Comments on: IBSAT Answer Key

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parag — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:20:31 +0000

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By: parag

parag — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:05:14 +0000

1. 60% of children in a sports club play basketball, 70% play
football and 80% play volleyball. What is the smallest
percentage of children playing all the three games? –
1%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%.
2. In a race of 200 m, A beats B by 8 metres and A beats C by
4 metres. by how many metres would C beat B in a 200
metres race? (approx.) – 3 m, 3.6 m, 4.1 m, 4.4 m, 4.8m.
3. A certain amount was lent at r% p.a. at simple interest for 3 years. Instead, if the amount was lent at (3 r)% p.a. simple interest
for x more years, then the interest would have been six times the earlier interest. What is the value of x? – 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
4. Machine A and machine B are each used to manufacture 660 bolts. It takes machine A 10 hours more than machine B to produce 660
bolts. Machine B produces 10 percent more bolts per hour than machine A. How many bolts per hour can machine A produce. –
6, 6.6, 60, 100, 110.
5. Each cell of a certain kind of bacteria produces two more cells. The life span of each cell is 10 minutes and each cell multiplies only
once in its lifetime when it is exactly one minute old. If a new cell is placed in an empty box at time t = 0, then how many live cells
will be there in the box just after t = 20 minutes? – (2048 × 1023) cells, (1024 × 1023) cells, (1024 × 1024) cells (1023 × 1025)
cells, (1055 × 1023) cells.
6. 20 passengers are to travel by a double decker bus which can accommodate 13 on the upper deck and 7 on the lower deck. The
number of ways that they can be distributed if 5 refuse to sit on the upper deck and 8 refuse to sit on the lower deck is – 25, 21,
18, 15, 20.
7. Two identical cubical dice A and B are rolled simultaneously. What is the probability that the number which appears on one dice is on
the opposite face of the number that appears on the other dice? – 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/9.
IC : PTpnrIBSAT2008 (5) of (6)
8. A greedy merchant sells a mixture of two different qualities of coffee powder in the ratio 3 : 1 at Rs. 80.50 per kg and gains a profit
of 15%. If the coffee of the second quality costs Rs. 8 more per kg than the coffee of the first quality, then what is the cost per
kg of the coffee of first quality? – Rs. 60, Rs. 62, Rs. 64, Rs. 66, Rs. 68.
9. Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 15 hours and 20 hours respectively. Today morning, as soon as the pipes were opened, air
bubbles were generated in both the pipes due to which pipe of its capacity. After some time, the bubbles in both the pipes bursted
simultaneously and then time were the air bubbles present in the pipe? – 1 hour 30 minutes, 1 hour 45 minutes, 2 hours 15 minutes,
2 hours 30 minutes, 2 hours 45 minutes.
10. A football and a tennis ball are such that the surface area of the football is 8 times greater than the surface area of the tennis ball.
If the volume of the tennis ball is a% lower than the volume of the football, then what is the value of ‘a’? (approx.) – 88.4%,
91.2%, 93.6%, 96.3%, 98.2%
11. There are three wires A, B and C different metals, one is 25 m 60 cm long, second is 9 m 60 cm long and the last wire is 15 m 36 cm
long. Maximum length is equally cut from each wire in such a way that the total length of each wire is exactly divisible by it. How
many such largest possible pieces are available in each kind of wires A, B and C respectively? – 30, 25, 24 - 40, 10, 30 - 40, 15, 24
- 30, 10, 12 - 30, 8, 16
12. Ashok obtained a loan of Res. 2,500 against some security. If the rate of interest is 8% per annum compounded half-yearly, then
how much amount should he pay approximately at the end of 18 months? – Rs. 2,704, Rs. 2,813, Rs. 2,936, Rs. 3,124, Rs. 3,225
13. A farmer has four children. One day he decides to divide his field among his sons such that each one get equal share and constructs
a fence dividing the field into triangular forms. The farmer’s field is in the shape of a rhombus and has the distance between the
pairs of opposite vertices as 120 m and 22 m. What would be the cost of fencing the field at Rs. 20 per meter? – Rs. 7,320, Rs.
7,720, Rs. 8,520, Rs. 9,560, Rs. 10,340
14. Two partners A and B invested Rs. 20,000 and Rs. 15,000 respectively in a business (for the same period). Of the total profit, 70%
is equally shared between A and B and the rest is distributed in the ratio of their investments. If one partner received Rs. 1,200 less
than the other, then what is the total profit? – Rs. 32000, Rs. 28000, Rs. 25000, Rs. 21000, Rs. 18000
15. The ratio of sum to n terms of two arithmetic progression is (n + 2) : (n – 3). What is the ratio of their fifteenth terms? – 17 : 12,
19 : 14, 22 : 17, 31 : 26, 33 : 28
16. If ABCD is a cyclic quadrilateral, then what is the value of cos A + cos B + cos C + cos D? – 0, 1, 1/, 1/2
17. In 1966, the operative mortality rate in open heart surgery in a certain hospital was 8.1 per 100 cases. By 1974, the operative
mortality rate had declined to 4.8 per 100 cases. If the rate declined by 20 percent from 1973 to 1974, by what percent approximately
did it decline from 1966 to 1973? – 6%, 21%, 26%, 41%, 49%
18. While visiting a town in Maharashtra, a person lost his bag in a bus. When he reported the matter to the bus company, he was asked
to give the number of the bus. Though he did not remember the exact number, he remembered that the bus number had a certain
peculiarity about it. The number plate showed the bus number was a perfect square and also if the plate was turned upside down,
the number would still be a perfect square. The person came to know from the bus company they had only seven hundred buses and
they were numbered in the natural number sequence. What is the bus number? – 81, 100, 691, 196, 169

