Friday, November 24, 2006

GENERAL PUZZLES

1. 1. While facing east you turn to your left and walk 10 yards; then turn to your left and walk 10 yards    and now you turn 45'0 towards your right and go straight to cover 25 yards .Now,in what direction are you from your starting point?

2 A placed three sheets with two carbons to get two extra copies of original.Then he decided to get more carbon copies ,and folded the papers in such a way that the upper half of the sheets were on top of the lower half. Then he typed.How many carbon copies did he gets?

3 A set of 8 books is arranged in orderly fashion on a shelf.Each book has 100 pages making 800 pages in all.A worm starting on the first page of the first book eats through the last page of the last book?How many pages has it eaten?
 
4 in a row of six persons, D and C are immediate neighbours of E. B is a neighbour of A only . A is the fourth from F. Who are on the two end points?
 
5 What is the smallest number of ducks that could swim in this formation--two ducks in front of a duck ,two ducks behind a duck and a duck between two ducks?

6.B is twice as old as A but twice younger than F.C is half the age of A but is twice older than D.Which two persons for the pair of the oldest and youngest?

7.A walks a distance of 3km towards north ,then turns to his left and walks for 2kms .He again turns to left and walks for 3kms.At this point he turns to his right and walks for 3kms.How many kms and in which direction is he from the starting point?

8.Mr.A ,Miss B,Mr C and Miss D are sitting around a table and discussing their trades.
    • Mr A sits opposite to cook
    • Miss B sits right to the barber
    • The washerman is on the left of the tailor
    • Miss D sits opposite Mr C   
What are the trades of A and B?
 
9. If the first and second letters in the word MEPHISTOPHELES were inter changed, as well as the third and fourth letters, the fifth and the sixth and so on then which one would be tenth letter counting from the right?
 
10.If all the even numbered letters of the English alphabet are crossed out ,then which would be the ninth letter not crossed out?
 
11.A man walks westward .He turns to his right then to his left and finally to his left again after walking a kilometer distance .In which direction is he walking now?
 
12.At the dining table were a man and his wife ,his son and his daughter and their spouses ,and four grand children in each family of his offspring .How many were there at the dinning table?
 
13.Gulshan ,Helen ,Indu ,and Fatima are sitting on a park bench .Fatima has Helen next to her on her left .Indu sits with Fatima and Gulshan on either side of her .Who sits at the extreme right?
 
14.Anand is taller to Suraj .Shadani is not as tall as Anand but taller to Ashok .Suraj too is not as tall as Shadani but taller to Ashok .Who is the tallest?
 
15. Shafi was all alone in the park .After some time came an old man and an old women followed by two couples with one child each.How many persons are there in the park now?
 
 

ANSWERS
 
1.NORTH-WEST
2. TWO
3. 602
4. F and B
5. 3
6. F is the oldest and D is the youngest
7. 1km and east
8. Trades of A and B are tailor and cook respectively
9. S
10.Q
11. SOUTH.
12. 14
13. GULSHAN
14. ANAND
15. 9

2 comments:

jithin jose said...

its very interesting and helpful

Anonymous said...

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