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    • A man I know, who lives in my neighbourhood, travels to Chinsura everyday for his work. His wife drives him over to Howrah Station every morning and in the evening exactly at 6 p.m.She picks him up from the station and takes him home.
      One day he was let off at work an hour earlier, and so he arrived at the Howrah Station at 5 p.m. instead of at 6 p.m. He started walking home. However,he met his wife enroute to the station and got into the car: They drove home arriving 10 minutes earlier than usual.
      How long did the man walk, before he was picked up by his wife?

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    • Two women were selling marbles in the market place—one at three for a paisa and other at two for a paisa. One day both of them were obliged to return home when each had thirty marbles unsold. They put together the two lots of marbles and handing them over to a friend asked her to sell them at five tot 2 paise. According to their calculation, after all. 3 for one paisa and 2 for one paisa was exactly the same as 5 for 2 paise. Now they were expecting to get 25 paise tor the marbles, as they would have got. if sold separately But much to their surprise they got only 24 paise tor the entire lot.
      Now where did the one paisa go? Can you explain the mystery?

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    • My friend Shuba works in a post office and she sells stamps. One day a man walked in and kept seventy five paise on the counter and requested, Please give me some 2 paise stamps, six times as many as one paisa stamps, and for the rest of the amount give me 5 paise stamps.The bewildered Shuba thought for a few moments and finally she handed over the exact requirementof the order to the man with a smile.
      How would you have handled the situation?

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    • You have 100 doors in a row that are all initially closed. You make 100
      passes by the doors starting with the first door every time. the first time through
      you visit every door and toggle the door (if the door is closed, you open it, if its
      open, you close it). the second time you only visit every 2nd door (door #2, #4,
      #6). the third time, every 3rd door (door #3, #6, #9), etc, until you only visit the
      100th door.
      Question: what state are the doors in after the last pass? which are open which
      are closed?

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    • You are given two candles of equal size, which can burn for 30 minutes each. You have to measure 45 minutes with
      these candles. (There is no scale or clock ).There’s no way you can measure the height of candle . Also u r given a lighter.

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    • You have two jars, 50 red marbles, 50 blue marbles. you need to place
      al 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.
      Put some load on you brain solution is not much hard to think.

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    • Suppose there are 4 prisoners named W, X, Y, and Z. Prisoner W is standing on one side of a wall, and prisoners X Y and Z are standing on the other side of the wall. Prisoners X, Y, and Z are all standing in a straight line facing right – so X can see prisoner Y and Z, and Y can see prisoner Z. This is what their arrangement looks like:

      W(cann’t see anything) || X(can see both Y&Z) Y(can see z) Z(cann’t see anything)
      Where the “||” represents a wall. The wall has no mirrors. So, prisoner W can see the wall and nothing else.

      There are 2 white hats and 2 black hats. Each prisoner has a hat on his head. Each prisoner can not see the color of his own hat, and can not remove the hat from his own head. But the prisoners do know that there are 2 white hats and 2 black hats amongst themselves.

      The prison guard says that if one of the prisoners can correctly guess the color of his hat then the prisoners will be set free and released.

      Question :Figure out which prisoner would know the color of his own hat?

      Note that the prisoners are not allowed to signal to each other, nor speak to each other to give each other hints. But, they can all hear each other if one of them tries to answer the question. Also, you can assume that every prisoner thinks logically and knows that the other prisoners think logically as well.

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    • You have three jars that are all mislabeled. One contains peanut butter jelly
      beans(Label :PB)
      , another grape jelly jelly beans(Label : GB), and the third has a mix of both(Label :MIX) (not necessarily a 50/50 mix, could be a 1/99 mix ora 399/22 mix).

      Question :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?

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    • Four people are on this side of the bridge. the bridge will be destroyed by a bomb in 17 minutes. everyone has to get across before that. Problem is that it’s dark and so you can’t cross the bridge without a flashlight, and they only have one flashlight. Plus the bridge is only big enough for two people to cross at once. The four people walk at different speeds: A fella is so fast it only takes him 1 minute to cross the bridge, B takes 2 minutes, C 5 minutes, the D it takes 10 minutes to cross the bridge. when two people cross the bridge together (sharing the flashlight),
      they both walk at the slower person’s pace. can they all get across before the bridge blows up? Mentioning the speeds once again :
      Person A: 1 minute
      Person B: 2 minutes
      Person C: 5 minutes
      Person D:10 minutes

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    • There are 8 identical coins.One of these coins is counterfeit and is known to be lighter than the genuine coins. What is the minimum number of weightings needed to identify the fake coin with a two-pan balance scale without weights?

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