Puzzles Kiddies & Brain Teasers i 1 A Problem of Shopping Meena went out for shopping.

She had in her handbag approximately Rs. 15/- in on e rupee notes and 20 p. coins. When she returned she had as many one rupee notes as she originally had and as many 20 p. coins as she originally had one rupee n otes. She actually came back with about one-third of what she had started out wi th. How much did she spend and exactly how much did she have with her when she start ed out ? 2 A Question of Distance It was a beautiful sunny morning. The air was fresh and a mild wind was blowing against my wind screen. I was driving from Bangalore to Brindavan Gardens. It to ok me 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete the journey. After lunch I returned to Bangalore. I drove for 90 rhinutes. How do you explain it ? 3 Smallest Integer Can you name the smallest integer that can be written with two digits ? 9 1 A Puzzle Of Cultural Groups My club has five cultural groups. They are literary, dramatic, musical, dancing and painting groups. The literary group meets every other day, the dramatic ever y third day, the musical every fourth day, the dancing every fifth day and the p ainting every sixth day. The five groups met, for the first time oh the New Year 's day of 1975 and starting from that day they met regularly according to schedu le. Now, can you tell how many times did all the five meet on one and the same day i n the first quarter ? Of course the New Year's day is excluded. One more'question were there any days when none of the groups met in the first qua rter and if so how many were there ? 5 The Biggest Number Can you name the biggest number that can be written with four Is? 6 A Problem of Regions There are thirty-four lines that are tangent to a circle, and these lines create regions in the plane. Can you tell how many of these regions are not enclosed ? 10 1 A Problem of Age Recently I attended a cocktail party. There was a beautiful young woman, who als o seemed very witty and intelligent. One of the other guests suddenly popped a q uestion at her "How old are you?"For a moment she looked a bit embarrassed and w hile I stood there wondering how she was going to wriggle out of the situation, she flashed a charming smile and answered, "My age three years hence multiplied by 3 and from that subtracted three times my age three years ago will give you m y exact age". The man who had asked her the age just walked away puzzled. Then she leaned over and whispered to me "if he can calculate that one, he deserves to know my age." How old do you think she was ? 8 Solve a Dilemma What is wrong with this proof ? 2 = 1 a = b

a2 = ab a2 - b2 = ab - b2 (a + b) (a - b) = b (a - b) a + b = b 2b = b 2 = 1 11 104 Pursue the Problem Simplify ( - -g-) - y as far as you can 10 A Problem of Walking Next door to me lives a man with his son. They both work in the same factory. I watch them going to work through my window. The father leaves for work ten minut es earlier than his son. One day I asked him about it and he told me he takes 30 minutes to walk to his factory, whereas his son is able to cover the distance i n only 20 minutes. I wondered, if the father were to leave the house 5 minutes earlier than his son , how soon the son would catch up with the father. How can you find the answer ? 11 Peculiar Number Here is a multiplication: 159 x 49 = 7632 Can you see something peculiar in this multi-plication? Yes, all the nine digits are different. How many other similar numbers can you think of? 12 104 A Problem of Handshakes Recently 1 attended a small get-together. I counted the number of handshakes tha t were exchanged. There were 28 altogether. Can you tell me how many guests were present? A Problem of Cog-wheels Here is a cog-wheel that has eight teeth. It is coupled with a cog-wheel of 24 t eeth. Can you tell how many times the small cog-wheel must rotate on its axis to circl e around the big one? 13 13 159 A Surprise! Write 1/81 as a repeating decimal. You're in for a surprise! 15 Some Glutton! I was lunching in a South Indian restaurant. The place was crowded. A man excuse d himself and sat at my table. He began to eat idlis one after the other. As soo n as one plate was finished he ordered more. As I sat there discreetly watching him, somewhat stunned, after he finished the last idli he told the waiter that he did not want any more. He took a big gulp of water, looked at me, smiled and sa id 'The last one I ate was the 100th idli in the last five days. Each day I ate 6 more than on the previous day. Can you tell me how many I ate yesterday?' 16 What do You Think? o oooo oo ooo ooo oo oooo o 14 Make the left arrangement look like the right arrangement by moving only three c ircles from the left arrangement. 17 Sum of the Reciprocals The sum ot two numbers is ten. Their product is twenty. Can you find the sum of

