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Previous-year paper · 30 questions
IPMAT Indore 2022
Quantitative Aptitude · Multiple choice
Question 1
For , let and . Then, the median value in the sequence is
- A.
- B.
- C.
- D.
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Correct answer: B
Question 2
The set of real values of for which the inequality holds is
- A.
- B.
- C.
- D.
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Correct answer: A
Question 3
The set of all possible values of for which is
- A.
(
- B.
- C.
- D.
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Correct answer: C
Question 4
Ayesha is standing atop a vertical tower high and observes a car moving away from the tower on a straight, horizontal road from the foot of the tower. At 11:00 AM, she observes the angle of depression of the car to be . At 11:02 AM, she observes the angle of depression of the car to be . The speed at which the car is moving is approximately
- A.
6.3 km per hour
- B.
8.45 km per hour
- C.
10.6 km per hour
- D.
4.39 km per hour
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Correct answer: D
Question 5
The value of for which the following lines are concurrent is
- A.
1
- B.
-1
- C.
0
- D.
12
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Correct answer: C
Question 6
The sum of the squares of all the roots of the equation is
- A.
74
- B.
175
- C.
50
- D.
148
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Correct answer: C
Question 7
The lengths of the sides of a triangle are and , where is the shortest side. A possible value of is:
- A.
18
- B.
20
- C.
19
- D.
16
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Correct answer: B
Question 8
If the five-digit number abcde is divisible by 6, then which of the following numbers is not necessarily divisible by 6?
- A.
edcba
- B.
eee
- C.
bbadcacede
- D.
cdbae
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Correct answer: A
Question 9
In how many ways can the letters of the word MANAGEMENT be arranged such that no two vowels appear together?
- A.
75600
- B.
25200
- C.
37800
- D.
21600
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Correct answer: C
Question 10
In a room, there are persons whose average height is . If more persons, whose average height is , enter the room, then the average height of all persons in the room becomes . Then is
- A.
- B.
- C.
- D.
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Correct answer: A
Question 11
The sum of the first 15 terms in an arithmetic progression is 200, while the sum of the next 15 terms is 350. Then the common difference is
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- B.
- C.
- D.
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Correct answer: B
Question 12
Suppose and are integers such that , and . Then the value of the determinant of is
- A.
can be positive or negative
- B.
is positive
- C.
is negative
- D.
is zero
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Correct answer: C
Question 13
In a right-angled triangle ABC, the hypotenuse AC is of length 13 cm. A line drawn connecting the midpoints D and E of sides AB and AC is found to be 6 cm in length. The length of BC is
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cm
- B.
cm
- C.
cm
- D.
cm
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Correct answer: A
Question 14
If then is
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- B.
- C.
- D.
None of these
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Correct answer: D
Question 15
Let and . Assuming all relations from set to set are equally likely, what is the probability that a relation from to is also a function?
- A.
- B.
- C.
1
- D.
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Correct answer: A
Question 16
In a 400-metre race, Ashok beats Bipin and Chandan respectively by 15 seconds and 25 seconds. If Ashok beats Bipin by 150 metres, by how many metres does Bipin beat Chandan in the race?
- A.
80
- B.
100
- C.
150
- D.
50
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Correct answer: A
Question 17
In a bowl containing 60 ml orange juice, 40 ml of water is poured. Thereafter, 100 ml of apple juice is poured to make a fruit punch. Madhu drinks 50 ml of this fruit punch and comments that the proportion of orange juice needs to be higher for better taste. How much orange juice should be poured into the fruit punch that remained, in order to bring up the level of orange juice to 50 percentage?
- A.
100 ml
- B.
40 ml
- C.
80 ml
- D.
60 ml
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Correct answer: D
Question 18
The curve represented by the equation is
- A.
an ellipse with the foci on the y-axis
- B.
an ellipse with the foci on the x-axis
- C.
a hyperbola with the foci on the x-axis
- D.
a hyperbola with the foci on the y-axis
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Correct answer: A
Question 19
A set of all possible values the function , where , takes is
- A.
- B.
- C.
- D.
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Correct answer: B
Question 20
When the square of the difference of two natural numbers is subtracted from the square of the sum of the same two numbers and the result is divided by four, we get
- A.
the product of the LCM and HCF of the two numbers
- B.
the HCF of the two numbers
- C.
the LCM of the two numbers
- D.
the square of the product of the two numbers
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Correct answer: A
Question 21
The cost of a piece of jewellery is proportional to the square of its weight. A piece of jewellery weighing 10 grams is INR 3600. The cost of a piece of jewellery of the same kind weighing 4 grams is
- A.
INR 1220
- B.
INR 600
- C.
INR 576
- D.
INR 1440
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Correct answer: C
Question 22
Let and be two sets such that the Cartesian product consists of four elements. If two elements of are and , then
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None of these
- B.
- C.
- D.
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Correct answer: D
Question 23
If for all non-negative integers and , then the value of equals _________.
- A.
2
- B.
0
- C.
6
- D.
1
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Correct answer: B
Question 24
If one of the factors of the number is randomly chosen, then the probability that the chosen factor will be a perfect square is
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- B.
- C.
- D.
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Correct answer: A
Question 25
The number of four-digit integers which are greater than 1000 and divisible by both 2 and 3, but not by 5, is
- A.
1333
- B.
1666
- C.
1200
- D.
1500
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Correct answer: C
Read the passage or information below
A showroom is open on all seven days of the week throughout the year. There are five employees Alex, Bhabha, Cathy, Dilip and Ethan who work in the showroom. Every day except Sunday, two employees are required while on Sunday three employees need to work. Every employee works for three days in a week. Some additional information is also provided:
- Every employee works on two consecutive days while the third day is not consecutive.
- Alex and Dilip work together on Tuesday and Wednesday while the other working day differs for them.
- Neither Bhabha nor Cathy works with Alex on any day.
- Cathy does not work either on Saturday or on Monday.
Question 26
Number of days Bhabha and Cathy work together in a week is
- A.
0
- B.
1
- C.
3
- D.
2
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Correct answer: D
Question 27
Which among the following employees do not work together on any of the days?
- A.
Bhabha and Dilip
- B.
Bhabha and Ethan
- C.
Alex and Dilip
- D.
Dilip and Ethan
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Correct answer: D
Question 28
One of the days Alex works on is
- A.
Monday
- B.
Friday
- C.
Sunday
- D.
Saturday
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Correct answer: D
Question 29
The consecutive days on which Ethan works are
- A.
Thursday and Friday
- B.
Saturday and Sunday
- C.
Friday and Saturday
- D.
Sunday and Monday
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Correct answer: C
Question 30
Employees who work on Sunday are
- A.
Bhabha, Cathy and Dilip
- B.
Bhabha, Cathy and Ethan
- C.
Alex, Dilip and Ethan
- D.
Cathy, Dilip and Ethan
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Correct answer: A
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