Brain Teaser Question with Ans-1

Brain Teaser No : 00062


It happens once in a minute, twice in a week, and once in a year? What is it?


Answer

Letter 'e'

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In another galaxy, a certain nation of creatures speak a language known as Algramara. In this language, "harvec tood zevac" means "my tooth hurts", "lavec lina zevac" means "my delicious food", & "zevac corma lina" means "eating my food".

What does "corma harvec zevac tood" mean?


Answer

There are 3 sentances:
1. "harvec tood zevac" means "my tooth hurts,"
2. "lavec lina zevac" means "my delicious food,"
3. "zevac corma lina" means "eating my food."

From (1), (2) & (3) "zevac" means my
From (2) & (3) "lina" means food
So From (3) "corma" means eating
and From (2) "lavec" means delicious

Now, two unknown words are there: "harvec" and "tood" which means tooth or hurts. So there are two options:
1. Eating hurts my tooth
2. Eating tooth my hurts

Only first option makes sence. So "corma harvec zevac tood" means "Eating hurts my tooth"

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Brain Teaser No : 00091


Father's age is three years more than three times the son's age. After three years, father's age will be ten years more than twice the son's age.

What is the father's present age?


Answer

Let son's present age is X years.
Hence, father's present age is (3X + 3) years.

After 3 years, son's age will be (X + 3) years.
and father's age will be (3X + 6) years.

But given that after 3 years father's age will be ten years more than twice the son's age.
(3X + 6) = 2 * (X + 3) + 10
3X + 6 = 2X + 16
X = 10

Therefore, father's present age is 33 years.

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Brain Teaser No : 00092


Below is a Quiz written by Einstein in the lst century.
He said 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. Are you among the other 2%?
FACTS

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors.

In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.

No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

HINTS
The Brit lives in a red house.

The Swede keeps dogs as pets.

The Dane drinks tea.

The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.

The green house owner drinks coffee.

The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.

The Norwegian lives in the first house.

The man who smokes blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.

The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.

The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.

The German smokes Prince.

The Norwegian lives next to the Blue House.

The man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
THE QUESTION IS....WHO KEEPS FISH?

There is no trick to this - it needs deductive reasoning and definitely a pen and paper. 

Answer


Nationality  Beverage  Cigar       Pet   House Color
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Norwegian    Water     Dunhill     Cat     Yellow
Dane         Tea       Blend       Horses  Blue
Brit         Milk      Pall Mall   Bird    Red
German       Coffee    Prince      Fish    Green
Swede        Beer      Blue Master Dog     White
Therefore the answer is the German.

I wonder if U could work it out by realizing that Einstien was a german and kept fish but that would probably be cheating :)


There is one more possible answer, if we remove "immediate" from the Hint 4 i.e. read it as "The green house is on the left of the white house, not necessarily on the immediate left"
Nationality  Beverage  Cigar       Pet   House Color
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Norwegian    Coffee    Blend       Fish    Green
German       Water     Prince      Cats    Blue
Swede        Milk      Dunhill     Dogs    Yellow
Brit         Beer      Blue Master Horses  Red
Dane         Tea       Pall Mall   Birds   White
Thus, either German or Norwegian keeps the Fish, if the green house is not necessarily on the immediate left of the white house.

Thanks to Katie Crowe and friends for the second answer !!!
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Brain Teaser No : 00105


A man is on a search for Atlantis and comes upon an island where all the inhabitants know whether Atlantis is still around or not.

However, all of the inhabitants are either Fairies or Trolls and they all use a spell to appear humanoid so you cannot tell which is which. And the Faries always tell the truth and the Trolls always lie, but there is a slight complication, some of the Fairies have gone insane and always lie and some of the Trolls have also gone insane and always tell the truth.

So here is your task: you must ask the first inhabitant that you come to ONE question and from that ONE question you must determine wether Atlantis is still around or not.

What is the question that you must ask?


Answer

There are 2 answers to it:

Answer I"Is the statement that you are reliable equivalent to the statement that Atlantis is still around?"

Answer II"Do you believe that the Statement that you are a Fairy is equivalent to the statement that Atlantis is still around?"

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Brain Teaser No : 00104


A farmer needs 8 gallons of water. He has only three unmared buckets, two 6 gallon and one 11 gallon bucket.

How can he collect 8 gallons of water using three unmarked buckets? Provide solution with minimal water wastage.


Answer

Here is the solution with 10 gallon water wastage.
OPERATIONS 6 6 11
Fill 6 gallon bucket with water 6 0 0
Empty 6 gallon bucket into 11 gallon bucket 0 0 6
Fill 6 gallon bucket with water 6 0 6
Fill 11 gallon bucket to full using filled 6 gallon bucket. This will leave 1 gallon water in 6 gallon bucket 1 0 11
Empty 11 gallon bucket into second 6 gallon bucket. 1 6 5
Empty 11 gallon bucket - wastage of 5 gallon water 1 6 0
Empty second 6 gallon bucket into 11 gallon bucket 1 0 6
Fill seccond 6 gallon bucket with water 1 6 6
Fill 11 gallon bucket to full using filled second 6 gallon bucket. This will leave 1 gallon water in second 6 gallon bucket 1 1 11
Fill first 6 gallon bucket with 1 gallon water which is in second 6 gallon bucket 2 0 11
Empty 11 gallon bucket into second 6 gallon bucket. 2 6 5
Empty 11 gallon bucket - wastage of 5 gallon water 2 6 0
Fill 11 gallon bucket with water in both the 6 gallon buckets 0 0 11
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Brain Teaser No : 00194


Sita says to Gita, "I have 3 sons. They are all less than 10 years in age and all are of different age. The product of the ages of the two younger brothers is equal to the age of the eldest brother. Also, the sum of their ages is a Prime number."

How old is the eldest son?


Answer

The eldest son is 6 years old.

First list out all combinations of three numbers such that all of them are less than 10 and product of first two is third number. There are only 3 combination.

2 2 4
2 3 6
2 4 8
3 3 9

Also, note that age of the younger brother can not be 1 year. As in that case other two will be twins and it is mentioned in teaser that "the eldest brother" i.e. there is only one brother with the eldest age.

Now check fo the second condition i.e. the sum of their ages is a Prime number.

2 + 2 + 4 = 8
2 + 3 + 6 = 11
2 + 4 + 8 = 14
3 + 3 + 9 = 15

11 is the Prime number. Hence, the required combination is 2, 3 and 6. The eldest son is 6 years old.

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Brain Teaser No : 00212

What can run but never walks,
Has a mouth but never talks,
Has a head but never weeps,
Has a bed but never sleeps?

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 Brain Teaser No : 00215

Sam and Mala have a conversation.
Sam says I am certainly not over 40
Mala says I am 38 and you are atleast 5 years older than me
Now Sam says you are atleast 39
All the statements by the two are false. How old are they really?


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Brain Teaser No : 00212


What can run but never walks,
Has a mouth but never talks,
Has a head but never weeps,
Has a bed but never sleeps?


Answer

A River

It runs, never walks. It has a mouth where it opens into a bay or ocean, but never talks. It has a head - a source from where it emerges, but never weeps. It has a bed - the land over which it flows, but never sleeps.


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Brain Teaser No : 00215


Sam and Mala have a conversation.

Sam says I am certainly not over 40
Mala says I am 38 and you are atleast 5 years older than me
Now Sam says you are atleast 39
All the statements by the two are false. How old are they really? 

Answer

Sam is 41 and Mala is 37.

Let's invert the teaser and read it like this :
Sam says I am certainly over 40
Mala says I am not 38 and you are atmost 4 years older than me
Now Sam says you are atmost 38
From first statement it is clear that Sam is over 40. Also, from next 2 statements it is clear that Mala is less then 38. Hence the possibilities are :
Sam = 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, ......
Mala = 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, ......

It also says that the difference between their age is maximum 4 years. Hence, there is only one possible pair i.e. 41 and 37, all other combination have differences more then 4.

Hence the answer - Sam is 41 and Mala is 37.

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Brain Teaser No : 00222


Consider a chessboard with a single Rook. A Rook can move any number of square sideways/forward, but not diagonally.

What is the minimum number of moves the Rook needs to make, in order to pass over all the squares on the chessboard and return to the original position?

Note: Take any square as a starting position for the Rook.


Answer

16 moves

As a Rook can move any number of square sideways/forward, but not diagonally and there are 8 rows and 8 columns on the chessboard; the Rook needs minimum 16 moves to pass over all the squares and return to the original position.

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Brain Teaser No : 00326


The sum of their (father, mother and son) ages is 70. The father is 6 times as old as the son.

When the sum of their ages is twice 70, the father will be twice as old as the son.

How old is the mother?
Submitted by : Tim Sanders


Answer

The mother is 29 years and 2 months old.

Let's assume that son is X years old. Hence, father is 6X years old and mother is (70-7X) years old.

It is given that the sum of their ages is 70, which will total 140 after 70/3 years.

After 70/3 years, son will be (X + 70/3) years old and father will be (6X + 70/3) years old. Also, it is given that after 70/3 years, the father will be twice as old as the son. Thus,

(6X + 70/3) = 2 * (X + 70/3)
6X + 70/3 = 2X + 140/3
4X = 70/3
X = 35/6

Hence, their ages are
Son = X = 35/6 = 5 years and 10 months
Father = 6X = 6(35/6) = 35 years
Mother = (70 - 7X) = 70 - 7(35/6) = 29 years and 2 months

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Brain Teaser No : 00606


I was sitting around with my friend Ramlal and his grandfather last week, and the topic of birthday surprises came up.

Ramlal mentioned that one of the greatest surprises that he has had involved his grandfather, who happens to have had the same birthday that Ramlal has.

One year the family was celebrating this double birthday, and during the event Ramlal proudly mentioned to his grandfather that not only he had just turned as old as the last two digits of the year he was born in, but he was also a prime number of years old. Also, each of the two digits making up his age was also a prime.

Grandfather thought for a second, turned to him, and said that the same thing had just happened to him!

What year did this occur, and how old had Ramlal and his grandfather just turned?


Answer

Ramlal is 23 years old (1923 born), his grandfather is 73 years old (1873 born) and all this occurred in 1946.

It's clear that Ramlal had to have been born in the 1900s, and his grandfather in the 1800s.

If Ramlal was born in (1900 + X) and his grandfather in (1800 + Y), then
1900 + 2X = 1800 + 2Y (the year this happened)
Y = X + 50

Now, we need to find a pair of prime numbers, less then 100 and having difference of 50. There are 6 such (X : Y) pairs: (3 : 53), (11 : 61), (17 : 67), (23 : 73), (29 : 79), (47 : 97)

But it is given that Ramlal's age is two digits i.e. X is greater than 9. Also, each of the two digits making up their age are also a prime. It follows the only possible pair is (23, 73).

Thus, Ramlal is 23 years old (1923 born), his grandfather is 73 years old (1873 born) and all this occurred in 1946.


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Brain Teaser No : 00175


A woman is about to be executed. Since she has been a good citizen most of her life, the executioner gives her the option of chosing by which way she can die, no matter how bizarre, time-consuming, or costly it is.

What manner of death should she choose, or will it not make a difference?
Submitted by : Rachel Kalmin


Answer

She should choose 'an Old Age death' or 'a Natural death'.

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Brain Teaser No : 00241


He got it in the woods and brought it home in his hand because he couldn't find it. The more he looked for it, the more he felt it. When he finally found it, he threw it away.

What it is?


Answer

A Thorn

He got a thorn in his hand when he went to the forest. But he couldn't find it, hence he came home with it in his hand. The more he looked for it, the more pain he felt. Finally, when he found it, obviously he threw it away.

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Brain Teaser No : 00270


Can you arrange nine buttons to make ten rows, three buttons in each row?
Submitted by : Nathan Frankl


Answer

Nine buttons can be arranged to make 10 rows of 3 buttons each.
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                      @   @   @

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Brain Teaser No : 00409

You have 3 points labelled A, B and C. You then have another 3 points labelled 1, 2 and 3. The aim of the puzzle is to connect point A with point 1, 2 and 3. Point B with point 1, 2 and 3 and point C with point 1, 2 and 3.

Now while connecting the points you have to follow one rule - the lines cannot cross over each other.
       A           B           C
       1           2           3
PS : You can arrange the points in order as long as the lines DO NOT cross over each other.
Submitted by : Pingu
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INFOSYS Paper-2

                          INFOSYS PAPER(July 18, 2004)

 1) A train goes from stations A to B. One day there is a technical  problem at the very beginning of the journey & hence the train  travels at 3/5 of it's original speed and so it arrives 2 hours late.  Had the problem occured after 50 miles had been covered, the train  would have arrived 40 min earlier(i.e., only 120-40 = 80 min late).  What is the distance between the 2 stations?

 Ans:300 miles

 2) My husband's age contains the same two digits as my age but in  reverse order. The difference between our ages is 1/11 of their sum.  Also, my husband is older than me. What are our ages?

Ans:54 and 45

 3) There is a certain 5 digit no.
    a) it contains two primes.
    b) third digit is highest.
    c) second digit is lowest.
    d) fifth digit lies between first & second digits & is half of  fourth 

      digit.
    e) first digit is more than the sum of fourth & fifth digits.
   What is the no?

ans:71842

 4) A solid cube whose external surface is painted red, is cut into 27  smaller cubes by 6 straight cuts. How many of these small cubes have:
    a) 3 red faces
    b) 2 red faces
    c) 1 red face
    d) no red faces

ans:8,12,6,1

 5) A,B,C,D represent the digits 1,2,3,4 but not in the same order.
    a) if A is 1, B is not 3
    b) if B is not 2, D is 4
    c) if C is 3, D is not 2
    d) if C is not 2, D is 2
        What is the no.?
    (I'm not very sure of this qs. Wording & conditions may be           slightly different)      

