINE CARDS NUMBERING 1-9.

(i)CARD 5 IS IN CENTRE

(ii) CARD 9 IS IN ROW IN WHICH CARD 5 IS THERE

(iii) CARD FOUR IS IN SAME COLUMN IN WHICH CARD 9 ISPRESENT.

(iv)CARD 1&CARD 6 ADJACENT TO EACH OTHER

(v) SUM OF EACH ROW IS EQUAL TO 15 ONLY

(vi) SUM OF EACH DIAGONAL IS ALSO 15

(A) NINE CARDS ARE ARRANGED IN THREE ROWS AND THREECOLUMNS;

(*) ADJACENT MEANS TWO CARDS ARE IN SAME ROW OR SAMECOLUMN NEXT

TO EACH OTHER.


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*) NOTE: CONSIDER ALL POSSIBLE ANSWERS

(i)WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ARE DEFINETLY ADJACENT TOEACH OTHER

ANS;(1&5)

(ii) WHICH TWO CARDS DO NOT COME DEFINETLY ADJACENT TOEACH OTHER a)5&4

(iii) THE MIDDLE COLUMN ADDS UP TO (a) 15

iv) THE MIDDLE COLUMN CAN'T BE ADDED UP TO

X)10 Y)15 Z) 20 a) X&Z

POSSIBLE TABLES

2 7 6 6 2 7

9 5 1 1 5 9

4 3 8 3 8 4

THERE ARE '3' CASTERS IN A VILLAGE MARGONS, ADHORS,ANDDRAVIDS

i)ADHOR WOMEN CAN'T MARRY DRAVID MEN

ii) MARGON MAN CAN'T MARRY DRAVID WOMAN

iii) IN A FAMILY SON WILL GET HIS FATHER'S CASTE ANDDAUGHTER WILL

GET HIS MOTHER'S CASTE

iv) THERE IS NO CHILDREN OUT OF WEDLOCK

v) OTHER COMBINATION'S ARE ALLOWED EXCEPT ABOVECOMBINATIONS

QUESTIONS:

i)ADHOR FEMALES CAN HEVE

i) ii) iii)

4) IF TWO DRAVIDAN'S GOT MARRIAGE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR

i)TO HAVE

I5) ADHOR WOMAN HAVE

A) B) C) D) E)

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KALYAN CHAKRAVARTHY NISTALA (res. phone : 0891 715031)emp.no 13494,

Infosys Technologies Ltd.,Electronics City, Bangalore 561 229.ph: 080 8520261 (extn. 52180)


InfosysTechnical Questions in the second round --1. If 1/4 of the time from midnight plus 1/2 of thetime from now to midnight is the present time,then

what is the present time ?

2. In a 10 digit number, if the 1st digit number isthe number of ones,2nd digit number is the number oftwos, and ... so on. 10th digit is the number ofzeroes,then find the number

3. A train blows a siren one hour after starting fromthe station. After that it travels at 3/5th of itsspeed it reaches the next station 2 hours behindschedule. If it had a problem 50 miles farther fromthe previous case,it would have reached 40 minutessooner. Find the distance between the two stations .

4. An army 50 miles long marches at a constant rate. Acourier standing at the rear moves forward anddelivers the message to the first person and thenturns back and reaches the rear of the army as thearmy completes 50 miles. Find the distance travelledby the courier.

5. A person grows cabbage, he uses a larger squarethis year than previous year and produces cabbagesthan previous year.what is the no. of cabbagesproduced this year

6. Olympic race :4 contestants : Alan,charlie, Darren ,Brain.

There are two races and average is taken to decide thewinner.one person comes at the same position in boththe race. Charlie always come before darren. Briancomes first once. Alan comes third atleast once. Findthe positions. Alan never comes last. Charlie & darren

comes 2nd atleast once.

8. Problem finding who is husband,wife & son from 4set of families.


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9. Rank the persons from set of conditions.

