Infosys Placement Paper annd Interview Pattern Submitted by Kavitha

Question:
Assume that the twins followed a different set of rules, so that on a given day both told only the truth while next day both only lied, alternating days of truth telling and lying. Under these rules, which of the following conversations would be possible?
a) Twin A : "Today you are a liar"
    Twin B : "That is correct"
b) Twin A : "Today you are a liar"
    Twin B : "That is not so"
c) Twin A : "Tomorrow we will be liars"
Twin B : "Yesterday we were truth tellers"
d) Twin A : "Tomorrow we will be liars"
Twin B : "You are 1 year older than I am"
e) Twin A : "We always tell the truth"
Twin B : "We some times tell the truth".

Question:
If the twins are heard saying the following on the same day, which
choice presents a correct statement?
Twin A : "It is Sunday Today"
Twin B : "Yesterday was Sunday"
Twin A : "it is summer season now"
a) it is a summer Sunday.
b) it is a summer Monday.
c) it is Monday but not summer.
d) it is Sunday but not summer.
e) it is impossible to determine whether it is Sunday or Monday.

Question:
In the month of October in a year has exactly four Mondays and four Fridays, find what day of week will be on the 20th of November of that year.
Answer:
20th November was Wednesday

Question:
Six persons A,B,C,D,E & F went to solider cinema. There are six consecutive seats. A sits in one of the seats followed by B, followed by C and soon. If A taken one of the six seats, then B should sit adjacent to A. C should sit adjacent A or B. D should sit adjacent to A, B, or C and soon. How many possibilities are there?
Answer:
32 ways

Question:
In mathematics country 1,2,3,4....,8,9 are nine cities. Cities which form a no. that is divisible by 3 are connected by airplanes. (e.g. cities 1 & 2 form no. 12 which divisible by 3 then 1 is
connected to city 2). Find the total no. of ways you can go to 8 if you are allowed to break the journeys.
Answer:
5

Question:
ABCDE are sisters. Each of them gives 4 gifts and each receives 4 gifts No two sisters give the same combination (e.g. if A gives 4 gifts to B then no other sisters can give four to other one.)
(i) B gives four to A.
(ii) C gives 3 to E.
How much did A,B,C,E give to D?
Answer:
Donor no of gifts A 1 B - C 1 D 2

Question:
There are some bulbs, which are numbered from 1 to 100.all the bulbs are in on conditions. The following operations are performed:-
1. Those bulbs number, which are divisible by 2, are switched OFF.
2. Those bulbs numbered which are divisible by 3 are switched ON
(which are already OFF) and OFF bulbs are switched ON.
3. Similarly bulbs numbers divisible by 4 are either switched ON or
OFF depending upon there previous condition.
4. This procedure is adopted till 100th bulb.
At the end there were how many bulbs, which were in ON condition?
Answer:
10 ( only perfect squares )

Question:
There are different numbers related with A,B,C,D,E.such that, AB*CD=EEE. E*CD-AB=CC.
Find AB*D.
Answer:
BE.

Question:
Find the total no of 10 digits whose sum is 4.

Question:
A, B, C are 3 girls and there are 770 apples. For every 4 apples A takes, B takes 3. For every 6 apples, C takes 7 apples?
Answer:
261:145:303

Question:
T, U, V are 3 friends digging groups in fields. If T & U can complete i groove in 4 days &, U & V can complete 1 groove in 3 days & V & T can complete in 2 days. Find how many days each takes to complete 1 groove individually.
Answer:
24 days.

Question:
4 mathematician has x apples. If he arranges them in rows of 3 one will be left. The same is the case with 5,7,9 apples. But when he arranged them in rows of 11, non will be left. Find the no. of apples.
Answer:
946 (Hint: 11*6 11*11 11*16 11*21 =2E......11*76 =3D946)

Question:
H starts running after T reaches 1/5th they must when H reach 1/6th, if H wants win at what speed H should be run? Note: One circle is there, you show this type of problem.

Question:
5 students A, B, C, D, E. One student knows 5 languages. Like that up to one language. Conditions:-
1) Spanish is most popular language.
2) 3 persons knows Portuguese.
3) B & C normally speak English, but when D gathered, they switched to Spanish because that is only common between the three.
4) Only language common between A, B, E is French.
5) Only language common between C & E is Italian.

Question:
An escalator is descending at constant speed. A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach the bottom. B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time as A takes 10 steps. How many steps are visible when the escalator is not operating.
Answer:
150

Question:
Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. The road is straight before the crossing and both are traveling in the same direction. Cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph. One day the
cyclist comes late by 25 min. and meets the train 5km before the crossing. What is the speed of the train?
Answer:
60 Kmph.

Question:
Five persons Mukherjee, Misra, Iyer, Patil, and Sharma, all take then first or middle names in the full names. There are 4 persons having first or middle name of Kumar, 3 persons with Mohan, 2 persons with dev and 1 Anil.
-- Either Mukherjee and Patil have a first or middle name of Dev or Misra and Iyer have their first or middle name of Dev.
-- Of Mukherjee and Misra, either both of them have a first or middle name of Mohan or neither have a first or middle name of Mohan.
-- Either Iyer or Sharma has a first or middle name of Kumar but not both.
Who has the first or middle name of Anil?
Answer:
Mukherjee.

Question:
Two turns have certain peculiar characteristics. One of them always lies on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. The other always lies on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. On the other days they tell the truth. You are given a conversation.
Person A -- Today is Sunday and my name is Anil.
Person B -- Today is Tuesday and my name is Bill. What is today?
Answer:
Today is Tuesday.

Question:
Which of the following statements can be deduced from the information presented?
I If it is Sunday, the twins will both say so.
II If it is not Sunday, one twin will give the correct day and the
other will lie about everything.
III On any given day, only one twin will give his correct name.

A. I only.
B. I and II only.
C. I and III only.
D. II and III only.
E. I, II, and III.

Question:
If the twins are heard saying the following on the same day, which choice presents a correct statement?
Twin A: "It is Sunday Today".
Twin B: "Yesterday was Sunday".
Twin A: "it is summer season now".

A. It is a summer Sunday.
B. It is a summer Monday.
C. It is Monday but not summer.
D. It is Sunday but not summer.
E. It is impossible to determine whether it is Sunday or Monday.

Question:
Logical reasoning tactics practice puzzle poetry.  Herry, Axie, Amie are friends. Conditions:-
a) Herry or Axie is the oldest.
b) If Axie is the oldest, Amie is the youngest.
Who is the youngest & who is the oldest?
Answer:
Amie is the youngest, Axie is oldest.

