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| Raj has a jewel chest containing Rings, Pins and Ear-rings.
The chest contains 26 pieces. Raj has 2 1/2 times as many
rings as pins, and the number of pairs of earrings is 4
less than the number of rings.
How many earrings does Raj have?
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| 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 |
| To move a Safe, two cylindrical steel bars 7 inches in
diameter are used as rollers.
How far will the safe have moved forward when the rollers
have made one revolution? | | 1 |
| Three convicts are brought into the warden's office. He says
he can parole one of them and to decide which one he will
parole he takes out 5 hats (3 red and 2 white). He stands
behind them and places a hat on each one of their heads and
puts the other two remaining hats in a drawer.
He tells the prisioners they can look at the others hats and
if they can tell which hat they have on they will be the one
who is paroled.
The first man looks at the other two and says, "I don't know."
The second man looks at the others hats and says, "I don't
know."
The third man who is blind says, "Even though I have not the
gift of sight I can tell by what the others have said that
the color of my hat is..."
What color is the blind mans hat and how does he know? | Bally-Technologies | 2 |
| Sachin, Dravid and Ganguly played in a Cricket match between
India and England.
? None of them scored more than 99 runs.
? If you add the digits of the runs scored by Sachin to his
own score, you will get the runs scored by Dravid.
? If you reverse the digits of the runs scored by Dravid,
you will get the runs scored by Ganguly.
? The total runs scored by them is 240.
Can you figure out their individual scores? | | 1 |
| ? A is the father of two children - B and D who are of
different sexes.
? C is B's spouse.
? E is the same sex as D.
? B and C have the two children - F who is the same sex as B
and G who is the same sex as C.
? E's mother, H who is married to L, is the sister of D's
mother, M.
? E and E's spouse, I have two children - J and K who are
the same sex as I.
Note that no persons have married more than once. Also,
there are more number of females than males. Can you tell
how many females are there? | | 3 |
| can u prove that 1=2?
is it possible? | | 9 |
| A contractor had employed 100 labourers for a flyover
construction task. He did not allow any woman to work
without her husband. Also, atleast half the men working came
with their wives.
He paid five rupees per day to each man, four ruppes to each
woman and one rupee to each child. He gave out 200 rupees
every evening.
How many men, women and children were working with the
constructor? | | 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 |
| Jack and Jill are playing cards for a stake of $1 a game. At
the end of the evening, Jack has won 3 games and Jill has
won $3. How many games did they play? | | 1 |
| Five friends with surname Batliwala, Pocketwala, Talawala,
Chunawala and Natakwala have their first name and middle
name as follow.
1. Four of them have a first and middle name of Paresh.
2. Three of them have a first and middle name of Kamlesh.
3. Two of them have a first and middle name of Naresh.
4. One of them have a first and middle name of Elesh.
5. Pocketwala and Talawala, either both are named Kamlesh or
neither is named Kamlesh.
6. Either Batliwala and Pocketwala both are named Naresh or
Talawala and Chunawala both are named Naresh.
7. Chunawala and Natakwala are not both named Paresh.
Who is named Elesh? | | 1 |
| A positive integer that, when added to 1000 gives a sum
which is greater than when multiplied by 1000.
Find the positive integer. | | 4 |
| A fly is flying between two trains, each travelling towards
each other on the same track at 60 km/h. The fly reaches one
engine, reverses itself immediately, and flies back to the
other engine, repeating the process each time.
The fly is flying at 90 km/h. If the fly flies 180 km before
the trains meet, how far apart were the trains initially? | | 3 |
| Vipul was studying for his examinations and the lights went
off. It was around 1:00 AM. He lighted two uniform candles
of equal length but one thicker than the other. The thick
candle is supposed to last six hours and the thin one two
hours less. When he finally went to sleep, the thick candle
was twice as long as the thin one.
For how long did Vipul study in candle light?
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Makayla had $1.19 in change. None of the coins was a dollar.
Nicole ask her for change for a dollar, but Makayla could
not make change.
What coins did she have? | | 1 |
| There is a 50m long army platoon marching ahead. The last
person in the platoon wants to give a letter to the first
person leading the platoon. So while the platoon is marching
he runs ahead, reaches the first person and hands over the
letter to him and without stopping he runs and comes back to
his original position.
In the mean time the whole platoon has moved ahead by 50m.
The question is how much distance did the last person cover
in that time. Assuming that he ran the whole distance with
uniform speed. | | 2 |
| The cricket match between India and Pakistan was over.
? Harbhajan scored more runs than Ganguly.
? Sachin scored more runs than Laxman but less than Dravid
? Badani scored as much runs as Agarkar but less than Dravid
and more than Sachin.
? Ganguly scored more runs than either Agarkar or Dravid.
Each batsman scored 10 runs more than his immediate batsman.
The lowest score was 10 runs. How much did each one of them
score | | 1 |
| 4. There are five caps , 3 black and 2 white. three
persons chander, sunder and maninder are standing one
behind the other in a queue. the first person in the queue
is chanbder and the last person is maninder . 3 caps
rfrom the lot of fivce is taken and put on their
heads. Maninder can see what the other two standing
in front are wearing . sunder can see what chander is
wearing. None of them can turn around and see what the
person standing behind is wearing , they do not know the
color of cap what they themselves are wearing . John comes
and asks maninder,"what is the color of the cap your
are wearing?", Maninder can see what sunder and chander
are wearing, and based on that he says he doesn't know.
sunder has over heard that answer. Now john asks
sunder" what is the colour of the cap you are wearing".
sunder can see chander and he has heard what maninder
has said, and based on that he says he doesn't know.
chander has overheard both sunder and maninder. so when
john asks chander the same question, he tells the
correct answer.
What is the colour of the cap that chander is weaRing ?
Please write in brief how did you reach to that
conclusion. | | 4 |
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