1. There are 100 doors in front of you.

First time while passing close all the door that are open and open all the door that are closed. Second time visit 2, 4, 6 door. Third time visit 3 6 9 door. Repeat the process till you encounter only 100th door . After the process how will you tell the state (open or close) of each door? Ans. You will visit each door N number of time. That is the divisor of that door. For example you will visit 4th door at 1, 2, 4th round. 5th door at 1th , 5th round. 6th door at 1th, 2nd, 3rd, 6th round. So if you see the pattern then all the perfect square numbered door will change their initial state and all other will move back to their initial state 2. A suicide bomber has come to blast on one place and he has two threads to put fire. Both the thread last for 30sec. But he wants to cont for 45sec. He can not cut the thread or connect the thread. Ans. He can put fire on first thread, once it burn half, he can put fire on another thread and it will help to count up to 45sec. 3. There is a doctor with only one hand and he has two gloves using which he should operate on three patients but blood should not mix with each other. Ans. Doctor can wear both the glove and then operate first patient. then remove off the first glove and operate on second patient. Then reverse the first glove and wear it on second glove and operate third patient. 4. What will be angle between hour hand and minute hand at 3:15. Ans. Since clock hand moves on 360 degree space, so one hour is30 degree. So at 3:15 hour hand will be at *30=7.5 degree whereas minute hand will be at 7.5 degree before that. 5. There are three ants residing at the three corner of a triangle. After some point of time they will change their position and move for another corner. What is the probability that they will not collide Ans. If we assume A B and C are three corners of a triangle then The total number of safe movements is 8 A->C, B->A, C->A A->C, B->A, C->B A->B, B->C, C->A A->B, B->A, C->A A->B, B->A, C->B A->C, B->C, C->A A->C, B->C, C-A A->B, B->C, C->B Total no of unsafe movement is 2 A->C, B->A, C->B A->B, B->C, C->A So probability of collision is 2/8 6. A king has 1000 bottles of wines and some one has mixed poison in one bottle. Now how the king will find that bottle. He has lot of prisoners to test. Ans. All the bottles are marked with numbers from 1 to 1000. You can get the binary representation of all the number. So bottle 1=0000000001 bottle 1000=1111101000 Now you need 10 prisoners. Prisoners one will take a sip from the bottle which has 1 in the last significant bit and so on. So bottle 1000 ill be tried on prisoners 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. The king can get back the number of bottle by keeping all the dead and alive prisoners according to their number, assigning 1 to dead, 0 to alive prisoners and calculate the number of bottle. After four weeks, line the prisoners up in their bit order and read each living prisoner as a 0 bit and each dead prisoner as a 1 bit. The number that you get is the bottle of wine that was poisoned. 7. There are five super intelligent pirates who are dividing the 100 platinum coins among themselves. But there are some rules. The senior most pirates will propose the distribution and all other people will vote for the decision. If at least 50% people vote for