the reciprocals of the two numbers? 18 Bingo! A group of us were playing Bingo. I noticed something very interesting. There we re different Bingo cards with no two cards having the same set of numbers in cor responding column or row. The centre of course was a free space. How many such cards are possible, can you tell? 19 A Combination Problem Can you combine eight 8s with any other mathematical symbols except numbers so t hat they represent exactly one thousand? You may use the plus, minus terms, and division signs as well as the factorial f unction and the Gamma function. You may also use the logarithms and the combinat orial symbol. 15 104 Count the Triangles Take a good look at this sketch: figure ? 21 No Change! I got out of the taxi and I was paying the fare. But the taxi driver could not g ive me change for the rupee note. To my surprise I noticed my two friends Asha a nd Neesha walking towards me. I requested them to give me exact change for my ru pee note. They searched their handbags and said 'No'. They both had exactly Re 1.19 each in their handbags. But the denominations were such that they could not give the exact change for a rupee. What denominations of change could they have had? They both, of course, had diff erent denomina-tions. 16 22 Find out the Sum What is the sum of all numbers between 100 and 1000 which are divisible by 14? 23 Count the Squares Take a good look at this figure: How many squares are there in this figure? 24 Something for the Chickens A friend of mine runs a small poultry farm in Bangalore. She took me round to se e the place. I counted the number of chickens. There were 27 of them. And there were 4 enclosures. I noticed that in 17 each enclosure there were an odd number of chickens. Can you tell how many there were in each enclosure? 25 Magic Square 13 6% 8 5 y2 all add Can you complete this magic square so that the rows, columns, diagonals to the same number. 18 104 Find out the Value What is the value of v/12 Wl2 +v/l2 +M +Vl2 + 27 A Hair Raising Problem Prof Guittierz is a very interesting person. 1 met him in Montevideo, Uruguay so

me time back. We were discussing people's hair. Prof Guittierz told me that there are about 150,000 hairs on an average on a man 's head. I disagreed with him. I told him that no one could have actually come b y this figure who would have the patience to actually take a man's head and take the hair by hair and count them! 'No' he argued 'It is enough to count them on one square centimetre of a man's h ead and knowing this and the size of the hair covered surface, one can easily ca lculate the total number of hairs on a man's head'. Then he popped a question at me. 'It has also been calculated that a man sheds a bout 3000 hairs a month. Can you tell me the average longevity of each hair on a man's head? Can you guess what my answer was? 28 Value of'S' If S = (l/N + 1)N And N = 10 Compute S 19 104 Test this Square Is this a magic square? If so why? 1 12 10 15 2 4 8 5 3 30 A Question of Age Last winter I was in the United Kingdom. Travelling by train from London to Manc hester, I had for company two middle-aged Englishmen who were seated opposite to because we hadn't been introduced. But me. Naturally, they did not speak to me I could not help overhearing their conversation. 'How old is Tracy, I wonder?'one asked the other. 'Tracy!' the other replied 'Let me see eighteen years ago he was three times as old as his son.' 'But now, it appears, he is only twice as old as his son' said the former. I tried to guess Tracy's age, and his son's age. What do you think my solution w as? 20 104 A Pair of Palindromes Multiply 21978 by 4 Now see if you can find a pair of palindromes. 32 A Computing Problem Compute : [5 - 2 (4 - 5)-p 33 A Problem of Sari, Shoes and Handbag When I walked into that shop in New Market I had altogether Rs 140/- in purse. W hen I walked out I didn't have a single paise, instead I had a sari, a pair of s hoes and a handbag. The sari cost Rs 90/ - more than the handbag and the sari and the handbag cost t ogether Rs 120/-more than the pair of shoes. How much did I pay for each item? 34 Rule of Three What is meant by the rule of three? 35 Compute 'M' 8m = 32

