INFOSYS Puzzles |
1. Three neighbors are there. 1st one lends 2nd and 3rd that many no. of tractors
that then already each had. After few months, 2nd lends to 1st and 3rd
that many tractors then they had. After a few months 3rd lends to 1st and 2nd that many tractors then they
had. Now each of them got 24. Find how many they had initially?
Ans: 39
2. 3 members expect which will be the elected party among 4 parties namely Flying party, Eatwell, Good sleep, Loosing
parties X expects that either f.p or e.w.p will win.Y expects that either f.p or g.s will win
Z expects that neither e.w.p nor g.s.p will win One part of each members statement is
correct. Which party will win?
Ans:F.P
3. Three members are hunting in a forest. While crossing a stream cartridges of two
of them gets wetted up. Then the third person divides his cartidges equally.
After 4 shots of each person, total cartridges remaining are equal to what each
had initially after sharing. How many total cartridges they initially they
shared?
Ans:18
Y
Y/3
Y/3
Y/3
Y/3-4
Y/3-4
Y/3-4
3(Y/3-4) =Y/3
Y=18
4.
All members belonging to D are members of A
do........................E.................D
do........................C.................both
A&D
Some members of A does not belong
to D
do...............D......................E
5 questions are
there.
5. Boys are allowed to watch football at c.v.Raman auditorium subjected to conditions.
1. the boy over age 16 can wear overcoat
2. no boy over age 15 can wear cap
3. to watch the football either he has to wear overcoat or cap or both
4. a boy with an umbrella or above 16 or both cannot wear sweater.
5. boys must either not watch football or wear sweater.
What is the appearance of the boy who is watching football.
Ans: Who
are above 15 and below 16 with cap. :
1.My
neighbor has seven children. Every brother has equal no. of brothers and
sisters, but each sister has twice as many brothers as
sisters?
Ans:
4,3
2.There
are 11more animals than birds in a pet shop. If there are as many birds as
animals and if there are as many animals as birds the no. of legs is 4/5 of the
original. How many birds and animals are there?
Ans:
22,11
3.
One soap can be made out of the scraps obtained while preparing 11 soaps. How
many soaps can be prepared out of the scrap obtained out of 251 soaps. (Take all
possibilities)
Ans:
25
4.
There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each.
Last digit is 3
times the first one.
3 rd digit is 3
less than the second.
4 th digit is 4
more than the second one.
Find the
digit.
Ans
: 25296.
5. 2XX
3XX
---
5XX
X4X
XX3
-------
XXXXX
-------
Find out the X's and seven is not there
in the calculation.
Ans:
281x332
6.
There are 5 burglars and once went to a bakery to rob it obviously The first guy
ate 1/2 of the total bread and 1/2 of the bread The second guy ate 1/2 of the
remaining and 1/2 of the bread. The third guy ,fourth guy and fifth guy did the
same. After fifth
guy
there is no bread left out. How many bread are there?
Ans:31
7.
The main line train starts at
Ans:
0.8
8.
There is 66x33m rectangular area. Ram is 11/8 times faster than
9.
There are some chicken in a poultry. They are fed with corn. One sack of corn
will come for 9 days. The farmer decides to sell some chicken and wanted to hold
12 chicken with him. He cuts the feed by 10% and sack of corn comes for 30 days.
So initially how many chicken are there?
Ans:36
10.Escalator
Problem. A person walking takes 26 steps to come down on a escalator and it
takes 30 seconds for him for walking. The same person while running takes 18
second and 34 steps. How many steps are there in the
escalator?
Ans:46
1. There are 4 married couples out of which 3 a group is needed . But there should not be his of her spouse. How many groups are possible ?
Ans 32
2. In the 4 digits 1,2,3,4 how many 4 digested numbers are possible which are divisible by 4? Repetitions are allowed
Ans 64
3. Two men are going along a track rail in the opposite direction. One goods train crossed the first person in 20 sec. After 10 min the train crossed the other person who is coming in opposite direction in 18 sec .After the train has passed, when the two persons will meet?
Approx 72min check it once.
4. The no. of children adults . The no .of adults the no .of boys . The no. of boys no. of girls .The no. of girls no. of family conditions
1. No family is without a child
2. Every girl has at least one brother and sister .
Ans cabgf; 9 6 5 4 3 .
6. There are 4 boys Anand, Anandya, Madan and Murali with nick names perich, zomie, drummy and madeena not in the same order. Some conditions
Ans Anand : Perich
Anandya: Drummy
Madan : Zombie
Murali: Madeena
7. There are 2 diamonds, 1 spade and 1 club and 1ace and also 1 king , 1 jack and 1 ace are arranged in a straight line
1.The king is at third place
2.Theleft of jack is a heart and its right is king
3.No two red colors are in consecutive.
4.The queens are separated by two cards. Write the order which suits (hearts ,clubs )and names jacks queens etc.)
8. Write each statements true or false
1.The sum of the1st three statements and the 2nd false statement gives the true statement.
2.The no. of true statements false statement
3. The sum of 2nd true statement and 1st false statement gives the first true statement.
4. There are at most 3 false statements
5.There is no two consecutive true statements
6.If this contains only 1-5 statements, the answer of this is same as the an answer of the following question
9.Question on Venn diagram.
All handsome are also fair skinned
Some muscular are fair skinned
Some muscular are also handsome
All lean are also muscular
Some lean are also fair skinned.
All rich man is not fair skinned but all rich man are handsome
10 There are 3 piles each contain 10 15 20 stones. There are A,B,C,D,F,G and H persons. One man can catch unto four stones from any pile. The last man who takes will win. If first A starts next B. and so on who will win?
Ans May be F
Essay writing
1 Internet revolution
2.Media for youth
1. 9
cards are there. u have to arrange them in a 3*3 matrix. cards are of 4
colors. they are red,yellow,blue,green.
conditions
for arrangement:
one
red card must be in first row or second row.
2
green cards should be in 3rd column.
Yellow
cards must be in the 3 corners only.
Two
blue cards must be in the 2nd row.
At
least
one green card in each row.
Solution:
Yellow Red
Green
Blue Blue
Green
Yellow
Green
Yellow
2. 4
cards are placed on a table, each card has two colors. U don't know the color of
the back side of each card.4 persons A B C and D are sitting on the table before
the cards. They can see Red, Green, Red and blue .Out of the 4 people 2 always
lie. They see the color on the reverse side and give the following
comment
A:
Yello/green
B: Neither
Blue/nor Green
C:
Blue/Yello
D: Blue/
Yello
find
out the color on the other side of the 4 cards.
3.
Red and brown tribes [FROM BARRONS GRE] Conditions to get married with each
other.
4.
Venn diagram regarding Rich, muscular, soft-skinned, employed, etc.,( Refer
BARRONS GRE GUIDE)
1.
Two people X & Y walk on the wall of a go down in opposite direction. They
meet at a point on one side and then go ahead. X after walking for some time,
walks in opposite direction for 15 mtrs. Then again he turns back and walks in
the original direction. What distance did Y walk before they met again, if X
walks 11 mtrs by the time Y walks 8 mtrs.
2.
Problem from SAKUNTALA DEVI 'PUZZLES TO PUZZLE U'. Problem no: 23( Walking back
to happiness.)
The
walking time : 55 mins.
1. There are twelve consecutive flags at an equal interval of
distance. A man passes the 8th flag in 8 seconds. How many more seconds will he
take to pass the remaining 4 flags ?
2. A person has to cover the fixed distance through his
horses. There are five horses in the cart. They ran at the full potential for the
24 hours continuously at constant speed and then two of the horses ran away to
some other direction. So he reached the destination 48 hours behind the
schedule. If the five horses would have run 50 miles more, then the person would
have been only 24 hours late. Find the distance of the
destination.
3. A boat M leaves shore A and at the same time boat B leaves
shore B. They move across the river. They met at 500 yards away from A and after
that they met 300 yards away from shore B without halting at shores. Find the
distance between the shore A & B.
4. A person was going through train from
5. Food grains are to be sent to city from go down. Owner
wants to reach the food grains at 11 O' Clock in the city. If a truck travels at
a speed of 30km/hr then he will reach the city one hour earlier. If the truck
travels at a speed of 20km/h then he will reach the city one hour late. Find the
distance between the go down to city. Also with which speed the truck should
travel in order to reach at exactly 11 'O clock.
6. Praveen, Ranjan, Shiva went to dinner in the city. (There
were some conditions given as someone always take tea after dinner where as some
take coffee after dinner whereas someones choice is inspired by the choice of
others. One question of this type is given given in the MIND TEASURES -By
Summers.)
Ans: Ranjan & Shiva
7. There are five persons A,B,C,D,E whose birthdays occur at
the consecutive days. Birthday of A is some days or day before C & birthday
of B is exactly the same days or day after E. D is two days older than E. If birth day
of C is on Wednesday then find out the birthdays of other.
1.
Statements given by different family members.
1. B
is my father's brother
2. E is my
mother-in-law.
3. C is my son-in -law's brother
4. A is my brother's
wife.
A,B,C,D,E
are the family members. Who made above statements and give their
relations.
Ans: A,B are couple.
E is B's
brother-in-law.
D is B's
son.
C is B's brother
Ans:
statement
Member
1
D
2
B
3
E
4 B
2. e
means belong.
All members of E e
D.
All members of D e
A.
Not all members of D e
E.
Not all members of A e
D.
All members of C e both A
and B.
some
questions are asked about relation. use venn diagram.
3. Fill the empty slots. Three FOOTBALL teams are there.
Given below the list of matches. you have to fill the blanks at appropriate star
symbols
played won lost draw Goals for Goals
against
A
2
2
*0
*0
*7 1
B
2
*0
*1
1
2
4
C
2
*0
*1
*1
3
7
the slots with stars are answers. 4 marks
BC drew with 2-2
A won on B by 2-0
a won on C by 5-1
4.
Three girls are discussing about the party which they attended in the
past.
1st
girl: Party was on May 8Th ,
Thursday.
2nd
girl: Party was on May 10th ,Tuesday.
3rd
girl: Party was on June 8th Friday.
Conditions:
1.One
girl's statement totally wrong.
2.In
one girl's statement only one part is correct( means it may be date, year or
month).
3.In
another girl's statement except one part , every thing is
true.
Find
the Day the party held.
(5marks).
Ans :May 8th Tuesday may be correct) (ans may be MAY 10 SUNDAY. check once again)
5. A
ship is away from the shore by 180 miles. A plane is traveling at 10 times speed
of the ship. How long from the shore will they meet? (200miles) Distance
travelled by plane = 1/10 distance traveled by ship + 180
6.
Every station in N railroad issue every other station's ticket. some stations are
added. Now they have to issue 46 more tickets. say the No. of stations after and
before added.
Ans. let N(N-1) = t;
(N+x)(N+x-1) = t+46;
trail and error method x=2 and N=11
7. 3
persons say these statements.
A says either
Democratic or liberal wins the elections.
B says Democratic
wins.C says neither democratic nor liberal wins the
election.
Of
these only one is wrong. who wins the election?
8. A
clock showing
Ans.66
secs.
1. A software engineer starts from home at
If he reaches home at
ans 24 km
2. A bag contains certain number of files, Each file is
numbered with one digit of 0 to 9. Suppose the person wants to get the number
between 1 to 2000(or 7000 check). How many minimum no. of files should be
present in the bag.
3. A + B + C +D = D + E + F + G = G + H + I =17. If A = 4.
What are the values of D and G. Each letter taken only one of the digit from 1
to 9.
ans: A = 4 ,B = 2, C =6, D = 5, E = 3, F = 8, G = 1, H = 7, I
= 9.
4. Six persons A,B,C,D,E &F went to soldier
cinema. There are six consecutive seats. A sits in the first seat followed by B,
followed by C and so on. If A taken
on of the six seats, then B should sit adjacent to A. C should sit adjacent to A
or B. D should sit adjacent to A, B or C and so on. How many possibilities are
there ?
5. Suppose there are four grades A, B, C, D. (A is the best
and D is the worst) 4 persons Jack, Jean, Poul and Lucy wrote the final exam and
made the statements like this
1. Jack: If I will get A
then Lucy will get D
2. Lucy: If I will get C
then Jack will get D. Jack grade is better than Poul grade.
3. Jean: If Jean doesn’t get
A then Jack will not get A
4. Poul: If Jack get A, then
Jean will not get B, Lucy will get C, I won’t either A or B
If all the above statements are true, then which person will get which grade.
6. Each man dances with 3 women, Each women dances with 3
men. Among each pair of men they have exactly two women in common. Find the no.
of men and women.
Essay.
1. Internet Revolution
2. Role of Media for
young
1. A
man collects cigarette stubs and makes one full cigarette with every 8 stubs. If
he gets 64 stubs how many full cigarettes can he smoke.
Ans:
8+1=9
2. A
soldier looses his way in a thick jungle. At random he walks from his camp but
mathematically in an interesting fashion. First he walks one mile East then half
mile to North. Then 1/4 mile to West, then 1/8 mile to South and so on making a
loop. Finally how far he is from his camp and in which direction.
Ans:
Distance traveled in north and south directions
1/2
- 1/8 + 1/32 - 1/128 + 1/512 - and so on
=
1/2/((1-(-1/4))
Similarly
in east and west directions
1-
1/4 + 1/16 - 1/64 + 1/256 - and so on
=
1/(( 1- ( - 1/4))
Add
both the answers
3.
How can 1000000000 be written as a
product of two factors neither of them containing zeros
Ans:
2 power 9 x 5 power 9
4.
Conversation between two mathematicians:
First
: I have three children. The product of their ages is 36.
If you sum their ages, it is exactly same as my neighbor's door number
on my left.
The
second mathematician verifies the door number and says that it is not sufficient.
Then
the first says " Ok one more clue is that my youngest is really the youngest".
Immediately the second mathematician answers .
Can
you answer the question asked by the first mathematician?
What
are the children ages?
Ans
1,6 and 6
5.
Light glows for every 13 seconds . How many times did it glow between
Ans
: 383 + 1 = 384
6.
500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns according to their
heights.
