1.There is a game which is being played by 2 persons A and B.

The 2 players start the game keeping

identical 50 paise coins on a blank board alternately. The 50 paise coins can be kept in the board such
that no part of the coin is outside the board. It can touch the board edge but cannot protrude outside
the board. The two players can place the coins anywhere on the board. The coins placed during the
course of the game can touch each other at the periphery but cannot overlap with the already placed
coins.
The player who has space to place the last coin is the winner i.e the player placing the last coin on the
board with no space available for the opponent is the winner. If you are one of the players, what will
your strategy be so that you definitely win?
Answer:-
1. I shall keep the 1st coin the exact centre of the board.
2. now after each coin that he keeps, I shall keep a coin exactly diagonally opposite. This shall reduce
the space for his further attempts more than any other strategy.
2.Two guys A & B found out a old coin.on one side of that there is a picture of a king and on the other
side it was written as 200B.C
A told that the coin is a fake one but B said the other way. so who is right and why?
Answer:-
A is right. How would the coin maker know that there were 200 years left for Jesus to be born before
he even existed?
3.A man had three daughters. Another man asked him the ages of his daughter. He told that the
product of their ages is 36.
Second man was confused and asked for another clue. First man told him that the sum of their ages is
equal to his house number.
Second man did some calculations and was still confused. He asked for another clue. First man told
him that his youngest daughter had blue eyes. On hearing this, second man immediately gave the
correct Answer.
Question : What are the ages of his daughter ?
Answer:-
Ages:1,6,6
Solution:-
To begin with, there is a small logical assumption that all the ages are integers.
4.Further to this, it is given that the product of the daughters' ages is 36. This gives the man just 8
possibilities:
AGE 1 AGE 2 AGE 3 SUM OF AGES
1 1 36 38
1 2 18 21
1 3 12 16
1 4 9 14
1 6 6 13
2 2 9 13
2 3 6 11
3 3 4 10
The correct solution has to exist within this range possibilities because the man could guess the same.
Calculation of the sum of their ages (the rightmost column) shows the only possible instances of the
house no. If the sum were 38, 21, 16, 14, 11, or 10, he would have been able to guess the ages
immediately. He was not able to do so only because the number of the house and the sum of the ages
was 13! (This is because, even after this hint the solution was not unquely deducible…!!) Because of
this, he did not have a unique solution until the man informed her about his youngest daughter.
It becomes clear that there is no ambiguity at this "youngest"position and that not two of them are
tied at this position ( in case the ages would have been 9,2, and 2) . This is possible only if Kiran's
daughters are 1, 6, and 6 years old.
With similar arguments, assuming no tie at the eldest position the correct set of ages would be 9, 2,
2.

5.Long back there was a king..

He had a very pretty daughter
He decided to hold a Svyamvar for his daughter
He called everyone but forgot to call a magician
Magician was very angry . He kidnapped the king's daughter.
King was very upset . He goes to the magician and pleads before him.
The magician , being soft at heart , tells the king that :
" O great King!! I agree to return your daughter back.
I 'll turn her into a flower and place her in your garden tomorrow morning.
You come there tomorrow morning.
If you are able to recognise her then I will return her back to u"
The next morning the king goes to his garden recognises his daughter and the magician returns her
back to the king.
The question is how did the king recognise his daughter???
Some pts. to be noted:
1.The garden had all the species of flowers so the daughter was just like any other flower.
2. There are no tricks . The Answer is purely based on logic.
Solution:-
The king was very clever. When he heard that he "had" to recognise her daughter "flower" the next
morniong, he decided to play a game with the magician. He went to the garden quitely late in the
night and made some mark on all the flowers that existed there already. So when he came back to the
garden the next morning, the task was cut out simple for him. He had to only look for a flower w/o
that mark. And EUREKA...He found it.
What about all the flowers that Bloomed overnight? After marking all the flowers he also nipped all the
Buds. This way he would be having a higher probability in identifying his daughter.

6.A man is trapped in a room.The room has 2 doors and 2 guards on those doors.One guard always
speak true and the other always lie.Out of the two doors one goes towards escape and one towards
jail. The man does not know which guard is lier and on which door and of course which door opens
where. Fortunately,he has given a chance of escape by asking only one question to any of the guards.
Now the question is what question the man should ask?