21 104 A Matter of Denomination One morning I went to draw some money from my bank. The Cashier behind the count er smiled at me and said 'I've got here money of all denominations. I've got den ominations of 1 Paise, 5 Paise, 10 Paise, 25 Paise, 50 Paise, Rel/-, Rs2/-, Rs5/ -, RslO/-, Rs20/-, Rs50/-, Rs 100/-, Rs500/- and RslOOO/-. How many different amounts of money can I make by taking one or more of each den omination? What do you think my answer was? 37 Count the Digits Can you find a number which added to itself one or several times will give a tot al having the same digits as that number but differently arranged and after the sixth addition will give a total of all nines? 38 Prime Number Do you know which is the largest known prime nurhber? 39 A Computing Problem Compute x if: X = + J- + !_ + i_ + + 1_ 1.2 2.3 3.4 4.5 5.6 6.7 1 . 1 + - (n - l )n n (n + 1) 22 104 Wrong Names of Months It was in Vienna that I met Prof. Jellinek. He was a linguist. We were discussin g calendars for some time Gregorian calendar, Julian calendar, Hindu calendar, C hinese calendar etc. Then suddenly he popped this question at me. 'Don't you think it is strange. December is the twelfth month of the year. And d o you know what actually "December means ten! 'Daka' is a Greek word meaning ten . Therefore, decalitre would mean ten litres and decade means ten years. Decembe r then should be the tenth month. But it isn't. How do you explain it? What do you think my answer was? 41 A Rotating Wheel Here is a wheel with a fixed centre. Assuming that the outside diameter is of si x feet, can you tell how 23 many revolutions will be required so that a point on its rim will travel one mil e? 42 Continue the Series 1, 3, 6, 10 Name the next three numbers in the series 43 A Problem of Skiing It was a skiing resort in Switzerland. I met a skiing enthusiast by the skiing s lopes. He had a packed lunch with him. He asked me to join him for lunch back in the spot where we were standing at 1 p.m., after he had done a bit of skiing. I told him no, as I had an appointment to keep at 1 p.m. But if we could meet at 12 noon, I told him that perhaps I could manage. Then he did some loud thinking, "I had calculated that if I could ski at 10 kilo metres an hour I could arrive back at this spot by 1 p.m. That would be too late for you. But if I ski at the rate of 15 kilometres an hour, then I would reach back here at 11 a.m. And that would be too early. Now at what rate must I ski to get back here at 12 noon?....let me see". He got the right figure and he got back exactly at 12 noon. We had an excellent lunch. What do you think the figure was? 24 104

Smallest Positive Prime Which is the smallest positive prime which is some multiple of seven less than a cube of a counting number less than ten? _ 45 Sum of the Coefficients Find the sum of the coefficients if: (a + b)29 is expanded. 46 A Puzzle of Numbers It was a rainy Sunday afternoon. I took shelter inside a friend's house. He was entertaining a group of people. I joined the group. We were discussing numbers a nd their interesting qualities. Then my friend who is a mathematician said that he would show us something very interesting. He gave me a piece of paper and asked me to write any three digit number. 'Can there be any zeros in it?' I asked. 'Any number, using any digit from zero to nine. But don't show me the number' he said. I wrote down a three digit number and asked him what to do next. 'Fold the paper and pass it on to the man next to you' he said. 'What do I do?' Asked the man next to me. 'Write the same number along side and pass it on to your neighbour' he said. 25 'Now you've got a six digit number. Divide this ' number by seven' he said to th e man who had the paper. 'What if it doesn't divide? What if it leaves a fraction?' asked that man. 'It will, don't worry' said my friend. 'But how do you know? You haven't even seen the number'. 'Leave that to me. Just divide, tear a piece of paper, write the result on it an d pass it on to the man next to you.' When the next man got the number, my friend asked him to divide the number by 11 and pass on, only the result to the next man. The next man was now asked to div ide the number by 13. 'This time, I am sure the number will not divide by 13. Very few numbers do' he said. 'That's my headache. You just go ahead and do the division' said my friend. 'Good god. It does divide by 13. I was just lucky' remarked the man with the sli p. 'Now write down the result in another bit of paper. Fold it many times over so t hat I do not see the number and give it to me' said my friend. When he got the folded bit of paper, he handed it over to me and asked, is this the number you wrote down to start with?' I was amazed! It was exactly the three digit number I had written at the outset. How do you explain it? 26 104 Don't Cross the Lines Here is a sketch with three squares. Can you draw a line in these three squares in one continuous line without crossing any lines or taking the pencil off the p aper? 48 Do You have Change? Can you change a rupee note in such a way that there are exactly fifty coins? No 2 Paise coins. 49 Abra Cadabra SEVEN VIGINTILLION, THREE HUNDRED FORTY SIX NOVEMDECILLION, SIX HUNDRED FORTY EI GHT OCTODECILLION, FOUR SEPTEDECILLION, FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY SEXDECILLION, NINE HU NDRED EIGHTYSIX 27 QUINDECILLION, TWO HUNDRED FIFTEEN QUATTOUR DECILLION, THREE HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT DUODECILLION, FOUR HUND-RED FORTY FOUR UNDECILLION, TWO HUN-DRED EIGHTYSIX DECI

