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A great number trick. A simple mathematical trick can enable you to discover any number a person thinks of - and find out his or her age as well. Ask the person to pick a number of any size, double it, add 5, and multiply the result by 50. Next tell the person to add 1,758. Then ask the person to subtract the year in which he or she was born. The last two digits in the final answer will tell you the person's age on his or her birthday this year; the others will be the number first thought of. (1,758 is the key number and changes every year; for 2,009 the number rises to 1,759 and so on for each subsequent year)
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Miss Sally Henwoo
What are all the possible ways of getting 12 with 3 numbers under 6?
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Mr Chris Mak
99 45 39 36 28 21 72 27 18 21 ? 13 7
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Mrs usha kiran
62-63=1 Move a single digit to make that equation true (the minus and the equal signs are unmovable).
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Mrs usha kiran
By moving one of the following digits make the sum correct. 62-63=1
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Miss Shweta Pandey
If 70 per cent of the population have defective eye, 75 per cent are hard of hearing, 80 per cent have sinus trouble and 85 per cent suffer from allergies, what per cent (at a minimum) suffer from all the four ailments?
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rolfo
A pilot is burning 6 gallons of fuel per hour He has to fly a distance of 100 miles, his ground speed is 85 mph. Question : How much fuel will he use to reach his destination?
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math
Four married couples have reserved eight seats in a row at the theater, starting at an aisle seat. In how many ways can we arrange themselves if the four men occupy the four seats to the aisle?
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memory
Maths. I have 3. Please explain how I 'raise to the fourth power'? Thanks
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king_hussain
How many combinations are there if 10 football games are on and there is only 3 possible results, win lose or draw?
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Mr Shriniwas prasad
I entered a store and spent one-half of the money that was in my purse. When I came out I found that I had just as many paise as I had rupees and half as many rupees as I had paise when I went in. How much money did I have with me when I entered?
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des
Let ABCDEFGH be an eight digit number where A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H are the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 in some order. eg., 41325678, where ABC is divisible by 7, BCD is divisible by 6, CDE is divisible by 5 etc. How do I find the other eight-digit numbers in which this pattern occurs? HELP
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Miss Isabelle Levinson
A piece of cardboard that measures 12 inches by 24 inches is turned into a box without a top. Specifically, an identical, small square is cut from all corners. Then, the flaps are folded up to form the four walls. How much is to be cut from each corner to maximize the volume of the box?
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Miss Isabelle Levinson
A picture frame has a uniform distance around an 8 inch by 10 inch photo. If the area of the frame is the same as the area of the photo, how wide is the frame?
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Mrs Theresa Tamme
When I add 2 times my age 2 years from now to 4 times my age 4 years from now, I get 10 times my current age. How old will I be 15 years from now?
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Mr Kent Drummond
Two times the bigger of 2 different numbers is 3 more than five times the lesser. The sum of four times the bigger and three times the lesser is 71. What are the numbers?
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Mr Kent Drummond
On the way home from school Tom found out that he got only half the allowance that Mark got. (Mark is not much older than Tom.) Suzi is three years older and receives three times what Tom gets. Together, the three receive $144. How much is each student actually getting?
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Mr Kent Drummond
In the local tennis tournament, the champion is to be determined from among 100 competitors by elimination. As soon as one of the competitors loses a match, he joins the ranks of the spectators. How many matches are needed in order to determine the winner?
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Mr Kent Drummond
There are two cars traveling towards each other on the same road, 100 miles apart. One car travels at 60 mph; the other at 40 mph. An eagle starts flying from the same location as the slower car, flying at a speed of 80 mph. When it reaches the faster car, it turns around, flying the other direction at its same speed (80 mph). When it reaches the slower car again, it turns around -- and so on. At the time when the cars pass each other, how many total miles will the eagle have flown (back and forth)?
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Mrs oana vincu
On the table there is a bowl of M&M's. All but four are yellow. All but four are red. All but four are green. How many M&M's are in the bowl?
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Mr Kent Drummond
You are going on a 20 mile car ride. For the first 10 miles, you travel at 20mph. During the next 10 miles, you travel at 40mph. What is your average speed for the trip?
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Mr anirudh kumar
1. When I add 2 times my age 2 years from now to 4 times my age 4 years from now, I get 10 times my current age. How old will I be 15 years from now? 2. Anitha got her salary and she spent half of it in shopping and gave $1 to a beggar after that 1/2 of the remaining money she spends in a hotel n she gives $2/- as a tip to waiter and then 1/2 of the remaining she spends again n she gives $3/- as charity.... n after that finally she is left with $1/- when she comes out. Whats the money she actually had in her hand?
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BARFIYAW
A retailer buys a batch of 50 items of a product for 10 000 €. He then sets a price so that the selling price is 80 % higher than the buying price. When there is 40 % left of the batch, the retailer lowers the price and manages to sell off the rest for a reduced selling price of 171 €/item. a) Calculate the discount percentage relative to the initial selling price. b) Calculate the profit percentage for the whole batch. Give your answers with an accuracy of one decimal.
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geoffers
If 23 = 100% what is 17 as a % of 23?
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Piglet
hi, could somebody help me with this question, I'm sure theres a simple pattern that I'm missing! using the numbers 1 - 100 which number can you make the most ways by multiplying 2 whole numbers? many thanks
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None
Which number from 1 to 100 can you make in the most ways by multiplying two whole numbers?
