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[gaylo565]

I recently had a job interview in which they gave me a logic test consisting of 4 word problems. The questions were simple but kind of a challenge. I thought I would post them here if anyone wants to look at them or needs some logic q's to ask when interviewing new employees.

1. Add the following operators +-*/() to the left side of the equation to make this equation true. You must use all 4 eights and only 4. You can not touch the right side of the equation.

8 8 8 8 =56

2. If you are in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you now in?

3. At 11:00 am we start filling a bucket up with marbles by adding some every second. The first second we add one marble. Each second after we add twice as many marbles as the last second (2,4,8, etc). The bucket gets filled at 12:00 pm. At what time is the bucket half full.

4. You have 3 baskets of fruit. One with apples, one with oranges, and one with both apples and oranges. Each basket is labeled, but with the wrong label. If you know that each basket is labeled wrong and you cannot see what is in each basket, how can you pick 1 fruit from one of the baskets and, based on the fruit you choose, correctly label all 3 baskets.

I know they are kind of easy but I was only given about 4 min and It ended up taking me all 4 to get them all.

[WingedPanther]

8*(8+ -8/8) = 56

second place

11:59 am (though technically, never, because there is always an odd number of marbles in the bucket)

Pick the fruit from the "mixed" label. Rotate the labels so that it is labeled with the correct non-mixed label.

[Xav]

Trust you to cough up all the answers, Winged! :)

[TcM]

Yeah... he is kinda... genius in these mind things.

[gaylo565]

I hope it at least kept you entertained for the couple of minutes that it did me:) One more part to the fruit one (its pretty self explanatory but I think its worth stating.) Once you have the one fruit basket labeled correctly the one you did not take the label from to correctly label the other will be the mixed fruit.

[getzephyr]

Interesting! but not getting proper answers

[Minor]

mann, some are born genius

[WingedPanther]

Over 20 years of solving logic puzzles will make a difference.

[TcM]

Yeah.. but if at first you don't manage to solve them.. it will be kinda useless. So you have to be a genius to start ....

[Xav]

I think I can handle that... :D

[zeroradius]

interesting, sadly enouph i did not get the fruit one :o .

[chili5]

yeah those were quite interesting, but i didn't get the fruit one :o

and i don't think the time one is possible to do because it starts with one marble, so theirs always going to be an odd number of marbles.