51. The owner of a local jewellery store hired 3 watchmen to guard his diamonds, but a thief still got in and stole some diamonds. On the way out, the thief met each watchman, one at a time. To each he gave $$\frac{1}{2}$$ of the diamonds he had then and 2 more besides. He escaped with one diamond. How many did he steal originally?
52. The number of employees in Examveda and Co. is a prime number and less than 300. The ratio of the number of employees who are graduates and above, to that of employees who are not, can possibly be:
53. The remainder , when (22225555 + 55552222) is divided by 7, is
54. A young girl counted in the following way on the fingers of her left hand. She started calling the thumb 1, the index finger 2, middle finger 3, ring finger 4, little finger 5, then reversed direction, calling the ring finger 6, middle finger 7, index finger 8, thumb 9 and then back to the index finger for 10, middle finger for 11 and so on. She counted up 1994. She ended on her
55. How many pairs of natural numbers is there the difference of whose squares are 45.
56. The remainder when 1010 + 10100 + 101000 + . . . . . . + 101000000000 is divided by 7 is
57. There are 154 beads in a rosary and all are coloured, either RED or BLUE or GREEN. The number of blue ones is three less than red and five more than green. The number of Red beads are:
58. Recently, a small village, in Tamilnadu where only male shepherd reside with four sheep each, was devastated by Tsunami waves. Therefore 8 persons and 47 sheep were found to be dead and the person who luckily survived, left the village with one sheep each since 21 sheep were too injured to move so have left on their on luck, in the village. The number of sheep which were earlier in the village was :
59. A boy appeared in CAT for four consecutive year years, but coincidentally each time his net score was 75. He told me that there was $$\frac{1}{3}$$rd negative marking for every wrong answer and 1 mark was allotted for every correct answer. He has attempted all the questions every year, but certainly some answers have been wrong due conceptual problem. Which is not the total number of questions asked for CAT in any year, in that period?
60. The highest power of 17 which can divide exactly the following:
(182 - 1) (184 - 1) (186 - 1) (188 - 1) . . . . (1816 - 1) (1818 - 1) is :
(182 - 1) (184 - 1) (186 - 1) (188 - 1) . . . . (1816 - 1) (1818 - 1) is :
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