LLION, FOUR HUNDRED FORTY FIVE NONILLION, THREE HUNDRED AND FIVE OCTILLION, ONE HUNDRED FORTY SIX SEPTILLION, THIRTY NINE SEXTILLION, ONE HUNDRED FORTY QUINTILL ION, FORTY SIX QUADRILLION, NINE HUNDRED SIXTY TRILLION, SIX- HUNDRED SEVENTY EI GHT BILLION, FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO MILLION, TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX THOUSAND AND THREE. Can you write this as a numeral? 50 A Probability Problem Is it possible that there are 53 Tuesdays in a non-leap year? What is the probab ility? 51_ Volume of a Cylinder A cylindrical container has a radius of eight inches with a height of three inch es. Compute how many inches should be added to either the radius or height to gi ve the same increase in volume? 52 Little Mammu and the String 'Mummy give me more string, I want to play telephone with Naval' said my little girl Mammu. 28 'More string, good god! I gave you so much this morning. What did you do with th e whole ball I gave you?'I exclaimed. 'Oh you took back half of what you gave me to its packages' Mammu countered. 'Yo u still have the other half of the ball'. 'Deepa took half of what remained, to pack some books and toys'. 'And what about the rest?' There was very little left and Amit took half of what I had to fix his suspender s. Then Pallavi took two-fifths of what was remaining to tie her pony tail'. 'I see'. 'Now all 1 have left is 30 centimetres. Can I possibly play telephone with 30 ce ntimetres?' How much string did I give Mammu in the first place? 53 Tail or Head Supposing six coins are flipped, what is the probability of at least getting one tail? 54 A Division Problem Can you divide 1000 into two parts such that one part is a multiple of 47 and th e other a multiple of 19? 29 104 - Count the Squares Guess how many squares are there in this figure. 56 The Case of the Missing Digit A friend of mine asked me to write down any multidigit number. But, he put a con dition, the number should not end with a zero. 1 put down the number 96452 Then he asked me to add up the five digits and subtract the total from the origi nal number. I did and here is what I got: 96452 - 26 = 96426 He then asked me to cross out any one of the five digits and tell him the remain ing numbers. I crossed out the 2 and told him the rest of the digits. I neither told him the original number nor what I had done with it. Yet 'pop' he told me t he exact number I had crossed out. How do you explain, it? 30 104 Magic Star

