Look at this series: 80, 10, 70, 15, 60, ... What number should come next?
Options:
(A) 20
(B) 23
(C) 25
(D) 30
(E) 35
Answer and stream of consciousness: (A)
Stream of consciousness: This is an alternating addition and subtraction series. In the first pattern, 10 is subtracted from each number to arrive at the next. In the second, 5 is added to each number to arrive at the next.

In wardrobe Karan has 3 trousers. One of them is grey the 2nd blue and the 3rd brown. In his wardrobe he also has 4 shirts. One of them is grey and the other 3are white. He opens his wardrobein the dark and pick out one shirttrouser pair without examination the color. What is the likelihood that neither the shirt nor the trouser is grey?
Options:
(A) 1/2
(B) 2/3
(C) 4/5
(D) 6/11
(E) 4/5
Answer and stream of consciousness: (A)
Stream of consciousness: Probability that trouser is not grey = 2/3
Probability that shirt is not grey = 3/4
Required probability = 2/3 x 3/4 = 1/2

Q is a set of nine distinct prime numbers. If the sum of the integers in Q is even and the number x is a member of Q, then what is the least value that x can be?
Options:
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
(E) 7
Answer and stream of consciousness: (A)
Stream of consciousness: 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 +11 + 13 + 17 + 23 + 29 = 100 ( sum is even)
Least number = 2

There is a square with side 'a' and one octagon is inscribed in it. What will be perimeter of octagon.
Options:
(A) 8a/3
(B) 7a/3
(C) 5a/3
(D) a/3
(E) 11a/3
Answer and stream of consciousness:
(A)
Stream of consciousness: Well if it's a regular octagon then it actually trisects each side of the square in which 1/3 of the lenght of the side of the square is the length of one side of the octagon. If any one has a doubt he can draw the figure and see it
Going this way lenght of a side of a octagon is a/3 and thus perimeter would be 8a/3.