Comments on: Logic Test From My Interview

By: Hunter Nuttall

Hunter Nuttall — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:35:56 +0000

@ Max, thanks for playing along! For #11, there’s a guy (a son), his dad (a father and a son), and his grandfather (a father). There are two fathers and two sons among the three people. Although they’re ignoring the fact that the grandfather is also a son (just not the son of anyone else in the puzzle).

There was no set time limit that I know of. After I finished, I left the room to find my interviewer, but the whole office was gone, so I just waited.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:50:22 +0000

Hi Hunter, thanks for the questions. this is really interesting!

I could answer most of the questions, but i’m still wondering about number 11. how come everyone gets $222222? that really confused me. and how many minutes are you allowed to do it?

By: Hunter Nuttall

Hunter Nuttall — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:34:41 +0000

@ Bill, they didn’t specify, but I think they weren’t thinking about Massachusetts!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:18:20 +0000

#9: I’m assuming the answer is mother, but the husband could has a gay sister who lives in Massechusetts and is married so then I would have no clue how to address that person other than “aunt.”

By: Hunter Nuttall

Hunter Nuttall — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:01:55 +0000

@ Daniel, it’s interesting that you thought about putting one number on top of another, but not two numbers next to each other. I think most people would say 99. But yeah, your second answer is right: 9⁹.

@ Annie, I don’t necessarily assume they know I blog, but I assume they could know. I don’t think that limits me though, because there’s nothing I want to say that I’m not already saying.

By: Annie Binns

Annie Binns — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:44:24 +0000

Fun! I don’t mind these types of tests as long as they give me a reasonable amount of time to mull them over. I find that I either get the answers immediately, or almost never. Only a few come to me after using paper. In this case, # 3 and # 5 were killing me, so I Googled the answers and had to laugh! Curious – do you assume they know you blog, and if so, does that limit what you feel you can say?

By: Daniel Richard

Daniel Richard — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:29:35 +0000

Oh shoot. There too can be 9^9 (in exact form, its a big 9 on the left, and a tiny 9 written on the top right side from the latter as the power to the number). Daniel Richard´s last blog post..8 Reasons To Why We Say Auspicious Phrases On Chinese New Year

By: Daniel Richard

Daniel Richard — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:26:18 +0000

Lemme go guess #6:

Biggest number would be 8 (made up by 2 “0’s”, one on top of the other).

I glanced through the rest. Lol! Back to studying for my final exam this coming monday!

All the best to your new software job Hunter!

Daniel Richard´s last blog post..8 Reasons To Why We Say Auspicious Phrases On Chinese New Year

By: Hunter Nuttall

Hunter Nuttall — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:14:12 +0000

@ Akemi, it’s a software job. These questions aren’t directly related (I wish), but I guess they think the test measures something important.

Yeah, I remembered most of them, but not exactly word for word, and I forget some of the questions. Though I impressed myself by remembering 8,549,176,320, especially since that was the one I didn’t get!

I’ll share the answers after people have time to work on this. You know, the people who would rather take a test than celebrate Valentine’s Day!

By: Akemi - Yes to Me

Akemi - Yes to Me — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:02:51 +0000

Wait, I just noticed -- you mean you memorized all this by heart? Do you realize that's kinda special skill?? Akemi - Yes to Me´s last blog post..My Spiritual Make Money Scheme