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Last Problem:
What is next number in the following series of numbers
3, 4, 6, 9 ?
Answer:
13
The following number in the sequence is equal to the difference between the previous two numbers plus 1. So, 9-6 = 3 + 1 = 4. So, 9+4 = 13.
Today’s Mind Puzzle:
A monkey climbs 3 yards in 1 hour and slips back 2 yards. How long does it take the monkey to climb 20 yards?
Last Problem:
The product (multiplication) of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When 18 is added to the number, the digits are reversed. What is the number? (This is not so much a math problem but a puzzle to solve).
Answer:
24
4 x 2 = 8. Now, add 18 to 24: 24 + 18 = 42 (which is 24 in reverse).
Today’s Problem:
What is next number in the following series of numbers
3, 4, 6, 9 ?
Last Problem:
A man covers 27 miles in 9 hours and returns home at a speed of 5 miles per hour. What is his average speed for his entire journey?
Answer:
4 miles per hour
Since he covers 27 miles in 9 hrs getting to his destination, it means his speed is 3 miles per hour. For the return journey his speed is given is 5 mules per hours. He travels the same distance goes as coming, so the average speed is (3+5)/2 = 4 miles per hour.
Today’s Puzzle:
The product (multiplication) of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When 18 is added to the number, the digits are reversed. What is the number? (This is not so much a math problem but a puzzle to solve).
Last Mind Puzzle:
The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When 18 is added to the number, the digits are reversed. What is the number?
Answer:
35
Today’s Problem:
A man covers 27 miles in 9 hours and returns home at a speed of 5 miles per hour. What is his average speed for his entire journey?
Yesterday’s Puzzle:
I come once in a day, twice in a hour and three times in a minute. What am I?
Answer:
Vowel Letters
Today’s Mind Puzzle:
The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When 18 is added to the number, the digits are reversed. What is the number?
Last Problem:
A snail is at the bottom of a 20 meters deep pit. Every day the snail climbs 5 meters upwards, but at night it slides 4 meters back downwards. How many days does it take before the snail reaches the top of the pit?
Answer:
16 days. Since the snail moves up 1 meter a day so it will reach 15 meters in 15 days. next day it will again climb 5 meters upward and reaches the top.
Today’s Mind Puzzle:
I come once in a day, twice in a hour and three times in a minute. What am I?