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Two friends Shaanu & Bhaanu decided to play the game of ‘Snakes Find the minimum number of turns in which a player can finish
& Ladders’, in which two players initially put their tokens at Point 0 the game by using exactly 1 ladder.
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and move their token ahead following some rules as given below.
Players roll a regular six faced die in turns. The token of the player Shaanu finished his game in exactly nine turns by using exactly
is moved ahead by as many positions as the number appearing on one ladder. If he scored 5 in his first turn and 2 in his last turn, in
the die. The winner of the game is the person who reaches or how many ways could he have reached 100?
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crosses the point 100 first.
Meanwhile there are some ‘Snakes’ and ‘Ladders’ in the entire What is the minimum number of turns in which Shaanu could
journey. If any player’s token lands at the bottom of a ladder, he/ have finished the game if he was bitten by snake S1 exactly
once?
she can directly move the token up to the top of the ladder. If any
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player’s token lands on the head of a snake, he/ she will have to
directly move the token down to the tail of the snake. There were Find the minimum number of turns in which Bhaanu could have
exactly 4 snakes & 4 ladders in the game. The table given below finished the game if he used the ladder L3.
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provides the details of the position of all the Snakes & all the
Ladders.

PUZZLE - 13
The following table shows the number of students opting for If the number of students from Commerce background who have
Different streams in a B-School. Also, the table shows the opted for Marketing is 1/6th of the number of students of
Commerce background who have opted for Operations. Find the
percentage of students from Engineering background in each ratio of the total number of students from Engineering
stream as compared to the total number of Students from the background to the total number of students from Commerce
engineering background in the B School. All other students are background in the B-School.
3:2 5:4 7:3 None of the above
from Commerce Background. Some students from Commerce
background stay in Hostel while the remaining commute every day. If there are 600 students from Engineering background in the B-
These students are called ‘Day Scholars’. School, find the number of Commerce students staying in Hostel.
605 300 600 950

How many of the values given below can be the possible fractions
of students from Engineering background to total students in
College?

0 1 2 3

If in all 100 students from Commerce background who study

Marketing stay in Hostel, find the number of students from
Commerce background who have opted for Hostel & are studying
Operations.
252 200 30 166

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 Find the profit of the company with least sales.
Total sale of the Two wheelers in India was Rs. 250 Cr in month of
March 2020. However, it increased by 20% in April 2020. There 20 Cr 5 Cr 12 Cr 10 Cr
are only six different companies that sell two wheelers in India,
namely Hiro, Bejaj, Hando, Xamaha, Suzuka & Mahendro. If sales of Hando, was twice the sales of Xamaha, also the profit
of Bejaj was twice that of Hiro, how many of these cannot be the
Total sales of five of the six companies during the month of April
combined profit of Suzuka & Mahendro.
were 40 Cr, 60 Cr, 35 Cr, 45 Cr & 50 Cr in no particular order. 1] 32 Cr 2] 22 Cr 3] 25 Cr 4] 17 Cr
The operating cost of five of the six companies during the month of
April were 35 Cr, 60 Cr, 25 Cr, 45 Cr & 28 Cr in no particular One of these Two of these
Three of these All of these
order. (Note: Profit = Sales – Operating cost)
The overall profit percentage (expressed as a percent of total The operating cost of Hando is half of the sales of Xamaha. Also,
sales) in the month of April for the entire industry was 22.33%. In the operating cost of Hiro is equal to sales of Mahendro. How
many of the below mentioned can be the combined profits of
the month of April, the profit percent (expressed as a percent
Hando & Bejaj?
of operating cost) for the six companies were 50%, 42.85%, 40%, 1] 20 Cr 2] 15 Cr 3] 25 Cr
11.11%, 28.57% & 16.67% in no particular order.
One of these Two of these
All of these None of these

If the sales of Hando is 10 Cr less than the sales of Suzuka,

operating cost of Mahendro is 20 Cr more than that of Hiro, profit
of Xamaha is not less than that of Bejaj. How many of these can
be the differences in the profits of Xamaha & Mahendro?
1] 2 Cr 2] 0 Cr 3] 10 Cr 4] 7 Cr

One of them Two of them

Three of them All four of them
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In the Food court of ‘Grand Mall’, there are four food items & four For how many of the total combinations of one food item & one
beverages available. To promote the sales of these items, the beverage will the customers definitely choose offer B?
management decided to launch two offers for the customers.
5 2 3 1
Offer A: Flat 33.33% off on total purchase. The final bill is
calculated by rounding off the price to the nearest integer. On a particular Sunday, there were exactly 320 orders of all the
Offer B: Buy one food item & get one beverage of your choice free types of combos put together. The management observed that
exactly equal numbers of servings were sold for each possible
with that food item. (The two offers cannot be clubbed.) combo. How many of these could be the possible ratios of the
All the customers rationally evaluate which offer to choose before number of people who opted for offer A to those who opted for
making the payment. If the price to be paid under Offer A or Offer B offer B?
are equal, the customer randomly chooses any of the two offers 1] 25 : 7 2] 45 : 19 3] 5 : 3 4] 27 : 5
available. Exactly one of these Exactly two of these
The price list of the Food items & Beverages is listed below: Exactly three of these All four of these

The management has marked the price of goods such that the
profit (as a percent of cost) is 50% on food items & 100% on
beverages. Find the profit made on Sunday. (Use data from the
previous question)

Rs. 1600 Rs. 1000 Rs. 1450 Rs. 1760

The management has marked the price of goods such that the
profit (as a percent of cost) is 50% on food items & 100% on
beverages. Which among the following combo generates
maximum profit?
If a customer decides to buy only the food item or only the Burger & Tea Pizza & Coffee
beverage, then he can obviously go only for Offer A. Dosa & Cola Pasta & Fruit Juice
PUZZLE - 16
Passport Seva Kendra has three stages of passport application process, namely, Form What is the earliest time when the application process of
Filling, Documents Verifying and Application Approval. It has three applicant no. 2 can be completed?
employees named Sudha, Mugdha and Vidha. Sudha and Mugdha take care of Form
Filling and Document Verification while Vidha is the only employee who performs 9:20 AM 9:22 AM 9:24 AM 9:26 AM
Application Approval because of her seniority. Form filling takes 10 minutes, Document
Verification takes 7 minutes and Application Approving takes 5 minutes. Form filling What is the earliest time when the application process of
and Document verification can be done simultaneously by two employees, while applicant no. 3 can be completed?
Application Approval can be done only after completing Form Filing and Document
Verification. 9:28 AM 9:30 AM 9:32 AM 9:34 AM

No time is wasted between completing any process of previous and next applicant. The Due to new government regulations, processing of application
application process is considered complete only after the Application Approving stage of a new applicant can be started only after completing the
is completed. application process of the previous applicant.

The passport office opens at 9:00 AM in the morning and the employees are ready to What is the earliest time when the application process of
start the process as the passport office opens. The application process of applicant 1 applicant no. 3 can be completed?
starts immediately as he enters. The following table shows the times of the first
four applicants entering in the Passport Seva Kendra with their application: 9:45 AM 9:48 AM 9:50 AM 9:55 AM

Due to new government regulations, processing of application

of a new applicant can be started only after completing the
application process of the previous applicant.

For how many minutes from 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM is exactly one

employee is idle?

The employees can process multiple applications at a time i.e. one of Sudha and 15 minutes 16 minutes 14 minutes 18 minutes
Mugdha can work on Form Filing of one applicant while the other is working on
Document verification of another applicant and Vidha is working on Application
Approval of yet another applicant. However, the preference is always to finish all the PUZZLE - 17
three processes of the applicants who have arrived earlier.
Six episodes of a reality show aired on a famous TV channel tested the skills of the Who among the following was with Laura in the
contestants at six different locations namely Amazon rainforest, Madagascar's Massif episode?
D'Isalo, a deserted island in Fiji, a flooded jungle in Belize, Malaysia rainforest and
Bolivian jungle.
EJ
In each episode, except for the first, there were two partners (contestants)- one male and
Amanda
one female. Leonard
Vincent
Laura, Amanda, Eva, Alana, Samantha, Sabrina and Shannon were the females while
Tyler, EJ, Jeff, Vincent, Fernando, Keith and Leonard were the male contestants. Leonard’s skills were tested in

Following points are known: a deserted island in Fiji.

