MindTree Placement Paper

MindTree Placement Paper
The Question consist of quant-aptitude , logical reasoning , analytical reasoning , and few
puzzles
Every Correct answer carry +3 mark and wrong answer carry -1 mark.
1. A person losses and gains 10% on selling a object for 200.
ans:he losses
2. sum of 1 to 100 is divisible by
1. 1,2,4,8
2. 2 & 4
3. 2
4. none
ans: 2
3. 10 consonants and 4 vowels , how many words with 3 consonants and
2 vowels?
1) 720 , 2)7200 ...
complete series
4. AZX....
5. ABCEFGIJK......( ver easy )
6. how many nos start and end with 2 b/w 100 and 300?
7. If a sphere of dia 3 cm is melted & formed into 3 spheres , the diameter of
1st is 1.5cm and that of second is 2.0 cm , what is the diameter of the third?.
8. 5 logical reasoning like :: All elephants are trained a few animals are
trained
..........etc -> refer to IMS material for this
9. There are 6 steps from 1st floor to 2nd floor A is 2 stes below C B is next to
D ONly one step is vacant
NO 2 people are on any step
Q )if a is on the first step , which of the following are true
10. 6 people compete in a race A,b,c,d,e,f b is not in the 1st place there are 2
runners b/w d and e a is ahead of d
( one more condition ) and 2 quesitions --very easy
11. If prizes are increased by 25% , by how much should i reduce the
consumption to keep the expenditure same??
12. how many factors ( or what nos) divide 6400 1) 24 , 2) 25 3) ....
13. "COURTESY" - how many words can be constructed with C in the begining
and Y at the end
14. My mother's husband's father in laws son's child->what is the relation?
15. 3 glasses containing mixture of water and alco in ratio 2:3 , 3:4 , 5:9 when
all 3 are mixed what is the new ratio??
16. There is a meeting organized, every person shake hands with the other only
once. If there are 60 shake hands,how many persons are there in the meeting?.
17. A fater has 8 children ,he takes 3 at a time to a zoo.probability of a child
going to the zoo.
18. A father has six children .all the children are born at regular intervels.if the
sum of their ages of all the children and father is 186. calculate the age of the elder
son, when the younger sons age is 3.
19. count the numbers between 100 and 300, that starts with 2 and ends with 2.
Ans: 10.
20. Some reasoning questions There are six steps,5 people a,b,c,d,e .
conditions are , a is two steps below c,no two people are on same step,b is next to d.
4 Questions based on this
21. 5 people participating in the race .conditions are given about the positions.
22. A ball is dropped from a height of 10 feet.Every time it rebounces to half of
the height. how many feet it traveled?
23. There are 3 jars. The ratio of spirit to water in each of these jars is
3:2,4:5,5:7. the three jars are mixed into a single jar. What is the ration of spirit to
water in single jar.
24. What is the relation with your mothr's sister's brother's wife's child with
you.?
25. what is the relation with your mother's husband's father-in-law's son's child
with you?
There is one programing question. We have to write program(This program will be
evaluated if you are qualified forInterview).you will be given choice(ie write one out of two
given)
GD topics.
1. If both husband and wife are working in the same organization.
2. coordination between educational institutions and companies.
3. Linux Vs Microsoft . Which will perish?.

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MindTree Placement Paper
TEST DATE : 25TH SEPT 2005
LOCATION : BANGALORE
TYPE: CALL BASED TEST THROUGH EMPLOYEE REFERAL (FOR TESTING JOB)
THE TEST DURATION WAS OF 30 MINTS AND 20 Q'S WERE THERE.
AROUND 15 Q'S WERE FROM THE BOOK=>
QUANTITATIVE APPTITUDE FOR CAT BY ARUN SHARMA
(9TH REPRINT 2004)
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THE Q'S WHICH I REMEMBER ARE AS UNDER.....
1.(Page 126/ Q-21) THE SPEED OF THREE CAR ARE IN RATIO 2:3:4 THEN RATIO BETWEEN
THE TIME TAKEN BY THESE CAR TO TRAVEL THE SAME DISTENCE IS....? 6:4:3
2.(Page 126/ Q-27) IF 30 OXCEN CAN PLOUGH 1/7TH OF A FIELD IN 2 DAYS THEN HOW
MANY DAYS 18 OXCEN WILL TAKE TO DO THE REMAINING...?20 DAYS
3.(Page 127/ Q-48) A CASK CONTAIN A MIXTURE OF 49 LTRS OF WINE
AND WATER IN RATIO 5:2. HOW MUCH WATER SHOULD BE ADDED TO MAKE WINE
: WATER TO 7:4....? 6
4.WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING NEVER COMES AT THE END OF PERFECT SQUARE OF A
NUMBER.. (a) 1 (B)000 (c)2 (D) 6
5.A TANK CAN BE FILL IN 6 HRS BUT DUE TI LIKAGE IT TAKE 4 HRS MORE. IF THE WHOLE
TANK IS FULL THEN THE IN WHAT TIME IT WILL BECOME EMPTY?
