INFOSYS COLLECTIONS OF 2005

Feb 05
Hi Group
This are few questions that i remember where asked in the written
test.they may not be in order:
1] there is 30 ft well. a frog climbs 3 ft every day and slips down
by 2 ft at the night how many days will it take for the frog to
climb up the well?
Ans 28 days
2]Shadow is a ISle of begile. all the natives of the island are
liers and visitors spek the truth.shadow sees a sales man
approaching him in order to check if he is native or vistor he puts
him in to a small test.he points at awoman at the next table and
asks the sales man to go ask the woman if she is native or visitor.
the sales man returns and says she is a visitor. with this can u
find out if the sales man is native or visitor?
3]A building is surrounded by a kilometr of wire on its four
sides.there are post that hold the wire. if one them is removed the
distance between the posts is increased by 1 2/m meters. could you
find the number of poles used.

4]a die needs to made with following conditions, 1 and 6 on opposite

sides, 2, 5 and 3,4 respectively how many combinations can be made
in order to make a die with above conditions.
5]two children write there exams and return home .father asks how
did u do your exams .daughter replies i got 1 of the third worng.
son says i got five wrong but on an average we got 3 quarters of the
answers right.
6]a jeweller makes a window display. he has 7 gems of which he needs
to display 6. three on the left side of the pane on three on the
right. with following conditions.
let the gems be Armanet, diamond, emerald , sapphire , garnet, opal
and ruby.

armanet should be always displayed on left side

diamond always on the right
ruby should not be kept with diamond or garnet.
emerald and sapphire should always be on the same side.
1]what are the possible combinations on the possible for left pane.
a]
b]
c]
d]

armanet,garnet , opal
armanet, ruby, garnet
diamond, emerald , sapphire
armanet , emerald, garnet

2]what are the possible combinations on the possible for right pane.
a]diamond, garnet , opal
b]diamond, ruby, opal
c]armanet,emerald, sapphire
d]diamond,garnet,ruby
3]if garnet, diamond, opal are on the right side what is possible
option for right side.
a]ruby,armanet,sapphire
b]armanet,emerald,ruby
c]armanet,emerald,sapphire
d]ruby,emerald,sapphire
4]if armanet, ruby, opal are on the left side what is possible
option for left side.
a]diamond, garnet, emerald
b]diamond, sapphire, garnet
c]garnet, sapphire, emerald
d]diamond, emerald, sapphire
Ans 1]a 2]a] 3]c 4]d

7]it is very easy given few conditions like A is younger than B and
older than C.
C is younger than D and older than E etc can u find who is the
youngest of all.it is very simple.

8] an 8 mark question based on profession- i'm unable to recollect

the question would post it if i recollect.

9]there are two stations between which trains travel every hour the
time taken to complete the trip for each train is 5 hours . how many
trains does each train meet during the trip.
10]unable to recollect it correctly:
three people are interviewed
A,B,C
they say the following statements
A:1]i'am 22 yrs old
2]B is two yrs older than i'm
3]C is 1 yr younger than me
B]1]i'm not the youngest
2]there is 3 yrs differnce between me and C
3]C is 25 yrs old
C]1]A is older than me
2]A is 25 yrs old
3]i'm 21 yrs Old
if each of them gives only two true statements which of their
statements is true.

Priti Saraswat composed on

5 Mar 2005 about

INFOSYS TEST & INTERVIEW

For INFOSYS TEST, practise puzzles from books by George Summers, Shakuntala Devi And Ravi Narula. There r two
different books by Shakuntala Devi.
U need not solve all puzzles just some selective ones..... if u r not able to select.. take a look on Infy's previous papers.....
In the beginning, if u r not able to solve the puzzles.. look back for answers...... then, u'll understand how to approach a
puzzle.... when u develop an approach to solve the puzzles... move to Infy's previous papers...... practice the papers with
a time limit..... i.e. solve each paper within the given time which is 1 hour.... time-bound preparation will really help u to
manage time during the exam.....
But if u have lesser time to prepare....... straightaway start off with Infy papers..... also do time-bound practices....
The test also has an English section of half an hour...... the english section is very easy.... need not prepare if u have a
normal standard of English..... but if u r very weak u need to prepare.... it mainly chks ur grammatical skills.... filling
prepositions, correct form of verb, knowledge of tenses, finding the correct sentence out of two similar sentences, finding
the correct sentence out of three or four given sentences (which may not be similar),..... etc.

