You are locked inside a room with 6 doors - A, B, C, D, E, F. Out of which 3 are Entrances only and 3 are Exits only. One person came in through door F and two minutes later second person came in through door A. He said, "You will be set free, if you pass through all 6 doors, each door once only and in correct order. Also, door A must be followed by door B or E, door B by C or E, door C by D or F, door D by A or F, door E by B or D and door F by C or D." After saying that they both left through door B and unlocked all doors. In which order must you pass through the doors?
Geetangali Express, which is 250 metre long when moving form Howrah to Tatanagar crosses Subarnarekha bridge in 30 seconds. What is the speed of Geetanjali Express?
I. Bombay Mail, which runs at 60 km/hour, crosses the Subarnarekha bridge in 30 seconds.
II. Bombay Mail, which running at 90 km/hr crosses a lamp post in 10 seconds.
I got 40 marks in the BULL XAT-06. But I could score only 30 in the main sections and 10 in GK. Found the paper a bit tough in VA and QA (specially the DI part where the graphs were not clear). Any one else gave BULL XAT?? How was your experience?
3 blocks are chosen randomly on a chessboard. What is the probability that they are in the same diagonal?
We define a function f on the integers f(x) = x/ 10 , if x is divisible by 10, and f(x) = x + 1 if x is not divisible by 10.
If Ao =1994 and An + 1 = f(An
). What is the smallest n such that An
= 2?
a. 9
b. 18
c. 128
d. 1993e. An never equals 2
Two brothers, each aged between 10 and 90, "combined" their ages by writing them down one after the other to create a four digit number, and discovered this number to be the square of an integer. Nine years later they repeated this process (combining their ages in the same order) and found that the combination was again a square of another integer. What was the sum of their original age?
Consider all permutations of the numbers 1 to n. A good permutation is one where for any number i at position p in the permutation, i+1 is never at position p+1. For a given n, count the number of good permutations.
Number of ways of selection of 6 boxes from 15 boxes and we know that there are exactly 4 twins present in the lot .(two boxes are said to be twins when they are similar to each other) ?
I heardI Xlri is going to give 15% to acads. 80% for 10th. 80% for 12th and 60% for engg is the cutoff...
John lives in "Friends Society" where all the houses are in a row and are numbered sequentially starting from 1. His house number is 109. Jessy lives in the same society. All the house numbers on the left side of Jessy's house add up exactly the same as all the house numbers on the right side of her house. What is the number of Jessy's house? Find the minimal possible answer.
A man received a cheque. The rupees has been transposed for paise and vice versa. After spending 5 rupees 42 paise, he discovered that he now had exactly six times the value of the correct cheque amount. What amount should he have received?
"We - Amar, Akbar and Anthony - each have some children.
1. Amar has at least one girl and twice as many boys as girls.
2. Akbar has at least one girl and three times as many boys as girls.
3. Anthony has at least one girl and three more boys than girls.
4. When I tell you the number of children we have altogether - a number less than 25 - you will know how many children I have, but not how many children each of others has."
Who is the speaker and how many children he have?
Karan bought a little box of midget matches, each one inch in length. He found that he could arrange them all in the form of a triangle whose area was just as many square inches as there were matches. He then used up six of the matches, and found that with the remainder he could again construct another triangle whose area was just as many square inches as there were matches. And using another six matches he could again do precisely the same. How many matches were there in the box originally? Note that the match-box can hold maximum of 50 matches.
Consider a number 235, where last digit is the sum of first two digits i.e. 2 + 3 = 5. How many such 3-digit numbers are there?
Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass. How many cows are needed to eat the grass in 96 days?
A blindfolded man is asked to sit in the front of a carrom board. The holes of the board are shut with lids in random order, i.e. any number of all the four holes can be shut or open.
Now the man is supposed to touch any two holes at a time and can do the following.
* Open the closed hole.
* Close the open hole.
* Let the hole be as it is.
After he has done it, the carrom board is rotated and again brought to some position. The man is again not aware of what are the holes which are open or closed.
How many minimum number of turns does the blindfolded man require to either open all the holes or close all the holes?
Eleven boys and girls wait to take their seats in the same row in a movie theater. There are exactly 11 seats in the row. They decided that after the first person sits down, the next person has to sit next to the first. The third sits next to one of the first two and so on until all eleven are seated. In other words, no person can take a seat that separates him/her from at least one other person. How many different ways can this be accomplished?
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XAT 2015 GK Preparation | Current Affairs - Top 60 events
1. Veteran journalist and author Vinod Mehta passed away after a prolonged illness in the Capital in March. Mehta, 72, who had founded the Outlook Magazine and served as its Editor-in-Chief, last held the post of editorial Chairman of the publication.
