Shakuntla Devi For Infosys Placement Preparation

1. 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 the train travelled?

Ans : 200 miles

2. Each one wearing hat of one person and riding the bicycle of another. A is wearing B's hat and riding C's cycle. Who is riding A's cycle?

Ans: B

3. Few stmts were given, and we have to find which day of the week it is, if only one of them told the truth?

Ans: Sunday

4. A farmer is telling his wife, if we sell 75 chickens, the chicken food will last for 10 more days. But if we buy 100 chickens as we say, then the chicken food will last for 15 days less. How many chicken they have?

Ans: 8.

5. My husband's watch gains 2 minutes every watch and my watch loses 1 minute for each hour. One day, we were late to marriage because the difference between the time in the two watches was 1 hr and we looked at the slow watch. When did we last set our watches to the same time?

Directions: 6-10 In each of the questions given below which one of the five answer figures on the right should come after the problem figures on the left, if the sequence were continued ?

Answers 6-10

6. E 7. B 8. A 9. B 10. E

Directions 11-15: Each problem consists of a problem followed by two statements. Decide whether the data in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Select your answer according to whether:

(A) statement 1 alone is sufficient, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question
(B) statement 2 alone is sufficient, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question
(C) both statements taken together are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient
(D) each statement alone is sufficient
(E) statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient, and additional data is needed to answer the question

11. Every pupil in a school was given one ticket for a concert. The school was charged a total of $6000 for these
tickets, all of which were of equal value. What was the price of one ticket?

If the price of each ticket had been one dollar less, the total cost would have been 1,200 less. If the price of each ticket had been $2 more, the total bill would have increased by 40%.
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)

Ans: D

12. What is the ratio of male to female officers in the police force in town T?

The number of female officers is 250 less than half the number of male officers. The number of female officers is 1/7 the number of male officers.
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)

Ans: B

13. What is the value of n?

3n + 2m = 18
n – m = 2n – (4 + m)
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)

Ans: B

14. How long did it take Henry to drive to work last Wednesday? (He did not stop on the way).

If he had driven twice as fast he would have taken 35 minutes. His average speed was 30 miles per hour.
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)

Ans: A

15. What is the slope of line l which passes through the origin of a rectangular coordinate system?

The line does not intersect with the line y = x + 2. The line passes through the point (3,3)
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)

Ans: D

Directions 16 to20 : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given it.

III.

i) P,Q,R,S,T and U are six students procuring their Master's degree in six different subjects - English, History, Philosophy, Physics, Statistics and Mathematics.
ii) Two of them stay in hostel, two stay as paying guest (PG) and the remaining two stay at their home
iii) R does not stay as PG and studies Philosophy
iv) The students studying Statistics and History do not stay as PG
v) T studies Mathematics and S studies Physics
vi) U and S stay in hostel. T stays as PG and Q stays at home

16. Who studies English?
A) R
B) S
C) T
D) U
E) None of these

Ans: E

17. Which of the following combinations of subject and place of stay is not correct ?
A) English - Hostel
B) mathematics - PG
C) Philosophy -Home
D) Physics -Hostel
E) None of these

Ans: A

18. Which of the following combinations of subject and place of stay is not correct ?
A) QR
B) SR
C) US
D) Data inadequate
E) None of these

Ans: B

19. Which subject does Q study?
A) History
B) Statistics
C) History or Statistics
D) Data inadequate
E) None of these

Ans: C

20. Which of the following pairs of students stay at home ?
A) PQ
B) QR
C) RS
D) ST
E) None of these

Ans: B

21. A man is facing south. He turns 135o in the anticlockwise direction and then 180o in the clockwise direction. Which direction is he facing now.?
A) North-east
B) North-West
C) South-east
D) South-west

Ans: D

22. A man is facing north-west. He turns 90o in the clockwise direction and then 135o in the anticlockwise direction. Which direction is he facing now?
A) East
B) West
C) North
D) South

Ans: B

23. A man is facing north-west. He turns 90o in the clockwise direction, then 180o in the anticlockwise direction and then another 90o in the same direction. Which direction is he facing now?
A) South
B) Southwest
C) West
D) South-east

Ans: D

24. Radha moves towards South-east a distance of 7 km, then she moves towards west and travels a distance of 14 m. From here, she moves towards North-West a distance of 7 m. and finally she moves a distance of 4 m towards East and stood at that point . How far is the staring point from where she stood?
A) 3 m
B) 4 m
C) 10 m
D) 11 m

Ans: C

25. A rat runs 20' towards East and turns to right , runs 10' and turns to right , runs 9' and again turns to left , runs 12' and finally turns to left and runs 6' . Now , which direction is the rat facing ?
A) East
B) West
C) North
D) South

Ans: C

Directions 26-30: The pie charts below show the percentage of students in each faculty at North West University and the number of nonUS students in the Arts faculty. These percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole number. There are a total of 1049 students in the Arts faculty. Use this information to answer the following questions

26. What percentage of students in the Arts faculty are nonUS students?
A)14%
B) 9%
C)30%
D) 11%
E)15%

Ans: D

27. How many students are there in the Engineering faculty?
A) 420
B) 410
C) 390
D) 440
E) 400

Ans: B

28. How many students are there at the university?
A) 4650
B) 4560
C) 4640
D) 4450
E) 4460

Ans: B

29. If six percent of Science students are Asian. How many Asian students are there studying Science?
A) 48
B) 66
C) 120
D) 57
E) 43

Ans: D

30. There are 34 European medical students. What percentage of the faculty does this represent?
A) 14%
B) 18%
C) 12%
D) 16%
E) 15%

Ans: E

[ Assume there are x participants in the race.In a round race,no: of participants in front of a person wil be x-1 an that behind him wil b x-1. i.e, 1/3(x-1) + 3/4(x-1) = x ; solving x = 13 ]

2. 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 or visitor. He replied "she says she is a visitor". Then he knew that the salesman is a native or visitor. salesman is in which category , native or visitor?

Ans: Native

[ Draw table and see ]

3.A man fixed an appointment to meet the manager, Manager asked him to come two days after the day before the day after tomorrow. Today is Friday. When will the manager expect him? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: Monday

[Don't confuse it with Tuesday.the correct answer is Monday]

5.A man said he spent 1/6 of his as a child, 1/12 as salesman in a liquor shop, 1/7 and 5 years as a politician and a good husband respectively. At that time Jim was born. Jim was elected as Alderman four years back.when he was half of his age. What is his age? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: 84 years

[Assume that he lived x years. X/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + 4 + x/2 = x. Solving x= 84, Same as Question in Shakundala Devi book]

6.Jack,Doug and Ann, 3 children had a running race while returning from school.Mom asked who won the race. Then Jack replied" I wont tell u.I wil give u a clue,When Ann takes 28 steps Doug takes 24 steps, meantime I take 21 steps. Jack explained that his 6 steps equals Droug's 7 steps and Ann's 8 steps. Who won the race? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: Doug

[ Ann steps = 8,16,24,28 --- finished by 3 & half full steps

Doug steps=7,14,21,24 --- finished before 3 & half full steps

Jack steps= 6,12,18,21 --- finished by 3 & half full steps

So Doug won the race ]

7. Every day a cyclist meets a car at the station.The road is straight and both are travelling in the same direction. The cyclist travels with a speed of 12 mph.One day the cyclist comes late by 20 min. and meets the car 5miles before the Station. What is the speed of the car?

Ans: 60 mph

[Very similar to Shakuntala Devi puzzles to puzzle you problem no: 38 ]

9.A lady goes for shopping. She bought some shoestrings. 4 times the number of shoestrings, she bought pins and 8 times, handkerchiefs. She paid each item with their count as each piece's cost. She totally spent Rs. 3.24.How many handkerchiefs did she buy? (repeated from previous papers)

10. Complete the series :

a) 3,6,13,26,33,66,____(repeated from previous papers)

b) 364,361,19,16,4,1,___( " " " )

Ans: a) 63

b) 1

11. Lucia is a wonderful grandmother. Her age is between 50 and 70.Each of her sons have as many sons as they have brothers. Their combined number gives Lucia?s age. What is the age?

