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Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:40 am
by Anuj Dhawan
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Re: Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:14 am
by Robert Sample
79

Re: Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 4:37 am
by William Collins
Yes, they sneakily jumped over 68.

What would 497 be, Anuj?

Re: Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:26 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
720? (provided 3 digits are allowed.)

Re: Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:52 pm
by William Collins
I suppose the problem with any perhaps unrepresentative set of values is that any number of formulae may be intuited which may be defeated once further results are known.

So it was a bit of a silly question of mine. I went for digit one plus digit two plus (digits-one-and-two multiplied by digit three).

Perhpas the episode exists on YouTube so we can find out more?

Re: Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:53 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
Yeah, such questions can have so many different approaches to reach to an answer.

And there are other questions when they check your wittiness in 'that' moment; for example, in one of the interview the first question asked to an interviewee was - how many stairs you take to reach us?

I've heard that this question was asked in one of the interviews for highly admired administrative Services in India. What do you think, what answer was chosen as best? :)

Re: Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 4:45 am
by William Collins
"All of them"

"Only as many as I needed to".

"About the same as you did".

"None. We're on the Ground Floor"

"None. I took the lift".

"None. I overcame them".

"If I get the job, it'll be one of the first things I'll clarify".

"23. You mustn't forget that single step up from the street".

Re: Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:16 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
"Just double of their half" - was the answer which was selected. I just heard of it and have no evidence of proof though but this has stuck in mind for long enough...

Re: Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 12:35 pm
by Anushka Sharma
79, for the original post.

Re: Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:06 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
Yes, 79 is the correct answer!

Re: Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:14 pm
by Dino
79...

Re: Only 20% will give right answer on 1st attempt.

Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:05 am
by Anjali Chopra
yes, 79.