 6) There is a tank which has 2 taps & a waste pipe. The two taps fill  the tank individually in 10 min and quarter of an hour. The waste pipe empties  the tank in 7.5 min. If both the taps as well as the waste pipe are kept open, when(if ever) will the tank fill ?

ans:30 mins

 7) There are 2 cats of which at least 1 is male. What is the probability that both cats are male ?

ans:0.5

 8) Some Men(M) & Women(W) were there at a party.
   a) M + W > 100
   b) W > M
   c) There were twice as many men as would have been women if Kaazi  women had been men & if 1/3rd of the women had been absent.
   d) There were 11 more women than there would have been if 1/2 of      the men were women & .....
  Kaazi is the name for some numerical constant in some language. (like, for e.g., we say chaar, paanch for 4,5 resp. in Hindi)  
   i) How much is Kaazi ?
  ii) How many men & women are there ?
 (Again, I'm not very sure abt the correctness of the last condition ; also, this problem was somewhat difficult. None of the students I talked to had solved it).

 9) 5 people A,B,C,D,E are there. They speak English, Spanish, French,   Portugese, German, etc.
   a) A & B speak English but they switch over to Spanish when C joins   them as that is the only common languge between them. 
  Around 4-5 such conditions are there. Then A,B,C,D each make around 3 statements each. You have to determine who speaks which language.

10) A said to B that “now you should have at least 30 clerks in your company”

      but B said that “ if there are twice the number of the female clerks or thrice the number of the male clerks , the number will be 30”

we shall expect that number  in another 2 or 3 years.

Find the total number of clerks

Ans:18(12 female and 6 male)

INFOSYS Paper-1

                       INFOSYS 1997.           TIME 1hr.

                                       PAPER CODE Q/A.        marks 50.

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1)At 6'o clock clock ticks 6 times.  The time between first and

last ticks was 30sec.  How much time it takes at 12'o clock.

Ans. 66 sec.                 2 marks.

2)Three friends divided some bullets equally.  After all of them

shot 4 bullets the total no.of remaining bullets is equal to that of

one has after division.  Find the original number divided.

Ans. x          x       x

     x-4        x-4     x-4

     3x-12 = x

     x= 6

     ans is 18                  2 marks

3)A ship went on a voyage after 180 miles a plane statrted with 10 times

speed  that of the ship.  Find the distance when they meet from

starting point.

Ans.  180 + (x/10) = x

       x = 20

       ans is 180+20=200miles.             2 marks

4) Fill the empty slots.

  Three FOOTBALL teams are there. Given below the list of maches.

        played  won     lost    draw    Goals for       Goals against

A        2       2       *0      *0        *7                 1        

B        2       *0      *1       1        2                    4

C        2       *0      *1      *1        3                   7

the slots with stars are answers.   4 marks

BC drew with  2-2

A won on B by 2-0

a won on C by 5-1

( YOU HAVE TO FILL THE BLANKS AT APPROPRIATE STAR SYMBOLS.)`

5) There are 3 societies a,b,c.  a lent tractors to b and c as many

as they had.  After some time b gave as many tractors to a and c

as many as they have.  After sometime c did the same thing.

At the end of this transaction each one of them had 24.

Find the tractors each orginally had.

Ans a had 39, b had 21, c had 12,          4 marks

6) There N stations on a railroad. After adding x stations 46 additional

tickets have to be printed. Find N and X.

Ans. let N(N-1) = t;

         (N+x)(N+x-1)       = t+46;

         trail and error method   x=2  and N=11   4 marks

7)Given that April 1 is tuesday. a,b,c are 3 persons told that their

farewell party was on

  a  - may 8, thursday

  b  - may 10,tuesday

  c  - june 8, friday

Out of a,b,c one is only correct one of the regarding month,day,date.

Other told two correct and the third person told all wrong.What is

correct date,month,day.                 5 marks

(ans may be MAY 10 SUNDAY. check once again)

8)There are 4 parties.  df,gs,dl(depositloss),ew ran for a contest.

Anup,Sujit,John made the following statements regarding results.

Anup said either df or ew will definitely win

sujit said he is confident that df will not win

John said he is confident that neither ew nor dl will win

the result has come.  only one of the above three has made a correct

statement.  Who has made the correct statement and who has won

the contest.                    5 marks.

  (ans DL )

9)Five people a,b,c,d,e are related to each other.  Four of them make

one true statement each as follows.

i) b is my father's brother.       (ans. d said this)

ii)e is my mother-in-law.          (     b          )

iii)c is my son-in-law's brother.  (     e  )

iv)a is my brother's wife.          (c)

                                        10 marks.

