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Two women were selling marbles in the market place-
– One at three for a paisa and
– Other at two for a paisa.One day both of them were obliged to return home when each had thirty marbles unsold. They put together the two lots of marbles and handing them over to a friend asked her to sell them at five tot 2 paise. According to their calculation, after all. 3 for one paisa and 2 for one paisa was exactly the same as 5 for 2 paise. Now they were expecting to get 25 paise tor the marbles, as they would have got. if sold separately But much to their surprise they got only 24 paise tor the entire lot.
Now where did the one paisa go? Can you explain the mystery?
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Little Ishan was a very bad at memorizing word spellings and he regularly makes mistake. So his teacher comes up with an idea and told Ishan that for every correct spelling in the dictation, he will give a reward of 3 chocolates and for every wrong spelling, he will be fined 9 chocolates. In the Test, Ishan was dictated with 100 words and was given 240 chocolates.
How many words did Ishan spelled incorrectly?
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Andrew is shuffling a pack of 54 cards in total and after some time, he takes out a joker card.
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He splits the remaining cards into two piles. Can you find out the probability where one of the piles has a sequence of card from A to K in order?
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Three doctors said that Robert was their Brother. Robert said he had no Brothers.
Who is Lying?
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A boy was driving a car, a girl took a lift from her. She asked his name.
Boy said – my name is hidden in my car’s number, find if you can.
After this she gets downCar number was [ WV733N ] Can you guess the name now?
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