6.(Page 257/ Q-22) 5 BOYS AND 3 GIRLS R SITTING IN A ROW OF 8 SEATS. FIND NO. OF
WAYS SO THAT NOT ALL GIRLS SIT SIDE BY SIDE? 2400
7.(Page 273/ Q-15)TOW FAIR COINS R TOSSED. FINS THE PROBABLITY OF GETTING 1
HEAD AND 1 TAIL? 1/2
8.FIND SUM OF ALL ODD NOS. BETWEEN 100 AND 200.
9.WHAT IS 15TH TERM OF SERIES 20,15,10.....?
10.(Page 92/ Q-48) A MAN SELL A PLOT AT 6% PROFIT. IF HE HAD SOLD IT AT 10%
PROFIT HE WOULD RECEIVED RS. 200 MORE. WHAT IS SELLING PRICE OF PLOT.? 5300
11.PROBABLITY OF A IS x (GIVEN) AND B IS y (GIVEN) OF TELLING TRUTH.WHAT ISPROBABLITY THAT BOTH ARE CONTRADICTORY.
12.HALF OF DISTANCE IS TRAVELLED AT 60 KM/HR. THE HALF OF REMAINING HALF AT 30
KM / HR AND REST AT 10 KM/HR. WHAT IS AVERAGE SPEED....?
13. THE MILK RATE IS 60 RS/LTR. SOME WATER IS MIXED AND IF SALED AT 75 RS/LTR
THEN PROFIT IS 37.5%. FIND THE RATIO IN WHICH WATER IS MIXED. ANS:
10:1 (MILK:WATER)
14.A AND B R TWO INTEGER DIFFER BY 4. THE SUM OF THEIR RECIPROCAL IS 10/20. FIND
THE NUMBER? 3
15.(Page 251/ Q-4) IN HOW MANY WAYS 5 PRIZE BE DISTRIBUTED TO 8 STUDENTS IF
EACH STUDENT CAN GET ANY NUMBER OF PRIZES?
ANS: (5)POWER8
16.(Page 251/ Q-10) NO. OF WORDS MADE FROM WORD DELHI. ANS: 60
17. A WHEEL AFTER 5000 REVOLUTION COVER 11 KMS. WHAT IS RADIUS OF WHEEL? 35
CMS.
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We(BIT)had mindtree at campus May 05 2005. We had three rounds.
1st round written test, 20 q's and 2 programs. 30 mins for aptitude and 15 mins for coding.
I remeber few q's:
1) sum of 1 sq + 2 sq + 3 sq + .... + 99sq
a)0 b)1 c)3 d)2
2)a pipe can fill a tank in 5 hr. With a leak in tank it takes 6 hrs to fill. How many hrs r
required by the leak to empty the tank.
3)50 lit of water frm which 5 ltr is replaced with alcohol. Again 5 ltr from the mixture is
replace by 5 ltr of alcohol. The ratio of alcohol to water is ?
a) 1:4 b) 41:50 c)19:81 d)81:19
4)A car takes 3hrs less than a truck to cover the distance frm Bombay to pune(192 km).
The speed of the truck is 16km/hr slower than car.
Find the speed of the car.
5)A boat travels at 10 km/hr in still water. It travels 91 km downstream and upstream in 20
hrs. Find the rate of flow of the river.
a)2 b)3 c)4 d)5
Two progs:
1) There r 1..n numbers placed in an array in random fashion with one integer missing. Find
the missing integer.
2) convert postfix expression to infix expression.
2nd round was G.D.
we had the topic : Traffic in bangalore.
3rd round.
Personal Interview.
I hope this information will be of some use.
MINDTREE
This is mindtree paper consists of 2 sections.One is aptitude which has -ve marking .each
one carries 3
marks for correct ans and -1 for wrong one.section B has no -ve marking and carries 2
marks each
one.Duration is 1 hour.
1.find out the area of given shaded part in a graph?
Ans:2
2.which one of the following is not right angle triangle?
Ans: D(9,16,12)
3.sum of the consequent 7 integers some 1613. Find the no. of prime numbers in that
sequence.
