(PUZZLES) INFOSYS INTERVIEW PUZZLES

WITH ANSWERS
Contributor: CHETANA-JOBS Group
I HAVE COLLECTED THESE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THE MAILS IN THE
GROUP ONLY. FOR 3-4 QUESTIONS ONLY I HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER WITH THE
HELP OF MY TEACHERS. SO KEEP IN MIND THAT THESE ANSWERS MAY NOT BE
100% CORRECT. TRY TO SOLVE IT YOURSELF.
1. You are given two candles of equal size, which can burn 1 hour each. You have
to measure 90 minutes with these candles. (There is no scale or clock). Also u r
given a lighter.
Ans: 1. First light up the two ends of the 1st candle. When it will burn out light up
one end of the second candle. (30+60=90)
2. Try the similar problem to measure 45 minutes.
Ans: First light-up the two ends of the 1st candle and one end of the 2nd candle.
When the 1st candle will burn out ,then light up the both ends of the 2nd candle
(15+30=45)
3. You r given a thermometer. What can u do by this without measuring the
temperature?
Ans: if u put thermometer into a tree it won?t grow anymore, will just die off
4. How it is possible to place four points that are equidistance from each other?
OR
U r a landscape designer and your boss asked u to design a landscape such
that you should place 4 trees equidistance from each other.
(Distance from each tree to the other must be same)
Ans: Only 3 points can be equidistant from each other. But if u place points in the
shape of a pyramid then its possible
5. You are given a cake; one of its corner is broken. How will u cut the rest into
Two equal parts?
Ans: Slice the cake
6. How will you recognize the magnet & magnetic material & non-magnetic material?

Ans: Drag one piece of material over another. There is no attractive force in the
middle portion of the magnet.
OR
Get a piece of thread and tie up with the one bar and check for poles. If it iron bar
then it moves freely and if it is magnetic bar then it fix in one direction according to
poles.
7. If one tyre of a car suddenly gets stolen.... and after sometime u find the tyre
without the screws how will u make ur journey complete?
Ans: Open 3 screws, 1 from each tyre and fix the tyre.
8. How can u measure a room height using a thermometer?
Ans: temp varies with height. but its dependent on various other factors like
humidity, wind etc.
9. What is the height of room if after entering the room with a watch ur head
strikes a hanging bulb?
Ans: Oscillate the hanging bulb. Calculate the time period for one complete
oscillation by Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) of the handing bulb. Put it in the
formula T=2 * 3.14 * (L/G)^1/2
L will be the length of the hanging thread.
Add the L with ur height to get the height of the room.
OR
Ans: Drop it from the room and find the time at which it strikes the floor. Using
physics formula s = (at^2)/2 (IM NOT SURE ABOUT THIS ONE)
10. Color of bear.... if it falls from 1m height in 1s.
Ans: We get 'g' perfect 10 which is only in poles...hence polar bear...color White
11. How will you measure height of building when you are at the top of the building?
And if you have stone with you.
Ans: Drop the stone and find the time taken for the stone to reach the ground. find
height using the formula
s = a + gt ( s = height, a= initial velocity=0, g=9.8m/s, t = time taken)
12. How wud u catch and receive a ball in same direction? (Dropping is from north
And receiving from bottom not accepted, as it is 2 directions)
Ans: ?
13. 25 statements given. Some tell truth, some false and some alternators. Find out

the true statements.

Ans: ?
14. Can u make 120 with 5 zeros?
Ans: Factorial (factorial (0)+factorial (0)+factorial (0)+factorial (0)+factorial (0)) =
120
15.There are three people A, B, C. Liars are of same type and Truth speaking people
are of same type. Find out who is speaking truth and who is speaking false from the
following statements:
a) A says: B is a liar.
b) B says: A and C are of same type.
Ans: lets assume A is speaking truth. It means B is a liar then it means A and C are
not of same type.
16.5 swimmers A, B, C, E, F and many conditions of their positions like there are
Two b/w A & F, B doesn't win etc the question was to find who was b/w like E & D?
Ans: ?
17. in a race u drove 1st lap with 40kmph and in the second lap at what speed u
must drive so that ur average speed must be 80kmph.
Ans: its impossible! if u drove the first lap in 40 kmph, its impossible that the
average speed of both the laps is 80kmph.
for eg. consider one lap distance = 80km.
time req. to cover 1 lap = 80km/40kmph = 2 hrs.
if the avg. speed is 80kmph, then the total time would have taken =
160kms/80kmph = 2 hrs.
same is the case with any other distance u consider. so the avg to be 80kmph is
impossible
18. You have to draw 3 concentric circles with a line passing thru their center
without lifting hand.
Ans: Start the line complete one circle move inside circles along the line and then
draw second circle. Like wise rest.
19. A rectangular paper is there. At a corner a rectangular size paper is taken from
it. Now you have to cut the remaining paper into two equal halves.

