Top Analytical Interview Questions & Answers:

1. A certain city is served by subway lines A, B, and C and numbers 1, 2, and 3 When it snows, morning service on B is delayed When it rains or snows, service on A, 2 and 3 are delayed both in the morning and afternoon. When temperature falls below 30 degrees Fahrenheit afternoon service is cancelled in either the A line or the 3 line, but not both. When the temperature rises over 90 degrees Fahrenheit, the afternoon service is cancelled in either the line C or the 3 line but not both. When the service on the A line is delayed or cancelled, service on the C line which connects the A line, is delayed. When service on the 3 lines is cancelled, service on the B line. Which connects the 3 lines is delayed.
On Jan 10th, with the temperature at 15 degrees Fahrenheit, it snows all day. On how many lines will service be affected, including both morning and afternoon?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

Ans:D

2. A invests $12000, B invests $8000, C invests $6000 and they got a profit of $1200. How much share A got more than B and C?

Ratio of amt invested by A & B=3:2
Ratio of amt invested by B & C=4:3
Thus, Ratio of amt invested by 3 of them=A:B:C=3:2:1.5
Profit got to A more than B=(3/6.5)-(2/6.5)=(1/6.5)=2/13
Profit got to A more than C=(3/6.5)-(1.5/6.5)=(1.5/6.5)=3/13.

3. Find the number of ways in which four balls can be selected from 4 green and 6 white balls?

16 ways (G or W) (G or W) (G or W) (G or W)

ie 2^4

4. The ratio of incomes of C and D is 3:4.the ratio of their expenditures is 4:5.Find the ratio of their savings if the savings of C is one fourths of his income?

Ans : ratio of savings of C and D is 12:19

5. Statement A: All great men are ridiculous;
Statement B: I am ridiculous ;
Inference : I am a great man;
(a) True
(b) False
(c) Not clear

It is not given that all ridiculous men are great men. so ans is NOT CLEAR.

6. A horse is tied to the corner of a square of side 15 m with a rope of length 14m. Find the area of which the horse can graze and the area which it cannot?

Hi allThe answers are:Grazed area = pi*14*14/4 = 154.93 sq-mtsNon-grazed area = 15*15 - 154.93 = 71.06 sq-mts

7. Is the meaning of Its and Its,
(a) same
(b) contradictory
(c) no relation

In computer related it`s can be " Information Technology "

In English its & it`s may be same

8. Please give the missing letter of the following 5 6 _ 87 412 2185?

The answer is 20.

The series follows in this fashsion:

5

6 = (5 * 1) + (1^3)

20 = (6 * 2) + (2^3)

87 = (20 * 3) + (3^3)

412 = (87 * 4) + (4^3)

2185 = (412 * 5) + (5^3)

9. Statement: Normal children are active;
Inference: All children are active;
(a) True
(b) False
(c) Uncertain

The answer is FALSE since normal children are active but that doesnot mean all children are normal.

10. Cow eats grass, man eats cow, so man eats grass.
a. True
b. False

Answer: A) true
Becoz, Man eats Cow and Cow eats Grass. that why we can say that man indirectly eats Grass.

11. In 6 seconds a light flashes once. In one hour how many times it will flash?

1hr = 3600sec
for 6 sec it flashes 1 time, so
for 1hr (3600/6)=600
add the 1st flash also
(600+1)= 601

12. Is the meaning of Ingenious and Ingenuous,
(a) same
(b) contradictory
(c) no relation

CONTRADICTORY

because Ingenious means skillful or clever (or) having cunning behaviour.

Ingenuous means being frank and straight forward. does not have any cunning behavour.

13. What is the product of the irrational roots of the equation (2x-1)(2x-3)(2x-5)(2x-7)=9?

ans : x = 2

(2x-1)*(2x-3)*(2x-5)*(2x-7) = 9

(2*2-1)*(2*2-3)*(2*2-5)*(2*2-7) = 9

14. Is the meaning of Client and Customer,
(a) same
(b) contradictory
(c) no relation

contradictory,since client can work with you but customer doesnt work with you

15. One dollar is saved in one month. Then how much dollar is saved in one day?

1/30=0.0333
0.0333$ is saved in one day.

16. Within excel, what is the VBA coding to determine if the active cell has a comment assigned to it?

Test: ActiveCell.Comment.Text

If ActiveCell.Comment.Text = "" Then
No Comment

If Not ActiveCell.Comment.Text = "" Then
Active Cell has a Comment

17. Suppose there is 3 buckets of fruits in 1st bucket there is apple in 2nd there is oranges and in 3rd mixed fruits is there and all 3 buckets has been labeled incorrectly you have to labeled them correctly by taking one fruit from any of the basket. what will be your approach to solve this?

Take out a fruit from bucket 2, if that is an orange then go to bucket 1 if that is an apple then go to bucket 3 and if that also gives you an apple then the point to note here is the labeling which is incorrect on all the buckets is the key to figure out right fruits there in each of the buckets. If the label on bucket 2 says "Mixed" then that is incorrect and it needs a label as "Oranges". Check the label on bucket 1, if that says "Apple" then that is "Mixed" and indeed bucket 3 would be "Apples" which would have the label as "Orange".

18. Consider there are 10 soldiers on the one side of the river. They need to go to the over side of the river. There is no bridge in the river and no one can swim in the river. One of the soldiers spots the boat with two boys inside. The boat is very small and the boys in the boats also very small. The boat can either hold two boys or one soldier. Now tell me how can all soldiers go to the other side of the river using this boat?

