Top ashesi university college Interview Questions and Answers

Q: A die is rolled several times and the number appearing is summed. We stop when this sum becomes greater than or equal to 100. What value of sum in the end is the most probable (out of 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105)

Q: You have a birthday cake and have exactly 3 cuts to cut it into 8 equal pieces. How do you do it?

Q: A number of cats got together and decided to kill between them 999919 mice. Every cat killed an equal number of mice. Each cat killed more mice than there were cats. How many cats do you think there were ?

Q: Find the least number which when divided by 35 leaves remainder 25, when divided by 25 leaves remainder 15 and when divided by 15 leaves remainder 5?

Q: Two boats start from opposite banks of river perpendicular to the shore. One is faster then the other. They meet at 720 yards from one of the ends. After reaching opposite ends they rest for 10mins each. After that they start back. This time on the return journey they meet at 400yards from the other end of the river. Calculate the width of the river.

Q: Here are infinite black and white dots on a plane. Prove that the distance between one black dot and one white dot is one unit?

Q: Who has inspired you in your life and why?

Q: Can you talk about your life in a summary?

Q: You are standing on top of a tower of ht 200 mt. .At 100 mt. ht . from bottom of tower there is a peg where u can tie a rope. You have a rope of length 150 mt. with you and using this rope you have to get down the tower. you can not jump or there is nobody to help you. how will u get down the tower??

Q: What's the most creative way you can break a clock?

Q: In an interview how does the company select any candidate? on wat basis.

Q: A can do a piece of work in 15 days and B in 20 days. They began the work together but 5 days before the completion of the work, A leaves. The work was completed in?

Q: There are two families Alens and smiths. They have two children each. There names are A,B,C,D whose ages are different and ages are less then or equal to 11. The following conditions are given:-i) A's age is three years less then his brother's age .ii) B is eldest among the four.iii) C is half the age of the eldest in Alens family.iv) The difference in sum of the ages of Alens children and smiths children is same as that of five years ago.Find the ages of all the children.

Q: Two pipes X and Y together can fill a cistern in 4 hours. Had they been opened separately, then Y would have taken 6 hours more than X to fill cistern. How much time will be taken by X to fill the cistern separately?

Q: A train passes a station platform in 36 sec and a man standing on the platform in 20 sec. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr. What is the length of the platform?

Q: How is David's father's only daughter-in-law's son's wife related to David ?

Q: How many seconds will a 500 m long train take to cross a man walking with a speed of 3 km/hr in the direction of the moving train if the speed of the train is 63 km/hr?

Q: In a race if A beat B by 15m, A beat C by 25m and in a race between B and C, B beat C by 15m.Find the length of the tracks.

Q: In the month of october in a year has exactly four Mondays and four Fridays, find what day of week will be on the 20th of November of that year.

Q: Will you be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines?