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| If A * [(B + C)(D - E) - F(G*H) ] / J = 10 What number is
ABCDEFGHJ where each letter is a digit? | | 9 |
| Pinto says, "The horse is not Black."
Sandy says, "The horse is either Brown or Grey."
Andy says, "The horse is Brown."
At least one is telling truth and at least one is lying.
Can you tell the color of the horse? | | 2 |
| Four friends - Arjan, Bhuvan, Guran and Lakha were
comparing the number of sheep that they owned.
It was found that Guran had ten more sheep than Lakha.
If Arjan gave one-third to Bhuvan, and Bhuvan gave a
quarter of what he then held to Guran, who then passed on a
fifth of his holding to Lakha, they would all have an equal
number of sheep.
How many sheep did each of them possess? Give the minimal
possible answer
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| 16*2/3*7*3/43*1/3=? | SBI | 8 |
| RAW means | Geometric-Software | 7 |
| A tank can be filled by pipe A in 30 minutes and by pipe B
in 24 minutes. Outlet pipe C can empty the full tank in one
hour and twenty minutes.
If the tank is empty initially and if all the three pipes A,
B and C are opened simultaneously, in how much time will the
tank be full? | | 1 |
| 1. at the recent web developers bowling match, two games
weree played. kiev beat stuart in both
games; also richard beat john in both games. The winner
in game 1 came second in game 2. richard won game
2 and john beat stuart in game1. no player got the saame
placing twice. can you determine who finished where in
each game? | | 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 |
| Three men - Sam, Cam and Laurie - are married to Carrie,
Billy and Tina, but not necessarily in the same order.
Sam's wife and Billy's Husband play Carrie and Tina's
husband at bridge. No wife partners her husband and Cam
does not play bridge.
Who is married to Cam?
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| A number of 9 digits has the following properties:
? The number comprising the leftmost two digits is
divisible by 2, that comprising the leftmost three digits
is divisible by 3, the leftmost four by 4, the leftmost
five by 5, and so on for the nine digits of the number i.e.
the number formed from the first n digits is divisible by
n, 2<=n<=9.
? Each digit in the number is different i.e. no
digits are repeated.
? The digit 0 does not occur in the number i.e. it is
comprised only of the digits 1-9 in some order.
Find the number.
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| Six cabins numbered 1-6 consecutively, are arranged in a row
and are separated by thin dividers. These cabins must be
assigned to six staff members based on following facts.
1. Miss Shalaka's work requires her to speak on the phone
frequently throughout the day.
2. Miss Shudha prefers cabin number 5 as 5 is her lucky number.
3. Mr. Shaan and Mr. Sharma often talk to each other during
their work and prefers to have adjacent cabins.
4. Mr. Sinha, Mr. Shaan and Mr. Solanki all smoke. Miss
Shudha is allergic to smoke and must have non-smokers
adjacent to her.
5. Mr. Solanki needs silence during work.
Can you tell the cabin numbers of each of them? | | 1 |
| When a bottle full of honey was weighed, its weight was 1
kilogram. When the bottle was weighed with half the honey,
its weight was 600 grams. What is the weight of the bottle? | | 9 |
| There are 70 employees working with BrainVista of which 30
are females. Also,
? 30 employees are married
? 24 employees are above 25 years of age
? 19 married employees are above 25 years, of which 7 are males
? 12 males are above 25 years of age
? 15 males are married.
How many unmarried females are there and how many of them
are above 25? | | 1 |
| There is a perfect sphere of diameter 40 cms. resting up
against a perfectly straight wall and a perfectly straight
floor i.e. the wall and the floor make a perfect right angle.
Can a perfect sphere of diameter 7 cms. pass through the
space between the big sphere, the wall and the floor?
Support your answer with valid arguments. Don't submit just
"Yes" or "No". | | 3 |
| Imagine a triangle of coins on a table so that the first row
has one coin in it and the second row
has two coins in it and so on. If you can only move one coin
at a time, how many moves does it take
to make the triangle point the other way? | | 3 |
| 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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| Ekta got chocolates to give her friends on her Birthday. If
she gives 3 chocolates to each friend,
one friend will get only 2 chocolates. Also, if she gives 2
chocolates to each friends, she will
left with 15 chocolates.
How many chocolates Ekta got on her Birthday? and how many
friends are there? | | 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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| An emergency vehicle travels 10 miles at a speed of 50 miles
per hour.
How fast must the vehicle travel on the return trip if the
round-trip travel time is to be 20 minutes? | | 1 |
| Consider a state lottery where you get to choose 8 numbers
from 1 to 80, no repetition allowed. The Lottery Commission
chooses 11 from those 80 numbers, again no repetition. You
win the lottery if at least 7 of your numbers are there in
the 11 chosen by the Lottery Commission.
What is the probability of winning the lottery? | | 1 |
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