2. Actor-filmmaker Shashi Kapoor, who has starred in over 100 Hindi films and best known for his powerful portrayals in hits like "Namak Halaal", "Deewar" and "Kabhie Kabhie", was chosen for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award, the highest official recognition for film personalities in India.
3. Singapore's founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, passed away in March, leaving behind the unlikely nation that he and his colleagues fostered and built over five decades as his lasting legacy.
4. India unveiled its indigenously developed and manufactured Rotavirus vaccine, 'Rotavac' claimed to be the world"s cheapest at the rate of around Rs. 60 per dose and aimed at boosting efforts to deal with Diarrhoea that kills upto 80,000 children under 5 every year.
5. After a gap of over 20 years, Rs. 1 note was released in the country and it bears the signature of Finance Secretary of India - Rajiv Mehrishi.
6. PM launched Sukanya Samridhi Yojna under Beti Bachao campaign. It is a small deposit scheme for girl child, as part of the 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' campaign, which would fetch an interest rate of 9.1 per cent and provide income tax rebate.
7. Nasim Zaidi took over as the 20th Chief Election Commissioner of India from Hari Shankar Brahma.
8. India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Dhanush Ballistic Missile with a strike range of 350 km from a naval ship off the Odisha coast. The surface-to-surface Dhanush is a naval variant of India's indigenously-developed Prithvi missile.
9. Finland-based Nokia and French telecom gear maker Alcatel Lucentannounced their merger in a 15.6 billion euro deal.
10. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Micro Units Development Refinance Agency (MUDRA) Bank which will provide credit of up to Rs 10 lakh to small entrepreneurs and act as a regulator for 'Micro-Finance Institutions' (MFIs).
11. US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, died in a car crash with his wife. The mathematician is renowned for his work in game theory, winning the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.
12. Reaching out to farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched DD Kisan Channel, which would provide information about best agricultural practices and related content. The 'DD Kisan' channel is being dubbed as the first of its kind in the world by officials, who say that it would cover agriculture, rural areas and also areas like horticulture, food processing and animal husbandry.
13. . In the biggest event boxing staged in years, Floyd Mayweather defeatedManny Pacquiao by unanimous decision after 12 rounds to improve his professional record to 48-0 and unify the world welterweight titles. The legendary bout termed as 'Fight of the Century' was played at iconic MGM Grand, Las Vegas.
14. India-born Nikesh Arora was appointed as president of Japan's SoftBankCorp and has been named as a potential successor to CEO Masayoshi Son.
15. Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria entered the Unesco World Heritage site of Palmyra after seizing the town next to the ancient ruins. The ruins at Palmyra, a Unesco world heritage site just to the south-west of the town, are one of the region's most renowned historic sites.
16. Eminent banker K V Kamath will be the first president of USD 100 billionBRICS Bank which will provide infrastructure loans to emerging nations, rivalling multilateral lenders such as World Bank and IMF. Kamath, will have a five year term at the bank, which is likely to be operationalised within one year as 'New Development Bank' being set up by the five nation grouping, BRICS.
17. Google will build its largest campus outside the US in Hyderabad at an investment of Rs 1,000 crore.
18. Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has been adjudged the world's best airport for the year 2014, under the category of handling 25 to 40 million passengers per annum.
19. Satnam Singh Bhamara, a 19-year-old from the small village of Ballo Ke, Punjab, became the first Indian-born player ever selected in the NBA Draft.
20. Looking not to miss out on the e-commerce boom, private lender HDFC Bank launched a mobile phone application, PayZapp, for online payments and money transfer.
21. Walmart stayed at the top of the Fortune 500 annual list of the largest US companies, while Apple was the most profitable and Facebook the most upward-bound.
22. With earnings of $31 million, ace Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoniis the only Indian to feature in Forbes magazine's 2015 list of the world's highest-paid athletes. The list is topped by American boxer Floyd Mayweather with earnings of $300 million, more than double the previous high for an athlete.
23. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed of Bangladesh was announced as the 2015 winner of the World Food Prize, the most prominent global award for individuals whose breakthrough achievements alleviate hunger and promote global food security.
24. Chile won the Copa America for the first time in its history after a dramatic penalty shootout against Lionel Messi's Argentina in the final in Santiago.
25. U.S.A defeated Japan, 5-2, to win the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
26. Ajay Mathur was appointed as the Director-General (DG) of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). He succeeded RK Pachauri who was removed from the top most position over sexual harassment charges.
