1. A brother has as many brothers as sisters, but a sister has as half as many sisters as brothers. How many boys and girls is their in total.
Ans: Boys 4, girls 3
2. Series: 1,2,3 ,5,16,__
1, 2, 3, 8, __, 224.
Ans: 231, 27
3. 770 chestnuts are their: if tinku took 4, rinku would take 3 and for tinku taking 6, jojo took seven. With this data, find how many nuts each had?
(Puzzles to puzzles: Q no: 15)
Ans: 264,198,308.
4. If a person has 77 empty bottles, for every 5 empty bottles he gets a full bottle. So, how many full bottles can he get?
Ans: 15+3+1=19 bottles
5. A family missed the scheduled flight, to while away the time, one of the boys says to his family members that’ we have to wait 6 hours more which is 1/5 until midnight, if plane comes, we would have gone 2 hours earlier.
Friends I could not solve this correctly.
6. A number has 5 digits, it has 2 prime numbers,(excluding 1) ,and the 2nd digit is the smallest, and 3rd digit is the largest ,and first digit is greater than sum of 4th and 5th and the last digit is half of 4th digit.
Ans: 71842
7. 6 people A, B, C, D, E, and F are given choice to choose for the following posts:
President, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer. But they have conditions:
-F wants to be president if e is vice president.
-B does not want president and vice-president.
-E does not work if both A & B work.
-D does not work if any of A & B works
-C works only if F works along with B.
A very easy question
Ans: F-president
B-secretary
E-vice president
C-treasurer
8. Fours persons a, b, c, d are playing cards. Each of them has one card, laid down on the table below him, which has 2 different colors on either side. No card has the same color on both sides. The colors visible on the table are red, green, red and blue respectively. They see the color on the reverse side and give the following comments
A: yellow or green
B: neither blue nor green
C: blue or yellow
D: blue or yellow
Ans: a-false (yellow), b-true (yellow), c-true (green), d-false (red)
9. A lady goes for shopping, she bought some shoestrings.4 times the number of shoestrings, she bought pins and 8 times the shoestrings, and she bought handkerchiefs. She paid each item with their count as much paisa as each piece costs. She totally spent Rs.3.24/-.how many handkerchiefs did she buy?
Ans: 16
24th February 2008, 1:01 pm