The aptitude (puzzles) test has questions varying from 9 to 11 questions in each paper. Usually, it has 10 questions in 1
hour. The English test has 45 questions in 1/2 hour.
INFOSYS INTERVIEW
Basically what they look for in Infosys interview is ur confidence, ur communication skills, ur presentability, ur presence of
mind, and ur approach in solving puzzles.... they also look for team management skills... i.e. how wud u cope with a
problem in a team, how wud u react to a particular crisis or unhappy result in the team, how wud u behave in a team.....
etc...
For me.... first they asked me to speak abt myself.... which usually includes..... where ur parents r working.... from where u
did ur schooling.. college... ur strengths, weaknesses and hobbies.. etc....
Then they asked me three puzzles.....
===============================================================
1) There are three friends staying in three rooms in a hotel.. they don't wish to share their ages among themselves... how
wud u calculate the average of their ages??
Ans: They'll not share among themselves.... but u can ask their ages n calculate the average !!
2) How wud u plant four trees at equidistance??
Ans: They never asked u to place all four in one plane !!!!
Plant three trees at the vertices of an equilateral triangle.... then place the fourth one at a equi-distance from all three
above that plane..... i.e. at the top of the pyramid.....
3) There is a cubical room... a spider is sitting at one of the corners of the room..... the spider has to move to the corner
which is diagonally opposite to this corner?? Find out the path he shud take up so that he has to move the least distance
to reach the diagonally opposite corner.
Ans: U'll find it in Ravi Narula or Shankuntala Devi's puzzle book along with the figure.....
One possible answer is:
The spider will move diagonally across the first wall and then move along the side of the second wall or vice-versa.
===============================================================
After this they asked me abt my final yr project.... they were not interested in what work i did but in team management.....
they asked me whether i worked in a team?? I had.... so they asked me to give instances of flops and successes in the
team work.... they asked to give reasons why we failed or succeeded??
REMEMBER:
Don't blame ur team members for ur failures or praise urself for successes.... this is not the attitude of a good team
member....

INFOSYS PAPER OF FEB 06 , 2003 AND INTERVIEW CONVERSATION

INFOSYS
DATE : FEB 06 , 2003
VENUE : BANGALORE
1. 3 marks
A frog falls into a well of height of 30 m. It tries to climb up in an
erratic manner. In 24 hours it climbs 3m in daytime and slips 2m in
the night. How many days does it take to climb the well?

2. 6 marks
Ann and Bell wrote an exam. Their father asked,"How did u do it?".
Ann said," I answered 1/3 rd of the questions wrong". Bell said," I
answered 1/5th of the questions wrong". But both together had answered
(some fraction) of the questions correctly.
How many did Ann answer correctly?
3. 8 marks
There are seven gems Amethyst, Diamond, Ruby, Garnet, Emerald,
Sapphire and Opal, which have to be placed for a window display.
There are 2 cases, left case and right case. Only three gems can be
placed in one case at a time.
Based on the conditions only the gems must be placed in each case.
Conditions.
1.Amethyst must be included in the case and kept in left case.
2.Diamond must be included in the case and kept in left case.
3.Ruby cannot be placed in the case while Diamond or Garnet is placed.
4.Emerald and Sapphire are to be placed together in the same case.
Questions were like:
1. If Amethyst is placed in the left case what other gems should be
placed along with it.
Options
a
b
c
d
e
2.Emerald and Sapphire in right case then what must be placed in left case.
VERY SIMPLE AND EASY.
USE PROCESS OF ELIMINATION TO GET CORRECT OPTION.
4. 8 marks
Geoffrey, Hallmann and Molly attend and interview and give three
different statements each.
To make it a little complex,
Out of the three statements made by each one, one is false.
Geoffrey says: I am 22 - false
Hallmann is elder than me by one year.
Molly is 25
Hallmann says: I am not the youngest Geoffrey is 2 years younger than me
Molly is younger than me by one year - false
Molly says: Geoffrey is 23
I am a year younger than Geoffrey
(I don't remember this statement but it is false.)
Answer:
Goeffrey is 22 as Goef states,
And Goef== 23 as Molly states.
Both cannot be true.
Either one has to be true or either one has to be false.
Start deriving from this point and u get,

Age:

Geoffrey
23

Hallmann
25

Molly
22

5.8 marks
Clark, Jones, Smith and Morgan are Butcher, Grocer, Druggist and Policeman.
Based on the given conditions find who is who.
1. Clark and Jones are neighbors and they drive each other on
alternatively to work.
2.The Butcher always walks to work.
3.Clark beats Smith at the bowl regularly.
4.The Policeman has met the Grocer only once when he arrested him for speeding.
5.The Policeman and the Druggist are not neighbors.
6.Jones earns more than Morgan.
7.The Policeman earns more than the druggist or Grocer.
Quite confusing and time consuming for me.
Clark==?
Morgan==?
Smith==?
Jones==?
Clark and Jones are not butchers
Proceeding like this solve it.
6. There is a cube, which has to be inscribed with the following pair
of numbers on opposite sides.
1 and 6,
2 and 4
3 and 5.
How many different ways can it be done?
7.
3 marks
There's an electric wire running 1 km from the side of a building.
The number of poles in between them is placed in an interval of
distance between each other.
If one pole is removed then the distance between each pole becomes 1 2/3 meters.
Find out how many poles were kept.
8.
6 marks
The time taken to travel in train from Town A to Town B is 5 hours.
There are trains starting from both towns at an interval of 1 hour.
How many trains meet in 1 trip?
Answered, but not sure
Ans : 10 trains check it as trains come from both sides every hour.
9.
Shadow went to an Isle where the natives lie and the visitors speak truth.
Shadow saw a salesman and wanted to know whether he was a native or a visitor.
He did not pose a question directly but asked him indirect instead.
Shadow saw a woman and asked the salesman,"Is that a NATIVE or
VISITOR?" .For which the salesman replied," She is a visitor".
Is the salesman a Native or a Visitor?
Ans :
Since Shadow himself saw him/her as a woman and asked the salesman.
The Salesman replied ,"SHE " by which he speaks truth and is a Visitor.
Salesman is a Visitor.