a flooded jungle in Belize.
1. Vincent neither visited a flooded jungle in Belize nor did he visit any rainforest. He was Malaysia rainforest.
in the sixth episode.
Bolivian jungle
2. The first episode was shot in one of the rainforests.
Who were seen in Malaysia rainforest?
3. Sabrina and Fernando were not in the first four episodes. Either Alana or Amanda was
seen in the Amazon rainforest. Samantha & Fernando
Samantha & Leonard
4. Tyler and EJ were seen together in one of the episodes. Alana & Fernando
Amanda & Leonard
5. Sabrina and Samantha were seen in consecutive episodes. Laura and Keith were
neither seen in consecutive episodes nor in the same episode. Where was the 5th episode shot?
6. Skills of Eva and Jeff were tested in Madagascar's Massif D'Isalo.
Amazon rainforest
7. Shannon and her only partner were seen in a flooded jungle in Belize. This episode
Madagascar's Massif D'Isalo
number was not a prime number. Malaysia rainforest
Bolivian jungle
8. Sabrina visited Bolivian jungle while Keith’s skills were seen in a deserted island in Fiji.
PUZZLE - 18
Six friends namely Arjun, Bineet, Chetan, Deepti, Eshita & Farhaan How many of the six people had at least twice the money at the
went to a casino to try their luck. They went with (Rupees) 170, end than the initial amount?
190, 150, 200, 230 & 210 in no particular order. Each of them If the amount won by Deepti was at least twice the amount won
won a different amount of money (Rupees) i.e. 270, 150, 300, by Arjun, find the amount at the end with Chetan.
240, 120 & 180 in no particular order. Five of them had total
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amounts at the end (in Rupees) as 340, 380, 530, 450 & 290 in
no particular order. It was also observed that: How many of the following numbers can be the possible sums of
initial amounts with Arjun & Deepti combined?
1. Amounts won by Bineet, Chetan & Arjun were in Arithmetic
(i) 380
Progression in no particular order. The same is true for Eshita, (ii) 400
Farhaan & Deepti. (iii) 360
(iv) 410
2. Amounts won by Deepti, Farhaan, Arjun & Chetan were in
Arjun & Deepti decided to find out the combined profit percent
Arithmetic Progression in no particular order. made on total initial amount with both of them. Neither of them
won the lowest nor the highest amount of money. Find their
3. Amounts won by Chetan, Eshita & Arjun were in Geometric combined profit percent. (Rounded off to nearest integer.)
Progression in no particular order. 109
93
102
91

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Ajay went to Mumbai for one week & decided to explore the city by If Ajay visited Film City on Friday, which was the first place he
visiting 7 different areas each on one day of a week from Monday to visited on his tour of Mumbai?
Sunday. The seven different areas were: Juhu Beach, Gateway of India,
Essel World
Worli Sea Face, Elephanta Caves, Marine Drive, Essel World & Film City
Elephanta caves
not necessarily in the same order. Further, he also rated 1 to 7 (7 is Worli Sea Face
best & 1 is worst) each area after his visit to that particular place. Cannot be determined
Following facts were observed:
The ranks as well as the days of visit of how many of the seven
1) Marine Drive was rated lower than Worli Sea Face, which was rated destinations can be uniquely determined?
lower than Essel World.
If Marine Drive was visited on Friday, which was the second place
that he visited?
2) He visited Gateway of India on Saturday & Juhu Beach on Thursday.
Juhu Beach
3) Ajay preferred the place he visited on Tuesday over the place he Essel World
visited on Monday.
Film City
Worli Sea Face

4) Elephanta Caves did not receive the highest rating. The places visited If Essel World was visited before Worli sea Face, which place was
on Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday received lower rating than that of visited on Monday?
Elephanta caves.
Essel World
Film City
5) The places with the highest & lowest ratings were visited on
Juhu Beach
Wednesday & Thursday in no particular order. Cannot be determined

6) The place visited on Monday had four places better rated than that.
The place visited on Sunday had four places rated lower than that.
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Total 25 classmates of the 2001 batch of class X are members of at least one of the three WhatsApp groups namely ‘Chat Lounge’,
‘Just talk’ and ‘Chaos’. The number of classmates who are members of all the three groups is less than 6. The number of
classmates who are not members of ‘Chaos’ is less than 11. The number of classmates who are members of only one group is
more than 16. The number of classmates who are members of at least two groups is more than 7. The number of classmates who
are members of all the three groups is more than the number of classmates who are members of exactly two groups.

