Worldpay Aptitude Test: Trivia Quiz!
Wordplay is like a word problem. It is a mathematical exercise in which considerable background information on the problem is presented in everyday language instead of simply being a mathematical equation. Wordplay aptitude measures how well you can perform a word problem or make sense of a problematic concept. Wordplay or word problems are often referred to as story problems. If you want to put your capability to the test, check out this wordplay aptitude quiz.
- 1.In a bag of red and green sweets, the ratio of red sweets to green sweets is 3:4. If the bag contains 120 green sweets, how many red sweets are there?
- A.
30
- B.
45
- C.
60
- D.
75
- E.
90
- 2.Ravi buys an old scooter for Rs. 4700 and spends Rs. 800 on its repairs. If he sells the scooter for Rs. 5800, his gain percent is:
- A.
4 4/7%
- B.
5 5/11%
- C.
10%
- D.
12%
- E.
15%
- 3.If the cost price of 20 articles is equal to the selling price of 16 articles, what is the percentage of profit or loss that the merchant makes?
- A.
20% Profit
- B.
25% Loss
- C.
25% Profit
- D.
33.33% Loss
- E.
33.33% Profit
- 4.A zookeeper counted the heads of the animals in a zoo and found it to be 80. When he counted the legs of the animals he found it to be 260. If the zoo had either pigeons or horses, how many horses were there in the zoo?
- A.
40
- B.
30
- C.
50
- D.
60
- E.
80
- 5.There are 128 boxes in a room containing Oranges. Number of oranges in a box may be a number from 125 to 144. What is the minimum number of boxes that contain same number of oranges?
- A.
5
- B.
0
- C.
6
- D.
7
- E.
8
- 6.If 20 men take 30 days to complete a job, how many days do 25 men need to complete the same job?
- A.
24
- B.
30
- C.
32
- D.
25
- E.
29
- 7.A can do a work W in 12 days, B can do the same work in 16 days. How many days are needed to complete the work, if both A and B work together to complete the work?
- A.
28
- B.
14
- C.
6 5/7
- D.
6 6/7
- E.
8 5/7
- 8.Superheroes Krish and Shaktiman leave the same camp and run in opposite directions. Krish runs 1 mile per second (mps) and Shaktiman runs 2 mps. How far apart are they in miles after 1 hour?
- A.
100 miles
- B.
3600 miles
- C.
216000 miles
- D.
10800 miles
- E.
72000 miles
- 9.A bus moving at 2/3rd of its normal speed reaches its destination an hour late. What is the usual time taken by the bus to reach the destination?
- A.
2/3 hr
- B.
3/2 hr
- C.
1 hr
- D.
1 1/4 hr
- E.
2 hrs
- 10.Katie must place five stuffed animals--a duck, a goose, a panda, a turtle and a swan in a row in the display window of a toy store. How many different displays can she make if the duck and the goose must be either first or last?
- A.
120
- B.
60
- C.
24
- D.
12
- E.
6
- 11.A three-person committee must be chosen from a group of 7 professors and 10 graduate students. If at least one of the people on the committee must be a professor, how many different groups of people could be chosen for the committee?
- A.
70
- B.
560
- C.
630
- D.
1260
- E.
1980
- 12.How many four-digit numbers can you form using ten numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) if the numbers can be used only once?
- A.
5040
- B.
4536
- C.
504
- D.
4050
- E.
4036
- 13.What is the probability that a card drawn at random from a deck of cards will be an ace?
- A.
1/52
- B.
1/26
- C.
1/4
- D.
1/13
- E.
None of these
- 14.If a coin is tossed twice, what is the probability that on the first toss the coin lands heads and on the second toss the coin lands tails?
- A.
1/6
- B.
1/3
- C.
1/4
- D.
1/2
- E.
1
- 15.DOCTOR : HOSPITAL ::
- A.
Sports fan : stadium
- B.
Cow : farm
- C.
Professor : college
- D.
Criminal : jail
- E.
Food : grocery
- 16.DALMATIAN : DOG ::
- A.
Sparrow : bird
- B.
Horse : pony
- C.
Shark : great white
- D.
Ant : insect
- E.
Stock : savings
- 17.Find the next term of the series 6, 13, 27, 55 ?
- A.
110
- B.
111
- C.
121
- D.
123
- E.
211
- 18.ZA5, Y4B, XC6, W3D, _____ ?
- A.
E7V
- B.
V2E
- C.
VE5
- D.
VE7
- E.
None of these
- 19.Siva, Sathish, Amar and Praveen are playing cards. Amar is to the right of Sathish, who is to the right of Siva. Who is to the right of Amar?
- A.
Praveen
- B.
Siva
- C.
Amar
- D.
Satish
- 20.Six students are sitting in a circle facing towards the centre, Lew is sitting to the left of Florian, Christopher is sitting to the right of Xian, Mars is sitting to right of Florian and left of Xian, Jennifer is sitting to right of Christopher. Who is sitting to right of Jennifer?
- A.
Christopher
- B.
Xian
- C.
Lew
- D.
Mars
- 21.If 5 litres of water is added to a mixture that contains water and milk in the ratio 3:4, then the ratio becomes 5:4. Find the quantity of milk in the given mixture.
- A.
A)10litres
- B.
B)12litres
- C.
C)7.5litres
- D.
None of these
- 22.In a forest, the ratio of lions to tigers is 31 : 23 respectively. When 75 more tigers added the ratio becomes 124 : 107. How many more tigers should be added to make the number of lions and tigers equal?
- A.
A)160
- B.
D)140
- C.
C)75
- D.
B)85
- 23.A bike at a speed of 60km/hr, it covers certain distance in 3 hours and the train can cover the same distance in 1 and half hours then the speed of train is
- A.
A)80km/hr
- B.
B)120km/hr
- C.
C)160km/hr
- D.
D)50km/hr
- 24.A train of length 150 meters can cross a bridge in 40 seconds when travelling at a speed of 40km/hr. Then what is the length of the bridge?
- A.
180
- B.
183
- C.
182
- D.
185
- 25.A train overtakes two bikes which are travelling at the speed of 25km/hr and 30km/hr in the same direction the train is moving and crosses them in 18 and 21 seconds respectively. Then the length of the train is:
- A.
170 m
- B.
175 m
- C.
185 m
- D.
173 m
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