INFOSYS QUESTION BANK

Question:
There is an escalator and 2 persons move down it. A takes 50 steps and B takes 75 steps while the escalator is moving down. Given that the time taken by A to take 1 step is equal to time taken by B to take 3 steps. Find the number of steps in the escalator while it is stationary.
Answer:
100 steps

Question:
If 5/2 artists make 5/2 paintings using 5/2 canvases in 5/2 days then how many artists r required to make 25 paintings using 25 canvases in 25 days?

Question:
If the digits of my present age are reversed then I get the age of my son. If 1 year ago my age was twice as that of my son. Find my present age?
Answer:
Father's age is 73 years and son's age is 37 years

Question:
There are 6561 balls out of them 1 is heavy. Find the minimum number of times the balls have to be weighed for finding out the heavy ball.
Answer:
8

Question:
If I walk with 30 miles/hr I reach 1 hour before and if I walk with 20 miles/hr I reach 1 hour late. Find the distance between 2 points and the exact time of reaching destination is 11 am then find the speed with which it walks.
Answer:
120miles and 24 miles/hr

Question:
There are four face cards (J, Q, K, A) all of different types (diamond, club, spade, heart) and some conditions are given.  Find the order of cards
Answer:
king -> jack -> queen -> ace
heart diamond spade club

Question:
If A, B, C, D, E are 5 members of a family. 4 of them give true statements:
1. E is my mother in law
2. C is my son in law's brother
3. B is my father's brother
4. A is my brother's wife

Who made the statement and what are the relations among them

Answer:
E made the statement

E
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A<-->B--C
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D
<--> denotes husband-wife
-- denotes brothers

Question:
The product of 5 different temperatures is 12. If all of then are integers then find all the temperatures
Answer:
-2, -1, 1, 2, 3

 Question:
Replace each letter by a digit. Each letter must be represented by the same digit and number beginning letter of a word can be 0.
O N E
O N E
O N E
O N E
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T E N
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Answer:
0 =1, N = 8, E = 2, T = 7

Question:
Ann, Boobie, Cathy, and Dave are at their monthly business meeting. Their occupations are author, biologist, chemist and doctor, but not necessarily in that order. Dave just told the biologist that Cathy was on her way with doughnuts. Ann is sitting across from the doctor and next to the chemist. The doctor was thinking that Boobie was a goofy name for parent's to choose, but didn't say anything. What is each person's occupation?
Answer:
Since Dave spoke to the biologist and Ann sat next to the chemist and across the doctor, Cathy must be the author and Ann the biologist. The doctor didn't speak, but David did, so Bobbie is the doctor and Dave the chemist

Question:
Sometime after 10:00 PM a murder took place. A witness claimed that the clock must have stopped at the time of the shooting. It was later found that the position of both the hands were the same but their positions had interchanged. Tell the time of the shooting (both actual and claimed).
Answer:
Time of shooting = 11:54 PM Claimed Time = 10:59 PM

Question:
Next number in the series is 1, 2, 4, 13, 31, 112, ___ ?
Answer:
224

Question:
No number has digits more than 4. All of them are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 converted to numbers in base 5

Question:
Shahrukh speaks truth only in the morning and lies in the afternoon, whereas Salman speaks truth only in the afternoon. A says that B is Shahrukh. Is it morning or afternoon and who is A - Shahrukh or Salman?
Answer:
Afternoon A is Salman.

Question:
Two trains starting at same time, one from Bangalore to Mysore and other in opposite direction arrives at their destination 1 hr and 4 hours respectively after passing each other. How much faster is one train from other?
Answer:
Twice.

Question:
There are 6 volumes of books on a rack kept in order (i.e., vol.1, vol. 2 and so on). Give the position after the following changes were noticed. All books have been changed Vol.5 was directly to the right of Vol.2 Vol.4 has Vol.6 to its left and both weren't at Vol.3's place.Vol.1 has Vol.3 on right and Vol.5 on left. An even numbered volume is at Vol.5's place Find the order in which the books are kept now.
Answer:
2, 5, 1, 3, 6, 4

Question:
I bought a car with a peculiar 5 digit numbered licence plate, which on reversing could still be read. On reversing value is increased by 78633.Whats the original number if all digits were
different?
Answer:
Only 0, 1, 6, 8, and 9 can be read upside down. So on rearranging these digits, we get the answer as 10968.