Ans:2(check it out)
4.total no.of players is 99 other than me.50 plays soccer,45 plays basket ball,50 play valley
ball.15
play all three.How many will play only 2 games/
ans:15(check it out)
5.fresh mangoes have 70% of water in weight, dry mangoes 20% of water in weight..what
is the weight of
dry mangoes if weight of fresh mangoes is 20kg .ans(d)
a)6.68kg b) connot be determined c) 6.0kg d)6.6kg
6.total 63 matches are conducted in Knockout match type.How many players will be
participated in that
tournament?
 Ans:64
7.find out next one.
B A C B D C E D F ?
Ans:E
8. X is min of { n+5,6-n} then what is the min of X if,0<n<1?
Ans 5.5
9.2 can type 2 pages in 2 minutes.how many typist can type 18 pages in 6 minutes?
Ans . 6
10.Coconuts are arranged in piles in the order of
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2.Hence he got shortage of 1.what is the min no.of smallest coconuts?
Ans . lcm of above - 1 = 2219( check it out)
11. p+q+r-=0,then what is value of p2/qr+q2/pr+r2/pq=?
Ans.3( check it out)
12. In a class boys are 25% more than girls what is ratio of total boys and girls
Ans .5:4( actually ans is given like 5.;3)
13.How many 3 digit no. are there when divided by 7 or 8 leaves remainder 4?
Ans .17(may be ,check it out)
14.if it were 2 hours later it will be half as long until the mid night, as if it were be as half
an hour later.what is time now/(may be 21 if it is there)
a) 18.30
b) 23.30
c) 22.30
d) 23
15.
16
.data comparisions
17. A. total no.days in a four consecutive years
B. no. feets in 487 yards
ans:both r equal
18. A. external dimensions of a box is 2cm*4cm*5cm how many boxes are there in box of
internal dimensions
20*40*50cm B. this is also samemodelA
19.A. (66+34)/ (0.66+0.44)
B. (65+35)/(0.65+0.35)
a) A is greater than B
b) B is greater than A
c) Both are equal
d)some
SECTION B( analytical)
I A. There will be given 4 conditions . depending up on them following questions have to
be answered.
a) P may not come if either R or S come.
b) if G comes S comes
c) if H comes K comes
d) another one
There is one more question like this ,so prepare for analytical
2. one stars at home at 10.00a.m and reaches bus stop at 10.20.then he returns back
home finds that
it is 10.30am .if walking speed is same, is that watch is slow or fast and how much
ans . 5 min slow(check it out)
3. she can earn Ph.D unless she is poor at GRE or she doesn't receive any scholarship which one of the following is not true?
Ans A
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Set I
Aptitude Questions
1. A person losses and gains 10% on selling a object for 200.
Ans: he losses
2. Sum of 1 to 100 is divisible by 1. 1,2,4,8 2. 2 & 4 3. 2 4 none
Ans: 2
3. How many nos start and end with 2 b/w 100 and 300?
4. If a sphere of dia 3 cm is melted & formed into 3 spheres , the diameter of 1st is 1.5cm and
that of second is 2.0 cm ,
what is the diameter of the third?
5. If prizes are increased by 25% , by how much should i reduce the consumption to keep the
expenditure same??
6. "COURTESY" - how many words can be constructed with C in the begining and Y at the end
7. My mother's husband's father in laws son's child->what is the relation?
8.. 3 glasses containing mixture of water and alco in ratio 2:3 , 3:4 , 5:9 when all 3 are mixed
what is the new ratio??
9. A father has 8 children ,he takes 3 at a time to a zoo.probability of a child going to the zoo.
10. A ball is dropped from a height of 10 feet.Every time it rebounces to half of the height.
how many feet it travelled?
11. There are 3 jars. The ratio of spirit to water in each of these jars is 3:2,4:5,5:7. the three
jars are mixed into a single jar.
What is the ration of spirit to water in single jar.
12.. What is the relation with your mothr's sister's brother's wife's child with you.?
13. A father has six children .all the children are born at regular intervels.if the sum of their
ages of
all the children and father is 186. calculate the age of the elder son, when the younger sons
age is 3.
14. logical reasoning :
All elephants are trained a few animals are trained
1. What is the 7th digit of (202)3?
2. To type the digits from 1-1000 how many key strokes are needed?
3. A problem on the margin of votes involving winning percentage between two candidates.
4. Time & Distance- A is running faster than B by ….. kms. How much increase of speed is
needed by B to become first?
