SNAP Daily Practice Day 7

“A snake in the grass” is a treacherous person who pretends to be a friend: a hidden enemy, just as a snake lies unseen in the grass until it strikes.

A and C read the snake literally as a source of accidents or death. D is the opposite of the idiom’s negative sense.

“Tamper with” means to interfere with or meddle in something you should leave alone. Driving rules exist for safety, so we should never tamper with them.

“Temper” means to moderate or soften and is not used with “with” in this sense. “Trifle with” means to treat lightly and is mostly used for people or their feelings (“don’t trifle with her affections”). “Reckon with” means to take into account, which doesn’t fit “never”.

A compound word joins two independent words. “Wonderful” is the word “wonder” plus the suffix “-ful”, so it is a derived word, not a compound.

Notebook (note + book), Airport (air + port) and Sunflower (sun + flower) each join two complete words, so they are compounds.

An arsenal is a place where weapons and military equipment are stored.

An infirmary is a place for treating the sick. An archive stores historical records. Barracks house soldiers, not weapons.

• D opens with the cause: analytic philosophy eclipsed British idealism, so Coleridge’s philosophical reputation fell.
• B sums up the result: his philosophy languished while his verse rose.
• C explains why the verse rose: it resonated with the 1960s cultural shift.
• A concludes with the present day (“Today…”): he is remembered more as a poet.

A and B start with the conclusion “Today…”, which must come last. C places the poetry’s rise before B, which introduces the contrast between verse and philosophy.

I is not implicit: the statement says regular exercise strengthens immunity. It makes no comparison between gym-goers and everyone else, since people can exercise outside a gym.

II is not implicit: calling the gym “a quick and effective way” for busy people does not mean it is the only way. That assumption is too extreme.

From 10:40 AM to 9:00 PM, Maya’s watch shows 10 h 20 min = 620 minutes.

Actual time elapsed = 620 × 6062 = 600 minutes.

Kaya’s watch shows 600 × 5660 = 560 minutes = 9 h 20 min. 10:40 AM + 9 h 20 min = 8:00 PM.

Replace each letter in turn: A→G, B→R, U→A, N→T, D→I, A→G, N→T, C→U, E→D, giving GRATIGTUD.

A swaps the first two letters. C swaps the 6th and 7th letters. D is the English word “gratitude”, which doesn’t follow the code.

Differences: 10, 24, 44, … The differences themselves grow by 14, 20, so each step adds 6 more (14, 20, 26, 32).

Next differences: 44 + 26 = 70 and 70 + 32 = 102. So 85 + 70 = 155, and the check 155 + 102 = 257 ✓.

• K taller than only N: N is 7th (shortest) and K is 6th. Ranks 1–5 go to I, J, L, M, O.
• I vs L: if I is at rank r, (r − 1) people are taller than I. If L is at rank s, (7 − s) people are shorter than L. Setting these equal gives r + s = 8. Since I is taller than L and s ≤ 5, the only option is r = 3, s = 5.
• J below I: the only free rank below I is 4, so J is 4th.
• M shorter than O: O is 1st and M is 2nd.

M and I are taller than J and shorter than O, so the answer is 2.

The bottom number of each column is the sum of the cubes of the three numbers above it.

• Column 1: 2³ + 1³ + 3³ = 8 + 1 + 27 = 36 ✓
• Column 3: 0³ + 4³ + 3³ = 0 + 64 + 27 = 91 ✓
• Column 2: 4³ + 2³ + 1³ = 64 + 8 + 1 = 73

• 30 m East.
• A left turn from East faces North: 20 m North.
• A left turn from North faces West: 30 m West, which cancels the 30 m East.

He is directly above the start: 20 metres North. The 80 m options wrongly add every leg together.

II follows: terrorists lie inside both “guilty” and “criminals”, so the two groups overlap. Some guilty are criminals.

I fails: the two parts are not a complementary pair, so both can be false at once (some criminals not guilty and some guilty not criminals).

