Aptitude Questions Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

what is the importance of colours in life?

Colors, Genpact, GU, HCL, HSBC, IBM, IELS, Infosys, MFM, Microsoft, TATA, TCS, Wipro,

150 279425

Classic: If a bear walks one mile south, turns left and walks one mile to the east and then turns left again and walks one mile north and arrives at its original position, what is the color of the bear.

EXL, Microsoft, TCS,

9 28816

Given a rectangular (cuboidal for the puritans) cake with a rectangular piece removed (any size or orientation), how would you cut the remainder of the cake into two equal halves with one straight cut of a knife?

Microsoft,

15 31347

There are 3 baskets. one of them have apples, one has oranges only and the other has mixture of apples and oranges. The labels on their baskets always lie. (i.e. if the label says oranges, you are sure that it doesn't have oranges only,it could be a mixture) The task is to pick one basket and pick only one fruit from it and then correctly label all the three baskets.

Microsoft,

16 70667

You have 8 balls. One of them is defective and weighs less than others. You have a balance to measure balls against each other. In 2 weighings how do you find the defective one?

Microsoft, Oracle,

5 11819

Why is a manhole cover round?

Microsoft,

3 8158

How many cars are there in the USA?

BRS, Microsoft, Sedgwick,

16 58421

You've got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them. The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the end of every day. If you are only allowed to make two breaks in the gold bar, how do you pay your worker?

HeadStrong, Microsoft,

30 58909

One train leaves Los Angeles at 15mph heading for New York. Another train leaves from New York at 20mph heading for Los Angeles on the same track. If a bird, flying at 25mph, leaves from Los Angeles at the same time as the train and flies back and forth between the two trains until they collide, how far will the bird have traveled?

Microsoft,

21 39937

You have two jars, 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles. A jar will be picked at random, and then a marble will be picked from the jar. Placing all of the marbles in the jars, how can you maximize the chances of a red marble being picked? What are the exact odds of getting a red marble using your scheme?

Altera, Microsoft, SikSoft,

2 13635

Imagine you are standing in front of a mirror, facing it. Raise your left hand. Raise your right hand. Look at your reflection. When you raise your left hand your reflection raises what appears to be his right hand. But when you tilt your head up, your reflection does too, and does not appear to tilt his/her head down. Why is it that the mirror appears to reverse left and right, but not up and down?

Microsoft,

9 26582

You have 5 jars of pills. Each pill weighs 10 gram, except for contaminated pills contained in one jar, where each pill weighs 9 gm. Given a scale, how could you tell which jar had the contaminated pills in just one measurement?

Alcatel, Alcatel-Lucent, Lazada, Microsoft, Qubercomm,

7 47464

If you had an infinite supply of water and a 5 quart and 3 quart pail, how would you measure exactly 4 quarts?

Microsoft,

4 8579

You have a bucket of jelly beans. Some are red, some are blue, and some green. With your eyes closed, pick out 2 of a like color. How many do you have to grab to be sure you have 2 of the same?

Microsoft,

5 22324

Which way should the key turn in a car door to unlock it?

Microsoft, Toyota,

13 50321


Un-Answered Questions { Aptitude Questions }

Find the hypotenuse of a right angle isoceles triangle whose area is 50.

694


Which of the following fractions is less than 1/3

693


How many 3 digits with 3 Distinct digits are there from 100-1000.

650


One man brought pen and book from 250 and he sold both at 10% profit on pen and 20% loss on book and finally he gained 40% what is the value of pen

770


aptitude questions

7444






If x,y,z are chosen frm -3,1/2,2 what is the largest value of (x/y)*z*z

724


Find the correct meaning of the following phrase: Man of few words

718


2.For the Delta- Wye transformation in given figure, the value of the resistance R is.

2785


There is a safe with a 5 digit number as the key. The 4th digit is 4 greater than second digit, while 3rd digit is 3 less than 2nd digit. The 1st digit is thrice the last digit. There are 3 pairs whose sum is 11. Find the number.

697


Supposing a clock takes 7 seconds to strike 7. How mlong will it take to strike 10?

888


Four persons can cross a bridge in 3, 7, 13, 17 minutes. Only two can cross at a time. Find the minimum time taken by the four to cross the bridge.

840


There's a camel living in a desert. There is a market 1000 miles away. The camel has 3000 dates for sale. It has to take the date to the market. But for that hte camel eats one date per mile. How many dates the camel can trade?

816


The population of a city increases @ 4% p.a. There is an additional annual increase of 4% of the population due to the influx of job seekers, find the % increase in population after 2 years ?

765


Meaning for soot:carbon, ash: ?

666


There are two candles with different thickness, but are of equal length. The thicker one lasts of six hours and the thinner candle last for 2 hours less than the thicker one. Suresh lights the two candles at the same time. When he went to bed he saw the thicker one is twice the length of the thinner one. For how long did Suresh light the two candles.

693