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| 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 |
| If A+B=C, D-C=A and E-B=C, then what does D+F stands for?
Provide your answer in letter terms as well as in number terms. | | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Montu, Bantu, Chantu and Pintu have pets.
Montu says, "If Pintu and I each have a dog, then exactly
one of Bantu and Chantu has a dog."
Bantu says, "If Chantu and I each have a cat, then exactly
one of Montu and Pintu has a dog."
Chantu says, "If Montu and I each have a dog, then exactly
one of Bantu and Pintu has a cat."
Pintu says, "If Bantu and I each have a cat, then exactly
one of Bantu and I has a dog."
Only one of the four is telling the truth. Who is telling
the truth? | | 1 |
| A man got 30 aples in 1 Rs.Now he want 20% of profit on it.
How many apples He should Sell in 1 Rs.?? | TCS | 13 |
| Replace each letter by a digit. Each letter must be
represented by the same digit and no beginning letter of a
word can be 0.
O N E
O N E
O N E
+ O N E
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T E N
Use trial and error. 0 =1, N = 8 ,E = 2, T = 7
1 8 2
1 8 2
1 8 2
+ 1 8 2
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7 2 8
A man is on a search for Atlantis and comes upon an island
where all the inhabitants know whether Atlantis is still
around or not.
However, all of the inhabitants are either Fairies or Trolls
and they all use a spell to appear humanoid so you cannot
tell which is which. And the Faries always tell the truth
and the Trolls always lie, but there is a slight
complication, some of the Fairies have gone insane and
always lie and some of the Trolls have also gone insane and
always tell the truth.
So here is your task: you must ask the first inhabitant that
you come to ONE question and from that ONE question you must
determine wether Atlantis is still around or not.
What is the question that you must ask? | Infosys | 1 |
| 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 |
| Jim lies a lot. He tells the truth on only one day in a week.
One day he said: "I lie on Mondays and Tuesdays."
The next day he said: "Today is either Sunday, Saturday or
Thursday."
The next day he said: "I lie on Fridays and Wednesdays."
On which day of the week does Jim tell the truth? | | 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 |
| Makayla had $1.19 in change. None of the coins was a dollar.
Nicole ask her for change for a dollar, but Makayla could
not make change.
What coins did she have? | | 1 |
| On evey Sunday Amar, Akbar and Anthony lunch together at
Preetam-Da-Dhaba where they order lassi based on following
facts.
1. Unless neither Amar nor Akbar have lassi, Anthony must
have it.
2. If Amar does not have lassi, either Akbar or Anthony or
both have it.
3. Anthony has lassi only if either Amar or Akbar or both
have it.
4. Akbar and Anthony never have lassi together.
Who order(s) lassi? | | 1 |
| A woman took a certain number of eggs to the market and sold
some of them.
The next day, through the industry of her hens, the number
left over had been doubled, and she sold the same number as
the previous day.
On the third day the new remainder was tripled, and she sold
the same number as before.
On the fourth day the remainder was quadrupled, and her
sales the same as before.
On the fifth day what had been left over were quintupled,
yet she sold exactly the same as on all the previous
occasions and so disposed of her entire stock.
What is the smallest number of eggs she could have taken to
market the first day, and how many did she sell daily? Note
that the answer is not zero. | | 1 |
| Mr. Wagle goes to work by a bus. One day he falls asleep
when the bus still has twice as far to go as it has already
gone.
Halfway through the trip he wakes up as the bus bounces over
some bad potholes. When he finally falls asleep again, the
bus still has half the distance to go that it has already
travelled. Fortunately, Mr. Wagle wakes up at the end of his
trip.
What portion of the total trip did Mr. Wagle sleep? | | 1 |
| A man went into a fast food restaurant and ate a meal
costing Rs. 105, giving the accountant a Rs. 500 note. He
kept the change, came back a few minutes later and had some
food packed for his girl friend. He gave the accountant a
Rs. 100 note and received Rs. 20 in change. Later the bank
told the accountant that both the Rs. 500 and the Rs. 100
notes were counterfeit.
How much money did the restaurant lose? Ignore the profit of
the food restaurant. | TCS | 8 |
| Two identical pack of cards A and B are shuffled
thoroughly. One card is picked from A and shuffled with B.
The top card from pack A is turned up. If this is the Queen
of Hearts, what are the chances that the top card in B will
be the King of Hearts?
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| Mr. Black, Mr. White and Mr. Grey were chatting in the Yahoo
conference. They were wearing a black suit, a white suit and
a grey suit, not necessarily in the same order.
Mr. Grey sent message, "We all are wearing suit that are of
the same color as our names but none of us is wearing a suit
that is the same color as his name."
On that a person wearing the white suit replied, "What
difference does that make?"
Can you tell what color suit each of the three persons had on? | | 1 |
| How many possible combinations are there in a 3x3x3 rubics
cube?
In other words, if you wanted to solve the rubics cube by
trying different combinations, how many might it take you
(worst case senerio)?
How many for a 4x4x4 cube? | | 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 |
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