Tallest among each row
of all are asked to fall out.
And the shortest among
them is A.
Similarly after
resuming that to their original positions that the shortest among each column
are asked to fall out.
And the tallest among
them is B .
Now who is taller
among A and B ?
Ans
A
7. A
person with some money spends1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of the remaining for food and
1/4 of the remaining for travel.
He is left with Rs
100/- How much did he have with him in the beginning ?
Ans:
Rs 250/-
8.
There are six boxes containing 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 29 balls of either red or
blue in color. Some boxes contain only red balls and others contain only blue.
One sales man sold one box out of them and then he says
" I have the same number of red
balls left out as that of blue ".
Which box is the one
he sold out ?
Ans:
Total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2) = 60/2 = 30 and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18
= 30
9. A
chain is broken into three pieces of equal lengths containing 3 links each. It is
taken to a blacksmith to join into a single continuous one. How many links are to
to be opened to make it ?
Ans
: 2.
10.
Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 24 days for 70
cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass. How many cows are
needed to eat the grass in 96 days.?
Ans
: 20
g -
grass at the beginning
r -
rate at which grass grows, per day
y -
rate at which one cow eats grass, per day
n -
no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days
g +
24*r = 70 * 24 * y
g +
60*r = 30 * 60 * y
g +
96*r = n * 96 * y
Solving,
n = 20.
11.
There is a certain four digit number whose fourth digit is twice the first
digit. Third digit is three more than second digit. Sum of the first and fourth
digits twice the third number. What was that number ?
ans
: 2034 and 4368
1.
From a vessel on the first day, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates. On the second day
3/4th of the remaining liquid evaporates. what fraction of the volume is present
at the end of the II day. Ans
50%
Another
similar question
X
liters of liquid is in a glass. First day 1/3 rd of it was evaporated. II nd day
1/2 of the rest was evaporated. What is the last fraction of liquid. For this
answer is 1/3
2.
An orange glass has orange juice. and white glass has apple juice. Both have
equal volume. 50ml of the orange juice is taken and poured into the apple juice.
50ml from the white glass is poured into the orange glass. Of the two
quantities, the amount of apple juice in the orange glass and the amount of
orange juice in the white glass, which one is greater and by how
much?
ans:
two quantities are equal
3.
There is a 4 inch cube painted on all sides. This is cut into no of 1 inch
cubes. What is the no of cubes which have no pointed
sides.
ans: 8
4.
Sam and Mala have a conversation. Sam says I am certainly not over 40. Mala says
I am 38 and you are at least 5 years older than me. Now Sam says you are at
least
39. All the statements by the two are false. How hold are they
really.
ans:
Mala is 38 years. Sam is 41 years.
5.
Ram singh goes to his office in the city, every day from his suburban
house. His driver Mangaram drops
him at the railway station in the morning and picks him up in the evening. Every
evening Ram singh reaches the station at
Ans:
45 minutes
6.
Some people went for vacation. unfortunately it rained for 13 days when they were
there. But whenever it rained in the morning, they had clean afternoon and vice
versa. In all they enjoyed 11 morning and 12 afternoons. How many days did they
stay there totally
ans
18
7. A
survey was taken among 100 people to find their preference of watching t.v.
programmes. There are 3 channels. Given no of
people
who watch
at
least channel
1
" "
2
" "
3
no
channels at all
atleast
channels 1and
3
" "
1 and 2
" "
2 and
3
find
the no of people who watched all three.
8.
Albert and Fernandes have two leg swimming
race. Both start from opposite and of the pool. On the first leg, the
boys pass each other at 18 mt from the deep end of the pool. During the II leg
they pass at 10 mt from the shallow end of the pool. Both go at const speed. But
one of them is faster. Each boy rests for 4 sec to see at the end of the I leg.
What is the length of the pool.
9..
T H I
S
Each alphabet stands for one
I
S
digit, what is the maximum value T
--------------
can take
X F X
X
X X U X
--------------
X X N X X
--------------
ans
T max value = 4
1.
An escalator is descending at constant speed. A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach
the bottom. B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time as A takes 10 steps.
How many steps are visible when the escalator is not
operating.
ans:
150 steps
2.
Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. The road is straight
before the crossing and both are traveling in the same direction. Cyclist
travels with a speed of 10 Kmph. One day the cyclist comes late by 25 min. and
meets the train 5km before the crossing. What is the speed of the
train.
ans:
60 kmph
3.
Five persons Muckarjee, Misra, Iyer, Patil and Sharma, all take their first or
middle names in the full names. There are 4 persons having I or middle name of
kumar, 3 persons with Mohan, 2 persons with dev and 1
anil.
--Either
mukherjee and patil have a I or middle name of dev or misra and iyer have their
I or middle name of dev of mukherkjee and misra
--either
both of them have a first or middle name of mohan or neither have a first or
middle name of mohan
--either
iyer of sharma has a I or middle name of kumar hut not both.
who
has the I or middle name of anil
ans:
Mukherjee
Anil
Kumar Mukherjee
Kumar
Misra dev
Mohan
Iyer dev
kumar
Patil mohan
Mohan
Sharma kumar
5. A
bird keeper has got P pigeon, M mynas and
S sparrows. The keeper goes for lunch leaving his assistant to watch the
birds. suppose p=10, m=5, s=8
a.
when the bird keeper comes back,
the assistant informs that x birds have escaped. The bird keeper exclaims
oh no! all my sparrows
are gone. How many birds flew away.
b. when
the bird keeper come back, the assistant told him that x birds have escaped. The
keeper realized that at least 2 sparrows have
escaped.
What
is minimum no of birds that can escape.
6.
Select from the five alternatives A,B,C,D,E
At the end of each question , two
conditions will be given. The choices are to filled at
follows.
a.
if a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 1
b.
if a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 2
c.
if a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 and
2
d.
if a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 or
2
e.
no conclusion can be drawn using both conditions
1.
person 1 says N<5
person 2 says
n>5
person 3 says
3N>20
person 4 says
3n>10
person 5 says
N<8
what
is the value of N
a)
1. no of persons who speak false being less than no of persons who tells the
truth.
2. person 2 is telling the
truth.
b)
1. no of persong telling the truth is greater than no of persons telling
lies
2. person 5 is telling the
truth.
7.
There are N coins on a table. There are two players A&B. You can take 1or 2
coins at a time. The person who takes the last coin is the loser. A always
starts first
--1.
if N=7
a) A can always win by
taking two coins in his first chance
b) B can win only if A
takes two coins in his first chance.
c) B can always win by
proper play
d) none of the
above
--2. A can win by proper play if N is equal
to
a) 13 b) 37 c) 22 d) 34 e) 48 ans.
e.
--3.
B can win by proper play if N is equal to
a)
25 b)26 c) 32 d) 41 e) none
--4.
if N<4, can A win by proper play always
8.
Two twins have certain peculiar characteristics. One of them always lies on Monday,
Wednesday, Friday. The other always
lies on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. On the other days they tell the
truth. You are given a conversation.
person A-- today is sunday
my name is anil
person B-- today is tuesday,
my name is bill
ans:
today is tuesday
1.