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/* THIS FILE INCLUDES INFOSYS PAPERS FOR YEAR 2000

HELD AT IISc AND NAGPUR.*/

INFOSYS TEST @ IISC - 2000

1:there is a robery and four persons are suspected outof them one isactualthief,these are the senteces said by each one of them!A says D had doneB says A had doneC says i dddnt done

D B lied when he said that i am thief

out of these only one man is true remaining are falseans C is thef,D is true!maks 3

2 how many four digit numbers divisible by four can beformed using

1,2,3,4;repetions are not allowed!ans 6;marks 4

3 a vender solds two things at same cost 12 RS withone item at 25%profitand other at 20%loss,by this transaction he madeprofit or loss by howmuchans loss,60paise

marks 3

4 two friends A,B are running up hill and then to getdown!length if road is 440 yards A on his return journy met

B goin up at20 yards from top,A has finished the rase .5 minuitearlier thanB,then how much time A had taken to complete the rase.

ans 6.3 minuitsmarks 4

5 barons question diagnostic test question 8-12,5 menand 5 women went for


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foot ball match.........

marks 8

6 write a five digit number ,which will be having two prime numbers,and some two more conditions,like 1st digit greater

than 2nd etcits easy(remember one is not a prime number,mostpeople don mistaketaking 1as prime number)

ans 71842

5 marks

7 two employs were thereemploy one says to employ two your work ezxperiencetwice as meemp2 exactly

emp1 but two years before you said that your workexperience isthrice as meemp2 yes its also truewhat are their work experienceans 4,8marks 3

8 ther are four persons A,B,C,D and for languagesenglish ,french,germanitalian,conditions1 only one language is spoken by more than two men

2 A dont know english3 a man can speak either french or german but not both4 all man cannot spek in a group(no common language)5 A can mediate when B and C want to speak with eachother6 each men can speak two languagesansA french italianB english frenchC german italianD german italian

marks 7

9 there are 3 women ,they having three jewells,nameddiamond emerald,ruby

3 women A,B,C3 thiefs D,E,Feach thef had taken one jewel from each of the womenfollowing conditionsone who had taken diamond is the bachelor and most


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dangerousD 's brother in law E who is less dangerous than thethief who had--------------------------------------------------------------------stolen emerald--------------(this is the key from this e had stolen ruby)

D did nt stolen from Bone more condition is there

marks 7

10 ther were five persons out of which two personsheir went whiteand three persons hair is blackconditionsif A 's hir is white then B'hair is whiteA,s hair is not blakck if C's hair is not blacktwo more conditionsbut we can easily solve it from first coditionans is Aand B's hair is white

marks 5

essayin this age of super computer computer will repalceman!

what is contribution of industry towards humn growth

interview questions!

1 two time glases 7,4 how you measure 92 four persons have to cross the bridge they arehaving one torch

ligtfour persons take 1,2,5,10 minuits respectively ,when two persons are going the will take the time ofthe slowestpersonwhats the time taken to cross allof them

ans 17minuits3 a non uniform rope burns for one hour how you willmeasurehalf an hourans lit it from both sides!

BEST OF LUCK!

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INFOSYS TEST @ NAGPUR - 2000

questions1. there were three suspects for a robbery thathappend in a bank, tommy,joy and bruceEach of them were saying that I haven'tdone anything and the


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other two has done it.police found that tommy waslying .who is the thief.3M (MARKS).

2. three clocks where set to true time .First run withthe exact time..second slows one minute/day. third gains one

minute/day. after how manydays they will show true time. 3M.

3. A,B,C,D,E are some numbers.if AB * CD = EEE and CD- A =CCTHEN what is AB * D =? IN SAME CODE .5M.

4. Joe started from bombay towards pune and her friendjulie in oppositedirection.they meet at a point .distance travelled byjoe was 1.8 milesmorethan that of julie.after spending some both startedthere way.joe reaches

in2 hours while julie in 3.5 hours.Assuming both were travelling with constant speed.Wathis the distancebetween the two cities. 5M.