Ans: 64

12.There are two towers A and B. Their heights are 200ft and 150ft respectively and the foot of the towers are 250ft apart. Two birds on top of each tower fly down with the same speed and meet at the same instant on the ground to pick a grain. What is the distance between the foot of tower A and the grain?

Ans:90ft

13 Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 40 days for 40 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass. How many days does it take for 20 cows to do the same?

Ans: 120

13. Four tourists A,B,C,D and four languages English, German, French and Italian. They are not able to converse among themselves in one language. Though A does not know English he can act as an interpreter between B and C. No one spoke both French and German. A knows German and was able to converse with D who doesn?t know a word in German. Only one language was spoken by more than two persons. Each spoke two languages. Find who spoke what.

Ans: A- German,Italian

B- French,Italian

c- German,English

D- Italian,English

14. There is a five digit number. It has two prime digits (1 is not a prime number). Third digit is the highest. Second digit is the lowest. First digit is one less than the third digit. The fifth digit is half of the fourth. The sum of 4th and 5th is less than the first. Find the number.

Ans ? 71842

15.6. Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which has two different colours on either side. No card has the same color on both sides. The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue respectively. They see the color on the reverse side and give the following comment.

A: Yellow or Green

B: Neither Blue nor Green

C: Blue or Yellow

D: Blue or Yellow

Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the cards each person.

Ans: A- Yellow

B- Yellow

C- Green

D- Red

16. A 1 k.m. long wire is held by n poles. If one pole is removed, the length of the gap becomes 12/3m. What is the number of poles initially?

Ans:6km

17. Find the digits X,Y,Z

X X X X

Y Y Y Y +

Z Z Z Z

--------------

Y X X X Z

----------------

Ans: X Y Z

9 1 8

18. A man starts walking at 3 pm . ha walks at a speed of 4 km/hr on level ground and at a speed of 3 km/hr on uphill , 6 km/hr downhill and then 4 km/hr on level ground to reach home at 9 pm. What is the distance covered on one way?

Ans: 12 km

19. A grandma has many sons; each son has as many sons as his brothers. What is her age if it?s the product of the no: of her sons and grandsons plus no: of her sons?(age b/w 70 and 100).

Ans: 81

20. An electric wire runs for 1 km b/w some no: of poles. If one pole is removed the distance b/w each pole increases by 1 2/6 (mixed fraction). How many poles were there initially?


22. A person wants to meet a lawyer and as that lawyer is busy he asks him to come three days after the before day of the day after tomorrow? on which day the lawyer asks the person to come?

Ans: thursday

23. A person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which year is he born?

Ans: 470

24.A person says that their speed while going to a city was 10mph however while returning as there is no much traffic they came with a speed of 15mph. what is their average speed?

Ans: 12mph

25. There is a peculiar island where a man always tells truth and a women never says two 2 consecutive truth or false statements that is if she says truth statement then she says false statement next and vice versa. A boy and girl also goes in the same way. one day i asked a child " what r u a boy or a girl" however the
child replied in their language that i dint understand but the parents knew my language and one parent replied that " kibi is a boy" the other one said that "no kibi is a girl, kibi lied".

a: is kibi a boy or a girl
b: who ansered first mother or father?

Ans: kibi is a girl and mother answered first.

26. The boy goes to school reaches railway station at his 1/3 of his journey& mill at 1/4 of his journey the time taken him to walk between railway station & mill is 5 mins. Also he reaches railway station at 7.35amwhen he started from house& when he reaches school?

Ans: 7:15to8.15

27. if a person is sitting in a exam having 30 questions (objective type) the examiner use the formula to calculate the score is S=30+4c-w here c is number
of correct answer and w is number of wrong answer , the examiner find the score is more than 80, tell how may questions are correct ? if the score is little less
but still more than 80 then u wont be able to answer.

Ans:- 16


28. if a person having 1000 rs and he want to distribute this to his five children in the manner that ecah son having 20 rs more than the younger one , what will
be the share of youngest child

ans- 160

29.raju having some coins want to distribute to his 5 son , 5 daughter and driver in a manner that , he gave fist coin to driver and 1/5 of remaining to first
son he again gave one to driver and 1/5 to 2nd son and so on.... at last he equally distributed all the coins to 5 daughters. how many coins raju initially have???

Ans:-881

30.if ravi binded his book and the binder cut the pages of the book , ravi decided to mark the pages by himself own , what he found that number of three
appears 61 times find of number of pages answer

ans - 300

31. a painter went in a exhibition to purchases some pictures where T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z pictures were remaining , he want to buy only five in the condition on that
if T is there then X should not be there,
if U is there than y should be there
if if v is there then X should be there

which is the combination the painter can have
(a) T,U,V,W,Y
(b)T,Z,U,W,X
(c)T,X,U,V,W
(d)T,U,Y,W,Z

ans (d)

32.There are 100 men in town. Out of which 85% were married, 70% have a phone, 75% own a car, 80% own a house. What is the maximum number of people who are married, own a phone, own a car and own a house ? ( 3 marks)

Sol: 15%

33. There are 10 Red, 10 Blue, 10 Green, 10 Yellow, 10 White balls in a bag. If you are blindfolded and asked to pick up the balls from the bag, what is the minimum number of balls required to get a pair of atleast one colour ? ( 2 Marks)

Sol :6 balls.

34. Triplet who usually wear same kind and size of shoes, namely, Annie, Danny, Fanny. Once one of them broke a glass in kitchen and their shoe prints were there on floor of kitchen. When their mother asked who broke Annie said, ?I didn?t do it?; Fanny said ?Danny did it?; Danny said ?Fanny is lieing?; here two of them are lieing, one is speaking truth. Can you find out who broke it ? (3 Marks)

Sol : Annie

35. 4 players were playing a card game. Cards had different colours on both sides. Neither of cards had same colour on both sides. Colours were 2 Red, 2 Blue, 2 Green, 2 Yellow. Cards were lying in front of each player. Now, each player knew the colour on other side of his card. They are required to tell their colour.
Statement given by each of them was :

Annie : Blue or Green
Bobby : Neither Blue nor Green
Cindy : Blue or Yellow
Danny : Blue or Yellow
colours of cards that are visible to all were Red, Blue, Green, Blue in order of their names. Exactly two of them are telling truth and exactly two of them are lieing. Can you tell the colour on other face of card for each player ? (6 Marks)

Sol : Annie : Yellow (Lieing)
Bobby : Yellow (Telling truth)
Cindy : Blue (Telling truth)
Danny : Green (Lieing)

36. In a game i won 12 games, each game if i loose i will give u one chocolate, You have 8 chocolates how many games played.

Ans: 32

38. 75 persons Major in physics, 83 major in chemistry, 10 not at major in these subjects u want to find number of students majoring in both subjects

Ans 68.

39. if A wins in a race against B by 10 mts in a 100 Meter race. If B is behind of A by 10 mts. Then they start running race, who will won?

Ans A

40. A+B+C+D=D+E+F+G=G+H+I=17 given A=4.Find value of G and H?

Ans: G = 5 E=1

Paper : Campus Placement Papers Infosys (Part -3)

41. One guy has Rs. 100/- in hand. He has to buy 100 balls. One football costs Rs. 15/, One Cricket ball costs Re. 1/- and one table tennis ball costs Rs. 0.25 He spend the whole Rs. 100/- to buy the balls. How many of each balls he bought?

Ans:F=3,T=56,C=41


42. The distance between Station Atena and Station Barcena is 90 miles. A train starts from Atena towards Barcena. A bird starts at the same time from Barcena straight towards the moving train. On reaching the train, it instantaneously turns back and returns to Barcena. The bird makes these journeys from Barcena to
the train and back to Barcena continuously till the train reaches Barcena. The bird finally returns to Barcena and rests. Calculate the total distance in miles the bird travels in the following two cases:
(a) The bird flies at 90 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 60 miles per hour.
(b) the bird flies at 60 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 90 miles per hour

Ans: time of train=1hr.so dist of bird=60*1=60miles


43. A tennis championship is played on a knock-out basis, i.e., a player is out of the tournament when he loses a match.
(a) How many players participate in the tournament if 15 matches are totally played?
(b) How many matches are played in the tournament if 50 players totally participate?

