Given a rectangular (cuboidal for the puritans) cake with a rectangular piece removed (any size or orientation), how would you cut the remainder of the cake into two equal halves with one straight cut of a knife?
15 36772There are 3 baskets. one of them have apples, one has oranges only and the other has mixture of apples and oranges. The labels on their baskets always lie. (i.e. if the label says oranges, you are sure that it doesn't have oranges only,it could be a mixture) The task is to pick one basket and pick only one fruit from it and then correctly label all the three baskets.
16 76543You have 8 balls. One of them is defective and weighs less than others. You have a balance to measure balls against each other. In 2 weighings how do you find the defective one?
5 13916You've got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them. The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the end of every day. If you are only allowed to make two breaks in the gold bar, how do you pay your worker?
30 67849One train leaves Los Angeles at 15mph heading for New York. Another train leaves from New York at 20mph heading for Los Angeles on the same track. If a bird, flying at 25mph, leaves from Los Angeles at the same time as the train and flies back and forth between the two trains until they collide, how far will the bird have traveled?
21 46727You have two jars, 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles. A jar will be picked at random, and then a marble will be picked from the jar. Placing all of the marbles in the jars, how can you maximize the chances of a red marble being picked? What are the exact odds of getting a red marble using your scheme?
2 14953Imagine you are standing in front of a mirror, facing it. Raise your left hand. Raise your right hand. Look at your reflection. When you raise your left hand your reflection raises what appears to be his right hand. But when you tilt your head up, your reflection does too, and does not appear to tilt his/her head down. Why is it that the mirror appears to reverse left and right, but not up and down?
9 30013You have 5 jars of pills. Each pill weighs 10 gram, except for contaminated pills contained in one jar, where each pill weighs 9 gm. Given a scale, how could you tell which jar had the contaminated pills in just one measurement?
7 50714If you had an infinite supply of water and a 5 quart and 3 quart pail, how would you measure exactly 4 quarts?
4 10586You have a bucket of jelly beans. Some are red, some are blue, and some green. With your eyes closed, pick out 2 of a like color. How many do you have to grab to be sure you have 2 of the same?
5 24583There are four dogs/ants/people at four corners of a square of unit distance. At the same instant all of them start running with unit speed towards the person on their clockwise direction and will always run towards that target. How long does it take for them to meet and where?
8 33460Post New General Aptitude Questions
The base 5 representation of the decimal number 2048 is _____.
a solution is prepared by mixing two solution with sprit 20% & 60%…In what ration they should be mixed to get the 50% sprit in resultant solution .
A train 100 meter long takes 3 second to cross a man walking at the rate of 6km/hr in a direction opposite to that of the train. Find the speed of the train.
Cost of an item is Rs 12.60 ,profit is 10% over selling price.
HOW + MUCH = POWER Then P + O + W + E + R =
600 tennis players 4% ->wrist band on one wrist of remain 96%->25%->on both hands remain no of ---
Two trains at speed 60 km/hr come in the opposite direction. At a particular time the distance between the two trains is 18km. A shuttle flies between the trains at the speed of 80 km/hr. At the time the two trains crashes what is the distance traveled by shuttle?
Find sum of 3 + 5/(1+22) + 7/(1 + 22 + 32) + ......
Find the missing word(...),ayw,gec,mki,sqo
consider expression 'ab' . what happens when 'a' is divided by 'c' &'b' is multiplied by 'c'.
A sales person multiplied by a number and get the answer 3. Instead of that number divided by 3. What is the answer she actually has to get. (1/3) * 1 *3 =3 so the no= 1 divided by three.
Name of the cipla medicine product
There are 6 people W,H,M,C,G,F who are murderer, victim, judge, police, witness, hangman. There was no eyewitness only circumstantial witness. The murderer was sentenced to death. Read following statement and determine who is who.
a person went to a shop and asked for change for 1.15paise. 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
The local wind which blows down the Rockies in Canada is known as:?