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Ques:- You are not from accounts background, how would you manage?
Ques:- How many integers between 100 and 150, inclusive, cannot be evenly divided by 3 nor 5?
Recent Answer : Added by Kuff On 2021-09-22 16:57:00:

23

Ques:- 3 policemen and 3 thieves had to cross a river using a small boat. Only two can use the boat for a trip. All the 3 policemen and only 1 thief knew to ride the boat. If 2 thieves and 1 policeman were left behind they would kill him. But none of them escaped from the policemen. How would they be able to cross the river?
Ques:- What did u do yesterday
Ques:- Current Experience in the functional area
Ques:- A 6 inch length cylindrical through hole is drilled through the center of sphere, what will be the remaining volume of sphere ?

In this question only one data is given ie., hole length - 6". In the question there is no mistake.
Find the answer.
Recent Answer : Added by Admin On 2020-05-17 12:05:14:

volume of a sphere is 4/3 * pi * r^3
by drilling a hole 6 inches long the volume of the sphere is
not affected bcos the hole is a 1 dimension quantity..(say a
straight line) n so it does not have any value w.r.t volume…
hence the volume of the sphere does not change..

Ques:- 9 balls are there one of them is of higher wt and remaining all are of same. given is one weighing scale and you can use it two times. How will you find the heavy ball in two trials only.
Recent Answer : Added by venkatesh On 2021-08-12 06:28:25:

Balls- B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8, B9.
Group1 – (B1, B2, B3), Group2 – (B4, B5, B6), Group3 – (B7, B8, B9)
Now weigh any two groups. Group1 on left side of the scale and Group2 on the right side.
When weighing scale tilts left – Group1 has a heavy ball or right – Group2 has a heavy ball or balanced – Group3 has a heavy ball.
Lets assume Group 1 has a heavy ball.
Now weigh any two balls from Group1. B1 on left side of the scale and B2 on right side.
When weighing scale tilts left – B1 is the heavy or tilts right – B2 is the heavy or balanced – B3 is the heavy.

Ques:- Two persons A and B take a field on rent. A puts on it 21 horses for 3 months and 15 cows for 2 months; B puts 15 cows for 6months and 40 sheep for 7 1/2 months. If one day, 3 horses eat as much as 5 cows and 6 cows as much as 10 sheep, what part of the rent should A pay?
Recent Answer : Added by Subhrajyotii Guha On 2022-08-14 16:25:40:

1/3rd of it

Ques:- A train moves fast a telegraph post and a bridge 264 m long in 8 sec and 20 sec respectively. What is the speed of the train?
Recent Answer : Added by Laksith Ekanayake On 2022-08-14 16:33:51:

237.6 Kmh

Ques:- About the number of pairs which have 16 as their HCF and 136 as their LCM, we can definitely say that
A. Only one such pair exists
B. No such pair exists
C. Only two such pairs exist
D. Many such pairs exist
Recent Answer : Added by Admin On 2022-09-23 18:49:19:

B. No such pair exists

Ques:- A man decides to buy a nice horse. He pays $60 for it, and he is very content with the strong animal. After a year, the value of the horse has increased to $70 and he decides to sell the horse. But already a few days later he regrets his decision to sell the beautiful horse, and he buys it again. Unfortunately he has to pay $80 to get it back, so he loses $10. After another year of owning the horse, he finally decides to sell the horse for $90. What is the overall profit the man makes?
Recent Answer : Added by Meghna Bardhan On 2021-07-14 14:29:37:

$20

Ques:- it takes 8 , 12 and 16 days for A , B and C to complete to task . how many days will it take if A works on the job for 2 days and then B works on it until 25 % of the job is left for C to do , and C completes the work ?
Recent Answer : Added by Abhishek Chabri On 2022-10-08 07:25:40:

C will take 4 days and the total number of days taken by a,b and c will be 12 days.

Ques:- Why you want to leave this current organisation?
Ques:- A person takes 20 minutes more to cover a certain distance by decreasing his speed by 20%. What is the time taken to cover the distance at his original speed?
Ques:- Choose a topic of your choice and speak about for a minute?
Ques:- How would you manage two projects that require your time?
Ques:- What have you found is the best tool or innovation that has come out in the last year?
Ques:- A rich man died. In his will, he has divided his gold coins among his 5 sons, 5 daughters and a manager. According to his will: First give one coin to manager. 1/5th of the remaining to the elder son.Now give one coin to the manager and 1/5th of the remaining to second son and so on….. After giving coins to 5th son, divided the remaining coins among five daughters equally.All should get full coins. Find the minimum number of coins he has?
Recent Answer : Added by Biplab Nath On 2021-07-31 16:35:53:

Answer: 3121 gold coins
Let total no of coins be M
Let the disbursement D to each son:

D1 = 1 + (M – 1)/5 = (M + 4)/5
D2 = 1 + ( M – D1 -1)/5 = (D1) * 4/5
D3= (D2) * 4/5
D4= (D3) * 4/5
D5= (D4) * 4/5
Total disbursements to sons=
= ∑D= (M+4)*1/5[ 1+4/5+(4/5)(4/5)+ (4/5)(4/5)(4/5)+(4/5)(4/5)(4/5)(4/5) ]
= (2101/3125)*(M+4)
Thus balance left for daughters =M-{(2101/3125)*(M+4)}
=(1024M-8404)/3125
This balance should be a positive integer ( assuming M and all disbursements are full coins )
Thus 1024M-8404 should be a multiple of 3125….so….
1024M – 8404 = N*3125 where N is an integer
Using Python code:
n=int(input(“Enter num n: “))
X=int()
a=int()
a=0
X=’ ‘
for a in range(0,n+1):
a=a+1
X= (3125*a + 8404)/1024
if (3125*a + 8404)% 1024== 0:
print(X,a)
Enter num n: 10000
3121.0 1020
6246.0 2044
9371.0 3068
12496.0 4092
15621.0 5116
18746.0 6140
21871.0 7164
24996.0 8188
28121.0 9212
We get minimum value of N = 1021 and M = 3121 gold coins

Ques:- Examination passed from and either training was done or not?
Ques:- On a particular day A and B decide that they would either speak the truth or will lie. C asks A whether he is speaking truth or lying? He answers and B listens to what he said. C then asks B what A has said B says “A says that he is a liar”
Ques:- What is the job goals life goals
Ques:- Describe your best friend?
Ques:- Describe briefly your standards for success?
Recent Answer : Added by Stephanie Brewer On 2022-01-08 16:07:08:

My standard for success is to build confidence, be able to earn money, and meet people.

Ques:- Who is the present Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ?
Ques:- Which is important experience or pay ?
Recent Answer : Added by Utkarsh bhardwaj On 2022-08-14 16:28:28:

I think experience because if experience brings pay. If someone having experience in any work then he/she can work easily. Although pay is important but not more then experience

Ques:- How do you determine or evaluate success?
Ques:- Achiving Target
Ques:- Why do you want to relocate?
Ques:- How many people are flying in airplanes at any time in India?
Ques:- Navin walked 20 metres towards the East took a left turn and walked 10 metres and again took a left turn and walked 20metres. How far is he from his starting position?
A. 10 metres
B. 50 metres
C. 40 metres
D. 30 metres
E. None of these
Recent Answer : Added by Admin On 2020-05-17 12:03:42:

( a ) 10 metres

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