Breaking Knowledge: Verbal Reasoning Part-09

24 July 2012

Verbal Reasoning Part-09

1. A family i know has several children. Each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers but each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters.
How many brothers and sisters are there?
Ans: brothers =4 , sisters = 3 (shakuntala devi puzzles to puzzle u - puzzle no : 3)
2. complete the following
      a. $   * *    $   @   *   ?     ?
#   @     @   #   #   $    ?     ?         some what simillar like this...but not clear.
      b. 1 , 3 , 7 , 13 , 21 , __ , 43    Ans : 31
      c. 1, 3, 9, __ , 16900
3. In a soap company a soap is manufactured with 11 parts. For making one soap you will get 1 part as scrap. At the end of the day u have 250 such scraps. From that how many   soaps can be manufactured?
Ans : 24 (not sure)
4. A girl took part in a (some) game with many othersin a circular closed circuit. After pedaling for several minutes, he found that 1/3th of the cyclists ahead of her and 3/4th of the cyclists behind him together formed the total no. of participants. How many were participating in the race?
5. OF all pets i have, except 2 all are rabbits
    OF all pets i have, except 2 all are fish
    OF all pets i have, except 2 all are cats
How many rabbits, fish and cats are there?
6. given
carpenter + painter = 1100
painter + electrician = 3200
electrician + plumber = 5100
plumber + mason = 2200
mason + labour = 3000
labour + painter = 1100
find every person's cash? (i dont know the exact amount mentioned above.)
7. some tree problem , in 100 sq feet, how many trees can be planted including the border line...
   (dont know exactly)....
8. out of 30 questions, the three persons A,B & C answered 45 correct answers,
    B answered 55% of A, B and C together answered 25 % more of what A answered.
    Find how many answers each answered?
9. When Arthur is as old as his father Hailey is now, he shall be 5 times
        as old as his son Clarke is now. By then, Clarke will be 8
times older
       than Arthur is now. The combined ages of Hailey and Arthur are 100
       years. How old is Clarke ?
10. The seven digits in this subtraction problem are 0,1,2,3,4,5 and 6.
       Each letter represents the same digit whenever it occurs.
                    D   A   D   C   B
                        E   B   E   G                    --------------------
                                             B   F   E   G
                                             --------------------
                               What digit is represented by each letter ?