Quant Based Puzzles - Part II
Revision + Practice Course on Logical Reasoning & Data Interpretation
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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
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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.
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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,
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Ten students — A to J- wrote an examination. The marks obtained by them were in an increasing order, in the given
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the ten, got more than 50 marks and the other five students got less than 50. The marks obtained by them were in
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(The average of marks obtained by the ten students was 55.40.
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(ii) The average of marks of those students who scored less than 50 was 44.40, and marks obtained by exactly two
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(iv) The difference between the marks obtained by | and C was 30 and | scored in multiple of 5.
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Q.1) Find the sum of all the possible marks that George could get.
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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.
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