question: Anmol can eat 27 pastries in a hour.
Aakriti can eat 2 pastries in 10 minutes.
Divya can eat 7 pastries in 20 minutes.
How long will it take them to eat a 420 pastries ?
Options:
(A) 2 hours.
(B) 1 hours.
(C) 5 hours.
(D) 4 hours.
(E) 7 hours.
answer: Stream of consciousness: In one hour, Anmol eats 27 pastries, Aakriti eats 12, and Divya eats 21. A total of 60 pastries. Therefore 420 pastries would take 420 60 = 7 hours. The answer is (E).

q: A train running at the speed of 60 km/hr crosses a pole in 15 sec. What is the length of the train?
Options:
(A) 118
(B) 150
(C) 277
(D) 250
(E) 191
a: Stream of consciousness: Speed = 60 * 5/18 = 50/3 m/sec
Length of the train = speed * time = 50/3 * 15 = 250 m The answer is (D).

question: There are 6561 balls out of them 1 is heavy.Find the min. no. of times the balls have to be weighed for finding out the haevy ball.
Options:
(A) 7
(B) 8
(C) 9
(D) 10
(E) 11
answer: Stream of consciousness: The simple logic is to divide total balls into three sets. Weigh any two sets against each other(these two must contain equal number of balls). From this we can identify which set contains the heavy ball. Divide this set into three and repeat until you find the heavier ball. Under this logic, the minimum number of weighings required turns out to be the smallest integer greater than or equal to log(n), where n is the total number of balls and the base of logarithm is 3. Or simply [log(n)/log(3)] with any base. Here, n = 6561. log 6561 / log 3 = 8 The answer is (B).

q: X can finish a work in 20 days. Y can finish the same work in 15 days. Yworked for 9 days and left the job. how many days does X alone need to finish the remaining work?
Options:
(A) 3
(B) 5
(C) 6
(D) 8
(E) 9
a: Stream of consciousness: Work done by X in 1 day = 1/20
Work done by Y in 1 day = 1/15
Work done by Y in 9 days = 9/15 = 3/5
Remaining work = 1 3/5 = 2/5
Number of days in which X can finish the remaining work = (2/5) / (1/20) = 8 The answer is (D).

question: A train running at the speed of 60 km/hr crosses a pole in 3 sec. What is the length of the train?
Options:
(A) 56
(B) 78
(C) 27
(D) 79
(E) 50
answer: Stream of consciousness: Speed = 60 * 5/18 = 50/3 m/sec
Length of the train = speed * time = 50/3 * 3 = 50 m The answer is (E).

question: There are 6 fictions and 6 non-fictions. How many cases are there such that 2 fictions and 2 non-fictions are selected from them?
Options:
(A) 90
(B) 120
(C) 225
(D) 180
(E) 200
answer:
Stream of consciousness: Number of ways of selecting 2 fiction books = 6C2
Number of ways of selecting 2 non fiction books = 6C2
6C2 * 6C2 = 15 * 15 = 225 The answer is (C).