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1 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
If f(1) = 1 and f(n) = 3n – f(n – 1) for all integers n > 1, then the value of f(2023) is _________.
2 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Amisha can complete a particular task in twenty days. After working for four days she fell sick for four days and resumed the work on the ninth day but with half of her original work rate. She completed the task in another twelve days with the help of a co-worker who joined her from the ninth day. The number of days required for the co-worker to complete the task alone would be ______.
3 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
If f(n) = 1 + 2 + 3 + ??? +(n + 1) and then the least value of n for which g(n) exceeds the value 99/100 is_________.
4 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
In an election with only two contesting candidates, 15% of the voters did not turn up to vote, and 50 voters cast invalid votes. It is known that 44% of all the voters in the voting list voted for the winner. If the winner got 200 votes more than the other candidate, then the number of voters in the voting list is_________.
5 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
The total number of positive integer solutions of 21 ≤ a + b + c ≤ 25 is______.
6 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
If three consecutive coefficients in the expansion of (x + y)n are in the ratio 1 : 9 : 63, then the value of n is _______.
7 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
The polynomial 4x10 – x9 + 3x8 – 5x7 + cx6 + 2x5 – x4 + x3 – 4x2 + 6x – 2 when divided by x – 1 leaves a remainder 2. Then the value of c + 6 is________.
8 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
The product of the roots of the equation is ________.
9 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
The remainder when 1! + 2! + 3! + ??? + 95! is divided by 15 is______.
10 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Vinita drives a car which has four gears. The speed of the car in the fourth gear is five times its speed in the first gear. The car takes twice the time to travel a certain distance in the second gear as compared to the third gear. In a 100 km journey, if Vinita travels equal distances in each of the gears, she takes 585 minutes to complete the journey. Instead, if the distances covered in the first, second, third, and fourth gears are 4 km, 4 km, 32 km, and 60 km, respectively, then the total time taken, in minutes, to complete the journey, will be______.
11 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Let a, b, c, d be positive integers such that a + b + c + d = 2023. If a : b = 2 : 5 and c : d = 5 : 2 then the maximum possible value of a + c is________.
12 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
In the xy-plane let A = (– 2, 0), B = (2, 0). Define the set S as the collection of all points C on the circle x2 + y2 = 4 such that the area of the triangle ABC is an integer. The number of points in the set S is________.
13 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
The length of the line segment joining the two intersection points of the curves y = 4970 – |x| and y = x² is_________.
14 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Assume it is the beginning of the year today. Ankita will earn INR 10,000 at the end of the year, which she plans to invest in a bank deposit immediately at a fixed simple interest of 0.5% per annum. Her yearly income will increase by INR 10,000 every year, and the fixed simple interest offered by the bank on new deposits will also increase by 0.5% per annum every year. If Ankita continues to invest all her yearly income in new bank deposits at the end of each year, the total interest earned by her, in INR, in five years from today will be__________.
15 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
In a chess tournament, there are four groups, each containing an equal number of players. Each player plays
i) Against every other player belonging to one's own group exactly once;
ii) Against each player belonging to one of the remaining three groups exactly twice;
iii) Against each player belonging to one of the remaining two groups exactly three times; and
iv) Against each player belonging to the remaining group exactly four times.
If there are more than 1000 matches being played in the tournament, the minimum possible number of players in each group is_______.
16 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
2nπ + π/4, n is an iteger
nπ + π/4, n is an iteger
nπ/4 + π/4, n is an iteger
nπ/4, n is an iteger
17 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
A person standing at the center of an open ground first walks 32 meters towards the east, takes a right turn and walks 16 meters, takes another right turn and walks 8 meters, and so on. How far will the person be from the original starting point after an infinite number of such walks in this pattern ?
32/√5 meters
64/√5 meters
32 metersq
64 meters
18 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
The equation x2 + y2 − 2x − 4y + 5 = 0 represents
An ellipse
A circle
A point
A pair of straight lines
19 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
A goldsmith bought a large solid golden ball at INR 1,000,000 and melted it to make a certain number of solid spherical beads such that the radius of each bead was one-fifth of the radius of the original ball. Assume that the cost of making golden beads is negligible. If the goldsmith sold all the beads at 20% discount on the listed price and made a total profit of 20%, then the listed price of each golden bead, in INR, was
12000
24000
9600
48000
20 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
A helicopter flies along the sides of a square field of side length 100 kms. The first side is covered at a speed of 100 kmph, and for each subsequent side the speed is increased by 100 kmph till it covers all the sides. The average speed of the helicopter is
250 kmph
200 kmph
192 kmph
184 kmph
21 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
The probability that a randomly chosen positive divisor of 102023 is an integer multiple of 102001 is
22 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
In a triangle ABC, let D be the mid-point of BC, and AM be the altitude on BC. If the lengths of AB, BC and CA are in the ratio of 2 : 4 : 3, then the ratio of the lengths of BM and AD would be
11 ? 4√10
11 : 12
12 : 11
4√10 ? 11
23 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
If where as is a real number and det?(A3 - 3A2 - 5A) = 0 then one of the value of a can be
5
4
6
1
24 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Which of the following straight lines are both tangent to the circle x2 + y2 − 6x + 4y − 12 = 0
4x + 3y − 19 = 0, 4x + 3y + 31 = 0
4x + 3y + 19 = 0, 4x + 3y − 31 = 0
4x + 3y + 19 = 0, 4x + 3y + 31 = 0
4x + 3y − 19 = 0, 4x + 3y − 31 = 0
25 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Let a1, a2, a3 be three distinct real numbers in geometric progression. If the equations a1x2 +2a2x + a3 = 0 and b1x2 + 2b2x + b3 = 0 has a common root, then which of the following is necessarily true ?
