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5Dec/091

Out in the Cold

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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4Dec/092

A Combination Problem

Can you combine eight 8s with any other mathematical symbols except numbers so that they represent exactly one thousands?

You may use the plus, minus terms, and division signs as well as the factorial function and the Gamma function. You may also use the logarithms and the combinatorial symbol.

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3Dec/093

Women at Club Socials

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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13Nov/092

Age Puzzle

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!!"

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13Nov/097

Interesting Riddles

Funny Interesting Riddles for you : In this post we have tried to give you few witty, funny but interesting riddles. Try to use your brain but friends don't take them to seriously.

Interesting Riddles

  1. How many times can you subtract 5 from 25?
  2. What two things can never be eaten for breakfast?
  3. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
  4. The person who makes it doesn't want it. The person who buys it doesn't use it. The person who uses it doesn't see it. What is it?
  5. While some months have just 30 days, others have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?
  6. On my way to St. Ives I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wives. How many were going to St. Ives?
  7. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
  8. There is a house with all 4 sides facing south. If a bear walks past the house, what color would it be?

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7Nov/095

Stolen Mangoes

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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5Nov/093

Bookworm Puzzle

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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5Nov/095

The Cycle Race Brain Teaser

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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3Nov/0910

Time and Speed Puzzle

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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1Nov/095

Locker Puzzle : Maths Puzzle

A school had a strange principal. On the first day, he has his students perform an odd opening day ceremony:

There are one thousand lockers and one thousand students in the school. The principal asks the first student to go to every locker and open it. Then he has the second student go to every second locker and close it. The third goes to every third locker and, if it is closed, he opens it, and if it is open, he closes it. The fourth student does this to every fourth locker, and so on. After the process is completed with the thousandth student, how many lockers are open?

Try and solve this logical maths puzzle yourself.

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