10. I don't remember but attempted 10 out of which 8 are definitely correct.
Interview Questions.
1.
You so look different in photo than in person, Why?
2.
Just leave this resume. Tell us something personally about urself.
3.
Why did u take up Master's in Multimedia and then discontinue?
4.
Why aren't u seeing urself as a flash developer now?
5.
Tell us something abt ur project?
6.
Does it apply only in Telephones
7.
What are real time pratical applications of this project?
8.
What do u feel about this trainer job?
9.
with what kind of questions your students have approached you?
10.
not technical . Regarding job opportunities and faking
experiences? I said I would not support it and these questions didn't
come up in class.
11.
Why should Infosys take you?
12.
Can u plant 4 trees equidistant from each other in a piece of land ?
13.
A Car travels 5m/hr from A to B and 10m/hr from B to A find
average speed.
14.
U find a piece of torn paper on the road and u pick it up and find
just four lines without no date or information. After reading the 4
lines u get interested in the article and want to read the whole
matter. How will you find it out?
15.
In all these days what did you learn related to software?
16.
How did u enjoy ur college life?
17.
Any extra curricular activities?
18.
Any other field other than software and multimedia that interests you?
19.
What kind of dancing and are u trained in it?
20.
What do u think about relocating to Orissa?
21.
What about working in Mysore?
I think they test ur attitude here. But I said I would be tough
working in North India.
22.
Are u married?
Since I had problem relocating.
17.Any questions ? no
23.
When did u start wearing glasses?
24.
why no glasses in photo?
25.
why no lenses now?
Ok fine.
All best
U will receive a mail in 2 to 3 weeks.Bye.
Please make sure that u resemble urself in the photo as the
interviewer had a doubt whether I was the same person in photo . I
wonder what they are gonna decide.

May 15 2005
10 puzzles
==========

1>( 3 marks)
Sandy's uncle died leaving 1000 rs behind to be distributed among his five nephews.
The money is to be divided among the nephews according to their ages. A person gets
Rs 20 more than his immediate younger brother.Sandy being the youngest what was his share?
Ans. Rs 160.0

It was quite an easy one.

let sandy's share be x
x+x+20+x+40+x+60+x+80=1000
5x+200=1000
x=800/5
x=160

2> ( 4 marks)
Rohit was descending from the elavator which was not working. When he had stepped down
7 steps his sir started from the bottom of the elevator and they passed each other and when Rohit had still 4
steps to go down, his sir reached at the top. Taking into consideration that sirs 2 steps took same time as Rohits
one what were the total no of steps?
Ans
22 steps
let no of steps be x
speed=distance/time
Distance covered by Rohit = x-7-4 (7 steps already covered and 4 were still to go)

Distance covered by sir = x

Speed of Rohit =s
Speed of sir = 2s
Time taken is equal in both the cases so
Time(rohit)=time(sir)
(x-7-4) / s = x / 2s
2x 22 = x
x=22

3> ( 3 marks)
A vendor who is an ex-mathematician has a number of apples and when he arranges them in rows of 3 he is left
with one more, when he arranges them in rows of 5 again he is left with 1 more, Same happens with when he
tries to arrange them in rows of 7 and 9 that is 1 apple is left extra.
But when he arranges them in a row of 11 he is left with none. Can u tell me how many apples were there?
Ans
946
the no is a multiple of 3,5,7,9 + a remainder of 1. So
3* 5* 7* 9= 945 + 1 =946
946 /11= 86
so it is divisible by 11 also.

4> ( 4 marks)

A theft was reported in a p[olice station and police detained 3 persons Tommy, Lee and Andy on the basis of
doubt. However everyone said that he did not steal and one among the other two is the thief. Later on police
came to know that Tommy was lying. Who was the real thief?
Ans
Tommy
He gave 2 false statements:
1: he didnt steal though he was the thief.
2: one among the other two did it. If he is the thief how can other 2 do it.
It was very easy and infact that created a doubt n everyone cross checked it again n again to be sure as nobody
was expecting such a simple puzzle.
5> (6 marks)
The temperature is noted for 5 consecutive days and it is noted that no two days have the same temperature.
Moreover the product of all the 5 readings is 12. The difference is noted to the nearest degrees. What were the
readings of the temperature?
Ans: -2, -1, 1, 2, 3
Factors of 12: 4*3,6*2
2*2*3 bt 2 cant b repeated so 2 and to nullify -ve sign 1 is there
so 2 *-1 * 1 * 2 *3 = 12

6> ( 8 marks)
There are five persons in an office in the post of buyer, clerk, footwalker, manager,cashier.
Allen, Benett, Clark, Ewinger, Davis holds the post.
Among the 5 two have their lunch time from 11:30- 12:30 and the rest have it in 12:30 1:30
Mrs Allen and Mrs Benett are sisters.
Cashier and clerk share their lunch among themselves.
Two Bachelors share their rooms.
Davis and Ewinger doesnt face each other from the day Davis reported Ewinger to the Manager when he
returned from lunch and found out that Ewinger has already left for lunch before time.
Ans:

I m not sure about the answers bt question was like this

Davis:Buyer
Clark:Cashier
Allen: Manager
Benett:Clerk
Ewinger:Footwalker

Lunch 11:30 12:30

Two
Davis ( from the 5th point he takes lunch in the earlier session)
Davis cant be manager

lunch 12:30 1:30

three
Ewinger( form the 5th point he takes
lunch in 2nd session
Ewinger cant be manager

7> (4marks)
A dice has faces 1 against 6, 3 against 5 and 2 against 4 always. How many such combinations of faces are
possible in a dice?