Solution:-
Suppose the situation is
Gaurd 1 stands at Door 1 and Guard 2 stands at Door 2
The man should ask the Guard 1 this question -
" What will be the Answer of the Guard 2 when I ask him where does door 2 lead to?"
case 1:
If the Guard 1 Says "Guard 2 will say - towards JAIL" -
then the Door 2 will take him outside
Case 2:
If the Guard 1 Says "Guard 2 will say - towards outside" -
then the Door 1 will take him outside

7.A king has 100 sons(not dhritarashtra) and he wants a real fundoo girl to become his daughter-in-
law. so he sets a plan. a certain amount is fixed for each son. (this much amount is to be given to the
girl who marries that particular son). after that he invites a girl. the condition is that each son will be
prsented to the girl and his amount will be told. you can choose any son randomly and after knowing
the amount you can either accept or reject the guy. and go for another one, again randomly. but you
can't go back to a previously rejected guy. the question is to get the maximum amount what will be
your strategy?
The music stopped. She died. Explain
Answer:-
She was on LSS(Life Support System) and there was no UPS or power back up. The music stopped as
the power went boom!
8. A man goes to a restaurant and orders Albatross Soup. The waiter brings the soup. The man tastes
it, comes out of the restaurant and shoots himself. Why?
Reason: Albatross soup (variant 1.2 of 18 available across the globe) served in that hotel was
extremely hot and poisonous. Got him all "fired" up. Didn't prolong the agony and shot himself.
9. A man wakes up in the morning, goes to a place, takes three left turns in succession and meets a
masked man. What is the profession of the first man?
Profession: Good Samritan 4 times over.
Reason: The man had done 4 "right" turns (good deeds) the previous day so to make for the
imbalance, he did 3 "left" turns and met his long lost friend Long Gone Silver whose face got burnt
during the fire at the theatres on Friday the 13th, October 1999.
10.A Jailor has three bullets and he has four prisoners
The three of them are standing on the stairs one on first staircase second on second and the third on
third& the fourth prisoner is made to sit in a closed room with no windows in proper security Jailor
make the prisoners wear a cap,two of red colour & two of white He gave them a cap each No body
knows about the colour of their cap neither can they see it
He declares that in his count for three if anyone of them will tell
the colour of his cap,he will spare him
You have to simply find that who is that lucky guy ???
Solution:-
i assume that the jailor will spare only the person who tells the colour of the cap first if he is right.
also there is something worse than death to dissuade people from making false calls. and lastly that
the lucky person is eager to get the ordeal over and if somebody knows the colour of his cap he will
speak up immediately.
now under these assumptions:
the fourth person is helpless as he cannot see anything and due to the symmetry the replies do not
give him any extra indicatons.
the third person sees two caps and if they are the same colour he speaks up immediately. now even
the second person knows the colour of his cap as it is the same as the colour of the first persons cap,
but unfortunately the lucky berth is gone.
if the first two are wearing different coloured caps the third is helpless and hence doesnot speak up.
now the second person can infer the colour of his cap from the colour of the cap worn by the first
person and speaks up and is spared.
so depending on the colours of the first two caps either the second or the third person is spared. now
to determine the lucky guy we need the probablity of the first two guys getting a cap of the same
colour which is 1/3, where as that they get different colour has 2/3 probablity and so the 2nd person
could be called the luckiest if you wish!!
1.There is a game which is being played by 2 persons A and B. The 2 players start the game keeping
identical 50 paise coins on a blank board alternately. The 50 paise coins can be kept in the board such
that no part of the coin is outside the board. It can touch the board edge but cannot protrude outside
the board. The two players can place the coins anywhere on the board. The coins placed during the
course of the game can touch each other at the periphery but cannot overlap with the already placed
coins.
The player who has space to place the last coin is the winner i.e the player placing the last coin on the
board with no space available for the opponent is the winner. If you are one of the players, what will
your strategy be so that you definitely win?
Answer:-
1. I shall keep the 1st coin the exact centre of the board.
2. now after each coin that he keeps, I shall keep a coin exactly diagonally opposite. This shall reduce
the space for his further attempts more than any other strategy.
2.Two guys A & B found out a old coin.on one side of that there is a picture of a king and on the other
side it was written as 200B.C
A told that the coin is a fake one but B said the other way. so who is right and why?
Answer:-
A is right. How would the coin maker know that there were 200 years left for Jesus to be born before
he even existed?
3.A man had three daughters. Another man asked him the ages of his daughter. He told that the
product of their ages is 36.
Second man was confused and asked for another clue. First man told him that the sum of their ages is
equal to his house number.