10) All members of d are also members of a

    All   ''       e   ''                d

    all    ''      c    ''               both a and b

    not all ''     a  are members of d

    not all ''     d   ''            e

Some questions on these conditions.(5questions 5 marks)

11)

   boys are allowed to watch football at c.v.Raman auditorium subjected to

   conditions.

   i)the boy over age 16 can wear overcoat

   ii)no boy over age  15 can wear cap

   iii)to watch the football either he has to wear overcoat or cap

        or both

   iv) a boy with an umberella or above 16 or both cannot wear sweater.

   v)  boys must either not watch football or wear sweater.

   What is the appearence of the boy who is watching football.

   Try to solve this question................

YOU HAVE TO DO SOME ROUGH WORK FOR EACH QUESTION . IT WILL

  CARRY SOME GRACE MARKS.

                      OK!!!!!

                                                      BEST OF LUCK.

                 INFOSYS PAPER 1997.

                                 PAPER CODE Q/C.

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1a)   BE * BE = ACB

     A,B,C,E   ARE NON ZERO NUMBERS FIND B,E.

     ANS)  B=1   E=9

2)   A,B,C,D,E  ARE HAVING NUMERICAL VALUES. THERE ARE SOME CONDITIONS

GIVEN

   a)  A=C  <===>  B!=E

   b) DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A AND C AS SAME AS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN C AND B

      AS SAME AS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A AND D

   c)  C<A  AND  C>D

  THEN FIND A,B,C,D,E

3)   THERE ARE SIX CARDS IN WHICH IT HAS TWO KING CARDS. ALL CARDS ARE

TURNED DOWN AND TWO CARDS ARE OPENED

  a) WHAT IS THE POSSOBILITY TO GET AT LEAST ONE KING.

  b) WHAT IS THE POSSIBILITY TO GET TWO KINGS.

4) A PERSON WENT TO A SHOP AND ASKED FOR CHANGE FOR 1.15PAISE.

BUT HE SAID THAT HE COULD NOT ONLY GIVE CHANGE FOR ONE RUPEE.

BUT ALSO FOR 50P,25P,10P  AND 5P. WHAT WERE THE COINS HE HAD

   ans) 1-->50   4--->10P      1--->25P

5)  THERE ARE 3 NURSES AND THEY WORK ALTOGETHER ONLY ONCE IN A WEEK.

NO NURSE  IS CALLED TO WORK FOR 3 CONSECUTIVE DAYS.

  NURSE 1 IS OFF ON TUESEDAY,THURSDAY AND SUNDAY.

  NURSE 2 IS OFF ON SATURDAY.

  NURSE 3 IS OFF ON THURSDAY,SUNDAY.

  NO TWO NURSES ARE OFF MORE THAN ONCE A WEEK.

    FIND THE DAY ON WHICH ALL THE 3 NURSES WERE ON WORK.

6)  THERE ARE 5 PERSONS A,B,C,D,E AND EACH IS WEARING A BLOCK OR WHITE

CAP ON HIS HEAD. A PERSON CAN SEE THE CAPS OF THE REMAINING 4 BUT CAN'T

SEE HIS OWN CAP. A PERSON WEARING WHITE SAYS TRUE AND WHO WEARS BLOCK

SAYS FALSE.

  i) A SAYS I SEE 3 WHITES AND 1 BLOCK

 ii) B SAYS I SEE 4 BLOCKS

iii) E SAYS I SEE 4 WHITES

iiii) C SAYS I SEE 3 BLOCKS AND 1 WHITE.

    NOW FIND THE CAPS WEARED BY A,B,C,D AND E

7) THERE ARE TWO WOMEN, KAVITHA AND SHAMILI AND TWO MALES SHYAM, ARAVIND

WHO ARE MUSICIANS. OUT OF THESE FOUR ONE IS A PIANIST, ONE FLUTIST,

VIOLINIST AND DRUMMER.

    i) ACROSS ARAVIND BEATS PIANIST

   ii) ACROSS SHYAM IS NOT A FLUTIST

  iii) KAVITHA'S LEFT IS A PIANIST

 iiii) SHAMILI'S LEFT IS NOT A DRUMMER

 V)    FLUTIST AND DRUMMER ARE MARRIED.

8) 1/3 ED OF THE CONTENTS OF A CONTAINER EVAPORATED ON THE 1 ST DAY.

   3/4 TH OF THE REMAINING CONTENTS OF THE CONTAINER EVAPORATED THE

   SECOND DAY. WHAT PART OF THE CONTENTS OF THE CONTAINER ARE LEFT AT

   THE END OF THE SECOND DAY.

