Candle Handle
The stump of a candle is usually thrown away. A clever man found that ten such stumps would make a full candle. As luck would have it, he found a hundred stumps in his house. How many candles could he make?
Time Travel
A group of walkers trekked from Town A to Town B at an average speed of 4 km an hour, and then back from Town B to Town A at a speed of 1 km an hour. The outward journey took one hour less than the return.
How far did they walk on the trip?
Silver Fish
If a book-worm ate from the first page of Volume I to the last page of Volume III of an encyclopedia series standing in its right order on a bookshelf, how far would he have eaten, the books being 2 inches thick each, and the cover ¼ -inch thick?
Fields of Plenty
A farmer in Punjab owned two pieces of land. They were both perfect squares. Together, they covered an area of 1000m2. The length of the side of the smaller field was 10m less than two-thirds the length of the side of the bigger field.
What were the sizes of the farmer’s two fields?
A Question of a Month
A certain month has five Wednesday and the third Saturday is the 18th.
- How many Mondays are in the month?
- What is the data of the last Sunday of the month?
- What is the date of the third Wednesday of the month?
- On what day does the 23rd fall?
- On what day does the 7th fall?
In the Shade
If green plus blue makes 89, and red plus black make 56, what does yellow plus brown makes?
Consecutive Natural Numbers
There are two consecutive natural numbers whose product is equal to the product of three consecutive natural numbers for example (x + 1) = (y + 1) (y + 2). What are the two numbers?
Smallest Positive Prime
Which is the smallest positive prime which is some multiple of seven less than a cube of a counting number less than ten?
Size of a Cherry
The cherry is a round fruit with a round stone. If the flesh of the cherry around the stone is as thick as the stone itself, can you calculate mentally how much more pulp than stone there is in the cherry?
Building a Play House
Rakesh and Nikhilesh were carrying pieces of timber to build a playhouse. Nikhilesh said to Rakesh ‘Give me one of your pieces so that we shall both be carry the same number of pieces’.
‘No’ said Rakesh, proudly wanting to display his strength ‘Give me one of yours and I shall be carrying twice your weight’.
Can you tell how many pieces of timber were each Rakesh and Nikhilesh carrying?
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I am Vineet Patawari - PGDM (IIM Indore), ACA, B.Com(H). My passion for Mathematics, specially Vedic Maths encouraged me to start QuickerMaths
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watchman was paid for awaking not for sleeping so that he can see dreams.. – 05Feb12
as a night watchman he shouldnt have slept at night to get that dream... – 04Feb12
Can u plz give me clarity in ur solution Kaush sir..... – 04Feb12
thanks for these tricks. Are these from the book "quicker maths by m.tyra" ? – 03Feb12
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