Showing posts with label Logical Ability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Logical Ability. Show all posts

Mar 4, 2011

29. P is the mother of K; K is the sister of D; D is the father of J. How is P related to J?

Answer: 
Grand mother
Explanation:
P is the mother of K
K is the sister of D
D is the father of J.
Therefore, J is the nephew or niece of K and P is the grandmother of J.

Nov 27, 2010

18. Pointing to a lady a person said, "The son of her only brother is the brother of my wife." How is the lady related to the person?

Answer:
Sister of father-in-law 
Explanation:
Brother of person's wife → brother-in-law of the person. Hence, the son of lady's brother is brother-in-law of the person.
Therefore, the brother of the lady is the father-in-law of the person. Hence, the lady is the sister of the person's father-in-law.

Nov 22, 2010

15. Find the Next no

If
5+3+2=151012 ,
9+2+4=183662.
8+6+3=482466,
5+4+5=202504
then what ll be the answer of
7+2+5=??????

Answer:
143542

Explanation:
a+b+c = (a*b)&(a*c)&reverse[b(a+c)]

Nov 19, 2010

11. Find the direction.

If South-East becomes North, North-East becomes West and so on. What will West become?

Answer: 
South - East
Explanation:
It is clear from the diagrams that new name of West will become South-East.

Nov 16, 2010

Nov 13, 2010

5. Find the missing no?

Find the next term in the following series:
3, 5, 5, 19, 7, 41, 9, ?


Answer: 
71
Explanation:
The actual series is in this form
3, 3*2-1, 5, 5*4-1, 7, 7*6-1, 9, so the next term must be 9*8-1=71

Nov 12, 2010

4. How many bananas did he eat on the first day?

A man ate 100 bananas in five days,each day eating 6 more than the previous day. How many bananas did he eat on the first day?

Answer: 
8

Nov 8, 2010

Find the next letter

What is the next letter in this sequence OTTFFSS?

Answer: E

Explanation:
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight


So the intial of the letters is given,thefore answer is E

Nov 6, 2010

Find out the no. of words.

How many words can be formed by using all the letters of the word "DAUGHTER"
so that the vowels always come together?


Answer:
4320

Explanation:
Given word contains 8 different letters.When the vowels AUE are always together
We may suppose them to form an entity,treated as one letter.

Then,the letters to be arranged are DGHTR(AUE).

These 6 letters can be arranged in 6P6=6!=720 ways
The vowels in the group (AUE) may arranged in 3!=6 ways.
therefore Required number of words=(720 X 6)=4320.

Nov 4, 2010

Find the missing no?

Look at this series: 4, 7, 25, 10, __, 20, 16, 19, ... What number should fill the blank?

Answer:
13
 
Explanation:
Two series alternate here, with every third number following a different pattern. In the main series, 3 is added to each number to arrive at the next. In the alternating series, 5 is subtracted from each number to arrive at the next.

Nov 3, 2010

What is the relation?

Introducing a boy, a girl said, "He is the son of the daughter of the father of my uncle." How is the boy related to the girl?

Answer:
Brother
Explanation:
The father of the boy's uncle → the grandfather of the boy and daughter of the grandfather → sister of father.

Nov 1, 2010

What is the direction??

Y is in the East of X which is in the North of Z. If P is in the South of Z, then in which direction of Y, is P?

Answer:
P is in South-West of Y.

Explanation:
P is in South-West of Y.

Oct 27, 2010

What is the relation?

P's father is Q's son. M is paternal uncle of P and N is the brother of Q. How is N related to M?


Answer:
N is paternal uncle of M.

Oct 23, 2010

What is the relation?

A girl introduces a boy that he is my father's mother's son-in-law's son. How the girl related to the boy?

Answer: 
Cousin

Oct 22, 2010

Find out the next no.

Try this...
9 = 4, 21 = 9, 22 = 9, 24 = 10, 8 = 5, 7 = 5, 99 = 10, 100 = 7, 16 = ?, 17 = ?


Answer:   
16 = 7
17 = 9


Explanation:
The numbers on the right hand side signifies the number of letters in the spelling of the numbers on the left hand.
Eg: 16(Sixteen) = 7
      17(Seventeen) = 9

Oct 21, 2010

Who was the second?

5 boys were climbing a hill. J was following H. R was just ahead of G. K was between G & H. They were climbing up in a column.Who was the second?



Answer:
G.
            Explanation:
            The order in which they are climbing is R – G – K – H – J    

What is the relation?

Introducing a boy, a girl said, "He is the son of the daughter of the father of my uncle." How is the boy related to the girl?

Answer:Brother
Explanation:
The father of the boy's uncle → the grandfather of the boy and daughter of the grandfather → sister of father.

Oct 19, 2010

How many times do the hands of a clock coincide in a day?

How many times do the hands of a clock coincide in a day?

Answer:
22

Explanation:
The hands of a clock coincide 11 times in every 12 hours (Since between 11 and 1, they coincide only once, i.e., at 12 o'clock).
AM
12:00
1:05
2:11
3:16
4:22
5:27
6:33
7:38
8:44
9:49
10:55


PM
12:00
1:05
2:11
3:16
4:22
5:27
6:33
7:38
8:44
9:49
10:55

The hands overlap about every 65 minutes, not every 60 minutes.
The hands coincide 22 times in a day.

What will be the time?

If time at this moment is 9 P.M., what will be the time 23999999992 hours later?

Answer :
1 P.M


Explanation
  24 billion hours later, it would be 9 P.M. and 8 hours before that it would be 1 P.M.