Question:
There is a robbery and four persons are suspected out of them one is actual thief, these are the sentences said by each one of them
A says D had done
B says A had done
C says I didn't do
D B lied when he said that I am thief
Out of these only one man is true remaining are false
Answer:
C is thief; D is true

Question:
How many four digit numbers divisible by four can be formed using  1, 2, 3, 4; repetitions are not allowed!
Answer:
6

Question:
A vendor sold two things at same cost 12 rupees with one item at 25%profit and other at 20%loss by this transaction he made profit or loss by how much?
Answer:
loss, 60paise

Question:
Conversation between two employees is as follows:-
EMPLOYEE-1: Hello! Now your experience is twice my experience.
EMPLOYEE-2: Exactly two times.
EMPLOYEE-1: But at the last meet, you said that your experience is
thrice of my experience.
EMPLOYEE-2: That is when we met at 2 years back; your experience is
thrice that of yours.
What is the experience of two employees with the company?
Answer:
EMPLOYEE-1: 4 years; EMPLOYEE-2: 8 years.

Question:
There are four persons A,B,C,D and for languages English, French, German, Italian.
conditions:
1 only one language is spoken by more than two men
2 A don't know English
3 a man can speak either French or German but not both
4 all man cannot speak in a group(no common language)
5 A can mediate when B and C want to speak with each other
6 each men can speak two languages
Answer:
A French Italian
B english French
C German Italian
D German Italian

Question:
There are 3 women, they having three jewels, named diamond, emerald, ruby 3 women A,B,C and 3 thieves D,E,F each they had taken one jewel from each of the women following conditions
one who had taken diamond is the bachelor and most dangerous D 's brother-in- law E who is less dangerous than the thief who had stolen emerald (this is the key from this E had stolen ruby)
D didn't stolen from B

Question:
There were three suspects for a robbery that happened in a bank, Tommy, Joy and Bruce. Each of them was saying that I haven't done anything and the other two has done it. Police found that Tommy was lying .who is the thief.

Question:
Joe started from Bombay towards Pune and her friend Julie in opposite direction. They meet at a point. Distance traveled by Joe was 1.8 miles more than that of Julie after spending some both started their way. Joy reaches in 2 hours while Julie in 3.5 hours. Assuming both were traveling
with constant speed. What is the distance between the two cities?

Question:
There were five hunters A,B,C,D,E and five animals A,B,C,D,E. Hunter having the same name with the animal didn't kill it. Each hunter has missed some animal. A animal was hunt by the hunter whose name matches with animal hunt by hunter B. C animal was hunt by the hunter whose name matches with animal hunt by hunter D. E has hunt C and missed D. find out animals hunted by A,B,C,D,E

Question:
A boy picks up the phone and asks "Who are you?". The voice from the other side answers, "I am your mother's mother-in-law". What is the relation of the boy with the fellow speaking at the other end?

Question:
Imagine a rectangle. Its length = 2*width. A square of 1 inch is cut on all corners so that the remaining portion forms a box when folded. The volume of the box is _____ cubic inches. Find the original dimensions of the box?

Question:
2 persons are doing part time job in a company say A and B. The company is open for all the 7 days of the week. 'A' works every second day. 'B' works every 3rd day. If 'A' works on first June and 'B' works on second June. Find out the date on which both 'A' and 'B' will work together.

Question:
Consider a pile of Diamonds on a table. A thief enters and steals 1/2 of the total quantity and then again 2 extra from the remaining. After some time a second thief enters and steals 1/2 of the remaining+2. Then 3rd thief enters and steals 1/2 of the remaining+2. Then 4th thief enters and steals 1/2 of the remaining+2. When the 5th one enters he finds 1 diamond on the table. Find out the total no. of diamonds originally on the table before the 1st thief entered.

Question:
Imagine 4 persons A,B,C,D. (It is a strength determining game). A found it hard, but could pull 'C' and 'D' to his side. AC and BD pairs on opposite sides found themselves equally balanced. When A and B exchanged their positions to form pairs AD and BC, BC pair could win and pull AD to their side. Order the 4 persons in ascending order according to their strengths.

Question:
Consider a beauty contest. 3 persons participate. Their names are Attractive, Delectable, Fascinating. They are from 3 tribes Pukkas, Wottas, Summas. Pukkas - Always speak truth. Wottas - Always speak lies. Summas - Speak truth and lies alternatively. Each of the 3 persons make 2 statements. The person who speaks truth is the least beautiful. From the statements they give and the character of the 3 tribal types, find out which person belongs to which tribe. Also find
out the persons in the ascending order of their beauty.
Question:
There are 5 positions-Clerk, Buyer, Cashier, Manager, Floorwalker. There are 5 persons- Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Clark, Twain, Ewing, Bernett. Conditions:
1. Clerk and cashier lunchtime 11.30.to12.30.
2. Others 12.30 to 1.30.
3. Mrs. Allen and Bernett play during lunch time.
4. Clerk and cashier share Bachelor rooms.
5. Ewing and Twain are not in good terms because one day when Twain retuned early from lunch he saw Ewing already sitting for lunch and reported about him to the manager. Find out which person holds which post.

Question:
There are 8 courses to be handled by faculty in 2 semesters. 4 in 1st semester and 4 in 2nd semester. The candidates hired for the post are k, l, m, n, o. The courses are Malvino, Shakespeare, Joyce, and Chauncer. Some conditions will be given like
1. L and N handle Shakespeare and Malvino.
2. M and O handle Malvino and Joyce.

Question:
A family I know has several children. Each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers but each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there?
Answer:
4 boys and 3 girls

Question:
No. of animals is 11 more than the no. of birds. If the no. of birds were the no. of animals and no. of animals were the no. of birds( i.e., interchanging no. of animals and birds), the total no. of legs get reduced by one fifth (1/5). How many no. of birds and animals were there?
Answer:
birds:11; animals:22

Question:
In a soap company a soap is manufactured with 11 parts. For making one soap you will get 1 part as scrap. At the end of the day you have 251 such scraps. From that how many soaps can be manufactured?
Answer:
22 + 2+ 1 = 25.

Question:
2 * * |
3 * * | No. 7 does not occur in this
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5 * * | multiplication.
* 4 * |
* * 3 | Find the product.
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* * * * * |
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Answer:
2 8 1
3 2 2
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5 6 2
5 6 2 0
8 4 3 0 0
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9 0 4 8 2
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Question:
There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each. Last digit is 3 times the first one. 3 rd digit is 3 less than the second. 4 th digit is 4 more than the second one. Find the digit.
Answer:
25296

Question:
There are five thieves, each loot a bakery one after the other such that the first one takes 1/2 of the total no. of the breads plus 1/2 of a bread. Similarly 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5fth also did the same. After the fifth one no. of breads remained are 3. Initially how many breads were there?
Answer:
31

Question:
There are some chicken in a poultry. They are fed with corn One sack of corn will come for 9 days. The farmer decides to sell some chicken and wanted to hold 12 chicken with him. He cuts the feed by 10% and sack of corn comes for 30 days. So initially how many chicken are there?

