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Q:

In a queue, Shankar is ninth from the rear end. Althaf's place is eighth from the front. Nitu is standing between the two. What could be the minimum numbers of boys standing in the queue ?

A) 18 B) 14
C) 22 D) 24
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 14

Explanation:

1 2 3 4 5 6(Shankar) 7(Nitu) 8(Althaf) 9 10 11 12 13 14
Here, Althaf is 8th from front, Shankar is 9th from rear end and Nitu is between them
So minimum no. of boys standing in the queue = 14

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Q:

There are 3 bags, in 1st there are 9 Mangoes, in 2nd 8 apples & in 3rd 6 bananas. There are how many ways you can buy one fruit if all the mangoes are identical, all the apples are identical, & also all the Bananas are identical ?

A) 23 B) 432
C) 22 D) 431
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 23

Explanation:

As in this problem , buying any fruit is different case , as buying apple is independent from buying banana. so ADDITION rule will be used.

 

C19+C18+C16 = 23 will be answer.

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Q:

A cowboy arrives in town on Friday. He stays for 3 days and then leaves on Friday. How is that possible?

Answer

You will get the answer in the riddle itself, if you read the riddle carefully.


The riddle says "A cowboy arrives in town on Friday." So Friday is the name of the horse on which he comes. Hence, the only possibility is he arrives on the horse friday on Tuesday, stays for 3 days and leaves on the same horse on Friday. 

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Q:

5 years ago, the mother's age was 3 times of her son's age. 5 years hence, the ratio between the ages of mother and the son becomes 11:5. Find the mother's present age?

Answer

Let the present age's of mother be 'M' and that of her son be 'S'.


According to the given data in the question,


M - 5 = 3(S - 5)


F - 3S = -10  ...............(1)


Then given ,


M + 5 : S + 5 = 11 : 5 


=> 5M - 11S = 30 ..............(2)


 


From (1) & (2), we get


S = 20


Then by substituting S = 20 in (1) or (2), we get


M = 50.


 


Hence, the present age of mother is M = 50 years.

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Q:

In a box, there are four marbles of white color and five marbles of black color. Two marbles are chosen randomly. What is the probability that both are of the same color?

A) 2/9 B) 5/9
C) 4/9 D) 0
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 4/9

Explanation:

Number of white marbles = 4

Number of Black marbles = 5

Total number of marbles = 9

Number of ways, two marbles picked randomly = 9C2

Now, the required probability of picked marbles are to be of same color = 4C2/9C2  +  5C2/9C2

= 1/6 + 5/18

= 4/9.

 

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Q:

Rajitha has a calculator, which has 10 digits. She want to clean the calculator by removing all the keys and while reassembling it, she interchanged the locations of 3 pairs of keys. For example, if she placed the key ‘3’ in the place of the key ‘7’, she placed the key ‘7’ only in the place of the key ‘3’ and not any other key. All keys that were interchanged corresponded only to numbers. Later, she input some calculations and obtained outputs as provided in the table below. The input is shown in terms of the keys that Kavitapressed, while the output is the output displayed by the calculator.

Output:

1.   95 + 84=128
2.   128 + 64=195
3.   912 + 43=942
4.   178 + 19=192

Question :

Which of the following pair of digits is unchanged ?

A) 9, 0, 3 B) 1, 3, 8
C) 7, 0, 1 D) 2, 4, 1
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 7, 0, 1

Explanation:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
0 1 4 8 2 6 5 7 3 9

Here pairs interchanged are

2, 4 

3, 8

5, 6

Unchanged are 0, 1, 7, 9

 

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Q:

L is the daughter of K's brother's wife's father-in-law's daughter. K is L's __

A) Son B) Aunt
C) Uncle D) Can't be determined
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Can't be determined

Explanation:

K's brother's wife's father-in-law is K's brother's father i.e. K's father. K's father's daughter is K's Sister.
L is daughter of K's sister => K is L's Uncle or Aunt.

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Q:

60 percent of 2/7 of three-fourth of a number is 2664. What is the number ?

A) 20720 B) 21352
C) 25421 D) 24150
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 20720

Explanation:

Let N be the required number. 

=> 60100x27x34xN=2664  

=> N = 2664x2x7x5/9  

=> N = 20720.

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