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| Difference between Bholu's and Molu's age is 2 years and the
difference between Molu's and Kolu's age is 5 years.
What is the maximum possible value of the sum of the
difference in their ages, taken two at a time? | | 1 |
| A blindfolded man is asked to sit in the front of a carrom
board. The holes of the board are shut with lids in random
order, i.e. any number of all the four holes can be shut or
open.
Now the man is supposed to touch any two holes at a time and
can do the following.
? Open the closed hole.
? Close the open hole.
? Let the hole be as it is.
After he has done it, the carrom board is rotated and again
brought to some position. The man is again not aware of what
are the holes which are open or closed.
How many minimum number of turns does the blindfolded man
require to either open all the holes or close all the holes?
Note that whenever all the holes are either open or close,
there will be an alarm so that the blindfolded man will know
that he has won. | | 2 |
| 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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| Pooja and Esha met each other after long time. In the course
of their conversation, Pooja asked
Esha her age. Esha replied, "If you reverse my age, you will
get my husbund's age. He is of course
older than me. Also, the difference between our age is
1/11th of the sum of our age."
Can you help out Pooja in finding Esha's age? | | 1 |
| There are four groups of Mangoes, Apples and Bananas as
follows:
Group I : 1 Mango, 1 Apples and 1 Banana
Group II : 1 Mango, 5 Apples and 7 Bananas
Group III : 1 Mango, 7 Apples and 10 Bananas
Group IV : 9 Mango, 23 Apples and 30 Bananas
Group II costs Rs 300 and Group III costs Rs 390.
Can you tell how much does Group I and Group IV cost? | | 1 |
| Gomzi has 3 timepieces in his house - a wall clock, an alarm
clock and a wristwatch. The wristwatch is always accurate,
whereas the wall clock gains 2 minutes everyday and the
alarm clock loses 2 minutes everyday.
At exactly midnight last night, all three watches were
showing the same time.
If today is 25 July 2003, then on which date all three
clocks will show the same time again? | | 3 |
| Karan bought a little box of midget matches, each one inch
in length. He found that he could arrange them all in the
form of a triangle whose area was just as many square inches
as there were matches.
He then used up six of the matches, and found that with the
remainder he could again construct another triangle whose
area was just as many square inches as there were matches.
And using another six matches he could again do precisely
the same.
How many matches were there in the box originally?
Note that the match-box can hold maximum of 50 matches. | | 1 |
| What is the four-digit number in which the first digit is
1/3 of the second, the third is the sum of the first and
second, and the last is three times the second? | | 1 |
| If you were to dial any 7 digits on a telephone in random
order, what is the probability that you will dial your own
phone number?
Assume that your telephone number is 7-digits. | | 3 |
| can anyone help me out in solving the following puzzle "i
live in water,if you cut my head i am at your door,if you
cut my tail i am a fuit,if you cut both,i am in you" | TCS | 7 |
| Amit, Bhavin, Himanshu and Rakesh are sitting around a table.
? The Electonics Engineer is sitting to the left of the
Mechanical Engineer.
? Amit is sitting opposite to Computer Engineer.
? Himanshu likes to play Computer Games.
? Bhavin is sitting to the right of the Chemical Engineer.
Can you figure out everyone's profession? | | 1 |
| Arrange five planets such that 4 of them add up to 5th
planet numerically. Each of the letters of the planet should
represent a unique number from the range 0 - 9. You have to
use all ten digits.
There is an amazing mathematical relationship exists among
the names of the planet. | | 1 |
| Pinto says, "The horse is not Black."
Sandy says, "The horse is either Brown or Grey."
Andy says, "The horse is Brown."
At least one is telling truth and at least one is lying.
Can you tell the color of the horse? | | 2 |
| A group of friends went on a holiday to a hill station. It
rained for 13 days. But when it rained in the morning, the
afternoon was lovely. And when it rained in the afternoon,
the day was preceded by clear morning.
Altogether there were 11 very nice mornings and 12 very nice
afternoons. How many days did their holiday last? | | 1 |
| What is the minimum number of races required to pick the
best three horses from 25 horses if each race has maximum of
5 horses? | Infosys | 19 |
| A, B and C are three points on a straight line, not
necessarily equidistant with B being between A and C. Three
semicircles are drawn on the same side of the line with AB,
BC and AC as the diameters. BD is perpendicular to the line
ABC, and D lies on the semicircle AC.
If the funny shaped diagram between the three semicircles
has an area of 1000 square cms, find the length of BD. | | 1 |
| Mrs. F has invited several wives of delegates to the United
Nations for an informal luncheon. She plans to seat her 9
guests ina row such that each lady will be able to converse
with the person directly to her left and right. She has
prepared the following list.
Mrs. F speaks English only.
Mrs. G speaks English and French.
Mrs. H speaks English and Russian.
Mrs. J speaks Russian only.
Mrs. K speaks English only.
Mrs. L speaks French only.
Mrs. M speaks French and German.
Mrs. N speaks English and German.
Mrs. O speaks English only.
How many distinct seating arrangements are possible? Give
all possible seating arrangements.
Note that ABCD and DCBA are the same. | | 1 |
| Imagine a triangle of coins on a table so that the first row
has one coin in it and the second row
has two coins in it and so on. If you can only move one coin
at a time, how many moves does it take
to make the triangle point the other way? | | 3 |
| Everyday in his business a merchant had to weigh amounts
from 1 kg to 121 kgs, to the nearest kg. What are the
minimum number of different weights required and how heavy
should they be? | | 2 |
| Yesterday in a party, I asked Mr. Shah his birthday. With a
mischievous glint in his eyes he replied. "The day before
yesterday I was 83 years old and next year I will be 86."
Can you figure out what is the Date of Birth of Mr. Shah?
Assume that the current year is 2000. | | 4 |
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