Question:
Two people X & Y walk on the wall of a godown in opposite direction. They meet at a point on one side and then go ahead. X after walking for some time, walks in opposite direction for 15 meters. Then again he turns back and walks in the original direction. What distance did Y walk before they met again, if X walks 11 meters by the time Y walks 8 meters.

Question:
Find a five digit number subject to following conditions:-
a. It contains 2 prime no digits.
b. 3rd digit is the largest.
c. 1st digit = (3 rd digit - 1).
c. Sum of 4th digit and 5th digit is less than 1st digit.
d. Value of the 5th digit lies between the value of 1st digit and 2nd
digit, 5th digit is one half of the 4th digit.
Answer:
71842

Question:
1, 2 , 3, 4 digits are available. How many number of 4 digit numbers which are divisible by 4. (There should be no repetition of digits in the numbers) can be formed?
Answer:
6 numbers.

Question:
A hill of 440 yards is there. Two competitors JACK and JILL go up the hill, first JACK reaches the topmost and immediately starts back and meet JILL 20 yards from the topmost point. Finally JACK reaches the starting point 0.5 minutes earlier than JILL. Speed while coming down is 1.5 times the speed of going up. Find the time taken by JACK for whole journey (880 yards)?
Answer:
6.3 minutes.

Question:
A merchant in the last day sells 2 lamps for Rs.12 price. He finds that he has got 25 % gain on one and 20% lost on the other. Did he loose or gain overall? If so how much?
Answer:
60 paise, loss.

Question:
4 persons are there called JOHN, JACOB, PITER, and WILLIAMS. 4 languages are there named ENGLISH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, FRENCH.
Conditions:-
a. There is no common language for all.
b. Except one language, no language is spoken by more than two.
c. One can know either German or FRENCH but not both.
d. John can't speak ENGLISH But John can act as interpreter between JACOB and PITER. Jacob knows GERMAN but he can talk with WILLIAM who doesn't know a word of GERMAN.
e. No common language between JOHN, PITER, and WILLIAMS.
Which two languages do each person speaks? Hint: Italian is spoken by three persons

Question:
I participated in a race.1/5th of those who are before me are equal to 5/6th of those behind me. What were the total number of contestants in the race?

Question:
Find the 3-digit number. Third digit is square root of first digit. Second digit is sum of first and third digits. Find the number.

Question:
This problem is of time and work type. Some A and some B are able to produce so many tors in so many hours (for example 10 A and 20 B are able to produce 30 tors per hour). We have to find out the rate of working of A and B in tors/hour.

Question:
A and B play a game of dice between them. The dice consists of colors on their faces instead of numbers. A wins if both dice show same color. B wins if both dice show different colors. One dice
consists of 1 red and 5 blue. What must be the color in the faces of other dice? ( i.e. how many blue and how many red?). Chances of winning for A and B are even.

Question:
A girl has 55 marbles. She arranges them in n rows. The nth row consists of n marbles, the (n-1)th row consists of (n-1) marbles and so on. What are the number of marbles in nth row?

Question:
This question is of analogy type. Some sentences regarding tastes of people to poetry are given like all who like A's Poem, like the poems of B. Like this 7 or 8 sentences were given. Questions were based on this.

Question:
Every station in N railroad issues every other station's ticket. Some stations are added. Now they have to issue 46 more tickets. Give the no. of stations after and before added.

Question:
There was a race between 3 people. Me, Doug, and Anne. When I take 21 steps the distance covered is equal to Doug's 24 steps and Anne's 28 steps. I take 6 steps to every 7 steps of Doug and 8 steps of Anne. Who won the race?

Question:
How many bearers will an explorer need for a 6 day march if each man can carry the food stuff of one man for 4 days.

Question:
Consider the following statements:
Albert: Dave did it.
Dave: Tony did it.
Gug: I did not do it.
Tony: Dave lied when he said that i did it.
(a)If only one out of all above statements is true, who did it?
(b)If only one out of all above statements is false, who did it?

Question:
A contribution of Rs. 500 was raised from 500 people. The fee was as follows:
Men: Rs.3.00 each
Women: Rs. 2.00 each
Children: 0.48 each
If number of women is more than number of men, how many children are there?

Question:
Alice and Liu had some berries. The total of Alice's berries and square of number of berries with Liu is 62. The total of Liu's berries and square of number of berries with Alice is 176. How many berries does each of them have?

Question:
A rope ladder was left down from a ship. 12 steps of the ladder were exposed at 10:00 am. The queen, who was going to visit the ship, said she would visit at 1:00 pm as she would have to climb lesser number of steps then. The tide in the sea increases from morning to afternoon at the rate of 1.2 meters per hour. The distance between any 2 steps of the ladder is 0.4 mts. How many steps will the queen have to climb?

Question:
5 hunters Doe, Deer, Hare, Boar and Row kill 5 animals. Each hunter kills an animal that does not correspond to his name. Also each hunter misses a different animal, which again does not correspond to his name.
a) The Deer is killed by the hunter, known by the name of the animal killed by Boar.
b) Doe is killed by the hunter, known by name of animal missed by Hare.
c) The Deer was disappointed to kill only a Hare and missed the Roe.

Question:
A local forecast service has accuracy of 2/3 says No rain, and Meteorological Service having accuracy of 4/3 says Rain. if Preference is as no rain what is the chance of rain?

Question:
a) 10 1 9 2 8 3 7 4 6 5 5 6 4 7 3 8 2 _ _
b) 2 4 16 512 _
Write the next elements in the series.

Question:
A man is sitting in the last coach of train could not find a seat, so he starts walking to the front coach, he walks for 5 min and reaches front coach. Not finding a seat he walks back to last coach
and when he reaches there, train had completed 5 miles. What is the speed of the train?

Question:
The old car of Mary requires tyres to be changed after each 24000 km. If she wants to go for 42000 km journey then how many minimum number of tyres she will need.

Question:
A coin is so unbalanced that it may come both heads in 2 tosses as it may come tails in a single toss. What is the probability of getting a head in a single toss?
Question:
A pen, pencil and eraser together cost $1.00. if 2E<N , if N>2P, and 3P>4E then what a single pen will cost?

Question:
A local forecast service has accuracy of 2/3 says No rain, and Meteorological Service having accuracy of 4/3 says Rain. if preference is as no rain what is the chance of rain?

Question:
Sherlock Holmes thwarted the plan to kidnap Mrs. Mary when they were questioned Mercy and his two associated Shipy and Rany when they were telling the story one of them told one thing wrong and other true, the other told both true, and the last told both false. Examining the following tell the roles played by each
Mercy:
1) I wrote the ransom note
2) Shipy broke into the window
Rany:
1) Shipy wrote the ransom note
2) Mercy ran away with the lady
Shipy:
1) I broke into the window
2) Rany wrote the ransom note.

