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Quant Based Puzzles - Part II Revision + Practice Course on Logical Reasoning & Data Interpretation Coen eee ead [OCTET a ee a ae hae ee Aband of pirates have just captured a ship. They meet to divide the booty. They find that the ship has 148 gold coins and 204 silver coins. They decide to divide these in the following manner. They go to the pile of gold coins in order of age, starting from the youngest. The youngest pirate takes x gold coins; after that Cee ue ec ee ce cc Then they go to the pile of silver coins in the reverse order (i.e. starting from the eldest). The eldest pirate takes x silver coins; the subsequent pirates take x + 1, x +3, x+6,x+10 and so on. ance ce a ee ca CO Meet CPM ec Oa UCR oeace eoe Rct e ea of a gold coin? Q.4) If the youngest pirate gets coins of the minimum total worth among all the pirates, and the ratio of the values of a gold coin and a silver coin is an integer, what is the smallest possible value of this ratio? CUTE ae kee sme a aie kar ee ete ‘band of pirates have just captured a ship. They meet to divide the booty. They find that the ship has 148 gold coins and 204 silver coins. Se ee as They go to the pile of gold coins in order of age, starting from the youngest. The youngest pirate takes x gold coins; after that each See a Then they go to the pile of silver coins in the reverse order (ie. starting from the eldest). The eldest pirate takes xilver coins; the subsequent pirates take x +1, x +3,x-+6, x+10 and so on, Rte ee eas CUE ke ie eke a aie kar ine ely Ten students — A to J- wrote an examination. The marks obtained by them were in an increasing order, in the given Dee ee ee eae coment the ten, got more than 50 marks and the other five students got less than 50. The marks obtained by them were in Cn Rokcck era sc ulice oN Me ol ea a (The average of marks obtained by the ten students was 55.40. uae cea rei au aR Pc (ii) The average of marks of those students who scored less than 50 was 44.40, and marks obtained by exactly two Sea eke cae (iv) The difference between the marks obtained by | and C was 30 and | scored in multiple of 5. RUSS ae et rast oe ceaid Q.1) Find the sum of all the possible marks that George could get. eC OS ee ec a ee a ee eee ees ea) Q.3) An arithmetic progression is made by using the marks obtained by the ten students. The maximum number of terms that Recut 2.4) How many of the following three statements are true? i) The average of the maximum and minimum difference between the marks obtained by H and | was 23. (ii) The marks obtained by only two students were even numbers. Cee Cae Ree oe cag CUTE ae kee sme a aie kar eee ely Se ee Se Ru increasing order, in the given order of their names. ie. marks obtained by A was the ees ead See CE) Deets od aoc any in the range of 38 to 87 (both inclusive). tis also known that: Ree eee na ptr eeece ORE eee cud ‘obtained by E and F were 100 and 2499 eens OM ee eed Ree ee ee ee marks obtained by exactly two students among these five were prime numbers. (iv) The difference between the marks ‘obtained by | and C was 30 and I scored in Ces (v) The marks obtained by each student was a distinct integer. [UD al In Wj Evie o xt O;O 5 O° x WEE ie GEECoOX Seca eee iy Se Ty Ce oe rN Mee eer)

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