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Surfer Dude
I heard this one on the radio but never did find out what the answer was. By putting a mathematical symbol between 5 and 9 - Make a number greater than 5 but less than 9. What is the symbol?
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Mr ASHISH SINGHAL
1010,738,22,? find 4th term of series?
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Mr ASHISH SINGHAL
During a games show held in a school, 40 students play game 1, 67 plays game 2, 46 played game 3, 8 students played game 1 & 3 games. 26 students played game 1 & 2. 28 students played game 2 & 3. 2 students played all the three games. How many students played game 1 but not game 2 &3 ? a. 3 b. 8 c. 15 d. 23
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Mr ASHISH SINGHAL
A group of 50 students were required to clear 2 tasks, one in rock-climbing and the other in bridge crossing during an adventure sports expedition. 30 students cleared both the tasks. 37 cleared bridge crossing, 38 students cleared rock climbing. How many students could not clear any task? A)0 B)3 C)5 D) 9
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Mr ASHISH SINGHAL
If * stands for /, / stands for -, + stands for * and - stands for +, then which of the following is TRUE? A) 36/12*4+50-8 =-106 B) 12*8/4+50-8 =45.5 C) 36*4/12+36-8 = 4.7 D) 8*36/4+50-8 = 300
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Mrs gt gt
'A' says if seventy five chickens are sold from what we have now the the feed will last for extra 20 days but 'B' says if we buy additional 100 chickens then feed will get over 15 days earlier. find the number of chickens both are having now?
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f2002642
A cow is standing 5 feet from the middle of the bridge. A train is coming towards the cow at speed of 90 miles per hour from the near end and the train is twice as long as the bridge. If the cow had tried to move forward in the same direction as of the train then the cow would have got hit by three feet. But it moved in opposite direction to the train and saved by one feet. Then What is the length of the bridge?
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Mr harsha s
60 / 17 can also be represented as: A) $$$*$*** / $$**$$ B) $$$***** / $$**$$ C) $*$$*$** / $$**$$ D) $$*$*$** / $$**$$ $ represents 1 and * represents 0
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Mr harsha s
In a row of 60, if Ram is standing at 17th from the first what is his position from the last?
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Miss Danielle Traverso
A candy store owner wants to mix two candies. One candy sells for $2.20/lb. the other candy costs $2.60 pr pound. He plans on selling a mixed bag for $2.30/lb. He is selling 27 lbs. of the mixed bag and wants to know how many pounds of each candy is in the 27-pound mix?
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Ms Tammy Palmer
What perfect numbers from 1 through 40 equals the sum of all the numbers that divide evenly into it?
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Miss xx yy
p= 2(e+f) Rearrange the equation by making e the subject
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Mr harsha s
There are 6561 balls out of them 1 is heavy. Find the minimum number of times the balls have to be weighed for finding out the heavy ball.
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Mr harsha s
a + b + c + d = d + e + f + g = g + h + i = 17. find d and g.
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Miss ramya b
Addy asks Sunny to pick as number of cards from a deck of cards. Sunny picks first card, picks another card by skipping 1 card, then, picks another card by skipping 2, so on skipping one card more each time. Ultimately he finds that he has picked up 5% of the cards. Can you find out the number of cards?
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Brent's Father is having their rectangular driveway paved. It is a wide driveway, and the new length Will be three meters less than three times the width. The perimeter of the driveway will now be 162 meters. Can you find the length and the width of the driveway.
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Tricky
Find a ten-digit number whose first digit is the number of ones in the ten-digit number, whose second digit is the number of twos in the ten-digit number, whose third digit is the number of threes in the ten-digit number, whose fourth digit is the number of fours in the ten-digit number, continuing to the tenth digit which will be the number of zeros in the ten-digit number.
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Miss sarah langford
Pair off these numbers to form fractions that are equivalent to there following percentages. One answer is all ready done. 20, 30, 8, 15,36, 10, 50, 9, 24, 21, 12, 45, 40, 60, 4,1, 16, 5 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%=36 --- 40
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Miss sarah langford
Can you make 101-102 = 1 a true statement by moving one digit?
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Bobby Kownacki
Each of the Johnson brothers has as many sisters as he has brothers. Each of the Johnson sisters has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the Johnson Family?
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nikki*5*
Add The Numbers Nineteen minus Five = 4 + 3 x 2 = 6 - 5 = What is the answer?
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Mr marimuthu gurusame
Solve for x x^(1/3) - x^(1/9)=60
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Gibby
If 2 plus 2 equals 4, what does a -c equal?
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Mr marimuthu gurusame
A spider spins a web such that each day he spins exactly the same amount as it had spun until the previous day and finishes the web in 30 days. If two spiders work in the same manner how many days will they take?
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Mr marimuthu gurusame
A Boy has taken a short cut on which there is a railway track that goes through a narrow bridge. When the boy covered 7/16th of the track in the bridge, he heard the whistle of the train. Then he ran out of that bridge, when the train came to that bridge. If he were to take the actual root, he would have reached the destination on time, rather than taking the shortcut and running out of that bridge. If the boy covers 4km/hr, what was the speed of the train?
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