Puzzles for job hunters part-1

1. Three friends divided some bullets equally. After all of them shot 4 bullets the total number of bullets remaining is equal to the bullets each had after division. Find the original number divided. 2. Find sum of digits of D. Let 1 A= 1 ! = sum of digits of A " = sum of digits of ! D = sum of digits of " #$%&T ' A = ! = " = D #mod ((
3. 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 uestion is how much distance did the last person cover in that time. !ssuming that he ran the whole distance with uniform speed. Submitted

4. %f you ta)e a mar)er * start from a corner on a cube+ ,hat is the ma-imum number of edges you can trace across if you never trace across the same edge t,ice+ never remove the mar)er from the cube+ * never trace any,here on the cube+ e-ce.t for the corners * edges/ 0. 1ne of 2r. !a3a3+ his ,ife+ their son and 2r. !a3a34s mother is an 5ngineer and another is a Doctor.
If the "octor is a male, then the #ngineer is a male. If the #ngineer is younger than the "octor, then the #ngineer and the "octor are not blood relatives. If the #ngineer is a female, then she and the "octor are blood relatives.

$an you tell who is the "octor and the #ngineer%

6. Three men 7 8am+ "am and Laurie 7 are married to "arrie+ !illy and Tina+ but not necessarily in the same order. 8am4s ,ife and !illy4s $usband .lay "arrie and Tina4s husband at bridge. &o ,ife

.artners her husband and "am does not .lay bridge. 9ho is married to "am/
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are : .ersons ;+ < and =. 1n some day+ ; lent tractors to < and = as many as they had. After a month < gave as many tractors to ; and = as many as they have. After a month = did the same thing. At the end of this transaction each one of them had 24. Find the tractors each originally had/ >. A certain street has 1??? buildings. A sign7ma)er is contracted to number the houses from 1 to 1???. $o, many @eroes ,ill he need/ . There are coins. 1ut of ,hich one is odd one i.e ,eight is less or more. $o, many iterations of ,eighing are required to find odd coin/ 1?. %n a s.orts contest there ,ere m medals a,arded on n successive days #n A 1(.
'. (n the first day ' medal and ')& of the remaining m * ' medals were awarded. +. (n the second day + medals and ')& of the now remaining medals was awarded, and so on. 3. (n the nth and last day, the remaining n medals were awarded. -ow many days did the contest last, and how many medals were awarded altogether%

11. A number of

digits has the follo,ing .ro.erties'

The number comprising the leftmost two digits is divisible by +, that comprising the leftmost three digits is divisible by 3, the leftmost four by ., 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, +/0n/01. #ach 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 in some order.

2ind the number. '+. 1B:

rd of the contents of a container eva.orated on the 1st day. :B4th of the remaining contents of the container eva.orated on the second day. 9hat .art of the contents of the container is left at the end of the second day/ 1:. Ci.ul ,as studying for his e-aminations and the lights ,ent off. %t ,as around 1'?? A2. $e lighted t,o uniform candles of equal length but one thic)er than the other. The thic) candle is su..osed to last si- hours and the thin one t,o hours less. 9hen he finally ,ent to slee.+ the thic) candle ,as t,ice as long as the thin one. For ho, long did Ci.ul study in candle light/

14. %f you started a business in ,hich you earned Ds.1 on the first day+ Ds.: on the second day+ Ds.0 on the third day+ Ds.E on the fourth day+ * so on. $o, much ,ould you have earned ,ith this business after 0? years #assuming there are e-actly :60 days in every year(/
'5. ! worker earns a 53 raise. ! year later, the worker receives a +.53 cut in pay, 4 now his salary is 5s. ++&0+.67 8hat was his salary to begin with% '6. At 64o

a cloc) tic)s 6 times. The time bet,een first and last tic)s is :? seconds. $o, long does it tic) at 124o.
'&. 500 men are arranged in an array of '0 rows and 50 columns according to their heights. Tallest among each row of all are asked to come out. !nd the shortest among them is !. Similarly after resuming them to their original positions, the shortest among each column are asked to come out. !nd the tallest among them is 9. :ow who is taller ! or 9 %

'7. In ;r. ;ehta<s family, there are one grandfather, one grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, one father*in*law, one mother*in*law, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters and one daughter*in*law. -ow many members are there in ;r. ;ehta<s family% =ive minimal possible answer. '1. 8hen !le>ander the =reat attacked the forces of ?orus, an Indian soldier was captured by the =reeks. -e had displayed such bravery in battle, however, that the enemy offered to let him choose how he wanted to be killed. They told him, @If you tell a lie, you will put to the sword, and if you tell the truth you will be hanged.@ The soldier could make only one statement. -e made that statement and went free. 8hat did he say%

+0. ! person wanted to withdraw A rupees and B paise from the bank. 9ut cashier made a mistake and gave him B rupees and A paise. :either the person nor the cashier noticed that. !fter spending +0 paise, the person counts the money. !nd to his surprise, he has double the amount he wanted to withdraw. 2ind A and B. C' 5upee 0 '00 ?aiseD

+'. The game of Tic*Tac*Toe is being played between two players. (nly the last mark to be placed in the game as shown. 8ho will win the game, ( or A% $an you tell which was the si>th mark and at which position% "o e>plain your answer. !t the ?artyE '. There were 1 men and children. +. There were + more women than children. 3. The number of different man*woman couples possible was +.. :ote that if there were & men and 5 women, then there would have been 35 man*woman couples possible. !lso, of the three groups * men, women and children * at the partyE .. There were . of one group. 5. There were 6 of one group. 6. There were 7 of one group. #>actly one of the above 6 statements is false. $an you tell which one is false% !lso, how many men, women and children are there at the party !ssume that both the players are intelligent enough.