b1, b2, b3 are in arithmetic progression
are in arithmetic progression
b1, b2, b3 are in geometric progression
are in geometric progression
26 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
A rabbit is sitting at the base of a staircase which has 10 steps. It proceeds to the top of the staircase by climbing either one step at a time or two steps at a time. The number of ways it can reach the top is
34
55
144
89
27 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
The minimum number of times a fair coin must be tossed so that the probability of getting at least one head exceeds 0.8 is
6
5
7
3
28 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Consider an 8 × 8 chessboard. The number of ways 8 rooks can be placed on the board such that no two rooks are in the same row and no two are in the same column is
7!
8
8!
7
29 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Let a, b, c be real numbers greater than 1, and n be a positive real number not equal to 1. If logn?(log2?a ) = 1, logn?(log2?b ) = 2 and logn?(log2?c ) = 3, then which of the following is true ?
a + b = c
(an + b)n = ac
(b - a)n = (c - b)
an + bn = cn
30 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
If the difference between compound interest and simple interest for a certain amount of money invested for 3 years at an annual interest rate of 10% is INR 527, then the amount invested in INR is
15000
170000
17000
150000
31 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
If the harmonic mean of the roots of the equation (5 + √2)x2 - bx + 8 + 2√5 = 0 is 4 then the value of b is
4 - √5
2
3
4 + √5
32 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Let [x] denote the greatest integer not exceeding x and {x} = x – [x]. If n is a natural number, then the sum of all values of x satisfying the equation 2[x] = x + n{x} is
[n(n + 1)]/2
n
[n(n + 2)]/2
3/2
33 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
If (a + b)/(b + c) = (c + d)/(d + a), which of the following statements is always true ?
a + b + c + d = 0
a = c
a = c, or a + b + c + d = 0
a = c, and b = d
34 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
The set of all real values of x satisfying the inequality is
(- 1, 0) ∪ (1, + ∞)
35 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
In a chess tournament there are 5 contestants. Each player plays against all the others exactly once. No game results in a draw. The winner in a game gets one point and the loser gets zero point. Which of the following sequences cannot represent the scores of the five players ?
3, 3, 2, 1, 1
2, 2, 2, 2, 2
4, 4, 1, 1, 0
3, 2, 2, 2, 1
36 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
f cosα + cosβ = 1,then the maximum value of sinα − sinβ is
2
√2
1
√3
37 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
A polynomial P(x) leaves a remainder 2 when divided by (x − 1) and a remainder 1 when divided by (x − 2). The remainder when P(x) is divided by (x − 1) (x − 2) is
3 – x
x – 3
3
2
38 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
In a group of 120 students, 80 students are from the Science stream and the rest are from the Commerce stream. It is known that 70 students support Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League; all the other students support Chennai Super Kings. The number of Science students who are supporters of Mumbai Indians is
30 or more
Exactly 20
Between 20 and 25
Between 15 and 25
39 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Let p be a positive integer such that the unit digit of p3 is 4. What are the possible unit digits of (p + 3)3 ?
1, 3
1, 7, 9
1, 3, 7
4, 7
40 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
If a three-digit number is chosen at random, what is the probability that it is divisible neither by 3 nor by 4 ?
1/3
2/3
1/4
1/2
41 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Direction Qs. 41 – 45: A pharmaceutical company has tested five drugs on three different organisms. The following incomplete table reports if a drug works on the given organism. For example, drug A works on organism R while B and C work on Q.
Following additional information is available:
i) Each drug works on at least one organism but not more than two organisms.
ii) Each organism can be treated with at least two and at most three of these five drugs.
iii) On whichever organism A works, B also works. Similarly, on whichever organism C works, D also works.
iv) D and E do not work on the same organism.
Drug D works on
Only Q
Q and R
Only P
P and Q
42 IPMAT 2023 - Quantitative Aptitude
Direction Qs. 41 – 45: A pharmaceutical company has tested five drugs on three different organisms. The following incomplete table reports if a drug works on the given organism. For example, drug A works on organism R while B and C work on Q.
Following additional information is available:
i) Each drug works on at least one organism but not more than two organisms.
ii) Each organism can be treated with at least two and at most three of these five drugs.
iii) On whichever organism A works, B also works. Similarly, on whichever organism C works, D also works.
iv) D and E do not work on the same organism.
Organism P can be treated with
A, B, and D
Only B and D
B, C and D
Only C and D