Question:
Tom asked Kim did you like the stamps? She said yes, me, and Rob too liked them. Kim again said that Rob got 3 more than he would have got, if I would have kept 2 more than, what he got. Tom asked how many you gave Rob? She replied 2 more than what I got. Tell, how many stamps
each Rob and Kim got?

Question:
The Virgo club members used to meet every week to play cards. Each time they used to seat around a round table and for their memory they used all the possible combinations of positions each for a single time only. Can you tell for how many times they met?

Question:
Essays asked
If you are given a chance to change a thing in you hometown, what would you change? Give examples why you want to do so. Television is creating a communication gap among young generation.


Question:
A person needs 6 steps to cover a distance of one slab. If he increases his foot length (step length) by 3 inches he needs only 5 steps to cover the slabs length. What is the length of the each slab?
Answer:
31 inches

Question:
There are 19 red balls and one black ball. Ten balls are put in one jar and the remaining 10 are put in another jar. What is the possibility that the black is in the right jar.
Answer:
1/2

Question:
There is one lily in the pond on 1st June. There are two in the pond on 2nd June . There are four on 3rd June and so on. The pond is full with lilies by the end of the June. On which date the pond is half full?
Answer:
29th. --the June has 30 days).

Question:
There is one lily in the pond on 1st June. There are two in the pond on 2nd June. There are four on 3rd June and so on. The pond is full with lilies by the end of the June.  If we start with 2 lilies on 1st June when will be the pond be full with lilies.
Answer:
29th June.

Question:
A lorry starts from Bangalore to Mysore at 6.00 A.M, 7.00 A.M, 8.00 am.....10 pm. Similarly one another starts from Mysore to Bangalore at 6.00 am,7.00 am, 8.00 am.....10.00pm. A lorry takes 9
hours to travel from Bangalore to Mysore and vice versa. A lorry which has started at 6.00 am will cross how many lorries.
Answer:
10

Question:
A lorry starts from Bangalore to Mysore at 6.00 A.M, 7.00 A.M, 8.00 am.....10 pm. Similarly one another starts from Mysore to Bangalore at 6.00 am, 7.00 am, 8.00 am.....10.00pm. A lorry takes 9 hours to travel from Bangalore to Mysore and vice versa. A lorry which had started at 6.00 pm will cross how many lorries.
Answer:
14

Question:
A person meets a train at a railway station coming daily at a particular time . One day he is late by 25 minutes, and he meets the train 5 km. before the station. If his speed is 12 kmph, what is the
speed of the train?
Answer:
60 kmph

Question:
A thief steals half the total no of loaves of bread plus 1/2 loaf from a bakery. A second thief steals half the remaining no of loaves plus 1/2 loaf and so on. After the 5th thief has stolen there are no
more loaves left in the bakery. What was the total no of loaves did the bakery have at the beginning.
Answer:
31

Question:
A gardener plants 100 meters towards east, next 100 meters towards north, next 100 meters towards west. 98 meters towards east, 96 meters towards north and 96 meters towards west, 94 meters towards south and 94 meters towards east and so on. If a person walks between the trees what is the total distance traveled by him before he reaches the center.

Question:
There are four women and 3 men. They play bridge one night. Find widow among them. Rules:
(i) wife and husband are never partners.
(ii) Wife and husband never play more than one game. One night they played four games as follows:-
1. ------ + ------ vs. ------- + ---------
2. ------ + ------ vs. ------- + ---------
3. ------ + --*--- vs. ------- + ---------
4. ---*-- + ------ vs. ------- + ---------
the woman are marked * above.

Question:
From a vessel, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates on the first day. On the second day 3/4th of the remaining liquid evaporates. What fraction of the volume is present at the end of the second day.
Answer:
50%

Question:
There is a 4-inch cube painted on all sides. This is cut down into of 1-inch cubes. What is the no of cubes, which have no pointed sides?
Answer:
8

Question:
Sam and Mala have a conversation. Sam says I am certainly not over 40. Mala says I am 38 and you are at least 5 years older than me. Now, Sam says you are at least 39. All the statements by the two are false. How old are they really?
Answer:
Mala = 38 yrs; Sam = 41 yrs.

Question:
Ram Singh goes to his office in the city, every day from his suburban house. His driver Gangaram drops him at the railway station in the morning and picks him up in the evening. Every evening Ram Singh reaches the station at 5 O' Clock. Gangaram also reaches at the same time. One day Ram Singh started early from his office and came to the station at 4 O' Clock. Not wanting to wait for the car he starts walking home. Mangaram starts at normal time, picks him up on the way and takes him back house, half an hour early. How much time did Ram Singh walk?

Question:
In a railway station, there are two trains going. One in the harbor line and one in the main line, each having a frequency of 10 minutes. The main line service starts at 5 o'clock and the harbor
line starts at 5.02A.M. A man goes to the station every day to catch the first train that comes.  What is the probability of the man catching the first train?
Answer:
0.8

Question:
A family X went for a vacation. Unfortunately it rained for 13 days when they were there. But whenever it rained in the mornings, they had clear afternoons and vice versa. In all they enjoyed 11 mornings and 12 afternoons. How many days did they stay there totally?
Answer:
18

Question:
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 pass at 10 m from the shallow end of the pool. Both go at constant speed but one of them is faster. Each boy rests for 4 seconds at the end of the first leg. What is the length of the pool?

Question:
Each alphabet stands for one digit in the following multiplication.
T H I S
x I S
---------
X F X X
X X U X
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X X N X X
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What is the maximum value T can take?

Question:
If 1/4 of the time from midnight plus 1/2 of the time from now to midnight is the present time, then What is the present time? 2. In a 10 digit number, if the 1st digit number is the number of  ones, 2nd digit number is the number of twos, and ... so on. 10th digit is the number of zeroes, then find the number.

Question:
A train blows a siren one hour after starting from the station. After that it travels at 3/5th of its speed it reaches the next station 2 hours behind schedule. If it had a problem 50 miles farther
from the previous case, it would have reached 40 minutes sooner. Find the distance between the two stations.

Question:
An army 50 miles long marches at a constant rate. A courier standing at the rear moves forward and delivers the message to the first person and then turns back and reaches the rear of the  army as the army completes 50 miles. Find the distance traveled by the courier.

Question:
Olympic race: 4 contestants: Alan, Charlie, Darren, Brain. There are two races and average is taken to decide the winner. One person comes at the same position in both the race. Charlie always come before Darren. Brian comes first once. Alan comes third at least once. Find the positions. Alan never comes last. Charlie & Darren comes 2nd at least once.

Question:
There are 6561 number of balls in a bag. Out of which one is heavy ball. In how many minimum number of weighing you can find the heavy ball.
Answer:
8

Question:
The profit made by a company in one year is enough to give 6% return on all shares. But as the preferred shares get on return of 7.5%, so the ordinary shares got on return of 5%. If the value of
preferred shares is Rs 4,000000, then what is the value of ordinary shares?
Answer:
Rs. 6,000000.

