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I bought 2 nursery drapes for less than 10 $ . If I bought as many yards of each as there were pieces per yard in cents . I paid 215 cents more for one of them . Then how many yards of each did I buy ?...

Asked By: david | Asked On: Aug 5th, 2006

Answered by: Mark Haynes on: Apr 23rd, 2012

1) "I bought 2 nursery drapes for less than $10." $10 = ˘1000 ˘999 < ˘10002) "If i bought as many yards of each as there were pieces per yard in cents."1 yard = ˘13) "I paid 215 cents more for one of...

1,2,3,5,16 , what is next ?

Asked By: zairkka | Asked On: Mar 2nd, 2012

Answered by: sasikumar on: Apr 7th, 2012

1+0*1;
1+1*1=2;
2+1*1=3;
3+2*1=5;
5+3*2*1=16;
16+5*3*2*1=126

Answered by: javahrishi on: Apr 6th, 2012

2^2 - 1^2=3;
3^2 - 2^2=5;
5^2 - 3^2=16;
16^2 - 5^2 = 231

2 batsmen are on 94. 2 balls remaining and 7 runs to win. And both the batsmen make century and win match. This question asked ny infosys.Plz reply at once

Asked By: Ashok | Asked On: Mar 16th, 2006

Answered by: sreejith on: Apr 3rd, 2012

First batsman hits and runs two but he didn't touch the non stickers crease line so he got only 1 run. On the same time when he is running the fielder throw the ball and wicket keeper miss the ball an...

Answered by: Aditya kr Jha on: Mar 14th, 2012

1st bats man take one run n complete his century and another bats man hit six and complete his century n won the match.

We have two buckets, 1 of capacity 3liter and another of 5 liter.We have 5 liters of water.So how will we make combinations such that 1 bucket will have exactly 4 liters of water?

Asked By: sillysamal | Asked On: Feb 17th, 2007

Answered by: sugins on: Apr 1st, 2012

1.Keep the 5lit bucket full and 3lit bucket empty. 2. Now pour water into the 3 lit bucket from the 5lit bucket and full it. 3.Now we will hav remaining 2lit of water in 5lit bucket and 3lit of water...

Answered by: Gopal27 on: Jan 28th, 2012

1. Fill 3lt bucket from 5lt (the left water is 2lt)
2. Fill 5lt from 3lt
3. Again fill 3lt from 2lt water
4. Then this 3lt bucket fill from 5lt bucket
5. As this we found 4lt water in 5lt bucket..

There is a staircase having n steps (odd or even). A person standing at the base can take one or two-steps at a time. My query is in how many ways can the stairs can be climbed?

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Sep 9th, 2005

Answered by: Aravindan on: Mar 27th, 2012

Ans is Fibonacci series.... if its n steps., then its n+1th fibo no.

Answered by: Venugopal668 on: Nov 27th, 2010

It depends on odd number or even number if its 4 then
1111
22
112=3
122=3
so 1+1+3+3
answer is 8 which is 2n of given number

odd 3
then
111
12=2
22=1
so 1+2+1=4
which is n+1
so answer is canot predict

How much horses goats and cows did he buy?

Asked By: Tony Devassy | Asked On: Mar 16th, 2012

A man bought some horses, cows and goats. They were 100 in number(toTALLY). If it costed rs.100 to buy those 100 animals and the cost of a horse, a cow and a goat was rs.6,rs.3, 10 paise respectively,how much horses goats and cows did he buy?

Answered by: MANISH AGARWAL on: Mar 17th, 2012

He will buy one horse, 29 cows and 70 goats .

1*6=6 (for horse); 29*3=87 (for cows);70*10 paise=7.
TOTAL MONEY = 6+87+7=100.
TOTAL ANIMALS=1+29+70=100.

Ramesh sit around a round table with some other men. He has one rupee more than his right person and this person in turn has 1 rupee more than the person to his right and so on, ramesh decided to give...

Asked By: Micky | Asked On: Mar 11th, 2006

Answered by: Suraj Grewal on: Feb 11th, 2012

There are 3 persons sitting with the right hand of Ramesh
assume Ramesh=4
a=3
b=2
c=1
Ramesh gives 1 rs/- to a he has 3 left
now a has 4 and gives 2 to b remaining a has 2
now b has 4 and gives 3 to c remaining b has 1
now c has 4 and gives 4 to Ramesh and remaining c has 0.