Ans: (a)16
(b)49

44.When I add 4 times my age 4 years from now to 5 times my age 5 years from now, I get 10 times my current age. How old will I be 3 years from now?

Ans:Age=41 years.

45.A rich merchant had collected many gold coins. He did not want anybody to know about them. One day, his wife asked, "How many gold coins do we have?" After pausing a moment, he replied, "Well! If I divide the coins into two unequal numbers, then 37 times the difference between the two numbers equals the difference between the squares of the two numbers." The wife looked puzzled. Can you help the merchant's wife by finding out how many gold R

Ans:37

46. A set of football matches is to be organized in a "round-robin" fashion, i.e., every participating team plays a match against every other team once and only once. If 21 matches are totally played, how many teams participated?

Ans:7

47. Glenn and Jason each have a collection of cricket balls. Glenn said that if Jason would give him 2 of his balls they would have an equal number; but, if Glenn would give Jason 2 of his balls, Jason would have 2 times as many balls as Glenn. How many balls does Jason have?

Ans: 14

48. Suppose 8 monkeys take 8 minutes to eat 8 bananas.
a) How many minutes would it take 3 monkeys to eat 3 bananas?
(b) How many monkeys would it take to eat 48 bananas in 48 minutes

Ans: a)48
B)6

49. It was vacation time, and so I decided to visit my cousin's home. What a grand time we had!
In the mornings, we both would go for a jog. The evenings were spent on the tennis court. Tiring as these activities were, we could manage only one per day, i.e., either we went for a jog or played tennis each day. There were days when we felt lazy and stayed home all day long. Now, there were 12 mornings when we did nothing, 18 evenings when we stayed at home, and a total of 14 days when we jogged or played tennis. For how many days did I stay at my cousin's place?

Ans: 22 days

50 A 31" x 31" square metal plate needs to be fixed by a carpenter on to a wooden board. The carpenter uses nails all along the edges of the square such that there are 32 nails on each side of the square. Each nail is at the same distance from the neighboring nails. How many nails does the carpenter use?

Ans:124


51. A man starts his walking at 3PM from point A, he walks at the rate of 4km/hr in plains and 3km/hr in hills to reach the point B. During his return journey he walks at the rate of 6km/hr in hills and 4km/hr in plains and reaches the point A at 9PM. What is the distance between A and B?

Ans: 12km

52.2. A boy asks his father, " what is the age of grand father?". Father replied " He is x years old in x^2 years", and also said, "we are talking about 20th century". what is the year of birth of grand father?

Ans: 1892

53. A boy travels in a scooter after covering 2/3rd of the distance the wheel got punctured he covered the remaining distance by walk. Walking time is twice that of the time the boy?s riding time. How many times the riding speed as that of the walking speed?

Ans: 4 times.

54. In a Knockout tournament 51 teams are participated, every team thrown out of the tournament if they lost twice. How many matches to be held to choose the winner?

Ans: 101 matches

55. A man sold 2 pens. Initial cost of each pen was Rs. 12. If he sell it together one at 25% profit and another 20% loss. Find the amount of loss or gain, if he sells them seperately.

Ans: 60 Paise gain

56. Find the 3 digit no. whose last digit is the squareroot of the first digit and second digit is the sum of the other two digits.

Ans: 462

57. Meera was playing with her brother using 55 blocks.She gets bored playing and starts arranging the blocks such that the no. of blocks in each row is one less than that in the lower row. Find how many were there in the bottom most row?

Ans: 10

58. Two people are playing with a pair of dies. Instead of numbers, the dies have different colors on theirsides. The first person wins if the same color appears on both the dies and the second person wins if the colors are different. The odds of their winning are equal. If the first dice has 5 red sides and 1 blue side, find the color(s) on the second one.

Ans: 3 Red, 3 Blue

59. A person travels in a car with uniform speed. He observes the milestone,which has 2 digits. After one hour he observes another milestone with same digits reversed. After another hour he observes another milestone with same 2 digits separated by 0. Find the speed of the car?

Ans: 45

60. Three persons A, B &C went for a robbery in different directions and they theft one horse, one mule and one camel. They were caught by the police and when interrogated gave the following statements
A: B has stolen the horse
B: I didn't rob anything.
C: both A & B are false and B has stolen the mule.

The person who has stolen the horse always tell the truth and
The person who has stolen the camel always tell the lie.

Find who has stolen which animal?
Ans:

A- camel
B- mule
C- horse

61. One quarter of the time till now from midnight and half of the time remaining from now up to midnight adds to the present time. What is the present time?

Ans: 9:36AM

62. After world war II three departments did as follows First department gave some tanks to 2nd &3rd departments equal to the number they are having. Then 2nd department gave some tanks to 1st & 3rd departments equal to the number they are having. Then 3rd department gave some tanks to 2nd &1st departments equal to the number they are having. Then each department has 24 tanks. Find the initial number of tanks of each department?

Ans ;
A-39
B-21
C-12



63. A, B, C, D&E are having their birthdays on consecutive days of the week not ecessarily in the same order. A 's birthday comes before G's as many days as B's birthday comes after E's. D is older than E by 2 days. This time G's birthday came on wednesday. Then find the day of each of their birthdays?

Ans:
Birthday of D on SUNDAY
Birthday of B on MONDAY
Birthday of E on TUESDAY
Birthday of G on WEDNESDAY
Birthday of A on THURSDAY




64. A girl 'A' told to her friend about the size and color of a snake she has seen in the beach. It is one of the colors brown/black/green and one of the sizes 35/45/55.

If it were not green or if it were not of length 35 it is 55.
If it were not black or if it were not of length 45 it is 55.
If it were not black or if it were not of length 35 it is 55.

a) What is the color of the snake?
b) What is the length of the snake?

Ans:
a) brown
b) 55



65. There are 2 pesons each having same amount of marbles in the beginning. after that 1 person gain 20 more from second person n he eventually lose two third of it during the play n the second person now have 4 times marble of what 1st person is having now. find out how much marble did each had in the beginning.

ANSWER - 100 each

A lady was out for shopping. she spent half of her money in buying A and gave 1 doller to bagger. futher she spent half of her remaining money and gave 2 doller to charity. futher she spent half of remaining money n gave 3 dollor to some childrans. now she has left with 1 doller. how much she had in the beginning?

Ans $42

67. There are certain diamonds in a shop.
1 thief stole half of diamonds and 2 more.
2 thief stole half of remaining and 2 more
3. same as above
4 same as above.
5 came nothing was left for that.

how many dimands was there???
Ans 60 diamonds

68. There are three frens A B C.
1. Either A or B is oldest
2. Either C is oldest or A is youngest.

Who is Youngest and who is Oldest?
Ans A is youngest n B is oldest.

69. Father says my son is five times older than my daughter. my wife is 5 times older that my son. I am twice old from my wife and altogether (sum of our ages) is equal to my mother 's age and she is celebrating her 81 birthday. so what is my son's age?

Ans - 5 years.

70.. In Mulund, the shoe store is closed every Monday, the boutique is closed every Tuesday, the grocery store is closed every Thursday and the bank is open only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Everything is closed on Sunday.

One day A, B, C and D went shopping together, each with a different place to go. They made the following statements:
A D and I wanted to go earlier in the week but there wasn?t day when we could both take care of our errands.
B I did not want to come today but tomorrow I will not be able to do what I want to do.
C I could have gone yesterday or the day before just as well as today.
D Either yesterday or tomorrow would have suited me.

Which place did each person visit ?

Ans: A-BOUTIQUE
B-BANK
C-GROCERY
D-SHOE

71. Fodder, pepsi and cereale often eat dinner out.
each orders either coffee or tea after dinner. if fodder orders coffee, then pepsi orders the drink that cereale orders if pepsi orders coffee, then fodder orders the drink that cereale doesnot oder if cereale orders tea, then fodder orders the drink that pepsi orders which person/persons always orders the same drink after  dinner ?

Ans:Fodder

72. At a recent birthday party there were four mothers and their children. Aged 1,2,3 and 4. from the clues below can you work out whose child is whose and their relevant ages ?

