List of top Questions asked in SNAP- 2008

A merchant wants to make profit by selling food grains. Which of the following will maximize his profit?

A clock loses 12 minutes every 24 hours. It is set right at 7:25 p.m. on Monday. What will be the time when the clock shows 1:45 p.m. the following day?

Study the question and the statements given below. Decide whether any information provided in the statement(s) is redundant and/or can be dispensed with, to answer it.
If 7 is added to numerator and denominator each of fraction a/b, will the new fraction be less than the original one?
Statement I: a = 73, b = 103
Statement II: The average of a and b is less than b
Statement III: a - 5 is greater than b - 5

Four stacks containing equal number of chips are to be made from 11 orange, 9 white, 13 black and 7 yellow chips. If all of these chips are used and each stack contains at least one chip of each colour, what is the maximum number of white chips in any one stack?

A survey of movie goers from five cities A, B, C, D and E is summarized below. The first column gives the percentage of viewers in each city who watch less than one movie a week. The second column gives the total number of viewers who watch one or more movies per week.

City	Column I: % watching <1 movie/wk	Column II: total viewers watching >=1 movie/wk
A	60	2400
B	20	3000
C	85	2400
D	55	2700
E	75	8000

How many viewers in the city C watch less than one movie a week?

A survey of movie goers from five cities A, B, C, D and E (same table as previous question). Which city has the highest number of viewers who watch less than one movie a week?

Which investment gives a better return, assuming the face value of shares to be Rs. 10?
A. 5% stock at 75, subject to 30% income tax
B. 4% stock at 90, tax free

A survey of movie goers from five cities A, B, C, D and E (same table as previous questions). A city with the second lowest number of movie watchers (viewers who watch less than one movie a week) is:

A factory is to commission two production lines. Production line 1 is to use existing technology. Production line 2 is to use the latest innovation in technology and, while promising to achieve considerable advances in productivity, it will take longer to start and is likely to experience teething problems. Graph indicates the productive record of each product line. Refer to the graph to answer the following.

A. Can the duration of reported breakdown be established?
B. Can the loss of production be quantified?

This question consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II. Decide whether the data given in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.
What is the 57th number in a series of numbers?
I. Each number in the series is three more than the preceding number.
II. The tenth number in the series is 29.

A 14.4 kg gas cylinder runs for 104 hours when the smaller burner on the gas stove is fully opened while it runs for 80 hours when the larger burner on the gas stove is fully opened. Which of these values are closest to the percentage difference in the usage of gas per hour, of the smaller burner over the larger burner?

Answer the question based on the following table.

What is the ratio of glucose to lactose in a mixture as sweet as maltose?

The inequality of p\(^2\)+ 5 < 5p + 14 can be satisfied if:

A clock loses 12 minutes every 24 hours. It is set right at 7:25 p.m. on Monday. What will be the time when clock shows 1:45 p.m. the following day?

A 14.4 kg gas cylinder runs for 104 hours when the smaller burner on the gas stove is fully opened while it runs for 80 hours when the larger burner on the gas stove is fully opened. Which of these values are closest to the percentage difference in the usage of gas per hour, of the smaller burner over the larger burner?

From a book, a number of consecutive pages are missing. The sum of the page numbers of these pages is 9808. Which pages are missing?

This question consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II. Decide whether the data given in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.

What is the 57th number in a series of numbers?
I. Each number in the series is three more than the preceding number.
II. The tenth number in the series is 29.

The bar graph below shows the failure rates, number of failures per thousand units, of different electronic components.

Component	Failure Rate
Picture Tubes	15
Signal Devices	16
Capacitors	20
Integrated Circuits	30
Printed Circuit Boards	33
Hybrid Micro Circuits	40

Lowest priority for investing in any changes or additions to the component manufacturing units, in the company's investment plans, may be given to the following:

In a row at a bus stop, A is 7th from the left and B is 9th from the right. They both interchange their positions. A becomes 11th from the left. How many people are there in the row?

From a book, a number of consecutive pages are missing. The sum of the page numbers of these pages is 9808. Which pages are missing?

In the following series find the one number that is wrong:
2, 3, 13, 37, 86, 167, 288

A colourless cube is painted blue on all its faces and then cut parallel to a pair of its sides to form two rectangular solids of equal volume. What percentage of the surface area of each of the new solids is not painted blue?

The image below indicates the number of residents at 5 hotels on 1 Feb and 1 July 1998. Which hotel had the greatest increase in the total number of adult residents on 1 July 1998 compared with 1 Feb of that year?

1-Jul-98

Hotel	Female Adults	Male Adults	Female Children
V	41	73	16
W	18	37	7
X	47	92	12
Y	37	59	19
Z	81	112	26

1-Feb-98

Hotel	Female Adults	Male Adults	Female Children	Male Children
V	32	64	8	11
W	11	28	3	2
X	47	84	14	7
Y	22	42	5	6
Z	63	104	18	23

In a row at a bus stop, A is 7th from the left and B is 9th from the right. They both interchange their positions. A becomes 11th from the left. How many people are there in the row?

The 288th term of the sequence a, b, b, c, c, c, d, d, d, d... is