the decision then all will go by the decision otherwise they will kill the senior pirate who has proposed the decision and the next senior pirate will propose again and the process will go on until they divide everything among themselves. How will the senior pirate decide the distribution to survive? Ans. If the senior pirate wants to survive then he needs 50% vote that means three people should vote. One is himself so he needs two more people to vote for himself. 4th pirate will never vote as he needs only one vote which he can get by sharing the coins with another pirate. Lets backtrack the problem. If there is only one pirate then he eill get everything for himself If there are two pirates then senior will take 100% coins as he needs only one vote that he will do for himself If there are three pirates, then senior pirate knows that he needs to convince one more pirate. That one pirate can be the last pirate and he can keep 99 coins with himself and give one to third pirate to get his vote. Third pirate knows that nothing is better than 1 coin and vote for 3rd senior pirate If there are four pirates, then senior pirate knows the situation if he dies. And senior pirates need one more people to vote for his decision. So he can give two coins to pirate 4 as 2 is better than 1. But again if 4th senior dies then pirate 3 will not get anything so he will better give 1 coin to 3rd pirate and get the vote as 1 is better than nothing So now you have a pattern for dividing the coins 8. A man has a gold chain of 7 segments and he needs to give one segment per day to his servant at the end of each day for 7 days. How many times will you divide the gold chain? Ans. Day1: Cut one segment and give it to the servant Day2: Take back the old segment and give the part having 2 segments Day3: Give him the old 1 segment Day4: Take back everything and give him a part having 4 segment Day5: Give him the one segment part Day6: Take back the 1 segment and give him 2 part having 2 segment Day7: Give him the 1 segment 9. Why manhole is round in shape Ans. A round manhole cover cannot fall through its circular opening, whereas a square manhole cover may fall in if it were inserted diagonally in the aperture. The bearing surfaces of manhole frames and covers are machined to assure flatness and prevent them from becoming dislodged by traffic. Round castings are much easier to machine using horizontal boring mills. Circular covers do not need to be rotated to align them when covering a circular manhole. Human beings have a roughly circular cross-section. A round manhole cover can be more easily moved by being rolled. If an automobile rolls over a dislodged manhole of another shape, the sharp corners could puncture the automobiles tire, whereas a circle doesnt have corners. Its easi er to dig a circular hole. Tradition 10. There are three packets in front of you among which one has offer letter, another has reject letter and third one has both offer letter and reject letter. All are labeled wrongly. How will you find the content of the bag if you are allowed to pick only one thing from any of the bag? Ans. Pick from the bag that has labeled both the item as it will definitely have only one item in it. If it has Offer letter than, the bag labeled with reject letter will definitely have Offer & Reject letter and rest one will have Reject letter. If it has Reject letter than, the bag labeled with reject letter will definitely have Offer letter and rest one will have Offer & Reject letter. 11. You have a bag of 14 red balls and 20 blue balls. You have to take two balls at a time. If both are of same color then add a blue ball into the bag and if two are of different color then put a red ball into the bag. Extra balls are available to put back to the bag. Which color ball will be last in the bag Ans. If you take off 1 RED and 1 BLUE, then actually you are taking off 1 BLUE If you take off 2 RED, then actually you are taking off 2 RED (and add 1 BLUE) If you take off 2 BLUE, then actually you are taking off 1 BLUE

So it can be concluded then red ball leaves the bag in a group of two so there is no chance for red ball to be the last ball in the bag, so it should be blue ball 12. A man has two cubes in his desk which shows the day of the month. What are the numbers that should be written on cube face to display all the day of month? Ans. In order to get all the number from 1 to 31, we need one of each in ten digits and also two 1 and two 2 for 11 and 22. So total is twelve number hich can be written on to cube of 12 face in total. 13. There are some coworker and they wanting to know the average of their salary without disclosing their actual salary Ans. If there are three people A B and C. Then A can start by adding his/her salary with a constant term AC and give it to B. The B also adds his/her salary and a constant term BC to whole amount and C also does the same. When it comes back to A, A can deduct his/her constant term followed by B and C. So the actual sum of the salary will come out which can be divided by 3 to get the average salary. 14. You are in duel with two other gunmen. First guy shoot with 100% accuracy, second person shoot with 50% accuracy and you shoot with 33% accuracy. Everyone will get a chance to shoot in every round and shooting will start from the guy with worst accuracy. What will you shoot in first round? Ans. Since the shooting will start from worst accuracy so first you will get a chance, then guy with 50% accuracy and then guy with 100% accuracy. First option is to shoot at 50% guy then death comes with 72% or Shoot at the 100% guy then death comes with 63.64%. Shoot into the air then death comes with 58.33%. So, you can shoot into the air and hope for the best. 15. There are three cannibals and two human need s to cross the river. There can be only two people at a time while crossing the river. If the number of cannibals become more than number of human in the bank of the river then they will eat the human. How should they cross the river? Ans. Side1 CCC HHH CC HH CC HHH C H C Side2

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CCC HHH 16. There are three bulbs inside a house of one floor and switches are in different floor. How will you conclude which switches is for the which bulb Ans. Switch on one bulb; keep the switch off for another bulb. This way you can detect two bulbs switch. To find the third one is the trick. Keep the third switch on for some times and then switch it off so that the temperature gets increased for the third bulb and you can detect the switch. 17. Four people need to cross the bridge in the night time with a single flashlight. The bridge can accommodate two people at a time. All four should cross the bridge by 17 minute of time span. The speed of all the people is different A can cross in 1 min B can cross in 2 min C can cross in 5 min D can cross in 10 min How will you manage to cross the bridge within the time. Ans. A & B cross (2min) B comes back (2min) C & D cross (10min) A come back (1min) A & B come back (2min) Total time=2+2+10+1+2=17min 18. You have two bags, 50 red ball balls and 50 black balls. How will you arrange the balls in two bag such that probability of picking up red ball become maximum Ans. There are different ways to keep the balls. If you mixed the balls equally then probability become same for both the ball from both the bags. If you keep different balls in different bag then also probability becomes 50-50 as one bag as 100% chances whereas another has 0% chance.