It was jane?s child?s birthday party.
Brian is not the oldest child.
Sarah had Anne just over a year ago.
Laura?s Child will be next birthday.
Daniel is older than Charlie is.
Teresa?s child is the oldest.
Charlie is older than Laura?s child.
Ans: Jane ? Charlie -3

Laura ? Brian ? 2
Teresa ? Daniel ? 4
Sarah ? Anne - 1

73. We are given 100 pieces of a puzzle. If fixing two components together is counted as 1 move ( a component can be one piece or an already fixed set of pieces), how many moves do we need to fix the entire puzzle.

Ans: 99

74. Two guys work at some speed...After some time one guy realises he has done only half of the other guy completed which is equal to half of what is left !!! #$%#$ So how much faster than the other is this guy supposed to do to finish with the first.
Ans: one and half times or 3/2

75. There is a square cabbage patch.He told his sister that i have a larger patch than last year and hence more cabbages thios year.Then how many cabbages i have this year.?

Ans:106*106=11236

76. There are three guesses on the color of a mule
1 says:itz not black
2 says:itz brown or grey
3 says: itz brown

Atlest one of them is wrong and one of them is true.....Then whatz the color of mule?

Ans: Grey

77. Jim,Bud and sam were rounded up by the police yesterday. because one of them was suspected of having robbed the local bank. The three suspects made
the following statements under intensive questioning.

Jim: I'm innocent
Bud: I'm innocent
Sam: Bud is the guilty one.

If only one of the statements turned out to be true, who robbed the bank?

Ans:BUD.

78. There are two containers on a table. A and B . A is half full of wine, while B, which is twice A's size, is onequarter full of wine . Both containers are filled with water and the contents are poured into a third container C. What portion of container C's mixture is wine ?

Ans:33.33%

79. A man was on his way to a marriage in a car with a constant speed. After 2 hours one of the tier is punctured and it took 10 minutes to replace it. After that they traveled with a speed of 30 miles/hr and reached the marriage 30 minutes late to the scheduled time. The driver told that they would be late by 15 minutes only if the 10 minutes was not waste.

Find the distance between the two towns?

Ans: 120 miles

80. A bargainhunter bought some plates for $ 1.30 from a sale on saturday,where price 2cents was marked off at each article .On monday she went to return them at regular prices,and bought some cups and saucers from that much amount of money only.the normal price of plate were equal to the price of 'one cup and one saucer'.

In total she bought 16 items more than previous. saucers were only of 3 cents hence she brought 10 saucers more than the cups, How many cups and saucers she bought and at what price?

Ans: 8,18 Price: 12,3.

81. Mr. T has a wrong weighing pan.One arm is lengthier than other.1 kilogram on left balances 8 melons on right.1 kilogram on right balances 2 melons on left.If all melons are equal in weight,what is the weight of a single melon?

Ans:200 gms

82. A card boarb of 34 * 14 has to be attached to a wooden box and a total of 35 pins are to be used on the each side of the cardbox.Find the total number of pins used .

Ans: 210
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?

177. Each alphabet stands for one digit in the following multiplication.
T H I S
x I S
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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?


178. 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.

179. 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.

180. 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 travelled by the courier.


181. 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 atleast once. Find the positions. Alan never comes last. Charlie & Darren comes 2nd atleast once.


182) 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.
Ans: 8.

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

184) 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.

185) 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.
Ans: 126.

186) 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.

187) 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 leavs 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?.

188) 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, w.r.t. 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.
Ans: Pete & Tom are brothers. Tom--Father and John is his son.
Art--Brakeman.
John--Conductor.
Tom--Engineer.
Pete--Fireman.

189) There is a 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 archetect 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.
Ans: Dentist 15. Accountant 13. Archetect 12. Lawyer 3.

190) 4 ladis, Mrs Margarat, 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 hardwares shop. Two went to bank. Two went to buchers. All but dorris went to grocery etc. Who went where?

191). 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?

192). 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.
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193). 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.
Ans: a = 4 ,b = 2, c =6, d = 5, e = 3, f = 8, g = 1, h = 7, i = 9.

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

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

196. 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, wrist watch is 5 min ahead of it. Assuming that all clocks are correct with actual time at 12 noon, what will be time shown by wrist watch after 6 hr?
Ans: 5:47:32.5 (n X 60 )50/60 X 70/60 X 55/60 X 65/60.

197. 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 km\hr, then back down hill at 6km\hr, then again on level ground at 4km\hr till he reaches his destination. If he returned home at 9 p.m., what distance did he covered?
Ans: 24 km.

198. Answer the questions from facts:-
The members of certain tribe are divided into 3 casts 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 a wedlock.

199 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.
Ans: 52.5.
Let t=mx+c, c=-70 => m=51/119
a=a.51/119 -70 => a=52.5.

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

202. In the 4 digits 1,2,3,4, how many 4 digited numbers are possible which are divisible by 4? Repeatations are allowed.
Ans: 64.

203. 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 comming in opposite direction in 18 sec. After the train has passed, when the two persons will meet?
Ans: Approx. 72 min, check it once.

204. 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.
Ans: c > a > b > g > f; 9 6 5 4 3.

205. There are 4 boys - Anand, Anandya, Madan and Murali with nic-names perich, zomie, drummy and madeena not in the same order. Some conditions.
Ans: Anand : Perich
Anandya : Drummy
Madan : Zombie
Murali : Madeena

206. 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 colours 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 aranged?

207. Write each statement as true or false.
8 Marks
1. The sum of the first three statements and the second false statement gives the true statement.
2. The no. of true statements > No. of false statements.
3. The sum of second true statement and first false statement gives the first true statement.
4. There are atmost 3 false statements.
5. There are no two consequtive true statements.

208. 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?
Ans: May be F.

209. In a certain department store the position of Buyer, Cashier, Clerk, Floorwalkar & 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 dosappointed when her husband told her that the manager had refuged 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?

210. 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 aginst 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 aginst them.


211. East zone scored four goals in round two match.
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 Golas 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


212. 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?

213. 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 Guptha's boys.
The total ages of the boys in each family differ by the same amount today as they did five years ago.

214. A long Division Problem:-
xx)xxxxxxxxx(xxxxxxx
xx
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xxx
xx
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xxx
xx
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xx
xx
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xxx
xxx
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In the complete solution, there are four 5's. Find the missing digits.

215. 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.


216) 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?


217) A ship is away from the shore by 180 miles. A plane is travelling at 10 times speed of the ship. How long from the shore will they meet?

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

219) 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?

220) 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?
Ans: A - 39. B - 21. C - 12.


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

222. 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.

223. 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?

224. 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?
Ans: 1-->50p 4--->10p 1--->25p.

225. 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 tueseday, 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.

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 weared by A, B, C, D and E.

227. 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.

228. 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?

229. 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?

1. 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.
Ans: S: Satch J:Jute.

2. 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
______________
Total 17.

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

231. 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 lables on the boxes are not correct. Then you have to open one box and to find the colour of the balls in all boxes.
Ans: Open the box labled black & white. If white balls are there then the box labled with white balls contain black balls and labled with black balls contain one black and one white ball and vice versa, if two black balls are there.

232. 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 painted sides?

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

234. 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?

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


236. 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
(I don't remember this statement but it is false.)

Answer:
Goeffrey is 22 as Goef states,
And Goef== 23 as Molly states.
Both cannot be true.
Either one has to be true or either one has to be false.
Start deriving from this point and u get,

Geoffrey Hallmann Molly
Age: 23 25 22


237. 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?

238. 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.

239. 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?
Ans : 10 trains check it as trains come from both sides every hour.

240. 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?
Ans :
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.


241. 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.

Ans: 18 (2 marks)

Initially . x x x
Now x-4 x-4 x-4
Equation is 3x-12 = x



242. 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 orginally had.
Ans: A had 39 cars, B had 21 cars & C had 12 cars

243. 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 cameit 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.
Ans: Sujith; Lakers

244. 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.

Ans: (i) D (ii) B (iii) E (iv) C

245. 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?

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

247. 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.
Ans: The sixth floor.

248. 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 abesent 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 neighbour. How did Vikram manage to seat everybody to the best advantage on the second and third evenings?