5. In a six level building,a person lives .suppose thepersons areA,B,C,D,E,F. --- and there were few clues like---A cann't live above third level,B cann't live above A and below C.-- i am recallingeach.did u understoodthe question--u have to find person living at each level. 5M

6. There were some containers of quantity1,3,4,5,6,12,15,22,24,38liters.each was filled with some liquid except one.theliquids are milk,water and oil.quantity of each was like thiswater = 2* milkoil = 2* waterfind out which container was empty and cantainersfilled with milk andoil.6M

7. there were few diamonds.

1st thief takes half of the diamonds +22nd thief takes half of the diamonds +23rd thief takes half of the diamonds +24th thief takes half of the diamonds +2when 5 th thief arives there were no diamonds. find

total no. of diamonds.(ans 60) 6M.

8. there were five hunters A,B,C,D,E and five animalsA,B,C,D,E. Hunter


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having the same name with the animal didn't kill it.Each hunter hasmissedsome animal.A animal was hunt by the hunter whose name matcheswith animal hunt byhunter B.

C animal was hunt by the hunter whose name matcheswith animal hunt byhunter D.E has hunt C and missed D .find out animals hunted byA,B,C. 6m.

9. Five students A,B,C,D,E.when conversation started B,C were speakingenglish.When D join them theyshifted to Spanish.A,E knows French .B,E knowsItalian.Portoguese wasknownto there of them.Spanish was the most common languagebetween them.

one of them knows five languages.one of them knows four languages.one of them knows there languages.one of them knows two languages.one of them knows only one languages.

A knows ? 4 optionsB knows ? 4 optionsC knows ? 4 optionsE knows ? 4 options 8M------------------------------------------------------------------------

WISH U ALL THE BEST.........MAY ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE !!!

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Infosys Technologies ltdAptitude Test 9th july 2000

1.A boy picks up the phone and asks" who are you?"The voice from the other side answers" I am yourmother's mother in law".What is the relation of theboy with the fellow speaking at the otherend.(3marks).

2.Imagine a rectangle.Its length=2*width.A square of 1inch is cut on all corners so that the remainingportionforms a boxwhen folded.the volume of the box is_____

cubicinches.find the original dimensions of the box. (3marks).

3.2 persons are doing part time job in a company9say a


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and b).THe company is open for all the 7 days of the week.'A'worksevery second day.'B' works every 3rd day.If 'A'workson 1st juneand 'B' works on 2nd june.Find out the date on whichboth 'A'

and 'B' will work together. (4 marks).

4.Consider a pile of Diamonds on a table.A thiefenters and steals1/2 of th e total quanity and then again 2 extra fromthe remaining.After some time a second thief enters and steals 1/2of the remaining+2.Then 3rd thief enters and steals 1/2 of theremaining+2.Then 4th thiefenters and steals 1/2 of the remaining+2.When the 5thone entershe finds 1 diamond on the table.Find out the total no.of diamonds

originally on the table before the 1st thief entered.(4 marks).

5.Imagine 4 persons A,B,C,D.(It is a strengthdetermining game).A found it hard,but could pull 'c' and 'd' to hisside.AC and BD pairs on opposite sides found themselvesequally balanced.When A and B exchanged thier positions to form pairsAD and BC ,BC paircould

win and pull AD to thier side.Order the 4 persons in

Ascending orderaccording to thier strengths. (3 marks).

6.Consider a beauty contest.3 personsparticipate.Their names areAttractive,Delectable,Fascinating.THere 3 tribesPukkas,Wottas,Summas.Pukkas - Always speak truth.Wottas - Always speak lies.Summas - Speak truth and lies alternatively.Each of the 3 persons make 2 statements.

