Solution:

She had a 50p coin, a 25p coin and four 10p coins.

Solution:

Ted will choose Ann.

You can know why after replacing each letter with the number corresponding to that letter (A = 1, B = 2, C = 3... etc.)

TED = 20 + 5 + 4 = 29
ANN = 1 + 14 + 14 = 29

If you calculate in a similar manner for George and Mary, you will find that each one of them adds up to 57

Solution:

The correct way to solve this question is go backwards. If the number of marble gets doubled every minute and after two hours, it is filled completely, one minute ago it would be half.

So, it will take 1 hour and 59 minutes for it to be filled half.

Solution:

21

Solution:

The main idea for getting the solution for this puzzle is that the pirate should know that he will be getting the treasure for the acceptance of the proposal. And if he gets to know that the treasure he is getting is less than the others then he will not accept the proposal. If the last one who is left is the pirate 1 then he will be the one who will be getting all the golden coins.


If pirate 1 would be the only one left, he would get all the golden coins. If only pirates 1 and 2 would be left, pirate 2 would die for sure, since pirate 1 is bloodthirsty and will reject all proposals of pirate 2 (since he will get all coins anyway). So:
| Pirate 1 | Pirate 2
----------------+------------+------------
Number of coins | 1000 | 0
----------------+------------+------------
Pirate agrees | No | Yes
When also pirate 3 would still be alive, he needs the agreement of one of the other two. Pirate 2 will agree with every proposal since, as we have seen, he would die if he did not. Therefore, pirate 3 should propose to keep everything for himself.
| Pirate 1 | Pirate 2 | Pirate 3
----------------+------------+------------+------------
Number of coins | 0 | 0 | 1000
----------------+------------+------------+------------
Pirate agrees | No | Yes | Yes
When we have four pirates, pirate 4 should make two other pirates agree with his proposal. Therefore, he proposes to give one coin to pirate 1, one coin to pirate 2, and the rest to himself. Pirates 1 and 2 will accept the proposal, since they are greedy, and if they would not accept, they would get less.
| Pirate 1 | Pirate 2 | Pirate 3 | Pirate 4
----------------+------------+------------+------------+------------
Number of coins | 1 | 1 | 0 | 998
----------------+------------+------------+------------+------------
Pirate agrees | Yes | Yes | No | Yes
However, as we know, there are five pirates. If pirate 5 gives both pirate 1 (or 2) and pirate 3 one coin more than in the previous case, they are willing to accept the proposal. Then a majority (three out of five) of the pirates will support the proposal, and pirate 5 can keep the rest of the treasure to himself.
| Pirate 1 | Pirate 2 | Pirate 3 | Pirate 4 | Pirate 5
----------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------
Number of coins | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 997
----------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------
Pirate agrees | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes
Conclusion: Pirate 5 should propose to give two coins to pirate 1 (or 2), one coin to pirate 3, and the remaining 997 coins to himself.

Solution:

The color of the hat which the man A is wearing is the white color hat.
It is clear with the question and the clue itself that neither B nor C has information regarding this and therefore they do not answer. For the explanation, let's start from C. the man C can see man A's hat and also man B's hat. He must be seeing at least one white hat on any one of them. If he sees two black hats, then he clearly knows that he is wearing a white colored hat. But the man B cannot give an answer. He might see a white hat on man A. if the man B saw a black hat on A, he would know that he is wearing a white one. The question itself says that the man A answers to the question and therefore, the man A shouts that he is wearing a white one.

Solution:

Peter will have to use a lock box that can hold two locks. He will put the ring in a box and will mail it to Mary. Upon receiving the box, Mary will put her own lock box inside and will send back to Peter. Peter can then-then take off his lock and send it off to Mary again.

Solution:

McLaughlin

Solution:

The police officer knows the story was not true since Vasco was shot from back and he was injured only in the stomach.

Solution:

You should choose the second shop.

It's a common logic. In the first shop, the barber had neat hairs. Since there are only two barbers in the entire town, he must have got his hairs cut from the barber in the second shop.