Ans:
Second evening:Vikram,Ankur,Abhishek,Amol,Vasu,Anurag and Bhuwan.
Third evening :Vikram,Anurag,Abhishek,Vasu,Bhuwan,Ankur,Amol.


249. 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.
Ans: 100 kms.

250. 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?

Ans: Mr.East took the North Road
Mr.West took the East Road
Mr.North took the South Road
Mr.South took the West Road.

251. Complete the series:
5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, ?

Ans: 12 (as 5*4=20, 20+4=24, 24/4=6, 6-4=2, 2*4=8, 8+4=12).

252) 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.

Ans: Distance travelled 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


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

254) Conversation between two mathematcians:
First : I have three childern. The product of their ages is 36.
If you sum their ages, it is exactly same as my neighbour's door number on my left.
The second mathematician verfies 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". Immmediately the second mathematician answers . Can you answer the question asked by the first mathematician?
What are the childeren ages? Ans 1,6 and 6

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

256) 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 podsitions that the shortest among each column are asked to fall out.
And the tallest among them isNow who is taller among A and B ?
Ans A

257) 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 begining ?
Ans: Rs 250/-

258) There are six boxes containing 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 29 balls of either red or blue in colour.
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 solds out ?
Ans: Total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2) = 60/2 = 30
and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30

260) 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.?
Ans : 20
g - grass at the beginning
r - rate at which grass grows, per day
y - rate at which one cow eats grass, per day
n - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days
g + 24*r = 70 * 24 * y
g + 60*r = 30 * 60 * y
g + 96*r = n * 96 * y
Solving, n = 20.

261)There r 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..n one was remaining n it was roaming
around..how many bees were there? (3 marks)
Ans:15

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

263)A man drives with constant speed..n he after some time he sees a
milestone with 2-digits..then he travels for an hr n sees the same 2
digits in reverse order..n then after an hr he sees that the
milestone has the same 2 digits with a 0 between them..so whats the
man speed?
Ans:45km/hr

264)There were 2 systems A n 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 r equal?
Ans:51.25 (conversion A=(7/3)B-70)

265) X Y Z X Y Z
A B + A B -
------------ -------------
C D E F B G A

find X,Y,Z,G

266)A women buys some shoestrips n then 4 times of that she buys
packet pins n then 8 times of shoestrips she buys handkerchiefs..n
she has a bill of Rs3.24..n she pays for each article as many paise
as there r articles(of tht particular item).Now whats the number of
handkerchiefs?
Ans:16

267)Ms.Anitha got her salary n she spent half of it in shopping n 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.n then 1/2 of the
remaining she spends again n she gives 3 RS as charity..n after that
finally she is left with Rs 1/- when she comes out.Whats the actual
money she had?
Rs 42/- (3 marks)


268. 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
condtitute the total no. of cyclists.Find the total no. of cyclists.
Ans:31

269.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.
Ans:19 or 21(not sure).

270) A pen, pencil and eraser together cost $1.00. if 2E2P, and P>4E then what a single pen will cost?

271. In a class there are less than 500 students . when it is divided by 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.
ans: 420

272. 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"
Ans : Uncles hat costs $6.4 (total money was $29)


273. Four family names are given and their frends name are given but not in order.( u hav to find
which frend belongs to which family) Each frend prepares salad using 3 different fruits . they are
given apple, cherry, grape, banana., no two frens uses the same combination.
Various conditions are given and 4 ques asked.
Which fruit did mandy didn't use?
Who is flures friend?
Name the fruits common btwn Erica and stacy?

274.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, ad one bee continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant ketaki and malati, what was the total number of bees?
Ans: 15

275. (don't remember the exact question)a man while sorting files picks up file number one,misses
one, picks up file no. 2,mises two files,and so on...after that he found that he picked up 5% of the
files. How many files were there?
Ans:39

276. 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?
Ans: 12 km
Solution: Let plain road = x km
And hill road = y km
? x/4 + y/3 + y/6 + x/4 = 6
? x/2 + y/2 = 6
? x + y =12

277. 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?

Ans: 6 men and 4 lodges.
Solution:
i) L1 is represented by M1, M2, M3. L2 is represented by M3, M4, M5. L3 is represented by M1, M4, M6. L4 is represented by M2, M5, M6.
ii) M1 is associated with L1,L3. M2 is associated with L1,L4. M3 is associated with L1,L2. M4 is associated with L2,L3. M5 is associated with L2,L4. M6 is associated with L3,L4.
iii) Common between L1 and L2 is only M3. Common between L1 and L3 is only M1. Common between L1 and L4 is only M2. Common between L2 and L3 is only M4. Common between L2 and L4 is only M5. Common between L3 and L4 is only M6.
i.e all the given conditions are satisfied.

278. 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?

Ans: He losses by 60 paise.
Solution: Cost price of the item for which he losses = Rs.
12*100/80 = Rs. 15.
Cost price of the item for which he Gains = Rs.
12*100/125 = Rs 9.6.
? Total cost price is Rs. 24.6 and total sell price is
Rs. 24.
So altogether he losses by Rs. 0.6.

279. My father’s age was x in the year x². I am obviously talking about 20th century. In which year was my father born?

Ans: In the year 1892.
Solution: x = 44 as 44² = 1936 and the square of any other
integer will not fall in between 1900 and 2000. i.e my
father was 44 in the year 1936. ? my father was
born in the year 1892.

280.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?

Ans: 4 times.
Solution: Let the distance be z km, speed of cycle be x km/hr
and walking speed be y km/hr.
Then he covered 2z/3 km by cycle in 2z/3x hr and
covered z/3 km on foot in z/3y hr.
? according to the question 2*2z/3x = z/3y ? x/y = 4.

281.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?

Ans: 101
Solution: To eliminate the 50 teams 50*2 = 100 games are
required. And the champion team may lose in at
most 1 game. ? Max. no. of games required = 101.

282. There are 3 tribes in a Island. Sororean who always speak truth, Nororean who always speak false and Midorean who speak truth and false alternately in either order. From the statements given by A,B and C (who belong to 3 different tribes), three persons from the island, identify who belongs to which tribe.

A : C is Sororean.
B is Midorean.

B : A is Nororean.
C is Midorean.

C : A is Midorean.
I am Sororean.

Ans:
A B C
Midorean Nororean Sororean
Solution: Think logically.

283. There are 5 persons A,B,C,D,E . All of them have different occupations and none of them are of same age. There professions are Consultant, Planner, Engineer, Nutritionist and Technician definitely not in the same order. From the following conditions determine whose profession is what?

i) The consultant is the oldest among them.
ii) The Technician is not younger than the Planner and the Planner is not younger than the Nutritionist.
iii) D is not as old as A and also not as young as B, who is not as old as the Engineer and also not as young as C.
iv) C is not the youngest among them.

Ans: Names are given in descending order of their ages.
Consultant Engineer Technician Planner Nutritionist
A D B C E
Solution: Think logically.

284. 4 persons, Watts, Roger, O’neil and Smith, were eating in a restaurant while Smith was killed by poisoning. During investigation the other 3 persons gave the following statements. They gave one false statement each.

Watts : i) I didn’t do it.
ii) O’neil sat beside me.
iii) We had our usual waiter.

Roger : i) Smith was across the table from me.
ii) We had a new waiter.
iii) The waiter didn’t do it.

O’neil : i) Roger didn’t do it.
ii) The waiter has poisoned Smith.
iii) Watts lied when he said that we had our usual
waiter.

One among these three persons and the waiter murdered Smith. Who is the murderer?

Ans : O’neil is the murderer.

Solution: Think logically.
I have given the false statements in red and italics.

285 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.
Ans: 8 [(n-2)*(n-2)*(n-2)] where n is side length of the cube

286. Find the values of each of the alphabets.
N O O N
S O O N
+ M O O N
J U N E
Ans: 9326

287. If a clock takes 7seconds to strike 7, how long will the same clock take to strike 10?

Ans: The clock strikes for the first time at the start and takes 7 seconds for 6
intervals-thus for one interval time taken=7/6. Therefore, for 10 seconds there are 9 intervals and
time taken is 9*7/6=10 and 1/2 seconds.