Question:
There were 50 players playing a game among themselves. Each player is out of the game when lose 3 matches. What is the number of matches should be played in order to get the winner.

Question:
A & B two places. C & D are two people. C started from A and D started from B. When they meet each other in the way C traveled 18 m more than D. Then C takes 13 and half a minute and D takes 24 minutes to reach the other end. What was the distance between A & B.
Answer:
126

Question:
I have been hearing a girl singing a song for last two score. Song: If seven times five and three times seven is added to my age it would be as far above six nines and four as the difference  between twice of my age and a score. Given-A score is 20 yrs.

Question:
A tourist wants to go from A to B. There are four ways to do this:-
1. To take a wagon. The wagon stops for half an hour at a station in between A & B and then goes to B.
2. To walk to B. If he leaves A at the same time the wagon leaves, he will be between by the wagon by 1 mile to reach B.
3. To walk from A at the same time the wagon leaves from A. He will arrive at the mid station at the time when the wagon is prepared to leave. He can take the wagon from there. This will take shortest time.
4. To go on upto the mid station & to walk from there. He will reach at B 15 minutes before the wagon.
What is the distance between A & B?

Question:
In a train there is one brakeman, conductor, engineer & fireman. Their names are Art, John, Tom & Pete given in this order or in reverse order. You have to tell the occupation of the four, with respect to these conditions:-
1. Brakeman has no relatives.
2. John is older than art.
3. Engineer & fireman are brothers.
4. John is Pete's nephew.
5. Fireman is not conductor's uncle.
6. Conductor is not engineer's uncle.
Answer:
Pete & Tom are brothers. Tom--Father and John is his son.
Art--Brakeman.
John--Conductor.
Tom--Engineer.
Pete--Fireman.

Question:
There is an 18 strong building and 4 people live in it. They are dentist, lawyer, accountant, architect. Dentist floor is 5 times the lawyer's floor. Account is below dentist. If architect moves two floors up he will be midway between dentist and account. If architect moves to midway of the building (9th floor) then he will be middle of dentist & lawyer. Ground floor can be ignored i.e. floor 0.
Answer:
Dentist 15. Accountant 13. Architect 12. Lawyer 3.

Question:
4 ladies, Mrs. Margaret, Mrs. Price, Mrs. Winter & Mrs. Ellen went for marketing. Each went for 2 shops only. Their surnames are Lorret, Torrey, Doris and Marshall. One went to a hardware shop. Two went to bank. Two went to butchers. All but Dorris went to grocery etc. Who went where?

Question:
A software engineer starts from home at 3 pm for evening walk. He walks at a speed of 4 kmph on level ground and then at a speed of 3 kmph on the uphill and then down the hill at a speed of 6 kmph to the level ground and then at a speed of 4 kmph to the home at 9 pm. What is the distance on one way?

Question:
A bag contains certain number of files. Each file is numbered with one digit of 0 to 9. Suppose the person want to get the number between 1 to 2000 (or 7000 check). How many minimum number of files should be present in the bag.

Question:
a + b + c +d = d + e + f + g = g + h + i =17.  If a = 4, what are the values of d and g. Each letter taken only one of the digit from 1 to 9.
Answer:
a = 4 ,b = 2, c =6, d = 5, e = 3, f = 8, g = 1, h = 7, i = 9.

Question:
A frog jumps 3 ft comes back 2ft in a day. In how many days it will come out of 30ft deep well?
Answer:
28 days.

Question:
A-B=C
D/E=F
G+H=I
C.F=I
Answer:
A=9, B=5, C=4, F=2.

Question:
When the actual time pass 1 hr, wall clock is 10 min behind it. When 1 hr is shown by wall clock, table clock shows 10 min ahead of 1 hr. When table clock shows 1 hr, the alarm clock goes 5 min behind it. When alarm clock goes 1 hr, wristwatch is 5 min ahead of it. Assuming that all clocks are correct with actual time at 12 noon. What will be time shown by wristwatch after 6 hr?
Answer:
5:47:32.5 (n X 60) 50/60 X 70/60 X 55/60 X 65/60.

Question:
A software engineer just returned from US has eaten too much fat & put a lot of weight. Every Sunday he starts walking 4 km/hr on level ground, then up at 3 kmhr, then back down hill at 6kmhr, then again on level ground at 4kmhr till he reaches his destination. If he returned home at 9 p.m., what distance did he covered?
Answer:
24 km.

Question:
Answer the questions from facts:-
The members of certain tribe are divided into 3 castes Abhor, Dravid amp; Magar.
1. An Abhor woman can't marry Dravid man.
2. A Magar woman can't marry a dravid man.
3. A son takes the caste of his father and a daughter takes caste of her mother.
5. All marriages except those mentioned, are not permitted.
6. There are no children born out of wedlock.

Question:
There are 2 scales of temp A & B. It was given A varies from 14 to 133 and B varies from 36 to 87. Find the temperature, when temperature of A is equal to temp of B.
Answer:
52.5.

Question:
There are 4 married couples, out of which, 3 people in a group is needed. But there should not be his or her spouse in the group. How many groups are possible?
Answer:
32

Question:
In the 4 digits 1,2,3,4, how many 4 digit numbers are possible which are divisible by 4? Repetitions are allowed.
Answer:
64

Question:
Two men are going along a track of rail in the opposite direction. One goods train crossed the first person in 20 sec. After 10 min the train crossed the other person who is coming in opposite direction in 18 sec. After the train has passed, when the two persons will meet?
Answer:
Approx. 72 min.

Question:
The no. of children, adults. The no. of adults the no. of boys. The no. of boys no. of girls. The no. of girls no. of family.
Conditions:-
1. No family is without a child.
2. Every girl has at least one brother and sister.
Answer:
 c > a > b > g > f; 9 6 5 4 3.

Question:
There are 4 boys - Anand, Anandya, Madan and Murali with nicknames Perich, Zomie, Drummy and Madeena not in the same order.
Some conditions
Answer:
Anand : Perich
Anandya : Drummy
Madan : Zombie
Murali : Madeena

Question:
There are 2 diamonds, 1 spade and 1 club and 1 ace and also 1 king, 1 jack and 1 ace are arranged in a straight line.
1. The king is at third place.
2. The left of jack is a heart and its right is king.
3. No two red colors are in consecutive.
4. The queens are separated by two cards.
Write the order of which suits (hearts, clubs) and names (jacks queens etc.) are arranged?

Question:
There are 3 piles each contains 10, 15, & 20 stones. There are A, B, C, D, F, G and H persons. One man can catch upto four stones from any pile. The last man who takes will win. If first A starts next B and so on, who will win?
Answer:
May be F.

