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| Question | Asked @ | Answers |
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| RAW means | Geometric-Software | 7 |
| give me an some aptitude question asked on interviews | Satyam | 3 |
| One side of the bottom layer of a triangular pyramid has 12
balls. How many are there in the whole pyramid?
Note that the pyramid is equilateral and solid. | | 1 |
| 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 |
| Substitute digits for the letters to make the following
subtraction problem true.
S A N T A
- C L A U S
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X M A S
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 M, no other
letter can be 3 and all other M in the puzzle must be 3. | | 1 |
| SkyFi city is served by 6 subway lines - A, E, I, O, U and Z.
? When it snows, morning service on line E is delayed.
? When it rains or snows, service on the lines A, U and Z is
delayed both morning and afternoon.
? When the temperature drops below 20 C, afternoon service
is cancelled on either line A or line O, but not both.
? When the temperature rises above 40 C, afternoon service
is cancelled on either line I or line Z, but not both.
? When service on line A is delayed or cancelled, service on
line I is also delayed.
? When service on line Z is delayed or cancelled, service on
line E is also delayed.
On February 10, it snows all day with the temperature at
18C. On how many lines service will be delayed or cancelled,
including both morning and afternoon? | Infosys | 3 |
| there are 3 jars of different sizes.one jar holds 8 litres
of milk,the other 2 jars of 5 litres and 3 jars are
empty.There is no measuring level or marks in all the
jars.Juggle between these 3 jars and get 2 jars containing
4litres each at the end. | QA | 7 |
| 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 |
| What is the minimum number of numbers needed to form every
number from 1 to 7,000?
Example: To form 4884, you would need 2 4s & 2 8s. 4822
requires a 4, a 8, & 2 2s, but you would not count the
numbers again that you had already counted from making 4884. | | 2 |
| 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 |
| Write 1111......(243 times) i.e. a 243 digit number with all
1s.
Prove that it is divisible by 243. | | 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 |
| A fish had a tail as long as its head plus a quarter the
lenght of its body. Its body was
three-quarters of its total length. Its head was 4 inches long.
What was the length of the fish? | | 1 |
| I am the owner of a pet store. If I put in one canary per
cage, I have one bird too many. If I put in two canaries
per cage, I have one cage too many. How many cages and
canaries do I have? (Expalin in Detail)
a.4 canaries and 3 cages
b.3 canaries and 4 cages
c.4 canaries and 5 cages
d.None of the above
| DELL | 3 |
| What is the area of the triangle ABC with A(e,p) B(2e,3p)
and C(3e,5p)?
where p = PI (3.141592654) | | 1 |
| 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 |
| Somebody marked the six faces of a die with the numbers 1, 2
and 3 - each number twice. The die was put on a table. Four
people - Abu, Babu, Calu and Dabu - sat around the table so
that each one was able to see only three sides of the die at
a glance.
? Abu sees the number 1 and two even numbers.
? Babu and Calu can see three different numbers each.
? Dabu sees number 2 twice and he can't remember the third
number.
What number is face down on the table? | | 1 |
| 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 4 mathematicians - Brahma, Sachin, Prashant and
Nakul - having lunch in a hotel. Suddenly, Brahma thinks of
2 integer numbers greater than 1 and says, "The sum of the
numbers is..." and he whispers the sum to Sachin. Then he
says, "The product of the numbers is..." and he whispers the
product to Prashant. After that following conversation takes
place :
Sachin : Prashant, I don't think that we know the numbers.
Prashant : Aha!, now I know the numbers.
Sachin : Oh, now I also know the numbers.
Nakul : Now, I also know the numbers.
What are the numbers? Explain your answer. | | 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 |
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