Take a good look at this six-pointed figure. This is what is known as a magic st ar. The total in every row adds up to the same. 1 + 12 + 10 + 3 = 26 9 + 5 + 10 + 2 = 26 4 + 6+ 7 + 9 = 26 11 + 6+ 8 + 1=26 4+ 8 + 12 + 2=26 11 + 7+ 5+3=26 But there is something imperfect about this star. The sum of the numbers at the points do not add upto 26. Now can you replace the numbers in such a way that th eir sums in every row and every point add upto 26? 31 104 - A Problem of Weights It was Mammu's birthday and I decided to buy for her some sweets. There was an o ld woman in the candy shop. I noticed something very strange, while she was weig hing out the sweets. She had just six wieghts and a balance scale. That's all sh e had. With just this she was able to weigh any unit number of ounces of candy rig ht from 1 to 364. Can you say what the six weights were? 59 When did Diophantus Die? Here is an epitaph of the celebrated Greek mathematician of 250 A.D., Diophantus . Can you calculate his age from this? DIOPHANTUS PASSED ONE SIXTH OF HIS LIFE IN CHILDHOOD, ONE TWELFTH IN YOUTH, AND ONE SEVENTH MORE AS A BACHELOR; FIVE YEARS AFTER HIS MARRIAGE A SON WAS BORN WHO DIED FOUR YEARS BEFORE HIS FATHER AT HALF HIS FINAL AGE. HOW OLD IS DIOPHANTUS? 60 Pin-Point the Time At this moment it is 9 P.M. Can you tell me what time it will be 23999 999 992 h ours later? 32 104 Question of Probability My friend Parveen teaches at a school. One da she conducted a test for three of her students and when they handed back the test papers, they had forgotten to wr ite their names. Parveen returned the papers to the students at random. What is the probability that none of the three students will get the right paper ? 62 How Big Will it Look? We have an angle of 1 y2 How big will it look through a glass that magnifies thin gs three times? 63 A Problem of Gifts It was Diwali day. A day to exchange gifts. Two fathers gave their sons some mon ey. One father gave his son Rs. 150/- and the other Rs. 100/-. But when the two sons counted their money, they found that between them they had become richer by only Rs. 150/-. How do you explain this? 64 Find out the Value Can you figure out? 33 Sin Cos Tan Ctn Sec Csc 30 = 30 = 30 = 30 = 30 = 30 = 65 Sin Cos Tan Ctn

Sec Csc 60 = 60 = 60 = 60, = 60 = 60 = Height of a Pole What will be the height of a pole made up of all the millimetre cubes in one cub ic metre,if placed one on top of another? 66 Volley of Questions Here are a set of questions. Try to figure out the answers: a) Is there a largest pair of twin primes? 34 b) Is there always at least one prime between two successive perfect squares? c) Is there a largest even perfect number? d) Is there a formula in terms of N, where N is any natural number, that will on ly generate primes for all N? e) Is Fermat's last theorem true or false? His last theorem states that 'The equ ation x"+y =2 where 'n' is an integer greater than two, has no solution in posit ive integers. f) Is it possible that somewhere in the decimal approximation for pi there occur seven consecu-tive seven e.g. = 3.14159 ...7777777 g) Is it possible that every even number greater than two can be written as the sum of exactly two primes? h) Is it possible that if the ratio of the number of twin primes less than N to the number of primes less than N approaches some limit as N gets larger and larg er? i) Is it possible that the series of Mersenne primes continues for ever, or has a largest member? j) What is the best way to pack the most spheres into a given container with a g iven volume? k) Is it possible that there exists maps that require five different colours so that two countries with a common boundary have different colours? 1) Is it possible that there are odd perfect numbers? m) Is it possible that the re exist a pair of available numbers of opposite parity one odd, one even. 67 Cutting the Face of a Clock Here is the face of a clock. 35 them is the same? This problem is a sure test of your ingenuity and resourcefulness. 68 Beetles and Spiders Naval collected 8 spiders and beetles into a little box. When he counted the leg s he found that there were altogether 54. How many beetles and how many spiders did he collect? 69 Value of 'S' S434S0 What number must be substituted with 'S' to make it divisible by 36? 36 104 Read out the Figure A London monument is marked as follows: MDCLXVI What year does it represent? 71 Rupees One Hundred For Rupees Five Recently I attended a magic function. The magician made a very attractive propos al from the stage: 'Can anyone in the aifdience give me Rs5/- in 20 coins. One condition. The coins must be of 50F, 20P and 5P denominations. No other coins would do. To anyone wh o can give me this I am willing to give away RslOO/-. One hundred rupee for five !' Every one was silent. No one went forward. Some people began to look for bits of

