Solution:

They can neither be true nor be false. They contradict each other and these statements are known as paradox.

Solution:

The third son bought a candle and a matchstick. He lighted the candle from the matchstick and the light filled the entire room.

Solution:

There are so many things that the child is miscalculating by using his mischievous mind. He is accounting all the hours he spend separately as well as in the holidays. The weekend are present in the summer holidays as well.

Then the school last maximum for 6 hours and in that case, even the 4 days that remains will comprise of at least 16 school days. In the similar fashion, the weekends off are not entirely to be excluded but only 6 hours each day to be excluded.

If you calculate gain, you will be left with so many more days/hours.

Solution:

The jeweler cut 3 links from the single 3-link chain and he obtained three single links. The he joined the remaining three 3-link chains using them. In such manner, he had to make just 3 cuts. Refer the picture to understand better.

Solution:

It is not as tough as it seems. The strategy is quite simple. You just have to pick up a card out of first three whenever you find a 9 or higher number.

Let us offer you a strong valid reason for the strategy. The probability that the four card kept below are below the number nine is 32*31*30*29 / 52*51*50*49 = 0.133
Thus in such case, you will lose $2 to $9 with equal probability = 0.133/8 = 0.0166

Let us now calculate the probability that one of the four cards is nine or even higher.
1 – 0.133 = 0.867
Now you will surely stop at the first sight of 9 or any value above 9 as per the strategy. Thus you have a chance of winning -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 with an equal probability = 0.867/5 = 0.173

In such case you stand a chance of winning overall amount of 0.14 every game you play.

Let us consider the other strategies. If you want to stop at the sight of 10 or above 10, the expected amount you will win per game will be 0.09 which is way below the present strategy. If you want to stop at above ten only, you will have an expected winning in negative.

Solution:

The person is leaving hospital after visiting his wife. His wife is on a life support system. The elevator has stopped due to the power cut. If there was an emergency backup generator functioning well, the elevator would have also be running. It stopped in between means that the life system support has stopped as well.

Solution:

She simply asked everyone to raise hands on hearing the question. The only condition was that the ones who knew the correct answer will raise right hand and other will raise left hand facilitating her in acknowledging the ones to pick for answering.

Solution:

A parachute

Solution:

Amelia --> vanilla-shake
Charlotte --> chocolate-shake
Evelyn --> strawberry-shake
Anna --> burger
Ella --> curd

Solution:

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