9) A MAN COVERED 28 STEPS IN 30 SECONDS BUT HE DECIDED TO MOVE FAST AND

COVERED 34 STEPS IN 18 SECONDS. HOW MANY STEPS ARE THERE ON THE

ESCALATOR WHEN STATIONARY.

10)  ALL FAIR SKINNED, RICH, HANDSOME, MUSCULAR, LEAN AND EMPLOYED ARE

TALL MEN

 1) ALL LEAN MEN ARE MUSCULAR.

 2) NO FAIRSKINNED PERSON WHO IS NOT RICH IS HANDSOME.

 3) SOME MUSCULAR MEN ARE HANDSOME.

 4) ALL HANDSOME ARE FAIRSKINNED.

 5) NO PERSON WHO IS NEITHER FAIR SKINNED NOR MUSCULAR IS ENPLYED.

 6)  we unable to recall this condition  and  question also incomplete.

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                                                                TCS

    Source : University of Roorkee

    Dated  : 31/07/97

     1. VOCABULARY.(SYNONYMS)               40 BITS.    20 MARKS. 20MIN.

     2. QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE               15 BITS     30 MARKS  15 MIN.

     3. CRITICAL REASIONING.(COMPREHENSION) 50 BITS     50 MARKS  25 MIN.

     4. PSYHOMETRIC TEST.                   150 BITS    150 MARKS 30 MIN

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                                                                                                       250 MARKS   90 MIN

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                                       THE PSYCHOMETRIC TEST IS SIMPLE  AND THERE IS NO

    NEED OF OF PREPARATION. IT SIMPLY TEST YOUR PSYCHOLOGY. GIVE MOST

    POSITIVE  ANSWERS TO THIS SECTION. I AM SENDING SOME QUESTIONS TO

    YOU. THE VOCAB. IS SAME. BUT THERE IS SOME CHANGES IN PASSAGES.BUT

    THE IDEA IS SAME.

     TAKE FOLLOWING PRECAUTIONS WHILE ANSWERING TEST.

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    1.  DON'T WRITE FULL ANSWERS  TO VOCAB. SECTION. DO ONLY 36 to 37

                QWUE's.BECAUSE THEY DISQUALIFIED SOME CANDIDATES HERE.

    2.  WE ARE SENDING ANSWERS TO THIS SECTION. SO YOU SIMPLY MUG UP

                ANSWERS.

    3.  FOR CRITICAL REASONING SECTION WE ARE  SENDING ANSWERS.BUT

                SOME OF THESE ANSWERS MAY CHANGE. SO YOU PLEASE CHECK IN

                EXAMINATION. THE ANSWERS IS SIMPLY (TRUE) OR (FALSE) OR

                (CAN'T SAY) TYPE.  FOR THIS SECTION YOU HAVE READ AS FAST

                AS YOU CAN. IT SIMPLY TEST YOUR COMPREHENSION ABILITY.

     4.  EVENTHOUGH  WE ARE SENDING ANSWERS TO MATHEMATICAL ABILITY.

                 SECTION. YOU DO " ROUGH " WORK BACK OF YOUR PAGE. IT IS ALSO

                 ONE OF IMPORTNANT CAUTION.

     5.  IN PSYCHOLOGY SECTION THE QWE'S MAY REPEATE AT LEAST FOUR

                 TIMES. BY SIMPLY CHANGING SENTENCE FORMATION. SO BECAREFUL

                 GIVE SAME ANSWERS TO THOSE QWE'S.

THERE WILL BE NO NEGATIVE MARKING. TIME 90 Min., APPEARED FOR EXAM =255 STUDENTS

SELECTED FOR INTERVIEW =122,        FINALLY SHORT LISTED = 55 STUDENTS.

SECTION I   VOCABULARY (SYNONYMS) TIME :15 Min.   MARKS: 20.

DIRECT ANSWERS :

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Admonish : usurp         Meager :scanty         Alienate : estrange

Merry : gay              Brim : Boarder         obstinate : stubborn

Pretention:pretentioius  Tranquil:serene        solicit : urge

subside : wane           furtive :stealthy      misery : disstress

volume :quantity         veer : diverge         stiffle :sniths

adhesive : ---           Hamper : obstruct      belief : conviction

lament : wail            to merit :to deserve   incentive : ----

inert: passive           Baffle : Frustrate     Confiscate : appropriat

Covet : crave            Caprice : whim         Concur :acquiesce

Cargo :freight           Dispel :  Scatter      Divulge : -----

Discretion: prudence     Emancipate : liberate  Efface : obliterate

Hover : linger           Heap : to pile         Instigate : incite

latitude : scope         latent : potential     lethergy : stupor

momentary : transient

 ----- means , for these words we are not able to reproduce answers.

