Doubts :

1.You have 240 barrels of wine, one of which has been poisoned. After drinking the
poisoned wine, one dies exactly 24 hours. You have 5 slaves whom you are willing to
sacrifice in order to determine which barrel contains the poisoned wine. How do you
achieve this in 48 hours?

2. There are 25 horses among which you need to find out the fastest 3 horses. You can
conduct race among at most 5 to find out their relative speed. At no point you can find out
the actual speed of the horse in a race. Find out how many races are required to get the top
3 horses.
3. A person has 3000 bananas and a camel. The person wants to transport maximum
number of bananas to a destination which is 1000 KMs away, using only the camel as a
mode of transportation. The camel cannot carry more than 1000 bananas at a time and eats
a banana every km it travels. What is the maximum number of bananas that can be
transferred to the destination using only camel (no other mode of transportation is
allowed).
4. Four prisoners are arrested for a crime, but the jail is full and the jailer has nowhere to
put them. He eventually comes up with the solution of giving them a puzzle so if they
succeed they can go free but if they fail they are executed.

The jailer puts three of the men sitting in a line. The fourth man is put behind a screen (or in
a separate room). He gives all four men party hats. The jailer explains that there are two
black and two white hats; that each prisoner is wearing one of the hats; and that each of the
prisoners is only to see the hats in front of them but not on themselves or behind. The
fourth man behind the screen can’t see or be seen by any other prisoner. No
communication between the prisoners is allowed.
If any prisoner can figure out and say to the jailer what color hat he has on his head all four
prisoners go free. If any prisoner suggests an incorrect answer, all four prisoners are
executed. The puzzle is to find how the prisoners can escape, regardless of how the jailer
distributes the hats.