Aptitude - Puzzle

1. There was a burglary in a jewellery shop. Police got hold of three suspects – Sam, Tommy and Ram. Each one of them told – “One of the other two did it. I did not do it.” On inquiry police found out that there was one thief & Tommy was lying. Who was the thief amongst the three suspects?{Ans: Tommy}

2. A wall clock goes slow by 10 mins in an hour. In an hour by the wall clock, a table clock goes fast by 10 mins. In an hour by the table clock, an alarm clock goes slow by 5 mins. In an hour by the alarm clock, a wrist watch goes fast by 5 mins. All the four clocks were set to correct time at noon. What will the wrist watch show at 6 PM.?{6P.M. – please cross check. I am not very much confident with this answer}

3. Complete the series

  a)      46,256  ,  3125  ,  256  ,  27  , ________  ,1

  b)     3  ,  10  ,  7  ,  8  ,  ______  ,  12  ,  9  ,  16

                    {Solution: Series a:->  6^6 , 5^5 , 4^4 , 3^3 , 2^2 , 1^1

          : Series b:-> 1^st element + last element = 19

           2^nd element + 2^nd last element = 19 …..

          so blank will be 11 (8+11=19)}

4. A ball falls from a height of 180 feet. It rebounces to 1/10^th of the previous height. What will be the total distance covered before the ball comes to rest?

5. I went to the market to get stamps of denominations 2P, 7P, 10P, 15P & 20P. For three types of stamps I was supposed to get 5 each & for the other two types I was supposed to get 6 each. Total cost of stamps was 3 rupees. Which stamps were 5 each & which were 6 each?

6. Man says – “Sum of my age & ages of my 3 distant cousins is 50. All our ages are prime numbers”. Find ages of the cousins. [Condition: 1 is not to be considered as prime number] {Solution: 3, 2, 2 Man’s age is 43}

7. The petrol tank of a car can store 12 gallons of fuel. There was a leak in the fuel tank. After refueling, the driver drove at 50mph for 4 hours after which he ran out of fuel. How much fuel was lost? [Condition: Car runs 25miles per gallon] {Ans: 4 gallons}

8. There are three teams – DoIt, ActIt & ThinkIt – playing basketball in a championship. Three friends are speculating about the result:

            1^st : Either DoIt or ThinkIt will make it

             2^nd : DoIt is not going to make it

             3^rd : Neither ThinkIt or DoIt will make it

             Only one of them turned out to be correct. Which team won? {Ans: ActIt}

9. There was a question which stated good names of four names & jumbled up their nicknames. We were supposed to find out the appropriate nicknames. I don’t remember the exact conditions. But final answer was

Anand -> PERICH

Anindya -> DUMMY

Madhavan -> ZOMBIE

Murali -> MADDY

{In case you get these options, use this combination blindfold}

10. There was another problem regarding 5 international students speaking different foreign languages. Certain conditions were give & we were supposed to find out who spoke/ didn’t speak which language.