INFOSYS Papers

Infosys Placement
1)Each alphabet stands for one digit in the following multiplication.
T H I S
x I S
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X F X X
X X U X
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X X N X X
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What is the maximum value T can take?

2)The profit made by a company in one year is enough to give 6% return on all shares. But as the preferred shares get on return of 7.5%, so the ordinary shares got on return of 5%. If the value of preferd shares is Rs 4,000000, then what is the value of ordinary shares?


3)I have been hearing a girl singing a song for last two score. Song: If seven times five and three times seven is added to my age it would be as far above six nines and four as the difference between twice of my age and a score. Given-A score is 20 yrs

4)A long Division Problem:-
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In the complete solution, there are four 5's. Find the missing digits.

5)Seven members sat around a table for three days for a conference.
The member's names were Abhishek, Amol, Ankur, Anurag,Bhuwan ,Vasu and Vikram.
The meetings were chaired by Vikram.
On the first evening members sat around the table alphabetically.
On the following two nights, Vikram arranged the seatings so that he could have Abhishek as near to him as possible and absent minded Vasu as far away as he could.
On no evening did any person have sitting next to him a person who had previously been his neighbor. How did Vikram manage to seat everybody to the best advantage on the second and third evenings?

6)500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns according to their heights.
Tallest among each row of all are asked to fall out.
And the shortest among them is A.
Similarly after resuming that to their original positions that the shortest among each column are asked to fall out.
And the tallest among them is B .
Now who is taller among A and B ?

7)Find the values of each of the alphabets.
N O O N
+S O O N
+ M O O N
=J U N E
8)Complete the Table given below:
Three football teams are there. Given below is
the group table. Fill in the x's
Played Won Lost Draw Goals For Goals Against
A 2 2 x x x 1
B 2 x x 1 2 4
C 2 x x x 3 7

9). OF all pets i have, except 2 all are rabbits
OF all pets i have, except 2 all are fish
OF all pets i have, except 2 all are cats
How many rabbits, fish and cats are there

10).Tom wants to catch a hare. He is standing 250 yards south from the hare. The hare starts moving due east.
Tom, instead of moving in the northeast direction,moves in such a way that at every instant,
he is goingtowards the hare. If speed of tom is one and one-third times that of the hare, find the distance each
traveled before he caught the hare.

11)Three clocks where set to true time. First run with the exact time. Second slows one minute/day. Third gains one minute/day. After how many days they will show true time.

12). Each alphabet A,B.. Z is a constant.A=1,B=2,C=3^2,D=4^9 n so on.Each letter is assigned a value -the position of that letter raised to the value of preceding alphabet.(C = 3 ^B,D= 4 ^ C n so on)
Compute the numerical value of (X-A)(X-B)(X-C)....(X-Y)(X-Z).

13). 2 men take turns walking and riding one horse that they share...walking speed
4km/hr..riding speed 12km/hr..one rides for some time and ties horse for the other walking fellow and continues walking......they keep going on like this alternately ..find time that the horse rests

14)A lady buys some plates in 130$ with 2$ off every item. she then returns the plates for the same amount next day to exchange them for some cups & saucers. Each saucer costs only 3$ each and the no. of saucers is 10 more than cups. Altogether she takes 16 more items than before. If she had to buy only cups, how many of them she could have
been taken home on the first day?

15)The Novice hockey tournaments are on for beginners. Just three teams are in the league, and each plays the other two teams just once. Only part of the information appears in the result chart, which is given below.
Team Games Won Lost Tied Goals For Goals against
A 2 1 0
B 2 1 1 2
C 2

The scoring pattern in the tournament is as follows:

Two points are awarded to the winning team. In case of a tie, both teams are awarded one point, so the total points in the standings should always equal the total number of games played ( since each game played is counted as one for each of the two participating teams). Of course, total goals scored for and goals scored against must be the same, since every goal scored for one team is scored against another.
The games are played in the following order: Game 1: A Vs B; Game 2: A Vs C; Game B Vs C
Can you determine the score of each of the above games ?

