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| John lives in "Friends Society" where all the houses are in
a row and are numbered sequentially starting from 1. His
house number is 109.
Jessy lives in the same society. All the house numbers on
the left side of Jessy's house add up exactly the same as
all the house numbers on the right side of her house.
What is the number of Jessy's house? Find the minimal
possible answer. | | 1 |
| At the Party:
1. There were 9 men and children.
2. There were 2 more women than children.
3. The number of different man-woman couples possible was
24. Note that if there were 7 men and 5 women, then there
would have been 35 man-woman couples possible.
Also, of the three groups - men, women and children - at the
party:
4. There were 4 of one group.
5. There were 6 of one group.
6. There were 8 of one group.
Exactly one of the above 6 statements is false.
Can you tell which one is false? Also, how many men, women
and children are there at the party? | | 1 |
| If a bear eats 65 pounds in fish every day EXCEPT every 6th
day which it only eats 45 pounds of fish.
If the bear continues this, how many pounds of fish will it
eat in 200 days? | | 1 |
| A rich man died. In his will, he has divided his gold coins
among his 5 sons, 5 daughters and a manager.
According to his will: First give one coin to manager. 1/5th
of the remaining to the elder son. Now give one coin to the
manager and 1/5th of the remaining to second son and so
on..... After giving coins to 5th son, divided the remaining
coins among five daughters equally.
All should get full coins. Find the minimum number of coins
he has? | | 3 |
| If you started a business in which you earned Rs.1 on the
first day, Rs.3 on the second day, Rs.5 on the third day,
Rs.7 on the fourth day, & so on.
How much would you have earned with this business after 50
years (assuming there are exactly 365 days in every year)?
| | 3 |
| 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 |
| Eleven boys and girls wait to take their seats in the same
row in a movie theater. There are exactly 11 seats in the row.
They decided that after the first person sits down, the next
person has to sit next to the first. The third sits next to
one of the first two and so on until all eleven are seated.
In other words, no person can take a seat that separates
him/her from at least one other person.
How many different ways can this be accomplished? Note that
the first person can choose any of the 11 seats. | | 7 |
| You have four 9's and you may use any of the (+, -, /, *) as
many times as you like. I want to see a mathematical
expression which uses the four 9's to = 100
How many such expressions can you make? | | 1 |
| What is the remainder left after dividing 1! + 2! + 3! + ? +
100! By 7? | Ignou | 1 |
| 1. There are six columns of coins and there are eight
coins in each column. One of the columns is entirely of
fake coins and other five columns contain real coins.
Weight of one fake coin is 1 gm more than the real coin
which is 50 gm. How you can tell which column contains fake
coin by single weight?
2.You want to purchase a two wheeler. You got three options
from the counter.
1) Pay Rs. 40,400 on single payment
2) Pay Rs. 20,000 now and remaining by two equal annual
installment of Rs. 11,600
3) Pay Rs. 15,000 now and remaining by three equal annual
installment of Rs. 10,000
Which option is most attractive? (Take annual interest rate
9%) | | 3 |
| Tanya wants to go on a date and prefers her date to be tall,
dark and handsome.
1. Of the preferred traits - tall, dark and handsome - no
two of Adam, Bond, Cruz and Dumbo have the same number.
2. Only Adam or Dumbo is tall and fair.
3. Only Bond or Cruz is short and handsome.
4. Adam and Cruz are either both tall or both short.
5. Bond and Dumbo are either both dark or both fair.
Who is Tanya's date? | | 1 |
| Two identical pack of cards A and B are shuffled throughly.
One card is picked from A and shuffled with B. The top card
from pack A is turned up. If this is the Queen of Hearts,
what are the chances that the top card in B will be the King
of Hearts? | | 1 |
| My friend collects antique stamps. She purchased two, but
found that she needed to raise money urgently. So she sold
them for Rs. 8000 each. On one she made 20% and on the other
she lost 20%.
How much did she gain or lose in the entire transaction? | | 2 |
| Find out all possible groups of three different numbers that
add up to 13 and arrange them according to given condition.
If one number is 9, it must go with 1 and 3.
If one number is 8, it must go with either 1 and 4 or 2 and 3.
If one number is 7, it must go with either 1 and 5 or 2 and 4.
If one number is 6, it must go with either 2 and 5 or 3 and 4. | | 1 |
| one women said ?I have three sons their ages are all less
than ten,the product of the two younger sons is equal to
the sons age who has greatest age and the sum of their ages
is always a prime number.find their ages | Infosys | 3 |
| A woman took a certain number of eggs to the market and sold
some of them.
The next day, through the industry of her hens, the number
left over had been doubled, and she sold the same number as
the previous day.
On the third day the new remainder was tripled, and she sold
the same number as before.
On the fourth day the remainder was quadrupled, and her
sales the same as before.
On the fifth day what had been left over were quintupled,
yet she sold exactly the same as on all the previous
occasions and so disposed of her entire stock.
What is the smallest number of eggs she could have taken to
market the first day, and how many did she sell daily? Note
that the answer is not zero. | | 1 |
| There are 3 colored boxes - Red, Green and Blue. Each box
contains 2 envelopes. Each envelope contains money - two of
them contain Rs. 25000 each, two of them contain Rs. 15000
each and remaining two contain Rs. 10000 each.
There is one statement written on the cover of each box.
* Red Box: Both, a red box and a blue box contain Rs. 10000
each.
* Green Box: Both, a green box and a red box contain Rs.
25000 each.
* Blue Box: Both, a blue box and a green box contain Rs.
15000 each.
Only one of the above 3 statements is true and the
corresponding box contains the maximum amount.
Can you tell which box contains the maximum amount and how much? | | 1 |
| Its a 4letter word.Boys have,girls dont have.poor have,rich
dont have.if u get u can fly,animals drinks,i cant…
Find out the word
| | 5 |
| A person is standing at the top of a 100mt building, he has
a rope 75mts long and the only way he can come down is
through the rope. He can cut the rope also he can tie the
rope at any point on the building, but he cant jump and
ofcourse dont even think about the stairs :D Find out the
best way he'll come down. | Huawei | 7 |
| An emergency vehicle travels 10 miles at a speed of 50 miles
per hour.
How fast must the vehicle travel on the return trip if the
round-trip travel time is to be 20 minutes? | | 1 |
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