1. Replace each letter by a digit.
Each letter must be represented by the same digit and no beginning letter of a word can be 0.
O N E
O N E
O N E
O N E
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T E N
Ans: 0 =1, N = 8 ,E = 2, T = 7
2. Ann, Boobie, Cathy and Dave are at their monthly business meeting.
Their occupations are author, biologist, chemist and doctor, but not necessarily in that order.
Dave just told the biologist that Cathy was on her way with doughnuts.
Ann is sitting across from the doctor and next to the chemist.
The doctor was thinking that Boobie was a goofy name for parent's to choose,but didn't say anything.
What is each person's occupation?
Ans: Since Dave spoke to the biologist and Ann sat next to the chemist and across the doctor, Cathy must be the author
and Ann the biologist.
The doctor didn't speak, but David did, so Bobbie is the doctor and Dave the chemist.
3. Sometime after 10:00 PM a murder took place.
A witness claimed that the clock must have stopped at the time of the shooting.
It was later found that the postion of both the hands were the same but their positions had interchanged.
Tell the time of the shooting (both actual and claimed).
Ans: Time of shooting = 11:54 PM
Claimed Time = 10:59 PM
4. Next number in the series is
1 , 2 , 4 , 13 , 31 , 112 , ?
Ans: 224.
No number has digits more than 4. All of them are 1 , 2, 4, 8 , 16 , 32 , 64 converted to numbers in base 5
5. Shahrukh speaks truth only in the morning and lies in the afternoon, whereas Salman speaks truth only in the afternoon. A says that B is Shahrukh. Is it morning or afternoon and who is A - Shahrukh or Salman.
Ans: Afternoon ; A is Salman.
6. Two trains starting at same time, one from Bangalore to Mysore and other in opposite direction arrive at their
destination 1 hr and 4 hours respectively after passing each other. How nuch faster is one train from other?
Ans: Twice
7. There are 6 volumes of books on a rack kept in order ( ie vol.1, vol. 2 and so on ).
Give the position after the following changes were noticed.
- All books have been changed
- Vol.5 was directly to the right of Vol.2
- Vol.4 has Vol.6 to its left and both weren't at Vol.3's place
- Vol.1 has Vol.3 on right and Vol.5 on left
- An even numbered volume is at Vol.5's place
Find the order in which the books are kept now.
Ans: 2 , 5 , 1 , 3 , 6 , 4
8. I bought a car with a peculiar 5 digit numbered licence plate which on reversing could still be read.
On reversing value is increased by 78633.Whats the original number if all digits were different?
Ans: Only 0 1 6 8 and 9 can be readupside down.So on rearranging these digits we get the answer as 10968
9. The shape in the sketch below is that of a square attached to half of a similar square.Divide it into four equal pieces
Ans: Hint : the figure can be divided into 12 equal triangles
10. Supposing a clock takes 7 seconds
1. Father's age is three years more than three times the son's age.
After three years, father's age will be ten years more than twice the son's age.
What is the father's present age.
Ans: 33 years. (2 marks)
2. Find the values of each of the alphabets.
N O O N
S O O N
+ M O O N
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J U N E
Ans: 9326 (2 marks)
3. There are 20 poles with a constant distance between each pole
A car takes 24 second to reach the 12th pole.
How much will it take to reach the last pole.
Ans: 41.45 seconds (2 marks)
Let the distance between two poles = x
Hence 11x:24::19x:?
4. A car is travelling at a uniform speed.
The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit number.
After travelling for an hour the driver sees another milestone with the same digits in reverse order.
After another hour the driver sees another milestone containing the same two digits.
What is the average speed of the driver.
Ans: 45 kmph (4 marks)
5. The minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every 65 minutes.
How much does the watch lose or gain time and by how much?
Ans: Gains; 5/11 minutes (4 marks)
6. Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends.
Ram is a widower and lives alone and his sister takes care of him.
Shyam is a bachelor and his neice cooks his food and looks after his house.
Gumnaam is married to Gita and lives in large house in the same town.
Gita gives the idea that all of them could stay together in the house and share monthly expenses equally.
During their first month of living together, each person contributed Rs.25.
At the end of the month, it was found that Rs 92 was the expense so the remaining amount was distributed equally
among everyone.
The distribution was such that everyone recieved a whole number of Rupees.
How much did each person recieve?
Ans. Rs 2 (4 marks)
(Hint: Ram's sister, Shyam's neice and Gumnaam's wife are the same person)
7. Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards.
Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which has two different colours on either side.
The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue.
They see the color on the reverse side and give the following comment.
A: Yellow or Green
B: Neither Blue nor Green
C: Blue or Yellow
D: Blue or Yellow
Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the cards each person.