Attractive - (1)

(2)

Delectable - (1) i don't remember(2)

Fascinating- (1)(2)The person who speaks truth is the least beautiful

From the statements they give and the character ofthe 3 tribal types,


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find out which person belongs to which tribe.Also findout the personsin the Ascending order of their beauty. (8 marks).

7.There are 5positions-Clerk,Buyer,Cashier,Manager,Floorwalker.THere are 5 persons-

Mrs.Allen,Mrs.CLark,Twain,Ewing,Bernett.Conditions: 1.clerk and cashier lunch time11.30.to12.302.others 12.30 to 1.303.Mrs.Allen and Bernett play durind lunch time.4.clerk and cashier share Bachler rooms.5.Ewing and Twain are not in good terms becauseone day when Twain retuned early from lunchhe saw Ewing already sitting fro lunch and reportedabout him to the manager.Find out which person holds which post. (8 marks).

8.There are 8 courses to be handled by faculty in 2

semesters.4 in 1stsemester and 4 in 2nd semester THe candiadates hiredfor the post arek,l,m,n,o.The courses areMalvino,Shakespeare,Joyce,Chauncer...........Some conditions will be given like.,1.L and N handle Shakespeare and malvino.2.M and O handle Malvino and Joyce.3. .......4..... i don't remember..8. ......

Only one author can handle a course in 1 semester.then 3 questions were asked based on these informationand3 options for each question were given (8 marks).

9. I don't remember

10.I don't remember.

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Here is theinfosys paper It may not contain full

questions and ans

Understand it

1. There are 4 married couples out ofwhich 3 a groupisneeded . Butther

should not be his of her spouse .How nmany groups arepossible ?


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Ans 32

2.In the 4 digits 1,2,3,4 how many 4 digited numbersarepossible

which are divisable by 4? Repetetions are allowedAns 64

3. Twow men are goingalong a trackf rail in theoppositedirection.

One goods train crossed the first person in 20 sec.After 10 min

the train crossed the other person who is comminginopposite direction

in 18 sec .Afterthe train haspassed, when thetwo

persons will meet?

Approx 72min check it once.

4. Theno. of children adults . Theno .of adults theno .of boys .

The no.of boys no. of girls .The no.of girls no.offamilyi conditions

1.No family is without a child2 Every girl has atleast one brotherand sister .

Ans c a b g f; 9 6 5 4 3 .

6.There are4 boys Anand ,Anandya ,Madan and Muraliwithnicmnames perich ,zomie ,drummy and madeena not inthesameorder

Some com=nditons

Ans Anand : PerichAnandya: drummyMadan : Zombiemurali: Madeena

7.Thereare2diomans ,1 spadeand1 club and 1ace and also1king ,1jack

and 1 aceare arranged in a straight line

1.The king is at third place2.Theleft of jack is a heart and itsright is king3. No two red colours arein consequtive.4.The queensareseperated by two cards. Write the


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orderor whichsuits

(hearts ,clubs )and names(jacks queensetc.)8. Writeeach statementis true or false 8M1.The sum of the1st three statements and the2nd falsestatement

givesthe true statement.

2.The no.oftrue statements falsestatement3. The sum of2nd true statement and 1st falsestatementgivesthe first

true statement.4. Thereareatmost 3 falsestatements5.There is no two consequtive true statements6.If this containsonly 1-5 statements ,theanswer ofthis issameasthe an answer of the following question

9.Question on Venn diagram.All handsome are also fair skinnedSme musularsare fair skinnedSome musculars are also handsomeAll lean are also muscularSome lean are also fair skinned.All rich man inot fair skinned but all rich manarehandsome

Some questions follows.10There are 3 pileseach containe 10 15 20 stones. Thereare

A,B,C,D,F,G

and h persons .One man can catch upto four stones fromanypile.

