Puzzles for JOB hunters part-6

1. It is given that on every 6th day beareats 45 pounds of fish i.e. on day number 6, 12, 18, 24, ....
192, 198 the bear eats 45 pounds of fish.
Total number of 6th days = 200/6 = 33 (the bear eats 45 pounds)
Hence, the normal days are = 200 - 33 = 167 (the bear eats 65 pounds)
Thus, in 200 days, the bear will eat
= (167) * (65) + (33) * (45)
= 10855 + 1485
= 12,340 pounds
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

PS : You can arrange the points in order as long as the lines DO NOT cross over each other.
2.
Brain Teaser No : 00477
Suppose five bales of hay are weighed two at a time in all possible ways. The weights in
pounds are 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120, and 121.
How much does each bale weigh?
Submitted by : Travis Lara

3.
Pinto says, "The horse is not Black."
Sandy says, "The horse is either Brown or Grey."
Andy says, "The horse is Brown."
At least one is telling truth and at least one is lying.
Can you tell the color of the horse?

4.
Brain Teaser No : 00258
Three convicts are brought into the warden's office. He says he can parole one of them and to
decide which one he will parole he takes out 5 hats (3 red and 2 white). He stands behind them
and places a hat on each one of their heads and puts the other two remaining hats in a drawer.
He tells the prisioners they can look at the others hats and if they can tell which hat they have on
they will be the one who is paroled.
The first man looks at the other two and says, "I don't know."
The second man looks at the others hats and says, "I don't know."
The third man who is blind says, "Even though I have not the gift of sight I can tell by what the
others have said that the color of my hat is..."
What color is the blind mans hat and how does he know?

5.
Three Gold (G) coins, three Silver (S) coins and three Copper (C) coins are arranged in a single
row as follow:
G S C G S C G S C

Only 2 adjacent unlike coins can be moved at any one time.

The moved coins must be in contact with at least one other coin in line. i.e. no pair of
coins is to be moved and placed away from the remaining ones.
No coin pairs can be reversed i.e. a S-C combination must remain in that order in its new
positionwhen it is moved.

What is the minimum number of moves required to get all the coins in following order?
C C C S S S G G G

Show all moves.

6. A fly is flying between two trains, each travelling towards each other on the same track at 60
km/h. The fly reaches one engine, reverses itself immediately, and flies back to the other engine,
repeating the process each time.
The fly is flying at 90 km/h. If the fly flies 180 km before the trains meet, how far apart were the
trains initially?
7. What is the minimum number of numbers needed to form every number from 1 to 7,000?
Example: To form 4884, you would need 2 4s & 2 8s. 4822 requires a 4, a 8, & 2 2s, but you
would not count the numbers again that you had already counted from making 4884.

8. A drinks machine offers three selections - Tea, Coffee or Random (Either tea or Coffee) but the
machine has been wired up wrongly so that each button does not give what it claims.
If each drink costs 50p, how much minimum money do you have to put into the machine to work
out which button gives which selection?
Submitted
9. You have 13 balls which all look identical. All the balls are the same weight except for one.
Using only a balance scale, can find the odd one out with only 3 weighings?
Is it possible to always tell if the odd one out is heavier or lighter than the other balls?
Submitted by : Brett Hurrell
10. How many squares are there in a 5 inch by 5 inch square grid? Note that the grid is made up
of one inch by one inch squares.
Submitted by : Kristin Monroe
11. Five horses ran in the race.

There were no ties.

Sikandar did not come first.
Star was neither first nor last.
Mughal Glory came in one place after Sikandar.
Zozo was not second.
Rangila was two place below Zozo.

In what order did the horses finish?

12. If you added together the number of 2's in each of the following sets of numbers, which set
would contain the most 2's: 1-333, 334-666, or 667-999?
13. If one person sends the e-mail to two friends, asking each of them to copy the mail and send
it to two of their friends, those in turn send it to two of their friends and so on.
How many e-mails would have been sent by the time it did 30 sets?
14.
Brain Teaser No : 00347
At the entrance to a members club stands a stranger seeking admission. A friend told him that
it's easy to get in. You just have to answer a question corrcetly! Answering wrong, however,
will result in being shot!
To live a little longer, the man waits in a back alley near the entrance for people to go in. After
a while a man comes to the entrance. The door warden asks him: "Twelve?" to which he
replies "Six!" and goes in.
"That's easy." our friend thinks, but he waits a little longer.
Another man comes to the door. "Six?" the door warden asks, to which he replies "Three!"
and goes in.

"That's too good to be true" our friend thinks, and he was right. Because, when asked
"Four?", he answered "Two!" and was found dead in the alley.
What was the correct answer?
Submitted by : Milind Gadagkar

15.
Sarika multiplied 414 by certain number and obtained 69958 as the answer. But she found that
there is some error in the answer - both the 9s in the answer are wrong and all the other digits are
correct.
Can you find the correct answer?
16. Find the least number which when divided by 35, leaves remainder
25; when divided by 45, leaves remainder 35 and when divided by 55,
leaves remainder 45.

17. The ratio of Boys to Girls is 6:4. 60% of the boys and 40% of the girls take lunch in the
canteen. What % of class takes lunch in canteen?
18. In the following multiplication, certain digits have been replaced with asterisks (*). Replace all
the asterisks such that the problem holds the result.
* * 7

X 3 * *

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* 0 * 3

* 1 *

* 5 *

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* 7 * * 3

19. How long would it take you to count 1 billion orally if you could count 200 every
minute and were given a day off every four years?
Assume that you start counting on 1 January 2001.

