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Eight students, 1 to 8, are sitting around a circular table facing the centre. I is the immediate neighbour of both 8 and 2. 3 is sitting second to the right of 1. 1 is sitting second to the right of 7. 5 is the immediate neighbour of 6 and 4. How many students were sitting between 5 and 1?
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The sum of the ages of five children born at the intervals of three years each is 60 years. What is the age of the youngest child?
A retailer would have made a profit of 18% if he sold an article at its marked price. If he allowed a discount of 10% on the marked price, what would his actual profit on that article have been?
Hisar is to the north of Bhiwani, Bhiwani is to the west of New Delhi, Rohtak is to the south of Panipat and to the east of New Delhi. What is the position of Hisar with respect to Panipat?
Ramya got married 10 years ago. Now her age is 1151\frac15 times her age at the time of marriage. Her daughter's age is one-5 tenth of her present age. Find her daughter's present age.
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Nirmal and Sushma are standing in a queue of people facing north. Nirmal is at the 20th position from the extreme left end, and Sushma is at the 10th position from the extreme right end. The positions of Nirmal and Sushma are interchanged due to some criteria based on age. If the new position of Nirmal is 30th from the extreme left end, then what is the new position of Sushma from the extreme right end?
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Nine people, 1 to 9, are sitting in a straight row, facing the north. 8 is sitting in the middle of the row and his immediate left and right neighbours are 5 and 1, respectively. 9 is sitting at one of the extreme ends and his immediate right neighbour is 2. Only five people are there between 2 and 3. 3 is sitting between 7 and 6. 1 and 7 are immediate neighbours. How many people are there between 4 and 6?
Which of the following numbers will replace the question mark (?) in the given series? 3, 9, 25, 53, 157,?
At what time between 2 o'clock and 3 o'clock will the hands of a clock be together?

Given below are three statements and three conclusions. Take the statements to be true even if they are at variance with commonly known facts, and decide whether the conclusion/s follow/s the given statements.

Statements:

I. All pen drives are hard drives.

II. Some hard drives are chips.

III. All chips are keyboards.

Conclusions:

I. Some keyboards are pen drives.

II. Some chips are pen drives.

III. Some keyboards are hard drives.

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Q started from a point and walked towards the south for 42 m and reached point A. Q then turned right from point A and walked 2 m, he then turned right again and walked 30 m. Q turned left now and walked 10 m, he then turned left again and walked 30 m. How far is Q from point A? (All turns are 90 degree turns only)
In a college, the Art room, the Library, the Gym, the Labs, the Storerooms, the Staffrooms and the Classrooms are there on seven different floors of the same building. The lowermost floor in the building is numbered 1, the floor above it is numbered 2, and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 7. No other floors are there below the Library, and the Library is immediately below the Gym. Only two floors are there between the Gym and the Classrooms. Both the Labs and the Staffrooms are on even numbered floors. Only three floors are there between the Storerooms and the Art room. The Storerooms are immediately below the Labs. Which of the following is/are there on floor number 4?
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A statement is given followed by two arguments I and II. Read the statement and the arguments carefully and select the appropriate answer from the given options.

Statement:

Students have complained that questions outside the prescribed syllabus were asked in the X standard board exams this year.

Arguments:

I The pass percentage in the X standard board exams has declined by 8 percent this year.

II. The number of students scoring over 60 percent in the X standard board exams has shown an increase of 15 per cent this year.

Select the option that is related to the fifth number in the same way as the second number is related to the first number and the fourth number is related to the third number. 8 : 19 : : 5 : 13 : : 7 : ?
Seven boxes P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are kept one over the other but not necessarily in the same order. S is kept third from the bottom. Only V is kept between P and S. Only three boxes are kept between T and V. T is kept immediately below U. Q is kept immediately above S. R is kept third from the top. How many boxes are kept between U and S?
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Three times the present age of Sujatha is 5 years more than two times the present age of Vanita. After 3 years, three times the age of Vanita will be 4 years less than four times the age of Sujatha. The age of Vanita is k years more than that of Sujatha. What is the value of k?

Select the set in which the numbers are related in the same way as are the numbers of the following sets.

(NOTE: Operations should be performed on the whole numbers, without breaking down the numbers into its constituent digits. E.g. 13-Operations on 13 such as adding /deleting/multiplying etc. to 13 can be performed. Breaking down 13 into 1 and 3 and then performing mathematical operations on 1 and 3 is not allowed)

(13, 182, 91)

(17, 306, 153)

A statement is given followed by two assumptions numbered I and II. You have to assume everything in the statement to be true and decide which of the assumptions is/are implicit in the statement.

Statement:

Eating too many chocolates will lead to dental problems.

Assumptions:

I. Chocolates have high sugar content which can result in bacterial growth.

II. Brushing twice a day keeps teeth strong.

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If each vowel in the word DUSTER is changed to the letter following it in the English alphabetical order and each consonant is changed to the letter preceding it in the English alphabetical order, how many letters will appear twice in the group of letters thus formed?
Two successive discounts of 40% and 60% on a deal are equivalent to a single discount of:
In the given letter-cluster pairs, the first letter-cluster is related to the second letter-cluster following a certain logic. Study the given pairs carefully, and from the given options, select the pair that follows the same logic. ASD: EWH FGH: JKL
In a class of students, Radhika is 18th from the top and 32nd from the bottom. What is the total number of students in the class?
Susheela started her morning walk and noted that her shadow is at her back. After some time she turned left and then again turned right. Finally she turned right and started running. In which direction was she running? (All turns are 90 degree turns only)
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The monthly wages of 6 employees in a company are ₹5,000, ₹6,000, ₹8,000, ₹8,500, ₹9,300, and ₹9,500. Find the median of their wages.
If twice the son's age is added to the father's age, the sum is 34 years. If 1.5 times the father's age, the sum is 45 years. What is the father's age (in years)?
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The sum of a number, its half, its 1/3 and 27, is 71. Find the number.
The simple interest on a sum of ₹3,600 for 3 years and 4 months is ₹840. The rate of interest per annum is:
In what ratio should sugar costing ₹45 per kg be mixed with sugar costing ₹52 per kg so that by selling the mixture at ₹55.20 per kg, there is a profit of 15%?
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Select the number from among the given options that can replace the question mark (?) in the following series. 360, ? , 180, 60, 15, 3
If I is subtracted from each odd digit and 2 is added to each even digit in the number 9345712, what will be difference between the largest and smallest digits thus formed?
Three numbers x ≤ y ≤ z which are co-prime to each other are such that the product of the first two numbers is 143 and that of the last two numbers is 195. The sum of the three numbers is________
A line joining two end points is called a/an:
The area of a square is 900 cm². Its perimeter is equal to the perimeter of a regular hexagon. What is the area (in cm²) of the hexagon?
P is any point inside the rectangle ABCD. If PA = 27 cm, PB = 21 cm, PC = 6 cm, then the length PD (in cm) is equal to:

Three statements are followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III. Assuming the statements to be true, even if they do not conform to real world knowledge, decide which of the given conclusions/possibilities can be true on the basis of the statements.

Statements:

1. Some glasses are windows.

2. Some windows are white.

3. All white are brittle.

Conclusions

I. Some white are glasses.

II. Some brittle are glasses.

III. Some brittle are windows.

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