PSYCHOMETRY TEST

 Posted on December 7, 2009  (Last modified on August 7, 2020)  |  10 minutes  |  Kinshuk Chandra

Direction: In this section you will find different questions with the same meaning. In all such questions your answer has to be same. for e.g.: In being thrown by chance with a stranger, you wait for the person to introduce himself or herself. (a) Yes (b) No (c) ? It is difficult for you to chat about things in general with people. (a) Yes (b) No (c) ? These two questions have similar meanings. [Read More]
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Ten Horses and Nine Stable Problem (Focus on word)

 Posted on December 7, 2009  (Last modified on August 7, 2020)  |  1 minutes  |  Kinshuk Chandra

Problem: A man has Ten Horses and nine stables as shown here. [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] The man wants to fit Ten Horses into nine stables. How can he fit Ten horses into nine stables?   Answer: The answer is simple. It says the man wants to fit “Ten Horses” into nine stables. There are nine letters in the phrase “Ten Horses”. So you can put one letter each in all nine stables. [Read More]
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Ratio and proportion difficult questions

 Posted on December 6, 2009  (Last modified on August 7, 2020)  |  3 minutes  |  Kinshuk Chandra

1.Three containers A,B and C are having mixtures of milk and water in the ratio of 1:5 and 3:5 and 5:7 respectively. If the capacities of the containers are in the ratio of all the three containers are in the ratio 5:4:5, find the ratio of milk to water, if the mixtures of all the three containers are mixed together. Sol: Assume that there are 500,400 and 500 liters respectively in the 3 containers. [Read More]
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jelly beans

 Posted on September 18, 2009  (Last modified on August 7, 2020)  |  3 minutes  |  Kinshuk Chandra

Problem: you have three jars that are all mislabeled. one contains peanut butter jelly beans, another grape jelly jelly beans, and the third has a mix of both (not necessarily a 50/50 mix, could be a 1/99 mix or a 399/22 mix). how many jelly beans would you have to pull out, and out of which jars, to find out how to fix the labels on the jars? | | | | | | |jar 1| |jar 2| |jar 3| [Read More]
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Pirates

 Posted on September 18, 2009  (Last modified on August 7, 2020)  |  6 minutes  |  Kinshuk Chandra

Problems five pirates have 100 gold coins. they have to divide up the loot. in order of seniority (suppose pirate 5 is most senior, pirate 1 is least senior), the most senior pirate proposes a distribution of the loot. they vote and if at least 50% accept the proposal, the loot is divided as proposed. otherwise the most senior pirate is executed, and they start over again with the next senior pirate. [Read More]
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sum it up

 Posted on September 18, 2009  (Last modified on August 7, 2020)  |  4 minutes  |  Kinshuk Chandra

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Palindrome years

 Posted on September 18, 2009  (Last modified on August 7, 2020)  |  1 minutes  |  Kinshuk Chandra

Problem: This year on October 2, 2001, the date in MMDDYYYY format will be a palindrome (same forwards as backwards). 10/02/2001 when was the last date that this occurred on? (see if you can do it in your head!) Solution: we know the year has to be less than 2001 since we already have the palindrome for 10/02. it can’t be any year in 1900 because that would result in a day of 91. [Read More]
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Red marbles, blue marbles

 Posted on September 18, 2009  (Last modified on August 7, 2020)  |  3 minutes  |  Kinshuk Chandra

Problem You have two jars, 50 red marbles, 50 blue marbles. you need to place all the marbles into the jars such that when you blindly pick one marble out of one jar, you maximize the chances that it will be red. (when picking, you’ll first randomly pick a jar, and then randomly pick a marble out of that jar) you can arrange the marbles however you like, but each marble must be in a jar. [Read More]
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Reverse a string - word by word

 Posted on September 18, 2009  (Last modified on August 7, 2020)  |  1 minutes  |  Kinshuk Chandra


 
Problem: Reverse “the house is blue”, the answer should be “blue is house the”. the words are reversed, but the letters are still in order (within the word).

Solution:

The solution can be attained by first reversing the string normally, and then just reversing each word.

initial: the house is blue

reverse: eulb si esuoh eht


  

Now reverse the word at its place

initial: the house is blue

reverse: eulb si esuoh eht

wanted : blue is house the

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17 September Solutions

 Posted on September 17, 2009  (Last modified on August 7, 2020)  |  4 minutes  |  Kinshuk Chandra

Answers b c b a d d Solutions: 1) Number of ordered pairs = 1; because D=5, G=1 **Step 1.** a + b + c + d = d + e + f + g = g + h + i = 17 Means, ( a + b + c + d )+ (d +e + f + g )+ (g +h + i ) = 17 +17+17 = 17 x 3 = 51 a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h + i +( d + g ) = 51 **Step 2. [Read More]
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