sm aptitude questions

1) For this question take

A-1,B-2,C-3..........X-24,Y-25,Z-26.

Edwin is a judge and a numerologist.He is married to

a woman whose name:

a) has a "product" that is the same as that for

JUDGE:using the correspondence of letters and numbers

above, this product is 10*21*4*7*5.

b)has no letter in common with JUDGE.

c)Has no third letter of the alphabet because 3 is his

unlucky number.

d)Has letters in alphabetical order when the first

letter and second letter are interchanged.

What is the name of the judge's wife?

2) The owner of the house has been murdered. The

visitors to the mansion were Allen,bixby and Crain.

a) The murderer ,who was one of the three visitors

,arrived at the mansion later than atleast one of the

other two visitors.

b)A detective,who was one of the three

visitors,arrived at the mansion earlier than atleast

one of the other two visitors

c)The detective arrived at the mansion at midnight.

d)Neither Allen nor Bixby arrive at the mansion after

midnight

e)the earlier arriver of Bixby and crain wasnot the

detective

f)the later arriver of allen and crain was not the

murderer

Who was the murderer?

3) some farm tools and farm equipments have been

stolen..3 farm workers were interrogated..Each one

makes 2 statements.(i dont remember the statements)One

of the statements made by each of them is right while

the other is wrong. We have to tell who stole them.

4) There is 4-digit number..the second digit is 2 more

than the first..the last digit is five more than the

third..something like this..it is very simple..jus

have to go from the choices given..

5)

A D

B G E

C F

Each of seven digits from 0,1,2,3...8,9 is :

a) represented by a different letter in the figure

above.

b) positioned in the figure above so that A*B*C, B*G*E

and D*E*F are equal.

Which digit does G represent?

6) Given the names of four persons..and also given

that one is taller than the other but shorter than

someone else..statements like these..we have to find

who is the shortest..

7) A man is walking inside the tunnel AB. when he is

3/8th of the distance from A, he hears a train coming

from behind him..he sees that when he moves towards B,

the train just catches him at B, and similar logic if

he tried to reach A..the man walks at a steady rate of

8m/h..what is the speed of the train?

8)Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many

minutes past four o clock, how many minutes is it to

six o clock?

9) a simple problem related to ages..

10) There are 5 dacoits who have together stolen some

gold coins..they stay at a place for the night hiding

the bounty safely...When evreyone's asleep, one of the

dacoits wakes up, takes 1/5th of the bounty plus one

for himself..the rest he puts back in the bag and goes

to sleep..the next dacoit wakes up, does the same

thing,ie takes 1/5th of the remaining bounty plus one

for himself, puts the rest back and goes to sleep..the

third,fourth and fifth dacoits do the same thing..in

the morning, they all wake up and divide the bounty

equally among them..how may coins were there

originally? The key to this question is to proceed

from the options..see which number leaves a remainder

1 when divided by 5 four times continuously and the

fifth time divides it exactly.

The rest 5 quests i dont remember....Quests 1,2 and 5

have been lifted straight out of Puzzles' by George

Summers..8 is from Shakuntala Devi..