TCS Pattern Questions-4

Pattern 21: 
1. A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person?
Solution: here we cannot consider depreciation or decay of item accto answer so go acc to answer Totally 5+10=15$profit

Pattern 22: 
1. John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?
 a)loss 23 b)gain 23 c)gain 54 d)Loss 54
Solution: loss =change of money given to john(4$)+actual cycle cost 19$=23$ loss

Pattern 23:
 1. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?
a)50 b)8 c)60 d)42
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2. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 14 blue, 20 red, and 18 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?

3. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 13 blue, 27 red, and 40 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?

4. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 25blue, 7 red, and 9 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?

 5. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 26 blue, 30 red, and 56 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?

 Pattern 24: 
1. Sangakara and Ponting selects batting by using a dice, but dice is biased. So to resolve, Ponting takes out a coin. What is the probability that coin shows correct option?
 a)1/2 b)1/6 c)1/12 d)6/10
Solution is  ½.

 2. There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?
a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tail      
b) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is head
c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head.

Pattern 25: 
1. In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?
a)4 boys and 3 girls b)3 boys and 4 girls c)2 boys and 5 girls d)5 boys and 2 girls

Pattern 26
1. 10men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibility that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa?
 a)22 b)20 c)10 d)none

2. There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true:
 a) There are 2 men who danced with equal no. of women‟s
 b) There are 2 women who danced with equal no. of men
    a) both a and b
    b)only a
    c)only b
    d)none

Pattern 27: 
1. Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and men. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds, where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches were played?
a)257 b)256 c)72 d)255
Solution:do not know perfect logic 28

2. A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round?
a)256 b)512 c)64 d)128

Pattern 28:
 1. Metal strip of width „x‟ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is „y‟. If „z‟ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement?

2. A, B, C, D, E are there among A, B, C are boys and D, E are girls D is to the left of A and no girl sits at the middle and at the extemes. Then what is the order of their sittings.

Pattern 29: 
1. There is 7 friends (A1, A2, A3....A7).If A1 have to have shake with all without repeat. How many handshakes possible?
 a)6 b)21 c)28 d)7
Solution:For handshakes type question i am confirming u that if the there are n members are there Handshakes are given in linear manner =n-1(last person cannot give hand shake to first person) Handshakes are given in cyclic manner =n(last person can give hand shake to first person) But i do not know perfectly for repetition it is nc2

2. 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible?
a)122 b)66 c)48 d)128

 Pattern 30: 
1. B is taller than j and 3 pillars. P is shorter than B and 2 pillars is j shorter/taller than P? a)yes b)no c)may be d)can‟t find 2. There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?
 a) Linda is shorter among them b) Chelsea is taller than Julia
 c) Chelsea is shorter than Julia d) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia