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| Three containers are of 15,10 and 6 ltrs capacity.
Initially its in configuration (15,0,0). Make it to
configuration (2,8,5). | | 4 |
| There is a shortage of tubelights, bulbs and fans in a
village - Kharghar. It is found that
?All houses do not have either tubelight or bulb or fan.
?exactly 19% of houses do not have just one of these.
?atleast 67% of houses do not have tubelights.
?atleast 83% of houses do not have bulbs.
?atleast 73% of houses do not have fans.
What percentage of houses do not have tubelight, bulb and
fan?
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| When Alexander the Great attacked the forces of Porus, an
Indian soldier was captured by the Greeks. He had displayed
such bravery in battle, however, that the enemy offered to
let him choose how he wanted to be killed. They told
him, "If you tell a lie, you will put to the sword, and if
you tell the truth you will be hanged."
The soldier could make only one statement. He made that
statement and went free. What did he say?
| CTS | 1 |
| If you added together the number of 2's in each of the
following sets of numbers, which set would contain the most
2's: 1-333, 334-666, or 667-999? | ABC | 1 |
| A worker earns a 5% raise. A year later, the worker receives
a 2.5% cut in pay, & now his salary is Rs. 22702.68
What was his salary to begin with? | | 2 |
| 12 members were present at a board meeting. Each member
shook hands with all of the other members before & after the
meeting.
How many hand shakes were there? | | 2 |
| 1. at the recent web developers bowling match, two games
weree played. kiev beat stuart in both
games; also richard beat john in both games. The winner
in game 1 came second in game 2. richard won game
2 and john beat stuart in game1. no player got the saame
placing twice. can you determine who finished where in
each game? | | 1 |
| Here is the family tree of Mr. RAHUL
RAHUL
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RATISH YASH OM TRILOK
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AMAR AMIT RAM HARSH ASHOK
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How many children does Mr. TRILOK have? | | 1 |
| 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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| One of the four people - Mr. Clinton, his wife Monika,
their son Mandy and their daughter Cindy - is a singer and
another is a dancer. Mr. Clinton is older than his wife and
Mady is older than his sister.
1. If the singer and the dancer are the same sex, then
the dancer is older than the singer.
2. If neither the singer nor the dancer is the parent
of the other, then the singer is older than the dancer.
3. If the singer is a man, then the singer and the
dancer are the same age.
4. If the singer and the dancer are of opposite sex
then the man is older than the woman.
5. If the dancer is a woman, then the dancer is older
than the singer.
Whose occupation do you know? And what is his/her
occupation?
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| There are 3 lights (in one room) and 3 swtiches (in another
room), one for each, if you only enter into the light room
once. How can you find out which switch corresponds to which
light? | Lucent | 7 |
| Consider the sum: ABC + DEF + GHI = JJJ
If different letters represent different digits, and there
are no leading zeros, what does J represent? | | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Replace the letters with the correct numbers.
T W O
X T W O
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T H R E E | | 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 |
| There are 4 mugs placed upturned on the table. Each mug have
the same number of marbles and a statement about the number
of marbles in it. The statements are: Two or Three, One or
Four, Three or One, One or Two.
Only one of the statement is correct. How many marbles are
there under each mug? | | 1 |
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