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| You have a sheet cake. There is a rectangular piece missing
from the inside of the sheet cake. The location of the
missing piece is arbitrary. I was told I could assume I had
the means to make the cuts. How do you divide the sheet
cake into 2 even proportions with 2 cuts?
| Google | 7 |
| There are N secret agents each know a different piece of
secret information. They can telephone each other and
exchange all the information they know. After the telephone
call, they both know anything that either of them knew
before the call.
What are the minimum number of telephone calls needed so
that all of the them know everything? | | 1 |
| There are 9 coins. Out of which one is odd one i.e weight is
less or more. How many iterations of weighing are required
to find odd coin? | | 2 |
| On the shelf you have 10 identical bottles of identical
pills (let?s say there?s a hundred pills in each bottle).
However, one of those 10 bottles contains cheap knockoff
pills. The only way to differentiate fake pills from real
pills is the weight - while real pills weigh 1 g each, the
knockoff pills are only 0.9 g. You have one scale that
shows the exact weight (down to the mg) of whatever is
weighed.
How can you tell which bottle contains fake pills with just
1 weighing?
| TCS | 5 |
| 16*2/7-8*4/3+17*3/7 | SBI | 16 |
| Find the values of each of the alphabets.
N O O N
S O O N
+ M O O N
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J U N E
| Wipro | 12 |
| Two people enter a race in whick you run to a point and
back. Person A runs 20 mph to and from the point. Person B
runs to the point going 10 mph and 30 mph going back.
Who came in first? | | 2 |
| A man is going to an Antique Car auction. All purchases must
be paid for in cash. He goes to the
bank and draws out $25,000.
Since the man does not want to be seen carrying that much
money, he places it in 15 evelopes
numbered 1 through 15. Each envelope contains the least
number of bills possible of any available
US currency (i.e. no two tens in place of a twenty).
At the auction he makes a successful bid of $8322 for a car.
He hands the auctioneer envelopes
number(s) 2, 8, and 14. After opening the envelopes the
auctioneer finds exactly the right amount.
How many ones did the auctioneer find in the envelopes? | | 1 |
| 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 colours on either side. The colours visible
on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue. They see the
color on the reverse side and give the following | Infosys | 4 |
| A tank can be filled by pipe A in 30 minutes and by pipe B
in 24 minutes. Outlet pipe C can empty the full tank in X
minutes.
If the tank is empty initially and if all the three pipes A,
B and C are opened simultaneously, the tank will NEVER be
full. Give the maximal possible value of X. | | 1 |
| A man went into a fast food restaurant and ate a meal
costing Rs. 105, giving the accountant a Rs. 500 note. He
kept the change, came back a few minutes later and had some
food packed for his girl friend. He gave the accountant a
Rs. 100 note and received Rs. 20 in change. Later the bank
told the accountant that both the Rs. 500 and the Rs. 100
notes were counterfeit.
How much money did the restaurant lose? Ignore the profit of
the food restaurant. | TCS | 8 |
| Given the following facts:
1. Dinesh is younger than Farukh and older than Gurmit.
2. Jatin is younger than Chandu and older than Eshrat.
3. Amit is younger than Irfan and older than Chandu.
4. Farukh is younger than Bhavin and older than Hemant.
5. Irfan is younger than Gurmit and older than Jatin.
6. Hemant is older than Gurmit.
Who is the Youngest? | | 1 |
| iwant to know which type of questions were coming in tcs
company | Syntel | 3 |
| In the middle of the confounded desert, there is the lost
city of "Ash". To reach it, I will have to travel overland
by foot from the coast. On a trek like this, each person can
only carry enough rations for five days and the farthest we
can travel in one day is 30 miles. Also, the city is 120
miles from the starting point.
What I am trying to figure out is the fewest number of
persons, including myself, that I will need in our Group so
that I can reach the city, stay overnight, and then return
to the coast without running out of supplies.
How many persons (including myself) will I need to
accomplish this mission? | | 2 |
| There are 3 ants at 3 corners of a triangle, they randomly
start moving towards another corner.
What is the probability that they don't collide?
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| "i live in water,if you cut my head i am at your door,if you
cut my tail i | | 5 |
| SlowRun Express runs between Bangalore and Mumbai, For the
up as well as the down journey, the train leaves the
starting station at 10:00 PM everyday and reaches the
destination at 11:30 PM after three days.
Mr. Haani once travelled by SlowRun Express from Mumbai to
Bangalore. How many SlowRun Express did he cross during his
journey? | | 1 |
| When Alexander the Great attacked the forces of Porus, an
Indian soldier was captured by the Greeks. He had displayed
such bravery in battle, however, that the enemy offered to
let him choose how he wanted to be killed. They told
him, "If you tell a lie, you will put to the sword, and if
you tell the truth you will be hanged."
The soldier could make only one statement. He made that
statement and went free. What did he say?
| CTS | 1 |
| How many ways are there of arranging the sixteen black or
white pieces of a standard international chess set on the
first two rows of the board?
Given that each pawn is identical and each rook, knight and
bishop is identical to its pair.
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| Mrs. Watsherface had a garage sale. A custmer named Gina
bought an old lamp and a rug. She paid a total of $5.25 for
everything. The rug cost 25 cents more than the lamp.
How much did each cost? | | 1 |
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