Puzzles for JOB hunters part-2

1.CASE I : Singer is a woman and Dancer is also a woman

Then, the dancer is Monika and the singer is Cindy.
CASE II : Singer is a woman and Dancer is also a man
Then, the dancer is Mr. Clinton and the singer is Cindy.
In both the cases, we know that Cindy is the Singer. And either Mr. Clinton or Monika is the
Dancer.
There are 20 people in your applicant pool, including 5 pairs of identical twins.
If you hire 5 people randomly, what are the chances you will hire at least 1 pair of identical twins?
(Needless to say, this could cause trouble ;))
Submitted
2. In a hotel, rooms are numbered from 101 to 550. A room is chosen at random. What is the
probability that room number starts with 1, 2 or 3 and ends with 4, 5 or 6?

3. There are 3 persons X, Y and Z. On some day, X lent tractors to Y and Z as many as
they had. After a month Y gave as many tractors to X and Z as many as they have. After
a month Z did the same thing. At the end of this transaction each one of them had 24.
Find the tractors each originally had?
4. There is a 50m long army platoon marching ahead. The last person in the platoon wants to
give a letter to the first person leading the platoon. So while the platoon is marching he runs
ahead, reaches the first person and hands over the letter to him and without stopping he runs and
comes back to his original position.
In the mean time the whole platoon has moved ahead by 50m.
The question is how much distance did the last person cover in that time. Assuming that he ran
the whole distance with uniform speed.
Submitted
5. Assume that you have enough coins of 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 cents.
How many ways are there to make change for a dollar? Do explain your answer.
6. In a Road Race, one of the three bikers was doing 15km less than the first and 3km more than
the third. He also finished the race 12 minutes after the first and 3 minutes before the third.
Can you find out the speed of each biker, the time taken by each biker to finish the race and the
length of the course?
Assume that there were no stops in the race and also they were driving with constant speeds
through out the

7. What is the four-digit number in which the first digit is 1/3 of the second, the third is the sum of
the first and second, and the last is three times the second?
8. Difference between Bholu's and Molu's age is 2 years and the difference between Molu's and
Kolu's age is 5 years.
What is the maximum possible value of the sum of the difference in their ages, taken two at a
time?
9. If it is given that:
25 - 2 = 3
100 x 2 = 20
36 / 3 = 2
What is 144 - 3 = ?

10. A 3 digit number is such that it's unit digit is equal to the product of the other two digits which
are prime. Also, the difference between it's reverse and itself is 396.
What is the sum of the three digits?
11. There are 4 mugs placed upturned on the table. Each mug have the same number of marbles
and a statement about the number of marbles in it. The statements are: Two or Three, One or
Four, Three or One, One or Two.
Only one of the statement is correct. How many marbles are there under each mug?

12. At University of Probability, there are 375 freshmen, 293 sophomores, 187 juniors, & 126
seniors. One student will randomly be chosen to receive an award.
What percent chance is there that it will be a junior? Round to the nearest whole percent
13. If you were to dial any 7 digits on a telephone in random order, what is the probability that you
will dial your own phone number?
Assume that your telephone number is 7-digits.
14. An anthropologist discovers an isolated tribe whose written alphabet contains only six letters
(call the letters A, B, C, D, E and F). The tribe has a taboo against using the same letter twice in
the same word. It's never done.
If each different sequence of letters constitues a different word in the language, what is the
maximum number of six-letter words that the language can employ?
15. 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?

3 blocks are chosen randomly on a chessboard. What is the probability that they are
in the same diagonal?
16.

17. What

is the area of the triangle ABC with A(e,p) B(2e,3p) and C(3e,5p)?

where p = PI (3.141592654)
18. Silu and Meenu were walking on the road.
Silu said, "I weigh 51 Kgs. How much do you weigh?"
Meenu replied that she wouldn't reveal her weight directly as she is overweight. But she said, "I
weigh 29 Kgs plus half of my weight."
How much does Meenu weigh?

19. Consider the sum: ABC + DEF + GHI = JJJ

If different letters represent different digits, and there are no leading zeros, what does J
represent?
20. A man has Ten Horses and nine stables as shown here.
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []

The man wants to fit Ten Horses into nine stables. How can he fit Ten horses into nine stables?
21. A man is at a river with a 9 gallon bucket and a 4 gallon bucket. He needs exactly 6 gallons of
water.
How can he use both buckets to get exactly 6 gallons of water?
Note that he cannot estimate by dumping some of the water out of the 9 gallon bucket or the 4
gallon bucket
22. Each of the five characters in the word BRAIN has a different value between 0 and 9. Using
the given grid, can you find out the value of each character?
B R A I N 31

B B R B A 31

N I A B B 32

N I B A I 30

I R A A A 23

37 29 25 27 29

The numbers on the extreme right represent the sum of the values represented by the characters
in that row. Also, the numbers on the last raw represent the sum of the values represented by the
characters in that column. e.g. B + R + A + I + N = 31 (from first row)
23. There are 9 coins. Out of which one is odd one i.e weight is less or more. How many
iterations of weighing are required to find odd coin?
24. In a sports contest there were m medals awarded on n successive days (n > 1).

