Given a rectangular (cuboidal for the puritans) cake with a rectangular piece removed (any size or orientation), how would you cut the remainder of the cake into two equal halves with one straight cut of a knife?
15 31177There are 3 baskets. one of them have apples, one has oranges only and the other has mixture of apples and oranges. The labels on their baskets always lie. (i.e. if the label says oranges, you are sure that it doesn't have oranges only,it could be a mixture) The task is to pick one basket and pick only one fruit from it and then correctly label all the three baskets.
16 70468You have 8 balls. One of them is defective and weighs less than others. You have a balance to measure balls against each other. In 2 weighings how do you find the defective one?
5 11760You've got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them. The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the end of every day. If you are only allowed to make two breaks in the gold bar, how do you pay your worker?
30 58692One train leaves Los Angeles at 15mph heading for New York. Another train leaves from New York at 20mph heading for Los Angeles on the same track. If a bird, flying at 25mph, leaves from Los Angeles at the same time as the train and flies back and forth between the two trains until they collide, how far will the bird have traveled?
21 39802You have two jars, 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles. A jar will be picked at random, and then a marble will be picked from the jar. Placing all of the marbles in the jars, how can you maximize the chances of a red marble being picked? What are the exact odds of getting a red marble using your scheme?
2 13606Imagine you are standing in front of a mirror, facing it. Raise your left hand. Raise your right hand. Look at your reflection. When you raise your left hand your reflection raises what appears to be his right hand. But when you tilt your head up, your reflection does too, and does not appear to tilt his/her head down. Why is it that the mirror appears to reverse left and right, but not up and down?
9 26485You have 5 jars of pills. Each pill weighs 10 gram, except for contaminated pills contained in one jar, where each pill weighs 9 gm. Given a scale, how could you tell which jar had the contaminated pills in just one measurement?
7 47370If you had an infinite supply of water and a 5 quart and 3 quart pail, how would you measure exactly 4 quarts?
4 8512You have a bucket of jelly beans. Some are red, some are blue, and some green. With your eyes closed, pick out 2 of a like color. How many do you have to grab to be sure you have 2 of the same?
5 22262There are four dogs/ants/people at four corners of a square of unit distance. At the same instant all of them start running with unit speed towards the person on their clockwise direction and will always run towards that target. How long does it take for them to meet and where?
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A boy scores 9 marks more than his friend in an exam and has 56% marks of the total of their marks. Calculate the marks scored by each of them.
If 1/4 of the time from midnight plus 1/2 of the time from now to midnight is the present time,then what is the present time ?
a circular track has 100yards. The race of Rabbit and TOuttoise. they started at same point. and move in circular path. in opposite direction.first tortoise run for 1/8 th path, then only rabbit starts,rabbit moved slowly till tortoise meet him, Rabbit had covered 1/6 th distance speed( over earlier speed) to win
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A says “the horse is not blackâ€. B says “the horse is either brown or grey. “C says “the horse is brown†At least one is telling truth and at least one is lying. What is the color of the horse?
From 5 different green balls, four different blue balls and three different red balls, how many combinations of balls can be chosen taking at least one green and one blue ball?
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a man is 24 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his son. The present age of his son is?
In school there are some bicycles and 4 wheeler wagons. One tuesday there are 190 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there?
A guy shows his friend a girl standing in front of her in a hotel and says that she is the daughter of my granny's only son. How are they two related?
Rahul took a part in cycling game where 1/5 ahead of him and 5/6 behind him then total number of participants?
A father is 30 years older than his son however he will be only thrice as old as the son after 5 years what is father's present age ?
