Practice Puzzle 4

1) Decipher this sentence.

B R W Q H L F K W H J K Q I B W K

Q I C E D W Z B G W K K M I K E

Z B G Q H S K Z B G J K Z K W

B U U Z B G J D B H F W.


2) At what time immediately prior to Six O'clock the hands of the clock are exactly opposite to each other. Give the exact time in hours, minutes and seconds


3) Ali Baba had four sons, to whom he bequeathed his 39 camels, with the proviso that the legacy be divided in the following way :

The oldest son was to receive one half the property, the next a quarter, the third an eighth and the youngest one tenth. The four brothers were at a loss as how to divide the inheritance among themselves without cutting up a camel, until a stranger appeared upon the scene.
Dismounting from his camel, he asked if he might help, for he knew just what to do. The brothers gratefully accepted his offer.

Adding his own camel to Ali Baba's 39, he divided the 40 as per the will. The oldest son received 20, the next 10, the third 5 and the youngest 4. One camel remained : this was his, which he mounted and rode away.

Scratching their heads in amazement, they started calculating. The oldest thought : is not 20 greater than the half of 39? Someone must have received less than his proper share ! But each brother discovered that he had received more than his due. How is it possible?


4) There is a family party consisting of two fathers, two mothers, two sons, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, one daughter-in-law, one grandfather, one grandmother and one grandson.

What is the minimum number of persons required so that this is possible?


5) A man went into a fast food restaurant and ate a meal costing Rs. 105, giving the accountant a Rs. 500 note. He kept the change, came back a few minutes later and had some food packed for his girl friend. He gave the accountant a Rs. 100 note and received Rs. 20 in change. Later the bank told the accountant that both the Rs. 500 and the Rs. 100 notes were counterfeit.

How much money did the restaurant lose? Ignore the profit of the food restaurant.


6)
S L I D E

- D E A N


3 6 5 1

Each of seven digits from 0-9 are represented by a different letter above such that the subtraction is true.

What word represents 3651?


7) Adam, Burzin, Clark and Edmund each live in an apartment. Their apartments are arranged in a row numbered 1 to 4 from left to right. Also, one of them is the landlord.

If Clark's apartment is not next to Burzin's apartment, then the landlord is Adam and lives in apartment 1.

If Adam's apartment is right of Clark's apartment, then the landlord is Edmund and lives in apartment 4.

If Burzin's apartment is not next to Edmund's apartment, then the landlord is Clark and lives in apartment 3.

If Edmund's apartment is right of Adam's apartment, then the landlord is Burzin and lives in apartment 2.

Who is the landlord?


8) B, J and P are related to each other.

Among the three are B's legal spouse, J's sibling and P's sister-in-law.

B's legal spouse and J's sibling are of the same sex.

Who is the married man?


9) A cube is made of a white material, but the exterior is painted black.

If the cube is cut into 125 smaller cubes of exactly the same size, how many of the cubes will have atleast 2 of their sides painted black?


10) Imagine a triangle of coins on a table so that the first row has one coin in it and the second row has two coins in it and so on. If you can only move one coin at a time, how many moves does it take to make the triangle point the other way?

For a triangle with two row it is one, for a triangle with three rows it is two, for a triangle with four rows it is three.

For a traingle with five rows is it four?
11) A man is going to an Antique Car auction. All purchases must be paid for in cash. He goes to the bank and draws out $25,000.

Since the man does not want to be seen carrying that much money, he places it in 15 evelopes numbered 1 through 15. Each envelope contains the least number of bills possible of any available US currency (i.e. no two tens in place of a twenty).

At the auction he makes a successful bid of $8322 for a car. He hands the auctioneer envelopes number(s) 2, 8, and 14. After opening the envelopes the auctioneer finds exactly the right amount.

How many ones did the auctioneer find in the envelopes?


12) The minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every 65 minutes.

How much does the watch lose or gain time and by how much?


13) There is a number that is 5 times the sum of its digits. What is this number? Answer is not 0.


14) There are six boxes containing 5, 7, 14, 16, 18, 29 balls of either red or blue in colour. Some boxes contain only red balls and others contain only blue.

One sales man sold one box out of them and then he says, "I have the same number of red balls left out as that of blue."

Which box is the one he solds out?


15) Ekta got chocolates to give her friends on her Birthday. If she gives 3 chocolates to each friend, one friend will get only 2 chocolates. Also, if she gives 2 chocolates to each friends, she will left with 15 chocolates.

How many chocolates Ekta got on her Birthday? and how many friends are there?


16) Pooja and Esha met each other after long time. In the course of their conversation, Pooja asked Esha her age. Esha replied, "If you reverse my age, you will get my husbund's age. He is of course older than me. Also, the difference between our age is 1/11th of the sum of our age."

Can you help out Pooja in finding Esha's age?


17) A fish had a tail as long as its head plus a quarter the lenght of its body. Its body was three-quarters of its total length. Its head was 4 inches long.

What was the length of the fish?


18) Assume that you have just heard of a scandal and you are the first one to know. You pass it on to four person in a matter of 30 minutes. Each of these four in turn passes it to four other persons in the next 30 minutes and so on.

How long it will take for everybody in the World to get to know the scandal?

Assume that nobody hears it more than once and the population of the World is approximately 5.6 billions.