Circles with Straight Lines

Using six contiguous straight lines, connect all of the sixteen circles shown below.

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Connect With Squres

How many squares can you create in this figure by connecting any 4 dots (the corners of a square must lie upon a grid dot)

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Who r telling Truth&Who done it?

Melissa and Jessica were working on the computer along with their friends Sandy and Nicole.  Suddenly, I heard a crash and then lots of shouts.  I rushed in to find out what was going on, finding the computer monitor on the ground, surrounded with broken glass!  Sandy and Jessica spoke almost at the same time: 

Jessica saying, "It wasn't me!"
Sandy saying, "It was Nicole!"
Melissa yelled, "No, it was Sandy!"
With a pretty straight face Nicole said, "Sandy's a liar." 

Only one of them was telling the truth, so who knocked over the monitor?

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Find out Address

1. I live on Sunset Boulevard, where there are 6 houses on my side of the block. 
2. The house numbers are consecutive even numbers.  
3. The sum of all 6 house numbers is 8790.  
4. You don't know which block I live on, and it's a long street, but I will tell you that I live in the lowest number on my side of the block.

  What's my address? 

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Weight of Marbels

Given twelve marbles that are identical in size, shape, and color, determine which single marble is heavier in weight than the others.  You are supplied with a balance and must conclude your determination in three weightings.

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Logical Poem Puzzle

The following verse spells out a word, letter by letter.  "My first" refers to the word's first letter, and so on.  

What's the word that this verse describes?

My first is in fish but not in snail
My second in rabbit but not in tail
My third in up but not down
My fourth in tiara not in crown
My fifth in tree you plainly see
My whole a food for you and me

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True Statements

A. The number of false statements here is one. 

B. The number of false statements here is two. 

C. The number of false statements here is three. 

D. The number of false statements here is four. 

Which of the above statements is true? 

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Distance of Both trains

One train runs from A to B at 105 miles per hour, the other runs from B to A at 85 miles per hour. 

 How far apart were the two trains 30 minutes prior to their crossing? 

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Can u tell Playing Cards

There are three playing cards lying face up, side by side.  A five is just to the right of a two.  A five is just to the left of a two.  A spade is just to the left of a club, and a spade is just to the right of a spade.  

What are the three cards?

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Circle Seating Arrangement

Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circle in such a way that three of them are facing outside and rest of them are facing the center.

• E is 2nd to the left of H, who is facing outside. 
• D is second to the left of F and third to the right of E, who is facing the center.
•  B is third to the left of G and faces outside. 
• G is third to the left of A, who is not an immediate neighbor of E and F. 
• The friends facing outside are not adjacent.

Which of the following is true about the given information?

(1) C and F are facing each other
(2) E is third to the left of F
(3) C is third to the left of B
(4) G and A are two places away from each other.
(5) None of these

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Straight Line Direction Puzzle

Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are seated in a straight line. Four of them are facing North and remaining are facing South.

• C is facing South and is sitting to the immediate right of both G and D. 
• F and C are seated second to the right of each other.
•  F and A are sitting at extreme ends and are not facing the same direction. 
• B is an immediate neighbour of A and H.
•  B, H and G are facing the same direction.

Which of the following is true with respect to the given seating arrangement?

(1) B is facing South.
(2) B is sitting to the immediate right of A.
(3) B is sitting third to the right of D.
(4) B is sitting to the immediate left of H.
(5) None of these

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Replace the gap with Perfect number

What number should replace the gap??

12    18    36    102    360    ( ......)

(1) 1364          (2) 1386      (3) 1384          (4) 1376        (5) None of these

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Replace the question mark in Series

What will replace '?'

656    352    200    124    86    (?)

(1) 37          (2) 59            (3) 62              (4) 57            (5) None of these

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Direction Puzzle

A thief was running away from the police. He ran 50 m towards east before turning to his right. He again ran for 25 m before taking a right turn. Further, he ran for 30 m and got nabbed. 

In which direction is the starting point with reference to the point where he got nabbed??

(1) North-East     (2) North-West       (3) South – East     (4) South – West     (5) None of these

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Number Series

What will come in  '?'  place

8    10    18    44    124    (?)

(1) 344       (2) 366       (3) 354        (4) 356         (5) None of these

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Quantitative Game Solving Puzzle

On the occasion of an opening ceremony of a Sports events, in a stadium there are total of 1200 players who are participating in four different events viz. Badminton, Hockey, Swimming and Shooting.

