Puzzles

47. There are five persons A,B,C,D,E whose birthdays occur at the consecutive days. Birthday of A is some days or day before C & birthday of B is exactly the same days or day after E. D is two days older than E. If birth day of C is on Wednesday then find out the birthdays of other.

48. Persons say these statements.
A says either Democratic or liberal wins the elections.
B says Democratic wins.
C says neither democratic nor liberal wins the election.
Of these only one is wrong. Who wins the election?

49. Six persons A, B, C, D, E &F went to soldier cinema. There are six consecutive seats. A sits in the first seat followed by B, followed by C and so on. If A taken on of the six seats, then B should sit adjacent to A. C should sit adjacent to A or B. D should sit adjacent to A, B or C and so on. How many possibilities are there?

50. Suppose there are four grades A, B, C, D. (A is the best and D is the worst) 4 persons Jack, Jean, Poul and Lucy wrote the final exam and made the statements like this:-
1. Jack: If I will get A then Lucy will get D.
2. Lucy: If I will get C then Jack will get D.Jack grade is better than Poul grade.
3. Jean: If Jean doesn't get A then Jack will not get A.
4. Poul: If Jack get A, then Jean will not get B, Lucy will get C, I won't either A or B.
If all the above statements are true, then which person will get which grade?

51. Each man dances with 3 women, each women dances with 3 men. Among each pair of men they have exactly two women in common. Find the no. of men and women.

52. A survey was taken among 100 people to find their preference of watching t.v. programmes. There are 3 channels. Given no of people who watch at least channel 1, at least channel 2,at least channel 3, no channels at all, at least channels 1 and 3, at least channels 1 and 2, at least channels 2 and 3. Find the no of people who watched all three.

53. A bird keeper has got P pigeon, M mynas and S sparrows. The keeper goes for lunch leaving his assistant to watch the birds. Suppose p=10, m=5, s=8.
a.) When the bird keeper comes back, the assistant informs that x birds have escaped. The bird keeper exclaims oh no! all my sparrows are gone. How many birds flew away?
b.) when the bird keeper comes back, the assistant told him that x birds have escaped. The keeper realized that at least 2 sparrows have escaped. What is minimum no of birds that can escape.

54. Select from the five alternatives A, B, C, D, E. At the end of each question, two conditions will be given. The choices are too filled as follows.
A: If a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 1.
B: If a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 2.
C: If a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 and 2.
D: If a definite conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 or 2.
E: No conclusion can be drawn using both conditions.
1. Person 1 says N<5
Person 2 says n>5.
Person 3 says 3N>20
Person 4 says 3n>10
Person 5 says N<8.
What is the value of N?

55. There are N coins on a table. There are two players A&B. You can take 1or 2 coins at a time. The person who takes the last coin is the loser. A always starts first.
1. If N=7, then
a) A can always win by taking two coins in his first chance.
b) B can win only if A takes two coins in his first chance.
c) B can always win by proper play.
d) none of the above.

2. A can win by proper play if N is equal to
a) 13 b) 37 c) 22 d) 34 e) 48
Ans: E.

3. B can win by proper play if N is equal to
a) 25 b)26 c) 32 d) 41 e) none

4. if N<4,>

56. There are 4 parties A, B, C, D. There are 3 people x, y, z. X-says A or D will win. Y-says A will not win. Z-says B or D will not win. Only one of them is true. Which party won?

57. 5 persons R, S, T, U, V are contesting for a medal. Evaluation is over English, Maths , Physics, Chemistry and Hindi. Toper will get 5 marks, least will get 1 mark. No ties any where. R gets 24 and won the overall medal. V gets first in Chemistry and third in Hindi, T got consistent scores in 4 subjects. Their final standings where in the alphabetical order.
What was the score of S in Chemistry.

57. There are 3 types of castes, say A, B, C. A- always tells truth, B- always false, Calternating.
X says --> Z is of C type, I am of A type.
Y says --> X is a B type.
Z says --> X is of B type.
Who is of which type?

58. Persons A and B. Person A picks a random no. from 1 to 1000. Then person B picks a random no. from 1 to 1000. What is the probability of B getting no. greater then what A has picked?