Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1) A car has a five digit number plate. When it is turned upside down
numbers still can be read and the new number is 86625 more than the
original. Find the original number. (189 when turned upside down will
look 681)
2) There are two candles of equal length one of them burns
completely in 4 hours while the other burns completely in 8 hours. Both
of them are ignited together and are extinguished after some time. The
remaining length of one candle is four times the remaining length of
other candle. Find for how much time the candles were burning?
6) One fine day I met my old friend Champaklal on the street with his
wife. I asked him, her name. He replied, “if you assign each letter a
number according to its position in the alphabet system (e.g. A – 1, B –
2, ……. Z – 26) the product of the letters in her name is equal to the
product of JUDGE but has no letter in common with it. Her name does
not have any third alphabet (3rd, 13th , 23rd ). It is a five lettered word
which after interchanging the first and the second letter comes in
dictionary order.” What is her name?
(Hint: Product is same only when Factors are same. Prime numbers big
hint)
9) A person went in the bank with a cheque of some rupees and some
paise. The cashier by mistake interchanged the values. The person
while coming back gave 10 paise to a beggar and the remaining amount
is thrice of the original cheque amount. Find the original cheque
amount?
11) There are nine balls of same size out of which eight balls are of
equal weight and one ball is heavier than the others. Provided with a
two sided weighing balance,
a) What is the minimum number of times you will be required to use it to
sort out the heavier ball.
b) If 13 balls are there and one is heavier than the others what will be
the answer.
c) If out of 9 balls 8 are of equal weight and one is heavier/ lighter than
the others what will be the answer.