Question:
In a certain department store the position of Buyer, Cashier, Clerk, Floorwalker, & Manager are held, though not necessarily respectively, by Evans, Ames, Conroy, Davis amp; Buyer. The cashier & the manager were roommates in college. The Buyer is bachelor, Evans & Miss Ames have only business contacts with each other. Mrs. Conroy was greatly disappointed when her husband told her that the manager had refused to give him a raise. Davis is going to be the best man when the clerk & the cashier are married. What position does each person held?

Question:
In a four team foot-ball tournament, all the teams played each other in three rounds of matches as shown in the Table - A. Some of the results of the tournament are shown in the Table - B. Using the Clues given below, please fill in the blank columns in the result Table - B (Goals for & Goals Against?).
Note : Two points for win, one point for draw & zero points for defeat are awarded.
Clues :
1. East zone won the tournament despite scoring one less goal
than the runners-up.
2. North zone scored an odd number of goals in their first round Game.
3. South zone, who failed to score in their final match, were beaten by a two-goal margin in the first round.
4. East zone lost their match against west zone.
5. All four teams scored goals in the second round matches.
6. West zone scored the same number of goals against east zone as North zone scored against them.

East zone scored four goals in round two matches
Table - A (Matches Played)
Round 1
North zone vs. South zone
West zone vs. east zone.
Round 2
South zone vs. West zone
East zone vs. North zone
Round 3
South zone vs. East zone
West zone vs. North zone.

Table - B (Results)
Played Won Draw Lost Goals For Goals Against Points
East Zone 3 - - - ? 3 4
North Zone 3 - - - ? ? 4
West Zone 3 - - - 4 3 3
South Zone 3 - - - 2 5 1

Question:
In certain community, there are thousand married couples. Two thirds of the husbands who are taller than their wives are also heavier and three quarters of the husbands who are heavier than their wives are also taller. If there are 120 wives who are taller and heavier than their husbands, how many husbands are taller and heavier than their wives?

Question:
Both the Guptas and Sinhas have two young sons, whose ages are under Eleven. The names of the boys, whose ages rounded off to the nearest year are all different, are Rajesh, Praveen, Lalith and Prathap. Taking the ages of the boys only to the nearest year.
The following statements are true:-
Rajesh is three years younger than his brother is.
Praveen is the oldest.
Prathap is 5 years older than the younger Sinha's boy.
Lalith is half as old as one of the Gupta's boys.
The total ages of the boys in each family differ by the same amount today as they did five years ago.

Question:
A long Division Problem:-
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In the complete solution, there are four 5's. Find the missing digits.

Question:
Following services are operated by Asian airlines between the two are located in different countries with different time zones. As it is normally done, the time shown is the local time - viz
IST & TST.
Regular Flight Supersonic Flight
Arrive Alexandria 17:10 TST 15:40 TST
Depart Alexandria 20:50 TST 22:50 TST
Arrived Rampur 23:40 IST

Is the arrival time of supersonic flight into Rampur from Alexandria same as the Arrival time of the Regular flight, assuming each Service - Regular and Supersonic maintains its own constant speed of flight.

Question:
A, B, C, D, E related. Four of them made these statements each:-
i) C is my son-in-law's brother.
ii) B is my father's brother.
iii) E is my mother-in-law.
iv) A is my brother's wife.
Who made these statements?

Question:
A ship is away from the shore by 180 miles. A plane is traveling at 10 times speed of the ship. How long from the shore will they meet?

Question:
A clock showing 6 o'clock takes 30 seconds to strike 6 times. How long will it take to strike 12 at midnight?
Answer:
66 seconds

Question:
Only boys aged > 16 wear coats. Boys aged > 15 go to watch football. Some more statements are given. What can be said about those who are watching football?

Question:
There are 3 societies A, B amp; C having some tractors each. A Gives B and C as many tractors as they already have. After some days B gives A and C as many tractors as they have. After  some days C gives A and B as many tractors as they have. Finally each has 24 tractors. What is the original no. of tractors each had in the beginning?
Answer:
A - 39, B - 21, C - 12.

Question:
BE * BE = ACB.
A, B, C, E are non zero numbers. Find B, E.
Answer:
B=1 E=9

Question:
A, B, C, D, E are having numerical values. There are some conditions given:-
a) A=C <===> B!=E
b) Difference between A and C as same as difference between C and B as same as difference between A and D.
c) C < A and C > D,
Then Find A, B, C, D, E.

Question:
There are six cards, in which, it has two king cards. All cards are turned down and two cards are opened.
a) What is the possibility to get at least one king?
b) What is the possibility to get two kings?

Question:
A person went to a shop and asked for change for 1.15 paise, but he said that he could not only give change for one rupee but also for 50p, 25p, 10p and 5p. What were the coins he had?
Answer:
1-->50p 4--->10p 1--->25p.

Question:
There are 3 nurses and they work altogether only once in a week. No nurse is called to work for 3 consecutive days. Nurse 1 is off on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Nurse 2 is off on Saturday. Nurse 3 is off on Thursday, Sunday. No two nurses are off more than once a week. Find the day on which all the 3 nurses were on work.

Question:
There are 5 persons A, B, C, D, E and each is wearing a block or white cap on his head. A person can see the caps of the remaining 4 but can't see his own cap. A person wearing white says true and who wears black says false.
i) A says I see 3 whites and 1 black.
ii) B says I see 4 blacks.
iii) E says I see 4 whites.
iv) C says I see 3 blacks and 1 white.
Now Find the caps worn by A, B, C, D and E.

Question:
There are two women, Kavitha and Shamili and two males Shyam and Aravind, who are musicians. Out of these four one is a Pianist, one Flutist, Violinist and Drummer.
I Across Aravind beats Pianist.
II Across Shyam is not a Flutist.
III Kavitha's left is a Pianist.
IV Shamili's left is not a Drummer.
V Flutist and Drummer are married.

Question:
1/3 rd of the contents of a container evaporated on the 1st day. 3/4 th of the remaining contents of the container evaporated the second day. What part of the contents of the container are left at the end of the second day?

Question:
A man covered 28 steps in 30 seconds but he decided to move fast and covered 34 steps in 18 seconds. How many steps are there on the escalator when stationary?
Person1: Most of us are satch J.
Person2: Most of us are jute S.
Person3: Two of us are satch J.
Person4: Three of us are jute J.
Person5: I am satch J we have to find who is satch and who is jute.
Answer:
S: Satch J:Jute.

Question:
Four persons are there to cross a bridge they have one torch light.  Person A can cross in 1 min.
Person B can cross in 2 min. Person C can cross in 5 min. Person D can cross in 10 min. They have to cross bridge with in 17 min. At a time only two persons can cross.
I. A & B ----> 2.
II. A <---- 1.
III. C & D ----> 10.
IV. B <---- 2.
V. A & B ----> 2
______________

Answer:
Total 17

Question:
What is the maximum number of slices can you obtain by cutting a cake with only 4 cuts?
Answer:
16

Question:
Three are three boxes. In first box, two white balls. In second box, 2 black balls. In third box, 1 white & 1 black ball. The labels on the boxes are not correct. Then you have to open one box and to find the color of the balls in all boxes.
Answer:
Open the box labeled black & white. If white balls are there then the box labeled with white balls contain black balls and labeled with black balls contain one black and one white ball and vice versa, if two black balls are there.

