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Age Puzzle Game

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:28:32 +0000

Age Puzzle

If you are 12 years or over:

Write down your age.

Reverse the figures.

So, if your age is 13, reversing the figures gives 31.

Take away your age from the second number.

Divide by nine.

You may not believe it but we know there won’t be remainder. Try it with anyone’s age.

English puzzle

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:10:02 +0000

My friend asked me this question: “my grandmother’s age is a perfect square. Also, it is equal to the difference the square of my father’s age and the square of my mother’s age. My father is one year older than my mother. Can you tell me how old my mother is?”

Extra Baggage

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:40:33 +0000

When I met Arati, Bharati and Chitra, their respective ages (in years) were in the ratio 5 : 2 : 1 . Their ages in years now are in the ratio of 10 : 7 : 6 . The sum of the ages is 90 years more than the sum of the ages when I first met them. How old are the three women now?

A Question of Age

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:39:02 +0000

Last winter I was in the United Kingdom. Travelling by the train from London to Manchester, I had for company two middle-aged Englishmen who were seated opposite to me. Naturally, they did not speak to me – because we hadn’t been introduced. But I could not help overhearing their conversation.

‘How old is Tracy, I wonder?’ one asked the other. ‘Tracy!’ the other replied ‘Let me see – eighteen years ago he was three times as old as his son.’

‘But now, it appears, he is only twice as old as his son’ said the former.

I tried to guess Tracy’s age, and his son’s age. What do you think my solution was?

Age Puzzle

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:43:55 +0000

Disha and her friend, Sapna once met at a party. Soon a fight broke out between the two while discussing their ages.

Said Disha,"I definitely am not older than 30!!!"

On hearing that, Sapna snapped back, "You're old enough to be my aunt. I'm exactly 28 and you are not less than 5 years older than I am."

Disha immediately yelled back,"Liar! I'm sure you're at least 29!!"

A man broke up the fight and conducted a lie-detector test on both of them to prove to them who's right and who's wrong. As it turned out, they'd both lied throughout the entire fight. What are their actual ages? Provide a detailed explanation along with your answer.

When did Diophantus Die?

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:14:53 +0000

Here is an epitaph of the celebrated Greek mathematician of 250 A.D., Diophantus. Can you calculate his age from this?

DIOPHANTUS PASSED ONE SIXTH OF HIS LIFE IN CHILDHOOD, ONE TWELFTH IN YOUTH, AND ONE SEVENTH MORE AS A BACHELOR; FIVE YEARS AFTER HIS MARRIAGE A SON WAS BORN WHO DIED FOUR YEARS BEFORE HIS FATHER AT HALF HIS FINAL AGE. HOW OLD IS DIOPHANTUS?