Question:
There are two balls touching each other circumferentially. The radius of the big ball is 4 times the diameter of the small all. The outer small ball rotates in anticlockwise direction circumferentially
over the bigger one at the rate of 16 rev/sec. The bigger wheel also rotates anticlockwise at N rev/sec. What is 'N' for the horizontal line from the centre of small wheel always is horizontal.

Question:
   1 2 3 4
+ 3 4 5 5
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   4 6 8 9
 - 2 3 4 5
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   2 3 4 4
+ 1 2 5 4
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   3 6 9 8
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Strike off any digit from each number in seven rows (need not be at same place) and combine the same operations with 3 digit numbers to get the same addition. After this strike off another digit from all and add all the numbers to get the same 2 digit number. Perform the same process again with 1 digit number. Give the numbers 7 rows at each stage.

Question:
There is a safe with a 5 digit number. The 4th digit is 4 greater than second digit, while 3rd digit is 3 less than 2nd digit. The first digit is thrice the last digit. There are 3 pairs whose sum is 11. Find the number.
Answer:
65292.

Question:
There are 2 guards Bal and Pal walking on the side of a wall of a warehouse (12m X 11m) in opposite directions. They meet at a point and Bal says to Pal "See you again in the other side". After a few moments of walking Bal decides to go back for a smoke but he changes his direction again to his previous one after 10 minutes of walking in the other (opposite) direction remembering that Pal will be waiting for to meet. If Bal and Pal walk 8 and 11 feet respectively, how much distance they would have traveled before meeting again.

Question:
3 kigs and 6 libs can produce 510 tors in 10 hrs, 8 kigs and 14 libs can produce 484 tors in 12 hrs. Find the rate of production of tors for kigs and libs. Express the answer in tors/hr.

Question:
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3xx
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xxx
x3x
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xxx
3xx
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Find the 5 digit number.  Hint: 5 is used at least once in the calculation.

Question:
A fly is there 1 feet below the ceiling right across a wall length is 30m at equal distance from both the ends. There is a spider 1 feet above floor right across the long wall equidistant from both the ends. If the width of the room is 12m and 12m, what distance is to be traveled by the spider to catch the fly, if it takes the shortest path?

Question:
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 1 rupee to his right & he in turn 2 rupees to his right and 3 rupees to his right & so on. This process went on till a person has 'no money' to give to his right. At this time he has 4 times the money to his right person. How many men are there along with Ramesh and what is the
money with poorest fellow.

Question related to probabilities of removing the red ball from a basket, given that two balls are removed from the basket and the other ball is red. The basket contains blue, red, yellow balls.

Venkat has 1boy and 2daughters.The product of these children age is 72.The sum of their ages give the door number of Venkat boy is elder of three. Can you tell the ages of all the three?

Question:
L: says all of my other 4 friends have money
M: says that P said that exact one has money
N: says that L said that precisely two have money
O: says that M said that 3 of others have money.
P: Land N said that they have money.
All are liars.
Who has money & who doesn't have?

Postman has a data of name surname door number, pet name of 4 families. But only one is correct for each family. There are a set of statements & questions.

4 couples have a party. Depending on the set of statements, find who insulted whom and who is the host of the party.

5 women given some of their heights (tall, medium, short), hair(long, plaited), studs(Black or Brown), sari,2 medium, 2-short.Tall->no sari. Plaited->medium. Answer the combinations.

Question:
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?

Question:
A person has his own coach&. Whenever he goes to railway station he takes his coach. One day he was supposed to reach the railway station at 5 O'clock. But he finished his work early and reached at 3 o'clock. Then he rung up his residence and asked to send the coach
immediately. He came to know that the coach has left just now to the railway station. He thought that the coach has left just now to the railway station. He thought that he should not waste his time and started moving towards his residence at the speed of 3 miles/hr. On the way, he gets the coach and reaches home at 6 o'clock. How far is his residence from railway station?

Question:
Radha, Geeta & Revathi went for a picnic. After a few days they forgot the date, day and month on which they went to picnic. Radha said that it was on Thursday, May 8 and Geeta said that it was Thursday May 10. Revathi said Friday Jun 8. Now one of them told all things wrongly, others one thing wrong and the last two things wrongly. If April 1st is Tuesday, what is the right day, date and month?