papers and pencil in their pockets evidently to calculate their chances. But no one went forward. The magician renewed his offer once agaig. 'What, no takers. No one wants to mak e easy money!' There was silence in the auditorium. 'Perhaps you think it is too much to give me Rs5/- in exchange of RslOO/- Alrigh t I'll take only Rs3/-. Of course, in the same denominations as I mentioned alre ady. Twenty coins. How about that now?' No one stirred. 'Alright, alright! The magician went on. 'Even three rupees you think is too muc h to exchange for Rs 100/-. 1 will come down even more. Only two rupees just two r upees' he showed his two fingers 'for rupees one hundred'. You can't let go of s uch an opportunity, 37 really. Ladies and gentlemen. Just two rupees in the denomination I mentioned alre ady twenty coins for rupees one hundred!' Nothing happened. He renewed his offer several times and finally he gave up. Why do you think no one came forward to take advantage of the magician's most at tractive proposal? A Curve called Helen! Can you tell what curve has been called the 'Helen of Geometers'? Here are seven prime numbers: 5,7,11,13,17,19,23 Can you arrange these prime num bers in the seven circles so that the rows and diagonals add upto the same prime number? 72 73 A Prime Number Game 38 104 Three Digit Number 153 = l3 + 53 + 33 Can you find some other three digit numbers like this? 75 Interesting Sums What is interesting about the following sum: a) 1 + 3 + 5 = ? b) 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 = ? c) 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 = ? d) 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 =? e) 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 = ? f) 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 + 15 = ? 9) 1 + 3

+ 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 + 15 + 17 = ? h) 1 +3 + 5 + 7 + 289 + 291 + 293 + 295 i) 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 +'R = ? 76 Pentagon in a Circle How can you inscribe a pentagon in a given circle? 77 A Problem of Typing It was a day of rush. I had to send off the typescript to my publisher by the ev ening's mail. Mr Das Gupta, my stenographer is a very experienced person and he, 39 I knew could do the job neatly and quickly. But even he would take 2 hours to fi nish the job. This couldn't have done! Sq I decided to engage another typist. Sh e would do a neat job, I was told, but she was not a fast typist like Mr Das Gup ta. She looked at the job and said that if she were to do the entire job by hers elf, it would take her three hours. I decided to let them do the job side by side. Within how much time, can you tell, the two of them finished the work? 78 A Diwali Gathering It was the Diwali day. And on this day we decided that my whole family should me et. The gathering consisted of one grand-father, one grand-mother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grand-child-ren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, and one daughter-inlaw. We were altogether seven. How do you explain it? 79 The Property of Numbers Take a good look at the figures in the sketches: Each of the sets of numbers has a property concerning cubes of its elements! Can you find the property? 80 Find out the Number Can you find a number of nine non-respective digits that is divisible by 11? Find the smallest of such number as well as the biggest. 81 Divide the Crescent Here is a crescent. Can you divide it into six parts by drawing just two straight lines? 82 Convert into Roman Figures Can you write 1789 in Roman figures? 41 104 Mammu and the Eiffel Tower Last time we were in Paris. Mammu and I Mammu fell in love with the Eiffel Tower. She began to insist that we carry the Eiffel Tower back to India. I tried to exp lain to her that such a thing was impossible. But nothing would make her see rea son. Finally I had to promise her that I would have an identical tower made in m iniature, for her. In order to have a smaller replica made I enquired the exact data of the Eiffel Tower Here are the details: The Eiffel Tower is 300 metres high. It is made of steel. The weight of steel used is 8,000,000 kilogrammes.

