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Some common and most frequently asked puzzles in Interviews Part-3

In this post I will include some more puzzles asked in Interviews very frequently. This is specially for the young graduates who are going to give Interviews in Campus placements.

1.  Five planes are circling near the Airport in such a way that they form pentagon. Assume each plane at the vertices of pentagon and moving. In what ways planes should move such that no planes collide with each other. What is the probability that planes doesn't collide?

2. What is the next number in the series?

 2  11  4  15  10  13  14  18 __

3. In Sahara Desert there is some random house and has One clock in the house. The clock is temperature sensitive. At night it becomes 1/2 minutes fast when it is cold and in day it becomes 1/3 slow when it is hot. We set timing of clock on 1st May. On which date the clock becomes 5 minutes faster?

4. What is the next number in series?

 1/5  5  3/6  216  6/2  64  4/4  __

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5. You are Travelling from Singapore at 5:00 AM to Dubai, the journey took 6 hours. Now you took 15 hrs 15 minutes travel time to reach Brazil Sao paulo. What is current time in Brazil?
Hint: Singapore is 10 hours behind Brazil and Brazil is 6 hours ahead of Dubai.

I will post the answers for this set of puzzles in my next Blog post.

Meanwhile, If you know the answers. Please let me know in comments.

 UPDATE :
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