5. Problem on three pipes- two of them loading water into a tank the other one emptying,
what time will it take to fill the tank? (2 problems)
6. Four horses are tied up by rope on four corners of a square grass field. What would be the
ungrazed area by them?
7. If a person gets A% profit on cost price A. Determine the cost price? Four alternatives were
given --Ans. 40. As the thing was sold at 56/cost price--40.
8. Determine the angle between the hour & minute hand when the time is 40 past 3.
9. There is a Square. One Circle which is touching all the arms of the square is inscribed in it.
Another smaller square which ahs all corners touching the circle is inscribed inside the circle.
Obtain the ratio of the area of the two squares.
10. In a zoo there are animals & birds. No of heads are ………, No of legs …..., obtain the
number of birds & animals.
11. Simple aptitude type problems on probability. (2 problems)
12. Problems on percentage.
13.The C’ program was on simple binary tree.
 
GD Topic
1. Westernization of INDIA-- right or wrong
2. IT boom in INDIA—blessing or curse.
1. we have to count the 3 letter,4letter and 5letter words from a file and print the number of 3
letter,4letter and 5letter words. Delimiter is space, tab, hifen. Also we should not consider the
line in the file after we encounter # in that line. (ie after # we should not consider the portion
of line)
2. In file count the number of characters, number of words, number of line. Delimiter between
words is given as command line argument.
1hour 15 min is given for the test. we have to answer both aptitude and program with in this time.

Some of the aptitude questions.
1. the is a meeting organized, every person shake hands with the other only once. if there are
60 shake hands, how many persons are there in the meeting?.
2.A faster has 8 children ,he takes 3 at a time to a zoo. probability of a child going to the zoo.
3. a father has six children .all the children are born at regular intervels. if the sum of their
ages of all the children and father is 186. calculate the age of the elder son, when the younger
sons age is 3.
4.count the numbers between 100 and 300, that starts with 2 and ends with 2. Ans: 10.
Some reasoning questions
1. there are six steps,5 people a,b,c,d,e . conditions are , a is two steps below c,no two people
are on same step,b is next to d. 4 Questions based on this.
2. 5 people participating in the race .conditions are given about the positions.
3.a ball is dropped from a height of 10 feet. Every time it rebounces to half of the height. how
many feet it traveled?
4.There are 3 jars. The ratio of spirit to water in each of these jars is 3:2,4:5,5:7. the three
jars are mixed into a single jar. What is the ration of spirit to water in single jar.
5. What is the relation with your mothr's sister's brother's wife's child with you.?
6.what is the relation with your mother's husband's father-in-law's son's child with you?
7.we were asked to fill the series, alphabet series 4 questions are given.
8. 5 questions are given, we are asked to find the logical connection between them. like all
managers are drinkers, all drinker are smokers ,questions like this.
 
Simple Mathematics:
1. A triangle on a grid was given : find the area of it.
Ans : 2
2. out of the four options which is not a right angle .
Ans :D (12,9,16)
3.In a class of 100 members 50 plays soccer 45 badminton 50 volley ball and 15 plays all the
three then how many of them play two games.
Ans: can't be determined (D) verify
4.In a class the no. of boys are more than that of girls by 25% of the total strength of the
class then the ratio of boys to girls.
Ans: (5:3)(d)
5. the radius of the circle is reduced from 5cm to 4cm then the % change of area .
Ans: 36%
6.two workers can type two pages in two minuets then how many persons can type 18 pages
in 6 minuets
Ans: 6
7.if p+q+r=0 then p^2/qr+q^2/pr+r^2/pq=? (ans:3)(d)
8.the sum of 7 consecutive numbers is 1617 then the number of prime numbers in it.(ans:2)
9.in a nock out tournament the total no. of games played are 63 then the no. of participants
Ans: 64
10. fresh mango consists of 70% water and dry mango consists of 10% water then 20Kg of
fresh mango is equivalent to how much of dry mango
Ans: 6.66 kg
11.the no. of 3 digit numbers which when divide by 7 or 8 gives a reminder of 4
a) 16 b) 17 c) 18 d) 19
Set II
1)A man sold a product for rs.56 and gained x% .Its original cost is rs. x ,what is the cost?
2)2power 300,3 power200 which is greater?
3)how many zeros are there from 1 to 10000
4)if a and b do a job together in 6 daysb and c together in 10 days a and c together in 7.5
days then: no of days when
i) a,b,c together
ii) if a alone does the job.
5)there are 12 yes/no types of questions ,in how many ways can they be answered?
