QUESTION OF THE WEEK

1.      A Clock is showing the right time at 12 p.m. After this it started gaining 15 minutes per hour. So, when this clock shows 5 pm, what is the actual time?

(1)   4 : 00 p.m.

(2)   3 : 00 p.m.

(3)   5 : 00 p.m.

(4)   2 : 00 p. m.

(5)   None of the above

2.      Sangeeta and Swati bought two wristwatches from Jamshedpur Electronics at 11.40 a.m. IST. After purchasing they found that when

60 minutes elapses on a correct clock (IST), Sangeeta's wristwatch registers 62 minutes  whereas Swati's writwatch registers

56 minutes. Later in the day Sangeeta's wristwatch reads 10 p.m., then the time of Swti's wristwatch is:

(1)   8 : 40 p.m.      

(2)   9 : 00 p.m.

(3)   9 : 20 p.m.

(4)   9 : 40 p.m.

(5)   Cannot be calculated

3.      A man on his way to dinner shortly after 6:00 p.m. observes that the hands of his watch form an angle of 110⁰. Returning before 7:00 p.m. he notices that again the hands of his watch form an angle of 1100. The number of minutes the he has been away is:

(1)   41

(2)   40

(3)   42

(4)   42.4

4.      Shyama and Vyom walk up an escalator (moving stariway). The escalator moves at a constant speed. Shayama takes three steps for every two of Vyom's steps. Shyama gets to the top of the escalator after having taken 25 steps. While Vyom (because his slower pace lets the escalator do a little more of the work) takes only 20 steps to reach the top. If the escalator were turned off, how many steps would they have to take to walk up?

(1)   40

(2)   50

(3)   60

(4)   80

5.      An airplane can travel at a speed of 1100 km/hr when it does not face resistance from air. Air currents are flowing from east to west at a speed of 100 km/hr. How many hours will the airplane take to complete a return journey from Mumbai to Delhi, if the distance between the two cities is approximately 4800 km? (Mumbai lies in the west, whereas Delhi is in the east.)

(1)   4.5

(2)   4

(3)   8

(4)   8.8

(5)   None of these

6.      Two trains are running in opposite directions and they are 120 m and 210 m long respectively. Find the time taken (approximately) for the two trains to cross each other if they are running with speeds 50 km/hr and 70 km/hr respectively?

(1)   5 sec               

(2)   8 sec

(3)   10 sec

(4)   12 sec

(5)   20 sec 

7.      A bus on its way to Nashik met with an accident 180 km from Mumbai from where it started. It completed the remaining journey at 5/6^th of the previous speed and reached late to it destination by 30 min. Now a passenger calculated that had the accident happened 50 kms further, it would have been late by 10 min. Find the original speed of the bus?

(1)   20 km/hr

(2)   18 km/hr

(3)   25 km/hr

(4)   28 km/hr

(5)   30 km/hr

8.      Two sprinters, Anu and Bali, started running from a point on the circular track such that Anu ran in anticlockwise direction while Bali ran in clockwise direction. Anu meets Bali for the first time at a distance 300 m from the starting point in anticlockwise direction. When Anu meets Bali for the second time, they are 260 m from the starting point in anticlockwise direction and Bali is yet to complete a round. Find the circumference of the circular track on which they are running.

(1)   250 m 

(2)   300 m

(3)   360 m

(4)   340 m

(5)   450 m

9.      Everyday, Manju's husband meets her at Bandra railway station at 5 p.m. and drives her to their house. One day, Manju reaches the station at 4 p.m. She doesn't wait and starts walking towards her house. On the way, she meets her husband coming from their house, and so she gets into the car and they drive home. They reach 10 min earlier than the usual time. For how long did Manju walk?

(1)   1 hr

(2)   40 min

(3)   50 min

(4)   55 min

(5)   45 min

10.  Two thieves are standing 40 meters away from a police officer on a straight road. They start running away from him as soon as they see him. The second thief runs at a speed which in twice the speed of the first. If the policeman runs at a constant speed of 6 m/s catches the first thief in 10 seconds, then how long (in seconds) would he take to catch the second thief?

(1)   10       

(2)   20

(3)   30

(4)   40

(5)   Cannot be determined             

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