The last manwho takeswill win. If first A starts nextB. andso on

who will win?Ans May be F

Essay writing

1 Intrnet revolution2.Media for youth

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INFOSIS-------1. A person needs 6 steps to cover a distance of one


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slab.if he increases his foot length(step length) by 3inches he needs only5 steps to cover the slabs length. what is the lengthof the each slab.

(ans 31 inches).2. There are 19 red balls and one black ball . Tenballs are put inone jar and the remaining 10 are put in another jar.what is thepossibility that the black is in the right jar.

( The question is bit of confusing but the answer is1/2).3. There is one lily in the pond on 1st june. Thereare two in the pondon 2nd june . There are four on 3rd june and so on.The pond is full with lilies by the end of the june.

(i)On which date the pond is half full.

ans. 29th. --the june has 30 days)(ii)if we start with 2 lilies on 1st june when will bethe pond be fullwith lilies.

(ans. 29th june)4.A lorry starts from Banglore to Mysore at 6.00A.M,7.00am.8.00 am.....10 pm.Similarly one another starts from Mysore to Bangloreat 6.00 am,7.00 am,

8.00 am.....10.00pm. A lorry takes 9 hours to travelfrom Banglore to Mysoreand vice versa.(i) A lorry which has started at 6.00 am will crosshow many lorries.

(ans. 10 )(ii)A lorry which had started at 6.00pm will cross howmany lorries.

(ans. 14)5 .A person meets a train at a railway station coming

daily at aparticular time . One day he is late by 25 minutes,and he meets the train 5 k.m. before the station. Ifhis speed is 12 kmph, what is the speed of the train.

(ans. 60 kmph.)refer--Shakuntala devi book.7. A theif steals half the total no of loaves of breadplus 1/2 loaf from a backery. A second theif stealshalf the remaing no of loaves plus 1/2 loaf and so on.


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After the 5th theif has stolen there are no moreloaves left in the backery. What was the total no ofloaves did the backery have at the biggining.

(ans: 31).8. A gardener plants 100 meters towards east, next 100

meters towards north,next 100 meters towards west. 98meters towards east, 96 meters towards north and 96meters towards west, 94 meters towards south.and 94 meters towards east and so on.If a person walks between the trees what is thetotal distance travelled by him before he reaches thecenter.ans: |---------------|| || || | |--------|- |---------------------| -9. Long division:

example: 1089709/12 ?ANALYTICAL4 question---40 marks; 40 minutes;------------------------------------1. There are four women and 3 men. They play bridgeone nigth. Findwidow among them.Rules:(i) wife and husand are never partnersii wife and husand never play more than one game.One nigth they played four games as follows;1. ------ + ------ vs ------- + ---------2. ------ + ------ vs ------- + ---------3. ------ + --*--- vs ------- + ---------

4. ---*-- + ------ vs ------- + ---------the woman are marked * above.ans: refer problem 21. mind teasers by Summers.2. There are 5 peoples; few of them speak true, few ofthem false.Identify them.3. & 4.th problems on Venn diagram

INFOSIS-------

1. A person needs 6 steps to cover a distance of oneslab. If he increaseshis foot length (step length) by 3 inches he needsonly 5 steps to cover the slabs length. What is the

length of the each slab.

(ans 31 inches).


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3. There are 19 red balls and one black ball . Tenballs are put in one jar and the remaining 10 are putin another jar. what is the possibility that the blackin the right jar.

( The question is bit of confusing but the answer is

1/2).3. There is one lily in the pond on 1st june. Thereare two in the pond on 2nd june . There are four on3rd june and so on.The pond is full with lilies by the end of the june.(i)On which date the pond is half full.

(ans. 29th. --the june has 30 days)(ii)if we start with 2 lilies on 1st june when will bethe pond be full with lilies.

(ans. 29th june)4.A lorry starts from Banglore to Mysore at 6.00A.M,7.00am.8.00 am.....10 pm.Similarly one another starts from Mysore to Bangloreat 6.00 am,7.00 am,8.00 am.....10.00pm. A lorry takes 9 hours to travelfrom Banglore to Mysore and vice versa.(i) A lorry which has started at 6.00 am will crosshow many lorries.

