Sunday 19 January 2014

Aptitude test sample

All the questions are based on the following information regarding the price changes that a certain pharmaceutical company is considering for its products.

 

The prices for all the products except Expectorant are the prices of 10 tablets.

1. If a family has a hypertensive and an asthmatic patient, where the person with hypertension has to
consume three tablets of Anti Hypertensive per day and the asthmatic patient has to take two tablets of
Anti Asthmatic every alternate day, what will be the increase in expenditure on two patients for 30
days?
(l) Rs.40.50 (2) Rs.42.75 (3) Rs.46.50 (4) Rs.38.50

2. What is the percentage increase in the expenditure of a person for one year if he consumes 32
tablets of Antacid in one week?
(1) 7½% (2) 6 ½ % (3) 62/3% (4) None of these

3. A person is prescribed to take two spoons of Expectorant thrice everyday for a period of, 20
weeks. Assuming that each bottle of Expectorant contains 90 spoons. Find the expenditure
according to the existing prices.
(1) Rs.200 (2) Rs.180 (3) Rs.168 (4) Rs.240

4. A person is prescribed a combination of antipyretic and anti-asthmatic such that he has to take one of
these before breakfast, the other after lunch and the one he had at breakfast at dinner also; if he
consumed an antipyretic at the end of the dinner after the 7th day of the course, he started the course
with
(1) Anti-asthmatic (2) Antipyretic
(3) Not possible to determine (4) None of the above

Answers:

1. (1) Three tablets/day would mean the hypertensive has to be taken 90 times in 30 days
The increase 2.50……> 10 tablets
hence for 2.50 x 9 = 22.50 for 90 tablets Asthmatic has to consume…> 30 tablets 6.00x3= 18.00
∴The total increase = 22.50 +18 = 40.50

2. (4)

3. (2)

4. (3) Since he may change the order in which he takes the tablets it is not possible to determine

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