Mammu and I, we were on a tour of West Germany. It was very cold winter evening. We stepped in the street to walk to a coffee shop. Mammu is only five and a half years old. We were dressed similarly. Who do you think felt colder?
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Women outnumbered men by 16 at a club social. Sometimes the number of women exceeds nine times the number of men by 32. What was the number of men and women at the club?
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Three naughty boys stole some mangoes from a garden. As it was late in the evening, they decided to divide the fruit equally among them in the morning, and went to sleep.
At night while the other two were sleeping, one boy woke up, tip-toed to the basket of mangoes, counted them and ate one. From the remainder he took a precise third and went back to sleep.
After some time a second boy woke up. He counted the mangoes, ate one, took an exact third of the remaining and went back to sleep.
A little before sun rise and third boy also woke up, ate one, and like the other two boys took a precise their of the remainder in whole mangoes.
In the morning, all the three boys went together to the basket of mangoes, counted them. Amongst them they found one which was over ripe – almost rotten. They threw it away. From the remainder they made an exact division.
How many mangoes in all did they steal?
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If a bookworm 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 covers 1/4 –inch thick?
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Krishna and Bala decided to have a bicycle race. But the problem was that they had only one bicycle between them! Krishna had a solution. As the road to the airport had a stone demarcating every kilometer, he would ride from the first stone to the fifth, and Bala could ride the remaining distance from the fifth to the tenth stone. Then they could take their respective times with a stopwatch to see who was faster. The ‘race’, however, was a failure. Can you say why?
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Raja’s office is 9 km from his home. One day, he decided to jog to work in order to increase his fitness. He estimates the journey time to be a little over 1 hour 45 minutes.
At first he feels fine, but before long his energy beings to fade and he realizes he will not be able to run the whole distance. A passing taxi is the answer to his prayer. Raja hails the cab and completes his journey, arriving at work one hour 10 minutes earlier than he had anticipated.
Assuming Raja could at 1/6 the speed of the cab, how far did he run before he hailed the taxi?
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In ancient times, there lived a prince and a princess who loved each other. They belonged to neighboring kingdoms. But their plans pf happiness together came to a sudden end when the two kingdoms went to war. Their parents locked them up in two towers and had them guarded day and night.
One day the prince bribed the guard so that he would deliver and collect written massages from himself and the princess. The prince however, did not trust the guard not to read the letters. Even if he were to seal the letters, the guard could open, read the reseal them without the princess knowing. The clever prince and princess then devised a way of making it impossible for the guard to read the letters before they were delivered.
How did they do it?
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There are 9 coins. 8 are of 1 gm and 1 is of 2 grams. How will you find out the heavier coin in minimum number of weighing and how many weighing it will need?
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If you standing on a pavement, how can you a raw egg to the ground for 1 metre without breaking it, without trying to cushion its fall?
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What is wrong with this proof?
2 = 1
a = b
a2 = ab
a2 – b2 = ab – b2
(a + b) (a – b) = b (a – b)
a + b = b
2b = b
2 = 1
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