PART II   QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE ,TIME 20 Min. MARKS :30.

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                1. Two pencils costs 8 cents, then 5 pencils cost how much

                (Ans:20 cents).

                2. A work is done by the people in 24 min. one of them can do

                this work a lonely in 40 min. how much time required to do the same

                work for the second person.

                 (ans:60 min.)

                3. A car is filled with four and half gallons of oil for full round

                trip. fuel is taken 1/4 gallons mor3 in going than coming. what is

                the fiel consumed in coming up? (2 gallons)

                4. low temperature at the night in a city is 1/3 more than 1/2

                hinge as higher temperature in a day. sum of the low temp and

                higherst temp is 100C. then what is the low temperature (40 C)

                5. A person who decided to go weekend trip should not exceed 8 hours

                 driving in a day Average speed of forward journy is 40 mph. due to

                 traffic in sundays, the return journey average speed is 30 mph.

                 how far he can select a picnic spot (120 miles).

                6. A sales person multiplied a number and get the answer is 3,

                instead of that number divided by 3. what is th answer he actually

                has to get ? (1/3).

                7. A ship started from port and moving with I mph and another ship

                started from L and moving with H mph. At which place these two ships

                 meet ?  ( Ans is between  I and J and close to J)

                     !_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!

                    port   G     H     I     J     K     L

                8. A building with hight D ft shadow upto G A neighbour building with

                 what height shadow C ft is      (B ft.)

                  !_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!

                  A     B     C     D     E     F     G     H

                9. A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10 mph.Another

                 person was also fined for exceeding the same speed limit by twice

                 the same.  If the second person was travelling at a speed of 35 mph.

                 find the speed limit (15 mph)

                10. A bus started from bustand at 8.00a m and after 30 min staying at

                destination, it returned back to the bustand.  the destination is 27

                 miles from the bustand. the  speed of the bus 50 percent fast speed.

                  at what time it retur4ns to the bustand (11.00)

                11.in a mixture, R is 2 parts, S is 1 part. in order to make S to 25%

                of the mixture, howmuch R is to be added   ( one part).

                12. wind flows 160 miles in 330 min, for 80 miles how much time

                required.

                13. with 4/5 full tank vehicle travels 12 miles, with 1/3 full tank

                how much distance travels  ( 5 miles).

                14. two trees are there. one grows at 3/5 of the other. in 4 years,

                total growth of trees is 8 ft.  what growth will smaller tree will

                have in 2 years.  (<2ft)

                15. A storm will move with a velocity of    towords the center in

                 hours. At the same rate how much far will it move in hrs.

                 (but Ans is 8/3 or 2 2/3).

PART III: TIME 25 Min, MARKS :50.

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CRITICAL REASONING : THERE WILL BE 13 PASSAGES WITH 50 QUESTIONS TIME 30 MIN.

HERE I AM SENDING ONLY SOME OF THE PASSAGES (these will give only rough idea)

(ANSWERS WILL BE AS  YES/NO/CAN'T SAY we are giving our answers, please check.)

1. My father has no brothers. he has three sisters who has two childs each.

      1> my grandfather has two sons (f)

      2> three of my aunts have two sons(can't say)

      3> my father is only child to his father(f)

      4> i have six cousins from my mother side(f)

      5> i have one uncle(f)

2. Ether injected into gallablader to dissolve galstones. this type oneday

treatment is enough for gallstones not for calcium stones. this method is

alternative to surgery for millions of people who are suffering from this

disease.

      1> calcium stones can be cured in oneday (f)

      2> hundreds of people contains calcium stones(can't say)

      3> surgery is the only treatment to calcium stones(t)

      4> Eather will be injected into the gallbleder to cure the cholestrol

      based gall stones(t).

3. Hacking is illigal entry into other computer. this is done mostly

because of lack of knowledge of computer networking with networks one

machine can access to another machine. hacking go about without knowing

that each network is accredited to use network facility.

                1> Hacking people never break the code of the company which they

                work for (can't say).

                2> Hacking is the only vulnerability of the computers for the usage

                of the data.(f)

                3> Hacking is done mostly due to the lack of computer knowledge (f).

   (there will be some more questions in this one )

4. alphine tunnels are closed tunnels. in the past 30 yrs not even a single

accident has been recorded for there is one accident in the rail road

system. even in case of a fire accident it is possible to shift the passengers

into adjacent wagons and even the living fire can be detected and extinguished

with in the duration of 30 min.