There are 4 parties A,B,C,D. There are 3 people x,y,z.
X-says
A or D will win.
Y-says
A will not win.
Z-says
B or D will not win.
Only
one of them is true. Which party won.
2. A
gardener has a peculiar way of planting trees. He plants 100 ft. towards east,
then he plants 100ft. towards north 100ft. towards west, 98fts towards south.
From that 98fts towards east, from that point 96fts towards north. When a man
starts walking in the middle of the path outside garden. What is the total
distance he traveled to reach the centre.
Ans.
5200.
3.
There is a T-agency in Mangalore and
a.
The truck when starts at
b.
How many trucks a truck which starts at
For
a and b Ans.9
4.
Ramesh has X rupees, on Monday beginning of the month. On every Monday his
mother gives 10 rupees as pocket money. He spends half of what he had during
that week on the 4th Monday of the month, when his mother gave his pocket
Monday, he had 27 1/2 rupees . What was the Money he had in the beginning.
Ans.
70/-
5.
R,S,T,U,V are contesting for a medal. Evaluation is over, sasy English, Maths,
Physics, Chemistry and Hindi. Toper will get 5 marks, least will get 1mark. No
ties any where. R get 24 and won the overall medal. V-get I st in Chemistry and
3 rd in Hindi, T got consistent scores in 4 subjects. Their final standings
where in the alphabetical order. What was the score of S in Chemistry.
6.
There are 3 types of castes, say A,B,C. A- always tells truth, B- always false,
C- alternating.
X
says --> Z is of C type, I am of A type
Y
says --> X is a B type.
Z
says --> X is of B type.
Who
is of which type.
7..
There are two families Sinha and Gupta with 2 children each. Pratap, Praveen,
Lalit and Rajesh are 4 children. Each family has 2 children. All the children
ages are approx. to the nearest integer. We have to find which all children are
in which family and their corresponding ages which are
<11.
1.
Praveen is the eldest one.
2.
Pratap is 5 years older then the youngest of the family .
3.
Lalit is 1/2 of the age of the eldest of the Gupta family.
8.
In a bank there is a Teller, Manager and Cashier says x,s
etc.,
1.
Teller is one who earns least
2. X
has married S's sister.
3.
Cashier earns more than manager.
Find
out who is
who.
ans.
Cashier's wife is manager, X is the cashier, S is sister of the
manager.
1. There is a robbery and four persons are suspected. Out of them one is actual thief, these are the sentences said by each one of them!
A says D had done
B says A had done
C says i didn’t done
D B lied when he said that I am thief
out of these only one man is true remaining are false
ans: C is thief, D is true!
2. How many four digit numbers divisible by four can be formed using 1,2,3,4; repetitions are not allowed!
ans: 6
3. A vender sold two things at same cost of 12 RS with one item at 25%profit and other at 20%loss,by this transaction he made profit or loss by how much
ans: loss - 60paise
4. Two friends A,B are running up hill and then to get down! length of road is 440 yards A on his return journey met B going up at 20 yards from top, A has finished the race 5 minutes earlier than B, then how much time A had taken to complete the race.
Ans: 6.3 minutes
5. Barons question. diagnostic test question 8-12, 5 men and 5 women went for foot ball match.........
6. Write a five digit number, which will be having two prime numbers, and some two more conditions, like 1st digit greater than 2nd etc its easy (remember one is not a prime number, most people do mistake taking 1 as prime number)
ans 71842
7. Two employees were there.
Employee one says to employee two, ‘your work experience twice as me‘
Employee 2 says, ‘exactly’
Employee 1 says, ‘but two years before you said that your work experience is thrice as me’
Employee 2 says, ‘yes its also true’
What are their work experience
ans 4,8
8. Ther are four persons A,B,C,D and four languages english ,french ,german italian, conditions
1 only one language is spoken by more than two men
2 A dont know english
3 a man can speak either french or german but not both
4 all man cannot speak in a group (no common language)
5 A can mediate when B and C want to speak with each other
6 each men can speak two languages
ans
A french italian
B english french
C german italian
D german italian
9. There are 3 women, they are having three jewels, named diamond, emerald and ruby
3 women A,B,C
3 thiefs D,E,F
Each thief had taken one jewel from each of the women following conditions
one who had taken diamond is the bachelor and most dangerous
D 's brother in law E who is less dangerous than the thief who had stolen emerald (this is the key from this E had stolen ruby)
D didn’t stolen from B
one more condition is there
10. There were five persons out of which two persons hair went white and three persons hair is black. Conditions :
If A's hair is white then B's hair is white
A’s hair is not black if C's hair is not black
two more conditions but we can easily solve it from first condition
ans is Aand B's hair is white
Essay
In this age of super computer computer will replace man!
What is contribution of industry towards human growth
Interview questions!
1 Two time glasses 7,4 how you measure 9
2 Four persons have to cross the bridge they are having one torch light four persons take 1,2,5,10 minutes respectively , when two persons are going it will take the time of the slowest person. What’s the time taken to cross all of them
ans 17minutes
3 A non uniform rope burns for one hour how you will measure half an hour
ans lit it from both sides!
1.
There are two balls touching each other circumferentially. The radius of the big
ball is 4 times the diameter of the small
2. 1 2 3
4
+ 3 4 5
5
----------
4 6 8
9
- 2 3 4
5
----------
2 3 4
4
+ 1 2 5
4
------------
3 6 9
8
Strike
off any digit from each number in seven rows (need not be at same place) and
combine the same operations with 3 digit numbers to get the same addition. After
this strike off another digit from all and add all the No.s to get the same 2
digit No. perform the same process again with 1 digit No.s. Give the ' no.s in 7
rows at each stage.
3.
There are 2 guards Bal and Pal walking on the side of a wall of a wearhouse(12m
X 11m) in opposite directions. They meet at a point and Bal says to Pal "See you
again in the other side". After a few moments of walking Bal decides to go back
for a smoke but he changes his direction again to his previous one after 10
minutes of walking in the other (opposite) direction remembering that Pal will be
waiting for to meet. If Bal and Pal walk 8 and 11 feet respectively, how much
distance they would have traveled before meeting again.
4.
xxx)xxxxx(xxx
3xx
-------
xxx
x3x
------
xxx
3xx
------
Find
the 5 digit No. Hint: 5 is used at least once in the
calculation.
5. A
fly is there 1 feet below the ceiling right across a wall length is 30m at equal
distance from both the ends. There is a spider 1 feet above floor right across
the long wall equidistant from both the ends. If the width of the room is 12m and
12m, what distance is to be traveled by the spider to catch the fly? if it
takes the shortest path.
6.
Ramesh sit around a round table with some other men. He has one rupee more than
his right person and this person in turn has 1 rupee more than the person to his
right and so on, Ramesh decided to give 1 rupee to his right & he in turn 2
rupees to his right and 3 rupees to his right & so on. This process went on
till a person has 'no money' to give to his right. At this time he has 4 times
the
money
to his right person. How many men are there along with Ramesh and what is the
money with poorest fellow.
7.
Question related to probabilities of removing the red ball from a basket, given
that two balls are removed from the basket and the other ball is red. The basket
contains blue,red,yellow balls.
