COMPANY NAME : Infosys technologies ltd
DATE OF TEST : 30 Nov 2003, Afternoon
PLACE OF TEST: Bangalore

1) Problem about 3 guys Tom, dick and harry - One say the truth always , one always lies blah blah who is who

Ans:
Tom
Dick
Harry

2) We are given 100 pieces of a puzzle. If fixing two components together is counted as 1 move ( a component can be one piece or an already fixed set of pieces), how many moves do we need to fix the entire puzzle.

Ans: 99

3) This problem has appeared b4. 4 kids from 2 families Gupta and sharma... their names are Praveen, Pra... blah blah...and some relation... which family and what are their ages..

Ans: Sharma - 11
Sharma - 5
Gupta - 10
Gupta - 7 (the names are in the same order as in the answer sheet)


4) This was one hell of a long problem - But it has appeared before.. Two girlz after one guy ( sue, swe and sam i think)..Sue first asks his house no... he replies with two statements (second is false) so she goes to the wrong house... blah blah.. same thing happens with the other gal
What was the house number of sue and sam

Ans: I'm not sure abt this : 7 and 64

5) A complex statement - about an aeroplane comming late. "The boy says if it was 6 hours later, the waiting time would be 1/5th of the time if the plane had come 2 hours earlier instead. the plane is supposed to come at midnight

Ans : 5:00 P.M

6) There are 4 statements and 4 guys ( Dave, Gus, someone else and one more someone else) - sorry my memory is rotten! Anyway now these guys make 4 statements abt. who commited the crime. We need to find out who did it if (i) all but one are saying false and (ii) all but one are saying true

Ans: (i)Gus (ii)Dave

7) A kid goes to a bank with a checque... Comes back and says he spent 35 cents .. his mom says you have brought back twice what u ver supposed to get. What happened is the novice bank clerk gave dollars for cents and vice-versa(quote silly) anway... What was the actual amount??

Ans: 21$ 43c

8) Two guys work at some speed...After some time one guy realises he has done only half of the other guy completed which is equal to half of what is left !!! #$%#$
So how much faster than the other is this guy supposed to do to finish with the first... (This one stumped me)..

Ans: one and half times or 3/2

9) I forgot this problem completley - damn just 3 hrs since i gave the test
Ans: 20 ( i wrote the answers on my hand)

10 finally, a series 2, 8, 64, 512 .... next one

Ans: I didn't get his one but a buddy of mine said its 512*256 something