List of top General Aptitude Questions

If a positive real \(x\) satisfies the following equation
\[ \log_2 x + \log_{\sqrt{2}} x = 48, \]
then the value of \(x\) is _________________

'All the mangoes in the basket are good.'
If the above statement is false, then which one of the following statements is necessarily true?

'The team ______ more than 300 runs in 20 overs ___________ rains. However, some players needed to improve their batting skills.'
Choose the option with the correct sequence of words to fill the blanks.

Consider a string P of length \(l\) that is laid out as a straight-line segment. Another string K is laid out as a semicircular arc with string P as its diameter, as represented in Figure (i). When both the strings are shortened by a length \(x\) they can be re-arranged such that the shortened string K forms a full circle with the shortened string P as its diameter, as represented in Figure (ii). The value of \(x/l\) is ___________

'People are crowding around ___ pit into which ___ elephant has fallen. I have never seen an elephant looking more bewildered ___ miserable. Here it is in a most undignified position, thrust into a pit and made to look up ___ a vast, curiosity-stricken crowd.'

Choose the option with the correct sequence of words to fill the blanks.

Consider an art gallery whose walkways are shown as lines in the diagram. A black dot represents a junction of two walkways. A guard may be placed at a junction to watch over the walkways that join at that junction. The minimum number of guards needed to watch all the walkways is ________.

A coin with heads facing up is shown as (H) and a coin with tails facing up is shown as (T).
Six coins are placed in the Starting Arrangement, as shown in the figure below. A "step" is defined as interchanging a pair of adjacent coins without flipping them. The minimum number of steps needed to go from the Starting Arrangement to the Final Arrangement, as shown in the figure, is ________.

The 2nd of June is a Thursday in a certain year. Which day of the week is the 3rd of July in that year?

A paper shown in Panel I is folded along the dashed lines (- - -) to construct a cube. The shaded regions shown in Panel I appear on the outer surface of the cube. Referring to cubes shown in Panel II, which one of the options is correct?

Suresh said, "I did it yesterday."
Which one of the following options is the correct form of this sentence in indirect speech?

To continue the sequence of tiles shown, the tile indicated by the question mark should be:

In a population, patients who have high cholesterol also have high blood pressure (BP). Some patients with high BP also have diabetes. There are no patients who have both high cholesterol and diabetes. Furthermore,

1. the total number of patients with at least one of these conditions is 75,
2. the number of patients with high cholesterol is 10,
3. the number of patients with high BP is 45, and
4. the number of patients with only high BP and no other conditions is 20.

Then the number of patients who have both diabetes and high BP is

Four people P, Q, R, and S, of different ages, make the following observations.

P: I am younger than S.
Q: I am neither the youngest nor the oldest.
R: P is older than me.

Based on these observations, the youngest person is .

Exacerbate : Mitigate ::

Choose the option with the correct pair of words to fill the blank.

Circles \(C_1\), \(C_2\), and \(C_3\), with centers \(O_1\), \(O_2\), and \(O_3\), and radii \(r_1\), \(r_2\), and \(r_3\), respectively, touch each other as shown in the following figure. Given \(r_1 = 2\) cm, \(r_2 = 1\) cm and the angle \(\angle O_1O_3O_2\) is \(90^\circ\), \(r_3 = \) cm.

"The team ______ more than 300 runs in 20 overs ___________ rains. However, some players needed to improve their batting skills." Choose the option with the correct sequence of words to fill the blanks.

The table lists the unit selling price of five products P, Q, R, S, and T. On a particular day, 250 items were sold with the average selling price of Rs. 60. The following observations were made:
(i) The quantity of S sold was twice that of T.
(ii) The quantity of R sold was thrice that of T.
(iii) The quantity of Q sold was four times that of T.

Product	P	Q	R	S	T
Unit selling price (Rs.)	100	50	40	60	60

What is the quantity of product P sold on that day?

If a positive real \(x\) satisfies the following equation \[ \log_2 x + \log_{\sqrt{2}} x = 48, \] then the value of \(x\) is ____________

Consider a string P of length \(l\) that is laid out as a straight line segment. Another string K is laid out as a semicircular arc with string P as its diameter, as represented in Figure (i). When both the strings are shortened by a length \(x\) they can be re-arranged such that the shortened string K forms a full circle with the shortened string P as its diameter, as represented in Figure (ii).

The value of \(x/l\) is ____________

The next figure (indicated by '?') in the sequence is:

Each panel shows a 4 row by 3 column grid holding one triangle and one circle. Moving from one panel to the next, the triangle stays in the rightmost column and drops down by one row, while the circle stays in the leftmost column and drops down by one row, wrapping back up to the top row once it passes the bottom row. Which panel comes next?

Which one of the patterns labelled P, Q, R, and S is used to generate the following figure?

The Roman senator Meritorius, his brother, his son, and his daughter have varying oratory skill levels. They are seated in rows and columns as shown in the figure with exactly one person sitting in each box. It is known that
(i) Meritorius' daughter and his brother are seated in the same column.
(ii) His son is seated diagonally across the sibling of the worst orator.
(iii) The best and worst orators are seated in the same row.

Who is the best orator?