Answered by: gaurav4067 on: Dec 7th, 2010

Here, consider there are n number of persons sitting on the table. Let Ramesh has Rs. x. Then the person to his right will have (x-1) then to his right will have (x-2) and so on till the person to...

6'o clock ticks 6 times

Asked By: sudarshan2u | Asked On: Aug 25th, 2010

At 6'o clock, the clock ticks 6 times. The time between first and last ticks was 30sec. How much time it takes at 12'o clock?

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Answered by: swatisrajput

Member Since Sep-2010 | Answered On : Sep 7th, 2010

At 6'o clock ticks 6 times means 5 interval
and also given that time b/w first and last tick is 30 sec.
so
30/5=6
i.e time of each interval is 6 sec.

Similarly at 12'o clock, clock ticks 12 times i.e 11 interval
so
1 interval time=6
so 11 interval=11*6
Answer=66 sec

Answered by: onika on: Feb 11th, 2012

1 minute

Answered by: arunkarthic on: Jan 31st, 2012

1-2-3-4-5-6 there are 5 intervals and 30 sec is given in question...
so 6 o clock 5*6=30sec
7 o clock 6*6=36sec
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.
.
11 o clock 10*6=60sec
12 o clock 11*6=66sec it will take....so answer is 66sec.

A clock takes 7 sec to strike 7how long it will take to strike 10

Asked By: Pooja Gupta84 | Asked On: Sep 15th, 2006

Answered by: arunkarthic on: Jan 31st, 2012

10.5 seconds

Answered by: Venugopal668 on: Nov 27th, 2010

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+....
so after 10 sec
n*(n+1)/2
so 10*11/2
it takes 55 secs

Find ages

Asked By: sheetal singh | Asked On: Nov 29th, 2009

A fathers age is reverse of sons age. One year back fathers age was twice of sons age. What is the fathers current age?

Answered by: Gopal27 on: Jan 28th, 2012

Father's current age is 73...

Answered by: shraisy on: Sep 25th, 2011

so in the end is it always going to be a hit and trial ?

There are two balls touching each other circumferencically. The radius of the big ball is 4 times the diameter of the small all. The outer small ball rotates in anticlockwise direction circumferencically...

Asked By: Micky | Asked On: Mar 11th, 2006

Answered by: Gopal27 on: Jan 28th, 2012

16*8=128 is ans..

Answered by: arindam on: Dec 21st, 2011

2*pi*r*16=2*pi*4*r*N
//as both boll will cover same distence..
N=rev of big ball
=>N=16/4=4...ans

Weight of heavy ball

Asked By: sudarshan2u | Asked On: Aug 25th, 2010

There are 6561 balls out of them 1 is heavy. Find the min. No. Of times the balls have to be weighed for finding out the heavy ball.

Answered by: Samueal on: Jan 26th, 2012

8 times is the right answer.

Answered by: sachin on: Oct 10th, 2011

6561/9=729
729/3=243
243/9=27
27/9=3
3/3=1

Given a rectangular 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? To make it tougher,...

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: May 31st, 2005

Answered by: chaitanya on: Jan 4th, 2012

if suppose the cake is a mobile .... i will cut the cake like removing back pannel plate .....for that only you can get it equal

Answered by: arvind on: Jan 1st, 2012

Cut the cake horizontally to get equal halfs.

Managing director interview puzzle

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Jul 20th, 2005

A managing director interviewed candidates for a responsible position in his company, finally arriving at three whom he could not separate. He called them together and said, "in my desk I have some small sticky discs, some of which are black and some white. Close your eyes and I will stick one on the...

Answered by: L on: Dec 18th, 2011

I think its the other way around, he saw 2 black disks and realized that his was also a black disk. Since the manager was supposed to give all of them equal chances in solving the puzzle, it would be ...

Answered by: sharan on: Aug 28th, 2011

selected candidate is innluentional person,,,,, manager told him before only

A rich man died. In his will, he has divided his gold coins among his 5 sons, 5 daughters and a manager. According to his will: first give one coin to manager. 1/5th of the remaining to the elder son....

Asked By: divya | Asked On: Jun 27th, 2006

Answered by: shraisy on: Oct 5th, 2011

@gaurav4607 can you please explain how did you get this ??

