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| can anyone provide the answer for the puzzle below
There are 25 horses,in each race only 5 horses can
participate.how many races are required to select best 5
horses out of 25.
need answer with detailed explanation | Wipro | 18 |
| There is a family party consisting of two fathers, two
mothers, two sons, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, one
daughter-in-law, one grandfather, one grandmother and one
grandson.
What is the minimum number of persons required so that this
is possible? | | 1 |
| Sarika multiplied 414 by certain number and obtained 69958
as the answer. But she found that there is some error in the
answer - both the 9s in the answer are wrong and all the
other digits are correct.
Can you find the correct answer? | | 2 |
| Five students - Akash, Chintan, Jignesh, Mukund and Venky -
appeared for an exam. There were total five questions - two
multiple choice (a, b or c) and three true/false questions.
They answered five questions each and answered as follow.
I II III IV V
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Chintan c b True True False
Akash c c True True True
Jignesh a c False True True
Mukund b a True True False
Venky b b True False True
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Also, no two students got the same number of correct answers.
Can you tell which are the correct answers? What are their
individual score? | | 1 |
| A soldier looses his way in a thick jungle. At random he
walks from his camp but mathematically in an interesting
fashion.
First he walks one mile East then half mile to North. Then
1/4 mile to West, then 1/8 mile to South and so on making a
loop.
Finally how far he is from his camp and in which direction?
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| In a certain year, the number of girls who graduated from
City High School was twice the number of boys. If 3/4 of the
girls and 5/6 of the boys went to college immediately after
graduation, what fraction of the graduates that year went to
college immediately after graduation? | | 1 |
| Mr. D'souza has bought four cars - Merc, Honda, Ford, Zen -
as presents for his sons' birthdays, all of which are next
week. Given the following information, what will each son get?
Alan will not get the Honda unless Barry gets the Merc and
Denzil gets the Ford. Barry will not get the Ford unless
Carl gets the Zen and Alan gets the Merc. Denzil will not
get the Zen unless Alan gets the Honda and Barry gets the
Merc. Alan will not get the Merc unless Carl gets the Zen
and Denzil gets the Ford. Barry will not get the Merc unless
Alan gets the Zen and Denzil gets the Ford. Alan will not
get the Zen unless Barry gets the Honda and Carl gets the
Merc. Carl will not get the Zen unless Barry gets the Honda
and Alan gets the Ford. Alan will not get the Ford unless
Barry gets the Zen and Denzil gets the Honda. Carl will not
get the Merc unless Denzil gets the Honda. | | 1 |
| Shahrukh speaks truth only in the morning and lies in the
afternoon, whereas Salman speaks truth only in the afternoon
and lies in the morning.
A says that B is Shahrukh.
Is it morning or afternoon and who is A - Shahrukh or Salman?
It is Afternoon and A can be Salman or Shahrukh. If A is
Salman, he is speaking truth. If A is Shahrukh, he is lying.
Want to confirm it? Consider following 4 possible answers
and check for its truthness individually. | | 2 |
| Two planes take off at the same exact moment. They are
flying across the Atlantic. One leaves New York and is
flying to Paris at 500 miles per hour. The other leaves
Paris and is flying to New York at only 450 miles per hour (
because of a strong head wind ).
Which one will be closer to Paris when they meet? | | 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 |
| Last Saturday Milan went for the late night show and came
late. In the morning family members asked him which movie
did he see. He gave different answers to everyone.
? He told to his father that he had gone to see MONEY.
? According to his mom, he saw either JOHNY or BABLU.
? His elder brother came to know that he saw BHABI.
? To his sister, he told ROBOT.
? And his grandpa heard that he saw BUNNY.
Thus, Milan gave six movie names, all five letter words. But
he saw some other movie with five letter word. Moreover,
each of the six movie names mentioned above has exactly two
letters common with the movie he saw. (with the same positions)
Can you tell which movie did Milan see? | | 2 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Scientist decided to do a study on the population growth of
rabbits. Inside a controlled environment, 1000 rabbits were
placed.
Six months later, there were 1000Z rabbits. At the beginning
of the 3rd year, there were roughly 2828Z rabbits, which was
4 times what the scientists placed in there at the beginning
of the 1st year.
If Z is a positive variable, how many rabbits would be there
at the beginning of the 11th year? | | 1 |
| A B C
D
E F G
H
I
Each of the digits from 1 to 9 is represented by a different
letter above. Also, A + B + C = C + D
+ E = E + F + G = G + H + I = 13
Which digit does E represent? | | 6 |
| 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 |
| If a rook and a bishop of a standard chess set are randomly
placed on a chessboard, what is the probability that one is
attacking the other?
Note that both are different colored pieces. | | 1 |
| A man is going to an Antique Car auction. All purchases must
be paid for in cash. He goes to the
bank and draws out $25,000.
Since the man does not want to be seen carrying that much
money, he places it in 15 evelopes
numbered 1 through 15. Each envelope contains the least
number of bills possible of any available
US currency (i.e. no two tens in place of a twenty).
At the auction he makes a successful bid of $8322 for a car.
He hands the auctioneer envelopes
number(s) 2, 8, and 14. After opening the envelopes the
auctioneer finds exactly the right amount.
How many ones did the auctioneer find in the envelopes? | | 1 |
| A cow is standing 5 feet from the middle of the bridge .A
train is at a distance of 2 times length of the bridge from
direction in which cow is nearer to end of the bridge is
coming at a speed of 90 miles/hour.If cow moves towards
train it will be saved by 1 foot.If cow moves away from
train it will be hit by three inches of cow
(i)Find length of bridge
(ii)Find cows speed
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