#81 - Archery and the bull's eye

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William is blindfolded and is playing archery. Unfortunately, when he shoots the first shot, he misses the bull's eye. When he shoots the second shot, the arrow goes even farther and he misses it. William again shoots the third arrow.
Question: how greater is the chance for making his last shot also worse than the previous and the first one?

#82 - Use Variables And Construct The Function

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There are two variables given a, and b. construct a function f (a b) using the variables, which will return the maximum one in the construction {a b}
The rule that should be followed is that, you can only use +/-. And () in order to take the absolute value for the construction. You cannot use if () in the construction.
category : MATHS | EQUATION

#83 - Charlie and the chocolate factory

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Once upon a time, Charlie visited a chocolate factory. He wanted to buy some chocolates for him and the cost of the chocolate was 3rs each. The money which he had was rs.45. But he was very much surprised when he reached the factory. To his luck there was some scheme in the chocolate factory on that particular day. The scheme and the offer was that when you return 3 wrappers of the chocolates, you will be getting another chocolate for free in return of those wrappers.

So totally how many chocolates would he be able to buy?
category : MATHS

#84 - Survival Maths Probability Brain Teaser

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You have succeeded in going to the top of a brainvita (a contest with prizes). Your final task lays ahead of you.
There are 100 table tennis balls and 2 empty bowls in front of you. Out of the 100 balls, 50 are white and 50 are yellow in color. Now, you are asked to fill the bowls in any manner you like (using all the balls).
After you are done, you will be blindfolded and the bowls will be shuffled. Then, you will be asked to pick up a ball from any bowl. If the ball you pick up is yellow, you will win the grand prize and if you pick up the white ball, you will not win anything.

How will you increase your chances of winning?

#85 - Who Is Taller Tricky Question

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This is as tricky question so please pay attention. There are 500 different students with different heights who are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns according to their respective heights.

Now, the tallest from each row is called out and the shortest one of them is marked as S. They are asked to go back to their respective position.

Then, the shortest from each column is called out and the longest one among them is marked as T.

Can you find out who between S and T is taller?
category : TRICK | MATHS

#86 - How Many Chocolates Maths Problem

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A confectionary shop owner allows children to purchase a chocolate in exchange of five wrappers of the same chocolate. Children from the locality consumed 77 chocolates in a month. Now, they all collected them together and decide to buy back chocolates.

How many chocolates do you think they can buy using those 77 wrappers ?
category : LOGIC | MATHS

#87 - Crack the code Riddle

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A man desired to get into his work building, however he had forgotten his code.
However, he did recollect five pieces of information
-> Sum of 5th number and 3rd number is 14.
-> Difference of 4th and 2nd number is 1.
-> The 1st number is one less than twice the 2nd number.
->The 2nd number and the 3rd number equals 10.
->The sum of all digits is 30.

Crack the code ?

#88 - Pizza Cost Math Brain Teaser

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Jasmine, Thibault, and Noah were having a night out and decided to order a pizza for $10. It turned out that Jasmine and Thibault were hungrier than Noah. They both ate 6 slices a piece, and Noah got to eat just 2 slices.

Now they want to do a fair split of money. The problem is that none of them have coins with them. Thus, they want to round off the cost to nearest dollar.

What will be the correct way to do it?

What if the pizza's cost was $11?
category : LOGIC | MATHS

#89 - Find Hours Math Brain Teaser

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Murphy and Cooper are having the same amount of petrol in the petrol tanks of their respective cars. Murphy can drive for four hours with that amount whole Cooper can drive for five hours.

They both starts together and keep driving for a few hours. After some time, they find that the amount of petrol remaining in one car is four times that of the other car.

Using all these facts, can you find out how long they drove their cars?

#90 - Which Time Is Greater Puzzle

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'P'refers to the number of seconds in a day and 'Q'refers to the number of hours in ten years. Which quantity out of these two is greater?
PS: The ten years also contains two leap years.
category : MATHS

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