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PUZZLE- E1
(Contributed by Ms. Bhuvana
Sundaram)
QUESTION:
You need single egg boiled for exactly nine minutes.
You aren't wearing your watch, and all you have are two hourglasses, able to precisely
measure in handcrafted Swiss sand seven and four minutes,
respectively.
How quickly using only these two hourglasses can you boil the egg?
PUZZLE-E2
A man was born in
Rome in the year 50 B.C and lived up to an age of 40 A.D. How many years did he
live?
PUZZLE:E3
There are 10 heaps of gold
coins on a table each heap having 10 coins each. The coins in the heaps weigh
10 grams each except for one heap, which contains coins, each weighing 9 grams.
You are provided with a spring balance and asked to identify the rogue lot by
weighing only once.
Can u do it and
how will u do it?
PUZZLE:
E4
In the following
multiplication, all the numbers have been substituted with letters from English
alphabet. Each alphabet stands for a number. Can u figure out the number?
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