TCS Aptitude Paper 1 - Quant MCQ

The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries and also write code at the same rate. 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?

12 people {a1, a2, a12} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3},  {a11, a12}, {a12, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is

10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true?

A. All suspects are lying.
B. leftmost suspect is innocent.
C. leftmost suspect is guilty         

How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer?

The age of the two friends were in the ration of 6:5.If the sum of their ages is 66.Then after how many years their ratio will become 7:6?

The age of the two friends were in the ratio of 2:3.If the sum of their ages is 55.Then after how many years their ratio will become 4:5? 

A volume of 10936 l water is in a container of sphere.How many semisphere of volume 4l each will be required to transfer all the water into the small semispheres?

A person is manufacturing a house. He bought 20 ropes of wire which has a density of 300 Kg/m3.The height of the building to be constructed is 40 m. If the capacity of the current passed in the wire is 20 A and the voltage capacity is 80 Volts.Then what will be the opposing force to the current if the wire is used ?

A horse chases a pony 2 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 3 hours to reach the pony. If the average speed of the horse is 81Kmph.Then what is the average speed of the pony?

The difference between two no is 9 and the product of the two is 14.What is the square of their sum?

On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*v (t-9) for t = 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?         

A man goes 50Km north , then turned left walked 40Km, then turned right ? In which direction he is?

In T. Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 6s will be present in the numbers?

Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohans old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohans Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.

A man goes north 37km. turns left goes 2km.turns right goes 17km.turns right goes 2km. find distance b/w starting ending point.

If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very little he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, how many mices are required to find the poisoned can?

If a and b are mixed in 3:5 ration and b and c are mixed in 8:5 ration if the final mixture is 35 liters, find the amount of b?

It is the class with the seating arrangement in 4 rows and 8 columns. When the teacher says start the girl who is sitting in first row and first column will say 1, then the next girl sitting behind her will say 4, the next girl sitting behind that girl will say 7, in a particular order each girl is telling a number, the following girls told 10, 13 next turn is yours what u will say? 

It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color?

If the Valentines Day in 2005 falls on Monday, then on which day will the Valentines Day fall on 2010?

An athlete decides to run the same distance in 1/4th less time that she usually took. By how much percent will she have to increase her average speed?

In a building there are 5 rooms. Each having a equal area .The length of the room is 4m and bread ht is 5 m.The height of the rooms are 2m.If 17 bricks are needed to make a square meter then how many bricks are needed to make the floor of a particular room?

One man want to build a wall .The length and breadth of the wall are 20 and 30 respectively. He need 35 bricks for one square centimeter then how many bricks he need?

In a hotel we can order two types of varieties,but we can make 6 more varieties in home.One can choose the four varieties with two from hotel as must.Find how many ways one can order.

If a pipe can fill the tank within 6hrs. But due to leak it takes 30 min more.Now the tank is full then how much time will it take to empty the tank throught the leak.?

The bacteria has the probability of split into 3 and probability to die is 1/3rd of the total bacteria.Let the probability is P. Some of them survived with probability 1/5.Then which among the following relation is true?

There is a bacteria which has the probability of die 1/3 of its total number or it may tripled. Find out the probability