Mathematical Puzzle
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You can see a Swiss Cross in the attached picture. You can draw one on a sheet of paper. Now you have to draw two straight lines on that paper and cut along with those lines. After cutting, you must have four congruent pieces and also, you must be able to join them to make a square.
Can you do it?
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Solve the number series by identifying the last number.
1 4 5 6 7 9 11 ?
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Suppose that there is a rubber ball which has a property of bouncing back to the original height from which it was dropped and it keeps doing that until it is stopped by any external force.
Can you calculate the fraction of height to which the ball would have bounced if it has bounced four times after dropping from a certain height without being stopped?
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Mr. Sameer a very clever person, he wanted to cheat restaurant owner Mrs. Alka by proving she have calculated his bill wrongly.
If Mrs Alka got proven wrong she will have to give complete refund to Mr. Sameer. Can you Help Mrs. Alka and prove Mr. Sameer is wrong?
Here is Mr. Sameer’s Statement
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A rubber band (well, a rubber string, really) is 10 meters long. There’s a worm that starts at one end and crawls toward the other end, at a speed of 1 meter per hour. After each hour that passes, the rubber string is stretched so as to become 1 meter longer than it just was. Will the worm ever reach the other end of the string?
Also know as – Ant on a rubber rope Puzzle
An ant starts to crawl along a taut rubber rope 1 km long at a speed of 1 cm per second (relative to the rubber it is crawling on). At the same time, the rope starts to stretch uniformly by 1 km per second, so that after 1 second it is 2 km long, after 2 seconds it is 3 km long, etc. Will the ant ever reach the end of the rope?View SolutionSubmit Solution- 1,618.0K views
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Some multiples of 11 have an even digit sum.
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7*11 = 77 and 7+7 = 14, which is even;
11*11 = 121 and 1+2+1 = 4, which is even.Do all multiples of 11 have an even digit sum?
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Given the size of the chess board and initial position of the knight, what is the probability that after k moves the knight will be inside the chess board.
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1) The knight makes its all 8 possible moves with equal probability.
2) Once the knight is outside the chess board it cannot come back inside.Puzzlefry added Info-
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One person has some money in his pocket, He visits four temple on the way. As soon as he enters a temple, his money gets double and he offers Rs. 100 in each temple thus his pocket gets empty after he returns from the fourth temple. Now the question is how much money he had initially ?
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