Ans
24
keeping 1 and 6 fixed, we can have two combinations of 6 and 3, and two of 2 and 4 that means four. And
interchanging 1 and 6 we can have two more combinations that means with one pair 8 combinations are there :
4*2=8. Similarly with other two also 8 combos. So in all 8*3=24 combos are possible.
8> (4 marks)
A boys age is 5 times as old as his sister. His fathers age is twice to that of his mother who is five times as old
as the boy. The sum of all of them equals to that of his grandmother who is celeberating his 81st birthday. How
old is the boy?
Ans:
5 years old
let boys age b x
sisters = x/5
mothers=5x
fatthers=2(5x)
grandmothers=81
81=x/5+x+5x+10x
81*5 = x+5x+ 25x +50x
405 = 81x
x= 405/81
x=5
so boys age is 5 years

9> (6 marks)

It was something like 4persons take part in a race and got different ranks.what weretheir ranks: John, black,
Wee, Anthony
Conditions were given like
If John stood first then wee cant be on 4th position and Anthony at 2nd postion.
Similarly 4 5 conditions were given
10> (8 marks)
An easy question with 4 subparts
A painter has 7 paintings and he follow certain rules while exhibiting the paintings:
Never places x and y in the same exhibit
If y is there z is also there
U is there if and if only w is there
Following these constraints 4 questions were asked based on the possible combinations in the exhibit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------After the puzzle round half an hours general english test was there . It was very easy having 45 questions
Result was anounced the same day
Next day in the morning I had my intrview . It was very general hr round .Two persons were there asking
general qua\estions.
Questions of intrvw:
what is the difference u faced while working in a team during ur training? Dont u think more options and
suggestions mean confusion.
What if a person in ur team is always talking against u in all matters without listening to ur part?(leave it to
team leader)
Why 5th gear is provided in new cars?(for speed)
My dad was frm army.So they asked wat u like abt army.(uniform, respect, discipline)
What all places have u been during the transfers and how did that affect u in ur life and y did u think so.
( adjustable and adaptable)
They gave me one sequence of numbers and without giving much time asked me the approach I was following
to solve that. I was nt able to solve it bt I explained d approach to them.
Asked my hobbies .My toughest time in whole life an happiest moment.

Questions u want to ask from us.

Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online.

May 23 2005
hello friends,
may 23
yesterday i gave infosys exam in bangalore. paper was very easy. I was not selected i got only 8/10 correct i
think they shorlisted candidates getting 10/10 because paper was easy. nearly 1000-1500 people wrote the exam
and they selected around 150 . i am sending all the questions i remember so that this will be useful for others
who r preparing for infy.
1. there is a cycle race going on and 1/5th of the total in front a person and 5/6th of the total behind that person
gives up the total number of participants. total how many participants r there? (3 marks)
a:31
2. a person wants to meet a lawyer and as that lawyer is busy he asks him to come three days after the before
day of the day after tomorrow? on which day the lawyer asks the person to come?
a: thursday
3. a person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which year is he born?
a: 470
4. a man enquires a person about the past 5 days temperatures in the 12 noon in that region. but the other says
that he dont remember the actual figures but there is different temperature on each day and that their
multiplication gives 12. assuming the temperature to the nearest degree what are the temeratures on the five
days? (5 marks)
a: 1,-1,2,-2,3 ( i think this one is correct but please check it out)
5. a cube is painted red and it is divided into 27 equal cubes then how many cubes r there which 3,2,1,0 sides
painted red.
a:8,12,6,1
6.a person says that their speed while going to a city was 10mph however while returning as there is no much
traffic they came with a speed of 15mph
what is their average speed?
a: 12mph
7. there is a peculiar island where a man always tells truth and a women never says two 2 consequtive truth or
false statements that is if she says truth statement then she says false statement next and vice versa. a boy and

girl also goes in the same way. one day i asked a child " what r u a boy or a girl" howver the child replied in
their language that i dint understand
but the parents knew my language and one parent replied that " kibi is a boy" the other one said that "no kibi is a
girl, kibi lied"(8 marks)
a: is kibi a boy or a girl
b: who ansered first mother or father?
ans: kibi is a girl and mother answered first.( i think its correct but check it out)
8. there is a couple and they have many children. 7 of them dont eat aloo 5 ot them dont eat carrot 6 of them
dont eat beans. 4 of them dont eat neither aloo or carrot 2 of them eat neither aloo or beans 3 of them dont eat
neither carrot or beans. and 1 dont eat neither alo, carrot or beans total how many children r there?
a: 8
9. there r three tribes in a village sororean tribe always tell the truth nororean always lie and mororean however
truth and false statements alternately however his first statement is uncertain three persons A B C replies in the
following way
A: 1. i am soroean
2. B is not mororean
B: 1. i am mororean( not exactly in this order i dont remeber correctly)
but answer is A: mororean B: nororean C: sororean
10. this one is the sixth question i dont remeber this one but a easy one regarding the flight coming late had it
been 6 hours late ... we would have been waiting for only ....(sorry i dont remeber)
a: 4pm
english paper was for 30 min and a very easy paper no need of any preperation for that.
this is all i can remember hope this one helps u.
all the best
regardsCHETANA-JOBS-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
monica.

