MCA Entrance Previous Year Question Bank

A person travels on a cycle from home to church on a straight road with wind against him. He took 4 h to reach there. On the way back to the home, he took 3 h to reach as wind was in the same direction. If there is no wind, how much times does he take to travel from home to church?

If a man walks at the rate of 4 km/h, he misses a train by only 6 min. However, if he walks at the rate of 5 km/h he reaches the station 6 min before the arrival of the train. Find the distance covered by him to reach the station.

A train after travelling 60 km meets with an accident and then proceeds at 3/4 of its former rate and arrives at the terminus 40 minutes late. Had the accident happened 25km further on, it would have arrived 10 minutes sooner. Find the speed of the train and the distance, respectively.

Recentily, while in Benguluru, I decided to walk down the escalator of a tube station. I did some quick calculation in my mind. I found that if I walk down twenty six steps, I require thirty seconds to reach the bottom. However, if I am able to step down thirty four stairs I would only require eighteen seconds to get to the bottom. If the time is measured from the moment the top step begins to descend to the time I step off the last step at the bottom, what is the height of the stairway in steps ?

How long would it take you to count 1 billion orally if you could count 200 every minute and were given a day off every four years? Assume that you start counting on 1 January 2001.

If a man walks at the rate of $4\text{ km/h}$, he misses a train by only $6\text{ min}$. However, if he walks at the rate of $5\text{ km/h}$ he reaches the station $6\text{ min}$ before the arrival of the train. The distance covered by him to reach the station is:

A culprit was spotted by the police from a distance of 250 m. When the police men started running towards the culprit at a speed of 10 km/h, the culprit also fled. If his speed was 8 km/h, find out how far the culprit had run before he was overpowered.

Karan and Arjun run a $100$ metres race, where Karan beats Arjun by $10$ metres. To do a favour to Arjun, Karan starts $10$ metres behind the starting line in a second $100$ metre race. They both run at their earlier speeds. Which of the following is true in connection with the second race?

A train takes 18 seconds to pass completely through a station 162 m long and 15 seconds through another station 120 m long, at the same speed. What is the length of the train, in meters?

The missing number in the following series 336, 210,120, 60 , ________, 6 is