Puzzles contest - 88

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1. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing.The road
is straight before the crossing and both are travelling in the same
direction.The cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph. One day the
cyclist comes late by 25 min. and meets the train 5km before the
crossing. What is the speed of the train?





2. There are five persons with surnames Mukherjee, Misra, Iyer, Patil


and Sharma.


There are 4 persons having first or middle name of Kumar, 3 persons


with Mohan, 2 persons with Dev and 1 Anil. Either Mukherjee and
Patil have a first or middle name of Dev or Misra and Iyer have their
first or middle name of Dev.Of Mukherkjee and Misra, either both of
them have a first or middle name of Mohan or neither have a first or


middle name of Mohan. Either Iyer or Sharma has a first or middle name of Kumar but not both.


Who has the first or middle name of Anil?





3. Boys are allowed to watch football at C.V.Raman auditorium


subjected to


conditions.





The boy over age 16 can wear overcoat


No boy over age 15 can wear cap


To watch the football either he has to wear overcoat or cap or


both A boy with an umberella or above 16 or both cannot wear sweater.


Boys must either not watch football or wear sweater.


What is the appearence of the boy who is watching football.





4. A bird keeper has got P pigeons, M mynas and S sparrows.


The keeper goes for lunch leaving his assistant to watch the birds.


Suppose p=10, m=5, s=8 when the bird keeper comes back, the


assistant informs the x birds have escaped. The bird


keeper exclaims: "Oh no! All my sparrows are gone."


How many birds flew away?


When the bird keeper comes back, the assistant told him that x


birds have escaped. The keeper realised that atleast 2


sparrows have escaped.


What is minimum no of birds that can escape?





5. Two twins have vertain peculiar charcteristics.


One of them always lies on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.


The other always lies on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.


On the other days they tell the truth. You are given a


conversation.





Person A-- today is Sunday my name is Anil


Person B -- today is Tuesday, my name is Bill





What day is today?

[muralisankars]

1. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing.The road
is straight before the crossing and both are travelling in the same
direction.The cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph. One day the
cyclist comes late by 25 min. and meets the train 5km before the
crossing. What is the speed of the train?



Ans: 60 Kmph

[bala_07]

5) The day is Tuesday ( since both A and B tell truth on Sunday )

[Rena]

HI,

2.kumar mohan mukherjee

Dev mohan misra

Dev kumar iyer

Kumar mohan patil

Anil kumar sharma

3.Boy with overcoat.

Edited by: Rena

[Rena]

HI,


Can anyone explain the 3rd question?If all sparrows gone,then how can the assistant say that atleast 2 soarrows gone.