As an entrance test for a particular university, you are given a corked bottle with a very small coin in it. Your task is to remove the coin without taking the cork out of the bottle or breaking the glass, or boring a hole in the cork or glass.
How do you pass the test and get the coin out?
Look at the shape below and answer the following questions on it.
1. How many triangles are there in the diagram?
2. How many rectangles are there in the diagram?
3. How many hexagons can you find?
4. Deduct the sum of the numbers in the rectangles from the sum of the numbers in the triangles.
A man was walking in the jungle
If you overtake the last person,
Once upon a time, and old lady went to sell her
You have 12 coins, one of which is fake. The fake coin is
It was vacation time, and so I decided to visit my cousin’s home. In the mornings, we both would go for a jog. The evenings were spent on the tennis court. Tiring as these activities were, we could manage only one per day, i.e., either we went for a jog or played tennis each day. There were days when we felt lazy and stayed home all day long……
Jimmy takes the underground train to work and uses an escalator at the railway station. If Jimmy runs up 7 steps of the escalator, then it takes him 28.5 seconds to reach the top of the escalator. If he runs up 13 steps of the escalator, then it takes him only 19.5 seconds to reach the top…..
The 10″ pizza sells for $ 3.99 at my favorite pizza store. The store claims they have a great deal on the large 12″ pizza, which is specially priced at $ 4.88. What is the per cent discount the store is offering?….
There is a pole in a lake. One-half of the pole is in the ground, another one-third of it is covered by water, and 8 ft is out of the water. What is the total length of the pole in ft?….