Question:
There is a 4-inch cube painted on all sides. This is cut into number of 1-inch cubes. What is the number of cubes, which have no. of painted sides?

Question:
Sam and Mala have a conversation. Sam says I am certainly not over 40. Mala says I am 38 and you are at least 5 years older than me. Now Sam says you are at least 39. All the statements by the two are false. How old are they really?

Question:
Ram Singh goes to his office in the city every day from his suburban house. His driver Mangaram drops him at the railway station in the morning and picks him up in the evening. Every evening Ram Singh reaches the station at 5 o'clock. Mangaram also reaches at the same time. One day Ram Singh started early from his office and came to the station at 4 o'clock. Not wanting to wait for the car he starts walking home. Mangaram starts at normal time, picks him up on the way
and takes him back house, half an hour early. How much time did Ram Singh walked?

Question:
Some people went for vacation. Unfortunately it rained for 13 days when they were there. But whenever it rained in the morning, they had clean afternoon and vice versa. In all they enjoyed 11 morning and 12 afternoons. How many days did they stay there totally?

Question:
Geoffrey, Hallmann and Molly attend and interview and give three different statements each.
To make it a little complex. Out of the three statements made by each one, one is false. Geoffrey says: I am 22 - false.  Hallmann is elder than me by one year. Molly is 25.  Hallmann says: I am not the youngest - Geoffrey is 2 years younger than me. Molly is younger than me by one year - false. Molly says: Geoffrey is 23 I am a year younger than Geoffrey
Answer:
Geoffrey Hallmann Molly
Age: 23 25 22

Question:
There is a cube, which has to be inscribed with the following pair of numbers on opposite sides.1 and 6, 2 and 4,3 and 5. How many different ways can it be done?

Question:
There's an electric wire running 1 km from the side of a building. The number of poles in between them is placed in an interval of distance between each other. If one pole is removed then the distance between each pole becomes 1 2/3 meters. Find out how many poles were kept.

Question:
The time taken to travel in train from Town A to Town B is 5 hours. There are trains starting from both towns at an interval of 1 hour. How many trains meet in 1 trip?
Answer:
10 trains check it as trains come from both sides every hour.

Question:
Shadow went to an Isle where the natives lie and the visitors speak truth. Shadow saw a salesman and wanted to know whether he was a native or a visitor. He did not pose a question directly but asked him indirect instead.  Shadow saw a woman and asked the salesman,"Is that a NATIVE or VISITOR?" .For which the salesman replied," She is a visitor." Is the salesman a Native or a Visitor?
Answer:
Since Shadow himself saw him/her as a woman and asked the salesman. The Salesman replied," SHE " by which he speaks truth and is a Visitor. Salesman is a Visitor.

Question:
Three friends divided some bullets equally. After all of them shot 4 bullets the total number of bullets remaining is equal to the bullets each had after division. Find the original number divided.

Answer:
18

Question:
There are 3 societies A, B, C. A lent cars to B and C as many as they had already. After some time B gave as many tractors to A and C as many as they have. After sometime C did the same thing. At the end of this transaction each one of them had 24. Find the cars each originally had.
Answer:
A had 39 cars, B had 21 cars & C had 12 cars

Question:
The Bulls, Pacers, Lakers and Jazz ran for a contest. Anup, Sujit, John made the following statements regarding results. Anup said either Bulls or Jazz will definitely win Sujit said he is confident that Bulls will not win John said he is confident that neither Jazz nor Lakers will win
When the result came it was found that only one of the above three had made a correct statement. Who has made the correct statement and who has won the contest?
Answer:
Sujith; Lakers

Question:
Five people A, B, C, D, E are related to each other. Four of them make one true statement each as follows.

I. B is my father's brother.
II. E is my mother-in-law.
III. C is my son-in-law's brother
IV. A is my brother's wife.

Answer:
I. D
II. B
III. E
IV. C

Question:
Some statements are given below:
L says all of my other four friends have money
M says that P said that exactly one among them has money
N says that L said that precisely two among them have money
O says that M said that three of the others have money
P, L and N said that they have money
All the above statement are false..
Who has money & who doesn't have any money?

Question:
Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock, how many minutes is it to six o'clock?
Answer:
Twenty six minutes

Question:
A hotel has 10 storeys. Which floor is above the floor below the floor, below the floor above the floor, below the floor above the fifth
Answer:
The sixth floor

Question:
Seven members sat around a table for three days for a conference.  The member's names were Abhishek, Amol, Ankur, Anurag, Bhuwan, Vasu, and Vikram. The meetings were chaired by Vikram. On the first evening members sat around the table alphabetically. On the following two nights, Vikram arranged the seatings so that he could have Abhishek as near to him as possible and absent minded Vasu as far away as he could. On no evening did any person have sitting next to him a person who had previously been his neighbor. How did Vikram manage to seat
everybody to the best advantage on the second and third evenings?
Answer:
Second evening: Vikram, Ankur, Abhishek, Amol, Vasu, Anurag and Bhuwan.
Third evening: Vikram, Anurag, Abhishek, Vasu, Bhuwan, Ankur, and Amol.

Question:
Two trains start from stations A and B spaced 50 kms apart at the same time and speed.
As the trains start, a bird flies from one train towards the other and on reaching the second train, it flies back to the first train. This is repeated till the trains collide. If the speed of the trains is 25 km/h and that of the bird is 100km/h. How much did the bird travel till the collision?.
Answer:
100 kms

Question:
Four prisoners escape from a prison. The prisoners, Mr East, Mr West, Mr South, Mr North head towards different directions after escaping. The following information of their escape was supplied: The escape routes were The North Road, South Road, East Road and West Road.
None of the prisoners took the road, which was their namesake. Mr. East did not take the South Road Mr. West did not the South Road. The West Road was not taken by Mr. East What road did each of the prisoners take to make their escape?
Answer:
Mr. East took the North Road
Mr. West took the East Road
Mr. North took the South Road
Mr. South took the West Road.

Question:
Complete the series:
5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, ?
Answer:
12 (as 5*4=20, 20+4=24, 24/4=6, 6-4=2, 2*4=8, 8+4=12).