Second man did some calculations and was still confused. He asked for another clue. First man told
him that his youngest daughter had blue eyes. On hearing this, second man immediately gave the
correct Answer.
Question : What are the ages of his daughter ?
Answer:-
Ages:1,6,6
Solution:-
To begin with, there is a small logical assumption that all the ages are integers.
4.Further to this, it is given that the product of the daughters' ages is 36. This gives the man just 8
possibilities:
AGE 1 AGE 2 AGE 3 SUM OF AGES
1 1 36 38
1 2 18 21
1 3 12 16
1 4 9 14
1 6 6 13
2 2 9 13
2 3 6 11
3 3 4 10
The correct solution has to exist within this range possibilities because the man could guess the same.
Calculation of the sum of their ages (the rightmost column) shows the only possible instances of the
house no. If the sum were 38, 21, 16, 14, 11, or 10, he would have been able to guess the ages
immediately. He was not able to do so only because the number of the house and the sum of the ages
was 13! (This is because, even after this hint the solution was not unquely deducible…!!) Because of
this, he did not have a unique solution until the man informed her about his youngest daughter.
It becomes clear that there is no ambiguity at this "youngest"position and that not two of them are
tied at this position ( in case the ages would have been 9,2, and 2) . This is possible only if Kiran's
daughters are 1, 6, and 6 years old.
With similar arguments, assuming no tie at the eldest position the correct set of ages would be 9, 2,
2.

5.Long back there was a king..

He had a very pretty daughter
He decided to hold a Svyamvar for his daughter
He called everyone but forgot to call a magician
Magician was very angry . He kidnapped the king's daughter.
King was very upset . He goes to the magician and pleads before him.
The magician , being soft at heart , tells the king that :
" O great King!! I agree to return your daughter back.
I 'll turn her into a flower and place her in your garden tomorrow morning.
You come there tomorrow morning.
If you are able to recognise her then I will return her back to u"
The next morning the king goes to his garden recognises his daughter and the magician returns her
back to the king.
The question is how did the king recognise his daughter???
Some pts. to be noted:
1.The garden had all the species of flowers so the daughter was just like any other flower.
2. There are no tricks . The Answer is purely based on logic.
Solution:-
The king was very clever. When he heard that he "had" to recognise her daughter "flower" the next
morniong, he decided to play a game with the magician. He went to the garden quitely late in the
night and made some mark on all the flowers that existed there already. So when he came back to the
garden the next morning, the task was cut out simple for him. He had to only look for a flower w/o
that mark. And EUREKA...He found it.
What about all the flowers that Bloomed overnight? After marking all the flowers he also nipped all the
Buds. This way he would be having a higher probability in identifying his daughter.

6.A man is trapped in a room.The room has 2 doors and 2 guards on those doors.One guard always
speak true and the other always lie.Out of the two doors one goes towards escape and one towards
jail. The man does not know which guard is lier and on which door and of course which door opens
where. Fortunately,he has given a chance of escape by asking only one question to any of the guards.
Now the question is what question the man should ask?
Solution:-
Suppose the situation is
Gaurd 1 stands at Door 1 and Guard 2 stands at Door 2
The man should ask the Guard 1 this question -
" What will be the Answer of the Guard 2 when I ask him where does door 2 lead to?"
case 1:
If the Guard 1 Says "Guard 2 will say - towards JAIL" -
then the Door 2 will take him outside
Case 2:
If the Guard 1 Says "Guard 2 will say - towards outside" -
then the Door 1 will take him outside

7.A king has 100 sons(not dhritarashtra) and he wants a real fundoo girl to become his daughter-in-
law. so he sets a plan. a certain amount is fixed for each son. (this much amount is to be given to the
girl who marries that particular son). after that he invites a girl. the condition is that each son will be
prsented to the girl and his amount will be told. you can choose any son randomly and after knowing
the amount you can either accept or reject the guy. and go for another one, again randomly. but you
can't go back to a previously rejected guy. the question is to get the maximum amount what will be
your strategy?
The music stopped. She died. Explain
Answer:-
She was on LSS(Life Support System) and there was no UPS or power back up. The music stopped as
the power went boom!
8. A man goes to a restaurant and orders Albatross Soup. The waiter brings the soup. The man tastes
it, comes out of the restaurant and shoots himself. Why?
