#171 - Math Brain Twister

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In my core I have 5 But 500 stand in the beginning and the end of mine. I also include the first letter and the first number to make me complete. I am the name of a King.

Who am I?

#172 - Unique Number Brain Teaser

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There are many numbers that can be expressed as the sum of three squares in three different ways.

Can you find out the smallest of such number?
category : MATHS | EQUATION

#173 - Maths Trivia Question

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Can you think of any three dimensional object that comprises of just two surfaces?

Hint: A piece of paper practically has 6 surfaces as the edges are also counted. Thus if you were thinking of that, it will be a wrong answer.
category : TRIVIA | MATHS

#174 - Popular Logic Brain Teaser

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A girl liked to collect money in a piggy bank. She bought pink colored piggy bank when she was 10 years old. She put $250 in the box on each of her birthday. Her younger sister took $50 out of her piggy bank on her birthday. The girl died when she was 50 years old due to an incurable disease.

When the piggy bank was opened, it had just $500. How can that be possible?
category : LOGIC | MATHS

#175 - Hard Probability Puzzle

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A primitive village follows a strange custom. They have babies only to have a boy. Whenever a boy is born in a family, they stop having babies and whenever a girl is born, they have a baby again and again till a boy is born.

The probability of having a boy is same as the probability of having a girl. What will be the proportion of boys to girls in the village after some time?

#176 - Logic Question In Maths

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Two trains under a controlled experiment begin at a speed of 100 mph in the opposite direction in a tunnel. A supersonic bee is left in the tunnel which can fly at a speed of 1000 mph. The tunnel is 200 miles long. When the trains start running on a constant speed of 100 mph, the supersonic bee starts flying from one train towards the other. As soon as the bee reaches the second train, it starts flying back towards the first train.

If the bee keeps flying to and fro in the tunnel till the trains collide, how much distance will it have covered in total?

#177 - Tricky Math Equations Brain Teasers

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Now is the time for you to memorize all the mathematical symbols you know because you will need them to solve the arrays of number we have placed below the question. You can use any amount of symbols in any order except such symbols that comprises of a number with them like cube root. Place the symbols in a manner that the equations stand valid.

0 0 0 = 6
1 1 1 = 6
2 + 2 + 2 = 6
3 3 3 = 6
4 4 4 = 6
5 5 5 = 6
6 6 6 = 6
7 7 7 = 6
8 8 8 = 6
9 9 9 = 6
category : MATHS | EQUATION

#178 - Difficult Brain Twister

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A strange tradition is followed in an orthodox and undeveloped village. The chief of the village collects taxes from all the males of the village yearly. But it is the method of taking taxes that is interesting.

The taxes paid in the form of grains and every male should pay equal pounds corresponding to his age. In simpler terms, a man aged 10 years will have to pay 10 pounds of grains and a 20 years old will be paying 20 pounds of grain.

The chief stands on a riser containing 7 different weights next to a large 2 pan scale. As per the interesting custom, the chief can only weigh using three of the seven weights.

In such a scenario, can you calculate what must be the weights of the seven weights each and who is the oldest man the chief can measure using those weights?
category : LOGIC | MATHS

#179 - Mathematics Shopkeeper Puzzle

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A shopkeeper in order to promote his new shop put a discount of 20% on all the items for one day. Now he must sell the items at original price the other day. By what percentage must he increase the price to original?
category : MATHS

#180 - Tricky Mathematician Problem

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A mathematician was challenged to write nineteen in a manner that if one was taken out of it, it became twenty. He failed to do it.

Can you help him?

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