Ans: try it on the paper. You must fold the part that has complete paper and select
Half of it and then fold the part that cut and selects half of it and then cut along
the folding. (I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS ONE!!)
20. Value of (x-a)(x-b)???..(x-z)
Ans: 0 as there?s X-X term
21. There are 9 coins. 8 are of 1 gm and 1 is of 2 grams. How will you find out the
heavier coin in minimum number of weighing and how many weighing it will need?
Ans: 2 weighing ( Divide the number of coins into 3 parts at each weighing)

Part 2:

INFOSYS : Puzzles + Guide

Infosys Important Books:
1. Brain Teasers by George summers
2. Brain Teasers- by Ravi Narula
3. G.R.E . Barrons (few analytical questions)
4. PUZZLES TO PUZZLE YOU - By SHAKUNTALA DEVI
Q.No:
[2,3,11,12,17,23,27,37,38,45,51,63,66,108,117,124,128,130,145,148
]
5. MORE PUZZLES - By SHAKUNTALA DEVI
Q.No: [193,221,244,275]
English SECTION:
1.Reading comprehension = 5 questions
2.correction of sentences = 5
3.correct verb completion in the sentences=10
4.spellings
5.sentecnes (exact meanings that match the sentence)
Sample Puzzles:
1) Find the 3 digit no. whose last digit is the square root of the first digit and second digit is the sum of
the other two digits.
And that number is divisible by 2,3,6,7.What is that number?

Ans: 462
2) Two people are playing with a pair of dies. Instead of numbers, the dies have different colors on their
sides. The first person
wins if the same color appears on both the dies and the second person wins if the colors are different.
The odds of their winning
are equal. If the first dice has 5 red sides and 1 blue side, find the colour(s) on the second one.
Ans: 3 red,3 blue
Solution : p(r1)=5/6, p(b1)=1/6,Let x sides are red.
Prob. To get both colors are same => [(5/6)(x/6)+(1/6)(6-x)/6] =1/2, After solving x=3
3) A car is traveling at a uniform speed. The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit number. After
traveling for an hour the
driver sees another milestone with the same digits in reverse order. After another hour the driver sees
another milestone containing
the same two digits with a zero in between(0). What is the average speed of the driver.
Ans: 45 kmph
4) There are three persons A, B, C. one day they set out in different directions and each one steals an
animal.The animals are camel,
horse and a mule though not in the order. A CBI officer catches them and on interrogation he has the
following statements:
A says: B has stolen a horse
C says: A is telling wrong, B has stolen a mule.
B says: A and C are both telling wrong. I have stolen nothing.
The person stealing a camel tells wrong while the person with a horse tells right. So tell which person
steal which animal.
Ans: A: Camel B: Mule c: Horse
5) There are 3 societies A, B, C. A Lent Tractors to B and C as many as they had already. After some
time B gave as many tractors
to A and C as many as they have. After sometime C did the same thing. At the end of this transaction
each one of them had 24.
Find the cars each originally had. This question was bit differently asked with the same thing.
Ans: A had 39 cars, B had 21 cars C had 12 cars
6) The quarter of the time from midnight to present time added to the half of the time from the present
to
midnight gives the present time. What is the present time?
Ans: 9hrs past 36 minutes AM
10) 8 Kigs and 14 Ligs can do 510 tors of work in10days. 13 Kigs and 6 Ligs can do 484 tors of work
in 12 days.
Then find work done by Kigs and Ligs individually in tors/hr?
11) A boy is playing a game. He took totally 55 blocks and kept like placing some x number on the
ground,next one less than that above
those blocks like that till the topmost one is one, how many blocks are there at the base level?
Ans: 10
12) A person traveled ? the of a distance by riding horse. He traveled remaining distance by walk. If he
took twice the time to walk as he
rode, how many times he rode faster than he walked?

