TCS Placement Paper - Logical Reasoning and Technical Questions

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1. On the planet Oz, there are 8 days in a week - Sunday to Saturday and another day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day, and each hour has 90 minutes while each minute has 60 seconds. What is the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz when the time is 12:40 am?

   (a) 71

   (b) 251

   (c) 111

   (d) 89 (Ans)

2. The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150,000 and earnings of $7 billion. Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?

   (a) 6

   (b) 12 (Ans)

   (c) 72

   (d) 18

3. A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted?

   (a) 800

   (b) 488 (Ans)

   (c) 900

   (d) 500

4. How many lines of code can 72 programmers write in 72 minutes if 12 programmers write 12 lines of code in 12 minutes?

   (a) 432 (Ans)

   (b) 6

   (c) 12

   (d) 72

5. Rohit once bought a Ferrari that could go twice as fast as Mohit's old Mercedes. If Mohit's Mercedes travels at 32 km/hr and the Ferrari travels 952 km, how much time does it take for Rohit to drive that distance?

   (a) 15.88

   (b) 14.88 (Ans)

   (c) 476

   (d) 29.75

6. A collection of 10 points in the plane forms a 1-set. What is the maximum value of the 1-sets?

   (a) 5

   (b) 3

   (c) 9

   (d) 10 (Ans)

7. 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number?

   (a) 18 (Ans)

   (b) 21

   (c) 12

   (d) 6

8. In the min-max game, Alok and Bhanu play optimally with N = 12 + X*(Y-Z). What is the final value of N?

   (a) 93

   (b) 12 (Ans)

   (c) -69

   (d) 30

9. Bernard's walking speed can be calculated using the formula n/P = 144. If Bernard's pacelength is 164 cm, what is his walking speed in km/hr?

   (a) 23.62 (Ans)

   (b) 8.78

   (c) 11.39

   (d) 236.16

10. There are two boxes, one with 10 red balls and the other with 10 green balls. After rearranging, what is the maximum probability of drawing a red ball?

    (a) 3/4

    (b) 37/38

    (c) 1/2

    (d) 14/19 (Ans)