Reason: Albatross soup (variant 1.2 of 18 available across the globe) served in that hotel was
extremely hot and poisonous. Got him all "fired" up. Didn't prolong the agony and shot himself.
9. A man wakes up in the morning, goes to a place, takes three left turns in succession and meets a
masked man. What is the profession of the first man?
Profession: Good Samritan 4 times over.
Reason: The man had done 4 "right" turns (good deeds) the previous day so to make for the
imbalance, he did 3 "left" turns and met his long lost friend Long Gone Silver whose face got burnt
during the fire at the theatres on Friday the 13th, October 1999.
10.A Jailor has three bullets and he has four prisoners
The three of them are standing on the stairs one on first staircase second on second and the third on
third& the fourth prisoner is made to sit in a closed room with no windows in proper security Jailor
make the prisoners wear a cap,two of red colour & two of white He gave them a cap each No body
knows about the colour of their cap neither can they see it
He declares that in his count for three if anyone of them will tell
the colour of his cap,he will spare him
You have to simply find that who is that lucky guy ???
Solution:-
i assume that the jailor will spare only the person who tells the colour of the cap first if he is right.
also there is something worse than death to dissuade people from making false calls. and lastly that
the lucky person is eager to get the ordeal over and if somebody knows the colour of his cap he will
speak up immediately.
now under these assumptions:
the fourth person is helpless as he cannot see anything and due to the symmetry the replies do not
give him any extra indicatons.
the third person sees two caps and if they are the same colour he speaks up immediately. now even
the second person knows the colour of his cap as it is the same as the colour of the first persons cap,
but unfortunately the lucky berth is gone.
if the first two are wearing different coloured caps the third is helpless and hence doesnot speak up.
now the second person can infer the colour of his cap from the colour of the cap worn by the first
person and speaks up and is spared.
so depending on the colours of the first two caps either the second or the third person is spared. now
to determine the lucky guy we need the probablity of the first two guys getting a cap of the same
colour which is 1/3, where as that they get different colour has 2/3 probablity and so the 2nd person
could be called the luckiest if you wish!!
1. Cards are there. U have to arrange them in a 3*3 matrix.
Cards are of 4 colors.they are red,yellow,blue,green.
Conditions for arrangement: one red card must be in first row
Or second row.2 green cards should be in 3rd column.yellow=20
Cards must be in the 3 corners only. Two blue cards must be in=20
The 2nd row. Atleast one green card in each row.
Solution:
Yello red gren
Blu blu gren
Yello gren yello
2. Cards are placed on a table, each card has two colors. U=20
Don't know the color of the back side of eachcard.4 persons a
B c and d are sitting on the table before the cards. They can=20
See red, green red and blue .out of the 4 poeple 2 always lie.
They see the color on the reverse side and give the following=20
Comment
A: yello/green
B: neither blue/nor green
C: blue/yello
D: blue/ yello
Find out the color on the other side of the 4 cards.
3. Be * be = acb
A,b,c,e are non zero numbers find b,e.
4. 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
5. 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 possobility to get at least one king.
B) what is the possibility to get two kings.
6. 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
Ans) 1-->50 4--->10p 1--->25p
7. 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.
8. 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 block says false.
I) a says i see 3 whites and 1 block
Ii) b says i see 4 blocks
Iii) e says i see 4 whites
Iiii) c says i see 3 blocks and 1 white.
Now find the caps weared by a,b,c,d and e
9. There are two women, kavitha and shamili and two males shyam, aravind who are musiciAns.
Out of these four one is a pianist, one flutist, violinist and drummer.
I) across aravind beats pianist
Ii) across shyam is not a flutist
Iii) kavitha's left is a pianist
Iiii) shamili's left is not a drummer
V) flutist and drummer are married.
10. 1/3 ed of the contents of a container evaporated on the 1 st 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.

1. If you had an infinite supply of water and a 5 quart and 3 quart pail, how would you measure
exactly 4 quarts?
2. If you could remove any of the 50 states, which state would it be and why?
3. If you are on a boat and you throw out a suitcase, will the level of water increase?
4. There are 3 ants at 3 corners of a triangle, they randomly start moving towards another
corner. What is the probability that they don't collide?
5. Three men were renting a motel figuring the room cost 30 dollars they would pitch in ten a
piece.The room was only 25 so they each gave the bell boy ten,(tip)the bellboy didn"t think
 that would be fair so he gave them each back 1 dollar and kept 2 for himself.What happened
to the other dollar?