Jun 12 2005
Infosys JUNE 12th paper (Bangalore)
1. if sachin score 76more than ahzar , and azhar and robin scores sum is 94 and azhar scores 76 less than
dravid and dravid score 26 more than robin . What was the total socre done in match
2.If a large cube is painted red and cut into 27 smaller cubes using

only six straight lines.

how many cubes with faces
1)0 side painted
2)1 side painted
3)2 side painted
4)3 side painted
ans 8, 12, 6,1
3.There are five persons in an office in the post of buyer, clerk, footwalker, manager,cashier.
Allen, Benett, Clark, Ewinger, Davis holds the post.
Among the 5 two have their lunch time from 11:30- 12:30 and the rest have it in 12:30 1:30
Mrs Allen and Mrs Benett are sisters.
Cashier and clerk share their lunch among themselves.
Two Bachelors share their rooms.
Davis and Ewinger doesnt face each other from the day Davis reported Ewinger to the Manager when he
returned from lunch and found out that Ewinger has already left for lunch before time.
Ans:
I m not sure about the answers bt question was like this
Davis:Buyer
Clark:Cashier
Allen: Manager
Benett:Clerk
Ewinger:Footwalker
Lunch 11:30 12:30
Two
Davis ( from the 5th point he takes lunch in the earlier session)
Davis cant be manager
lunch 12:30 1:30
three
Ewinger( form the 5th point he takes
lunch in 2nd session

Ewinger cant be manager

4. some thing like..
two cities A & B equidistant has rail way lines if for every one hr one train leaves at same times at same speed
from A and B then thaen a train travelling to other city in 5hrs will meet how may trains on the way?
5. triplet who usually wear same kind and size of shoe. namely Annie. Danny, Fanny. Once one of them broke a
glass in kitchen and their shoe prints were there on floor of kitchen. when their mother asked who broke Annie
said"i didn't do it"; Fanny said" Danny did it"; Danny said" fanny is lieing"; here two of them are lieing one is
speaking truth. Can u find out who borke it?
6.complete the series by finding missing number
a.1, _,27,256...
b. 3,10, 7,_,8,_,2,9..
7.sometimes a small town taxi driver can be rude. One taxi driver i had the occasion to travel with was
particularly lacking in courtesy and so i asked for his number. The driver gave me a sardonial smile and
said,"well id u divide my nos by 2,3,4,5 or 6 u will find there is always 1 remainder. but if u divide by 11 no
remainder. Do u wnat to know some thing more? " there is no cabby in this twon with a lowet number than
-who can say the ame and he drove off, .. what was the mans number?
ans 121
8. in a family each boy has has as many sis as many brother. But each girl has twice as many borthers as sis.
How many brothers and sisters are there?
ans 4 brothers 3 sisters.
9. a women in her conversation said " if u reverse my own age, in figures represent my husbands age. he is of
course senior to me and difference between our age is one 0ne-eleventh of their sum. what is the woman's and
her husbands age?
ans women 45 & husband 54.
10 some thing similar to...
i was driving in a car at a paricular speed i saw a speed limit board 0f 2 digits after a hr again i saw speed limit
board reverse of the previous 2 digits and had same number as previous and after a hr again saw the 2 digits
backward and forward separated by zero(3 digit) as speed limit board. what was the total speed at which i was
travelling ?
******************************************************************************************
***********************************************************
ALL THE BEST
SRILAKSHMI

Infy 19 2005
Question Paper of Infosys Exam held on 19-June-2005 in New Delhi
There were two papers : - Aptitude and English
Aptitude Paper contained 10 questions in 60 mins:
1. While driving through the countryside one day I saw a farmer tending his pigs and ducks in his yard. I
was curious to know how many of each he had. I stopped the car and inquired.
Leaning on the stile jovially, he replied, I have altogether 60 eyes and 86 feet between them.
I drove off calculating in my mind exact dugs and pigs he had. What do you think is the answer ? (4
Marks)
Sol : 13 Pigs and 17 Ducks.
2. Here is a simple arithmetical puzzle set by Longfellow in his own flowery, poetical language.
If one-fifth of a hive of bees flew to the badamba flower, one-third flew to the slandbara, three times the
difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour, and one bee continued to fly about, attracted on each
side by the fragrant Ketaki and Malati, what was the total number of bees ? (4 Marks)
Sol : The number of bees was 15.
3. There are 100 men in town. Out of which 85% were married, 70% have a phone, 75% own a car, 80%
own a house. What is the maximum number of people who are married, own a phone, own a car and
own a house ? ( 3 marks)
Sol: 15% (check it).
4. There are 10 Red, 10 Blue, 10 Green, 10 Yellow, 10 White balls in a bag. If you are blindfolded and
asked to pick up the balls from the bag, what is the minimum number of balls required to get a pair of
atleast one colour ? ( 2 Marks)
Sol : 6 balls.
5. Triplet who usually wear same kind and size of shoes, namely, Annie, Danny, Fanny. Once one of them
broke a glass in kitchen and their shoe prints were there on floor of kitchen. When their mother asked
who broke Annie said, I didnt do it; Fanny said Danny did it; Danny said Fanny is lieing; here
two of them are lieing, one is speaking truth. Can you find out who broke it ? (3 Marks)
Sol : Annie
6. 4 players were playing a card game. Cards had different colours on both sides. Neither of cards had
same colour on both sides. Colours were 2 Red, 2 Blue, 2 Green, 2 Yellow. Cards were lying in front of