20. Five students - Akash, Chintan, Jignesh, Mukund and Venky - appeared for an exam. There
were total five questions - two multiple choice (a, b or c) and three true/false questions. They
answered five questions each and answered as follow.
I

II

III

IV

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Chintan

True

True

False

Akash

True

True

True

Jignesh

False

True

True

Mukund

Venky

True

True

True

False

False True

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Also, no two students got the same number of correct answers.

Can you tell which are the correct answers? What are their individual score?
21. Eleven boys and girls wait to take their seats in the same row in a movie theater. There are
exactly 11 seats in the row.
They decided that after the first person sits down, the next person has to sit next to the first. The
third sits next to one of the first two and so on until all eleven are seated. In other words, no

person can take a seat that separates him/her from at least one other person.
How many different ways can this be accomplished? Note that the first person can choose any of
the 11 seats.
22. The secret agent X emailed a code word to his head office. They are "AIM DUE OAT TIE
MOD". But four of these five words are fake and only one contains the information.
The agent X also mailed a sentence as a clue - if I tell you any one character of the code word,
you would be able to tell the number of vowels in the code word.
Can you tell which is the code word?
23.
Brain Teaser No : 00361
Four men - Abraham, Bobby, Clinton and Denial - are standing in a straight line.

1.
2.
3.
4.

One man is fair, handsome and unscarred.

Two men who are not fair, are each standing next to Abraham.
Bobby is the only man standing next to exactly one handsome man.
Clinton is the only man not standing next to exactly one scarred man.

Who is fair, handsome and unscarred?

24. An orange colored glass has Orange juice and white colored glass has Apple juice both of
equal volumes. 50ml of the orange juice is taken and poured into the white glass. After that
similarly, 50ml from the white glass is poured into the orange glass.
Of the two quantities, the amount of apple juice in the orange glass and the amount of orange
juice in the white glass, which one is greater and by how much?
25.
Brain Teaser No : 00433
Annie, Bunnie, Candy and Dina visited Edy on 14th February.

1. The time of each visit was as follows:

2.
3.
4.

- Annie at 8:00
- Bunnie at 9:00
- Candy at 10:00
- Dina at 11:00
Each time mentioned above may be either AM or PM.
Candy did not visit Edy between Bunnie and Dina.
At least one female visited Edy between Annie and Bunnie.
Annie did not visit Edy before both Candy and Dina.

Can you tell at what time did they individually visit Edy?

26.
In training for a competition, you find that swimming downstream (with the current) in a river, you
can swim 2 miles in 40 minutes, & upstream (against the current), you can swim 2 miles in 60
minutes.
How long would it take you to swim a mile in still water?
27.

Brain Teaser No : 00570

A is the father of two children - B and D who are of different sexes.

C is B's spouse.
E is the same sex as D.
B and C have the two children - F who is the same sex as B and G who is the
same sex as C.
E's mother, H who is married to L, is the sister of D's mother, M.
E and E's spouse, I have two children - J and K who are the same sex as I.

Note that no persons have married more than once. Also, there are more number of
females than males. Can you tell how many females are there?

28. A positive integer that, when added to 1000 gives a sum which is greater than when multiplied
by 1000.
Find the positive integer.
29. Mr. D'souza has bought four cars - Merc, Honda, Ford, Zen - as presents for his sons'
birthdays, all of which are next week. Given the following information, what will each son get?
Alan will not get the Honda unless Barry gets the Merc and Denzil gets the Ford. Barry will not get
the Ford unless Carl gets the Zen and Alan gets the Merc. Denzil will not get the Zen unless Alan
gets the Honda and Barry gets the Merc. Alan will not get the Merc unless Carl gets the Zen and
Denzil gets the Ford. Barry will not get the Merc unless Alan gets the Zen and Denzil gets the
Ford. Alan will not get the Zen unless Barry gets the Honda and Carl gets the Merc. Carl will not
get the Zen unless Barry gets the Honda and Alan gets the Ford. Alan will not get the Ford unless
Barry gets the Zen and Denzil gets the Honda. Carl will not get the Merc unless Denzil gets the
Honda.
30.
Brain Teaser No : 00800
There are 4 mathematicians - Brahma, Sachin, Prashant and Nakul - having lunch in a hotel.
Suddenly, Brahma thinks of 2 integer numbers greater than 1 and says, "The sum of the
numbers is..." and he whispers the sum to Sachin. Then he says, "The product of the

numbers is..." and he whispers the product to Prashant. After that following conversation
takes place :
Sachin : Prashant, I don't think that we know the numbers.
Prashant : Aha!, now I know the numbers.
Sachin : Oh, now I also know the numbers.
Nakul : Now, I also know the numbers.
What are the numbers? Explain your answer.
Submitted
31.
Substitute digits for the letters to make the following subtraction problem true.
S A N T A

- C L A U S

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X M A S

Note that the leftmost letter can't be zero in any word. Also, there must be a one-to-one mapping
between digits and letters. e.g. if you substitute 3 for the letter M, no other letter can be 3 and all
other M in the puzzle must be 3.