8.
Venkat has 1 boy & 2 daughters. The product of these children age is 72. The
sum of their ages give the door number of Venkat. Boy is elder of three. Can you
tell the ages of all the three.
1.
L:says all of my other 4 friends have money
M:says
that P said that exact one has money
N:says
that L said that precisely two have money
O:says
that M said that 3 of others have money.
P:Land
N said that they have money.
All
are liers.Who has money & who doesn't have?
2. A
hotel has two wings, the east wing and the west wing. some east wing rooms but
not all have an ocean view(OV).All WW have a harbour view(HV).The charge for all
rooms is identical, except as follows
*
Extra charge for all HV rooms on or above the 3rd floor
*
Extra charge for all OV rooms except those without balcony
*
Extra charge for some HV rooms on the first two floor&some EW rooms without
OV but having kitchen facilities.
Which
of the following cannot be determined on the basis of the information
given:
I. Whether there are any rooms
without a balcony for which an extra charge is imposed.
II. Whether any room without a kitchen or a
view involves an extra charge.
III.
Whether two extra charges are imposed for any room.
(A)
I only
(B)
II only
(C)
III only
(D)
II and III only
(E)
I, II and III
(This
question is from 1999 Barrons GRE Guide model Test 3 - section 6, question 22)
ans:
A
3.
Post man has a data of name surname door no. pet name of 4 families. But only one
is correct for each family. There are a set of statements &
questions.
4. 4
couples have a party. Depending on the set of statements, find who insulted whom
and who is the host of the party.
5.
Women given some of their heights (tall, medium, short), hair (long,
plainted ), studs ( Black or Brown), sari,2 medium,2-short.Tall->no
sari. Painted->medium.Answer the combinations.
1. A
person has to go both Northwards & Southwards in search of a job. He decides
to go by the first train he encounters. There are trains for every 15 min both
southwards and northwards. First train towards south is at
2. A
person has his own coach & whenever he goes to railway station he takes his
coach. One day he was supposed to reach the railway station at
1. Persons A and B. Person A picks a random no. from 1 to 1000.Then person B picks a random no. from 1 to 1000. What is the probability of B getting no. greater then what A has picked.
2. Some free body diagram is given
3 | 9
--------------------------------
2 | 4 |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C
| 5 | 9
15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3 | 2 |
~~~~~~~~ 80
| |
A B
For equilibrium find values of A,B,and C.
3. Three boys and three girls brought up together. Jim, Jane, Tom, Virgina, Dorthy, XXX.
They marry among themselves to form three couples. Conditions are :
i) Sum of their ages would be the same.
ii) Virgina was the oldest.
iii) Jim was dorthy's brother.
iv) Sum of ages Jane+Jim and Tom+dorthy is same.
Give the three couples.
4. X^(1/3) - X^(1/9) =60 Solve for X.
5. X Z Y+X Y Z = Y Z X Find the three digits.
6. Two boats start from opposite banks of river perpendicular to the shore. One is faster then the other. They meet at 720 yards from one of the ends. After reaching opposite ends they rest for 10mins each. After that they start back. This time on the return journey they meet at 400yards from the other end of the river. Calculate the width of the river.
7. Basketball Tournament organizers decided that two consecutive defeats will knock out the team. There are 51 teams participating. What is the maximum no. of matches that can be played.
8. The Master says to his grandmaster that me and my three cousins have ages in prime nos. only. Summation of our ages is 50. Grandmaster who knows the age of the master instantly tells the ages of the three cousins. Tell the ages of three cousins.( 1 is not considered as prime no.)
9. There are two families Alens and smiths. They have two children each. There names are A,B,C,D whose ages are different and ages are less then or equal to 11. The following conditions are given.
i) A's age is three years less then his brother's age .
ii) B is eldest among the four.
iii) C is half the age of the eldest in Alens family.
iv) The difference in sum of the ages of Alens children and smiths children is same as that of five years ago. Find the ages of all the children.
1. be * be = acb. a,b,c,e are non zero numbers find b,e.
ans b=1 e=9
2. a,b,c,d,e are having numerical values. There are some conditions given
a) a=c <=== b!=e
b) difference between a and c as same as difference between c and b
as same as difference between a and d
c) c<a and cd
Then find a,b,c,d,e
3. There are six cards in which it has two king cards. all cards are turned down and two cards are opened
a) what is the possibility to get at least one king.
b) what is the possibility to get two kings.
4. A person went to a shop and asked for change for 1.15paise. but he said that he could not only give change for one rupee, but also for 50p,25p,10p and 5p. what were the coins he had
ans 1--50 4---10p 1---25p
5. There are 3 nurses and they work altogether only once in a week. no nurse is called to work for 3 consecutive days.
nurse 1 is off on tueseday,thursday and sunday.
nurse 2 is off on saturday.
nurse 3 is off on thursday,sunday.
no two nurses are off more than once a week.
F
6. There are 5 persons a,b,c,d,e and each is wearing a block or white cap on his head. a person can see the caps of the remaining 4 but can't see his own cap. a person wearing white says true and who wears block says false.
i) a says i see 3 whites and 1 block
ii) b says i see 4 blocks
iii) e says i see 4 whites
iiii) c says i see 3 blocks and 1 white.
Now find the caps weared by a,b,c,d and e
7. There are two women, kavitha and shamili and two males shyam, aravind who are musicians. out of these four one is a pianist, one flutist, violinist and drummer.
i) across aravind beats pianist
ii) across shyam is not a flutist
iii) kavitha's left is a pianist
iiii) shamili's left is not a drummer
v) flutist and drummer are married.
1. A frog jumps 3 ft comes back 2ft in a day. In how many days it will come out of 30ft deep well
ans 28 day
2. A-B=C D/E=F G+H=I C.F=I
ans A=9,B=5,C=4,F=2.
3. When the actual time pass 1hr wall clock is 10 min behind it when 1 hr is shown by wall clock, table clock shows 10 min ahead of it when table clock shows 1 hr the alarm clock goes 5 min behind it,when alarm clock goes 1 hr wrist watch is 5 min ahead of it assuming that all clocks are correct with actual time at 12 noon what will be time shown by wrist watch after 6 hr
ans---5:47:32.5
(n X 60 )50/60 X 70/60 X 55/60 X 65/60
4. One question was about cards. 4 persons play the game of cards. Cards are of 4 colour yellow green blue, red. Find colours of playing cards which are hidden
ans remember the sequence yellow,yellow,green,blue
5. One very easy question just solve two eq, about ages i remember only
ans boy=10yrs or girl =4 yrs or vice versa pl. check it
6. There are 2 scales of temp A & B. It was given A 14 to 133, B 36 to 87. Find the temp when temp of A is equal to temp of B
ans 52.5
1.
S: Satch, J:Jute ans
person1: Most of us are satch
J
person2: Most of us are jute
S
person3: Two of us are satch
J
person4: Three of us are jute J
person5: I am satch J
We
have to find who is satch and who is jute.
2.
Four persons are there to cross a bridge. They have one torch
light
person A can cross in 1 min
person B
can cross in 2 min
person C can cross in 5 min
person
D can cross in 10 min
They
have to cross bridge with in 17 min. At a time only two persons can
cross.