6)find odd one out of 125,8 power 3,521,729
7) One got 20 % marks and failed by 10 marks, other got 42% marks and got 12 % more
than the passing requirement What is the maximum marks?
8) --,32,224,…
9)Rs 50000 is divided into two parts One part is given to a person with 10% interest and
another part is given to a person with 20 % interest. At the end of first year he gets profit
7000 Find money given by 10%?
10)Time shown by a watch is 2.20 Find the angle between them
11) Avg cost of 5apples+4 mangoes=rs.36 Avg cost of 7 apples + 8 mangoes=rs.48 Find total
cost of 24 mangoes and 24 apples
12)Management : How ways it can be arranged without 2 a’s as continuous

GD TOPICs
1)Working in MNCs (+ve and –ve)
2)Working with Spouse in the same company (+ve and -ve)
1. An expression was given like B + A .B + !A .B + . . . . . and what will be the
final expression o/p :- ( Easy )
2. state diagram was given and what state will be detected ?
3. Counter and three states were given( 13 , 15 , 14 , 10 ) what will be the next value ?
ans. 11 – Gray counter
4. For one circuit inputs are ABCD and output is zero for first eight inputs and 1 for nexteight .
What will be the expression for circuit ? ( ans :- A)
5. What is octal representation of 01010101 ? ( ans. 125 )
6. D flip-flop with inverted feedback was given and question was based on maximumfrequency
allowed ( setup , hold etc. times were given )
7. Question based on instruction T states and CPI was asked .
8. What happens when HALT instruction is executed? ( Enter wait state and waits forinterrupt
or reset , Enters in to sleep state , etc. ( ans. Waits for interrupt or reset )
9. What happens when PUSH instruction is executed : ( content of accumulator is
saved,content of PC is changed , stack pointer is decremented and value value is saved )
10. Two bulbs of 40 Watt and 60 Watts were added in series . What will happen ? ( 40
watt will be brighter , 60 watts will be brighter , both will have same brightness , none ) ( Ans.
40 watt)
11. If widths of all PMOS an NMOS are doubled in any circuit then what will be effect onnoise
margin ? ( ans. No effect)
12. If gate and one end of NMOS are connected to Vdd , what will be the output at second end
of NMOS ? ( Vdd- Vth – NMOS are bad 1 ‘s)
13. a band limited signal is sampled at Nyquist rate , to reconstruct it the output will begiven
to : ( RC filter , Envelope detector , LPF with -- )
14. What is expression for Noise figure ?
15. always @ ( B or C) if( B) D=C Circuit will work as ( Mux, Tri state buffer , Latch , None ) (
Ans. --- Tri state Buffer)
 
1. A man crosses a circle of perimeter 35 m in 44 sec and he runs a hexagon of 42 m side. In
how many second he finishes the complete perimeter of the hexagon.
2. A+b do a work in 6 days. A+c do the work in 10 days, c+a in 7.5 days. How many days will
it take for a+b+c to do the work and also find the number of days required by a alone.
3. Totally there are 12 yes or no questions. In how many different ways can he attend?
4. Complete the series 7 49 56 392………….
5. Complete the series 36 252 63 441 110.25..
6. Find the odd one out: 8 125 512 729?
7. Number of zeros between 0 and 10000
8. A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle. What is the perimeter of the hexagon in relation
with the radius of the circle?
9. A circular path has a perimeter of 120m.a, b,c travel at 5 7 15m/s respectively. They start
simultaneously. At what time do they meet next?
10. Totally there are 12 pipes. Some pipes fill the tank and some empties the tank (data will
be given). If all the pipes are opened simultaneously when will the tank be filled?
11. Which is greater 2^300 or 3^200?
12. Average age of 24 students is 36. When the age of teacher is added the average age is
increased by 1 year. What is the age of the teacher?
13. Water and milk are mixed in the ratio 2:1,5:3 and 9:4.when all the mixtures of equal
volume are mixed together what is the ratio water and milk in the resulting solution.
14. Average rate of five orange and four apples is 12 and 7 orange and 8 apples are 86. Find
the total rate of 24 orange and 24 apples.
15. In how many ways the letters in the word MANAGEMENT can be arranged such that A’s does not come together.

16. A give B a start of 20 sec and leads by 20m. When he starts off 25 sec he finishes at the
same time. What is the speed of A. (wordings not sure).
17. An array of integer is given. Write a pseudo code to find the sub array with the largest
sum.
18. A string is given. Write an algorithm to implement the backspace from the end of the
string. The string contains 1 byte and 2-byte character. For 1 byte char first bit is 0 and for 2
byte char first bit is 1.