Puzzles contest - 92

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1. Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends.Ram is a widower and lives
alone and his sister takes care of him.Shyam is a bachelor and his
neice cooks his food and looks after his house.Gumnaam is married to
Gita and lives in large house in the same town.Gita gives the idea that
all of them could stay together in the house and share monthly expenses
equally.During their first month of living together, each person
contributed Rs.25. At the end of the month, it was found that Rs 92 was
the expense so the remaining amount was distributed equally among
everyone. The distribution was such that everyone recieved a whole
number of Rupees. How much did each person recieve?



2. Given that April 1 is tuesday.

A, B, C are 3 persons told that their farewell party was on



A - May 8, thursday

B - May 10,tuesday

C - June 5, friday



Out of A, B, C only one made a completetly true statement concerning

date,day and month The other told two one told the day right and the other the date right..

What is correct date, month, day.



3. The Bulls, Pacers, Lakers and Jazz ran for a contest.

Anup, Sujit, John made the following statements regarding results.



Anup said either Bulls or Jazz will definitely win

Sujit said he is confident that Bulls will not win

John said he is confident that neither Jazz nor Lakers will win



When the result cameit was found that only one of the above three had made a

correct statement.

Who has made the correct statement and who has won the contest.



4. If a clock takes 7seconds to strike 7, how long will the same clock take

to strike 10?



Ans: The clock strikes for the first time at the start and takes 7 seconds

for 6 intervals-thus for one interval time

taken=7/6.

Therefore, for 10 seconds there are 9 intervals and time taken is

9*7/6=10 and 1/2 seconds.



5. Two trains start from stations A and B spaced 50 kms apart at the same

time and speed.

As the trains start, a bird flies from one train towards the other and

on reaching the second train, it flies back to the

first train.This is repeated till the trains collide.

If the speed of the trains is 25 km/h and that of the bird is 100km/h.

How much did the bird travel till the collision.

[Rena]

Hi,


2.May 8 thursday.

3.John,Pacers

Edited by: Rena