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Ques:- Three piles of chips–pile I consists one chip, pile II consists of chips, and pile III consists of three chips–are to be used in game played by Anita and Brinda.The game requires:a)That each player in turn take only one chip or all chips from just one pile.b)That the player who has to take the last chip loses.c)That Anita now have her turn.From which pile should Anita draw in order to win?
Ques:- A bag contains a certain number of 50 paise coins, 20 paise coins and 10 paise coins inthe ratio 2:3:4. If the total value of all the coins in the bag is Rs.400, find the number of coins of each kind?
Ques:- Tell me one incident wherein you had hard time in your current assignment and how did you tackle that?
Ques:- If the side of a square is increased by 25% what will be the percentage increase in the area?
Ques:- If u are given candles which takes exactly one hour to burn completely than how will you measure one and half hour?
Ques:- Why are you leaving that company?
Ques:- David invested certain amount in three different schemes. A, B and C with the rate of interest 10% p.a., 12% p.a. and 15% p.a. respectively. If the total interest accrued in one year was Rs. 3200 and the amount invested in scheme C was 150% of the amount invested in scheme A and 240% of the amount invested in scheme B, what was the amount invested in scheme B?
Ques:- How do u write 6th may 2011 in 5 letters without using number??
Ques:- Describe a complex problem you have solved or haven't solved?
Ques:- A man is 24 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his son. The present age of the son is:
Ques:- Find the missing number of the the series 1, 3, 7, 13, 21, 31, ..
Ques:- Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?
Ques:- Consider a function which, for a given whole number n, returns the number of ones required when writing out all numbers between 0 and n. For example, f(13)=6. Notice that f(1)=1. What is the next largest n such that f(n)=n?
Ques:- Among P, M, R, T and J, M is older than R and T. J is older than M and is not the oldest. Who is the youngest?
Ques:- My mother’s sister’s son’s father’s mother-in-law is related to me as
Ques:- What is your dream company?
Ques:- what is the max no of points of intersection of two circles of unequal radii
Ques:- WAT IS VISA?
Ques:- The average salary of a person for the months of January, February, March and April is Rs.8000 and that for the months February, March, April and May is Rs.8500. If his salary for the month of May is Rs.6500, find his salary for the month of January?
Ques:- What are your hobbies? or What are you passionate about?
Ques:- A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work?
A. 8
B. 14
C. 16
D. 18
E. 25
Ques:- Nanda Devi peak forms a part of(a) Assam Himalayas(b) Kumaon Himalayas(c) Nepal Himalayas(d) Punjab Himalayas
Ques:- Do you have a reference lis?. What goals do you have in your career?
Ques:- Tell something about your job?
Ques:- Given n red balls and m blue balls and some containers, how would you distribute those balls among the containers such that the probability of picking a red ball is maximized, assuming that the user randomly chooses a container and then randomly picks a ball from that?
Ques:- In what kind of work environment are you most comfortable?
Ques:- How many shots of 1cm radius can be prepared from a sphere of 3cm radius?
Ques:- January 1, 1992 was Wednesday. What day of the week was January 1, 1993?
A. Monday
B. Tuesday
C. Thursday
D. Friday
Ques:- 1/8 is devided by ‘s’ , if ‘s’ is incresed by 2 times, what is the result.
Ques:- What sort of leader do your people feel you are? Are you satisfied?

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