(ans. 10 )(ii)Alorry which had started at 6.00pm will cross howmany lorries.

(ans. 14)5 .A person meets a train at a railway station comingdaily at aparticular time . One day he is late by 25 minutes,and he meets the train 5 k.m. before the station. Ifhis speed is 12 kmph, what is the speed of the train.

(ans. 60 kmph.)refer--Shakuntala devi book.7. A theif steals half the total no of loaves of breadplus 1/2 loaf from a backery. A second theif steals

half the remaing no of loaves plus 1/2 loaf and so on.After the 5th theif has stolen there are no moreloaves left in the backery. What was the total no ofloaves did the backery have at the biggining.

(ans: 31).8. A gardener plants 100 meters towards east, next 100meters towards north,next 100 meters towards west. 98meters towards east, 96 meters towards north and 96


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meters towards west, 94 meters towards south.and 94 meters towards east and so on.If a person walks between the trees what is thetotal distance travelled by him before he reaches thecenter.ans:|---------------|

| || || | |--------|- |---------------------| -9. Long division:example: 1089709/12 ?ANALYTICAL4 question---40 marks; 40 minutes;------------------------------------1. There are four women and 3 men. They play bridgeone nigth. Findwidow among them.Rules:

(i) wife and husand are never partnersii wife and husand never play more than one game.One nigth they played four games as follows;1. ------ + ------ vs ------- + ---------2. ------ + ------ vs ------- + ---------3. ------ + --*--- vs ------- + ---------4. ---*-- + ------ vs ------- + ---------the woman are marked * above.ans: refer problem 21. miniagrames.


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I have not received any mail from IITM.There is notime for themto give a mail.waste fellows.There is no dynamism intheir blood.I havebeen waiting for the mail since three days.

Don't worry about telco.They will conduct interviewand selectbased on the CGPA.Come to the lab regularly.These arecrucial days.Youknow that TCS is visiting our campus on 3rd.That's myfirst company.Akkahad sent a rakhi for me.You might be received thesame.What is the news?What else?send mail after receiving all the papers.1.cv2.critical reasoning3.Psychometric

I know some 25 questions.

The technical comprises of 50 questions on C,Unix andwindows.The interview for us is on a later date.If thequestions come for youalso,then intimate me.1.const char *char * constWhat is the differnce between the above tow?.2.In Unix inter process communication take placeusing?.

3.What are the files in /etc directory?.4.About i-node numbers5.Max relaxable permisssion value with out givingwrite permissionto others?.6.About ln(linking)7.A question on untiluntil (who |grep mary)dosleep(60)done8.Linking across directories?.

9.process id for kernell process

10.very first process created by kernell11.function to repaint a window immediately?.12.Function entry for DLL in win3.113.win 3.1 is a14.win 3.1 supports which type of multi tasking?.

15.Message displayed when a window is destroyed16.About fork()?17.About send message and post message18.Message to limit the size of window19.System call executable binary file intoa process


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20.About GDI object?.21.API used to hide window22.Initialize contents of a dialog?.


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Ans : c

8. maths question9, 10 Analytical

Zulus always speak truth and Hutus always speak lies.There are

three persons A,B&C. A met B and says " I am a Zulu orI am Hutu".We don't know what exactly he said. then B meets C andsays to cthat " A is a Zulu ". Then C replied " No, A is a Hutu".How many Zulus are there ?

Ans 2( check)

10) Who must be a Zulu ?

Ans B (check)

11,12.13,14.-----------

A father F has 5 sons, p,q,r,s,t. Not necessarly inthis order. Two are of same age. The eldest andyoungest cannot be twins. T is elderto r and younger to q and s has three older brothers

q) who are the twins? s,tq) who is the oldest and youngest? q, (s&t)q)

q)

15,16,17,18----------

There are 7 people who take a test among which M isthe worst, R isdisqualified, P and S obtain same marks, T scores lessthan S and Q scoresless than P, N scores higher than every one.