6. You have b boxes and n dollars. If I want any amount of money from 0 to n dollars, you must
be able to hand me 0 to b boxes so that I get exactly what I request." The two questions were
"What are the restrictions on b and n, and how is money distributed among the boxes?
7. What is the sum of the numbers from 1 to 1000?
8. You are an employer. You have ten employees. Each month, each one of your ten employees
gives you ten bags of gold. Each bag of gold has ten pieces of gold in it. Each piece of gold
weighs one pound. One of your employees is cheating you by only putting nine pieces of gold
in each of his ten bags of gold. You have a scale (not a balance, a scale), and you can only
take one measurement from the scale, only one (1) reading.
How can you tell which of the ten employees is cheating you by using this scale and only
taking one measurement?
9. How many points are there on the globe where by walking one mile south, one mile east and
one mile north you reach the place where you started.
10. How would go about finding out where to look for a book in a library? (You do not know how
the books are organized beforehand)
11. Imagine 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?
12. You 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?
13. You are given a scale which you are to use to measure eight balls. Seven of these balls have
the same weight: the eigth ball is heavier than the rest. What is the minimum number of
weighs you could perform to find the heaviest of the eight balls?. Remmber it's a scale not a
balance. (i.e. It can just tell you if one side is heavier than the other it can't give you the exact
weight).
14. How would you design a toaster?
15. How would you design an universal remote control?
16. How would you design a clock for a blind person?
17. How many miles of road are there in the US
18. There are n couples attending a party. Each one shakes hands with the persons he doesn't
know. (Assuming each person knows his/her partner) Mary and John are a couple. John asked
the rest of the party-attenders how many times he has shaken hands. Each one gives a
unique Answer. How many times does Mary shake hands?

19. 1.Three types of tea the a,b,c costs Rs. 95/kg,100/kg and70/kg respectively.
20. How many kgs of each should be blended to produce 100 kg of mixture worth Rs.90/kg,
21. given that the quntities of band c are equal
22. a)70,15,15
23. b)50,25,25
24. c)60,20,20
25. d)40,30,30
26.
Ans: (b)
27.
2.What is the maximum number of half-pint bottles of cream that can be filled with a 4-gallon can
of cream (2 pt. =1 qt. and 4 qt. =1 gal)
28. A.16
29. B.24
30. C.30
31. D.64
32.
Ans: D
33.
3.There are two circles, one circle is inscribed and another circle is circumscribed over a square.
What is the ratio of area of inner to outer
34. circle?
35. Ans: 1 : 2
36.
4.In the following figure: A B C
37. D
38. E F G
39. H
40. I
41. Each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 is:
42. a)Represented by a different letter in the figure above.
43. b) Positioned in the figure above so that each of A + B + C,C + D +E,E + F + G, and G + H + I is
equal to 13.
44. Which digit does E represent?
45.
Ans: E is 4
46.
5.There are 12 boys and 15 girls, How many different dancing groups can be formed with 2 boys
and 3 girls.
47. 48Which of the following fractions is less than 1/3
48. (a) 22/62
49. (b) 15/46
50. (c) 2/3
51. (d) 1
52.
Ans: (b)
53.
6.One of Mr. Horton,his wife,their son,and Mr. Horton's mother is a doctor and another is a
lawyer.
54. a)If the doctor is younger than the lawyer, then the doctor and the lawyer are not blood relatives.
55. b)If the doctor is a woman, then the doctor and the lawyer are blood relatives.
56. c)If the lawyer is a man, then the doctor is a man.
57. Whose occupation you know?
58.
Ans: Mr. Horton:he is the doctor.
59.
7.A person wants to buy 3 paise and 5 paise stamps costing exactly one rupee. If he buys which
of the following number of stamps he won't able to
60. buy 3 paise stamps.
61. Ans: 9
62.
8.Mr. and Mrs. Aye and Mr. and Mrs. Bee competed in a chess tournament.Of the three games
played:
63. a)In only the first game werethe two players married to each other.
64. b)The men won two games and the women won one game.
65. c)The Ayes won more games than the Bees.
66. d)Anyone who lost game did not play the subsequent game.
67. Who did not lose a game?
68.
Ans:Mrs.Bee did not lose a game.
69.
9.Two cars are 15 kms apart. One is turning at a speed of 50kmph and the other at 40kmph .
How much time will it take for the two cars to meet?
70.
Ans: 3/2 hours
71.