16)A cow was standing on a bridge, 5feet away from the middle of the bridge. suddenly a lightning express with 90 miles/hr was coming to wards the bridge from nearest end of the cow.seeing this the cow ran to wards the express and managed to escape when the train is one feet away from the bridge. if it would have ran to opposite direction(ie away from train) it would have been hit the train one ft away from the end of the bridge. Calculate the length of bridge.

17)there are 3 towns attacked by 3 dragons-x,y,z. Number of days x attack a town is equal to number of days y attacking another town. Number of days x attack is equal to half the square root of number of days z attacking a town.number of days y attacking the town is twice the square root of z.calculate how much days the curse of each dragon be.

18).One side of the measuring arm was longer than the other side .If 3 pyramid width was placed in longer side it is equal to 2 cube width in the shorter arm.If 8 pyramid width was placed in longer arm then it is equal to 6 cube width. Let 1 pyramid width is equal to 10kg.What is the wgt of cube width

19)Following services are operated by Asian airlines between the two are located in different countries with different time zones. As it is normally done, the time shown is the local time - viz IST & TST.
Regular Flight Supersonic Flight
Arrive Alexandria 17:10 TST 15:40 TST
Depart Alexandria 20:50 TST 22:50 TST
Arrived Rampur 23:40 IST
Is the arrival time of supersonic flight into Rampur from Alexandria same as the Arrival time of the Regular flight, assuming each Service - Regular and Supersonic maintains its own constant speed of flight.

20)In a four team foot-ball tournament, all the teams played each Other in three rounds of matches as shown in the Table - A. Some of The results of the tournament are shown in the
Table - B. Using the Clues given below, please fill in the blank columns in the result Table - B (Goals for & Goals Against?).
Note : Two points for win, one point for draw & zero points for defeat are awarded.
Clues :
1. East zone won the tournament despite scoring one less goal than the runners-up.
2. North zone scored an odd number of goals in their first round Game.
3. South zone, who failed to score in their final match, were beaten by a two-goal margin in the first round.
4. East zone lost their match against west zone.
5. All four teams scored goals in the second round matches.
6. West zone scored the same number of goals against east zone as North zone scored against them.

21)East zone scored four goals in round two match.< OL>
Table - A (Matches Played)
Round 1
North zone vs South zone
West zone vs east zone.
Round 2
South zone vs West zone
East zone vs North zone
Round 3
South zone vs East zone
West zone vs North zone.
Table - B (Results)
Played Won Draw Lost Goals For Goals Against Points
East Zone 3 - - - ? 3 4
North Zone 3 - - - ? ? 4
West Zone 3 - - - 4 3 3
South Zone 3 - - - 2 5 1

22)A bag contains certain number of files. Each file is numbered with one digit of 0 to 9. Suppose the person want to get the number between 1 to 2000 (or 7000 check ). How many minimum number of files should be present in the bag.

23)A tourist wants to go from A to B. There are four ways to do this:-
1. To take a wagon. The wagon stops for half an hour at a station in between a & b and then goes to b.
2. To walk to B. If he leaves A at the same time the wagon leaves, he will be between by the wagon by 1 mile to reach B.
3. To walk from A at the same time the wagon leaves from A. He will arrive at the mid station at the time when the wagon is prepared to leave. He can take the wagon from there. This will take shortest time.
4. To go on upto the mid station & to walk from there. He will reach at B 15 minutes before the wagon.
What is the distance between A & B?.


24)An army 50 miles long marches at a constant rate. A courier standing at the rear moves forward and delivers the message to the first person and then turns back and reaches the rear of the army as the army completes 50 miles. Find the distance traveled by the courier.

25)5 hunters Doe, Deer, Hare, Boarand Row kill 5 animals. Each hunter kills an animal that does not correspond to his name. Also each hunter misses a different animal which again does not correspond to his name.
a) The Deer is killed by the hunter, known by the name of the animal killed by Boar.
b) Doe is killed by the hunter, known by name of animal missed by Hare.
c) The Deer was disappointed to kill only a Hare and missed the Roe.
An escalator is descending at constant speed. A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach the bottom. B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time as A takes 10 steps. How many steps are visible when the escalator is not operating. ANS. 150.