•  The ratio between male to female players is  11 : 4 respectively.
•  30% of the female players out of total female players are participating in Badminton.
•  10% of female players out of total female players are participating in Hockey.
•  The remaining female players are participating in Swimming and Shooting in the ratio of 1 : 3 respectively. 
• The ratio of male players who are participating in Badminton and other events together is 3 : 5 respectively. 
• 4% of those male players who are not participating in Badminton are participating in Shooting.
•  Remaining male players are participating in Hockey and Swimming in the ratio of 5 : 3 respectively.

What is the ratio between the female players participating in Shooting to Hockey respectively?

(1) 9 : 5   
(2) 4 : 7  
(3) 7 : 4  
(4) 9 : 2  
(5) None of these

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Profit&loss problem

Price register an increase of 10% on food grains and 15% on other items of expenditure. If the ratio of expenditure of an employee on food grains and other items be 2:5, by how much should his salary be increased in order that he may maintain the same level of consumption as before? 

Assume that there is no saving our of his monthly salary of Rs 2590.

(1) 13.57%            (2) 12%                 (3) 13%               (4) 18.42%          (5) None of these

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Time&Speed problem

Yesterday Mansi typed an essay of 5000 words at the speed of 60 words per minute. Today she typed the same essay faster and her speed was 15% more than yesterday. What is the approximate difference in the time she took to type yesterday and the time she took to type today?

(1) 20 minutes         (2) 30 minutes       (3) 10 minutes        (4) 40 minutes       (5) 1 hour

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Time&work Problem

A builder decided to build a house in 50 days. He employed 150 men at the beginning and another 80 men after 20 days and completed the work in the stipulated time. If he had not employed the additional men, how many days behind schedule would it have been finished?

(1) 10 days       (2) 12 days       (3) 15 days          (4) 16 days         (5) 18 days

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Speed&Distance

Train A and B travel to a place at a speed of 35 and 55 km/h respectively. If car B takes  hours  less time than A for the journey, the distance of the place is??

(1) 300.25 km      (2) 400 km     (3) 350.565 km       (4) 336.875 km      (5) None 

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Find average age in class

The average age of 40 boys in a class is 15. The average age of a group of 18 boys in the class is 16 and the average age of another boys in the class is 14. What is the average age of the remaining boys in the class??

 (1) 15.25 years         
 (2) 14.4 years         
 (3) 14.75 years    
 (4) None of these 
 (5) cannot be determined


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Find age of children&address of nxt door

A census worker asked a mother for the ages (years, not months) of her three children. The mother replied that the product of their ages is 36, and the sum of their ages is the same as the address (house number) to the north. After looking at that address, the census worker returned and said to the mother:"I need more information." The mother said: " The oldest is sleeping upstairs."

 What are the ages of the three children?

 What is the address (house number) next door to the north?

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Reason for Pricing method

Many shops have prices set just under a round figure, e.g. $9.99 instead of $10.00 or $99.95 instead of $100.00 . It is assumed that this is done because the price seems lower to the consumer. But this is not the reason the practice started. 

What was the original reason for this pricing method?

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Label the fruit boxes

There are three boxes. One is labeled "APPLES" another is labeled "ORANGES". The last one is labeled "APPLES AND ORANGES". You know that each is labeled incorrectly. You may ask me to pick one fruit from one box which you choose.

How can you label the boxes correctly??

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Greek Philosophers Conversation will u reveal it??

One day three Greek philosophers settled under the shade of an olive tree, opened a bottle of Retsina, and began a lengthy discussion of the Fundamental Ontological Question: 

Why does anything exist?

After a while, they began to ramble. Then, one by one, they fell asleep.

While the men slept, three owls, one above each philosopher, completed their digestive process, dropped a present on each philosopher's forehead, the flew off with a noisy "hoot."

Perhaps the hoot awakened the philosophers. As soon as they looked at each other, all three began, simultaneously, to laugh. Then, one of them abruptly stopped laughing. Why??

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Find Xact pair of Socks

Cathy has twelve black socks and twelve white socks in her drawer.

In complete darkness, and without looking, how many socks must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair that match??

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One gold coin

The five pirates mentioned previously are joined by a sixth, then plunder a ship with only one gold coin.

After venting some of their frustration by killing all on board the ship, they now need to divvy up the one coin. They are so angry, they now value in priority order: 
1. Their lives
2. Getting money
3. Seeing other pirates die.

So if given the choice between two outcomes, in which they get the same amount of money, they'd choose the outcome where they get to see more of the other pirates die.

How can the captain save his skin??

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