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110 is partitioned into two portions x, and y where y =150% of x . find x and y?

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44 , 66
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22 , 88
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32 , 78
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42 , 78
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On taking delivery of a consignment of eggs the market stall owner was furious to find that several were cracked. In fact, on counting them up in order to estimate the damage he found that 72 were cracked, which was 12 per cent of the total consignment. How many eggs in total were in the consignment ?

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200
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400
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500
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600
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Using below letters form a meaningful English word.
TLIC

Note: Same letter may appear multiple number of times in that word.

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ciltted
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illicit
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ilicilt
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tillici
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What is one-third of half of one–third of one–tenth of 180?

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8
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6
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4
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1
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Tennis Racket and cock cost $50. If the tennis racket cost $49 more than the cock. What is the cost of racket and cock?

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cock costs $1 and racket costs $49
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cock costs $0.5 and racket costs $49.5
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cock costs $0.25 and racket costs $49.75

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none of the above
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When I was going to temple I saw a person with 5 kids, each kid having 5 bags with  5 parrots in each bag. How many were going to temple?

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one man, 5 kids
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a kid, and a man. total 2 persons are going

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1, Only Me
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2 men, 5 kids
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Take numbers from one-to-nine, and divide into two groups, so that sum of both the groups should be equal.
Note : 9 cannot be turned over to make it 6

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1 2 3 4 5  and 6 7 8 9
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1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7 8 9
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1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7 8 6
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1 2 3 4 5 9 and 7 8 9
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There is game which lasts for ninety minutes which is played only with 8 players. There are 4 reserve players. These 4 reserve players alternate equally with each player.
This means that all players,including the reserves, are on the pitch for exactly the same length of time. For how long is each player on the pitch?

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48 mins
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60 minutes.
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90 mins
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108 mins
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I bought a Shirt and a Trouser for Rs. 110 at the New Market. The Shirt cost Rs. 100 more than the Trouser, how much does the Shirt cost?

If the Shirt cost Rs. 100 and the Trouser Rs 10

If the Shirt cost Rs. 105 and the Trouser Rs 5

If the Shirt cost Rs. 90 and the Trouser Rs 10

If the Shirt cost Rs. 95 and the Trouser Rs 5

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I have collected 253 strawberries which I want to put into punnets for handing out to my neighbors. All punnets must contain the same number of strawberries and I wish to use as few punnets as possible. How many of my neighbors received a punnet of strawberries, and how many strawberries did each punnet contain?

11 punnets each containing 23 strawberries

13 punnets each containing 17 strawberries

11 punnets each containing 33 strawberries

13 punnets each containing 19 strawberries

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How Is it possible to travel for ten days without sleep?

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Yes, sleep at night
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Yes
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Yes, sleep while walking
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No, not possible.
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Satish went for animal hunt.
He got 6 lions without heads, 9 without the tail and eight cut in two halves.
How many lions did he hunt?

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6
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9
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1
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0
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Five girls(Santhi, Isha, Madhu, Elizabeth and Ohio) went for a tour.

All 5 purchased one item each for tour.

Santhi, Elizabeth and Ohio purchased : orange-Juice, apple-juice, and mango-juice. 
Ohio purchased drink which starts with same letter as in her first name.
Elizabeth loves mango-juice. 
Isha and Madhu purchased chocolates and pizza. 
Madhu is allergic to cheese.

So which ladies bought what ?

"Santhi : apple-juice
Ohio : orange-Juice
Elizabeth : mango-juice
Madhu : chocolates
Isha: pizza
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"Santhi : orange-juice
Ohio : apple-Juice
Elizabeth : mango-juice
Madhu : chocolates
Isha: pizza
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"Santhi : apple-juice
Ohio : orange-Juice
Elizabeth : chocolates
Madhu : mango-juice
Isha: pizza
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"Santhi : apple-juice
Ohio : orange-Juice
Elizabeth : mango-juice
Madhu : pizza
Isha: chocolates
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A lady who is in 10th floor goes to her work daily by using lift.
While returning from the work, if it is raining or if already someone is in the lift then she also takes lift to 10th floor. Else she takes lift till 7th floor and from there she walks 3 floors to her apartment room.

Can you explain why?

In the rainy day, floor will be slippery. And if there are nobody in elevator she is afraid of dark.

Lady is of short stature. She cant reach the upper elevator buttons, but can push it with her umbrella on a rainy day

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In a rainy day she carries umbrella.
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none
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There is a English word which means "opening in the wall with a glass".
If you remove a letter from it, it will become a lady who's husband is dead.
If you bring that same letter into middle of door, 
it will become a person who donates money.

What is that letter and first word?

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The letter n
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The letter w
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The letter o
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The letter d
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2 persons were watching Evil dead movie at late night one day.
While watching movie one person went to sleep. In the sleep he got a crazy dream that evil is running behind him to kill. The person in the sleep got heavy sweat because of this crazy dream. At the same time the movie got over and the other person tried to wake him up by putting his hand on sleeping persons shoulder, which resulted in a massive heart attack to that person who is sleeping and died immediately.
Is it true or false?

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TRUE
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FALSE
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Cannot say
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Maybe
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3 kids Mark Paul, James Paul, and Shaun Paul were playing cricket and broke a glass of neighboring window.
When the neighbor came out, he saw those three kids and a paper note saying "? Paul broke your glass".

So who broke the glass?

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James Paul
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Shaun Paul
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Mark Paul
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All three did
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Decode the below four famous ciphers

8P of the SS
1M of the E
1S of the SS
60M in 1H

8P of the SS - 8 planets of the Sun micro System
1M of the E - 1 Man of the earth
1S of the SS - 1 Sun of the Sun micro System
60M in 1H - 60 minutes in 1 Hour

8P of the SS - 8 planets of the Solar System
1M of the E - 1 Moon of the earth
1S of the SS - 1 Sun of the Solar System
60M in 1H - 60 minutes in 1 Hour

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The more you take me , the more you leave me behind.

Who am I ?

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Footsteps
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Fingreprints
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slippers
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shadow
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A taxi driver was going in streets of a city.
He turned left where there was "no left turn" board and did not stop at stop sign board.
Why?

May be he is driving ambulance at that point of time

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He is dreaming in sleep
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He just joked
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He was a Driver by Profession. But, he wasn't driving any taxi at that point of time.

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