                1> no accident can occur in the closed tunnels (True)

                2> fire is allowed to live for 30 min.  (False)

                3> All the care that travel in the tunnels will be carried by rail

                shutters.(t)

                4>

5. In the past helicopters are forced to ground or crash because of the

formation of the ice on the rotors and engines. a new electronic device has

been developed which can detect the watercontent in the atmosphere and warns

the pilot if the temp.is below freezing temp. about the formation of the ice

on the rotors and wings.

                1> the electronic device can avoid formation of the ice on the wings (False).

                2> There will be the malfunction of rotor & engine because of formation of ice (t)

                3> The helicopters are to be crashed or down (t)

                4> There is only one device that warn about the formation of ice(t).

6.In the survey conducted in mumbai out of 63 newly married house wives not a single house

wife felt that the husbands should take equal part in the household work as

they felt they loose their power over their husbands. inspite of their careers

they opt to do the kitchen work themselves after coming back to home. the

wives get half as much leisure time as the husbands get at the week ends.

                1> housewives want the husbands to take part equally in the household(f)

                2> wives have half as much leisure time as the husbands have(f)

                3> 39% of the men will work equally in the house in cleaning and washing

                3>

7. copernicus is the intelligent. In the days of copernicus the transport and technology

development was less & it took place weeks to comunicate a message at that

time.wherein we can send it through satellite with in no time ----------.

even with this fast developments it has become difficult to understand each other.

                1> people were not intelligent during Copernicus days (f).

                2> Transport facilities are very much improved in noe a days (can' say)

                3> Even with the fast developments of the techonology we can't live happily.(can't say)

                4> We can understand the people very much with the development of communication(f).

    Q8) senior managers warned the workers that because of the intfoductors

    of japanese industry in the car market. There is the threat to the workers.

      They also said that there will be the reduction in the purchase of the sales of

      car in public.the interest rates of the car will be increased with the loss in demand.

    1> japanese workers are taking over the jobs of indian industry.(false)

    2> managers said car interests will go down after seeing the raise in interest rates.(true)

    3> japanese investments are ceasing to end in the car industry.(false)

    4> people are very much interested to buy the cars.(false)

    Q9) In the totalitariturican days,the words have very much devalued.In

    the present day,they are becoming domestic that is the words will be much more devalued.

    In that days, the words will be very much effected in political area.but

    at present,the words came very cheap .we can say they come free at cost.

     1> totalitarian society words are devalued.(false)

     2> totalitarian       will have to come much about words(t)

     3> The art totalitatian society the words are used for the political speeches.

     4>

      Q10) There should be copyright for all arts. The reele has came that all the

      arts has come under one copy right society,they were use the money that come from

      the arts for the developments . There may be a lot of money will come from

      the Tagore works. We have to ask the benifiters from Tagore work to help for

      the development of his works.

     1> Tagore works are came under this copy right rule.(f)

     2> People are free to go to the       because of the copy right rule.(can't say)

     3> People gives to theater and collect the money for development.(can't say)

     4> We have  ask the Tagore resedents to help for the developments of art.(can't say)

NOTE :  DO 1,2,3,4,5 PASSAGES WHICH ARE EASY. LAST BUT ONE ALSO. DO THAT

PASSAGES CAREFULLY. TIME WILL BE INSUFFICIENT. PASSAGES ARE NOT AS EXACTLY

AS ABOVE. THERE IS HIGHLEVEL ENGLISH IN ALL THE PASSAGES, WE ARE GIVING

IN OUR OWN WORDS , U CANNOT EXPECT THE SAME TYPE OF ENGLISH THERE. WHILE

ANSWERING U SHOULD BE VERY FAST, DO NOT WASTE TIME, IT IS INSUFFICIENT,TRY TO ANSWER

AS MANY AS POSSIBLE.

SECTION 4.  PSYCHOMETRIC TEST.

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DO NOT BOTHERE ABOUT MUCH ABOUT THIS TEST. BE OPTIMISTIC WHILE ANSWERE.

THERE WILL BE 150 QUESTIONS IN 30 MIN. THE QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION MAY

REPEATED WITH SLIGHT VARIATIONS ANSWER SHOULD BE SAME IN BOTH THE CASES.

(ans will be as yes/no/can't say)

for example

1> you will be interested in social activities.

2> while going upstairs you will move two steps at a time.

3> you will be making friendship with same sex or with opposite sex also.

4> your friends will consider u as a leader in your group

5> people think that your'e serious minded.

6> some times you feel dull without any reason.

7> your'e host or hostes for several parties.

8> relatives come to your house you will entertain them.

9> you will do work for longtime without tireness.

10> in your company you want lead the organasition.

etc..  the qwestions may repeate several times so becareful and give same ans's.