Solution:

The best way to increase the probability of winning is to place one yellow ball in the first bowl and all the other balls in the second bowl.

Now, you have a 1/2 probability of choosing the bowl with just one yellow ball. If you choose that, you win.

If you choose the other bowl, it has 49 yellow balls and 50 white balls. You still have almost 1/2 probability of picking a yellow ball out of it and winning.

Solution:

There is no reason whatever why the customer's original deposit of Rs.100 should equal the total of the balances left after each withdrawal.
The total of withdrawals in the left-hand colum may equal Rs.100, but is is purely coincidence that the total of the right-hand column is close to Rs.100.
Let us show another example, but starting with Rs.200 in the bank:
Withdrawals Balance left
Rs.50 Rs.150
Rs.25 Rs.125
Rs.10 Rs.115
Rs.8 Rs.107
Rs.5 Rs.102
Rs.2 Rs.100
Rs.100 Rs.699
Moral of this story? Don't Total Balances

Solution:

Four

As the window was closed it is obvious that the six candles that were not extinguished were lit till they melted away entirely. Thus only four candles that were extinguished remain at the end.

Solution:

7 Races.

Solution:

The women is a of short stature. She can't reach the upper elevator buttons, but can push is with his umbrella.

Solution:

-3 -1 1

Explanation:
-3 * 1 * -1 = 3(prime)
-1 - (-3) = 1 -(-1) = 2

Solution:

This statement is true but only in a specific case i.e. if both of the siblings continue to live till the day the younger is as old as the elder one was during the time of their birth.

Solution:

The Lady sitting in the chair has the detector attached to the back of her blouse.

Solution:

The woman told him to take out one nut each from the rest of the wheels and use them.

Solution:

17 mins

The initial solution most people will think of is to use the fastest person as an usher to guide everyone across. How long would that take? 10 + 1 + 7 + 1 + 2 = 21 mins. Is that it? No. That would make this question too simple even as a warm up question.

Let’s brainstorm a little further. To reduce the amount of time, we should find a way for 10 and 7 to go together. If they cross together, then we need one of them to come back to get the others. That would not be ideal. How do we get around that? Maybe we can have 1 waiting on the other side to bring the torch back. Ahaa, we are getting closer. The fastest way to get 1 across and be back is to use 2 to usher 1 across. So let’s put all this together.

1 and 2 go cross
2 comes back
7 and 10 go across
1 comes back
1 and 2 go across (done)

Total time = 2 + 2 + 10 + 1 + 2 = 17 mins

Solution:

Let us denote the number of boys as 'p' and the number of girls as 'q'.

The first statement says that each boy has equal numbers of brothers and sisters
(p - 1) = q
=> p - q = 1 ------- (a)

The second statement says that every girl has twice as many brothers as that of sisters
2 (q - 1) = p
=> 2q - p = 2 ------- (b)

By solving (a) and (b)
We get q as 3 and p as 4.

Therefore, there are 4 boys and 3 girls in the family.