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| 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 |
| Major Jasbir is forming five-person Special Task Group. The
group must contain one leader, two bomb-experts and two
soldiers.
P, Q and R are possible bomb-experts. R, S and T are
possible leaders. U, V and W are possible soldiers. Also, P
and R prefers to work with each other in the same team. T
prefers to work only if V works.
How many different possible Groups, Major Jasbir can make? | | 1 |
| 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 |
| In a certain game, if 2 wixsomes are worth 3 changs, and 4
changs are worth 1 plut, then 6 plutes are worth how many
wixsomes? | | 2 |
| Kate, Demi, Madona, Sharon, Britney and Nicole decided to
lunch together in a restaurant. The waiter led them to a
round table with six chairs.
How many different ways can they seat? | | 1 |
| Scientist decided to do a study on the population growth of
rabbits. Inside a controlled environment, 1000 rabbits were
placed.
Six months later, there were 1000Z rabbits. At the beginning
of the 3rd year, there were roughly 2828Z rabbits, which was
4 times what the scientists placed in there at the beginning
of the 1st year.
If Z is a positive variable, how many rabbits would be there
at the beginning of the 11th year? | | 1 |
| Mr. D'souza has bought four cars - Merc, Honda, Ford, Zen -
as presents for his sons' birthdays, all of which are next
week. Given the following information, what will each son get?
Alan will not get the Honda unless Barry gets the Merc and
Denzil gets the Ford. Barry will not get the Ford unless
Carl gets the Zen and Alan gets the Merc. Denzil will not
get the Zen unless Alan gets the Honda and Barry gets the
Merc. Alan will not get the Merc unless Carl gets the Zen
and Denzil gets the Ford. Barry will not get the Merc unless
Alan gets the Zen and Denzil gets the Ford. Alan will not
get the Zen unless Barry gets the Honda and Carl gets the
Merc. Carl will not get the Zen unless Barry gets the Honda
and Alan gets the Ford. Alan will not get the Ford unless
Barry gets the Zen and Denzil gets the Honda. Carl will not
get the Merc unless Denzil gets the Honda. | | 1 |
| 1/3 rd of the contents of a container evaporated on the 1st
day. 3/4th of the remaining contents of the container
evaporated on the second day.
What part of the contents of the container is left at the
end of the second day? | | 1 |
| 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 |
| Because cigars cannot be entirely smoked, a Bobo who
collects cigar butts can make a cigar to smoke out of every
3 butts that he finds.
Today, he has collected 27 cigar butts. How many cigars will
he be able to smoke? | | 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 |
| A polygon has 1325 diagonals. How many vertices does it have? | | 1 |
| Consider a number 235, where last digit is the sum of first
two digits i.e. 2 + 3 = 5.
How many such 3-digit numbers are there?
| | 3 |
| Once a week a wagon driver leaves his hut and drives his
wagon to the river dock to pick up supplies for his town. At
4:05 PM, one-fifth of the way to the dock, he passes the
Temple. At 4:15 PM, one-third of the way, he passes the
Preetam-Da-Dhabaa.
At what time does he reached the dock? | | 1 |
| There are 8 stones which are similar except one which is
heavier than the others. To find it, you are given a pan
balance. What is the minimal number of weighing needed to
find out the heaviest stone ?
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| Four couples are going to the movie. Each row holds eight
seats. Betty and Jim don't want to sit next to Alice and
Tom. Alice and Tom don't want to sit next to Gertrude and
Bill. On the otherhand, Sally and Bob don't want to sit next
to Betty and Jim.
How can the couples arrange themselves in a row so that they
all sit where they would like? | | 1 |
| Substitute digits for the letters to make the following
Division true
Y F Y
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A Y | N E L L Y
| N L Y
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P P L
P N H
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N L Y
N L Y
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0 0 0
Note that the leftmost letter can't be zero in any word.
Also, there must be a one-to-one mapping between digits and
letters. e.g. if you substitute 3 for the letter N, no other
letter can be 3 and all other N in the puzzle must be 3. | | 1 |
| 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 come out. And
the shortest among them is A.
Similarly after resuming them to their original positions,
the shortest among each column are asked to come out. And
the tallest among them is B.
Now who is taller A or B ?
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| 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 |
| If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15.
What is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (
The answer to this is not zero!) | | 2 |
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