Recently, while in London, I decided to walk down the escalator of a tube station. I did some quick calculation in my mind. I found that if I walk down twenty-six steps, I require thirty seconds to reach the bottom. However, if I am able to step down thirty-four stairs I would only require eighteen seconds to get to the bottom. If the time is measured from the moment the top step begins to descend to the time I step off the last step at the bottom.
Can you tell the height of the stairway in steps?

We have a circular dining table made of marble which had come down to us as a family heirloom. We also have some beautiful bone-china saucers that I recently brought from Japan. Diameter of. our table top is fifteen times the diameter of our saucers which are also circular. We would like to place the saucers on the table so that they neither overlap each other nor the edge of the table. How many can we place in this manner?

When my uncle in Madura died recently, he left i will, instructing his executors to divide his estate oi Rs.1,920,000 in this manner: Every son should receive three times as much as a daughter, and that every daughter should get twice as much as their mother What is my aunt’s share?

It is a small town railway station and there are 25 stations on that line. At each of the 25 stations the passengers can get tickets for any of the other 24 stations. How many different kinds of tickets do you think the booking clerk has to keep?