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Question : Choose the word that can substitute the given group of words.

A residence for monks or priests

Option 1: Nursery

Option 2: Convent

Option 3: Monastery

Option 4: Tomb

Team Careers360 21st Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: Monastery


Solution : The correct choice is the third option.

Explanation:

A monastery is a place where monks or priests live, pray, and often work. It is a specific term that accurately describes a residence for individuals dedicated to religious life.

Therefore, the correct one-word substitute is monastery

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Question : Directions: Find the missing number from the given responses in each of the following questions.

Option 1: 12

Option 2: 10

Option 3: 8

Option 4: 6

Team Careers360 20th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: 6


Solution : For the given figure, add the numbers in the upper left corner and middle to get the number in the lower right corner.
Also, add the numbers in the upper right corner and middle to get the number in the lower left corner.

In figure

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Question : Directions: Select the option figure that will replace the question mark (?) in the figure given below to complete the pattern.

Option 1:

Option 2:

Option 3:

Option 4:

Team Careers360 23rd Jan, 2024

Correct Answer:


Solution : On comparing the question figure and all the answer figures, the following figure will combine and make the complete pattern –

Hence, the fourth option is correct.

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Question : Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Dissolve

Option 1: Emerge

Option 2: Consolidate

Option 3: Fade

Option 4: Repair

Team Careers360 23rd Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: Fade


Solution : The correct choice is the third option.

Dissolve is the process of a solid becoming incorporated into a liquid and disappearing into it. Fade means to gradually grow faint and disappear.

Both of these words imply reduction, hence making them synonymous.

The meanings of

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Question : A person loses 20% on selling 80 pens for INR 40. What should be the selling price of 80 pens to earn a profit of 10%?

Option 1: INR 80

Option 2: INR 60

Option 3: INR 55

Option 4: INR 65

Team Careers360 19th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: INR 55


Solution : Selling price = INR 40
Loss = 20% of cost price
Cost price = loss + selling price
Cost price = 20% of cost price + 40
80% of cost price = 40
Cost price = $\frac{40}{0.8}$ = INR 50
Profit = 10% of

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Question : Select the word from the options that is similar in meaning to the bracketed word given in the sentence below.
The sky was alight from (top) to horizon.

Option 1: summit

Option 2: start

Option 3: zenith

Option 4: base

Team Careers360 17th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: zenith


Solution : The third option is the correct choice.

Top refers to the highest point, and in this case, the sentence describes the sky being alight from the highest point to the horizon. Zenith specifically denotes the highest point reached in the sky, especially by a celestial

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Question : Directions: In a certain code language, if February is called March, March is called April, April is called June, June is called September, and September is called November, then which month will have the most number of days?

Option 1: September

Option 2: March

Option 3: April

Option 4: June

Team Careers360 20th Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: April


Solution : Here, as per the given instructions –

  • February represents the month of March
  •  March represents the month of April
  • April represents the month of June
  • June represents the month of September
  • September represents the month of November

Since March has the most number of days,

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Question : If the ratio of the volumes of two cylinders is 6 : 5 and the ratio of their heights is 5 : 24, then what is the ratio of their radii?

Option 1: 12 : 7

Option 2: 5 : 6

Option 3: 1 : 2

Option 4: 12 : 5

Team Careers360 23rd Jan, 2024

Correct Answer: 12 : 5


Solution : Given: the ratio of the volumes of two cylinders is 6 : 5 and the ratio of their heights is 5 : 24.
Let their radii be $r_1$ and $r_2$, also let their heights be $5h$ and $24h$.
According to the question,
$\frac{\pi×r_1^2×5h}{\pi×r_2^2×24h}=\frac{6}{5}$

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