Q.1. Find the next term in the series: 2, 5, 10, 17, ...

Q.2. Direction for Q2-5: According to a coding scheme the sentence Peacock is designated as the national bird of India is coded as 5688999 35 1135556678 56 458 13666689 1334 79 13366 This coding scheme has the following rules: 1. The scheme is case-insensitive (does not distinguish between upper case and lower case letters). 2. Each letter has a unique code which is a single digit from among 1,2,3, …, 9. 3. The digit 9 codes two letters, and every other digit codes three letters. 4. The code for a word is constructed by arranging the digits corresponding to its letters in a non-decreasing sequence.

Q.3. What best can be concluded about the code for the letter B?

Q.4. For how many digits can the complete list of letters associated with that digit be identified?

Q.5. Which set of letters CANNOT be coded with the same digit?

Q.6. Direction for Q6-8: When Ram will be as old as Ram's father is now, Ram will be five times as old as Ram's son is now. But at that time Ram's son will be eight years older than Ram is now. At present, the sum of the ages of Ram's father and Ram is 100 years. How old is Ram's son?

Q.7. How old would Ram have been 5 years ago?

Q.8. After 10 years, how old will Ram's father be?

Q.9. Direction for Q9-10: Students in a college are discussing two proposals -- A: a proposal by the authorities to introduce dress code on campus, and B: a proposal by the students to allow multinational food franchises to set up outlets on college campus. A student does not necessarily support either of the two proposals. In an upcoming election for student union president, there are two candidates in fray: Sunita and Ragini. Every student prefers one of the two candidates. A survey was conducted among the students by picking a sample of 500 students. The following information was noted from this survey. 1. 250 students supported proposal A and 250 students supported proposal B. 2. Among the 200 students who preferred Sunita as student union president, 80% supported proposal A. 3. Among those who preferred Ragini, 30% supported proposal A. 4. 20% of those who supported proposal B preferred Sunita. 5. 40% of those who did not support proposal B preferred Ragini. 6. Every student who preferred Sunita and supported proposal B also supported proposal A. 7. Among those who preferred Ragini, 20% did not support any of the proposals. What percentage of the students surveyed who supported both proposals A and B preferred Sunita as student union president?

Q.10. How many of the students surveyed supported proposal B, did not support proposal A and preferred Ragini as student union president?