Saturday, December 20, 2014

Math Picture puzzle

Solve the maths equation in the picture below by placing the numbers 1 through 9 into the boxes so that all the 3 equations are correct.




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Picture puzzle


In the picture given with this question you will find a square piece of a paper with a hole that is denoted by the circle on the top right side."You have to cut the paper in a manner that it forms two and only two separate pieces of paper and then rearrange the pieces in a manner that the holes comes in the center of the paper."

Can you do it?



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Wat is nxt number

Find the next number in this series.

      6     14     36     98   ? 

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Fill the gap with correct number

What number will come in this gap??

 8, 23, 44,……,104, 143 

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Replace the letter

In the following question a series is given and it is followed by the starting point of another series. After this, a question is given, you have to complete the second series by applying the same logic as in the first given series, and then you have to answer the question.

    5     8     12     17     23     30
    9     a     b     c         d     e  

Which number should come in place of c?

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Find odd one

Find the wrong number in the following series.

 15 46 63 71 75 77 78

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Friday, December 19, 2014

Figure out the position of Vilas

In a row of boys facing north, Amit is 5th to the left of Ashok. Alok is 3rd to the right of Amit. Vilas is 3rd to the left of Ashok. 

Which of the following describes the position of Vilas?

(1) To the immediate right of Amit
(2) To the immediate left of Alok
(3) To the immediate right of Alok
(4) 3rd to the right of Amit
(5) None of the above


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Find Xact time

If in a clock, 12 is replaced by 1, 11 by 2, 10 by 3 and so on, then what will be the time in that clock corresponding to 'twenty minutes past three in the usual clock?

(1) Twenty minutes past eleven
(2) Forty minutes past ten
(3) Forty minutes past eleven
(4) Twenty minutes past ten
(5) None of the above


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Sitting Arrangement around Circular Table

Nine persons P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W and X are sitting around a circular table facing the center .

  • V is fourth to the left of U who is second to the right of T. 
  • W is fourth to the right of T and is second to the left of S.
  •  R is fourth to the right of S.
  •  P is not an immediate neighbour of either S or V.
  •  Q is third to the right of X.



Which of the following is not sitting immediate to each other?

(1) UP               (2) TQ               (3) XS               (4) QW               (5) None 


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Math logical Survey Puzzle

There are certain number of students studying in a school. 


  • In a survey it is found that 45.6% of total number of students like tea. 
  • 12.8% of total number of students like cold drink.
  • 84.4% of total number of students like milk. 
  • 7% of students do not like any drink. 
  • 3.6% students like tea and cold drink.
  • 10.2% of total students like cold drink and milk.
  • 38.6% of total students like tea and milk.
  • 2.6% students like all three drinks. 
  • If number of students who do not like any drinks is 35.



What is the number of students who like tea and cold drink but don’t like milk?

(1) 5         (2) 8          (3) 13          (4) 12         (5) None of these

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Direction Puzzle

On a playing ground M, N, Q, R and T are standing as described below facing the North.

  •  N is 30 meters to the right of R. 
  • M is 70 meters to the South of N.
  •  Q is 10 meters to the West of R.
  •  T is 100 meters to the North of M.


Who is to the South-East of the person who is to the left of R ?

(1) M          (2) N            (3) Q           (4) T          (5) M or Q


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Select 6 out of ten colors

Sanjay asks Michael to select 6 colors from 10 different type –blue, red, green, black, white, orange, pink, purple, yellow, violet. Sanjay laid down certain conditions for Michael, as mentioned below.

(I) If Michel selects orange then he can’t select white.
(II) If Michel selects blue then he must select pink also, vice versa.
(III) If Michel selects white, then he must select green, and vice versa.
(IV) At most one of purple and black is selected.

If Michael dose not select red and yellow then which color he must not select?

(1) Pink           (2) Blue            (3) White                 (4) None of these               (5) All of these


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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Set time for both mobiles

Two priests A and B were talking to each other. A said to B, “My mobile set rings every 15 minutes”. B retorted, “My mobile set rings every 18 minutes.” The mobile sets of both A and B rang simultaneously at 8 am. Four of the following five timings of a certain day are alike with respect to the above situation and hence form a group. 

Which of the following timings is different from the group?