10.Three piles of chips--pile I consists one chip, pile II consists of chips, and pile III consists of
three chips--are to be used in game played by
72. Anita and Brinda.The game requires:
73. a)That each player in turn take only one chip or all chips from just one pile.
74. b)That the player who has to take the last chip loses.
75. c)That Anita now have her turn.
76. From which pile should Anita draw in order to win?
77.
Ans:Pile II
78.
11. 9.In a class composed of x girls and y boys what part of the class is composed of girls
79. A.y/(x + y)
80. B.x/xy
81. C.x/(x + y)
82. D.y/xy
83. Ans:C
84.
12.One of the following is my secret word:AIM DUE MOD OAT TIE.With the list in front of you, if I
were to tell you any one of my secret word,
85. then you would be able to tell me the number of vowels in my secret word.Which is my secret
word?
86. Ans:TIE
87.
88. 13.If the operation,^ is defined by the equation x ^ y = 2x + y,what is the value of a in 2 ^ a = a ^ 3
89. A.0
90. B.1
91. C.-1
92. D.4
93. Ans:B
94.
14.A coffee shop blends 2 kinds of coffee,putting in 2 parts of a 33p. a gm. grade to 1 part of a
24p. a gm.If the mixture is changed to 1 part
95. of the 33p. a gm. to 2 parts of the less expensive grade,how much will the shop save in blending
100 gms.
96. A.Rs.90
97. B.Rs.1.00
98. C.Rs.3.00
99. D.Rs.8.00
100.
Ans:C
101.
15.There are 200 questions on a 3 hr examination.Among these questions are 50 mathematics
problems.It is suggested that twice as much time be
102.spent on each maths problem as for each other question.How many minutes should be spent on
mathematics problems
103.A.36
104.B.72
105.C.60
106.D.100
107.Ans:B
108.
109.16.In a group of 15,7 have studied Latin, 8 have studied Greek, and 3 have not studied
either.How many of these studied both Latin and Greek
110.A.0 B.3 C.4 D.5
111.Ans.B
112.
17.If 13 = 13w/(1-w) ,then (2w)2 =
113.A.1/4
114.B.1/2
115.C.1
116.D.2
117.Ans:C
118.
18. If a and b are positive integers and (a-b)/3.5 = 4/7, then
119.(A) b < a
120.(B) b > a
121.(C) b = a
122.(D) b >= a
123.Ans: A
124.
18. In june a baseball team that played 60 games had won 30% of its game played. After a
phenomenal winning streak this team raised its average
125.to 50% .How many games must the team have won in a row to attain this average?
126.A. 12
127.B. 20
128.C. 24
129.D. 30
130.Ans: C
131.
19. M men agree to purchase a gift for Rs. D. If three men drop out how much more will each
have to contribute towards the purchase of the gift/
132.A. D/(M-3)
133.B. MD/3
134.C. M/(D-3)
135.D. 3D/(M2-3M)
136.Ans: D
137.
20. A company contracts to paint 3 houses. Mr.Brown can paint a house in 6 days while Mr.Black
would take 8 days and Mr.Blue 12 days. After 8
138.days Mr.Brown goes on vacation and Mr. Black begins to work for a period of 6 days. How
many days will it take Mr.Blue to complete the contract?
139.A. 7
140.B. 8
141.C. 11
142.D. 12
143.Ans:C
144.21. 2 hours after a freight train leaves Delhi a passenger train leaves the same station travelling
in the same direction at an average speed of
145.16 km/hr. After travelling 4 hrs the passenger train overtakes the freight train. The average speed
of the freight train was?
146.A. 30
147.B. 40
148.C.58
149.D. 60
150.Ans: B
151.22. If 9x-3y=12 and 3x-5y=7 then 6x-2y = ?
152.A.-5
153.B. 4
154.C. 2
155.D. 8
156.Ans: D
157.
23. There are 5 red shoes, 4 green shoes. If one draw randomly a shoe what is the probability of
getting a red shoe
158.Ans: 5c1/ 9c1
159.
24. What is the selling price of a car? If the cost of the car is Rs.60 and a profit of 10% over
selling price is earned
160.Ans: Rs 66/-
161.
162.25. 1/3 of girls , 1/2 of boys go to canteen .What factor and total number of classmates go to
canteen.
163.Ans: Cannot be determined.
164.
26. The price of a product is reduced by 30% . By what percentage should it be increased to
make it 100%
165.Ans: 42.857%
166.
