TCS Interview Questions

For the fIFA world cup, paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams a and b, paul picks a with the same probability as a's chances of winning.Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between x and y,...

Asked By: Anu.K.J | Asked On: Dec 15th, 2010

A circular dart board of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point x in the circle. What is the probability that x is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?

Asked By: Anu.K.J | Asked On: Dec 15th, 2010

Given a collection of points p in the plane, a 1-set is a point in p that can be separated from the rest by a line; i.E. The point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of p is denoted by n1(p). Find the maximum value of n1(p) over all configurations...

Asked By: Anu.K.J | Asked On: Dec 15th, 2010

A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 35. For all values of n from 1 to 35, statement n says "at most n of the statements on this sheet are false". Which statements are true and which are false?

Asked By: Anu.K.J | Asked On: Dec 15th, 2010

A and b play the following min-max game. Given the expressionn = 12 + x*(y - z)where x, y and z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), "a" would like to maximize n while "b" would like to minimize it. Towards this end, "a" chooses a single digit number and "b" substitutes this for a variable...

Asked By: Anu.K.J | Asked On: Dec 15th, 2010

A file is transferred from one location to another in 'buckets'. The size of the bucket is 10 kilobytes. Each bucket gets filled at the rate of 0.0001 kilobytes per millisecond. The transmission time from sender to receiver is 10 milliseconds per bucket. After the receipt of the bucket the receiver...

Asked By: swatirose88 | Asked On: May 22nd, 2008

The options are1)55 2)64 3)32 4)53answer=55

Asked By: sangu pawar | Asked On: Jul 30th, 2007

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Aug 20th, 2002

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Aug 20th, 2002