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

289. Everyday in his business a merchant had to weigh
amounts from 1 kg to 121kgs, to the nearest kg.
What are the minimum number of weight required
and how heavy should they be?
Ans: .The minimum number is 5 and they
should weigh 1,3,9,27 and 81kgs.


290. Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends. Ram is a widower and lives alone and his sister
takes care of him. Shyam is a bachelor and his niece cooks his food
and looks after his house.Gumnaam is married to Gita and lives in large
house in the same town.Gita gives the idea that all of them could stay
together in the house and share monthly expensesequally.
During their first month of livingtogether, each person contributed Rs.25. At the end of
the month, it was found that Rs 92 was the expense sothe remaining amount was distributed equally among
everyone. The distribution was such that everyone received a whole number of Rupees. How much did each
person receive?Ans. Rs 2 (Hint: Ram's sister,Shyam's niece and Gumnaam's wife are the same person)

291. 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 olderthan me
• Now Sam says you are at least 39
All the statements by the two are false. How old are they really?
Ans: Mala = 38 yrs, Sam = 41 yrs.

292. 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.?
Ans : 20
[Hint: g - grass at the beginning r -rate at which grass grows, per day y - rate at which
one cow eats grass, per day n - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days
g + 24*r = 70 * 24* y g + 60*r= 30 * 60 * y g + 96*r = n * 96* y, Solving, n = 20. ]

293. Three criminals were arrested for shop lifting. However, when interrogated only one told the truth in
both his statements, while the other two each told one true statement and one lie. The statements were:
• ALBERT :(a) Chander passed the merchandise. (b)Bruce created the diversion.
• BRUCE :(a) Albert passed the merchandise. (b)I created the diversion.
• CLIVE :(a) I took the goods out of the shop. (b) Bruce passed them over.

Ans: Albert passed the goods. Bruce
created the diversion. Clive took the goods out of the
shop.

294. There N stations on a railroad. After adding X stations on the rail route 46 additional tickets have
to be printed. Find N and X.

Ans. x=2 and N=11 ( Let initially,N(N-1) = t; After adding, (N+X)(N+X-1) = t+46;Trail and error method )

295. Complete the Table given below:
Three football teams are there. Given below is
the group table. Fill in the x's
Played Won Lost Draw Goals For Goals Against
A 2 2 x x x 1
B 2 x x 1 2 4
C 2 x x x 3 7

Ans: The filled table is given below

Played Won Lost Draw Goals For Goals Against
A 2 2 0 0 7 1
B 2 0 1 1 2 4
C 2 0 1 1 3 7

297. 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 theirnamesake.
• 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?

Ans: Mr. East took the North Road
Mr. West took the East Road
Mr. North took the South Road
Mr. South took the West Road.

298. A hotel has two wings, the east wing and the west wing. Some east wing rooms but not all have an ocean
view.All west wing rooms have a harbor view. The charge for all rooms is identical, except as follows :

• Extra charge for all harbor view rooms on or above
the 3rd floor
• Extra charge for all ocean view rooms except those
without balcony
• Extra charge for some harbor rooms on the first two
floor & some east wing rooms without ocean view but
having kitchen facilities.

Which of the following cannot be determined on the
basis of the information given:
I. Whether there are any rooms without a
balcony for which an extra charge is imposed.
II. Whether any room without a kitchen or
a view involves an extra charge.
III. Whether two extra charges are imposed
for any room.
(A) I only (B) II only
(C) III only (D) II and III only
(E) I, II and III
Ans: (A)


299. A ship went on a voyage. After it had traveled 180 miles a plane started with 10 times the speed of the
ship. Find the distance when they meet from starting point.

Ans: 200miles. ( Distance traveled by plane = 1/10 distance traveled by ship + 180 )



301. Father's age is three years more than three times the son's age. After three years, father's age will be
ten years more than twice the son's age. What is the father's present age?
Ans: 33 years.

302. Light glows for every 13 seconds . How many times did it glow between 1:57:58 and 3:20:47 am.

Ans : 383 + 1 = 384


303. There are 20 poles with a constant distance between each pole. A car takes 24 second to reach the
12th pole.How much will it take to reach the last pole.
Ans: 41.45 seconds (Let thedistance between two poles = x, Hence 11x:24::19x:? )

304. A man collects cigarette stubs and makes one full cigarette with every 8 stubs. If he gets 64 stubs how
many full cigarettes can he smoke. Ans: 8+1=9

305. The minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every 65 minutes. How much does the watch lose or gain time
and by how much?
Ans: Gains; 5/11 minutes

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

307. 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?

308. 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 ?
Ans. A

309. Mr. Mathurs jewels have been stolen from his bank
locker. The bank has lockers of 12 people which are
arranged in an array of 3 rows and 4 columns like:
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
• The locker belonging to JONES was to the right of
BLACK'S locker and directly above MILLAR'S.
• BOOTH'S locker was directly above MILLAR'S.
• SMITH'S locker was also above GRAY's (though not directly).
• GREEN'S locker was directly below SMITH'S.
• WILSON'S locker was between that of DAVIS and BOOTH.
• MILLAR'S locker was on the bottom row directly to
the right of HERD'S.
• WHITE'S locker was on the bottom right hand corner in the same column as BOOTH'S.
Which box belonged to Mr. Mathurs?

Ans: Box number 9 belongs to Mr.Mathurs.


310. Problem based on sets. 100 ppl. 85 are married, 70 have phone, 75 have house, 60 have car. find ppl having house, car, phone and r married?? easy set problem. i am not sure abt figures but find total ppl who do not have these things
and subtract from 100 to get ppl having all these.
ans. 10


311. village and town. in between a hill. a person travels on cycle 8 km uphill and 24 downhill to reach town continuously in 2hrs 50 min. then he comes to village in 4 hrs and 30 min. find his speed uphill and downhill.

ans. uphill 6
downhill 16

312. find wizard's age. his age is 3 times son's age, his father's age is 40 more than twice his age. total of their ages is 1240.
ans. 360

313. there r some steps. i come down 7 steps then see a man at bottom. then he comes up and i go down at same speed(my speed). when 4 steps r remaining for me i find tht man has reached the top.
for my single step downwards he took 2 steps up. find total steps.
ans. 22 steps.

314) One person went to market to purchase three varieties of chocolates. He had purchased 20 items with 20 cents. Fudges are available at 4 cents each, chaco bars are available at 4 for a penny and gum pints are available at 2 a penny. How many of each item he had purchased.

315) There is a five digit number, where the third number is one higher than the sum of first and second digits. Fourth digit is twice of fifth and third digit is twice the fourth. Second digit is five more than the first digit. What is the number

316) A cube, which is painted red on all its sides, is cut into 27 cubes with three straight cuts. Now how many cubes have

i) No red face
ii)One red face
iii)Two red faces
iv)Three red faces

317) It is a typical Tap problem. There are two taps, which are used to fill the tank and one tap to empty the tank. First tap fill the tank in 10 min., while the second takes quarter of an hour to fill the tank if both are operated independently. Third tap is capable of emptying the tank in seven and a half minutes. If all the taps are opened simultaneously (when the tank is empty) how long (if ever) will it take for the tank to get filled completely?

318) Ten years before, one is seven years more than the "half the age" of other. Now the bride’s age is 30 years. And also one is nine-tenths the age of other. What is groom’s present age.

319) Two guys are tossing coin with a bet of $1 for each game. After some tosses., one guy earned $3 while the other won three times. How many games do they play.

320) There is one 8 marks analytical question. Which is the easiest puzzle I had ever seen. There are in total eight members in the group. Five members are to be selected from that group. They had given three conditions. We have to answer four multiple-choice questions which are framed based on the above three conditions. In almost all the questions, answer can be found out by eliminating the answers from the choices. Going thru the GRE Barrons analytical section will help. Get the gist of it., rather than trying to solve more and more.

321) There are four friends, who are speaking about the pizza, which one of them ate before. Each one will say one statement and we were given that one of them is lying. We have to find out who ate the pizza. Easy one.., no need to worry abt. this.

322) All the above nine puzzles are very easy when compared to this one. This is difficult not because of logic but because of its grammer. The sentence structure is too complicate. This question reminded me of puzzle 127 of sakunthala devi’s Puzzles to Puzzle U.