++. The &th mark must be placed in s uare 5 which is the win situation for both A and (. -ence, the 6th mark must be placed in a line already containing two of the opponents marks. There are two such possibilities * the 6th mark would have been either ( in s uare & or A in s uare 1. !s we know both the players are intelligent enough, the 6th mark could not be ( in s uare &. Instead, he would have placed ( in s uare 5 and would have won. -ence, the si>th mark must be A placed in s uare 1. !nd the seventh mark will be (. Thus ( will win the game.

+3. There is a shortage of tubelights, bulbs and fans in a village * Fharghar. It is found that !ll houses do not have either tubelight or bulb or fan.

e>actly '13 of houses do not have Gust one of these. atleast 6&3 of houses do not have tubelights. atleast 733 of houses do not have bulbs. atleast &33 of houses do not have fans.

8hat percentage of houses do not have tubelight, bulb and fan% +.. ;r. Subramaniam rents a private car for !ndheri*$olaba*!ndheri trip. It costs him 5s. 300 everyday. (ne day the car driver informed ;r. Subramaniam that there were two students from 9andra who wished to go from 9andra to $olaba and back to 9andra. 9andra is halfway between !ndheri and $olaba. ;r. Subramaniam asked the driver to let the students travel with him. (n the first day when they came, ;r. Subramaniam said, @If you tell me the mathematically correct price you should pay individually for your portion of the trip, I will let you travel for free.@ -ow much should the individual student pay for their Gourney% +5. Substitute digits for the letters to make the following "ivision true (HT

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:ote that the leftmost letter can<t be Kero in any word. !lso, there must be a one*to*one mapping between digits and letters. e.g. if you substitute 3 for the letter ;, no other letter can be 3 and all other ; in the puKKle must be +&. !t what time after ..00 p.m. is the minutes hand of a clock e>actly aligned with the hour hand% +7. ! soldier looses his way in a thick Gungle. !t random he walks from his camp but mathematically in an interesting fashion. 2irst he walks one mile #ast then half mile to :orth. Then '). mile to 8est, then ')7 mile to South and so on making a loop. 2inally how far he is from his camp and in which direction% +1. 5aG has a Gewel chest containing 5ings, ?ins and #ar*rings. The chest contains +6 pieces. 5aG has + ')+ times as many rings as pins, and the number of pairs of earrings is . less than the number of rings. -ow many earrings does 5aG have% 30. -ow many ways are there of arranging the si>teen black or white pieces of a standard international chess set on the first two rows of the board% =iven that each pawn is identical and each rook, knight and bishop is identical to its pair. Submitted

3'. ! person with some money spends ')3 for cloths, ')5 of the remaining for food and '). of the remaining for travel. -e is left with 5s '00)* -ow much did he have with him in the begining%

3+. =rass in lawn grows e ually thick and in a uniform rate. It takes +. days for &0 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass. -ow many cows are needed to eat the grass in 16 days%

33. There is a safe with a 5 digit number as the key. The .th digit is . greater than the second digit, while the 3rd digit is 3 less than the +nd digit. The 'st digit is thrice the last digit. There are 3 pairs whose sum is ''. 2ind the number. 3.. 2our friends * !rGan, 9huvan, =uran and Lakha were comparing the number of sheep that they owned. It was found that =uran had ten more sheep than Lakha. If !rGan gave one*third to 9huvan, and 9huvan gave a uarter of what he then held to =uran, who then passed on a fifth of his holding to Lakha, they would all have an e ual number of sheep. -ow many sheep did each of them possess% =ive the minimal possible answer 35. $onsider a number +35, where last digit is the sum of first two digits i.e. + M 3 0 5. -ow many such 3*digit numbers are there% 36. 2ind the smallest number such that if its rightmost digit is placed at its left end, the new number so formed is precisely 503 larger than the original number. 3&. Two identical pack of cards ! and 9 are shuffled throughly. (ne card is picked from ! and shuffled with 9. The top card from pack ! is turned up. If this is the Nueen of -earts, what are the chances that the top card in 9 will be the Fing of -earts% 37. There are 3 ants at 3 corners of a triangle, they randomly start moving towards another corner. 8hat is the probability that they don<t collide% 31. Find

all sets of consecutive integers that add u. to 1???.

.0. There is a .*character code, with + of them being letters and the other + being numbers. -ow many ma>imum attempts would be necessary to find the correct code% :ote that the code is case*sensitive. .'. -ow many possible combinations are there in a 3>3>3 rubics cube% In other words, if you wanted to solve the rubics cube by trying different combinations, how many might it take you Cworst case senerioD% -ow many for a .>.>. cube% Submitted

.+. Substitute digits for the letters to make the following relation true. : # O # 5

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:ote that the leftmost letter can<t be Kero in any word. !lso, there must be a one*to*one mapping between digits and letters. e.g. if you substitute 3 for the letter ;, no other letter can be 3 and all other ; in the puKKle must be 3.

.3. (ne of the four people * ;r. $linton, his wife ;onika, their son ;andy and their daughter $indy * is a singer and another is a dancer. ;r. $linton is older than his wife and ;ady is older than his sister. '. If the singer and the dancer are the same se>, then the dancer is older than the singer. +. If neither the singer nor the dancer is the parent of the other, then the singer is older than the dancer. 3. If the singer is a man, then the singer and the dancer are the same age. .. If the singer and the dancer are of opposite se> then the man is older than the woman. 5. If the dancer is a woman, then the dancer is older than the singer. 8hose occupation do you know% !nd what is his)her occupation%