Question:
A soldier looses his way in a thick jungle. At random he walks from his camp but mathematically in an interesting fashion. First he walks one mile East then half mile to North. Then 1/4 mile to West, then 1/8 mile to South and so on making a loop. Finally how far he is from his camp and in which direction.
Answer:
Distance traveled in north and south directions
1/2 - 1/8 + 1/32 - 1/128 + 1/512 - and so on
= 1/2/((1-(-1/4))
Similarly in east and west directions
1- 1/4 + 1/16 - 1/64 + 1/256 - and so on
= 1/(( 1- ( - 1/4))
Add both the answers

Question:
How can 1000000000 be written as a product of two factors neither of them containing zeros
Answer:
2 power 9 x 5 power 9

Question:
Conversation between two mathematicians:
First: I have three children. The product of their ages is 36. If you sum their ages, it is exactly same as my neighbor's door number on my left.
The second mathematician verifies the door number and says that it is not sufficient.
Then the first says, " Ok one more clue is that my youngest is really the youngest". Immediately the second mathematician answers. Can you answer the question asked by the first mathematician?
What are the children ages?
Answer:
1,6, and 6

Question:
Light glows for every 13 seconds. How many times did it glow between 1:57:58 and 3:20:47 am.
Answer:
383 + 1 = 384

Question:
500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns according to their heights.
Tallest among each row of all are asked to fall out and the shortest among them is A. Similarly after resuming that to their original positions that the shortest among each column are asked to fall out and the tallest among them is B. Now who is taller among A and B?
Answer:
A

Question:
A person with some money spends1/3 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 beginning?
Answer:
Rs 250/-

Question:
There are six boxes containing 5, 7, 14, 16, 18, 29 balls of either red or blue in color.
Some boxes contain only red balls and others contain only blue. One sales man sold one box
out of them and then he says, " I have the same number of red balls left out as that of blue ".
Which box is the one he sold out?
Answer:
Total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2) = 60/2 = 30
and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30

Question:
Grass 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?
Answer:
20

Question:
There are some bees in a garden, 1/5th of them went to a particular flower, 1/3rd went to another flower, 3 times the difference of the above two went to third flower and 1 was remaining and it was roaming around. How many bees were there?
Answer:
15

Question:
There was a community in which there were 1000 couples. In that 2/3rd of men who are taller are also heavier and 3/4th of the men who are heavier are also taller n there were 120 women who were both heavier and taller than men. So how many men are both taller and heavier than men?

Question:
A man drives with constant speed and he after some time he sees a milestone with 2-digits.then he travels for an hour and sees the same 2 digits in reverse order and then after an hour he sees that the milestone has the same 2 digits with a 0 between them so what is the man speed?
Answer:
45km/hr

Question:
There were 2 systems A and B.14 degrees in A is equivalent to 36 in system B and 133 in A is equivalent to 87 in B now what is the temperature where they both are equal?
Answer:
51.25

Question:
X Y Z X Y Z
A B + A B -
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C D E F B G A

Find X, Y, Z, G

Question:
A woman buys some shoe strips and then 4 times of that she buys packet pins and then 8 times of shoe strips she buys handkerchiefs and she has a bill of Rs3.24 and she pays for each article as many paise as there are articles (of that particular item).Now what is the number of handkerchiefs?
Answer:
16

Question:
Ms. Anitha got her salary n she spent half of it in shopping and gave 1RS to a beggar. After that 1/2 of the remaining money she spends in a hotel n she gives Rs.2/- as a tip to waiter and then 1/2 of the remaining she spends again and she gives 3 Rs as charity and after that finally she is left with Rs 1/- when she comes out. What is the actual money she had?
Answer:
Rs 42/-

Question:
A person is cycling in a circular track. At some point he notices that 1/5 of people in front of him and 5/6 of people together constitute the total no. of cyclists. Find the total no. of cyclists.
Answer:
31

Question:
Trains leave from New York to Washington every hour on the hour(1:00,2:00....).Trains leave from Washington to New York every hour on the hour and half hour(1:00,1:30,2:0,2:30....).It takes a train 5 hrs to complete its journey from Washington to New York as well as from New York to Washington .A train leaves from New York to Washington. Find out how many trains it will meet before it reaches Washington.
Answer:
19 or 21(not sure)

Question:
A pen, pencil and eraser together cost $1.00. if 2E<N , if N>2P, and P>4E then what a single pen will cost?

Question:
In a class there are less than 500 students when it is divided y 3 it gives a whole number similarly when it is divided by 4,5 or 7 gives a whole number. Find the no. of students in the class.
Answer:
420

Question:
Uncle Reuben and aunt Cynthia came to town to shop. Reuben bought a suit and hat for $15
Cynthia paid as much as for her hat as Reuben did for his suit then she spent the rest of their
money for a new dress on the way home Cynthia called Reuben's attention to the fact that his hat
cost $1 more than her dress then she added if we had divided our hat money differently so that
we bought different hats mine costing 1 and 1/2 time cost if yours then we each would have spent
the same amount of money in that case said uncle Reuben "how much would my hat have cost"
Answer:
Uncles hat costs $6.4 (total money was $29)

Question:
Four family names are given and their friends name are given but not in order.( you have to find
which friend belongs to which family) Each friend prepares salad using 3 different fruits . They are
given apple, cherry, grape, banana, no two friends uses the same combination. Various conditions are given and 4 questions were asked. Which fruit did Mandy didn't use? Who is Flores friend? Name the fruits common between Erica and Stacy?

Question:
Here is a simple mathematical puzzle set by Longfellow in his own flowery, poetical language.
If 1/5th of a hive of bees flew to the Badamba flower, 1/3rd flew to the Slandbara, 3 times the
difference of these two numbers flew to an Arbour, and one bee continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant Ketaki and Malati, what was the total number of bees?
Answer:
15

Question:
A man while sorting files picks up file number one, misses one, picks up file no. 2, misses two files, and so on...after that he found that he picked up 5% of the files. How many files were there?
Answer:
39

Question:
A man walks at 4 km/hr on plain, then at 3 km/hr uphill and then returns through the same road at 6 km/hr downhill and at 4 km/hr on the plain. It takes altogether 6 hours. So what distance he covered in one way?
Answer:
12 km

Question:
There are some men and some lodges for which the following conditions hold true
i) Each lodge is represented by exactly 3 men.
ii) Each man is associated with exactly 2 lodges.
iii) Any pair of lodge has only one man in common.
How many men and how many lodges were there?

Answer:
6 men and 4 lodges.

Question:
A person sells 2 items for Rs. 12 each. For one he profits 25% and for the other he losses 20%. Altogether did he loss or gain? and by how much?
Answer:
He losses by 60 paise.

Question:
My father's age was x in the year x. I am obviously talking about 20th century. In which year was my father born?
Answer:
In the year 1892.

Question:
A man was going by cycle. After going 2/3rd of total distance the cycle broke down and he had to complete the journey on foot. At the end he found that he walked twice as long as he was on cycle. How many times the speed of the cycle is as the speed of walking?
Answer:
4 times.

Question:
In a badminton tournament a team is eliminated from the tournament if it losses 2 games. If there are 51 teams then what is the maximum number of games required to select the champion?
Answer:
101

 

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