There is a 50m long army platoon marching ahead. The last person in the platoon wants to give a letter to the first person leading the platoon. So while the platoon is marching he runs ahead, reaches the first person and hands over the letter to him and without stopping he runs and comes back to his original position. In the mean time the whole platoon has moved ahead by 50m. The question is how much distance did the last person cover in that time. Assuming that he ran the whole distance with uniform speed.
4 24550If you take a marker & start from a corner on a cube, what is the maximum number of edges you can trace across if you never trace across the same edge twice, never remove the marker from the cube, & never trace anywhere on the cube, except for the corners & edges?
2 12871There are 3 persons X, Y and Z. On some day, X lent tractors to Y and Z as many as they had. After a month Y gave as many tractors to X and Z as many as they have. After a month Z did the same thing. At the end of this transaction each one of them had 24. Find the tractors each originally had?
6 23878A certain street has 1000 buildings. A sign-maker is contracted to number the houses from 1 to 1000. How many zeroes will he need?
6 38731There are 9 coins. Out of which one is odd one i.e weight is less or more. How many iterations of weighing are required to find odd coin?
6 38327In 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 13801A worker earns a 5% raise. A year later, the worker receives a 2.5% cut in pay, & now his salary is Rs.22702.68 What was his salary to begin with?
3 19697A 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
2 6108A person with some money spends 1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of the remaining for food and 1/4 of the remaining for travel. He is left with Rs 100/- How much did he have with him in the begining?
2 33215Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass. How many cows are needed to eat the grass in 96 days?
3 22524If a passenger train takes twice to cross a freight train to overtake than to cross each other in opposite direction find how many times faster is passenger train than the freight train
2 6581The following question asked at Infosys campus recruitment held at Pragathi. If 1>= y > x and xy=z.which of the following is not true? i)z>0 ii)x=z iii)y=z iv)z>y
3 10049A policeman buys some bunches of yellow bananas at 30 cents per bunch and red bananas 40 cents/bunch .He said if i have split the sum equally and bought bananas he would have got two more bunches find the amount he used it to buy bananas
3 8064Classic: 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.
9 32188Post New General Aptitude Questions
a circular track has 100yards. The race of Rabbit and TOuttoise. they started at same point. and move in circular path. in opposite direction.first tortoise run for 1/8 th path, then only rabbit starts,rabbit moved slowly till tortoise meet him, Rabbit had covered 1/6 th distance speed( over earlier speed) to win
Find the next series number 0, 6, 24, 120, 210, ---, ----
If two pencils cost 8 cents, then how much do 5 pencils cost?
It takes eight hours for a 600 km journey, if 120 km is done by train and the rest by car. It takes 20 minutes more, if 200 km is done by train and the rest by car. The ratio of the speed of the train?
The speed of a motor boat in still water is 15 km/hr and the rate of current is 3 km/hr. What is the distance travelled downstream in 12 minutes?
If the simple interest is 10.5 % annual and compound interest is 10 % annual, compounded annually, find the difference between the interests after 3 years on a sum of Rs. 1,000.
The house is big and lovely but since nobody uses it it is pretty much a white Elephant What does White Elephant mean?
the graph was given.the x and y axes were there.the line is intersecting them.the points of intersection were y=3,x=0 and x=-2,y=0.write the equation of line.
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In 8*8 chess board what is the total number of squares refer oder
Three cards are drawn at random from an ordinary pack of cards. Find the probability that they will consist of a king, a queen and an ace.
Find the next letter in the series Q,W,E,R,T,--
A clock with the hours round the face in Roman block numbers, as illustrated in the sketch fell down and the dial broke into four parts....
If A=Z, B=Y, C=X, .......... Z=A, Then LIMIT = ?
A person has to go both Northwards&Southwards in search of a job. He decides to go by the first train he encounters.There are trains for every 15 min both southwards and northwards.First train towards south is at 6:00 A.M. and that towards North is at 6:10 .If the person arrives at any random time,what is the probability that he gets into a train towards North.