A Man would like to take a new health insurance.An officer taking care of these matters says to the man: "Please tell me how many children you have". The Man answers : "I have three of them ." The officer :"What are the ages of the children?" The Man answers :"The product of the ages is equal to 36." The officer replies:"This is not enough information Sir!!" ; The Man replied"Sorry that I was a little bit unclear, but the sum of the ages is equal to the number of shops in front of your office." The officer:"This still is not enough information Sir!"; The man replies :"My oldest child loves chocoalate." The officer:"Thanks for your cooperation, I now know the ages".
Are you a smart officer? Then what are the ages of the children.
A.1, 4, 9
B.2, 2, 9
C.1, 3, 12
D.2, 3, 6

• the man give a clue i.e. "My oldest child loves chocoalate." the younger child are twin , he does not tell about them so 2,2,9 is the right answer
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• here the man given the clue about his oldest child that he/she loves chocolate... but he hasnt given diff clues about his younger two children so it shows the younger two r twins... so correct ans is...... B
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• i think option d) 2,4,6 is answr.
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• 4/52*4/51*4/50
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• Answer is b)2,2,9
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• pls anybody explain ans for this question..
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• b is d correct answer
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• 1,36, 1 sum = 38
  1,18, 2 sum = 22
  1,12, 3 sum = 16
  1, 9, 4 sum = 14
  1, 6, 6 sum = 13
  2, 9, 2 sum = 13
  2, 6, 3 sum = 11
  3, 3, 4 sum = 10
  tricky clue is that when man said :-" but the sum of the ages is equal to the number of shops in front of your office"
  and ofcr said it was still not clear". if the sum of the shop were anythng else then 13 (like-38/22/16/14/11/10. not in rept) ,the ages wuld have been clear to the officr. but only 13 is reptng twice in the set of ages . so ages were not clear still. so anothr clue was needed. upto these we can conclude the sum is 13.
  then next clue told us that. the set off number among;
  (1, 6, 6 sum = 13
  2, 9, 2 sum = 13) ,
  there was only one elder child we can say that ages wuld be 2,9,2
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• correct ans is B
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• @swati can you please elaborate it ?
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