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A marketing company devised a methodology of spreading its message through one another. One person can tell it to 3 persons in 4 minutes and these three persons tell the other three persons each in further 4 minutes and the process continues so on. How many minutes will it take to spread the message to 2187 persons.

a)48 minutes b)24 minutes c)32 minutes d)28 minutes

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In a street, there are certain number of houses. People in that street are decided to paint their houses with certain colours. If four houses are painted with each colour, then one house will be left without any colour. If five houses are painted with each colour, then one colour will remain. Find the number of houses in that street?

a) 6 b) 36 c) 25 d) 7
A secret can be told to only 2 persons in 3 minutes. Each person in turn tells 2 other persons in the next 3 minutes and the processes continues accordingly. In 30 minutes how many persons can be told this secret in this way?

a) 1024 b) 2048 c) 512 d) 4096