Both boys cross; one returns; the first soldier crosses; the second boy returns; both boys cross; one returns; the second soldier crosses; the second boy returns; both boys cross; one returns; the third soldier crosses n so on :-)

19. All chickens lay eggs (True/False)?

False, roosters dont lay eggs.

20. The average temperature of Monday to Wednesday was 37C and of Tuesday to Thursday was 34C. If the temperature on Thursday was 4/5th of that of Monday, the temperature on Thursday was?

37 - 3 = 34
( (mon + tue + wed) / 3 ) - 3 = (tue+wed+thu)/3

( mon + tue + wed -9) / 3 = (tue + wed+ thu) /3

( mon + tue + wed - 9) = (tue + wed + thu )

mon - 9 = thu

(since thu = (4/5) mon )

(5 * thu)/4 - 9 = Thu

Thu = 36

21. Select the odd one out.
(a) 1/4
(b) 1/3
(c) 1/6
(d) 1/18

ans: 1/18 (bcoz it comes 0.062 remain vll come 0.25,0.33,0.16)

22. If a train covers 600m in 0.5 seconds, how long it will cover in 10 seconds?

answer is =(600*1/2)*10=3000

who wrote dis

does he ever went to school or should i come 2 teach him

speed = distance/time that's the formula

it's not distance = distance * time (u fool)

23. There are 20 balls red,blue or green.If 7 are green and sum of red and blue balls are less than 13.At most how many red balls are there
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7

C. 6

24. A man is going to a wedding party. He travels for 2hrs when he gets a puncture. Changing lyres takes 10mins. The rest of the journey he travels at 30 miles/hr. He reaches 30mins behind schedule. He thinks to himself that if the puncture had occurred 30miles later, he would have been only 15mins late. Find the total distance traveled by the man?

112.5 miles

25. Select the least from the following.
(a) 0.99
(b) 1
(c) 81
(d) 0.333

ans: 0.33 Decresing order(81,1,0.99,0.33)

26. How can a cake be cut into 3 pieces in 2 steps with a knife?

Are you referring to the Cake Cutting problem with 3 people and 2 cuts?

The problem is one of Even-Fairness, how do you divide a cake among 3 people so that each person gets an even amount with only 2 cuts.

The problem is solved via 1 Referee, and 4 Knives.

The Referee holds his Knife and slowly, going from left to right across the cake, draws it to a position for the 1st cut.

The 3 people each have a Knife as well, and position their knife in a position that they think will half the portion of the cake to the right of the Referee's knife.

The first person to call cut, receives that portion of the cake to the left of the Referee's knife, and is removed from the group.

Of the remain 2 people, the person who's knife is farthest to the right of the Referee's knife cuts the remaining portion of the cake and receives the cut portion to the right of their cut. The other person receives the portion to the left of the cut.

27. Find min value of function : |-5-x| + |2-x|+|6-x|+10-x|; where x is an integer?

19
since sum of absolute deviation taken about median is minimum ie median of -5,2,6,10 is 4. Putting x=4 in the fn, ull get 19 as the ans

28. Three members went to a shop and took 3 kerchiefs each costs 10 rs so total price is rs 30 after they went off the owner of the sop realizes that he know the 3 members so he gives the worker 5rs and tells to return them back he gives them rs5 then they gives 2rs tip to him and remaining 3rs they share re1 each so that each gave rs9 to shopkeeper 9*3=27+2rs tip=29 where is the remaining 1rupee?

Each person has contributed 9 Rupees which includes the tips.

9*3 = 25 to shopkeeper + 2 for tips. So question itself is not correct

29. What is the minimum number of loaves of bread required to identify a single slow eating rat among a pack of 12 rats, given that the other rats are trained to eat at the same rate and the bread loaves to be used are identical

SIX

30. Last month of an year
(a) January
(b) February
(c) December
(d) November

last month of year is December

31. What is the next Sequence?
1. 7,6,8,5,3,7,?
2. 13 9,18,21,25,20,?
3. 3,3,4,8,10,36,?
4. 15,30,28,25,20,34,28,?

the digit count of the sequence isof the form..... (ie)1+5=6 3+0=3 2+8=1 etc.
6 3 1 7 2 7 1 .....so the remaining two nos. should have the count 3 and 6 respectively.....
moreover the flow of the sequence is "the second no. is greater than first and all other are less upto the no. with count 2(i.e) middle no.

and the no. next to middle no. (i.e)34 is greater than 20...
so all others should be less than 34....

on keeping all these in mind... v ll have 21 : 2+1=3
15 : 1+5=6

so the sequence is 15 30 28 25 20 34 28 21 15

32. One skirt requires 3.75 yards of cloth. How many skirts you can make from 45 yards?

1 skrit=3.75yards
x=45yards
3.75x=45
x=4500/375
x=12skirts

33. Is the meaning of Canvas and Canvass,
(a) same
(b) contradictory
(c) no relation

no relation coz canvas means a cloth used for painting while canvass means to ask for vote

34. The girls age is twice that of boy, if the boy is four years old. After four years the age of the girl is

Answer:present age is 12 years

hence after 4 years girls age will be 12+4=16 years

35. Find the antonym of autumn
(a) Spring
(b) Winter
(c) Summer
(d) None of the above

spring because autumn is warm where as spring is season of blossoms