(1) 6.30 am              (2) 5.30 pm              (3) 3.30 pm            (4) 9.30 am          (5) 6.30 pm


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Direction puzzle

Vinay moves towards South-East a distance of 14 m. then he moves towards West and travels a distance of 28 m. From here, he moves towards North-West a distance of 14 m. and finally he moves a distance of 8 m towards East and comes to a halt. 

How far is the starting point where he stood?

(1) 20 m                  (2) 22 m                 (3) 6 m                  (4) 8 m              5) None of these

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Find out Representatives of different countries

Eight representatives P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W of different countries - India, Australia, Pakistan. Srilanka, New zealand, England, S. Africa, Ireland are seated around a rectangular table, in such a way that males face females. 


  • P is facing the representative of Ireland, who is a female. 
  • Representative of India and Pakistan are diagonally opposite to each other. 
  • T and a representative of Srilanka are also diagonally opposite to each other. 
  • The representative of New zealand is between Q and the representative of Srilanka, who is female.
  • Australia’s representative is opposite to the representative of Pakistan, who is male. 
  • U is the representative of Srilanka and opposite to W, P and R are alone on their respective      sides.
  • Representative of Ireland faces the representative of South Africa. 
  • Representative of India is sitting between female representatives.


If S is the representative of England, then who is the representative of New zealand and what is his/her sex? 

(1) V, Female        (2) V, Male      (3) P, Male      (4) T, Male       (5) None of these

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Logical seating Arrangement with their proffesions

Eight players A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H, out of whom one is a Archer, swimmer, boxer, wrestler, hockey player, football player, chess player and a tennis player( but not necessarily in the same order) are sitting around a circular table facing the center.


  • D who is a football player sits third to right of H. 
  • The swimmer and the tennis player are sitting next to each other. 
  • Neither the swimmer nor the tennis player is sitting next to either H or D. 
  • The Archer is neither H nor G. 
  • Chess player and the Archer are immediate neighbors of each other. 
  • The hockey player E sits second to the left of swimmer. 
  • The chess player is neither F nor sitting next to F. 
  • Only C sits between the swimmer and the wrestler. 
  • Archer sits third to the left of A.



Which of the following pairs represents the immediate neighbors of the wrestler?

(1) Swimmer- boxer                (2) Archer-Swimmer 
(3) Chess player-boxer           (4) Hockey player- tennis player 
(5) None of These




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Seating Arrangement

Eight friends P, R, T, V, W, J, F, and K are sitting around a circle facing the center. 

  • T is third to the right of F and second to the left of W, P and R are not neighbours of W.
  • R is third to the right of K. 
  • J is between W and K.


Which of the following pairs has the first person to the immediate left of the second person?

(1) RP               (2) FJ              (3) VT            (4) JW           (5) JK




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Seven students are studying in which clg.

M, T, D, F, H, R and W are seven students studying in three different colleges I, II and III with at least two in each college. Each of them has a favorite subject from English, History, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, not necessarily in the same order.


  • D’s favorite subject is Physics and studies in college II with only M. 
  • H does not study in college III and he likes English. 
  • F studies in college III and does not like Mathematics. 
  • Those who like Geography and Chemistry study in the same college. 
  • W likes Biology and does not study in college I.
  •  R does not study with H. R does not like Chemistry.
  •  M does not like History..Reasoning


Which of the following combinations is correct ?

(1) I -M - Mathematics          (2) III-F-Chemistry                (3) III-F-Physics            (4) III-F-History       




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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Figure out Meaningful Word

How many meaningful words can be made from the letters ‘DEIV’ using each letter only once?

(1) None            (2) One                (3) Two                (4) Three            (5) More than three

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Find Three digit number

If it is possible to make a three-digit number from the third, the fifth and the sixth digits of the number 30651972, using each digit only once which is the square of an odd number the last digit of that three-digit number is your answer.

 If no such number can be formed your answer is 4 and if more than one such number can be formed your answer is 8.

(1) 1              (2) 9            (3) 6                    (4) 4             (5) 8

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Selling watches in exhibition problem

In an exhibition of watches there were three companies HMT, ROMAX and TITAN who introduced their models in the exhibition and it is found at the last of the exhibition that total 300 customers have visited exhibition. 

