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Soft Skills
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Aptitude Interview Questions
In the Tour de France, what
is the position of a rider, after he passes the second placed rider? It's always 1 to 6, it's
always 15 to 20, it's always 5, but it's never 21, unless it's flying. What is
this? On the market of Covent
Garden, mrs. Smith and mrs. Jones sell apples. Mrs. Jones sells her apples for
two per shilling. The apples of Mrs. Smith are a bit smaller; she sells hers for
three per shilling. At a certain moment, when both ladies both have the same
amount of apples left, Mrs. Smith is being called away. She asks her neighbour
to take care of her goods. To make everything not too complicated, Mrs. Jones
simply puts all apples to one big pile, and starts selling them for two shilling
per five apples. When Mrs. Smith returns the next day, all apples have been
sold. But when they start dividing the money, there appears to be a shortage of
seven shilling. Supposing they divide the amount equally, how much does mrs.
Jones lose with this deal? In Miss Miranda's class are
eleven children. Miss Miranda has a bowl with eleven apples. Miss Miranda wants
to divide the eleven apples among the children of her class, in such a way that
each child in the end has an apple and one apple remains in the bowl. Can you
help Miss Miranda? Below are a number of
statements: 1. Precisely one of these statements is untrue. 2. Precisely two of
these statements are untrue. 3. Precisely three of these statements are untrue.
4. Precisely four of these statements are untrue. 5. Precisely five of these
statements are untrue. 6. Precisely six of these statements are untrue. 7.
Precisely seven of these statements are untrue. 8. Precisely eight of these
statements are untrue. 9. Precisely nine of these statements are untrue. 10.
Precisely ten of these statements are untrue. Which of these statements is true?
Joyce has bought ten trees
for her garden. She wants to plant these trees in five rows, with four trees in
each row. The Question :How must Joyce plant the trees? The fraction EVE/DID =
0,TALKTALKTALKTALK... is a normal fraction that can also be written as a
recurring decimal. Which fraction is this (equal letters are equal ciphers)?
A traveler, on his way to
Eindhoven, reaches a road junction, where he can turn left or right. He knows
that only one of the two roads leads to Eindhoven, but unfortunately, he does
not know which one. Fortunately, he sees two twin-brothers standing at the road
junction, and he decides to ask them for directions. The traveler knows that one
of the two brothers always tells the truth and the other one always lies.
Unfortunately, he does not know which one always tells the truth and which one
always lies. How can the traveler find out the way to Eindhoven by asking just
one question to one of the two brothers? This is a most unusual
paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so
ordinary that you would think that nothing is wrong with it at all, and, in
fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Why? If you study it and think about it,
you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it
without any hints or coaching. No doubt, if you work at it for a bit, it will
dawn on you. Who knows? Go to work and try your skill. Good luck! What is
unusual about the above paragraph? There is a whole number n
for which the following holds: if you put a 4 at the end of n, and multiply the
number you get in that way by 4, the result is equal to the number you get if
you put a 4 in front of n. In other words, we are looking for the number you can
put on the dots in the following equation: 4... = 4 ...4 Which number must be
put on the dots to get a correct equation? A boy leaves home in the
morning to go to school. At the moment he leaves the house he looks at the clock
in the mirror. The clock has no number indication and for this reason the boy
makes a mistake in interpreting the time (mirror-image). Just assuming the clock
must be out of order, the boy cycles to school, where he arrives after twenty
minutes. At that moment the clock at school shows a time that is two and a half
hours later than the time that the boy saw on the clock at home. At what time
did he reach school? An old farmer died and left
17 cows to his three sons. In his will, the farmer stated that his oldest son
should get 1/2, his middle son should get 1/3, and his youngest son should get
1/9 of all the cows. The sons, who did not want to end up with half cows, sat
for days trying to figure out how many cows each of them should get. One day,
their neighbour came by to see how they were doing after their father's death.
The three sons told him their problem. After thinking for a while, the neighbour
said: "I'll be right back!" He went away, and when he came back, the three sons
could divide the cows according to their father's will, and in such a way that
each of them got a whole number of cows. What was the neighbour's solution?
There is a unique number of
which the square and the cube together use all ciphers from 0 up to 9 exactly
once. Which number is this? Some children goto ice-cream
shop. 9 flavours are available there. Each child takes a cone with two different
flavours. No two children take same combination and they have taken all such
possible combinations. How many children went to ice cream shop?
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