How many classmates are members of all the three groups?

How many classmates are members of ‘Chaos’?

15 16 17 Cannot be determined

Additional information for this question.

The number of classmates, who are members of two groups: ‘Chat Lounge’ and ‘Chaos’ is equal to the number of classmates, who
are members of two groups: ‘Just talk’ and ‘Chaos’ and that is equal to 6. The number of classmates who are members of exactly
two groups is equal to the number of members of the ‘Chat Lounge’ group alone.

What is the sum of the number of members of the group 'Chaos' alone and that of 'Just talk' alone?

Additional information for this question.

The number of classmates, who are members of two groups: ‘Chat Lounge’ and ‘Chaos’ is equal to the number of classmates, who
are members of two groups: ‘Just talk’ and ‘Chaos’ and that is equal to 6. The number of classmates who are members of exactly
two groups is equal to the number of members of the ‘Chat Lounge’ group alone.

How many classmates are members of ‘Chat Lounge’? PUZZLE - 21

Phillipkart is a leading e-commerce portal on which a variety of products are listed for selling. After purchasing a product, verified customers can leave a rating for the product. The
rating given by the customers can be either 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, with 1 being the lowest rating and 5 being the highest rating. A customer can give the rating to a product only once and
the rating once given by the customer cannot be changed or deleted.

The average rating given by the customers is displayed next to the picture of the product on the website. However, while displaying the average rating, the average rating is rounded
to one decimal place. For example, the average rating greater than or equal to 3.45 and less than 3.55 is displayed as 3.5; and the average rating greater than or equal to 3.75 and
less than 3.85 is displayed as 3.8 and so on.

The following graph gives the total number of customers who have given the rating since the launch of a product and the average rating for the product over five days- Monday to
Friday. No rating was given before Monday. The average rating of the product is calculated by dividing the sum of the ratings given by all the customers by the number of customers
who have rated the product up-to that day. What can be the maximum number of ratings with a score of ‘5’ received over the first two days (i.e.,
Monday and Tuesday)?

52 51 50 Less than 50

If maximum possible ratings with a score of ‘5’ were received on Monday, what could be the minimum
number of ratings with a score of ‘5’ that could have been given on Tuesday?

If maximum possible ratings with a score of ‘5’ were received on Monday as well on Tuesday, what could be
the minimum number of ratings with a score of ‘5’ that could have been given on Wednesday?

What can be the maximum number of ratings with a score of 1 received over the first two days (i.e. Monday
and Tuesday)?
11 12 9 More than 12

If all the new customers give a rating of ‘5’ on Saturday, what can be the maximum number of ratings that
can be given on Saturday such that the rating displayed next to the picture of the product will improve to
4.6?
Less than 80 Between 80 and 85 (both inclusive)
Between 86 and 90 (both inclusive) More than 90

What can be the minimum number of ratings with a score of 1 that can be given on Saturday such that the
rating displayed next to the picture of the product will fall to 4.4?
PUZZLE - 22 1 2 4 More than 4
Refer to the data below and answer the questions that follow.
A company sponsored ‘3 nights 4 days Annual Family Tour’ is a major attraction for the employees of ‘ABC Learning Resources Pvt Ltd.’ The ten tourist places from which employees
can choose are – Agra, Goa, Amritsar, Shimla, Ooty, Alleppey, Jaipur, Ladakh, Mysore, and Darjeeling. Only one employee can go to each tourist place. Management declares ten best
employees every year and they are offered this perquisite. These ten employees are given ranks. It is possible that two or more employees have the same rank, as shown in the table
below.
Each of these ten employees has already visited some of these tourist places, as a result of which, they would not like to visit that place again, unless they have no other option left.
Further, each employee has his/her preferred tourist place that he/she wants to visit under this company sponsored perquisite. The tourist places are allotted to employees
according to their ranks, starting from rank 1. The employees are allotted their preferred tourist places, unless any other employee with a higher rank has already been allotted that
place. If an employee has a preferred tourist place that has already been allotted to another employee with a higher rank, that employee will have to choose a tourist place out of
the remaining places that have not been allotted to any employee yet. If two or more employees having the same rank have the same preferred tourist place, the HR manager
decides who out of those employees is allotted that place through a lucky draw. In that case, other employee(s) having the same rank, who are not allotted their preferred tourist
place, have to choose from among the places that have not been allotted to anyone yet.
The following table gives the information of the top 10 employees, their ranks, the places they have already visited before and the tourist places that were eventually allotted to
them. 1. If Ishani was allotted her preferred tourist place, which of the following can be that tourist place
eventually allotted to her?
Darjeeling Ooty Ladakh Amritsar

