Quark Placement Paper -: Quantitative and Analytical Reasoning Questions With Answers

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1. Fresh Grapes contain 90% water by weight. Dried grapes contain 20% water by percentage. What will be the weight of dried grapes when we begin with 20 kg of fresh grapes?

   (a) 2 kg

   (b) 2.4 kg

   (c) 2.5 kg (Ans)

   (d) None

2. How many 5-digit numbers can be formed with digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, which are divisible by 4 and digits not repeated?

   (a) 144

   (b) 168

   (c) 192 (Ans)

   (d) None

3. There is a rectangular garden whose length and width are 60 m and 20 m. There is a walkway of uniform width around the garden. The area of the walkway is 516 m². Find the width of the walkway.

   (a) 1

   (b) 2

   (c) 3 (Ans)

   (d) 4

4. If \(1 = (3/4)(1 + (y/x))\), then:

   (a) \(x = 3y\) (Ans)

   (b) \(x = y/3\)

   (c) \(x = (2/3)y\)

   (d) None

5. The sum of six consecutive odd numbers is 888. What is the average of the numbers?

   (a) 147

   (b) 148 (Ans)

   (c) 149

   (d) 146

6. If on an item a company gives a 25% discount, they earn a 25% profit. If they now give a 10% discount, what is the profit percentage?

   (a) 40%

   (b) 55%

   (c) 35%

   (d) 30% (Ans)

7. A certain number of men can finish a piece of work in 10 days. If, however, there were 10 men less, it would take 10 days more for the work to be finished. How many men were there originally?

   (a) 110 men (Ans)

   (b) 130 men

   (c) 100 men

   (d) None of these

8. In simple interest, what sum amounts to Rs.1120 in 4 years and Rs.1200 in 5 years?

   (a) Rs. 500

   (b) Rs. 600

   (c) Rs. 800 (Ans)

   (d) Rs. 900

9. If a sum of money compounded annually amounts to thrice itself in 3 years, in how many years will it become 9 times itself?

   (a) 6 (Ans)

   (b) 8

   (c) 10

   (d) 12

How many meshes are there in 1 square meter of wire gauge if each mesh is 8 mm long and 5 mm wide?

(a) 2500

(b) 25000 (Ans)

(c) 250

(d) 250000

10. \(x\%\) of \(y\) is \(y\%\) of what?

    (a) \(x/y\)

    (b) \(2y\)

    (c) \(x\) (Ans)

    (d) Can't be determined

11. Conditional results after execution of an instruction in a microprocessor are stored in:
    (a) register
    (b) accumulator
    (c) flag register
    (d) flag register part of PSW (Program Status Word) (Ans)
12. Frequency at which VOICE is sampled is:
    (a) 4 kHz (Ans)
    (b) 8 kHz
    (c) 16 kHz
    (d) 64 kHz
13. Line of Sight is:
    (a) Straight Line
    (b) Parabolic
    (c) Tx & Rx should be visible to each other (Ans)
    (d) none
14. Purpose of PC (Program Counter) in a MicroProcessor is:
    (a) To store address of TOS (Top Of Stack)
    (b) To store address of next instruction to be executed (Ans)
    (c) count the number of instructions
    (d) to store base address of the stack
15. What action is taken when the processor under execution is interrupted by a non-maskable interrupt?
    (a) Processor serves the interrupt request after completing the execution of the current instruction (Ans)
    (b) Processor serves the interrupt request after completing the current task
    (c) Processor serves the interrupt request immediately
    (d) Processor serving the interrupt request depends upon the priority of the current task under execution
16. The status of the Kernel is:
    (a) task
    (b) process (Ans)
    (c) not defined
    (d) none of the above
17. To send a data packet using datagram, connection will be established:
    (a) before data transmission
    (b) connection is not established before data transmission
    (c) no connection is required (Ans)
    (d) none of the above
18. Word alignment is:
    (a) aligning the address to the next word boundary of the machine (Ans)
    (b) aligning to even boundary
    (c) aligning to word boundary
    (d) none of the above