Business Analyst Interview Questions and Answers
Ques:- A man purchases 8 pens for Rs.9 and sells 9 pens for Rs.8, how much profit or loss does he make?
Ques:- One pipe can fill a tank three times as fast as another pipe. If together the two pipes can fill tank in 36 min, then the slower pipe alone will be able to fill the tank in?
Recent Answer : :
1/x+1/3x=1/36
4/3x=1/36
36*4=3x
X=48
So the slower pipe alone fill the tank in 48 minutes.
Ques:- An amount of Rs. 3000 becomes Rs. 3600 in four years at simple interest. If the rate of interest was 1% more, then what was be the total amount?
Recent Answer : :
3606
Ques:- In a party there are 5 couples. Out of them 5 people are chosen at random. Find the probability that there are at the least two couples?
Ques:- How is my father’s brother’s only sibling’s mother related to me ?
Recent Answer : :
Grandma
Ques:- The sum of four consecutive even numbers is 36. Find the sum of the squares of these numbers?
Recent Answer : :
6+8+10+10= 36
6²+8²+10²+12²=344
Ques:- Surface area of two spheres are in the ratio 1:4 what is the ratio of their volumes?
Ques:- In a certain code, TOGETHER is written as RQEGRJCT. In the same code, PAROLE will be written as?
Recent Answer : :
NCPQJG
Ques:- Two ladies and two men are playing cards and are seated at North, East, South and West of a table. No lady is facing East. Persons sitting opposite to each other are not of the same sex. One man is facing South. Which directions are the ladies facing?
Recent Answer : :
M
M. L
L
Ques:- A man buys an article and sells it at a profit of 20%. If he had bought it at 20% less and sold it for Rs.75 less, he could have gained 25%. What is the cost price?
Ques:- If 12 men and 16 boys can do a piece of work in 5 days and 13 men together will 24 boys can do it in 4 days. Compare the daily work done by a man with that of a boy.
Recent Answer : :
2:1
Ques:- The present average age of a family of five members is 26 years. If the present age of the youngest member in the family is ten years, then what was the average age of the family at the time of the birth of the youngest member ? (Assume no death occurred in the family since the birth of the youngest)
Ques:- If 12 men can reap 120 acres of land in 36 days, how many acres of land can 54 men reap in 54 days?
Recent Answer : :
810
Ques:- A man walks at a speed of 3 km/hr and runs at a speed of 7 km/hr. How much time will the man require to cover a distance of 10 1/2 km, if he completes half of the distance, i.e., (5 1/4) km on foot and the other half by running?
Recent Answer : :
2hr 30min
Ques:- A train speeds past a pole in 15 sec and a platform 100 m long in 25 sec,find its length is?
Recent Answer : :
It is assumed to be constant. Now, to cross past the pole, the train should cover a distance of x meters. Now, the time taken by the train to cross a platform of length 100 m is 25 seconds. Hence, the length of the train is 150 m.
Ques:- Find the least number with which 16200 should be multiplied, to make it a perfect cube.
Recent Answer : :
2
Ques:- Two trains of length 120 m and 280 m are running towards each other on parallel lines at 42 kmph and 30 kmph respectively. In what time will they be clear of each other from the moment they meet?
Recent Answer : :
I solve it as the 280m train being stationary… and the 120m train moving at (42+30) = 72kph…. or 20mps
The front of the train will have to go 280m to pass the stationary train plus another 120m for the backs to clear… that is 400m in all.
The time to travel 400m at 20mps is 20secs
Ques:- 15 men take 21 days of 8 hours each to do a piece of work. How many days of 6 hours each would 21 women take to do the same. If 3 women do as much work as 2 men?
Ques:- Simplify the 121 * 175 + 363 * 275
Ques:- The average runs scored by a batsman in 20 matches is 40. In the next 10 matches the batsman scored an average of 13 runs. Find his average in all the 30 matches?
Recent Answer : :
31
Ques:- Divya’s father, pointing towards a person, said, “He is the brother of my father’s only sibling”. How is the person related to Divya ?
Recent Answer : :
Niece
Ques:- In how many years does a sum of Rs. 5000 yield a simple interest of Rs. 16500 at 15% p.a.?
Recent Answer : :
Given:
Principle Amount(P):₹5000
S.I:₹16500
Rate of Interest(R):15%
Find:T
SI=P*T*R/100
T=SI*100/P*R
T=16500*100/5000*15
T=22 YEARS
Ques:- Find the greatest number of four digits which when divided by 10, 15, 21 and 28 leaves 4, 9, 15 and 22 as remainders respectively?
Recent Answer : :
9654
Ques:- 125 liters of a mixture of milk and water contains in the ratio 3:2. How much water should now be added so that the ratio of milk and water becomes 3:4?
Recent Answer : :
Let water and milk be in x quantity
3x+2x=125
5x=125
x=25
Milk=3x=75litre
Water=2x=50litre
2x=50litre
4x=100litre
So 50 litre more should be added so that the ratio becomes 3:4
Ques:- Find the least number of complete years in which a sum of money put out at 25% compound interest will be more than double of itself?
Recent Answer : :
3
Ques:- A person takes 20 minutes more to cover a certain distance by decreasing his speed by 20%. What is the time taken to cover the distance at his original speed?
Ques:- If MADRAS can be written as ARSARS, how can ARKONAM be written in that code ?
Ques:- A person invested in all Rs. 2600 at 4%, 6% and 8% per annum simple interest. At the end of the year, he got the same interest in all the three cases. The money invested at 4% is?
Ques:- Two trains are moving in opposite directions at 60 km/hr and 90 km/hr. Their lengths are 1.10 km and 0.9 km respectively. The time taken by the slower train to cross the faster train in seconds is?
Recent Answer : :
Relative speed = 60 + 90 = 150 km/hr.
= 150 x 5/18 = 125/3 m/sec.
Distance covered = 1.10 + 0.9 = 2 km = 2000 m.
Required time = 2000 x 3/125 = 48 sec.
Ques:- Standing on a platform, Amit told Sunita that Aligarh was more than ten kilometers but less than fifteen kilometers from there. Sunita knew that it was more than twelve but more than fourteen kilometers from there. If both of them were correct, which of the following could be the distance of Aligarh from the platform?
2.01