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| Without using any loops print {{{}}} (u cant use
goto,for,while etc..). | Zycus-Infotech | 5 |
| There are 70 employees working with BrainVista of which 30
are females. Also,
? 30 employees are married
? 24 employees are above 25 years of age
? 19 married employees are above 25 years, of which 7 are males
? 12 males are above 25 years of age
? 15 males are married.
How many unmarried females are there and how many of them
are above 25? | | 2 |
| When Alexander the Great attacked the forces of Porus, an
Indian soldier was captured by the Greeks. He had displayed
such bravery in battle, however, that the enemy offered to
let him choose how he wanted to be killed. They told
him, "If you tell a lie, you will put to the sword, and if
you tell the truth you will be hanged."
The soldier could make only one statement. He made that
statement and went free. What did he say?
| CTS | 3 |
| There is a shortage of tubelights, bulbs and fans in a
village - Kharghar. It is found that
? All houses do not have either tubelight or bulb or fan.
? exactly 19% of houses do not have just one of these.
? atleast 67% of houses do not have tubelights.
? atleast 83% of houses do not have bulbs.
? atleast 73% of houses do not have fans.
What percentage of houses do not have tubelight, bulb and fan? | | 2 |
| On 20 feet high pol a monkey climb/jump 4 feet and every
time he fel/slip down 3 feet then, how many jump/climb he
reach at top of the pol? | Delhi-Police | 6 |
| There is a number that is 5 times the sum of its digits.
What is this number? Answer is not 0. | | 2 |
| You have 2 identical glass bulbs with you. Bulb
manufacturer has mentioned that each bulb might withstand a
drop of 200 Feet at maximum. Your task is to find the
height at which the bulb breaks ofcourse with minimum
number of iterations.
Assume that you have 200 blocks of 1 foot each which can be
stacked one by one to create a 200 Feet structure to carry
out the test. | Wipro | 8 |
| Consider a chessboard with a single Rook. A Rook can move
any number of square sideways/forward, but not diagonally.
What is the minimum number of moves the Rook needs to make,
in order to pass over all the squares on the chessboard and
return to the original position? | | 5 |
| On the shelf you have 10 identical bottles of identical
pills (let?s say there?s a hundred pills in each bottle).
However, one of those 10 bottles contains cheap knockoff
pills. The only way to differentiate fake pills from real
pills is the weight - while real pills weigh 1 g each, the
knockoff pills are only 0.9 g. You have one scale that
shows the exact weight (down to the mg) of whatever is
weighed.
How can you tell which bottle contains fake pills with just
1 weighing?
| TCS | 7 |
| Kate, Demi, Madona, Sharon, Britney and Nicole decided to
lunch together in a restaurant. The waiter led them to a
round table with six chairs.
How many different ways can they seat? | | 2 |
| Here is the family tree of Mr. RAHUL
RAHUL
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RATISH YASH OM TRILOK
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AMAR AMIT RAM HARSH ASHOK
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How many children does Mr. TRILOK have? | | 1 |
| A worker earns a 5% raise. A year later, the worker receives
a 2.5% cut in pay, & now his salary is Rs. 22702.68
What was his salary to begin with? | | 2 |
| The cricket match between India and Pakistan was over.
? Harbhajan scored more runs than Ganguly.
? Sachin scored more runs than Laxman but less than Dravid
? Badani scored as much runs as Agarkar but less than Dravid
and more than Sachin.
? Ganguly scored more runs than either Agarkar or Dravid.
Each batsman scored 10 runs more than his immediate batsman.
The lowest score was 10 runs. How much did each one of them
score | | 1 |
| Replace the letters with the correct numbers.
T W O
X T W O
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T H R E E | | 3 |
| There is a family party consisting of two fathers, two
mothers, two sons, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, one
daughter-in-law, one grandfather, one grandmother and one
grandson.
What is the minimum number of persons required so that this
is possible? | | 1 |
| A woman took a certain number of eggs to the market and sold
some of them.
The next day, through the industry of her hens, the number
left over had been doubled, and she sold the same number as
the previous day.
On the third day the new remainder was tripled, and she sold
the same number as before.
On the fourth day the remainder was quadrupled, and her
sales the same as before.
On the fifth day what had been left over were quintupled,
yet she sold exactly the same as on all the previous
occasions and so disposed of her entire stock.
What is the smallest number of eggs she could have taken to
market the first day, and how many did she sell daily? Note
that the answer is not zero. | | 1 |
| Assume for a moment that the earth is a perfectly uniform
sphere of radius 6400 km. Suppose a thread equal to the
length of the circumference of the earth was placed along
the equator, and drawn to a tight fit.
Now suppose that the length of the thread is increased by 12
cm, and that it is pulled away uniformly in all directions.
By how many cm. will the thread be separated from the
earth's surface? | | 3 |
| What is the minimum number of numbers needed to form every
number from 1 to 7,000?
Example: To form 4884, you would need 2 4s & 2 8s. 4822
requires a 4, a 8, & 2 2s, but you would not count the
numbers again that you had already counted from making 4884. | | 2 |
| John lives in "Friends Society" where all the houses are in
a row and are numbered sequentially starting from 1. His
house number is 109.
Jessy lives in the same society. All the house numbers on
the left side of Jessy's house add up exactly the same as
all the house numbers on the right side of her house.
What is the number of Jessy's house? Find the minimal
possible answer. | | 1 |
| If A+B=C, D-C=A and E-B=C, then what does D+F stands for?
Provide your answer in letter terms as well as in number terms. | | 1 |
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