Cognizant GenC Next Placement Paper & Questions

1. A train 125 meters long passes a man running at 5 km/hr in the same direction in which the train crosses in 10 seconds. The speed of the train is:

2. A sum fetched a total simple interest of Rs. 4016.25 at the rate of 9 % p.a. in 5 years. What is the sum of the money or the principal amount?

3. In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes and got 20% invalid votes. At the end of the day when the total number of votes were counted, the total number was found to be 7500. So what was the total number of valid votes that the winning candidate got, was:

4. January 1, 2008, is Tuesday. What day would lie on Jan 1, 2009?

5. A whole number n which when divided by 4 gives 3 as remainder. What will be the remainder when 2n is divided by 4?

6. In a 100 m race, Aman takes 36 seconds to complete the race and Bijay takes 45 seconds. By what distance Aman beats Bijay in the race?

7. Identify the odd number from the series: 835, 734, 642, 751, 853, 981, 532

8. In a group of 6 men and 4 women, four are to be selected. In how many different ways can they be selected such that at least one man should be there in the group?

9. A box contains 15 marbles out of which 4 are white, 5 are red and 6 are blue. Three balls are to be drawn at random from the bag. What is the probability that all of them are red is:

10. X, Y and Z can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively depending on their capacity of doing work. If X is assisted by Y and Z on every third day, then in how many days X will complete the work?

11. Find the remainder when (100!)^100 is divided by 23?

12. One pipe can fill a bucket three times as fast as another pipe. If together the two pipes can fill the bucket in 36 minutes, then the slower pipe alone will be able to fill the bucket in:

13. Aman’s speed with the current is 15 km/hr and the speed of the current is 2.5 km/hr. What is Aman’s speed against the current?

14. Seats for Mathematics, Physics and Biology in a school are in the ratio 5:7:8. There is a proposal to increase these seats by 40%, 50% and 75% respectively. What will be the ratio of increased seats?

15. A hollow iron pipe is 21 cm long and its external diameter is 8 cm. If the thickness of the pipe is 1 cm and iron weighs 8 g/cm3, then the weight of the pipe is: