Solution:

The question can practically disarm you. But we promise by the time you read the solution, you will find that it was way easy than you were thinking.

Let us name the boxes with a number - Box1, Box 2..., Box10. Now you must be familiar with the weights of the balls precisely. By saying that we are not implying that you will have to take one ball from every box and judge the weight of every ball.

What you have to do is pick one ball from Box 1, 2 balls from Box 2, 3 balls from Box 3, ...., 10 balls from Box 10. Thus after taking balls from every box in such a manner, you will finally have 55 balls in total. There comes the time to use the weighing machine.

If all the balls were weighing adequate, the combined weight should be 55 x 10 grams = 550 grams. But since one of the box has defected balls, the weight will be less than that. Here is the tricky part and explains why we took different number of balls from each box.

If the total weight is less than 1 gram, then the defective box is the Box 1 since we took 1 ball from that box. If the Box 2 is defective, the total weight will be less than 2 grams. In similar fashion you can identify the defective box by analyzing the total weight that is calculated by the weighing machine.

Solution:

Seven

Dividing the horses in a group of five, we will have five different groups of horses. A race will be conducted separately for each group which will help us find the fastest three horses in every group. We have used five different races till now.

Now we can have a race among the winners from every race which will help us determine the fastest of them all. We have used the sixth race.

The second fastest horse can be the one who came second in the sixth race or the second fastest horse in the finals winners' first race.

If we look at the first case, the third fastest horse can be the third fastest horse in the sixth race or the second fastest horse in either the fastest or second fastest horse first race.
If we look at the other case, the third fastest horse may be the second fastest in the sixth race or the third fastest in the final winners' first race.

If you calculate our assumptions, we have five more horses to race (seventh race) and determine the second fastest and the third fastest horse.

Solution:

58 minutes

If you see the net progress of the hiker, it is one feet per minute. The most common answer is therefore 60 minutes or an hour. But if you consider the situation, after 58 minutes, he would have climbed the mountain and would be on top of it, thus he will not slip back.

Solution:

Since there are 100 logicians, the lights are turned on and off hundred times and after the 100th time, all the logicians leave the room.

If all of them sees 99 black foreheads, the lights get turned off. When the light is turned on again, everyone is able to see 99 black foreheads again. This happens 100 times and then every logician leaves the room.

Let us make it more simplified for you. Assume that only one person has a black forehead. The people who invited them said that at least one person has a black forehead and as they turn off the lights, that logician leaves.

Imagine the scenario with two logicians having black forehead. One of the logician sitting there must be thinking "I have a black forehead or I don't have a black forehead. If I am not the one with black forehead, the other logician with black forehead will deduce that he is having a black forehead and then he will leave."

"If I don't have a black forehead, the other logician will stay and thus I must be having a black forehead as well. Thus we must leave when the lights are turned off for the second time"

When you repeat the logic to 100 times, you will get the answer.

Solution:

Keep one coin from the first set and place it on the scale along with the two from the second set etc. If the weight is off by one hundredth of an ounce, then you will know that it is the first set that is faulty and if the weight is off by two hundred of an ounce, then the second set is faulty and so on.