1. On the first day 1 medal and 1/7 of the remaining m - 1 medals were awarded.
2. On the second day 2 medals and 1/7 of the now remaining medals was awarded; and so
3.

on.
th
On the n and last day, the remaining n medals were awarded.

How many days did the contest last, and how many medals were awarded altogether?
25. A number of 9 digits has the following properties:

The number comprising the leftmost two digits is divisible by 2, that comprising the
leftmost three digits is divisible by 3, the leftmost four by 4, the leftmost five by 5, and so
on for the nine digits of the number i.e. the number formed from the first n digits is
divisible by n, 2<=n<=9.
Each digit in the number is different i.e. no digits are repeated.
The digit 0 does not occur in the number i.e. it is comprised only of the digits 1-9 in some
order.

Find the number.

26. 1/3 rd of the contents of a container evaporated on the 1st day. 3/4th of the remaining
contents of the container evaporated on the second day.
What part of the contents of the container is left at the end of the second day?
27. There are four people in a room (not including you). Exactly two of these four always tell the
truth. The other two always lie.
You have to figure out who is who IN ONLY 2 QUESTIONS. Your questions have to be YES or
NO questions and can only be answered by one person. (If you ask the same question to two
different people then that counts as two questions). Keep in mind that all four know each other's
characteristics whether they lie or not.
What questions would you ask to figure out who is who? Remember that you can ask only 2

questions.
Submitted
You have 3 baskets, & each one contains exactly 4 balls, each of which is of the same size. Each
ball is either red, black, white, or purple, & there is one of each color in each basket.
If you were blindfolded, & lightly shook each basket so that the balls would be randomly
distributed, & then took 1 ball from each basket, what chance is there that you would have exactly
2 red balls?

28. Consider a state lottery where you get to choose 8 numbers from 1 to 80, no repetiton
allowed. The Lottery Commission chooses 11 from those 80 numbers, again no repetition. You
win the lottery if atleast 7 of your numbers are there in the 11 chosen by the Lottery Commission.
What is the probablity of winning the lottery?
29. To move a Safe, two cylindrical steel bars 7 inches in diameter are used as rollers.
How far will the safe have moved forward when the rollers have made one revolution?

30.If a rook and a bishop of a standard chess set are randomly placed on a chessboard, what is
the probability that one is attacking the other?
Note that both are different colored pieces.

31. Here in England McDonald's has just launched a new advertising campaign. The poster
shows 8 McDonald's products and underneath claims there are 40312 combinations of the above
items.
Given that the maximum number of items allowed is 8, and you are allowed to have less than 8
items, and that the order of purchase does not matter (i.e. buying a burger and fries is the same
as buying fries and a burger)
How many possible combinations are there? Are McDonald's correct in claiming there are 40312
combinations?
32. What are the chances that at least two out of a group of fifty people share the same birthday?
33. A tank can be filled by pipe A in 30 minutes and by pipe B in 24 minutes. Outlet pipe C can
empty the full tank in X minutes.
If the tank is empty initially and if all the three pipes A, B and C are opened simultaneously, the
tank will NEVER be full. Give the maximal possible value of X.
34. 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?

35. A person wanted to withdraw X rupees and Y paise from the bank. But cashier made a
mistake and gave him Y rupees and X paise. Neither the person nor the cashier noticed that.
After spending 20 paise, the person counts the money. And to his surprise, he has double the
amount he wanted to withdraw.
Find X and Y. (1 Rupee = 100 Paise)
36.At

the Party:

1. There were 9 men and children.

2. There were 2 more women than children.
3. The number of different man-woman couples possible was 24. Note that if there were 7
men and 5 women, then there would have been 35 man-woman couples possible.

4.
5.
6.

Also, of the three groups - men, women and children - at the party:
There were 4 of one group.
There were 6 of one group.
There were 8 of one group.

Exactly one of the above 6 statements is false.

Can you tell which one is false? Also, how many men, women and children are there at the party?
37. Brain Teaser No : 00242
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?

38. What is the remainder left after dividing 1! + 2! + 3! + + 100! By 7?
Think carefully !!!
39. Imagine that you have 26 constants, labelled A through Z. Each constant is assigned a value
in the following way: A = 1; the rest of the values equal their position in the alphabet (B
corresponds to the second position so it equals 2, C = 3, etc.) raised to the power of the
preceeding constant value. So, B = 2 ^ (A's value), or B = 2^1 = 2. C = 3^2 = 9. D = 4^9, etc.
Find the exact numerical value to the following equation: (X - A) * (X - B) * (X - C) * ... * (X - Y) *
(X - Z)

40. If three babies are born every second of the day, then how many babies will be born in the
year 2001?

41. Replace the letters with the correct numbers.

TWO

X TWO

---------

THREE

42. Brain Teaser No : 00052

Four words add up to a fifth word numerically:

mars

venus

uranus

saturn

-------- +

neptune

Each of the ten letters (m, a, r, s, v, e, n, u, t, and p) represent a unique number from the range 0
.. 9.
Furthermore, numbers 1 and 6 are being used most frequently.