By: parag

parag — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:03:32 +0000

1. P: Each taking out a leaf or two out of the political notebook, dealing with a tumultuous period
Q: As wer egiven by a funciton in New Delhi last week meant to felicitate the former Prime Minister, Chandra Sekhar on his 75th
birthday
R: Which brought together certain leading political figures of the country
S: Rarely does a single event provide such vivid flashes of the past panorama – PSRQ, QRPS, SQRP, RPQS, QSPR
2. P: It seems that women are well on their way to internalizing
Q: Talking to housewives and not just the affluent metropolitan type
R: Some of the changes that have been brought
S: About by liberalization in the mass culture of India – QPRS, PSRQ, PRQS, SQPR, RSPQ
3. P: The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first forum mooted at an international level to deal with individual perpetrators,
not States, committing the most serious breaches under international humanitarian and human rights law crimes against
humanity, war crimes and genocide
Q: The primary responsibility for taking action, therefore, vests with the government
R: The ICC is a means of encouraging the national legal machinery to address these crimes, as it will intervene only in cases in
which a State is either unwilling or unable to prosecute an offender
S: The ICC is a safety net to tackle situations where perpetrators escape the clutches of domestic law – PRSQ, PRQS, QRPS,
SPQR, SRPQ
Directions: Choose a suitable one-word substitute for the given phrase from the options under each question.
4. A man, especially one who is strong – Norse, Hombre, Lupus, Jullet, Boll
5. Place for keeping birds – Museum, Sanctuary, National Park, Coliseum, Aviary
6. A situation in which a plan does not happen in the way it should – Quarry, Gall, Corollary, Ravel, Snafu
7. A person who predicts the future by magical intuitive means – Hedonist, Chiropodist, Prognosticator, Narcissist, Astrologer
8. A reference to something supposed to be known but not explicitly mentioned – Subtlety, Indent, Nuance, Gable, Allusion
Directions: Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the given idiom/phrase.
5. The boy turned a deaf ear to the pleadings of all his well-wishers. – Listened carefully, Did not pay any attention, Posed
indifference, Strictly opposed, Was not keen on listening,
6. He had the press eating out of his hand.– Tamed, Ridiculed, Praised, Mauled, Admired
7. We should give a wide berth to bad characters. – Agree with, Publicly condemn, Give publicity, Not sympathize with, Keep away
from
8. “I’m really behind with my project. Can you help me? I’m afraid I bit off more than I could chew!” – Falling short of skills, Have
dental problem, Tucked into a big piece, Have a tendency to procrastinate, Assuming more responsibility than one’s ability
9. He is always picking holes in every project that we take up. – Asking irrelevant questions, Suggesting improvement, Finding fault,
Creating problems, Defying everybody
Directions: Fill in the blank(s) with the word(s) that best fit(s) the meaning of the passage as a whole.
Do women exercise leadership differently than men do? And if so, will feminine leadership …..(10)….. where masculine
leadership does not? A recent study suggests somewhat …..(11)….. that female managers outdo their male counterparts
even when the personal characteristics of both are very similar. Of the two schools of thought, the structuralist
theory argues that men and women do not receive the same treatment in the workplace and that stamping out
gender …..(12)….. would end the observed discriminations. In contrast, the socialization theory contends that men
and women experience word differently because men see work as more …..(13)….. to their lives. These …..(14)…..
explanations apart, today, business appears to be undergoing a feminization of leadership.
10. Affect, succeed, compete, progress, transcend
11. Necessary, Compulsory, Obligatory, Trivial, Central
12. Sardonically, Relatively, Culturally, Psychologically, Paradoxically
13. Identical, Contradictory, Analogical, Diverse, Incompatible
14. Bias, Bigotry, Prejudice, Chourinism, Parallel

By: umesh kumar pandey

umesh kumar pandey — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:35:44 +0000

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