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A drinks machine offers three selections - Tea, Coffee or Random (Either tea or Coffee) but the machine has been wired up wrongly so that each button does not give what it claims. If each drink costs 50p, how much minimum money do you have to put into the machine to work out which button gives which selection?
5 31017You have 13 balls which all look identical. All the balls are the same weight except for one. Using only a balance scale, can find the odd one out with only 3 weighings? Is it possible to always tell if the odd one out is heavier or lighter than the other balls?
9 36180How many squares are there in a 5 inch by 5 inch square grid? Note that the grid is made up of one inch by one inch squares.
4 24617Five 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?
5 9093If you added together the number of 2's in each of the following sets of numbers, which set would contain the most 2's: 1-333, 334-666, or 667-999?
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1 4848If one person sends the e-mail to two friends, asking each of them to copy the mail and send it to two of their friends, those in turn send it to two of their friends and so on. How many e-mails would have been sent by the time it did 30 sets?
2 5756At the entrance to a members club stands a stranger seeking admission. A friend told him that it's easy to get in. You just have to answer a question corrcetly! Answering wrong, however, will result in being shot! To live a little longer, the man waits in a back alley near the entrance for people to go in. After a while a man comes to the entrance. The door warden asks him: "Twelve?" to which he replies "Six!" and goes in. "That's easy." our friend thinks, but he waits a little longer. Another man comes to the door. "Six?" the door warden asks, to which he replies "Three!" and goes in. "That's too good to be true" our friend thinks, and he was right. Because, when asked "Four?", he answered "Two!" and was found dead in the alley. What was the correct answer?
1 6224There 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 6094Sarika multiplied 414 by certain number and obtained 69958 as the answer. But she found that there is some error in the answer - both the 9s in the answer are wrong and all the other digits are correct. Can you find the correct answer?
5 15962Find the least number which when divided by 35, leaves remainder 25; when divided by 45, leaves remainder 35 and when divided by 55, leaves remainder 45.
9 44853The ratio of Boys to Girls is 6:4. 60% of the boys and 40% of the girls take lunch in the canteen. What % of class takes lunch in canteen?
10 20808In the following multiplication, certain digits have been replaced with asterisks (*). Replace all the asterisks such that the problem holds the result.
2 4962How 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?
5 12175Five 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 -------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------- 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 5528Eleven 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.
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Fathers age is 5 times his son's age. 4 years back the father was 9 times older than son.Find the fathers' age.
A boy scores 9 marks more than his friend in an exam and has 56% marks of the total of their marks. Calculate the marks scored by each of them.
Next number in the series: 77,49,36,18,?
a, b, b, c, c, c, d, d, d, d, . . . . . . Find the 288th letter of this series?
Three pipes, A, B, & C are attached to a tank. A & B can fill it in 20 & 30 minutes respectively while C can empty it in 15 minutes. If A, B & C are kept open successively for 1 minute each, how soon will the tank be filled?
In the 4 digits 1,2,3,4 how many 4 digited numbers are possible which are divisable by 4? Repetetions are allowed
a man is standing before a painting of a man and he says I have no bro and sis and his [painted picture] father is my father’s son?
Suggest measures to improve the speaking skill of students
In a class of 60 boys, 45 like pizza, 30 like burger and 5 like neither. Find number of boys who like both?
What is the average of x, y, and z? 1. 2x + y + 4z = 23 2. 3x + 4y + z = 22 statement 2 alone is sufficient, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question both statements taken together are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient statement 1 alone is sufficient, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient, and additional data is needed to answer the question
There is a lucky draw held every day. If there is a winning number eg. 1876, then all possible numbers like 1867 ,1687,1768 etc are the numbers that match irrespective of the position of the digits. Thus all these numbers qualify fr the lucky draw prize. Assume there is no zero digit in any numbers. Write a program to show all the possible winning numbers if a "winningnumber" is passed as an argument to the function. i want a solution in c/c++ language
A wizard named Nepo says "I am only three times my son's age. My father is 40 years more than twice my age. Together the three of us are a mere 1240 years old." How old is Nepo?
What is the angle between the two hands of the clock when it shows 10:10?
A son and father goes for boating in river upstream . After rowing for 1 mile son notices the hat of his fathe falling in the river. After 5 min. he tells his father that his hat has fallen. So they turn around and are able to pick the hat at the point from where they began boating after 5 min. Tell the speed of river.
Two trains are travelline at equilateral .Train A is travelling in the direction of earths spin.Other train B is travelling in opposite direction of earths spin.Which trains wheels will wear first?and why?