I A&B ---->
2
II A <----1
III C&D ---->10
IV B
<----2
V A&B ---->2
__________
Total
17
3. 7
hours hour glass. 11 hours hour glass. you have to boil one egg for 15
hours
4.
What is the maximum number of slices can you obtain by cutting a cake with only
4 cuts?
ans:
16
5.
Three are three boxes ,
In one box Two white
balls
In two box 2 black
balls
In
The
labels on the boxes are not correct. Then you have to open one box and to find
the color of the balls in all boxes.
ans:
Open the box labeled black & white. If white balls are there then the box
labeled with white balls contain black balls and labeled with black balls contain
one black and one white ball and vice versa if two black balls are
there.
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1. When Arthur is as old as his father Hailey is now, he shall be 5 times as old as his son Clarke is now. By then, Clarke will be 8 times older than Arthur is now. The combined ages of Hailey and Arthur are 100 years. How old is Clarke ?
3. The seven digits in this subtraction problem are 0,1,2,3,4,5 and 6. Each letter represents the same digit whenever it occurs.
D A D C B
E B E G
--------------------
B F E G
--------------------
What digit is represented by each letter ?
4. The Jones have named their four boys after favorite relatives; their friends, the Smiths, have done the same thing with their three boys. One of the families has twin boys. From the following clues, can you determine the families of all seven children and their ages ?
i) Valentine is 4 years older than his twin brothers.
ii) Winston, who is 8, and Benedict are not brothers. They are each named after a grandfather.
iii) Briscoe is two years younger than his brother Hamilton, But three years older than Dewey.
iv)
v) Benedict is 3 years younger than Valentine; they are not related.
vi) The twins are named for uncles.
5. Motorboat A leaves shore P as B leaves Q; they move across the lake at a constant speed. They meet first time 600 yards from P. Each returns from the opposite shore without halting, and they meet 200 yards from. How long is the lake ?
6. Fanta, Pepsi and Citra often eat dinner out.
a) Each orders either coffee or tea after dinner.
b) If Fanta orders coffee, then Pepsi orders the drink that Citra orders.
c) If Pepsi orders coffee, then Fanta orders the drink that Citra does not order.
d) If Citra orders tea, then Fanta orders the drink that Pepsi orders.
Which person/persons always orders the same drink after dinner ?
7. On the
road (which has houses numbered from 1-50). One of them is a member of the Pukka Tribe, who always tell the truth; another is a member of the Wotta Tribe, who never tell the truth; and the third is a member of the Shalla Tribe, who make statements which are alternately true and false, or false and true.
They make statements as follows :
ADD: 1 The number of my house is greater than that of Divide's.
2 My number is divisible by 4.
3 Even's number differs by 13 from that of one of the others.
DIVIDE : 1 Add's number is divisible by 12.
2 My number is 37.
3 Even's number is even.
EVEN : 1 No one's number is divisible by 10.
2 My number is 30.
3 Add's number is divisible by 3.
Find to which tribe each of them belongs, and the number of each of their houses.
8. The names of the inhabitants of
i) The one whose name contains two vowel sounds is not A.
ii) C's name does not contain more than one vowel sound or fewer than seven syllables.
iii)The name with seven syllables does not contain exactly one vowel sound.
iv) B and C do not have names with the same number of vowel sounds.
v) Neither the name with five syllables nor the name with seven syllables contains more than one vowel sound.
vi) Neither the name with six syllables, nor the B's name, contains two vowel sounds.
9. Multiplication and Division.
(1) - - - - - (a) (2) _ _ . _ (d)
________________
- - - (b) - - -) - - - - - . 0
_________________ - - -
_______________
- - - - -
- - - - - - - - -
___________________ - - -
_______________
- - - - - - - (c)
- - -
- - -
========
(1) and (2) represent the same two numbers - in one case multiplied 9 together, in other case divided.
Given that there are no 3's. find the missing digits indicated as (a), (b), (c) and (d) above ?
10. Two identical twins have a very unusual characteristic. One tells nothing but lies on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and tells nothing but the truth all other days. The other tells nothing but lies on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and tells nothing but the truth all other days. On Sundays both children speak the truth.
1) Which of the following statements can be deduced from the information presented ?
i) If it is Sunday, the twins will both say so.
ii) If it is not Sunday,one twin will give the correct day and the other will lie about everything.
iii)On any given day, only one twin will give his correct name.
a) i only
b) i and ii only
c) i and iii only
d) ii and iii only
e) i,ii and iii
2) According to the information presented, which of the following conversations will be impossible.
a)Twin A : "Today you are a lier"
Twin B : "You are telling the truth"
b)Twin A : "Today you are a lier"
Twin B : "Today I am a truthteller"
c)Twin A : "Tommorow I shall be a lier"
Twin B : "That's correct"
d)Twin A : "Tommorow you will be a lier"
Twin B : "Today you are a truthteller"
e)Twin A : "Yesterday we were both truthtellers"
Twin B : "You are lying"
3) Assume that the twins followed a different set of rules, so that on a given day both told only the truth while next day both only lied, alternating days of truth telling and lying. Under these rules,which of the following conversations would be possible ?
a) Twin A : "Today you are a lier"
Twin B : "That is correct"
b) Twin A : "Today you are a lier"
Twin B : "That is not so"
c) Twin A : "Tommorow we will be liers"
Twin B : "Yesterday we were truthtellers"
d) Twin A : "Tommorow we will be liers"
Twin B : "You are 1 year older than I am"
e) Twin A : "We always tell the truth"
Twin B : "We some times tell the truth"
4) If the twins are heard saying the following on the same day, which choice presents a correct statement ?
Twin A : "It is Sunday Today"
Twin B : "Yesterday was Sunday"
Twin A : "it is summer season now"
a) it is a summer sunday
b) it is a summer monday
c) it is Monday but not summer
d) it is Sunday but not summer
e) it is impossible to determine whether it is Sunday or Monday.
1.
Robert, Raj and Rasul always take dinner together. After dinner each will order
either coffee or tea.
(a)
If Rasul orders coffee, Raj orders what Robert orders
(b)
If Raj orders coffee, Rasul orders what Robert doesn’t
order
(c)
If Robert orders Tea, Rasul orders what Raj orders
Who orders always same
drink
(i) Rasul (ii) Rasul and robert (iii) All (iv)-------
ans:All
2.
Major Raj, his brother, daughters and son are always playing mixed doubles
(i)
MJ.Raj brother is playing across the net directly opposite to MJ. Raj’s
daughter.
(ii)
MJ.Raj's son is playing diagonally across the net of the worst player’s
sibling
(iii)
Each team made up of best and worst player of the slot.
Who
is the best player?
(a)MJ
Raj (b)His brother (c)His son (d)
Insufficient data
3.
There are nine cards numbered 1-9
(i)
card 5 is in centre
(ii)
card 9 is in row in which card 5 is there
(iii)
card 4 is in same column in which card 9 is present
(iv)
card 1 and card 6 are adjacent to each other
(v)
sum of each rows is equal to 15 only
(vi)
sum of each diagonal is also 15
Nine
cards are arranged in three rows and three columns. Adjacent means two cards are
in same row or in same column next to each other. Consider all possible answers.