2. Manoj was allotted his preferred tourist place by the HR manager through a lucky draw. Amit had
prepared a list of his preferred tourist places and had also ranked them (i.e., 1 to his most preferred
place, 2 to next place and so on). Amit said that Mysore was the best option that he was left with as
employees with higher ranks had already opted for his all other preferred tourist places.
What was the preference rank of Mysore according to Amit?

3. Which of the following statements will uniquely identify the tourist places eventually allotted to all
these ten employees?
Ishani has been allotted Darjeeling Rajat has been allotted Goa
It is known that no employee has been allotted a tourist place that Amit has been allotted Mysore Manas has been allotted Darjeeling
s/he had already visited in the past.
Exchange of places between two or more employees is possible with 4. Manoj wanted and could exchange his allotted tourist destination with an employee with a higher
rank (smaller rank number than Manoj) without violating any other rules. Who was originally allotted
mutual consent only.
Darjeeling?

PUZZLE - 23 Ishani or Rajat Manas or Rajat Manas or Ishani Ishani or Amit

The Mukherjee family of Chandannagar is a reputed family in the city. Dijendranath Mukherjee is known to be the founder
of the family who came to the city more than 250 years back with his wife and two sons only and constructed a massive
mansion. The founder of the family had only 2 children. Since the sons of Dijendranath, every generation was blessed
with children and the total number of children born in a generation was at least two times and at most three times the
number of children born in the previous generation. The two sons of Dijendranath Mukherjee are considered to be the
first generation.

After all the children born in the nth generation, the total number of descendants (i.e., children born in the family) of
Dijendranath becomes 50. In how many ways is this possible?

Which of the following cannot be the number of children born in the (n ‒ 1)th generation if after all the children born in
the nth generation, the total number of descendants (i.e. children born in the family) of Dijendranath becomes 50?
12 13 14 15

After all the children born in the nth generation, the total number of descendants (i.e., children born in the family) of
Dijendranath becomes 100. What can be the minimum number of children born in the nth generation?

Which of the following is closest to the maximum possible value of the ratio of the maximum number to the minimum
number of children born in the seven generations in the family given that 100 children were born in the 6th generation?
1.50 1.42 1.36 1.25

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Suresh, an IIM Bangalore alumnus, started his own business in 2019 and employed five employees named A, B, C, D and E. They work in
Marketing, Admin, Logistics, Sales and Finance roles respectively. Their initial salaries (in thousand rupees per month) were 40, 60, 20, 80 and
100 respectively. Going by the industry trends, Suresh expected that the five employees will get a salary increment of 30%, 50%, 40%, 20%
and 10% respectively, after one year. Suresh conducted appraisal of the employees at the end of the year and found the following:

1. Exactly one employee (who is from either Marketing, Logistics or Finance role) did not get any increment. One employee got an increment
equal to the expected increment. Two other employees got half the percent increment as expected, while the remaining employee got double
the percent increment as expected.
2. There was only one employee who got an increment of 40%. All other employees got percentage increments less than 40%.

5. Using the given information, how many possibilities with regards to the annual increment of the five employees can be generated?

6. For how many of the five employees can we uniquely determine the annual increment for the next year?

7. If Suresh wants to minimize his expenditure on the salary of the employees next year, how much salary (in Rupees per month) should he offer
to employee C?

8. What can be the maximum possible incremental expenditure per month on salaries of the five employees next year (in Rupees)?

9. If employee D did not get an increment double the expected increment, what would be the total expenditure per month on salaries of the five
employees next year?
Rs. 3, 51,000 Rs. 3, 61,000 Rs. 3, 63,000 Cannot be determined

10. If employee D did not get double the increment as expected, what was the department of the employee who did not get any increment?
Logistics Marketing Finance Cannot be determined

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