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| A rich man died. In his will, he has divided his gold coins
among his 5 sons, 5 daughters and a manager.
According to his will: First give one coin to manager. 1/5th
of the remaining to the elder son. Now give one coin to the
manager and 1/5th of the remaining to second son and so
on..... After giving coins to 5th son, divided the remaining
coins among five daughters equally.
All should get full coins. Find the minimum number of coins
he has? | | 3 |
| If it is given that:
25 - 2 = 3
100 x 2 = 20
36 / 3 = 2
What is 144 - 3 = ? | | 2 |
| 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?
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| In a sports contest there were m medals awarded on n
successive days (n > 1).
1. On the first day 1 medal and 1/7 of the remaining m - 1
medals were awarded.
2. On the second day 2 medals and 1/7 of the now remaining
medals was awarded; and so on.
3. On the nth and last day, the remaining n medals were awarded.
How many days did the contest last, and how many medals were
awarded altogether? | | 1 |
| One side of the bottom layer of a triangular pyramid has 12
balls. How many are there in the whole pyramid?
Note that the pyramid is equilateral and solid. | | 1 |
| Two people enter a race in whick you run to a point and
back. Person A runs 20 mph to and from the point. Person B
runs to the point going 10 mph and 30 mph going back.
Who came in first? | | 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 |
| Somebody marked the six faces of a die with the numbers 1, 2
and 3 - each number twice. The die was put on a table. Four
people - Abu, Babu, Calu and Dabu - sat around the table so
that each one was able to see only three sides of the die at
a glance.
? Abu sees the number 1 and two even numbers.
? Babu and Calu can see three different numbers each.
? Dabu sees number 2 twice and he can't remember the third
number.
What number is face down on the table? | | 1 |
| 4 men can dig 4 holes in 4 days.
How many hours does it take for 1 man to dig half a hole? | | 3 |
| can anyone help me out in solving the following puzzle "i
live in water,if you cut my head i am at your door,if you
cut my tail i am a fuit,if you cut both,i am in you" | TCS | 7 |
| 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? | | 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 |
| 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 |
| In a hotel, rooms are numbered from 101 to 550. A room is
chosen at random. What is the probability that room number
starts with 1, 2 or 3 and ends with 4, 5 or 6?
| | 2 |
| 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 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 | 9 |
| There are four groups of Mangoes, Apples and Bananas as
follows:
Group I : 1 Mango, 1 Apples and 1 Banana
Group II : 1 Mango, 5 Apples and 7 Bananas
Group III : 1 Mango, 7 Apples and 10 Bananas
Group IV : 9 Mango, 23 Apples and 30 Bananas
Group II costs Rs 300 and Group III costs Rs 390.
Can you tell how much does Group I and Group IV cost? | | 1 |
| there are 3 jars of different sizes.one jar holds 8 litres
of milk,the other 2 jars of 5 litres and 3 jars are
empty.There is no measuring level or marks in all the
jars.Juggle between these 3 jars and get 2 jars containing
4litres each at the end. | QA | 7 |
| What is the remainder left after dividing 1! + 2! + 3! + ? +
100! By 7? | Ignou | 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 |
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