Psychometric

A magician bought a rabbit for $60 and a pigeon for $70. How much is the pigeon more expensive than the rabbit in percentage?

An investment group decided to purchase all of the senior-citizen houses offered by one of the two companies. Which of the following options is correct ?

Go Drink’s annual sales in the European and Asian markets

1 Euro = 0.8 Japanese Yen

If Go-Drink’s annual sales of water were 20 million euros in the European market and 20 million Japanese yen in the Asian market, what is the ratio of annual sales of water in the European market to that in the Asian market in euros ?

If the profits per employee remain the same, how many extra employees would Company B have to recruit to achieve annual profits of £39,000 ?

Which company has the highest annual profit per employee ?

(0-20 = £million)

What is the difference between direct sales and telesales across the five teams combined ?

(0-20 = £million)

If there are 50 direct sales and 65 telesales employees assigned to each of the Eastern region’s teams A-E, what are the average sales per sales employee for the lowest performing team in terms of overall sales (to the nearest £1,000) ?

(0-20 = £million)

If the Eastern Region’s total sales represent 26% of the total for all regions, what are the total sales across all regions (to the nearest £million) ?

(0-20 = £million)

What are the total sales targets for next year across all five teams if the target is set as a 20% and 10% increase in this year’s Direct Sales and Telesales respectively ?

If actual labour rise so as to halve their difference from the target, what will be the change in actual Gross Profit ?

Many business offices are located in buildings having 2-8 floors. If a building has more than 3 floors, it has a lift. If the above statements are true, which of the following must be true?

“Some men are definitely intelligent, others are definitely not intelligent, but of intermediate men, we should say, ‘intelligent’? Yes, I think so or no, I shouldn’t be inclined to call him intelligent.”

Which of the following reflects the intention of the writer well?

Between 1960 and 1970, ivory poachers in the African nation of Zinbaku killed over 6,500 elephants. During that period, the total elephant population in Zinbaku fell from about 35,000 to just under 30,000. In 1970, new anti-poaching measures were implemented in Zinbaku, and between 1970 and 1980 over 800 poachers were arrested and expelled from the country. Nevertheless, by 1980, the elephant population in Zinbaku had fallen to about 21,000. Which of the following, if true, would best help to explain the apparent paradox presented above?

If highways were restricted to cars and only those trucks with capacity of less than 8 tons, most of the truck traffic would be forced to run outside highways. Such a reduction in the amount of truck traffic would reduce the risk of collisions on highways.

The conclusion drawn in the 1st sentence depends on which of the following assumptions?

A highly cohesive work group is a prerequisite for high team performance. Sociologists point out that the association between success and group cohesion owes to the support individual team members give to one another and their acceptance of the group’s activities and goals.

Each of the following, if true, either supports or cannot weaken the sociologists’ assumption about the relationship between success and cohesion EXCEPT

There are numerous reasons why individuals want to run their own businesses. Some foresee more personal satisfaction if they succeed in launching their own business, while others are mainly interested in the prospect of larger financial rewards. Since 1980s and early 1990s, tax regulation and liberal policies have encouraged increasing number of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to start new enterprises. Since 1990, one and a half million new ventures have been started. Not all have succeeded.

The above statement makes which of the following assumptions?

If highways were restricted to cars and only those trucks with capacity of less than 8 tons, most of the truck traffic would be forced to run outside highways. Such a reduction in the amount of truck traffic would reduce the risk of collisions on highways. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn in the second sentence?

Offshore oil-drilling operations involve an unavoidable risk of an oil spill, but importing oil on tankers presently involves an even greater such risk per barrel of oil. So, if we are to lessen the risk of an oil spill without reducing our oil usage, we must invest more in offshore operations and import less oil on tankers.

Which of the following, if true, seriously weakens the argument above?

In terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), rural households have more purchasing power than do urban and suburban households at the same income level, since some of the income urban and suburban households utilize for food and shelter can be utilized by rural households for other needs. Which of the following inferences is best supported by the statement made above?

In contrast to the earlier predictions, demand for sugarcane has not risen in recent years, yet, even though production amounts and price have also been stable during the last 3 years. Last year, sugarcane growers increased their profits by more than 10 percent over the previous year’s level.