III fails: the statements say nothing about crime and guilt always occurring together. This is a sweeping generalisation.

• A: 112000 × 12 = 1344000
• B: 80000 × 8 (months 3–10) + 72000 × 2 = 640000 + 144000 = 784000
• C: 72000 × 6 (months 5–10) + 64000 × 2 = 432000 + 128000 = 560000

Ratio A : B : C = 1344 : 784 : 560 = 12 : 7 : 5 (dividing by 112), a total of 24 parts.

B’s 7 parts = 9800, so 1 part = 1400. Total profit = 24 × 1400 = 33600.

Product rule: log_a [x(x − 3)] = log_a 10, so x² − 3x − 10 = 0, i.e. (x − 5)(x + 2) = 0.

x = −2 is rejected because the log of a negative number is undefined. So x = 5.

Check: 5 × 2 = 10 ✓. x = 2 would make x − 3 negative.

Eight equal terms: 8 × 2¹⁵ = 2³ × 2¹⁵ = 2¹⁸.

8⁶ = (2³)⁶ = 2¹⁸ ✓, so the answer is 8⁶.

A (2²³) wrongly adds 8 to the exponent. B is 4⁸ = 2¹⁶, which is too small.

Let the fraction be nd. Then 7d = 9n + 5 and 10n = 8d − 8.

From the second equation, n = 8d − 810. Substituting: 70d = 72d − 72 + 50, so 2d = 22, d = 11 and n = 8.

The fraction is 811, so its reciprocal is 118. B is the fraction itself, not its reciprocal.

For two people starting together towards each other, the ratio of speeds is the square root of the inverse ratio of their times after meeting:

ChetakDipak = √2.51.6 = √2516 = 54.

Dipak’s speed = 75 × 45 = 60 km/hr.

At the same moment, height ÷ shadow is the same for both people. Converting to inches: boy = 44 in, his shadow = 33 in, so the ratio is 43.

Father’s shadow = 51 in, so his height = 51 × 43 = 68 in = 5 feet 8 inches.

No three points on a circle are collinear, so every choice of 3 points forms a triangle.

⁸C₃ = 8 × 7 × 63 × 2 × 1 = 56.

The HR manager has two duties here: keep confidential information confidential and not deceive the friend. Openly declining to answer, citing confidentiality, meets both. It is honest and leaves the friend free to decide with appropriate caution.

A breaches confidentiality and puts personal ties above professional duty. B is a lie that could cause the friend serious financial harm. D is a disguised hint that both leaks information and misleads.

I fails: the rule targets accepting a gift worth over 5000. The manager accepted a 12000 gift, and splitting it up afterwards doesn’t undo the acceptance or reduce the gift’s value.

II fails: sharing a prohibited gift spreads the breach to the whole team instead of curing it. The ethical course was to decline or return the gift and report it.

• 4: first establish whether a policy or contract has been breached. This defines whether there is an issue at all.
• 2: then assess how much it costs the company in money and productivity.
• 3: then fix it by seeking permission or moving the work off company resources.
• 1: how common it is comes last, because others doing it doesn’t make it right.

B weighs cost before knowing whether a rule was broken. C jumps to the remedy before measuring the harm. D starts from what colleagues do, which is the weakest consideration.

Disinformation is false information spread deliberately to mislead. The team knows the photo is manipulated and uses it anyway, so the intent to deceive is clear.

Misinformation is false information spread without knowing it is false. An opinion is a subjective view, not a factual claim about camera quality. An innocent mistake lacks the knowledge and intent present here.

Fairness (equity) is not identical treatment. Giving minority employees leave for their own festivals gives them the same opportunity the majority already enjoys, so it is reasonable accommodation, not special treatment.

A confuses equality with sameness and quietly favours the majority. B turns tolerance into silence, which addresses nothing. D misreads diversity: respecting differences doesn’t mean making everyone observe the same holidays.