Solution:

Well this question is quite easy but still many people jump up to the conclusion so quickly and in the wrong direction. Just focus on the line that it doubles in size every day. Since the lotus has covered the entire pond in 20 days, it must have grown to half of the pond on the previous day i.e. the 19th day.

Thus the lotus will take 19 days to cover half the pond.

Solution:

The most often answer is 0 which is completely wrong.

Let us begin like this. The 12 hours in a clock makes a total of 360 degrees. Thus one hour will equal to 30 degrees.

Now as per the question, the hour hand will directly be on 3 when the minute hand is at 12. After 15 minutes or after 1/4 of an hour i.e. at 3:15, the hour hand will be 1/4 * 30 degrees = 7.5 degrees away from the minute hand.

Solution:

This question is one of the most common interview question. The most common answer of the question is sixty which is completely wrong. The second most common answer of this interview question is 10 which is wrong as well.

What we have is
6 fishermen catches 6 fishes in 6 minutes

If you offer them 10 times as much as time, they will surely catch 10 times as much as fishes as well
Thus the same six fishermen will be able to catch 60 fishes in 60 minutes.

You can also thing this in the unitary method.

If six fishermen catches 6 fishes in 6 minutes
Then, one fisherman will catch one 1 fish in 6 minutes
Thus in sixty minutes, one fisherman will catch 10 fishes (10 times the time, ten times the fishes).

Thus the right answer is six.

Solution:

nineteen

Explanation:
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Solution:

John starts after 3 days, thus Peter has already covered 60 km by then (travelling at 20km a day)
The distance between Peter and John will be increased to 60 + 5 + 1 = 66 km in the next two days.

Since John is following an arithmetic progression in the speed daily, the distance between him and peter will keep on decreasing from the 6th day. It will decrease by 3 km on the first day, 7 km on the next day and so on.

Now John will catch up with Peter after n + 5 days from the start of Peter
Thus
66 = (n/2)*(2*3 + (n-1)*4)

If we solve for n in the above equation, we will get n = 5.5

Thus John will catch up with Peter on the eights day when he starts running after Peter.