1. Shahrukh speaks truth only in the morning and lies in the afternoon, where as Salman speaks truth only in the afternoon. A says that B is Shahrukh. Is it morning or afternoon and who is A - Shahrukh or Salman.

Answer :   Afternoon ; A is Salman

2. Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate.It takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass. How many cows are needed to eat the grass in 96 days.?

Answer :  20

Solution :

g - grass at the beginning

r - rate at which grass grows, per day

y - rate at which one cow eats grass, per day

n - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days

g + 24*r = 70 * 24 * y

g + 60*r = 30 * 60 * y

g + 96*r = n * 96 * y

Solving, n = 20

3. Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends. Ram is a widower and lives alone and his sister takes care of him. Shyam is a bachelor and his neice cooks his food and looks after his house. Gumnaam is married to Gita and lives in large house in the same town. Gita gives the idea that all of them could stay together in the house and share monthly expenses qually. During their first month of living together, each person contributed Rs.25. At the end of the month, it was found that Rs 92 was the expense so the remaining amount was distributed equally among everyone.The distribution was such that everyone recieved a whole number of Rupees.

How much did each person recieve?

Answer :  Rs 2

(Hint: Ram's sister, Shyam's neice and Gumnaam's wife are the same person)

4. A person with some money spends1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of the remaining for food and 1/4 of the remaining for travel.He is left with Rs 100/- How much did he have with him in the begining ?

Answer :   Rs 250/-

5. There N stations on a railroad.After adding X stations on the rail route 46 additional tickets have to be printed.Find N and X.

Answer :  x=2 and N=11

Sol. Let initially, N(N-1) = t

After adding, (N+X)(N+X-1) = t+46

6. Four prisoners escape from a prison. The prisoners, Mr East, Mr West, Mr South, Mr North head towards different directions after escaping. The following information of their escape was supplied: The escape routes were The North Road, South Road, East Road and West Road.

None of the prisoners took the road which was their namesake.

Mr.East did not take the South Road

Mr.West did not the South Road.

The West Road was not taken by Mr.East

What road did each of the prisoners take to make their escape?

Answer :  

Mr.East took the North Road

Mr.West took the East Road

Mr.North took the South Road

Mr.South took the West Road

7. Supposing a clock takes 7 seconds to strike 7. How mlong will it take to strike 10?

Answer :   10 1/2 seconds

8. Two trains starting at same time, one from Bangalore to Mysore and other in opposite direction arrive at their destination 1 hr and 4 hours respectively after passing each other. How nuch faster is one train from other?

Answer :   Twice

9. There is a 4 inch cube painted on all sides. This is cut down into of 1 inch cubes. What is the no of cubes which have no pointed sides.

Answer :   8

10. There are 20 poles with a constant distance between each pole.A car takes 24 seconds to reach the 12th pole. How much will it take to reach the last pole.

Answer :   41.45 seconds

Let the distance between two poles = x

Hence 11x:24::19x:?