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(#M40001035) TCS QUESTION Keep an EYE

A sum of Rs. 400 is to be used to give four cash prizes to students of a school for their overall performance. If each prize is Rs. 20 less than its preceding prize, find the value of each prize.

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(#M40001070) TCS QUESTION Keep an EYE

Find the number of trailing Zeroes in 52!

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(#M40001426) CAPGEMINI QUESTION Keep an EYE

All the alphabets in this question are ranged from 0-9.
a b c r a r
*p q r
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z c y s s l r
z q s s y y q X
a z z z r b c X X
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
a b z b c z a b r

What is the value of r & s?

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(#M40001044) TCS QUESTION Keep an EYE

Stephen Hawking is the Author of the bestseller “The Brief History of Time” and his daughter explains the universe to readers of all ages in their book “ George's Secret key to the Universe”.
When Lucy was young his father would take his daughter to the terrace and explain about constellations to his daughter and then leaves her alone in the terrace to find few of them all by herself. Lucy finds around 25 groups of stars that appear to her as constellations. She draws 7 patterns of the constellations in her notebook and notes down the number of stars in each of them. She counts 5 stars in first constellation and 15 on next. She counts a number the thrid time and forgets to note it down. The next four constellations she counts 51.53,159,161. Next day her father looks at the notebook and wants to know the number of stars in the third constellation. Lucy only remembers that number of starts counted in each of the constellation followed a pattern 5,15,x,51,53,159,161
a)19 b) 45 c) 16 d) 17

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(#M40001039) TCS QUESTION Keep an EYE

Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent
to each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true ?

a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.
b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn.
c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn.
d) Alok has no winning strategy.

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(#M40001041) TCS QUESTION Keep an EYE

A pie is to be divided among 20 people. A man eats 3 pieces, a woman eats 2 pieces and a child eats ½ a piece of pie. What is the number of men, women children, so that 20 people in total and everyone get the same pie? There are 20 pieces of pie in all.
7 women, 1 man, 12 children
5 women, 1 man, 14 children
4 women, 2 men, 12 children

Solution

in third option total number of persons are 18 so it would be wrong.
in a option 7*2 + 1*3 + 12*1/2 = 23 pie so it would also be wrong
now 2nd option 5*2 + 1*3 + 14*1/2 = 20
so b option is correct

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(#M40001002) TCS QUESTION Keep an EYE

Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression
N = 12+X*(Y-Z) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be
2
-69
93
30

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(#M40001040) TCS QUESTION Keep an EYE

A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models which come out of the final testing area completely at random. What are the odds that 5 consecutive cars of the same color will come through the test area at any one time?
a)1 in 16
b)1 in 125
c)1 in 32
d)1 in 25

Solution

The probability for the question will be 1/16 and answer of KAPIL is right but question is saying about odds and odds mean favorable probability/non favorable probability = (1/16)/(15/16) = 1/15
odds has two category 1) in favour 2) against
odds in favour = favorable probability/non favorable probability
odds against = non favorable probability/ favorable probability




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(#M40001071) INFOSYS QUESTION Keep an EYE

In an IT company 35% of employees are given Development Department and 40% of employees are given Testing Department and 20% are given both.What is the probability for an employee is given Development or testing department
95%
55%
5%
none of these

Solution

Ans:-55%
(dUt)=d(n)+t(n)-dnt
=35+40-20


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(#M40001032) TCS QUESTION New Keep an EYE

If mt=1 & m is greater than 0, which of the following is True?
•When m is greater than 1, t is greater than 1.
•When m is less than 1, t is less than 1
•As m increases t increases
•As m decreases t decreases

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