Top 5 Tricky Questions
1) Books in a Library
In a library, 30% books are English books and 10% are Hindi books. If the remaining 3600 books are in Malayalam.
What is the total number of books in that library?
What is the total number of books in that library?
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2) 7 Birds On A Cable
There are 7 Birds on a cable, I shoot 1 bird with the catapult and she dies.
Now how many of them are left?
Now how many of them are left?
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3) Crossing a Pond
You have a dog, a cock and a sack of grain. You want to cross a pond, but you can only carry one at a time. If you leave the dog with the cock, the dog will eat the cock; if you leave the cock with the grain the cock will eat the grains.
How can you get all three across safely?
How can you get all three across safely?
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4) What is the Age?
My son Saji is 32 years younger than I and two years older than his sister.
If our combined age is 126,
what is the age of each of us?
If our combined age is 126,
what is the age of each of us?
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5) Frog in The Well
A frog at the bottom of a well, which is sixteen feet deep, tries to get out of it. Each day he jumps up four feet but slips back three.
At this rate how many days will take to reach, the top of the well?
At this rate how many days will take to reach, the top of the well?
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Between Peter And Paul
Peter and Paul went to a scout camp. during a meeting all the scouts stood in a single row, Peter was exactly in the middle. there were 27 scouts to Paul's left and 13 to Paul's right.
How many scouts stood between Peter and Paul?
Answer:
Here we said that Peter is inthe middle.
Already given that Paul's left side covers 27 scouts and right side covers 13 scouts including Peter. So total scouts = 27(Left side of Paul)+ 13(Right side of Paul)+ 1(Paul)=41
Center=21st (Peter in 21st place)
Arranging this in a row there are 6 pople in between peter and Paul.
Perfect Lava Mixture
Bowser is making the perfect lava mixture to conquer the castle and capture princess Peach. He has a 36 gallon cauldron filled with lava that is 65% fire flower and 35% poisonous mushroom extract. He wants his lava mixture to be 38% poison mushroom extract. So, he is going to add "x" gallons of pure poisonous mushroom extract to his mixture.
How many gallons of the lava mixture will he have once he achieves the perfect concentration?
Answer:
37 Gallons Approx.
The Clever Lady
Leena, a clever lady lived in a house along with his 2 children. One day, a lady beggar went to
Leena's house. Leena, the clever lady asked the beggar how much she get a day. "10 rupees" the lady beggar replied.
Leena felt sorry and gave her a job with a salary of 16 rupees/day along with free food. Along with that, she put forward a condition too... The condition was that, If the beggar is in leave, she has to give 20 rupees/day to Leena.
Beggar accepted the condition and joined for work. After 36 days Leena checked the attendance register for payment, but there was no amount payable. If so, how many days she went for job in that 36 days?
Answer:
Leena felt sorry and gave her a job with a salary of 16 rupees/day along with free food. Along with that, she put forward a condition too... The condition was that, If the beggar is in leave, she has to give 20 rupees/day to Leena.
Beggar accepted the condition and joined for work. After 36 days Leena checked the attendance register for payment, but there was no amount payable. If so, how many days she went for job in that 36 days?
Answer:
Beggar worked 20 days and in leave of 16 days,
salary of 20 days= 320
Beggar took leave of 16 days, so she want to pay 20 rupees/day, 16x20=320
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