27. There is a square of side 6cm . A circle is inscribed inside the square. Find the ratio of the
area of circle to square.
167.Ans: 11/14
168.
28. There are two candles of equal lengths and of different thickness. The thicker one lasts of six
hours. The thinner 2 hours less than the
169.thicker one. Ramesh lights the two candles at the same time. When he went to bed he saw the
thicker one is twice the length of the thinner one. How
170.long ago did Ramesh light the two candles .
171.Ans: 3 hours.
172.
29. If M/N = 6/5,then 3M+2N = ?
173.
30. If p/q = 5/4 , then 2p+q= ?
174.
31. If PQRST is a parallelogram what it the ratio of triangle PQS & parallelogram PQRST .
175.Ans: 1:2
176.
32. The cost of an item is Rs 12.60. If the profit is 10% over selling price what is the selling
price ?
177.Ans: Rs 13.86/-
178.
33. There are 6 red shoes & 4 green shoes . If two of red shoes are drawn what is the probability
of getting red shoes
179.Ans: 6c2/10c2
180.
34. To 15 lts of water containing 20% alcohol, we add 5 lts of pure water. What is % alcohol.
181.Ans : 15%
182.
35. A worker is paid Rs.20/- for a full days work. He works 1,1/3,2/3,1/8.3/4 days in a week. What
is the total amount paid for that worker ?
183.Ans : 57.50
184.
36. If the value of x lies between 0 & 1 which of the following is the largest?
185.(a) x
186.(b) x2
187.(c) -x
188.(d) 1/x
189.
190.Ans : (d)
191.
37. If the total distance of a journey is 120 km .If one goes by 60 kmph and comes back at
40kmph what is the average speed during the journey?
192.Ans: 48kmph
193.
38. A school has 30% students from Maharashtra .Out of these 20% are Bombey students. Find
the total percentage of Bombay?
194.Ans: 6%
195.
39. An equilateral triangle of sides 3 inch each is given. How many equilateral triangles of side 1
inch can be formed from it?
196.Ans: 9
197.
40. If A/B = 3/5,then 15A = ?
198.Ans : 9B
199.
41. Each side of a rectangle is increased by 100% .By what percentage does the area increase?
200.Ans : 300%
201.
42. Perimeter of the back wheel = 9 feet, front wheel = 7 feet on a certain distance, the front
wheel gets 10 revolutions more than the back
202.wheel.What is the distance?
203.Ans : 315 feet.
204.
43. Perimeter of front wheel =30, back wheel = 20. If front wheel revolves 240 times. How many
revolutions will the back wheel take?
205.Ans: 360 times
206.
44. 20% of a 6 litre solution and 60% of 4 litre solution are mixed. What percentage of the mixture
of solution
207.Ans: 36%
208.
45.City A's population is 68000, decreasing at a rate of 80 people per year. City B having
population 42000 is increasing at a rate of 120 people per year. In how many years both the cities
will have same population?
209.Ans: 130 years
210.Retrieved from "http://www.freshersonline.com/wiki/Aptitude_Questions_I"
211.If you had an infinite supply of water and a 5 quart and 3 quart pail, how would you measure
exactly 4 quarts?
212.If you could remove any of the 50 states, which state would it be and why?
213.If you are on a boat and you throw out a suitcase, will the level of water increase?
214.There are 3 ants at 3 corners of a triangle, they randomly start moving towards another
corner. What is the probability that they don't collide?
215.Three men were renting a motel figuring the room cost 30 dollars they would pitch in ten a
piece.The room was only 25 so they each gave the bell boy ten,(tip)the bellboy didn"t think
that would be fair so he gave them each back 1 dollar and kept 2 for himself.What happened
to the other dollar?
216.You have b boxes and n dollars. If I want any amount of money from 0 to n dollars, you must
be able to hand me 0 to b boxes so that I get exactly what I request." The two questions were
"What are the restrictions on b and n, and how is money distributed among the boxes?
217.What is the sum of the numbers from 1 to 1000?
218.You are an employer. You have ten employees. Each month, each one of your ten employees
gives you ten bags of gold. Each bag of gold has ten pieces of gold in it. Each piece of gold
weighs one pound. One of your employees is cheating you by only putting nine pieces of gold
in each of his ten bags of gold. You have a scale (not a balance, a scale), and you can only
take one measurement from the scale, only one (1) reading.
How can you tell which of the ten employees is cheating you by using this scale and only
taking one measurement?
