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Athenahealth, Inc. is a publicly traded American corporation that delivers physician practices
with online practice management and electronic medical record services, combined with medical
billing and other healthcare business facilities. The company was founded in 1997 in San Diego,
California, and today is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, with active sites in Belfast,
Maine;
Rome,
Georgia;
Alpharetta,
Georgia;
and
Chennai,
India
The following Athenahealth Interview Puzzles/Questions will help you brush up your skills and
will make you more confident while giving the interview.
Athenahealth Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #1 - Toughest Bulb Logic Interview Puzzle

There are 100 bulbs lined up in a room. All are turned on in the first pass. Then all the even
numbered light bulbs are switched off. After that, every third bulb is switched on. Then all those
bulbs that were switched off are turned back on and all those that were lit are turned off. Then
the same process is being carried with the fourth bulb and the fifth bulb.
How many bulbs are glowing after 100 passes?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
10 Bulbs
For this tricky puzzle, you must check how many light bulbs in the row are having an odd
number of factors. The first one surely has odd number of factors, the second has even, four has
odd. Thus the bulb four and one will remain lit. The bulbs that are going to remain lit are perfect
squares as they have an odd number of factors - 1, 4, 9, 16.
Since there are 100 passes, you can go up to 10 times 10 i.e. the square of 10. There are 10
perfect squares available to you - one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten. They
corresponds to the bulb number 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81 and 100. All of them will remain lit
and thus total ten bulbs will remain lit after 100 passes.

Athenahealth Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #2 - Find the Length Interview Question

It was my daughter's birthday and I asked my wife to bring a ribbon to tie the gift I had
purchased for her. She went to a shop and accidentally interchanged the feet with inches and
brought the wrong length of ribbon.
When I measured the ribbon, I came to know that it is just 5/8 of the length that was required.
Can you calculate the length of the ribbon I had asked for?

Answer & Explanation

Solution:
Let A be the feet and B be the inches of length I asked for
Converting feet into inches,
We can say that I asked for (12*A + B) inches
According to the question
My wife interchanged the feet and inches
Which means that I got B feet and A inches of length
Or (12*B + A) inches of length
Now as per the details given in the question
(5/8) * (12*A+B) = (12*B + A)
A = (91/52) B
Now B is the variable for inches thus it must be something between 1 and 12 only and A must be
a whole number.
In such case, putting B as 4 is the only possible way that it can stand true.
Thus A = (91/52) 4
Or A = 7.
Thus I asked for 7 feet and 4 inches of Ribbon and my wife brought me 4 feet and 7 inches
instead.

Athenahealth Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #3 - Popular Number Interview Puzzle

How many six digit phone numbers can you frame using the digits from 0 to 9 if a condition
restricts you to start the number with 35 and another condition restricts you from using any digit
more than once?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
The first two digits are fixed.
You are left with eight digits (since one digit can be used just once).
Also you have only 4 more digits left to frame a phone number.
Thus the possibilities = 8P4 = 1680.

Athenahealth Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #4 - Cipher Interview Problem

Sherlock Holmes was decoding an encrypted message. If in the encryption, DISTANCE is

written as IDTUBECN and DOCUMENT is written as ODDVNTNE.
Can you help him decipher HTTQYAD?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
THURSDAY
Explanation:
The first two alphabets are interchanged.
For the next three alphabets, the succeeding alphabet is written.
And then the last three alphabets are reversed.

Athenahealth Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #5 - Popular Logic Interview Problem

A box contains seven purple, five blue and eleven yellow balls.
What is the minimum number of tries required to get one blue and one yellow ball ?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
nineteen
Explanation:
worstcase (7purple+11yellow+1blue)

Athenahealth Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #6 - Faulty Coins Interview Question

You have ten sets of 10 coins. You are aware of exactly how much the coins weigh. You also
know that all the coins in one set of ten are exactly a hundredth of an ounce off which makes the
entire set of the ten coins a tenth of an ounce off. Also you are aware of the fact that all the other
coins weight the correct amount. Now you are allowed to use an exceptionally precise digital
weighing machine only once.
Can you identify which set of 10 coins is faulty?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
Keep one coin from the first set and place it on the scale along with the two from the second set
etc. If the weight is off by one hundredth of an ounce, then you will know that it is the first set

that is faulty and if the weight is off by two hundred of an ounce, then the second set is faulty
and so on.

Athenahealth Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #7 - Find the Ages Interview Question

Five years ago, Katie Holmes was 5 times as old as her daughter. Five years hence, Katie's age
will be eight less than three times the corresponding age of her daughter.
Can you find their ages?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
Let the age of the daughter five years ago be x. Then Katie's age will be 5x.
Present age
Daughter = x + 5
Katie = 5x + 5
After 5 years
Daughter's age = x + 10
Katie's age = 5x + 5 + 5 = 5x + 10
Now consider the question again. We know that five years from present, Katie's age will be 8
less than three times the corresponding age of her daughter. Thus if we add eight to the Katie's
age, five years from now and make her daughter's age 3 times more, we can easily find out x.
5x + 10 + 8 = 3(x + 10)
5x + 18 = 3x + 30
5x - 3x = 30 - 18
2x = 12
x = 12 / 2
x=6
Katie's Present age is 5x + 5
=> 5(6) + 5
= 30 + 5
= 35 Years
Her daughter's Present age is x + 5
=> 6 + 5
= 11 Years

Athenahealth Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #8 - Area of Rectangle Interview Puzzle

You have a rectangle. If each side of it is increased by 100%, by what percentage will the area
increase?

Answer & Explanation

Solution:
Original are of the rectangle = l*b where l= length and b = breadth
After the sides are increased by 100%, the area will increase by
= (((2l*2b)-(a*b))*100) / (a*b) = 300%

Athenahealth Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #9 - Difficult Series Interview Question

In a series, if 1 and 2 produce 9, 3 and 4 produce 20 and 5 and 6 produce 12, what is the number
after 17 and 12?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
This is quite a tricky puzzle and quite hard to deduce at first impression.
What you have to do is write the number in English
For the first case, 1 and 2 produce 9
1 = One
2= Two
There are three characters in both one and two
3x3 = 9
Similarly for the second case, 3 and 4 produce 20
3 = Three
4 = Four
Three has 5 characters and four has 4 characters
5x4 = 20
Now for the question, seventeen has 9 characters and twelve has 6 characters, thus the missing
number is the product of 9 and 6 which is 54.

Athenahealth Interview Puzzle - Aptitude #10 - Length of Room Interview Puzzle

A room's width is half of its length. If we reduce both length and width by 6, then the area is
differed by 108.
What is the length of the room?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
Let x be the length of the room
Then according to the question, width will be x/2

As per the question

{(x*x/2)-(x-6) (x/2-6)}=108
9x =144
x=16
Thus the length of the room is 16.