each player. Now, each player knew the colour on other side of his card. They are required to tell their
colour.
Statement given by each of them was :
Annie : Blue or Green
Bobby : Neither Blue nor Green
Cindy : Blue or Yellow
Danny : Blue or Yellow
Colours of cards that are visible to all were Red, Blue, Green, Blue in order of their names. Exactly two
of them are telling truth and exactly two of them are lieing. Can you tell the colour on other face of card
for each player ? (6 Marks)
Sol :
Annie : Yellow (Lieing)
Bobby : Yellow (Telling truth)
Cindy : Blue (Telling truth)
Danny : Green (Lieing)
7. (I dont remember the exact question, but it was something like this only.) Addy asks Sunny to pick as
number of cards from a deck of cards. Sunny picks first card, picks another card by skipping 1 card,
then, picks another card by skipping 2, so on skipping one card more each time. Ultimately he finds that
he has picked up 5%of the cards. Can u find out the number of cards ? (6 Marks)
Sol : 39 ( answer is correct I dont know the procedure).
8. One day Harry and I set our watches together. None of us was aware that my watch was getting faster by
2 min per hour and Harrys watch was getting slower by 1 min per hour. After sometime, we discovered
that my watch was 1 hr ahead of Harrys watch. Can you find out after how long we noticed this ? (3
Marks)
Sol : 20 hrs
9. Four people, say, A, B, C, D belonging to M, N, O, P group, not in order decided for a picnic. All of
them brought salad from their home in their traditional style. Fruits used in salad were Grapes, Banana,
Apple, Cherry. All of them used exactly 3 fruits in their salad. None of them used same combination of
fruits in their salad. Some clues given are :
A doesnt belong to group M used Apple.
B who doesnt belong to group M and O used Apple & Cherry.
Person belonging to M group used Apple & Cherry in his salad.
C and person belonging to O used Cherry & Grapes both, but person belonging to N used only one of
them.
Question goes on like this and finally you need to answer 4 questions based on these clues :
(a) Which of the following fruits is not used by M group ?
Apple, Banana, Grapes, Cherry
(b) Which combination was used by B ?
Some pairs were given.
I dont remember the full question. It was of 8 marks, (4 parts.) But I was able to solve it.
10. One 4 marks ques was there. I dont remember it but I was able to solve it.

English Paper contained 50 ques of 50 marks in 45 min.

There were 5 sections ;

1. Comprehension : A paragraph was given and questions were asked from it.
2. Finding out correct sentence among two sentences given in each ques.
3. Finding out wrong sentence among 4 sentences given in each question.
4. Fill up the blanks by choosing the suitable very from the options given.
5. Fill up the blanks based on suitable words given in option as :
(a) Eyes like a
Parrot
Hawk
Pigeon
Sparrow.

Infy 19 banglore
Hi all!
These are the puzzles asked at the test.
1.A Farmer has some pigs and ducks with him.When asked how many pigs
and ducks he had he replied.."I have 60 eyes and 86 feet between
them".How many pigs and ducks did he have?
A. 13 pigs and 17 ducks
2.If 1/5th of a hive of bees flew to the badamba flower , 1/3rd flew
to the slandbara,three times the difference of these two numbers flew
to an arbour and 1 bee continued to fly about ,attracted on each side
by the fragrant ketaki and malati, what was the total no. of bees?
A. 15
3.In a colony of 100 people, 65 own a house,75 own a car,85 have
telephone,85 r married the how amny r married and have
telephone,house and car?
4. Four families - Joe,Flure,Miller,Clark
Four friends - Mandy,Robin,Erica,Stacy

Each friend prepares fruit salad using 3 fruits.All the friends

use apples,cherries,grapes,banana.No two friends use the same
combination of fruits.Each two friends have two fruits in common.
Some clues were given.we have to find out to which family each friend
belongs and what r the fruits each one used in their salad.
5.George,Harry,Michael attend an interview and make the following
statements.
George : 1.I am 22 years old.
2.Harry is two years older than me.
3.Michael is 1 year younger than me.
Harry : 1.I am not the youngest.
2.The difference of ages between myself and michael is 3years.
3.Michael is 25 yrs old.
Michael : 1.George is 22 years old.
2.George is 1 yr older than michael
3.Harry is 3 yrs older than george
It was found that all the three gave exactly 1 false statment.What
are the ages of George,Harry and Michael?
A. Goerge = 23
Harry = 25
Michael = 22
6.A man while sorting files,picks one,misses next,picks one,misses
2,picks 1,misses 3 and so on.He finally picks the last file.He finds
that alltogether he had picked 5% of the total files.How many files
did he pick?
7.Three triplets-Anny,Fanny,Danny.Somebody spoils kitchen.Mom asks
them and they reply..
Anny : I didn't do it
Fanny : Danny did it
Danny : Fanny is lying
If only one of them is telling truth,who spoiled the kitchen?
A.Anny
8.A bag consists of 100 balls--20 blue,20 white,20 yellow,20 green
and 20 red.What is the least no. of balls to be picked up so that 2
of them are of same color?

