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Two old friends, Jack and Bill, meet after a long time.

 

Jack: Hey, how are you man?
Bill: Not bad, got married and I have three kids now

 

Jack: That’s awesome. How old are they?
Bill: The product of their ages is 72 and the sum of their ages is the same as your birth date.

 

Jack: Cool … But I still don’t know.
Bill : My eldest kid just started taking piano lessons.

 

Jack: Oh now I get it.
How old are Bill’s kids ?

A) 3, 3, 8 B) 2, 6, 6
C) 1, 6, 12 D) 1, 8, 9

Answer:   A) 3, 3, 8



Explanation:

Let’s break it down. The product of their ages is 72. So what are the possible choices?

 

2, 2, 18 – sum(2, 2, 18) = 22
2, 4, 9 – sum(2, 4, 9) = 15
2, 6, 6 – sum(2, 6, 6) = 14
2, 3, 12 – sum(2, 3, 12) = 17
3, 4, 6 – sum(3, 4, 6) = 13
3, 3, 8 – sum(3, 3, 8 ) = 14
1, 8, 9 – sum(1,8,9) = 18
1, 3, 24 – sum(1, 3, 24) = 28
1, 4, 18 – sum(1, 4, 18) = 23
1, 2, 36 – sum(1, 2, 36) = 39
1, 6, 12 – sum(1, 6, 12) = 19

 

The sum of their ages is the same as your birth date. That could be anything from 1 to 31 but the fact that Jack was unable to find out the ages, it means there are two or more combinations with the same sum. From the choices above, only two of them are possible now.

 

2, 6, 6 – sum(2, 6, 6) = 14
3, 3, 8 – sum(3, 3, 8 ) = 14

 

Since the eldest kid is taking piano lessons, we can eliminate combination 1 since there are two eldest ones. The answer is 3, 3 and 8.

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Hemavathi cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of the small pieces is fifteen grams in weight. If she has nine pieces of the cake in all with her, how heavy was the original cake ?

A) 240 gms B) 280 gms
C) 180 gms D) 170 gms
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 240 gms

Explanation:

The nine pieces consist of 8 smaller equal pieces and one half cake piece.
Weight of each small piece = 15 g.
So, total weight of the cake = [2 x (15 x 8)]g = 240 g.

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In a family, each daughter has the same number of brothers as she has sisters and each son has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many sons are there in the family ?

A) 1 B) 2
C) 3 D) 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 3

Explanation:

Assume the family has X girls and Y boys, according to the question,
we can have 2 equations:
X-1=Y, 2(Y-2)=X.
Solve the equations, we get X=4, Y=3.

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Q:

The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is twice the sum of its exterior angles. How many sides does the polygon have ?

A) 6 B) 4
C) 5 D) 7
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 6

Explanation:

We know that

Sum of Interior angles of Polygon = 180(n-2)
Sum of Exterior angles of Polygon = 360
so 180(n-2)=2x360
Therefore, by solving we get n=6 sides.

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In a class of students, if 1 is absent rest of people can be divided into 6 equal parts and if 2 are absent rest of them are divided into 7 equal parts, how many students are present in the class ?

A) 28 B) 19
C) 57 D) 37
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 37

Explanation:

Let the number of students in the class be 'x'.
Given if 1 is absent rest of people can be divided into 6 equal parts i.e (x-1)/6.........(1)
And given if 2 are absent rest of people can be divided into 7 equal parts i.e (x-2)/7.....(2)
From (1)&(2), we get
x-1/6 = ((x-2)/7) + 1
=> x = 37.

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If 'x' means '-', '÷' means '+', '-' means '÷' and '+' means 'x', then 24 - 4 ÷ 6 x 3 + 4 = ?

A) 0 B) 1
C) 2 D) 3
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 0

Explanation:

From the given information in the question
24 ÷ 4 + 6 - 3 x 4
6 + 6 - 12 = 0

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Q:

How many number of weights do you need to weight 31 kg of Rice if you have one kg of weight stone ?

A) 3 B) 5
C) 7 D) 9
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 5

Explanation:

There are total 5 ways.
we have only one kg of weight so,
2kg = 1kg + 1kg
4kg = 1 + 2 + 1
8kg = 1 + 2 + 4 + 1
16kg = 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 1
31kg = 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16
So 5 weights are needed.

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If the positions of the first and the fifth digits of the number 14278359 are interchanged, similarly the positions of the second and the sixth digits are interchanged and so on, then which of the following will be the second digit from the right end after the rearrangement ?

A) 5 B) 2
C) 7 D) 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 2

Explanation:

Given number is 14278359
As given 1st and 5th digits, 2nd & 6th, 3rd & 7th and 4th & 8th digits are to to be interchanged.
Therfore, the rearranged number is 83591427
Then, the second digit from the right end is 2.

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A Child has 1200 five rupee coins. He wants to place them in such a way that the number of rows and the number of columns remains the same. What is the minimum number of coins that he needs more for this purpose?

A) 125 B) 96
C) 35 D) 25
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 25

Explanation:

We know that, to be in the form that the number of rows and the number of columns to be equal the number should be a perfect square (a2).

Given number is 1200

The perfect number which is above and near to 1200 is 1225 which is 35  35.

Therefore, The minimum number of coins he need is 25. 

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