Question:
There is 66x33m rectangular area. Ram is 11/8 times faster than Krishna. Both of them started walking at opposite ends and they met at some point then, Ram said "See you in the other end" then they continued walking. After some time Ram thought he will have tea so he turned back walked back 15 meters then he changed his mind again and continued walking. How much Krishna has traveled by the time they meet?

Question:
There are 5 burglars and once went to a bakery to rob it obviously. The first guy ate 1/2 of the total bread and 1/2 of the bread. The second guy ate 1/2 of the remaining and 1/2 of the bread. The third guy, fourth guy and fifth guy did the same. After fifth guy there is no bread left out. How many bread are there?

Question:
All members belonging to D are members of A.
All members belonging to E are members of D.
All members belonging to C are members of both A & D.
Some members of A does not belong to D.
All members belonging to D are members of E. 5 questions are there.
Write each statements true or false:-

A. The sum of the 1st three statements and the 2nd false statement
gives the true statement.
B. The no. of true statements false statement.
C. The sum of 2nd true statement and 1st false statement gives the
first true statement.
D. There are at most 3 false statements.
E. There is no two consecutive true statements.

Question:
There are twelve consecutive flags at an equal interval of distance. A man passes the 8th flag in 8 seconds. How many more seconds will he take to pass the remaining 4 flags?

Question:
A person has to cover the fixed distance through his horses. There are five horses in the cart. They ran at the full potential for the 24 hours continuously at constant speed and then two of the horses ran away to some other direction. So he reached the destination 48 hours behind the schedule. If the five horses would have run 50 miles more, then the person would have been only 24 hours late. Find the distance of the destination?

Question:
A boat M leaves shore A and at the same time boat B leaves shore B. They move across the river. They met at 500 yards away from A and after that they met 300 yards away from shore B without halting at shores. Find the distance between the shore A & B.

Question:
A person was going through train from Bombay to Pune. After every five minutes he finds a train coming from opposite direction. Velocity of trains are equal of either direction. If the person reached Pune in one hour then how many trains he saw in the journey?

Question:
Food grains are to be sent to city from godown. Owner wants to reach the food grains at 11 O' Clock in the city. If a truck travels at a speed of 30km/hr then he will reach the city one hour earlier. If the truck travels at a speed of 20km/h then he will reach the city one hour late. Find the distance between the godown to city. Also with which speed the truck should travel in order to reach at exactly 11 o'clock?

Question:
There are five persons A,B,C,D,E whose birthdays occur at the consecutive days. Birthday of A is some days or day before C & birthday of B is exactly the same days or day after E. D is two days
older than E. If birthday of C is on Wednesday then find out the birthdays of other.

Question:
Persons say these statements.
A says either Democratic or liberal wins the elections.
B says Democratic wins.
C says neither democratic nor liberal wins the election.
Of these only one is wrong. Who wins the election?

Question:
Six persons A,B,C,D,E, &F went to soldier cinema. There are six consecutive seats. A sits in the first seat followed by B, followed by C and so on. If A taken on of the six seats, then B should sit
adjacent to A. C should sit adjacent to A or B. D should sit adjacent to A, B or C and so on. How many possibilities are there?

Question:
Suppose there are four grades A, B, C, D. (A is the best and D is the worst) 4 persons Jack, Jean, Poul and Lucy wrote the final exam and made the statements like this:-
1. Jack: If I will get A then Lucy will get D.
2. Lucy: If I will get C then Jack will get D. Jack grade is better than Poul grade.
3. Jean: If Jean doesn't get A then Jack will not get A.
4. Poul: If Jack get A, then Jean will not get B, Lucy will get C, I
won't either A or B.
If all the above statements are true, then which person will get which grade?

Question:
Each man dances with 3 women, each women dances with 3 men. Among each pair of men they have exactly two women in common. Find the number of men and women?

Question:
A survey was taken among 100 people to find their preference of watching TV programs. There are 3 channels. Given no of people who watch at least channel 1, at least channel 2,at least channel 3, no channels at all, at least channels 1 and 3, at least channels 1 and 2,
at least channels 2 and 3. Find the no of people who watched all three.

