1. A merchant can place 8 large boxes or 10 small boxes into a carton for shipping.

In one
shipment, he sent a total of 96 boxes. If there are more large boxes than small boxes,
how many cartons did he ship?
Answer: 11 total cartons and 96 boxes
11 cartons total
7 large boxes (7 * 8 = 56 boxes)
4 small boxes (4 10 = 40 boxes

2. How can you add eight 8's to get the number 1,000? (Only use addition).
Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000.

3. In a certain country ½ of 5 = 3. If the same proportion holds, what is the value of 1/3
of 10? Answer:

4. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: 4+5=9
5. I am never a whole number. If you divide a number by me, the number increases. What
am I?
Answer: A fraction
6. Three brothers live in a farm. They agreed to buy new seeds: Adam and Ben would go
and Charlie stayed to protect fields. Ben bought 75 sacks of wheat in the market
whereas Adam bought 45 sacks. At home, they split the sacks equally. Charlie had paid
1400 dollars for the wheat. How much dollars did Ben and Adam get of the sum,
considering equal split of the sacks?

Answer: Every farmer's part is 1/3 of (45+75) = 40 sacks.

Charlie paid $1400 for 40 sacks, then 1 sack costs

$1400/40=$35 sacks. Adam got $35 x (45−40) = 35 x 5=$175.

Ben got $35 x (75−40) = 35 x 35=$1225.

Answer: Ben $1225, Adam $175.

7. One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number.
What is the pattern?
Answer: One has three letters in the word, three has five letters in it, five has four
letters and four has four letters in it. (If you try more numbers they will always come
back to the number four: so four is the magic number.)

8. There is a clothing store in Bartlesville. The owner has devised his own method of
pricing items. A vest costs $20, socks cost $25, a tie costs $15 and a blouse costs $30.
Using the method, how much would a pair of underwear cost?
Answer: $45. The pricing method consists of charging $5 for each letter required to
spell the item.

9. One side of the bottom layer of a triangular pyramid has 11 balls. How many are
there in the whole pyramid? Note that the pyramid is equilateral and solid.

Answer: As there are 11 balls along one side, it means that there are 11 layers of balls.
The top most layer has 1 ball. The second layer has 3 (1+2) balls. The third layer has 6
(1+2+3) balls. The fourth layer has 10 (1+2+3+4) balls. The fifth layer has 15
(1+2+3+4+5) balls. Similarly, there are 21, 28, 36, 45, 55 and 66 balls in the remaining
layers.

Hence, the total number of balls is = 1 + 3 + 6 + 10 + 15 + 21 + 28 + 36 + 45 + 55 + 66 =

286 balls.
Answer: 286 balls.
10. A 3 digit number is such that its tens digit is equal to the product of the other two digits
which are prime. Also, the difference between its reverse and itself is 99. What is the
sum of the three digits?
Answer: It is given that the two digits of the required number are prime numbers i.e. 2, 3,
5 or
7. Note that 1 is neither prime nor composite. Also, the third digit is the multiplication of
the first two digits. Thus, hundreds digit and units digit must be either 2 or 3 i.e. 2_2,
2_3, 3_2 or 3_3 which means that there are four possible numbers - 242, 263, 362 and
393. Now, it is also given that - the difference between its reverse and it is 99. So 263
and 362 satisfy this condition. Hence, the sum of the three digits is 11 in each case.
Answer: 11

11. Which of the following is a common factor of both x^2 – 4x – 5 and x^2 – 6x – 7?
Answer: x^2 – 4x – 5.
x^2 – 4x – 5 = (x – 5) (x + 1), and x^2 – 6x – 7 = (x – 7) (x + 1). The common factor is x + 1.

12. The square of a 3-digit number is a 6-digit number. If the two numbers together use
all of the digits from 0 to 9 except 3, what is the 3-digit number?
Answer: 807

13. A farmer has three children and 44 gold coins. He decides to give coins to his three
children in the following ratio: 1/3: 1/6: 1/9. How could his last will be followed?

Answer: The ratio 1/3: 1/6: 1/9 is equal to 6:3:2. (By multiplying by the LCM of the
numbers in the denominator i.e. 3, 6, 9 = 18; hence the ratio is 6:3:2

So by giving 1st child 24 coins, 2nd – 12 and 3rd – 8 the last will of the farmer can be
followed.
14. 14.

Answer: 191. As, 5x2+1=11, 11x2+1=23, 23x2+1=47, and 47x2+1=95. So, 95x2+1=191.

15. The following set of boxes has to be filled in such a way that all the odd digits are
utilized in the boxes on the left side while even digits are utilized on the right side
boxes. The digits available are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 to make the equation
correct.

Answer: The following are the two different solutions to this problem where all odd &
even digits are placed in left & right boxes respectively. The sum of the integers on the
left side is always ODD as it is the sum of three odd numbers while on the right hand
side since the two digit number has to be even so the remaining part should be odd and
that can be formed in only one way i.e. 6 / 2 = 3

16. In a faulty watch, the minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every 64 minutes.
How much does the watch loss or gain time?

Answer: The watch gains [65(5/11) - 64] = 1(5/11) minutes because the minute and hour
hand meet after every 65(5/11) minutes.
17. A three-digit whole number n is such that the last three digits of n^2 are in fact the
original Looking at the last digit, the last digit must be either 0, 1, 5 or 6.

Answer: Looking at the last digit, the last digit must be either 0, 1, 5 or 6.
Then looking at the last two digits, the last two digits must be either 00, 01, 25 or 76.
Then looking at the last three digits, the last three digits must be either 000, 001, 625
or 376. Out of those, only 625 and 376 are 3 digit numbers which satisfy the given
condition.

18. What 5-digit number has the following features: If we put the numeral 2 at the end
of the number, we get a number which is three times a number if we put the
numeral 2 at the beginning?

Answer: 85714.
Assume there are 7X employees and 3X
managers Using an easy equation:
3(200000 + x) = 10x +2
(Adding 200000 puts a 2 at the front of a five-digit number, and multiplying by 10 and
adding 2 puts a 2 at the end of a number) Solving this gives:
10 x+2 = 3(200000 + x)
10 x+2 = 600000 + 3x
10 x = 599998 + 3x 7 x = 599998 x= 599998/7 = 85714. The answer is 85714.

19. What is the smallest number which when divided by 35 leaves remainder 30, when
divided by 45 leaves remainder 40 and when divided by 55 leaves remainder 50?

Answer: The easiest way is to find the Least Common Multiple of 35, 45 and 55
subtract 5 from it. The LCM of, 35, 45 and 55 is 3465. Hence, the required number is
3460.
20. An elephant and a tiger were carrying full sacks on their backs. The elephant started
complaining that his load was too heavy. The tiger said to him "Why are you
complaining? If you gave me one of your sacks I'd have double what you have and if I
give you one of my sacks we'd have an even amount." How many sacks were each of
them carrying? Give the minimal possible answer.

Answer: Let’s assume that the elephant was carrying E sacks and the tiger was carrying
T sacks. As the tiger told the elephant, "If you gave me one of your sacks I'd have
double what you have."
T+1=2*
(E-1) T + 1 =
2E - 2
T = 2E - 3
The tiger also said, "If I give you one of my sacks we'd have an even
amount." T - 1 = E + 1
T=E+2
Comparing both the
equations, 2 E - 3 = E + 2
E=5
Substituting E=5 in any of above equation, we get T=7
Hence, the elephant was carrying 5 sacks and the tiger was carrying 7 sacks.