9.Holmes and watson set their watches so that both the watches show
the same time.But they are unaware that watson's watch is 1 minute
slow and Holmes's watch is 2 minutes fast.After sometime they notice
that both their watches differ by 1 hour exactly.After how much time
did they notice the difference?
A. 20 hours
10.Four people - A,B,C,D
Four cards painted on both sides not with same color
Four cards r placed on a table in fron tof 4 people
Four cards have no visible or hidden color in common
After seeing their respective cards and their hidden colors they
make the following statements about their hidden colors.
A Green or red
B Neither green nor red
C Blue or Yellow
D Yellow or blue
Exactly 2 of them are lying,what r the visible and hidden colors of
all the 4 people.
Puzzles were given 1 hour time and English section was for 1/2 an
hour.First there was a passage-questions based on that
passage,Identifying gramatically incorrect statements,statements with
spelling mistakes,fill in the blanks with the correct tense,meanings
of phrases.
The interview was held on the next day 20th june at electronic
city.There were two gents in the panel.The questions were :
1.Tell me about yourself
2.Funniest incident of u r college
3.About u r project
4.if u were made the IT minister,how would u promote u r knowledge
and technology in rural areas
5.Measure the volume of the room u r not given any tape
6.If given the land distance from b'lore 2 u r place what is the air
distance
7.Any 5 uses of an empty bottle other than holding any liquid
8.If given a project,There is an empty room.Whenever someone opens
the door lights must be on...There should be some message to catering
section so that the server can bring the exact no. of water glasses
as the persons present in the room.How would u do it.

The interview was a bit tough..Said that they'll inform in 2 weeks if

selected.
bye,
vidya.
Infy Trivandrum
Here are the INFY QUESTIONS of test held in SCT
college at Trivandrum
I am proud to say that they had shortlisted 97 of us
and selected 84 from it...
1)A person while going thro' a book observed that it
had no page numbers. So, he began to mark the page
numbers. After he was done with it, he observed that
he altogether used 61 3's. How many pages did the
book consist of?
ANS: 300
2)3 people A,B and C went for a buffet.each of them
went several times.A took 2.4 times as many trips as
B.C went 6 times more than B.find the minimum total
number of trips taken to the buffet.
ANS:28
3)a wizard said "i'm thrice as old as my son.my father
is 40 more than double my age.the sum of our ages is
"1240" what is the wizard's age?
ANS:360
4) A man asks a weatherman what`s the past five days
temp? he says i didn`t remember but i can say their
product is 12 and all are diff temperatures. what are
the five temperatures?
ans: -2,-1,1,2,3
5) A recent murder case centered around the six men,
clarke, filip, gront, herm, mark, and walt. In one
order or another these man were the victim, the
murderer, the witness, the police, the judge, and the
hangman. The facts of the case were simple. The victim
had died instantly from the effect of gunshot wound

inflicted a shot.the witness heard the shot but didn't

see the murder. After a lengthy trial the murderer was
convicted, sentenced to death, and hanged.
"
Mark knew both the victim and the murderer.
"
In court the judge asked clarke his account of
the
shooting.
" Walt was the last of the six to see filip
alive.
" The police testified that he picked up gront
near
the place where the body was found.
"
Herm and walt never met.
What role did each of the following play in this
melodrama ?
ANS a)
Murderer - Filip.
b) Victim - Herm.
c)
Judge - Mark.
d) Witness - Gront.
6). Racing competition.Participants were from 3 tribes
Sonorean-always says truth
Midorean-alternatively says T and F ,not with any
particular start.
Nororean-always False
A says- 1. I am the winner
2. C is the winner.
B says - 1. I am the winner.
2. A is the winner
C says- 1. I am the winner
2. B always speaks false
IDentify the tribes of each.
Ans:

Sonorean - C
Midorean - A
Nororean - B

7)Jack excitedly told his mother"we had a running

race.28 steps taken by ann is euivalent to 24 of
doug's steps and 21 of my steps.when ann takes 8
steps,doug takes 7 steps and i take 6 steps"
so who won?
ANS:doug

8)5 shopowners have one daughter each.each of them

name their shop after another's daughter.
certain details given.who is dimple's father?
ANS:mrinal
9)7 precious stones.2 shelves each able to accomodate
3 each.asphalt on left.diamond on right.
*ruby and diamond are never kept together
*emerald and saphire always together
4 questions based on this
10)
a wall clock,table clock,alarm clock and watch were
set together at 12 noon.for every hour the wall clock
loses 10 mins.for every hour on the wall clock,the
table clock gains tens minutes.for every hour on the
table clock the alarm clock gains 5 mins.and for every
hour on the alarm clock the watch loses 5 mins.what is
the time on the watch at 6 pm
ANS:5:48pm

July 4 2005 - chennai

The Infosys Question paper held on 4th July 2005, Chennai.
00
1. There is a circle race going on. One of them says,1/3 of those in front of me and of those behind me, give
the total number of children in the race. Then the number of children took part in the race?
Ans : 12
2. In an Isalnd the natives lie and visitors speak truth. A man wants to whether a salesman beside him in a bar is
a native or visitor. He asked him to ask a woman beside him whether she is a native or visitor. He replied that
she says she is a visitor. Whether the salesman is a native or visitor?
Ans : Visitor ( not sure )
3.A man fixed an appointment to meet Mr.X, X asked him to meet two days after the day before the after
tomorrow. Today is Friday. Whats the appointed day.