Ans : N P S T Q R M (may be, just check) or N S P T QR M

C & UNIX

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19. What does chmod 654 stand for.

Ans : _rw_r_xr__


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20. Which of following is used for back-up files?(a) compress (b) Tar (c) make (d) all the above Ans :b21 what does find command do ? Ans : search a file

22. what does " calloc" do?

Ans : A memory allocation and initialising to zero.23 what does exit() do?Ans : come out of executing programme.24. what is the value of 'i'?

i=strlen("Blue")+strlen("People")/strlen("Red")-strlen("green")

Ans : 125. i=2printf("%old %old %old %old ",i, i++,i--,i++);Ans : check the answer.26. Using pointer, changing A to B and B to A isSwapping the function

using two address and one temperory variable. a,b areaddress, t istemporary variable. How function look like?Ans : swap(int *, int *, int )27. In 'o' how are the arguments passed?ans : by value.28. Find the prototype of sine function.Ans : extern double sin(double)29. Scope of a global variable which is declared asstatic?ans : File30. ASCII problemi=..ans : 6

31 .32. what is the o/pprintf(" Hello \o is the world ");Ans : Hello is the world.33. Clarifying the concept addresses used over array ;ie changingthe address of a base element produces what error?34. child process -- forkchild shell -- sh35. Answer are lex 7 yacc & man read these things inUNIX36. What isint *p(char (*s)[])Ans : p is a function which is returning a pointer to

integer


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INFOSYS -2000 IISC CAMPUS SELECTION:Attended candidates:150Shortlisted for Interview:49Full selected:22

________________________________________________________________________________

(6 marks)[Q:1] Find a five digit number subject to followingconditionsa. It contains 2 prime no digitsb. 3 rd digit is the lagestc. 1st digit = (3 rd digit - 1)c. sum of 4 th digit and 5 th digit is less than 1stdigit andd. Value of the 5 th digit lies between the valueof1 st digitand2 nd digit,

5 th digit is one half of the 4 rh digitANS: 71842

________________________________________________________________________________[Q:2] 1, 2 , 3, 4 digits are available.How many noof4 digitednumberswhichare divisible by 4 (There should be norepetition of digits inthe

nos)canbe formed?

ANS: 6 nos

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Conversation between two employees is as follows

EMPLOYEE-1: Hellow! Now your experience is twice themy experience

EMPLOYEE-2: EXACTLY TWO TIMES

EMPLOYEE-1: But at the last meet, you said that yourexperience is

thriceofmy experience

EMPLOYEE-2: That is when we met at 2 years back,


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yourexperience isthricethat ofyours

Tell experience of two employess with the

company?

ANS: EMPLOYEE-1: 4 yearsEMPLOYEE-2: 8 years

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[q:4] A hill of 440 yards is there. Two competetorsJACK and JILL go upthehill, first JACK reaches the topmost andimmediatly starts back

and meetJILL 20 yards from the topmost point. FinallyJACK reaches thestartingpoint 0.5 minutes earler than JILL.Speed whilecoming down is 1.5timesthe speed of going up.Find the time taken by JACKforwholejourney(880 yards)?

ANS: 6.3 minutes

________________________________________________________________________________[Q:5] A merchant in the last day sells 2 lamps forRs.12 price.Hefindsthat hehas got 25 % gain on one and 20% lost on theother.Did he loose orgain overall?If so how much?

ANS: 60 paise LOSS

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[Q:6] 4 persons are there caledd JOHN, JACOB, PITER,and WILLIAMS

4 laungages are there named ENGLISH, ITALIAN,GERMAN,


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FRENCH

CONDITIONS:

a. There is no common language for allb. Except one language, no language is

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