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13) The below are the statements of 3 persons. If the person's speak only two of the three statements
correctly, what are their ages?
A: A is 22.
B is 1 yr more than A.
C is 1 yr less than A.
B:
I am not the youngest. There is 3 yrs difference between me and C. C is 25.
C: A is 23 B > A
14) A, B, C, D, E were shirts of colours red, blue, green, yellow and orange respectively. They stood
on a ladder. Yellow is not the colour at the
tail end of the ladder. Yellow is between those who wore green and red. Green is between those who
wore yellow and orange and who is behind blue.
Which color is at the end of the ladder?
15) In a business, A invested 3 1/2 times more than B. They wanted to include C by taking an amount
of Rs2500 from C. How should that amount be
divided among A and B such that three of them get the same interest?
16) One of the arms of a balance is longer than the other. If 1kg is kept on the left pan, it is equal to 8
water melons. If the 1kg is kept on a a right pan,
it is equal to 2 water melons on right. If the weight of all the watermelons are same, what is the weight
of the water melon?
17) A person has a son. His son's age is five times his daughter's age. His wife's age is 5 times his son's
age. His age is twice his wife's age.
The total of all this ages is equal to his son's grandma's age who celebrated her 81st birthday this year.
What is his son's age?
18) Tom has given some stamps to A. He asked A about them. A said " They were great. B got 3 more
than ? of what she would have got if I kept 3 more
than ? of what she got. Tom asked A "How much did u keep?"
A answered "two more than what I gave B". Find the total no of stamps Tom gave A.?
19) Two travelers, one with 64 barrels of wine, other with 20 barrels of wine. They don't have enough
money to pay duty for the same.
First traveler pays 40 francs and gives his 5 barrels, Second traveler gives his 2 barrels but gets 40
francs in exchange.
What's value of each barrel, and duty for each barrel?
20)What is Ann's relation with her husband's mother's only daughter-in-law's sister's husband?
21) Some guy holding a glass of wine in his hand looking around in the room says, "This is same as it
was four years ago, how old are your two kids now?"
Other guy says "Three now, Pam had one more in the meanwhile." Pam says, "If you multiply their
ages, answer is 96 and if you add the ages of
first two kids,
addition is same as our house number." The first guy says, "You are very smart but that doesn't tell me
their ages." Pam says, "It's very simple, just think."
What are the ages of three kids?
23)There are seven paintings T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z of which she has to select five for the exhibition.
Following are the conditions: a. If T is selected,
X cannot be selected
If U is selected, Y must be selected If V is selected, X must be selected
Answer following questions: (4 options for each sub-question, Don't remember options exactly)

(i) Find the correct sequence of exhibits from the following:

(ii) If V is selected then which of the following is true?
(iii) Don't remember this question
(iv) If in the selected sequence one exhibit replaces other without violating conditions, which of the
following replacement is possible?
24) There are three tribes, Abhor, Dravid and Magar.
a. Abhor women can't marry Dravid man
b. Magar man can't marry Dravid woman
c. Son inherits tribe from his father and a daughter from her mother
d. All other combinations are possible e.
There's no wedlock
Four sub-questions for this. Don't remember exactly but were like this: Can abhor and magar couple
have dravid descendents, magar daughter, etc.
25) Three customers want haircut and a shave. In a saloon, two barbers operate at same speed. They
take quarter of an hour for the haircut and 5 mins
for the shave. How quickly can they finish the haircut and shave of these three customers?
26)A shopkeeper likes to arrange and rearrange his collection of stamps. He arranges them sometimes
in pair, sometimes in bundle of three, sometimes in
bundle of fours, occasionally in bundle of fives and sixes. Every time he's left with one stamp in hand
after arrangement in bundles. But if he arranges in the
bundle of seven, he's not left with any stamp. How many stamps does a shopkeeper have?
27)Three different types of objects in a bucket. How many times does one need to select object from
the bucket to get atleast 3 objects of the same type?
28) I spent one-sixth of my age as a boy and one-12th in youth, remarked the boss" spent one-seventh
and five years in matrimony".
My son born just after that period was elected as a governor 4 years back when he was half of my
present age. what is the age of the boss?
Ans:-84
29) A girl had several dollars with her. she went out for shopping and spent half of them in shopping
mall,being generous she had given 1 dollar to
the beggar. After that she wqent for lunch and spent the half of the remaining and gave 2 dollars as tip
to the waiter.Then she went to watch a movie and
spent the half of remaining dollars and gave autorikshaw-wala 3 dollars.This left her with only 1
dollar.How many dollars did she had with her at the beggining.
30) couples were there ,B ,E,C. and G, H, M ,Bill,Eds and Cleo husbands and Grace,Helen and Marry
wives, not in order.went to play 18 points golf .
1.GHM and E scored 100,102,106 and 94 respectively.
2.B and C either scored 98 and 96 and had written there scores in cards which they lost .but when
found them back,they found that the two couples had
the sAME TOTAL.
3.eDS WIFE DEFEATED bILLS WIFE. Tell the combinations?

Part3:

(PUZZLES) INFOSYS INTERVIEW PUZZLES

WITH ANSWERS
Contributor: CHETANA-JOBS Group
I HAVE COLLECTED THESE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THE MAILS IN THE
GROUP ONLY. FOR 3-4 QUESTIONS ONLY I HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER WITH THE
HELP OF MY TEACHERS. SO KEEP IN MIND THAT THESE ANSWERS MAY NOT BE
100% CORRECT. TRY TO SOLVE IT YOURSELF.
1. You are given two candles of equal size, which can burn 1 hour each. You have
to measure 90 minutes with these candles. (There is no scale or clock). Also u r
given a lighter.
Ans: 1. First light up the two ends of the 1st candle. When it will burn out light up
one end of the second candle. (30+60=90)
2. Try the similar problem to measure 45 minutes.
Ans: First light-up the two ends of the 1st candle and one end of the 2nd candle.
When the 1st candle will burn out ,then light up the both ends of the 2nd candle
(15+30=45)
3. You r given a thermometer. What can u do by this without measuring the
temperature?
Ans: if u put thermometer into a tree it won?t grow anymore, will just die off
4. How it is possible to place four points that are equidistance from each other?
OR
U r a landscape designer and your boss asked u to design a landscape such
that you should place 4 trees equidistance from each other.
(Distance from each tree to the other must be same)
Ans: Only 3 points can be equidistant from each other. But if u place points in the
shape of a pyramid then its possible
5. You are given a cake; one of its corner is broken. How will u cut the rest into
Two equal parts?
Ans: Slice the cake
6. How will you recognize the magnet & magnetic material & non-magnetic material?

Ans: Drag one piece of material over another. There is no attractive force in the
middle portion of the magnet.
OR
Get a piece of thread and tie up with the one bar and check for poles. If it iron bar
then it moves freely and if it is magnetic bar then it fix in one direction according to
poles.
7. If one tyre of a car suddenly gets stolen.... and after sometime u find the tyre
without the screws how will u make ur journey complete?
Ans: Open 3 screws, 1 from each tyre and fix the tyre.
8. How can u measure a room height using a thermometer?
Ans: temp varies with height. but its dependent on various other factors like
humidity, wind etc.
9. What is the height of room if after entering the room with a watch ur head
strikes a hanging bulb?
Ans: Oscillate the hanging bulb. Calculate the time period for one complete
oscillation by Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) of the handing bulb. Put it in the
formula T=2 * 3.14 * (L/G)^1/2
L will be the length of the hanging thread.
Add the L with ur height to get the height of the room.
OR
Ans: Drop it from the room and find the time at which it strikes the floor. Using
physics formula s = (at^2)/2 (IM NOT SURE ABOUT THIS ONE)
10. Color of bear.... if it falls from 1m height in 1s.
Ans: We get 'g' perfect 10 which is only in poles...hence polar bear...color White
11. How will you measure height of building when you are at the top of the building?
And if you have stone with you.
Ans: Drop the stone and find the time taken for the stone to reach the ground. find
height using the formula
s = a + gt ( s = height, a= initial velocity=0, g=9.8m/s, t = time taken)
12. How wud u catch and receive a ball in same direction? (Dropping is from north
And receiving from bottom not accepted, as it is 2 directions)
Ans: ?
13. 25 statements given. Some tell truth, some false and some alternators. Find out

the true statements.

Ans: ?
14. Can u make 120 with 5 zeros?
Ans: Factorial (factorial (0)+factorial (0)+factorial (0)+factorial (0)+factorial (0)) =
120
15.There are three people A, B, C. Liars are of same type and Truth speaking people
are of same type. Find out who is speaking truth and who is speaking false from the
following statements:
a) A says: B is a liar.
b) B says: A and C are of same type.
Ans: lets assume A is speaking truth. It means B is a liar then it means A and C are
not of same type.
16.5 swimmers A, B, C, E, F and many conditions of their positions like there are
Two b/w A & F, B doesn't win etc the question was to find who was b/w like E & D?
Ans: ?
17. in a race u drove 1st lap with 40kmph and in the second lap at what speed u
must drive so that ur average speed must be 80kmph.
Ans: its impossible! if u drove the first lap in 40 kmph, its impossible that the
average speed of both the laps is 80kmph.
for eg. consider one lap distance = 80km.
time req. to cover 1 lap = 80km/40kmph = 2 hrs.
if the avg. speed is 80kmph, then the total time would have taken =
160kms/80kmph = 2 hrs.
same is the case with any other distance u consider. so the avg to be 80kmph is
impossible
18. You have to draw 3 concentric circles with a line passing thru their center
without lifting hand.
Ans: Start the line complete one circle move inside circles along the line and then
draw second circle. Like wise rest.
19. A rectangular paper is there. At a corner a rectangular size paper is taken from
it. Now you have to cut the remaining paper into two equal halves.

Ans: try it on the paper. You must fold the part that has complete paper and select
Half of it and then fold the part that cut and selects half of it and then cut along
the folding. (I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS ONE!!)
20. Value of (x-a)(x-b)???..(x-z)
Ans: 0 as there?s X-X term
21. There are 9 coins. 8 are of 1 gm and 1 is of 2 grams. How will you find out the
heavier coin in minimum number of weighing and how many weighing it will need?
Ans: 2 weighing ( Divide the number of coins into 3 parts at each weighing)