#71 - Number Trivia
Can you find out which number multiplied by itself will give the output as 12345678987654321 ?
1 * 1 = 1
11 * 11 = 121
111 * 111 = 12321
1111 * 1111 = 1234321
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111111111 * 111111111 = 11=2345678987654321
Can you find out which number multiplied by itself will give the output as 12345678987654321 ?
1 * 1 = 1
11 * 11 = 121
111 * 111 = 12321
1111 * 1111 = 1234321
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111111111 * 111111111 = 11=2345678987654321
Edward asked Bella, "The time right now is 7 pm. Can you tell me what will be the time 23, 999, 995 hours later ?"
While Bella does not know the answer, do you ?
The time after 24, 000, 000 hours later will be the same i.e. 7 pm. Five hours before that, the time will be 5 hours before 7 pm i.e. 2 pm.
They are three errirs in this question. Can you find them ?
Following are the three errors:
a) They (it should be There)
b) errirs (it should be spelled errors)
c) The question asks for three errors however there are only two.
What do you see in the given picture?
If you concentrate on the black portion, you will see the word "good". Within inside you will find white spaces concentrating on which you will see the word evil.
The picture represents that the whole concept of good cant exists without the evil.
In this image, you can see three almost identical images. Can you spot the odd one out from them?
The second image is different. Look at the eyes.
A fresher was sitting in an interview. The interviewer said, "This is the last question of your interview. Tell me the accurate position of the center of this table where your resume is kept."
How can he answer this question? What will you have answered to such a question?
Put your finger confidently at a supposedly center point of the table and tell him that this is the exact center point.
The interviewer will ask, “How do you know this is the exact center?"
You can revert back that your last question was the previous question and thus you are not liable to answer further.
This is just a matter of being quick witted. The cleverer you are, the better the impression will be.
The question that follows came in the UPSC final exam that was held in December 2013. Only one examinee i.e. Gaurav Agarwal was able to solve it. Can you solve it?
? + ? + ? + ? + ? = 30
You have to fill numbers in place of question marks. The numbers that you can use are 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15. You can repeat the numbers if you like.
The answer is
(15 - 9) + (13 - 7) + (7 - 1) + (9 - 1) + (13 - 9)
If you calculate it, you will get
6 + 6 + 6 + 8 + 4 = 30
Suppose there are 100 people standing in a circle. The first person has a gun in hand. What he has to do is shoot the second person and then pass the gun to the third person. Now, the third person kills the fourth person and gives gun to the fifth person.
This process is carried till there is only one person surviving. Can you find out who survives at the end ?
73rd
There is a simple logic behind solving this question. If the number of people are a power of 2, then the last person standing will be the person who started it.
Now, here we have 100 people. Thus, we will take the highest power of 2 which is less than the total number which is 64.
100 - 64 = 36.
This means that 36 people are killed.
If you go on with the series of even numbers, the 36 people will end at 72 (2, 4, 6, ..., 72). Thus the gun will be in the hand of 73rd person. Now the remaining people are 64 which is the power of 2. Thus the person who will survive in the end will be the 73rd person since he is starting it.
A dead body is found outside a multistory multinational company. The case is reported and a homicide detective is called on the crime scene.
He looks at the body and then towards the building. From the position of the body, it is evident that the victim committed suicide. He goes to the first floor of the building and then walks in the direction of the dead body, opens the window and toss a coin in the air.
He goes to second floor and again repeats the process. He keeps doing this till he is done on all the floors. Then he returns back to the floor and tells his team that it is a murder.
How in heaven did he deduce that?
He was able to deduce that after noticing that all the windows in the direction of the body on all the floors were closed. If the man had committed suicide, one window must have been left open.
One of the leprechaun is missing if you see the two pictures attached to this question. Where did he go? When he comes back, do you know where has he been?
Watch the video for more detail.