(1)   9 cards are there. u have to arrange them in a 3*3 matrix. cards are of 4 colors.they are red,yellow,blue,green.conditions for arrangement: one red card must be in first rowor second row.2 green cards should be in 3rd column.Yellowcards must be in the 3 corners only. Two blue cards must be in the 2nd row. Atleast one green card in each row.

                     Solution:   

       Yellow     Red   Green

       Blue         Blue    Green

       Yellow    Green   Yellow                        

2.   4 cards are placed on a table, each card has two colors. U don't know the color of the   back side of eachcard.4       persons A  B C and D are sitting on the table before the cards.   They can  see Red, Green Red and blue .Out of       the 4 poeple 2 always lie.They see the color on the reverse side and give the following  

                       Comment

           A: Yellow/Green

          B: Neither Blue/nor Green

         C: Blue/yellow

        D: Blue/Yellow

       find out the color on the other side of the 4 cards.  

3   .Red and brown tribes [FROM BARRONS GRE] Conditions toget married with each  other.  

4. Venn diagram regarding Rich, muscular, soft-skinnedemployed, etc.

                                      PART 2.

 1. SAKUNTALA DEVI'S PUZZLE BOOK : PUZZLES TO PUZZLE YOU.

   problem no: 3. ( Brothers and Sisters) problem no: 3. ( Brothers and Sisters)

A family I know has several children. Each boy in thifamily has as many sisters asbrothers but each girl h twice as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there?ans: 4 boys and 3 girls.

2. No. of animals is 11 more than the no. of birds. If the no. of birds were the no. of animals and no. of animals were the no. of birds( ie., interchanging no.s of animal and birds.),the total no. of legs get reduced by one fifth (1/5). How many no. of birds and animals were there?  ans: birds:11,animals:22

3. In a soap company  a soap is manufactured with 11 parts  For making one soap you will get 1 part as scrap. At theend of the day u have 251 such scraps. From that how many soaps can be manufactured? ans: 22 + 2+ 1 = 25.

4.        2 * * 

          3 * *             No. 7 does not occur in this                Ans:               2 8 1

      ----------------                                                                                3 2 2

          5 * *             multiplication.                                                          ---------

         * 4 *                                                                                              5 6 2

        * * 3                 Find the product                                                   5 6 2 0.

   ----------------                                                                                  8 4 3 0 0

    * * * * *                                                                                      ---------------

---------------                                                                                   9 0 4 8 2

                                                   ---------------

           c

       rd digit is 3 less than the second. 4 th digit is 4 more than the second one.Find the

       digit. ans : 25296.

 6. There are five thieves, each loot a bakery one after theother such that the first one

      takes 1/2 of the total no.of the breads plus 1/2 of a bread. Similarly 2nd, 3rd,4t and 

      5fth also did the same. After the fifth one no. of breads remained are 3. Initially how

      many breads were there?   ans : 31

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7.  ESCALATOR PROBLEM OF SAKUNTALA DEVI 'PUZZLES TO PUZZLE'book.

             Problem No: Problem 27( Down the escalator)

             ans : the no of steps in the stair way : 46.

8.Harbour line and Main line Problem of Sakuntala Devi Puzzl  book. Ans : 4/5.

             ( More Puzzles book)

 9.There are some chicken in a poultry. They are fed with corn One sack of corn will    

     come for 9 days.The farmer decides to  sell some chicken and wanted to hold 12

     chicken with him.He cuts the feed by 10% and sack of corn comes for 30 days.

     So initially how many chicken are there?

10.Two people X & Y walk on the wall of a godown in opposite direction. They meet at a   

      point on one side and then go ahead. X after walking for some time, walks in

      opposite direction for 15 mtrs.Then again he turns back and walks in the original

      direction. What distance did Y walk before they met again, if X walks 11 mtrs by the

      time Y walks  8 mtrs.

11.Problem from SAKUNTALA DEVI 'PUZZLES TO PUZZLE U'.

              Problem no: 23( Walking back to happiness.)

              The walking time : 55 mins.

    With this The paper has been completed. For the lack time I have'nt typed those probs,

     which are in Sakuntala Devi Puzzle books. I wish all of you the best. Send me the mail

     immediately after the written test will