323. there is a 1 km long wire plces on x poles . if the no of poles is reduced by 1 then he distance of wire between each poles
increases 1 2/3.how many poles are there intially.\

324. clark ,jones,mason, smith are 4 ppl. there are 4 professions druggists,grocer,butcher,policeman.find out who is who?

1)clark and jones are neighbours and they drive each other to work.
2)jones earns more than mason
3) the police man earns more than the druggists and i "think" the grocer.
4) the policeman does not have a druggists as a neighbour.
5) the butcher walks to work
6)policeman does not meet the grocer until he arrests him for commiting an offence.

325. A and B write a test
A says " i got a third of the ques. wrong"
B says " i got 5 wrong"
together they got three quarters of the questions correct.
how many did a get correct. (5 m)

326. If a die has 1,6 and 3,4 and 2,5 opposite each other how many such dies can be made.

327. There are three boxes , In one box Two white balls , In two box 2 black balls In three box 1 white &1 black
The lables on the boxes are not correct.Then you have to open one box and to find the colour of the balls in all boxes.

Solution: Open the box labled black& white If white balls are there then the box labled with white balls
contain black balls and labled with black balls contain one black and one white ball and viceversa
if two black ballsare there.


328). there are containing 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 29 balls of either red or blue in colour.
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 solds out ?
Ans : total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2 = 60/2 = 30
and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30

329). A chain is broken into three pieces of equal lenths containing 3 links each. It is taken to a backsmith to join into a single continuous one . How many links are to to be opened to make it ? Ans : 2.

330) when the actual time pass 1hr wall clock is 10 min behind it when 1 hr is shown by wall clock, table clock shows 10 min ahead of it when table clock shows 1 hr the alarm clock goes 5min behind it, when alarm clock goes 1 hr wrist watch is 5 min ahead of it assuming that all clocks are correct with actual time at 12 noon what will be time shown by wrist watch after 6 hr
ans---5:47:32.5
(n X 60 )50/60 X 70/60 X 55/60 X 65/60

331. complete the following
a. $ * * $ @ * ? ?
# @ @ # # $ ? ? some what simillar like this...but not clear.
b. 1 , 3 , 7 , 13 , 21 , __ , 43 Ans : 31
c. 1, 3, 9, __ , 16900

332. A girl took part in a (some) game with many others in a circular closed circuit. After pedaling for several minutes, he found that 1/3th of the cyclists ahead of her and 3/4th of the cyclists behind him together formed the total no. of participants. How many were participating in the race?

333. OF all pets i have, except 2 all are rabbits
OF all pets i have, except 2 all are fish
OF all pets i have, except 2 all are cats
How many rabbits, fish and cats are there?

334. given
carpenter + painter = 1100
painter + electrician = 3200
electrician + plumber = 5100
plumber + mason = 2200
mason + labour = 3000
labour + painter = 1100
find every person's cash? (i dont know the exact amount mentioned above.)

335. out of 30 questions, the three persons A,B & C answered 45 correct answers,
B answered 55% of A, B and C together answered 25 % more of what A answered.
Find how many answers each answered?

336. Jim,Bud and sam were rounded up by the police yesterday. because one
of them was suspected of having robbed the local bank. The three suspects made
the following statements under intensive questioning.

Jim: I'm innocent
Bud: I'm innocent
Sam: Bud is the guilty one.
If only one of the statements turned out to be true, who robbed the bank?


337) There are two containers on a table. A and B . A is half full of
wine, while B, which is twice A's size,
is onequarter full of wine . Both containers are filled with water
and the contents are poured into a
third container C. What portion of container C's mixture is wine ?

338) A wall clock loses 10 minutes every 1 hour. In 1 hour by the wall
clock , a table clock gets 10 minutes ahead of it. In 1 hour by the table clock an alarm clock falls 5
minutes behind it. In 1 hour of the alarm clock, a wristwatch gets 5 minutes ahead it. At noon, all 4
timepieces were set correctly. To the nearest minutes, what time will the wrist show when the correct time is 6
p.m. on the same day ?

339) "You see," said Mrs.Murphy,"Paddy is now one and one-third times as
old as he was when he took to drink, and little Jimmy, who was forty months old when paddy took to
drink is now two years more than half as old as I was when Paddy took to drink , so when little Jimmy is as old as Paddy was when he took to drink.our three ages combined will amount to just one hundred years" How old is little Jimmy?

340)Both the Allens and the Smiths have two young sons under eleven. The name of the boys whose ages rounded off to the nearest year are all different are Arthur, Bert, Carl and David . Taking the ages of the boys only to the nearest year ,
the following staements are true

* Arthur is three years younger than his brother
* Bert is the oldest
* Carl is half as old as one of the allen boys
* David is five years older than the younger smith boy
* the total ages of the boys in each family differ by the same amount
today as they did five years ago

How old is each boy and what is each boys family name.

341) In a certain organization there are either men eligible to serve on a eligible to serve on a newly established commitee of four. The selection of the members is not an easy matter , however for there are jealousies and attachements among the candidates which prevents a free choice of four committeemen, if you were the president of the organization could you select a committee of four satisfying all these whims?

* Ames will serve with anybody
* Brown won't serve unless Clayton serves
* Clayton wont serve with Evans
* Davis wont serve without hughes
* evans will serve with anybody
* French wont serve with Davis unless Grant serves too, and wont
serve with Clayton unless Davis also
serves
* Grant wont serve with both Brown and Clayton and wont serve with
either Ames or Evens
* Hughes wont serve unless either Brown or French serves and wont
serve with Clayton unless Grant serves too and wont serve with both
Ames and Evans


342) An artist has exactly seven paintings --- ,T,U,V,W,X,Y, and Z -- from which she must choose exactly five
to be in an exhibit. Any combination is acceptable provided it meets the following conditions:

* If T is chosen , X cannot be chosen
* If U is chosen , Y must also be chosen
* If V is chosen , X must also be chosen

1) Which one of hte following is an aceptable combination of
paintings for inclusion in the exhibit?

A. T,U,V,X,Y
B. T,U,V,Y,Z
C. T,W,X,Y,Z
D. U,V,W,Y,Z
E. U,V,W,Z,Y

2) If painting T is chosen to be among the paintings included int he
exhibit which one of the following cannot be chosen to be among the
paintings included in the exhibit?

A. U
B. V
C. W
D. Y
E. Z

3)Which one of the following substitutions can the artist always make
without violating restrictions affecting the combination of paintings
given that the painting mentioned first was not, and the painting
mentioned first was not, and the painting mentioned second was,
originally going to be chosen ?

A. T replaces V
B. U replaces Y
C. V replaces X
D. W replaces Y
E. Z replaces W

4) If the artist chooses painting V to be included among the
paintings in the exhibit, which one of the following must be true of
that combination of paintings?

A. T is not chosen
B. Y is not chosen
C. U is chosen
D. W is chosen
E. Z is chosen

343) Yesterday my mother asked me to buy some stamps. Stamps are available in 2 paise,7paise,10paise,15paise and 20paise denominations. For three types of stamps I was asked to buy five of each. For the other two types of stamps. I was asked to buy six of each. Unfortunately I forgot which I was supposed to buy five of and which to buy six of
Luckly my mother had given me the exact money required to buy the stamps , Rs. 3.00 and the shopkeeper was able to give me the correct stamps. Which stamps did I buy?

344)Farmer Jones sold a pair of cows for Rs. 210 , On one he made a profit of ten percent and on the other he lost ten percent. Altogether he made a profit of five percent. How many did each cow originally cost him?

345.Meera was playing with her brother using 55 blocks.She gets bored playing and starts arranging the blocks
such that the no. of blocks in each row is one less than that in the lower row. Find how many were there
in the bottom most row?

346.Rahul took part in a cycling game with many others in a circular closed circuit. After pedaling for
several minutes, he found that 1/5th of the cyclists ahead of him and 5/6th of the cyclists behind him
together formed the total no. of participants. How many were participating in the race?