Ans: Tuesday.
4. A jewel problem, with some conditions and it is quite easy to solve.
5.A man said he spent 1/6 of his as a child, 1/12 as salesman in a liquor shop, 1/7 and 5 years as a politician and
a good husband respectively. At that time Jim was born. Jim was elected as Alderman four years back.when he
was half of his age. What is his age.
Ans: 86
6.Jack,Droug and Ann, 3 children had a race when returning from school. Ann takes 28 steps when Droug takes
24 steps, meantime Jack takes 21 steps. Jack explained that his 6 steps equals Drougs 7 steps and Anns 8 steps.
Who won the race?
Ans: Droug
7. Every day a cyclist meets a car at the station.The road is straight and both are travelling in the same direction.
The cyclist travels with a speed of 12 Kmph.
One day the cyclist comes late by 20 min. and meets the car 5km before the
Station. What is the speed of the car?
Ans: 60 kmph
8. A problem of persons and profession. Quite easy one.
9.A lady goes for shopping. She bought some shoestrings. 4 times the number of shoestrings, she bought pins
and 8 times, handkerchiefs. She paid each item with their count as each pieces cost. She totally spent Rs. 3.24.
How many handkerchiefs did she buy?
Ans : 16
10. Complete the series :
a) 3,6,13,26,33,66,____
b) 364,361,19,16,4,1,___
Ans : a) 73
b) 1 or -1
July 17 2005
1. There is a truck, which contains 12 gallons of Fuel that comes for 300miles/hr. The driver has not seen
the hole in it, and has taken that truck and drove for 4hrs after which the fuel was lasted. How much
fuel was lost during the journey?
2. On a field, 40 cows were put for fed, which can last grass in 40 days. If 30 cows were put, they can
empty the field in 60 days. How many days 20 cows will take to last that grass?

3. There are some bees flying on some flowers. One-fifth of the bees flew to the first flower. One-third of
the bees flew to second flower. 3 times the difference of the above two flew to the third flower. One
bee is flying around two flowers. Totally, how many flowers are there?
4. A case includes six people Mark, Fillip, Graham, Walt, Hunt and Clark who play the roles of Murderer,
victim, witness, Judge, Policeman, Hang man, but not in the same order.
i.
Policeman took Graham to the place of incident.
ii.
Mark knows both the victim and murderer.
iii.
Hunt and Walt never met.
iv.
Walt is one of the persons who have seen Fillip alive.
(Some more such conditions have given.)
Who played the roles below in the melodrama?

Role

Person

Murderer
Policeman
Judge
Witness
5. On a skating plane, Michel and Jennie are in a distance of a mile on each side of a point. They are going
to skate to the direction of each others. Jennie, having added force with the flow of the wind, skated
two and one-half miles faster than Michel and beat her 6 minutes. What are the times taken by both of
them?
6. (Some conditions were given, but may not be exactly the same.)
i.
A&B, who can speak English, have common language with E as Spanish.
ii.
Common language for B&E is French.
iii.
A, C&E can speak Italian.
iv.
D&E have common language as Portuguese.
v.
Portuguese is known by at least 3 persons.
There is only one person who knows all the 5 languages, only one who knows 4 languages, only one
who knows 3 languages, only one who knows 2 languages and only one who knows exactly one
language.
Based on the conditions, 4 questions were given. (Options were also not the same, Ive given just for
model.)
1. A Knows
i.
ii.
iii.
2. E knows
i.
ii.
iii.
3. B knows
i.
ii.

English, Spanish, Portuguese

French, English, Spanish
French, Italian, Spanish.
French, Portuguese
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish, French
Spanish, French
English, French, Italian

iii.
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish.
4. C Knows(and some options)
7. James has come out of Jail after 6 years. When he was punished with imprisonment, his age was 5 times
his sons age. Now, his age is 3 times his sons age. What was his age when his son was born?
8. A Boy has taken a short cut on which there is a railway track that goes through a narrow bridge. When
the boy covered 7/16th of the track in the bridge, he heard the whistle of the train. Then he ran out of that
bridge, when the train came to that bridge. If he were taken actual root, he would have reached the
destination on time, rather taking the shortcut and running out of that bridge. If the boy covers 4km/hr,
what was the speed of the train?
9. Three persons A, B & C who can be named according to their behavior. They can be named as
Sororean, the name that can be given to the one who always wins; Nororean, the name that can be given
to the one who always tells the truth; Midrorean, the name that can be given to the one who always lies.
Then, given some statements (not exactly the same Ive given), based on which to answer the question
(we need to write the names that A, B & C can be given in the table given)
A.
B.
C.

1) C has beaten B.
2) C always tells truth.
3) C is the winner.
1) A is the winner.
2) B doesnt tell truth.
1) B beat C.
2) A is the winner.
A

10. (one more question was there, I could not remember it)