27. Information Technology Secretary Ram Sevak Sharma was appointedChairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
28. Sanjiv Chaturvedi and Anshu Gupta were awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award. Sanjiv Chaturvedi was awarded for Emergent Leadership for his exemplary integrity, courage and tenacity in uncompromisingly exposing and painstakingly investigating corruption in public office. He is an Indian Forest Service officer and currently the deputy secretary of All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Anshu Gupta was recognized for his creative vision in transforming the culture of giving in India and his enterprising leadership in treating cloth as a sustainable development resource for the poor. He founded Goonj in 1999, which is a non-governmental organisation based in Delhi
29. The Centre declared 7th August as National Handloom Day beginning from this year throughout the country.
30. Taj Mahal became the 1st monument to have a twitter account.
31. Railwayman Ashwani Lohani was appointed as the CMD of national carrierAir India.
32. Kochi Airport in Kerala became the world's 1st airport to operate completely on solar power.
33. BNP Paribas announced that it was acquiring broking firm Sharekhan for Rs. 2000 cr.
34. Google to be subsidiary of new parent company Alphabet Inc
35. Sundar Pichai appointed new CEO of Google. Google chief executive Larry Page announced the change, saying he will hold the same title at Alphabet. Co-founder Sergey Brin will be the president at Alphabet, the new holding company for the tech giant's newer ventures such as research arm X Lab, investment unit Google Ventures and health and science operations.
36. Founder of Hero Cycles, Om Prakash Munjal passed away.
37. Government launched Indradhanush Mission to revamp Public Sector Banks.
38. Bandhan Bank became the 1st micro finance company to operate as a commercial bank.
39. 'Ultimate Frisbee' was recognized as Olympic Sport by International Olympic Committee.
40. Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning British Monarch.
41. Union Government announced One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for ex-servicemen. OROP implies that uniform pension be paid to the armed forces personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service, regardless of their date of retirement.
42. ISRO was conferred the 2014 Gandhi Peace Prize for its contribution to the country's development through space technology and satellite-based services.
43. Kalamandalam Sathyabhama, a renowned Mohiniyattam artist, passed away.
44. ISRO launched Astrosat - India's 1st space observatory satellite.
45. Lewis Hamilton won his third Formula 1 world title with a victory at US Grand Prix.
46. J Manjula becomes DRDO's (Defence Research and Development Organisation) first woman Director General
47. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had announced the merger of Forward Markets Commission (FMC) with the capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to strengthen the regulation of commodity futures market.
48. Air India launched the world's longest non-stop commercial flightbetween the cities of Bengaluru and San Francisco.
49. Shashank Manohar was elected as BCCI president for a second term. He previously served between 2008 and 2011.
50. Communist leader Bidhya Bhandari was elected Nepal's first womanPresident.
51. Tata Motors roped in soccer superstar Lionel Messi as its global brand ambassador.
52. Grand Alliance won the 2015 Bihar assembly elections. The Grand Alliance (Mahagathbandhan) comprised of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) and Indian National Congress (INC).
53. Aung Sang Suu Kyi won the 2015 Myanmar elections.
54. The government announced that the Swachh Bharat cess was to be levied on the portion of taxable service. The levy of 0.5 per cent Swachh Bharat cess on services will lead to an increase of 50 paisa per Rs 100 worth of taxable services while the cess would be applicable only on services received after November 15.
55. Justice Tirath Singh Thakur was sworn in as the Chief Justice of India.
56. Rajesh Exports agreed to buy Swiss company Valcambi, the world's largest gold refiner, for $400 million to secure raw material supplies at lower prices and add technological expertise to expand operations at home.
57. Indian Oil Corporation, Reliance Industries, Tata Motors, State Bank of India, Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum and ONGC were the 7 Indian companies featured in the world Fortune 500 list.
58. India signed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). FATCA targets non-compliance by U.S. taxpayers using foreign accounts and is quickly becoming the international standard for curbing tax evasion.
59. First International Yoga day was celebrated on 21st June, 2015.
60. The foundation stone for the Andhra Pradesh capital Amravathi was laid. Touted to be modelled after Singapore, Amaravati is projected as a city that would be rich in greenery, industrialization and energy-efficient buildings.
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Books and More sells books, music CDs and film DVDs. In December 2009, they earned 40% profit in music CDs and 25% profit in books. Music CDs contributed 35% towards their total sales in rupees. At the same time total sales in rupees from books is 50% more than that of music CDs.
8. If Books and More have earned 20% profit overall, then in film DVDs they made
(1) 15.2% profit
(2) 10.0% profit
(3) 10.0% loss
(4) 16.3% loss
(5) 23.4% loss
9. If Books and More made 50% loss in film DVDs, then overall they made
(1) 12.3% profit
(2) 8. 7% profit
(3) 0.4% loss
(4) 6.25% loss
(5) 20% loss