Many members of this group actually faced / cleared IIM interviews. Are these questions actually represent their trends? What experienced people say?
Thanks,
Questions asked by P&G while recruiting at IIM-B.
1. There is one word in the English language that is
always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was
given 15 cents. What time is it?
3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung
is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from he
water.
The tide rise! ! s at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High
tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's
highest, how many
rungs are under water?
4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces
south. There is a window in each wall. A
bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the
bear?
5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
6. There is a room.! The shutters are blowing in.
There is broken glass on the floor. There is
water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor.
Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?
7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6
feet wide that has been dug with a square edged
shovel?
8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a
bucket of water which is 45! degrees F, and
dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and
size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of
them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom
of the bucket first? Same question, but
the location is in Canada?
9. What is the significance of the following: The year
is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon! on May 6th.
10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4
haystacks in the other field, how many
haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the
center field?
11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not
move?
Scroll down for answers............
1. The word "incorrectly."
2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents.
He divided it between two people. Therefore, he
gave a quarter to two.
3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Googly ;-)
4. White. If all the walls face south, the house
is at the North pole, and the bear, therefore, is
a polar bear.
5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be
either, but if you follow the mathematical orders
of operation, division is performed before
addition. So... half of two is one. Then add two,
and the answer is three.
6. Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the
shutters in, which knocked his goldfish-bowl off
the table, and it broke, killing him.
7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still
a hole: the absence of dirt.
8. Both questions, same answer: the ball in the
bucket of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of
the bucket last. Did you think that the water in
the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again.
The question said nothing about that bucket
having anything in it. Therefore, there is no
water(or ice) to slow the ball down...
9. The time and month/date/year American style
calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.
10. One. If he combines all of his haystacks,
they all become one big stack.
11. The temperature.
Thanks,
Questions asked by P&G while recruiting at IIM-B.
1. There is one word in the English language that is
always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was
given 15 cents. What time is it?
3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung
is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from he
water.
The tide rise! ! s at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High
tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's
highest, how many
rungs are under water?
4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces
south. There is a window in each wall. A
bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the
bear?
5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
6. There is a room.! The shutters are blowing in.
There is broken glass on the floor. There is
water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor.
Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?
7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6
feet wide that has been dug with a square edged
shovel?
8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a
bucket of water which is 45! degrees F, and
dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and
size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of
them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom
of the bucket first? Same question, but
the location is in Canada?
9. What is the significance of the following: The year
is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon! on May 6th.
10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4
haystacks in the other field, how many
haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the
center field?
11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not
move?
Scroll down for answers............
1. The word "incorrectly."
2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents.
He divided it between two people. Therefore, he
gave a quarter to two.
3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Googly ;-)
4. White. If all the walls face south, the house
is at the North pole, and the bear, therefore, is
a polar bear.
5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be
either, but if you follow the mathematical orders
of operation, division is performed before
addition. So... half of two is one. Then add two,
and the answer is three.
6. Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the
shutters in, which knocked his goldfish-bowl off
the table, and it broke, killing him.
7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still
a hole: the absence of dirt.
8. Both questions, same answer: the ball in the
bucket of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of
the bucket last. Did you think that the water in
the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again.
The question said nothing about that bucket
having anything in it. Therefore, there is no
water(or ice) to slow the ball down...
9. The time and month/date/year American style
calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.
10. One. If he combines all of his haystacks,
they all become one big stack.
11. The temperature.
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