Question:
A bird keeper has got P pigeon, M mynas and S sparrows. The keeper goes for lunch leaving his assistant to watch the birds. Suppose p=10, m=5, s=8.
a.) When the bird keeper comes back, the assistant informs that x birds have escaped. The bird keeper exclaims oh no! all my sparrows are gone. How many birds flew away?
b.) When the bird keeper comes back, the assistant told him that x birds have escaped. The keeper realized that at least 2 sparrows have escaped. What is minimum no of birds that can escape?

Question:
Select from the five alternatives A,B,C,D,E. At the end of each question, two conditions will be given. The choices are to be filled as follows.
A: If a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 1.
B: If a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 2.
C: If a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 and 2.
D: If a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 or 2.
E: No conclusion can be drawn using both conditions.

Question:
Person 1 says N<5
Person 2 says n>5.
Person 3 says 3N>20
Person 4 says 3n>10
Person 5 says N<8.
What is the value of N?

Question:
There are N coins on a table. There are two players A&B. You can take 1or 2 coins at a time. The person who takes the last coin is the loser. A always starts first.  If N=7, then

A. A can always win by taking two coins in his first chance.
B. B can win only if A takes two coins in his first chance.
C. B can always win by proper play.
D. None of the above.

Question:
There are N coins on a table. There are two players A&B. You can take 1or 2 coins at a time. The person who takes the last coin is the loser. A always starts first.  A can win by proper play if N is equal to
A. 13
B.  37
C. 22
D. 34
E. 48
Answer:
E.

Question:
There are N coins on a table. There are two players A&B. You can take 1or 2 coins at a time. The person who takes the last coin is the loser. A always starts first.  B can win by proper play if N is equal to
A. 25
B. 26
C. 32
D. 41
E. none

Question:
There are N coins on a table. There are two players A&B. You can take 1or 2 coins at a time. The person who takes the last coin is the loser. A always starts first.  if N<4, can A win by proper play always?

Question:
There are 4 parties A,B,C,D. There are 3 people x,y,z. X-says A or D will win. Y-says A will not win. Z-says B or D will not win. Only one of them is true. Which party won?

Question:
5 persons R,S,T,U,V are contesting for a medal. Evaluation is over English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Hindi. Toper will get 5 marks, least will get 1 mark. No ties anywhere. R gets 24 and won the overall medal. V gets first in Chemistry and third in Hindi, T got consistent scores in 4 subjects. Their final standings where in the alphabetical order. What was the score of S in Chemistry?

Question:
There are 3 types of castes, say A,B,C. A- always tells truth, B- always false, C- alternating.
X says --> Z is of C type, I am of A type. Y says --> X is a B type. Z says --> X is of B type.
Who is of which type?

Question:
Persons A and B. Person A picks a random number from 1 to 1000. Then person B picks a random number from 1 to 1000. What is the probability of B getting number greater then what A has picked?

Question:
Three boys and three girls brought up together. Jim, Jane, Tom, Virgina, Dorothy, XXX. They marry among themselves to form three couples. Conditions are:-
i) Sum of their ages would be the same.
ii) Virgina was the oldest.
iii) Jim was Dorothy's brother.
iv) Sum of ages Jane+Jim and Tom+Dorothy is same.
Give the three couples.

Question:
X^(1/3) - X^(1/9) =60. Solve for X.

Question:
X Z Y+X Y Z = Y Z X.
Find the three digits.

Question:
Two boats start from opposite banks of river perpendicular to the shore. One is faster then the other. They meet at 720 yards from one of the ends. After reaching opposite ends they rest for 10mins each. After that they start back. This time on the return journey they meet at 400yards from the other end of the river. Calculate the width of the river.

Question:
Basketball Tournament organizers decided that two consecutive defeats will knock out the team. There are 51 teams participating. What is the maximum no. of matches that can be played.

Question:
The Master says to his grandmaster that me and my three cousins have ages in prime nos. only. Summation of our ages is 50. Grandmaster who knows the age of the master instantly tells the ages of the three cousins. Tell the ages of three cousins. (1 is not considered as prime no.)