219.How many points are there on the globe where by walking one mile south, one mile east and
one mile north you reach the place where you started.
220.How would go about finding out where to look for a book in a library? (You do not know how
the books are organized beforehand)
221.Imagine 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?
222.You 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?
223.You are given a scale which you are to use to measure eight balls. Seven of these balls have
the same weight: the eigth ball is heavier than the rest. What is the minimum number of
weighs you could perform to find the heaviest of the eight balls?. Remmber it's a scale not a
balance. (i.e. It can just tell you if one side is heavier than the other it can't give you the exact
weight).
224.How would you design a toaster?
225.How would you design an universal remote control?
226.How would you design a clock for a blind person?
227.How many miles of road are there in the US
228.There are n couples attending a party. Each one shakes hands with the persons he doesn't
know. (Assuming each person knows his/her partner) Mary and John are a couple. John asked
the rest of the party-attenders how many times he has shaken hands. Each one gives a
unique Answer. How many times does Mary shake hands?
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.
230.All fair skinned, rich, handsome, muscular, lean and employed are tall men
1) all lean men are muscular.
2) no fairskinned person who is not rich is handsome.
3) some muscular men are handsome.
4) all handsome are fairskinned.
5) no person who is neither fair skinned nor muscular is enplyed.
231.There are 4 political parties . Day flight , eat well , good sleep , deposit loss. The 3
statements are
A. Either day flight or eat well will win the election.
B. Day flight cannot win election.
C. Neither deposit loss nor eat well can win the election.
Only one statement is true while other two are false .who win the election
Soln : deposit loss ( f t f )
232.Javed , roshan , bharati and sheela are supposed to have won prizes =
In math , french , logic , and eng. But its not clear who won what.
A. Sheela guessed that roshan must have won logic.
B. Roshan guessed that sheela will never win math. =20
 C. Javed guessed that bharati has won french.
D. Bharati guessed javed has got eng.
Of those guesses the winners of math and logic prizes guessed correctly =
While other two guessed wrong. Who won which prize.
Soln sheela ----english.
Roshan ---french
Bharati---logic
Roshan-maths.
233.There are 10 cig packs each conatining an unknown no of cigs( each =
Pack has between 50 and 100). One pack has all bad cigs . Each good cig =
( if u can agree that any cig is good) weighs 1gm. Each bad cig weighs =
1.1 gm or .99 gm but all bad cigs weigh same. Using a spring chemical =
Balance ( which gives u the exactweight) .find out which pack is bad , =
Using the balace only once.
234.24 apples were divided among 3 brothers . Each of them got the same =
No of apples as their age 3 years ago. The youngest of them kept half =
Of his share and divided the rest of them equally between other two. =
Other two did the same thing. They all ended up with 8 apples each . =
Determine their ages.
Ans 7 , 10 , 16.
235.A city is divided into 16 blocks with rows passing betwwen them =
Find the no of ways one can move from a and c. ( if u can only move =
Upwards and to the right. Different paths may have common routes in =
Some parts
Ans 8 c 4 =3d 70.
236.A is murdered and the statements given by b , c , d are
B - i am a lawyer. I haven't killed.
C - i am a layer i haven't killed.
D- i am not a lawyer. A lawyer is a murderer.
Out of these 6 2 are are correct and two of them lawyer.
Ans . First 2 are truth . Last four are false . C has killed.
237.From the north pole a flight takes up with full capacity of fuel =
. It can travel half of the globe. You canchange fuel and do whatever =
You like in air. How many minimum flights will be reqd travel the =
Earth once through south pole.
Ans 3.
238.Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing . The =
Road is straight. The cyclist travels with a speed of 10 kmph . One day =
The cyclist comes late by 25 min and meets the train 5 km from the =
Crossing. What is the speed of the train?
Ans assume that the man and the train normally meet at the crossing =
At 8 a.m . He is 5 km behind at 7.30 . But when the cyclist is late he =
Arrives at the crossing at 8.25 and therefore 5 km behind at 7.55 am =
. Since the train takes 5 min to travel 5 km , the speed of the train =
Is 60 kmph.
239.A person was collecting end pieces of cigerettes. He was managed to collect 49
Pieces. We need 7 such pieces to make new one. So how many cigerettes he can
Make?
240.A person moving from a place(camp)., towards east one mile, then towards north
Half mile, towards west 1/4 the mile, towards south 1/8th mile and again
Towards east 1/16th mile and so on. That is the distance between him and the
Starting point.