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Jenny has boxes in three sizes: large, standard, and small. She puts 11 large boxes on a table. She leaves some of these boxes empty, and in all the other boxes, she puts 8 standard boxes. She leaves some of these standard boxes empty, and in all the other standard boxes, she puts 8 (empty) small boxes. Now, 102 of all the boxes on the table are empty.
The question: How many boxes has Jenny used in total?
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Assume that you have a number of long fuses, of which you only know that they burn for exactly one hour after you lighted them at one end. However, you do not know whether they burn with constant speed, so the first half of the fuse can be burnt in only ten minutes while the rest takes the other fifty minutes to burn completely. Also, assume that you have a lighter.
How can you measure exactly three quarters of an hour with these fuses?
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Jacob, his daughter, and the evil Joju lived in a city. Jacob was in debt to Joju, and Joju had his eye on Jacob’s daughter. Joju made a proposition: he would place a black stone and a white stone in a bag, and Jacob’s daughter would pick one out in front of the People of city. If she drew the white stone, Joju would forgive Jacob’s debt. If she drew the black stone, Joju would marry Jacob’s daughter. Jacob had no choice but to agree. Jacob’s daughter has no reason to trust Joju, and believes that he will place two black stones in the bag. How can she get out of marrying Joju?
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There are two cylindrical rods of iron, identical in size and shape. One is a permanent magnet. The other is just non-magnetised iron — attractable by magnets, but not permanently magnetic itself. Without any instrument, how can you determine which is Magnetic ?
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Jacob is hanging out on a heavily forested island that is really narrow: it is a narrow strip of land that is Eight miles long. One End of the strip is A, and the other end B. A fire has started at A and the fire is moving toward B at the rate of 1 mph. at the same time, there is a 2 mph wind blowing in the direction from A toward B. what can Jacob do to save himself. Assume that Jacob can’t swim and there are no boats, jet-copters, teleportation devices, etc.. (if he does nothing, Jacob will be toast after at most 8 hours, since 8 miles / 1 mph = 8 hours)
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