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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 |
| There is a 50m long army platoon marching ahead. The last
person in the platoon wants to give a letter to the first
person leading the platoon. So while the platoon is marching
he runs ahead, reaches the first person and hands over the
letter to him and without stopping he runs and comes back to
his original position.
In the mean time the whole platoon has moved ahead by 50m.
The question is how much distance did the last person cover
in that time. Assuming that he ran the whole distance with
uniform speed. | | 2 |
| You have 2 identical glass bulbs with you. Bulb
manufacturer has mentioned that each bulb might withstand a
drop of 200 Feet at maximum. Your task is to find the
height at which the bulb breaks ofcourse with minimum
number of iterations.
Assume that you have 200 blocks of 1 foot each which can be
stacked one by one to create a 200 Feet structure to carry
out the test. | Wipro | 6 |
| 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 |
| Find out all possible groups of three different numbers that
add up to 13 and arrange them according to given condition.
If one number is 9, it must go with 1 and 3.
If one number is 8, it must go with either 1 and 4 or 2 and 3.
If one number is 7, it must go with either 1 and 5 or 2 and 4.
If one number is 6, it must go with either 2 and 5 or 3 and 4. | | 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 |
| 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,B,C,D are four teams.Three guys x,y,z comment about
matches between four teams ,
X said either A or B will win
Y says A will never win
Z says C or B will not win
only one of them is correct then who won the match.
| Infosys | 7 |
| A cube painted on all six sides by red color is divided
into 125 equal cubes find
i) number of cubes having
a)3 faces colored
b)2 faces colored
c) 1 face colored
d)0 faces colored
ii)Find probability of picking a cube having red face
| Infosys | 5 |
| There are 8 stones which are similar except one which is
heavier than the others. To find it, you are given a pan
balance. What is the minimal number of weighing needed to
find out the heaviest stone ?
| iFlex | 15 |
| How long would it take you to count 1 billion orally if you
could count 200 every minute and were given a day off every
four years? | | 2 |
| 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 |
| A man is stranded on a desert island. All he has to drink is
a 20oz bottle of sprite.
To conserve his drink he decides that on the first day he
will drink one oz and the refill the bottle back up with
water. On the 2nd day he will drink 2oz and refill the
bottle. On the 3rd day he will drink 3oz and so on...
By the time all the sprite is gone, how much water has he drunk? | | 1 |
| A positive integer that, when added to 1000 gives a sum
which is greater than when multiplied by 1000.
Find the positive integer. | | 4 |
| 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?
| | 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 |
| In the following multiplication, certain digits have been
replaced with asterisks (*). Replace all the asterisks such
that the problem holds the result. | | 1 |
| At what time immediately prior to Six O'clock the hands of
the clock are exactly opposite to each other. Give the exact
time in hours, minutes and seconds. | | 1 |
| 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 |
| How many ways are there of arranging the sixteen black or
white pieces of a standard international chess set on the
first two rows of the board?
Given that each pawn is identical and each rook, knight and
bishop is identical to its pair.
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