(i)
which of the following are definitely adjacent to each other. ans 1&5
(ii)
which two cards do not come definitely adjacent to each other. ans
5&4
(iii)
the middle column adds upto. ans 15
iv) the middle column can’t be added upto
X)10 Y)15 Z) 20. ans X&Z
Possible
Tables
2
7 6
6 2 7
9
5 1
1 5 9
4
3 8
3 8 4
1.
Father's age is three years more than three times the son's age. After three
years, father's age will be ten years more than twice the son's age. What is the
father's present age.
Ans:
33 years.
2.
Find the values of each of the alphabets.
N O O
N
S O O
N
+ M
O O N
----------
J U N
E
Ans:
9326
3.
There are 20 poles with a constant distance between each pole. A car takes 24
second to reach the 12th pole. How much will it take to reach the last
pole.
Ans:
41.45 seconds
Let the distance between two poles = x Hence
11x:24::19x:?
4. A
car is traveling at a uniform speed. The driver sees a milestone showing a
2-digit number. After traveling for an hour the driver sees another milestone
with the same digits in reverse order. After another hour the driver sees
another milestone containing the same two digits. What is the average speed of
the driver.
Ans:
45 kmph
5.
The minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every 65 minutes. How much does the
watch lose or gain time and by how much?
Ans:
Gains; 5/11 minutes
6.
Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends.
Ram
is a widower and lives alone and his sister takes care of him.
Shyam
is a bachelor and his niece cooks his food and looks after his house.
Gumnaam
is married to Gita and lives in large house in the same town.
Gita
gives the idea that all of them could stay together in the house and share
monthly expenses equally. During their first month of living together, each
person contributed Rs.25. At the end of the month, it was found that Rs 92 was
the expense so the remaining amount was distributed equally among everyone. The
distribution was such that everyone recieved a whole number of Rupees. How much
did each person receive?
Ans.
Rs 2 (Hint: Ram's
sister, Shyam's neice and Gumnaam's wife are the same
person)
7.
Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. Each person has one card, laid
down on the table below him, which has two different colors on either side. The
colors visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue. They see the color on
the reverse side and give the following comment.
A:
Yellow or Green
B:
Neither Blue nor Green
C:
Blue or Yellow
D:
Blue or Yellow
Given
that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colors on the cards each
person.
Ans:
yellow,yellow,green,blue
1.
The Bulls, Pacers, Lakers and Jazz ran for a contest. Anup, Sujit, John made the
following statements regarding results.
Anup
said either Bulls or Jazz will definitely win
Sujit
said he is confident that Bulls will not win
John
said he is confident that neither Jazz nor Lakers will win
When
the result came it was found that only one of the above three had made a correct
statement. Who has made the correct statement and who has won the contest.
Ans:
Sujith; Lakers
2. In certain community there are thousand married couples. Two thirds of the husbands who are taller than their wives are also heavier. And three quarters of the husbands who are heavier than their wives are also taller. If there are 120 wives who are taller and heavier than their husbands, how many husbands are taller and heavier than their wives ?
1.
Mr.Mathurs jewels have been stolen from his bank locker .
The bank has lockers of 12
people which are arranged in an array of 3 rows and 4 columns
like:
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10
11 12
The
locker belonging to JONES was to the right of BLACK'S locker and directly above
MILLAR'S.
BOOTH'S
locker was directly above MILLAR'S.
SMITH'S
locker was also above GRAY's (though not directly).
GREEN'S
locker was directly below SMITH'S.
MILLAR'S
locker was on the bottom row directly to the right of HERD'S.
WHITE'S
locker was on the bottom right hand corner in the same column as BOOTH'S.
Which
box belonged to Mr.Mathurs?
Ans:
Box number 9 belongs to Mr.Mathurs.
2.
Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past
Ans:
Twenty six minutes.
3.
If a clock takes 7seconds to strike 7, how long will the same clock take to
strike 10?
Ans:
The clock strikes for the first time at the start and takes 7 seconds for 6
intervals-thus for one interval time
taken=7/6.
Therefore, for 10 seconds there are 9 intervals and time taken is
9*7/6=10 and 1/2 seconds.
4.
Three criminals were arrested for shop lifting. However, when interrogated only
one told the truth in both his statements, while the other two each told one
true statement and one lie. The statements were:
ALBERT
:(a)Chander passed the merchandise.
(b)Bruce created the diversion.
BRUCE :(a)Albert passed the
merchandise.
(b)I created the diversion.
CLIVE :(a)I took the goods
out of the shop.
(b)Bruce passed them over.
Ans:
Albert passed the goods. Bruce created the diversion. Clive took the goods out
of the shop.
5.
Everyday in his business a merchant had to weigh amounts from 1 kg to 121 kgs,
to the nearest kg. What are the minimum number of weight required and how heavy
should they be?
Ans:
.The minimum number is 5 and they should weigh 1,3,9,27 and 81
kgs.
6. A
hotel has 10 storey. Which floor is above the floor below the floor, below the
floor above the floor, below the floor above the fifth.
Ans:
The sixth floor.
7.
Seven members sat around a table for three days for a conference. The member's
names were Abhishek, Amol, Ankur, Anurag, Bhuwan ,Vasu and Vikram. The meetings
were chaired by Vikram. On the first evening members sat around the table
alphabetically. On the following two nights, Vikram arranged the seating so
that he could have Abhishek as near to him as possible and absent
minded Vasu as far away as he could. On one evening did any person have sitting
next to him a person who had previously been his neighbor. How did Vikram
manage to seat everybody to the best advantage on the second and third
evenings?
Ans:
Second
evening:Vikram,Ankur,Abhishek,Amol,Vasu,Anurag,Bhuwan.
Third
evening
:Vikram,Anurag,Abhishek,Vasu,Bhuwan,Ankur,Amol.
8.
Two trains start from stations A and B spaced 50 kms apart at the same time and
speed. As the trains start, a bird flies from one train towards the other and on
reaching the second train, it flies back to the first train. This is repeated
till the trains collide.
If
the speed of the trains is 25 km/h and that of the bird is 100km/h. How much did
the bird travel till the collision.
Ans:
100 kms.
9.
Four prisoners escape from a prison. The prisoners, Mr East, Mr West, Mr South,
Mr North head towards different directions after escaping. The following
information of their escape was supplied:
The
escape routes were The North Road, South Road,
None
of the prisoners took the road which was their namesake.
Mr.East
did not take the
Mr.West
did not the
The
What
road did each of the prisoners take to make their escape?
Ans:
Mr.East took the
Mr.West took the
Mr.North took the
Mr.South took the
10.
Complete the series: 5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, ?
Ans:
12 (as 5*4=20, 20+4=24, 24/4=6, 6-4=2, 2*4=8, 8+4=12).
1.
Replace each letter by a digit. Each letter must be represented by the same
digit and no beginning letter of a word can be 0.
O N
E
O N
E
O N
E
O N
E
-------
T E
N
Ans: 0 =1, N = 8 ,E = 2, T =
7
2.
