Ias Interview Puzzle
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There are eleven different ways of writing 100 in the form of mixed numbers using all the nine digits once and only once. Ten-of the ways have two figures in the integral part of the number, but the eleventh expression has only one figure there.
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My friend Asha was throwing a very grand party and wanted to borrow from me 100 wine glasses. I decided to send them through my boy servant Harish.
Just to give an incentive to Harish to deliver the glasses intact I offered him 3 paise for every glass delivered safely and threatened to forefeit 9 paise for«very glass he broke.
On settlement Harish received Rs 2.40 from me. How many glasses did Harish break?View SolutionSubmit Solution- 1,449.2K views
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A little girl I know sells orange^ from door to door.
One day while on her rounds she sold 1/2 an orange more than half her oranges to the first customer. To the second customer she sold 1/2 an orange more than half of the remainder and to the third and the last customer she sold 1/2 an orange more than half she now had, leaving her none.
Can you tell the number of oranges she originally had? Oh, by the way, she never had to cut an orangeView SolutionSubmit Solution- 1,446.4K views
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We all know that the hour hand and the minute hand on a clock travel at different speeds. However there are certain occasions when the hands are exactly opposite each other. Can you give a simple formula for calculating the times of these occasions?
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You can place weights on both side of weighing balance and you need to measure all weights between 1 and 1000. For example if you have weights 1 and 3,now you can measure 1,3 and 4 like earlier case, and also you can measure 2,by placing 3 on one side and 1 on the side which contain the substance to be weighed. So question again is how many minimum weights and of what denominations you need to measure all weights from 1kg to 1000kg.
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what will you do if a man comes to you and show a gun?
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Technical Skill is the mastery of complexity, while Creativity is the master of presence of mind.
This is a famous paper written for an Oxford philosophy exam, normally requiring an eight page essay answer and expected to be backed up with source material, quotes and analytical reasoning. This guy wrote the below answer and topped the exam!
OXFORD EXAMINATION BOARD 1987,
ESSAY QUESTIONWhat is courage? (50 Marks)
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If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
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