HCL Placement papers – Part I

Q. No. 1: Lucia is a wonderful grandmother. Her age is between 50 and 70. Each of her sons have as many sons as they have brothers. Their combined number gives Lucia’s age. What is the age?
A. 64
B. 54
C. 60
D. 50


Q. No. 2: There are two towers A and B. Their heights are 200ft and 150ft respectively and the foot of the towers are 250ft apart. Two birds on top of each tower fly down with the same speed and meet at the same instant on the ground to pick a grain. What is the distance between the foot of tower A and the grain?
A. 110 ft
B. 90 ft
C. 100 ft
D. 120 ft
Q. No. 3: Raju having some coins want to distribute to his 5 sons, 5 daughters and driver in a manner that, he gave fist coin to driver and 1/5 of remaining to first son he again gave one to driver and 1/5 to 2nd son and so on… at last he equally distributed all the coins to 5 daughters. How many coins Raju initially have?
A. 808
B. 752
C. 881
D. 781
Q. No. 4: There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each. Last digit is 3 times the first one. 3 rd digit is 3 less than the second 4 th digit is 4 more than the second one. Find the digit.
A. 25296
B. 29252
C. 25262
D. 25242
Q. No. 5: 7.0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 12, 20, 16, __
A. 10
B. 12
C. 15
D. 20
Q. No. 6: A tree on first day grows 1/2 of its size second day 1/3rd of its size on the previous day similarly than 1/4th and so on. You have to calculate after how many days the tree will be 100 times of its original size.
A. 180 days
B. 185 days
C. 165 days
D. 198 days
Q. No. 7: ‘A’ is an integer. If we divide 89 by 125 gives remainders – 4 & 6 respectively. Find ‘A’
A. 19
B. 17
C. 22
D. 20
Q. No. 8: If there are 1024*1280 pixels on a screen and each pixel can have around 16 million colors. Find the memory required for this?
A. 2MB
B. 10MB
C. 4MB
D. 8MB
Q. No. 9: How many of the integers between 25 and 45 are even?
A. 21
B. 20
C. 11
D. 10
Q. No. 10: If taxi fares were Rs 1.00 for the first 1/5 mile and Rs 0.20 for each 1/5 miles thereafter. The taxi fare for a 3-mile ride was-
A. Rs. 1.56
B. Rs. 2.40
C. Rs. 3.80
D. Rs. 3.00

Answers to the above questions-

Answer 1 – A
Answer 2 – B
Answer 3 – C
Answer 4 – A
Answer 5 – B
Answer 6 – D
Answer 7 – B
Answer 8 – C
Answer 9 – D
Answer 10 – C