Ann, Boobie, Cathy and Dave are at their monthly business meeting. Their
occupations are author, biologist, chemist and doctor, but not necessarily in
that order. Dave just told the biologist that Cathy was on her way with
doughnuts. Ann is sitting across from the doctor and next to the chemist. The
doctor was thinking that Boobie was a goofy name for parent's to choose, but
didn't say anything. What is each person's occupation?
Ans:
Since Dave spoke to the biologist and Ann sat next to the chemist and across the
doctor, Cathy must be the author
and
Ann the biologist.
The
doctor didn't speak, but David did, so Bobbie is the doctor and Dave the
chemist.
3.
Sometime after
Ans:
Time of shooting =
Claimed Time
=
4.
Next number in the series is 1 , 2
, 4 , 13 , 31 , 112 , ?
Ans:
224. No number has digits more than 4. All of them are 1 , 2, 4, 8 , 16 , 32 ,
64 converted to numbers in base 5
5.
Shahrukh speaks truth only in the morning and lies in the afternoon, whereas
Salman speaks truth only in the afternoon. A says that B is Shahrukh. Is it
morning or afternoon and who is A - Shahrukh or Salman.
Ans:
Afternoon ; A is Salman.
6.
Two trains starting at same time, one from
Ans:
Twice
7.
There are 6 volumes of books on a rack kept in order ( ie vol.1, vol. 2 and so
on ). Give the position after the following changes were noticed. All books have
been changed
Vol.5
was directly to the right of Vol.2
Vol.4
has Vol.6 to its left and both weren't at Vol.3's place
Vol.1
has Vol.3 on right and Vol.5 on left
An
even numbered volume is at Vol.5's place
Find
the order in which the books are kept now.
Ans:
2 , 5 , 1 , 3 , 6 , 4
8. I bought a car with a peculiar 5 digit
numbered license plate which on reversing could still be read. On reversing
value is increased by 78633.Whats the original number if all digits were
different?
Ans:
Only 0 1 6 8 and 9 can be read upside down. So on rearranging these digits we get
the answer as 10968
9. The shape in the sketch below is that
of a square attached to half of a similar square. Divide it into four equal
pieces
Ans:
Hint : the figure can be divided into 12 equal triangles
10.
Supposing a clock takes 7 seconds to strike 7. How long will it take to strike
10?
Ans:
10 1/2 seconds.
1.
There are 100 bulbs and their corresponding switches. All the bulbs are
initially on. Then the status of bulbs divisible by 2 is changed( ie on-->off
&off-->on) Same is done for all the nos till 100. Find how many bulbs are
on in the end.
ans.
all perfect squares. not sure. solve and check
2.Three
boys--- may speak false or truth. Just remember this the answer because no one
remembers the statements
exactly.
ans
=grey color of the horse
3.
There are some couples and their children. Some facts about
them
families<girls
adults>boys
children
>adults
boys> girls
There
are no childless couples. Each girl has at most one sister and at least 1 brother.
Find the no of families
ans 3
4.
There are 111 players participating in a singles tennis tournament. The player
who is loosing will be out of the tournament.
For
each and every match, one new ball is taken. Find the no. of balls required for
the entire tournament.
ans:110
5.
Anan with her son went for shopping.. She met her husband's mother's only
daughter in law's sister's husband. Find the relation between anan and the
mentioned person.
ans:
anan-->sister's husband
6.
Question on sets:
In a
city, there are 23080 people.
30%
read "a" newspaper.
35%
read "b" newspaper
40%
read "c" newspaper
1/3
of total read both a and b
25%
read both b and c
34%
read both a and c
1/3
read all the three.
find.
1.the
no. of persons who read a only. (approx,. 4000+)
2.b
only(0)
3.c
only
4.none
of the papers
7.
Question on finding the "day"
six
persons are there.a..f
a:the
day b4 yesterday is either friday or saturday.
b:today
is saturday.
c:today
is not saturday but either friday or saturday.
d:day
after tomorrow is not tuesday.
e:......
f:........
answer:friday
8. I
have got some money in my bag. (which is stolen after shopping I and
II)
I
spent 10% of my money for shopping(I)
For
second time,10% of the remaining money is spent for
shopping(II)
The
total bill amount=Rs.18.
Find
the amount which will be remaining in the bag?
answer:Rs.81
1.There
are 111 players participating in a singles tennis tournament. The player who is
loosing will be out of the tournament.
For
each and every match, One new ball is taken. Find the no. of balls required for
the entire tournament.
ans:110
2.Two
trains are crossing each other. the speed of one train is given. Calculate the
time for the engine of one train crosses the other train.. chk. the question
correctly.. it is available in sakuntala devi's "puzzle 2 puzzle
u"
3.Anan
with her son went for shopping.. she met her husband's mother's only
daughter-in-law's sister's husband. find the relation between anan and the
mentioned person.
ans:
anan-->sister's husband
4.Question
on sets:
In a
city,there are 23080 people.
30%
read "a" newspaper.
35%
read "b" newspaper
40%
read "c" neewspaper
1/3
of total read both a and b
25%
read both b and c
34%
read both a and c
1/3
read all the three.
find.
1.the
no. of persons who read a only.(approx,. 4000+)
2.b
only(0)
3.c
only
4.none
of the papers
5.
Question on finding the "day"
six
persons are there.a..f
a:the
day b4 yesterday is either friday or saturday.
b:today
is saturday.
c:today
is not saturday but either friday or saturday.
d:day
after tomorrow is not tuesday.
e:......
f:........
answer:friday
6.
Question on finding who is familiar with which language..
some
five names are given.
and
five statements are given.
analyze
all the statements ..
e.g..
"a" knows somewhat eng but not either urdu or tulu..
answer:
7. I
have got some money in my bag .(which is stolen after shopping I and II). I spent
10% of my money for shopping (I) For second time,10% of the remaining money is
spent for shopping (II) The
total bill amount=Rs.18. Find the amount which will be remaining in the
bag?
answer:Rs.81
1. An arrangement of 8
persons namely (Afrin, Mun, John, Rider, Mark, Bal, Smith, ) sitting around
around a table (circular or not was not mentioned) with some conditions. 8 marks
2. Every station in a rail road issue every other station's ticket. Some
stations are added. Now they have to issue 46 more tickets. The number of
stations before and after addition is ?
3. A girl is at twelve. Her mother's age is forty five years. The girl demanded
a bi-cycle upon which the mother told to give her one, when the age of the
mother is three times that of her daughter. When will she get the bicycle?
4. There is a large cube pained red on all side. Six-straight cuts are made
resulting in 27 small cubes.
State how many cubes have:
3 sides colored
2 sides colored
1 sides colored
uncolored
5. A boat is going downstream. A man follows the boat to some extent and then
comes back upstream to the point from where he started. It took him 10 mints to
return back, At this time a hat fell in the river and started floating
downstream to which the man again chased and got it within 1000 yards.Find the
speed of the current.
6. There is a class of students where
one third were under 12
one half were under 13 and 6 were eleven yrs.
The number of students between 11 and 12 were equal that of between 12 and 13.
Find the figure!