List of top General Aptitude Questions

If HIDE and CAGE are coded as 19-23-7-11 and 5-2-17-11 respectively, then what is the code for HIGH?

``Kick the bucket'' -- Select the correct phrase meaning

The figures I, II, and III are parts of a sequence. Which one of the following options comes next in the sequence at IV?


 

In the given figure, PQRS is a square of side 2 cm and PLMN is a rectangle. The corner L of the rectangle is on the side QR. Side MN of the rectangle passes through the corner S of the square. What is the area (in cm\(^2\)) of the rectangle PLMN? \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{03.jpeg} \end{center}
Thirty six vehicles are parked in a parking lot in a single row. After the first car, there is one scooter, after the second car, there are two scooters, after the third car, there are three scooters and so on. Work out the number of scooters in the second half of the row.

An electricity utility company charges ₹7 per kWh. If a 40-watt desk light is left on for 10 hours each night for 180 days, what would be the cost of energy consumption? If the desk light is on for 2 more hours each night for the 180 days, what would be the percentage-increase in the cost of energy consumption?
 

A regular dodecagon (12-sided regular polygon) is inscribed in a circle of radius \( r \) cm as shown in the figure. The side of the dodecagon is \( d \) cm. All the triangles (numbered 1 to 12 in the figure) are used to form squares of side \( r \) cm, and each numbered triangle is used only once to form a square. The number of squares that can be formed and the number of triangles required to form each square, respectively, are:


 

Is there any good show __________ television tonight? Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.

Three villages \(P, Q,\) and \(R\) are located in such a way that the distances are \(PQ=13\) km, \(QR=14\) km, and \(RP=15\) km (see figure). A straight road joins \(Q\) and \(R\). It is proposed to connect \(P\) to this road \(QR\) by constructing another road. What is the minimum possible length (in km) of this connecting road?
In the context of the given figure, which one of the following options correctly represents the entries in the blocks labelled (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv), respectively? \[ \begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|} \hline N & U & F & (i) \\ 21 & 14 & 9 & 6 \\ \hline H & L & (ii) & O \\ 12 & (iv) & 15 & (iii) \\ \hline \end{array} \]
For the clock shown in the figure, if \(O^{*} = O\ Q\ S\ Z\ P\ R\ T\) and \(X^{*} = X\ Z\ P\ W\ Y\ O\ Q\), then which one among the given options is most appropriate for \(P^{*}\)?
A bag contains Violet (V), Yellow (Y), Red (R), and Green (G) balls. On counting them, the following results are obtained: (i) The sum of Yellow balls and twice the number of Violet balls is 50.
(ii) The sum of Violet and Green balls is 50.
(iii) The sum of Yellow and Red balls is 50.
(iv) The sum of Violet and twice the number of Red balls is 50.
Which one of the following Pie charts correctly represents the balls in the bag?
Consider a five-digit number \(PQRST\) that has distinct digits \(P, Q, R, S,\) and \(T\), and satisfies the following conditions: \[ P<Q, S>P>T, R<T \] If integers 1 through 5 are used to construct such a number, the value of \(P\) is:
A business person buys potatoes of two different varieties \(P\) and \(Q\), mixes them in a certain ratio and sells them at ₹ 192 per kg. The cost of the variety \(P\) is ₹ 800 for 5 kg.
The cost of the variety \(Q\) is ₹ 800 for 4 kg.
If the person gets 8% profit, what is the \(P:Q\) ratio (by weight)?
Passage:
“His life was divided between the books, his friends, and long walks. A solitary man, he worked at all hours without much method, and probably courted his fatal illness in this way. To his own name there is not much to show; but such was his liberality that he was continually helping others, and fruits of his erudition are widely scattered, and have gone to increase many a comparative stranger’s reputation.” (From E.V. Lucas’s “A Funeral”)
Question: Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?
An electricity utility company charges ₹ 7 per kWh (kilo watt-hour). If a 40-watt desk light is left on for 10 hours each night for 180 days, what would be the cost of energy consumption? If the desk light is on for 2 more hours each night for the 180 days, what would be the percentage-increase in the cost of energy consumption?
The President, along with the Council of Ministers, ________________ to visit India next week.
Even though I had planned to go skiing with my friends, I had to ________________ at the last moment because of an injury.
The given figure is reflected about the horizontal dashed line and then rotated clockwise by \(90^\circ\) about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the figure.
\begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{01.jpeg} \end{center} Which one of the following options correctly shows the resultant figure?
Which one of the following options has the correct sequence of objects arranged in the increasing number of mirror lines (lines of symmetry)?
The ceiling function of a real number \(x\), denoted by \(ce(x)\), is defined as the smallest integer \(\geq x\). The floor function, denoted by \(fl(x)\), is defined as the largest integer \(\leq x\). Which one of the following statements is NOT correct for all possible values of \(x\)?
Identify the grammatically correct sentence:
Fish : Shoal :: Lion : ............ Select the correct option to complete the analogy.
The diagram shows a river system with 7 segments (P, Q, R, S, T, U, V) splitting the land into 5 zones (Z1–Z5). We need to connect these zones using the least number of bridges. Which option is correct? \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{04.jpeg} \end{center}
If \textsc{IMAGE and \textsc{FIELD} are coded as \textsc{FHBNJ} and \textsc{EMFJG} respectively, then which option is the most appropriate code for \textsc{BEACH}?}