IAS Interview Question

If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?




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You along with your friend are standing in front of two houses. Each of those houses inhabits a family with two children.

Your friend tells you the below two facts:
1) On your left is a family that has a boy who likes accounts but the other child loves science.
2) On the right is a family with a seven-year-old boy and a newborn baby.

You ask him, "Does either of the family have a girl?"

To this, he replies, "I am not quite sure. But can you guess that? If you are right, I will give you $500."

Which family do you think is likely to have a girl?

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One absent-minded ancient philosopher forgot to wind up his only clock in the house. He had no radio, TV, telephone, internet, or any other means for telling time. So he travelled on foot to his friend's place a few miles down the straight desert road. He stayed at his friend's house for the night and when he came back home, he knew how to set his clock. How did he know?

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Jack was having a candle light dinner with his girlfriend. Suddenly a cold gush of wind entered through the open window and three of the ten candles were extinguished. Assuming that none of the other candles were extinguished.

How many candles are they left with in the end ?

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A maths symbol is hidden in the below Bar Graph. Can you decipher it?

Maths Symbol Graph

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Can you make numbers like 24, using numbers 3,3,7 & 7 with any arithmetic operator?

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A boy was locked in a room by some robbers. All that is in the room is a piano, a calendar, and a bed. The room is locked from the outside. What does he eat, drink, and how does he escape and get out?

Asked by Neha on 08 Dec 2024


We have arranged an array of numbers below. What you have to do is use any kind of mathematical symbol you know excluding any symbol that contains a number like cube root. You can use any amount of symbols but you have to come up with a valid equation for all of them.

0 0 0 = 6
1 1 1 = 6
2 + 2 + 2 = 6
3 3 3 = 6
4 4 4 = 6
5 5 5 = 6
6 6 6 = 6
7 7 7 = 6
8 8 8 = 6
9 9 9 = 6

Asked by Neha on 19 Sep 2025

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

Asked by Neha on 17 Mar 2025

They do not possess flesh or feathers or scales or bone
But still, they are blessed with fingers and thumbs of their own.

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I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

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