Question:
There are two families Alens and smiths. They have two children each. There names are A,B,C,D whose ages are different and ages are less then or equal to 11. The following conditions are given:-
i) A's age is three years less then his brother's age .
ii) B is eldest among the four.
iii) C is half the age of the eldest in Alens family.
iv) The difference in sum of the ages of Alens children and smiths children is same as that of five years ago.
Find the ages of all the children.

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. What is the possibility to get at least one king?

Question:
There are six cards in which it has two king cards. All cards are turned down and two cards are opened. What is the possibility to get two kings?

Question:
There are 5 persons a,b,c,d,e and each is wearing a black or white cap on his head. A person can see the caps of the remaining four 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, 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:
When Arthur is as old as his father Hailey is now, he shall be 5 times as old as his son Clarke is now. By then, Clarke will be 8 times older than Arthur is now. The combined ages of Hailey and Arthur are 100 years. How old is Clarke?

Question:
The seven digits in this subtraction problem are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Each letter represents the same digit whenever it occurs.
D A D C B
-  E B E G
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  B F E G
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What digit is represented by each letter?

Question:
The Jones has named their four boys after favorite relatives; their friends, the Smiths, have done the same thing with their three boys. One of the families has twin boys. From the following clues, can you determine the families of all seven children and their ages?
i) Valentine is 4 years older than his twin brothers.
ii) Winston, who is 8, and Benedict are not brothers. They are each
named after a grandfather.
iii) Briscoe is two years younger than his brother Hamilton, But three
years older than Dewey.
iv) Decatur is 10 years old.
v) Benedict is 3 years younger than Valentine; they are not related.
vi) The twins are named for uncles.

Question:
Motorboat A leaves shore P as B leaves Q; they move across the lake at a constant speed. They meet first time 600 yards from P. Each returns from the opposite shore without halting, and they meet 200 yards from. How long is the lake?

Question:
On the Island of imperfection there is a special road, Logic Lane, on which the houses are usually reserved for the more mathematical inhabitants. Add, Divide and even live in three different houses on this road (which has houses numbered from 1-50). One of them is a member of the Pukka Tribe, who always tells the truth. Another is a member of the Wotta Tribe, who never tell the truth and the third is a member of the Shalla Tribe, who make statements which are alternately true and false, or false and true. They make statements as follows:-
ADD:
1. The number of my house is greater than that of Divide's.
2. My number is divisible by 4.
3. Even's number differs by 13 from that of one of the others.

DIVIDE:
1. Add's number is divisible by 12.
2. My number is 37.
3. Even's number is even.

EVEN:
1. No one's number is divisible by 10.
2. My number is 30.
3. Add's number is divisible by 3.

Find to which tribe each of them belongs, and the number of each of
their houses.

Question:
The names of the inhabitants of Walkie Talkie Land sound strange to the visitors, and they find it difficult to pronounce them, due to their length and a few vowel sounds they contain. The Walkie Talkie guide is discussing the names of four inhabitants A,B,C and D. Their names each contain upto eight syllables, although none of the four names contain the same number. Two of the names contain no vowel sounds; one contains one vowel sound; and one contains two vowel sounds. From the Guide's statements below determine the number of syllables and vowel sounds in each of the four Walkie Talkie names:-
i) The one whose name contains two vowel sounds is not A.
ii) C's name does not contain more than one vowel sound or fewer than
seven syllables.
iii) The name with seven syllables does not contain exactly one vowel sound.
iv) B and C do not have names with the same number of vowel sounds.
v) Neither the name with five syllables nor the name with seven
syllables contains more than one vowel sound.
vi) Neither the name with six syllables, nor the B's name, contains
two vowel sounds.

Question:
Two identical twins have a very unusual characteristic. One tells nothing but lies on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and tells nothing but the truth all other days. The other tells nothing but lies on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and tells nothing but the truth all other days. On Sundays both children speak the truth.

Question:
According to the information presented, which of the following conversations will be impossible.
A. Twin A : "Today you are a liar"
    Twin B : "You are telling the truth"
B. Twin A : "Today you are a liar"
    Twin B : "Today I am a truth teller"
C. Twin A : "Tomorrow I shall be a liar"
    Twin B : "That's correct"
D. Twin A : "Tomorrow you will be a liar"
    Twin B : "Today you are a truth teller"
E. Twin A : "Yesterday we were both truth tellers"
    Twin B : "You are lying".