(Paper) Latest Sample Placement Paper Of HP For Year-2009-10  (Mathematic, English)  

 Latest Sample Placement Paper Of HP For Year-2009-10  (Mathematic, English)  

Directions (Q.1-5): Which of the phrases 1), 2), 3) and 4) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold to make the sentence correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 5), i.e. “No correction required”, as your answer.

1. Socialism means any form of government which talks about
a welfare state has some notion of improving of the bulk
of common man.
1) improving of the quantity of
2) improving the lot of the
3) improvement into the numbers of
4) improvement in bulk of
5) No correction required

2. The economic superiority of the market system will make its acceptance inevitable sooner rather than later.
1) no sooner rather than later
2) more sooner than later
3) no later than sooner
4) much sooner to later
5) No correction required

3. Cultural interchange has created many common values the world across.
1) the entire world
2) among the world
3) over the world
4) the world over
5) No correction required

4. For the decades, Muslim countries had the highest birth rates in the world.
1) During decades
2) For decades
3) Almost during the decades
4) Since decades
5) No correction required

5. Since change is gradual, the old values have not disappeared by any means.
1) with any sort
2) by any efforts
3) by any single means
4) for any mode
5) No correction required

6. A boat covers 24 km upstream and 36 km downstream in 6 hours, while it covers 36 km upstream and 24 km
downstream in 6.5 hours. Find the speed of the current.
1) 1 km/hr
2) 2 km/hr
3) 4 km/hr
4) 8 km/hr
5) None of these

7. A bag contains 3 red, 4 black and 2 white balls. What is the probability of drawing a black and white ball in two
successive draws, each ball being put back after it is drawn?
1) 8/81
2) 9/81
3)7/81
4) 4/81
 5) None of these

8.Find the approximate value of question mark(?) in the following equation.
(18.5 + 29.9) ÷ 2.7 + 2.3 * 1.9 - (10.5 + 2.1) = ?
1) 180
2) 182
3) 195
4) 9.69
5) 9.34

9. The marked price of a radio is Rs 960. The shopkeeper allows a discount of 15% and gains 2%. If discount is reduced
to 10%, find his per cent profit.
1) 3%
2) 6%
3) 5.8%
4) 8%
5) None of these

10. One-third of a certain journey is covered the rate of 25 km/hr, one-fourth at the rate of 30 km/hr and rest at 50 km/hr.
Find the average speed for the whole journey.
1) 35 km/hr
2) 33km/hr
3) 81km/hr
4) Data inadequate
5) None of these

Directions (Q. 11- 15): In each of the following questions a no. Series is given. After the series, a no. is complete the series starting with the no. given and following the same property as in the given no. series.
Then answer the questions below it.

11. 5   25   20  100  95  475
      1   (a)   (b)   (c)   (d)   (e)
What should come in place of (c)?
1) 5
2) 10
3) 2
4) 0
5) -5

12. 36  96  156  126  96  111
      25 (a)   (b)   (c)   (d)   (e)
What should come in place of (d)?
1) 135
2) 85
3) 35
4) 75
5) 125

13. 45  270  54  216  72  144
    15   (a)   (b)   (c)   (d)   (e)
What should come in place of (b)?
1) 90
2) 18
3) 72
4) 82.24
5) 24

14. 714   115   20  3   0   0
     5033  (a)  (b)  (c)  (d)  (e)
What should come in place of (a)?
1) 5040
2) 811.77
3) 714
4) 120
5) 22

15. 65  52  1040  832  16640  13312
     75   (a)   (b)   (c)     (d)      (e)
What should come in place of (d)?
1) 1200
2) 15560
3) 5040
4) 60
5) 19200

Directions (Q. 16-20): In each of the following questions, a question is asked followed by three statements. You have to study the question and all the three statements given and decide whether any information provided in the statement(s) is/are redundant and can be dispensed with while answering the questions.

16. The average salary of the entire staff in an office is Rs 120 per month.
Find the number of non-officers in the office.
A. The average salary of officers is Rs 460.
B. The average salary of non-officers is Rs 110.
C. The number of officers is 15.
1) Only A
2) Only B
3) Only C
4) Only A & C
5) None

17. What is the quantity sold at 10% profit and that at 5% loss? A. A business has 100 kg of quantity a part of which he sells at 5% loss and on the whole his loss is 2%. B. He sells rest of the quantity of statement A at 10% profit. CThe quantity sold at 10% profit is one-fourth of the quantity sold at 5% loss.
1) Only A
2) Only B
3) Either C alone or A and B together
4) Only B & C
5) None

18. How many minutes per hour does a person stop?
A. Without any stoppage a person travels a certain distance at an average speed of 80 km/hr.
B. With stoppage he covers the same distance at of average speed of without stoppage.
C.The speeds of without stoppage and with stoppage are in ratio of 4:3.
1) Only A
2) Only B
3) Only C
4) Either B or C
5) None

19. The average of temperatures of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday is 30?C. Find the temperature of Wednesday.
A. The sum of temperatures of Monday and Tuesday is 61?C.
BThe sum of temperatures of Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday is 122?C.
C. The temperature of Wednesday is 3?C more than that of Sunday.
1) A only
2) B only
3) A and C only
4) Either B alone or A and C together
5) None of these

20. A train crosses another train coming from the opposite direction in 18 sec. If the length of the train is 100 m then what is the speed of the train?
A. The train passes a platform in 14 sec.
B. The speed of the other train in 60km/hr.
C. The other train passes a telegraph pole in 6 sec.
1) Only A
2) Only B
3) Only C
4) Either A & B or B & C
5) None of these

21. A wife is folded to form an equilateral triangle which occupies the space of 16 cm2. If this wire is refolded and made into a rectangle, what will be its area if its another dimension is 5 cm.
1) 64 cm2
2) 35 cm2
3) 120 cm2
4) 25 cm2
5) None of these

22. Two towers are built at a certain distance. The angle of elevation from the top of taller tower to the bottom of shorter tower is 60? and the angle of elevation from the top of the shorter tower to the bottom of taller tower is 30?. The height of the shorter tower is 27 m. what is the height of the taller tower?
1) 81 m
2) 27 m
3) 81 m
4) Data inadequate
5) None of these

23. A trader bought a car at 20% discount on its original price. He sold it at 40% increase on the price he bought it for.
What percentage of profit did he make on the original price?
1) 12%
2) 40%
3) 20%
4) 32%
5) None of these

24. 10 men can finish a piece work in 10 days, whereas it takes 12 women to finish it in 10 days. If 15 men and 6 women undertake to complete the work how many days will they take to complete it?
1) 20 days
2) 30 days
3) 6 days
4) 5 days
5) None of these

25. A goods train and a passenger train are running on parallel tracks in the same direction. The driver of the goods train observes that the passenger train coming behind overtake and crosses his train completely in 60 seconds whereas a passenger on the passenger train marks that he crosses the goods train in 40 seconds. If the speed of the trains are in the ratio 1:2. find the ratio of their lengths.
1) 3:2
2) 2:3
3) 2:1
4) 1:2
5) None of these