question: An design manager has 10patterns of chairs & 9patterns of tables. In how many ways can he make a pair of table & chair?
Options:
(A) 20
(B) 40
(C) 80
(D) 90
(E) 100
answer: Stream of consciousness: He has has ten patterns of chairs and eight patterns of tables
Hence, A chair can be arranged in 10 ways and
A table can be arranged in 9 ways
Hence one chair and one table can be arranged in 10 x 9 ways = 90 ways The answer is (D).

q: If, when the two parties of knights encounter one another after a month, exactly one knight changes from one travelling party to the other travelling party, that knight must be
Options:
(A) P
(B) Q
(C) R
(D) S
(E) T
a: Stream of consciousness: Q because Q always have to travel in northern route The answer is (B).

question: How many numbers between 101 and 250, exclusive are divisible by three?
Options:
(A) 34
(B) 41
(C) 50
(D) 83
(E) 148
answer: Stream of consciousness: Numbers upto 250 divisible by 3 is 250/3 = 83
Numbers upto 101 divisible by 3 is 101/3 = 33
Total number of numbers between 101 and 250 that are divisible by 3 is 83 - 33 = 50 The answer is (C).

q: The H.C.F. of two numbers is 12 and their L.C.M. is 600. If one of the numbers is 480, then the other is:
Options:
(A) 11
(B) 10
(C) 8
(D) 15
(E) 12
a: Stream of consciousness: Other number = (12 x 600)/480 = 15. The answer is (D).

question: Walking across campus, a student interviewed a group of students. 25% of the students took a finance class last semester, 51% took a marketing class last semester, and 40% took neither a finance nor a marketing class last semester. What percent of the students in the group took both a finance and a marketing class?
Options:
(A) 60%
(B) 50%
(C) 25%
(D) 16%
(E) 10%
answer: Stream of consciousness: {Total} = {finance} + {marketing} - {both} + {neither}
100 = 25 + 51 - {both} + 40
{both} = 16%. The answer is (D).

question: A pipe can fill a cistern in 18 minutes whereas the cistern when fill can be emptied by a leak in 36 minutes. When both pipes are opened, find when the cistern will be full?
Options:
(A) 17
(B) 36
(C) 70
(D) 13
(E) 12
answer:
Stream of consciousness: 1/18 - 1/36 = 1/36
36 minutes The answer is (B).