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| 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 |
| A rich old Arab has three sons. When he died, he willed his
17 camels to the sons, to be divided as follows:
First Son to get 1/2 of the camels Second Son to get 1/3rd
of the camels Third Son to get 1/9th of the camels.
The sons are sitting there trying to figure out how this can
possibly be done, when a very old wise man goes riding by.
They stop him and ask him to help them solve their problem.
Without hesitation he divides the camels properly and
continues riding on his way.
How did he do it? | | 1 |
| If A * [(B + C)(D - E) - F(G*H) ] / J = 10 What number is
ABCDEFGHJ where each letter is a digit? | | 11 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. | Infosys | 1 |
| There are 10 statements written on a piece of paper:
1. At least one of statements 9 and 10 is true.
2. This either is the first true or the first false statement.
3. There are three consecutive statements, which are false.
4. The difference between the numbers of the last true and
the first true statement divides the number, that is to be
found.
5. The sum of the numbers of the true statements is the
number, that is to be found.
6. This is not the last true statement.
7. The number of each true statement divides the number,
that is to be found.
8. The number that is to be found is the percentage of true
statements.
9. The number of divisors of the number, that is to be
found, (apart from 1 and itself) is greater than the sum of
the numbers of the true statements.
10. There are no three consecutive true statements.
Find the minimal possible number? | | 1 |
| A blindfolded man is asked to sit in the front of a carrom
board. The holes of the board are shut with lids in random
order, i.e. any number of all the four holes can be shut or
open.
Now the man is supposed to touch any two holes at a time and
can do the following.
? Open the closed hole.
? Close the open hole.
? Let the hole be as it is.
After he has done it, the carrom board is rotated and again
brought to some position. The man is again not aware of what
are the holes which are open or closed.
How many minimum number of turns does the blindfolded man
require to either open all the holes or close all the holes?
Note that whenever all the holes are either open or close,
there will be an alarm so that the blindfolded man will know
that he has won. | | 2 |
| 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? | | 3 |
| A fish had a tail as long as its head plus a quarter the
lenght of its body. Its body was
three-quarters of its total length. Its head was 4 inches long.
What was the length of the fish? | | 2 |
| Four men - Abraham, Bobby, Clinton and Denial - are standing
in a straight line.
1. One man is fair, handsome and unscarred.
2. Two men who are not fair, are each standing next to Abraham.
3. Bobby is the only man standing next to exactly one
handsome man.
4. Clinton is the only man not standing next to exactly one
scarred man.
Who is fair, handsome and unscarred? | | 5 |
| 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 | 17 |
| 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 |
| Find out the smallest four digit number which is divisible
from 1 to 10? | Infosys | 27 |
| 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 |
| the age of baby will b 5 time after 20 yrs what is present age? | | 11 |
| A person wanted to withdraw X rupees and Y paise from the
bank. But cashier made a mistake and gave him Y rupees and
X paise. Neither the person nor the cashier noticed that.
After spending 20 paise, the person counts the money. And
to his surprise, he has double the amount he wanted to
withdraw. Find X and Y. | Bajaj | 3 |
| Mark ate half of a pizza on Monday. He ate half of what was
left on Tuesday and so on. He followed this pattern for one
week.
How much of the pizza would he have eaten during the week? | | 2 |
| 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns
according to their heights.
Tallest among each row of all are asked to come out. And
the shortest among them is A.
Similarly after resuming them to their original positions,
the shortest among each column are asked to come out. And
the tallest among them is B.
Now who is taller A or B ?
| | 6 |
| 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?
| | 1 |
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