347.Tom wants to catch a hare. He is standing 250 yards south from the hare. The hare starts moving due east.
Tom, instead of moving in the northeast direction,moves in such a way that at every instant,
he is goingtowards the hare. If speed of tom is one and one-third times that of the hare, find the distance each
traveled before he caught the hare.

348.Two people are playing with a pair of dies. Instead of numbers, the dies have different colors on their
sides. The first person wins if the same color appears on both the dies and the second person wins if the
colors are different. The odds of their winning are equal. If the first dice has 5 red sides and 1 blue
side, find the color(s) on the second one.

349.A company's director said during the board meeting: " The company's income from roads will be
sufficient to pay 6% of the entire stock issue, but since we are paying 7.5% interest on the preferred
stock of Rs.4, 000,000 we are able to pay only 5% of the common stock". Find the value of the common stock.

350. Mr. ANYMAN left ANYTOWN by car to attend a wedding at ANYCITY. He had been driving for exactly two hours
when the car got punctured. It took his driver exactly ten minutes to change the wheel. In order to play safe
they covered the remaining distance at a speed of 30 mph. consequently, Mr. ANYMAN was at wedding half an-
hour behind schedule. Had the car got the puncture only 30 miles later , I would have been only FIFTEEN
minutes late he told the driver . How Far is ANYCITY from ANYTOWN.
Ans: 120 miles



351. Alpha, Beta , gamma, delta and epsilon are friends and have birthdays on consecutive days though may not
be in order. Gamma is as many days old to Alpha as Beta is younger to Epsilon. Delta is two days older
then Epsilon. Gamma’s Birthday is on Wednesday. Tell whose birthday is when.

Ans:
Alpha: Friday
Beta : Saturday
Gamma: Wednesday
Delta: Tuesday
Epsilon: Thursday

352.The quarter of the time from midnight to present time added to the half of the time from the present to
midnight gives the present time. What is the present time?

Ans: 9hrs past 36 minutes AM

353. A man is going to a wedding party. He travels for 2hrs when he gets a puncture. Changing tyres takes 10mins.
The rest of the journey he travels at 30 miles/hr. He reaches 30mins behind schedule. He thinks to himself that
if the puncture had occurred 30miles later, he would have been only 15mins late.
Find the total distance traveled by the man

354. After world war II three departments did as follows First department gave some tanks to 2nd &3rd departments equal to
the number they are having. Then 2nd department gave some tanks to 1st & 3rd departments equal to
the number they are having. Then 3rd department gave some tanks to 2nd &1st departments equal to
the number they are having. Then each department has 24 tanks. Find the initial number of tanks of each department?

Ans ; A-39 B-21 C-12

355. A girl 'A' told to her friend about the size and color of a snake she has seen
in the beach. It is one of the colors brown/black/green and one of the sizes 35/45/55.

If it were not green or if it were not of length 35 it is 55.
If it were not black or if it were not of length 45 it is 55.
If it were not black or if it were not of length 35 it is 55.

a) What is the color of the snake?
b) What is the length of the snake?

Ans: a) brown b) 55

356.A man was on his way to a marriage in a car with a constant speed. After 2 hours one of the tier is punctured
and it took 10 minutes to replace it. After that they traveled with a speed of 30 miles/hr and reached the marriage
30 minutes late to the scheduled time. The driver told that they would be late by 15 minutes only if the 10 minutes
was not waste. Find the distance between the two towns?


357. Three clocks where set to true time. First run with the exact time. Second slows one minute/day. Third gains one minute/day. After how many days they will show true time.

358. There were some containers of quantity 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 15, 22, 24, 38 liters. Each was filled with some liquid except one. The liquids are milk, water and oil. Quantity of each was like this. Water = 2* milk oil = 2* water. Find out which container was empty and containers filled with milk and oil.

359. Two travelers, one with 64 barrels of wine, other with 20 barrels of wine. They don't have enough money to pay duty for the same. First traveler pays 40 francs and gives his 5 barrels, Second traveler gives his 2 barrels but gets 40 francs in exchange. What's value of each barrel, and duty for each barrel?

Ans: Value of each barrel-120 francs, Duty on each-10 francs

360. What is Ann's relation with her husband's mother's only daughter-in-law's sister's husband?

Ans: Brother-in-law

361. Some guy holding a glass of wine in his hand looking around in the room says, "This is same as it was four years ago, how old are your two kids now?" Other guy says "Three now, Pam had one more in the meanwhile." Pam says, "If you multiply their ages, answer is 96 and if you add the ages of first two kids, addition is same as our house number." The first guy says, "You are very smart but that doesn't tell me their ages." Pam says, "It's very simple, just think." What are the ages of three kids?

Ans: 8, 6, 2


362. A motor cyclist participant of a race says "We drove with the speed of 10 miles an hour one way, but while returning because of less traffic we drove on the same route with 15 miles per hour." What was their average speed in the whole journey?

Ans: 12 miles per hour


363. Given following sequence, find the next term in the series:

(i) 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 12, 20, 16, ____ Ans: 12

(ii) 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, ___ Ans: 53

364. Three customers want haircut and a shave. In a saloon, two barbers operate at same speed. They take quarter of an hour for the haircut and 5 mins for the shave. How quickly can they finish the haircut and shave of these three customers?

Ans: 30 minutes

365. A shopkeeper likes to arrange and rearrange his collection of stamps. He arranges them sometimes in pair, sometimes in bundle of three, sometimes in bundle of fours, occasionally in bundle of fives and sixes. Every time he's left with one stamp in hand after arrangement in bundles. But if he arranges in the bundle of seven, he's not left with any stamp. How many stamps does a shopkeeper have?

Ans: 301

366. Three different types of objects in a bucket. How many times does one need to select object from the bucket to get atleast 3 objects of the same type?

Ans: 7


367). A stamp collector has the habit to arrange or rearrange the stamps accordingly. while doing this he some times keeps the stamps in pairs, or in group of 3 or in 4 or in or in 6 and realises that in any case he is left with 1 stamp and when he arranges them in groups of 7 no stamps remain. what is the number of stamps he has?

368). amy while walkin down the street with her daughter, meets her husband's mother's only duaghter in law's sister's husband. how is the related to her? 

369). there are 3 custoners who wants to take a hair cut and shave. there are 2 barbers who takes one quarter of an hour for a hair cut, and 5 minutes for a shave. both the barbers want to finish off and go quickly to their homes. in what time can do it.

370). we travelled to a place at the rate of 10 miles per hour and offcourse returned the same way, but owing to less traffic at the rate of 15 miles per hour.what was our relative speed.

371). there are 3 types of apples in a box. what is the number of apples we should take so that we end up with 3 apples of one kind.

372). a).3,6,13,26,33,66,_ b).0, 1,2,13 ,6,33 ,12, 63,20, 103,_


373. Each alphabet A,B.. Z is a constant.A=1,B=2,C=3^2,D=4^9 n so on.Each letter is assigned a value -the position of that letter raised to the value of preceding alphabet.(C = 3 ^B,D= 4 ^ C n so on)
Compute the numerical value of (X-A)(X-B)(X-C)....(X-Y)(X-Z).

374. Mr. T has a wrong weighing pan.One arm is lengthier than other.1
kilogram on left balances 8 melons on right.1 kilogram on right
balances 2 melons on left.If all melons are equal in weight,what is
the weight of a single melon?

375. In a game of dice, 2 dice thrown at each turn.The score at each
turn is taken as the product of number on 2 dices.there were five
turns(rolls).second roll is 1 less than first n (like this ... the
relationship between third n second,third n fourth,fourth n fifth )
were given.Find the score in first roll,second roll,third roll,fourth
roll.(jus giving an idea abt question and don know the exact
relationships).

PURPLE:these are always poisonous if red are.
YELLOW:six months in a year they are safe.
GREEN: always safe to consume if purple are poisonous.
RED:six months in a year poisonous.
The colors are colors of mushrooms available.AT this time
which one is safe to consume?


G: I am 22
M = G + 2
H = G - 1
H: I am not the youngest.
difference between M & H is 3
G is 25.

M: M is younger than G.
G = 23.
H = G+2.
Mr.G,Mr.M,Mr.H made only one statement false.

Find the ages of all three.
(I am not sure abt the statements jus chk it out with others)