  • 50% customers purchased HMT; 
  • 55% customers purchased TITAN; 
  • 45% customers purchased ROMAX. 
  • 20% of customers who purchased HMT also purchased other two brands. 
  • Customers who purchased any of two brands are 95. 
  • Customers of only HMT are 20 more than that of only ROMAX. 
  • Customers who purchased only HMT and ROMAX are 40.


 How many of them didn't purchase only one ROMAX watch?

(a) 160             (b) 105               (c) 260         (d) 265             e) None 

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Share of Profit

A starts a business with Rs 5000. After 4 months, B joins him with a sum of Rs 4000. In the end of the year there is a profit of Rs 8970. 

The share of A in the profit will be??

(1) Rs 3120            (2) Rs 4020            (3) Rs 5850               (4) Rs 6360                 (5) None 


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Possibility of no.of students in class

If separate teams of four or six or eleven students are made from the students of a class, three students are left in each case. The smallest possible number of students in the class is...


(1) 132                (2) 135                 (3) 136                 (4) 138               (5) None of these

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Find speed of Jrny

A man drive his car to the office at 20 miles/hr. After reaching office, he realize that its a new year holiday so he went back home at a speed of 30 miles/hr. 

Discounting the time spent in the stoppage what was his average speed of his journey ?

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Find the name of the Person

In my core I have 5 But 500 stand in the beginning and the end of mine. I also include the first letter and the first number to make me complete. I am the name of a King. 

Who am I??

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Find at least two words..

Find an word which is singular, add an 's' and it becomes plural, and add another 's' it becomes singular again???


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Find hidden words

What four related words are merged here:

SWAS  PURI    UINM   NTTU   MGER   MNER


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Form two squares

Move three matches to make two squares...



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Arrange 5 squares by 3

Move six matches by that five squares are to be formed...




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Arrange the equilateral triangles

Move three matches to make four equilateral triangles..remember no overlapping....




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Swimming fish match stick puzzle

Turn the fish around by moving only three matches,don't do overlapping...




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Monday, December 15, 2014

Day to Day work puzzle

In a four-day period Monday through Thursday each of the following temporary office workers worked only one day, each a different day. 

  • Ms. John was scheduled to work on Monday, but she traded with Mr. Reema, who was originally scheduled to work on Wednesday. 
  • Ms. Santhi traded with Mr. Kanth, who was originally scheduled to work on Thursday. After all the switching was done, 


Who worked on Tuesday? 

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Sitting arrangement in Game

At the baseball game,

  1.  Haritha was sitting in seat 253. 
  2. Manu was sitting to the right of Haritha in seat 254. 
  3. In the seat to the left of Haritha was Geetha. 
  4. Anitha was sitting to the left of Geetha. 


Which seat is Anitha sitting in? 

        1) 251              2)254                         3)255                            4)256

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Logical working puzzle


Nurse Kemp has worked more night shifts in a row than Nurse Rogers, who has worked five. Nurse Miller has worked fifteen night shifts in a row, more than Nurses Kemp and Rogers combined. Nurse Calvin has worked eight night shifts in a row, less than Nurse Kemp. 


How many night shifts in a row has Nurse Kemp worked???

A) 8           B) 9          C) 10           D) 11


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Which one is true for above statements???


  • Apartments in the River dale Manor cost less than apartments in The Gaslight Commons.
  • Apartments in the Livingston Gate cost more than apartments in the The Gaslight Commons.
  • Of the three apartment buildings, the Livingston Gate costs the most.


If the first two statements are true, the third statement is???

1) True                            2) False                                    3) Uncertain

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Number Series replace '?'

Which will in place of Question mark

            15, 19, 83, 119, 631, ???

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Who was Older??

Four friends in the sixth grade were sharing a pizza. They decided that the oldest friend would get the extra piece. 

  • Ram is two months older than Guru, who is three months younger than Naresh. 
  • Karthik is one month older than Guru. 


Who should get the extra piece of pizza???

1) Ram
2) Guru
3) Naresh
4) Karthik



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Class puzzle

All students in the physics class also study mathematics. Half of those who study literature also study mathematics. Half of the students in the mathematics class study physics. Thirty students study literature and twenty study physics. Nobody who studies literature studies physics.

 How many students in the mathematics class study neither physics nor literature???

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