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| 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 |
| 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 |
| SlowRun Express runs between Bangalore and Mumbai, For the
up as well as the down journey, the train leaves the
starting station at 10:00 PM everyday and reaches the
destination at 11:30 PM after three days.
Mr. Haani once travelled by SlowRun Express from Mumbai to
Bangalore. How many SlowRun Express did he cross during his
journey? | | 1 |
| On the shelf you have 10 identical bottles of identical
pills (let?s say there?s a hundred pills in each bottle).
However, one of those 10 bottles contains cheap knockoff
pills. The only way to differentiate fake pills from real
pills is the weight - while real pills weigh 1 g each, the
knockoff pills are only 0.9 g. You have one scale that
shows the exact weight (down to the mg) of whatever is
weighed.
How can you tell which bottle contains fake pills with just
1 weighing?
| TCS | 5 |
| 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 |
| 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? | | 2 |
| 2. At a recent painting competition, jonneys rendition of
a constable was not last. priya only just managed to
avoid last place and came third. the lady who painted a
monkey was very successful and took first place. mary
beat the lady who painted the temple and the lady who
painted the flower beat sachin. can you determine who
painted what and who won? | | 1 |
| To move a safe, two cylindrical steel bars 7 cms in
diameter are used as rollers. How far will the safe move
forward when the rollers have made one revolution? | IBM | 8 |
| There is a safe with a 5 digit number as the key. The 4th
digit is 4 greater than the second digit, while the 3rd
digit is 3 less than the 2nd digit. The 1st digit is thrice
the last digit. There are 3 pairs whose sum is 11.
Find the number. | | 1 |
| There are 3 ants at 3 corners of a triangle, they randomly
start moving towards another corner.
What is the probability that they don't collide?
| | 1 |
| You have 3 points labelled A, B and C. You then have another
3 points labelled 1, 2 and 3. The aim of the puzzle is to
connect point A with point 1, 2 and 3. Point B with point 1,
2 and 3 and point C with point 1, 2 and 3.
Now while connecting the points you have to follow one rule
- the lines cannot cross over each other. | | 1 |
| one man driving a car in a lonely forest .. it was raining
at that moment ...suddenly one of the car tyre got
punchured...and he is having stephiny in his car ...he gets
it and he tried to fix that stephiny...when he removes the
bolts of punchred tire all are gone into mud...all bolts...
fell into mud...and that bolts he never get...then, how can
he reach safely to home... by driving his car..? | Infosys | 12 |
| 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?
| | 3 |
| Three men, including Gianni and three woman, including Sachi
are in line at the BrentWood post office. Each has two
different pieces of business to conduct.
1. The first person is a woman.
2. Carlos wants to send an overnight package.
3. Lau is just ahead of Pimentelli who is the same sex as Lau.
4. Gianni is two places ahead of the person who wants to buy
stamps.
5. Knutson - who is the opposite sex than Rendler - isn't
the person who wanted to complain about a mail carrier.
6. The six people, not necessarily in the same order are -
Anthony, Donna, the person who wants to fill out a
change-of-address form, the one who wants to buy a money
order, the one who wants to send Airmail to Tibet and the
second person in the line.
7. The four tasks of the last two people in line, not
necessarily in the same order are - sending books fourth
class, buying a money order, picking up a package and
complaining about a mail carrier.
8. The person who wants to send books fourth class is just
behind a person of the same sex.
9. Mary is just behind a person who wants to send an insured
package.
10. The person who wants to send Airmail to Tibet is either
two places ahead of or two places behind the one who wants
to add postage to his or her meter.
11. Anthony isn't two places behind the who wants to pickup
a registered letter.
12. Toriseza is two places ahead of the person who wants to
pick up a package.
13. Knutson isn't just ahead of the person who wants to send
an item parcel post.
Can you figure out where each customer is in the line, his
or her full name (one surname is Loti) and the two things he
or she wants to accomplish? Provide your answer is POSITION
- FIRST NAME - LAST NAME - BUSINESS format. | | 1 |
| The letters P, Q, R, S, T, U and V, not necessarily in that
order represents seven consecutive integers from 22 to 33.
? U is as much less than Q as R is greater than S.
? V is greater than U.
? Q is the middle term.
? P is 3 greater than S.
Can you find the sequence of letters from the lowest value
to the highest value? | | 1 |
| A man has Ten Horses and nine stables as shown here.
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
The man wants to fit Ten Horses into nine stables. How can
he fit Ten horses into nine stables? | | 2 |
| 16*2/7-8*4/3+17*3/7 | SBI | 16 |
| You have a bucket of jelly beans. Some are red, some are
blue, and some green. With your eyes closed, pick out 2 of a
like color.
How many do you have to grab to be sure you have 2 of the same?
You have a bucket of jelly beans. Some are red, some are
blue, and some green. With your eyes closed, pick out 2 of a
like color.
How many do you have to grab to be sure you have 2 of the same? | | 1 |
| Five horses ran in the race.
? There were no ties.
? Sikandar did not come first.
? Star was neither first nor last.
? Mughal Glory came in one place after Sikandar.
? Zozo was not second.
? Rangila was two place below Zozo.
In what order did the horses finish? | | 3 |
| 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 |
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