Answered by: gaurav4067 on: Dec 5th, 2010

Answer is 3121 coins. Here is the breakup:

First son = 624 coins

Second son = 499 coins

Third son = 399 coins

Forth son = 319 coins

Fifth son = 255 coins

Daughters = 204 each

Manager = 5 coins

Albert and fernandes have two leg swimming race. Both start from opposite ends of the pool. On the first leg, the boys pass each other at 18 m from the deep end of the pool. During the second leg they...

Asked By: sharad vasisht | Asked On: Dec 4th, 2005

Answered by: shraisy on: Sep 29th, 2011

@gaurav4607
will we not consider the time they took for rest at each end . i.e 4 seconds ?

Answered by: gaurav4067 on: Dec 8th, 2010

The solution is :Let the length of swimming pool be : Dlet their speed be x and y. So acc. to ques the fast swimmer (let x) would start from shallow end. Thuslet they first meet after time: t1x ....

Train speed

Asked By: sudarshan2u | Asked On: Aug 29th, 2010

A train ran at a certain speed for one hour and then due to a technical problem, it ran at 3/5th of its original speed and reached the destination 2 hrs late. The driver said, had the problem occurred 50 miles later, we would have gained 40 minutes. What is the distance between the two cities that...

Answered by: Abhash SInha on: Sep 4th, 2011

In this question, we have to solve for original time and original speed and then we will calculate the total distance. Let x & y be the speed & time respectively. Therefore, total distance=xy mile FI...

Answered by: hsirah on: Oct 1st, 2010

Total distance is 200 km.Case 1: t1 + t2 = T +120Case 2: t1 + t2_ + t3_ = T+80t2 -(t2_+t3_) = 40(t2-t3_)-t2 = 40t2 = x2/(3/5*x1/60)t3_ = x3_/(3/5*x1/60)t2 = x2_/x1/60Also x2 - x3_=50you can solve for ...

In an island the natives lie and visitors speak truth. A man wants to know whether a salesman beside him in a bar is a native or visitor. He asked him to ask a woman beside him whether she is a native...

Asked By: Sivakumar | Asked On: Jun 15th, 2007

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Answered by: avinash shetty

Answered On : Jun 26th, 2007

The answer is he is a visitor i.e. he is telling the truth

Reason:
If he was a native i.e. a liar then his answer would would have been "she says she is a native" for both cases because
If she was visitor: she would have said she is a visitor and he would have lied that she is a native
If she was native: she would have lied and again say that she is a visitor and he would have lied that she is a native.

Best of luck bye

Answered by: vinay on: Aug 23rd, 2011

The answer may be native, because without asking her the salesman said the answer, he says only in the condition when he is a liar, so liar means native

Answered by: ganeshbhat on: Jan 14th, 2010

If the woman was a visitor then she would have accepted that she is a visitorIf the woman was a native then she would have lied that she is a visitorso in either case the woman says she is a visitorHe...

Two women were selling marbles int the market place -- 1 at 3 for a paise and other at 2 for a paise. One day both of them were obliged to return home when each had 30 marbles unsold. They put together...

Asked By: Pooja Gupta84 | Asked On: Nov 20th, 2006

Answered by: Hassan Farooqi on: Jul 18th, 2011

The answer is simple. The women were no mathematicians otherwise they wont be selling marbles :) They calculated the wrong rate. (30+30)*(2/5)=24 whereas 10+15=25. Instead of calculating ((1/3)+(1...

Answered by: stockball on: May 24th, 2011

I think they both lost their marbles...

Pythagorean triplets with consecutive natural numbers

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Aug 27th, 2005

For readers interested in pythagorean triplets with consecutive natural numbers, take any odd number -- say 11 -- and square it. 11 squared = 121 = 2(60)+ 1. Add 60 squared to both sides to get 11 squared + 60 squared = 60 squared + 2(60) + 1 = (60 + 1) squared = 61 squared. What do we get? (11, 60,...

Answered by: stockball on: May 24th, 2011

This is an overly simple algebra question.  The first form of the equation is x^2 = 2y + 1.  The second form of the equation is x^2 + y^2 = (y+1) ^2, which is just y^2 + 2y + 1.  Subtract the y^2 from both sides of the equation and you again have x^2 = 2y + 1. 

Answered by: C. Sivasankaran on: May 16th, 2006

There are some other ways also1.  Multiples of the Odd number triplets, say for example 3, 4, 5     Its multiples also triplets i.e. 6,8,10 ;   9, 12, 15  ;&nbs...

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