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My friend Shuba works in a post office and she sells stamps. One day a man walked in and slamming seventy-five paise on the counter requested, ‘Please give me some 2 paise stamps, six times as many one paisa stamps, and for the rest of the amount make up some 5 paise stamps.’
The bewildered Shuba thought for a few moments and finally she handed over the exact fulfilment of the order to the man—with a smile.
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There are eleven different ways of writing 100 in the form of mixed numbers using all the nine digits once and only once. Ten-of the ways have two figures in the integral part of the number, but the eleventh expression has only one figure there.
Can you find all the eleven expressions?View SolutionSubmit Solution- 1,642.0K views
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There is a number which is very peculiar. This number is three times the sum of its digits. Can you find the number
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My friend Asha was throwing a very grand party and wanted to borrow from me 100 wine glasses. I decided to send them through my boy servant Harish.
Just to give an incentive to Harish to deliver the glasses intact I offered him 3 paise for every glass delivered safely and threatened to forefeit 9 paise for«very glass he broke.
On settlement Harish received Rs 2.40 from me. How many glasses did Harish break?View SolutionSubmit Solution- 1,642.1K views
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A wholesale merchant came to me one day and posed this problem. Every day in his business he has to weigh amounts from one pound to one hundred and twenty-one pounds, to the nearest pound. To do this, what is the minimum number of weights he needs and how heavy should each weight be?
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