I have decided to order the model to be made with only 1 kilogramme of steel. How high do you think my Eiffel Tower would be? 84 Find out the Time What does 1408 hours mean? 85 A Problem of Thickness We have a large, very thin sheet of rice paper which pile at the rate of one tho usand sheets to the inch Supposing we tear the paper in half and put the two pie ces together, on top of each other, and we tear them in half and put the four pi eces together in a pile and then we tear them again in half and put the eight 42 pieces together in a pile, and we continue like this upto fifty times, can you t ell how high the final stack of paper would be? 86 Name the Series What is the name given to the series? 1+l+lll+l+A++l+i 8 87 Sum of the Angles The heavy figure is a Convex Hexagon. Can you find the sum measures of the angle s A, B, C, D, E, F 88 Name the Series What is the name given to the series? 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 ? 43 104 Find out the Pattern What do you think the following pattern is? 6, 24, 60, 120, 210, 336 90 Weight of a Brick We have a brick of regular size. It weighs 4 kilogrammes. How much do you think a similar brick, four times smaller, but made of the same material weigh? 91 A Coin Game Recently, a friend of mine showed me a very interesting game with coins. She ask ed me to bring three saucers first and she placed them in a line. Then she place d 5 coins of different denominations, one on top of another in the first saucer. The coins were of the denominations Rel/-, 50P, 10P, 5P and 25P and she placed t he coins in the order of their size smallest on top and biggest in the bottom. She now asked me to transpose these coins to the third saucer observing the cond itions that I transpose only one coin at a time, I do not place a bigger on a sm all one and I use the middle saucer only temporarily observing the first two con ditions but that ir. the end the coins must be in third saucer and in the origin al order. 44 'Oh that's very simple. This hardly needs much effort' I said. 1 took the 25P coin and put it in the third saucer. Then I kept the 5P coin in t he middle saucer. Now I got stuck. I did not know where to put the 10P coin. It was bigger than both! My friend smiled and said 'put the 25P coin on top of the 5P coin. Then you can put the 10P coin in the third saucer'. I saw my way and did exactly what she told me. But to my great surprise I saw th at my trouble had just begun. Where do I put the 50P coin? I did a lot of thinking. I put the 25P coin into the first saucer, the 5P coin i nto the third and then transposed the 25P coin there two. And now I could place the 50P coin in the second saucer. After numerous transpositions at last I was able to succeed in moving the entire pil e of coins from the first saucer to the third.

How many moves did I make altogether? 92 Dropping a Ball A little ball is dropped from a height of 8 ft. and it bounces back each time to a height which is one-half of the height of the last bounce. How far approximately will the ball have travelled when it comes to rest? 93 Find out the Sequence What are the next terms in the sequence? 17, 15, 26, 22, 35, 29 45 104 'Puzzle of the Matches A friend of mine ertiptied a box of matches on the table and divided them into t hree heaps, while we stood around him wondering what he was going to do next. He looked up and said 'well friends, we have here three uneven heaps. Of course you know that a match box contains altogether 48 matches. This I don't have to t ell you. And I am not going to tell you how many there are in each heap'. 'What do you want us to do?' one of the men shouted. 'Look well, and think. If I take off as many matches from the first heap as ther e are in the second and add them to the second, and then take as many from the s econd as there are in the third and add them to the third, and lastly if I take as many from the third as there are in the first and add them to the first then th e heaps will all have equal number of matches.' As we all stood there puzzled he asked, 'Can you tell me how many were there ori ginally in each heap?' Can you? 95 Make a Magic Square 46 Fill in the empty squares with prime numbers and make this into a magic square. Multiplication Problem Naval has worked out this multiplication problem. Has he done it correctly. What is his method? Do you think this method will work in other problems in multipli cation also? 57 84 588 420 4788 Can you place the numbers 11,12,13,14,15,16 and 17 each number in one circle so th at any three circles in a line has numbers which total the same sum? 31 1 42 96 97 Magic Circles 47 104 Name Five Terms of Another Series These are the numbers that are the first five terms of a series that add upto 15 0. Can you name five terms of another series without fractions that add upto 153 ? 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 99 Knitting Needle Is a 'size 16' knitting needle twice as thick as a 'size 8' knitting needle? 100 A Problem of Chain Letters I opened my mail box this morning. What do I see in it ? A chain letter. This se ems to turn up every now and then in one form or another. I began to wonder. If one person sends a certain letter to two friends, asking e ach of them to copy the letter and send it to two of their friends, those in tur n each send two letters to two of their friends and so on how many letters would have been sent by the time the letter did thirty sets. I calculated and I had a surprise waiting for me. The answer was gigantic. What

do you think the answer was? 48 104 Substitute the Question Marks 0, 1,2, 3, 4, 5,6, 7, 8,9 ? ? ? + ? ? ? = ? ? ? Using each of the digits given above, and using each digit exactly once fill in the question marks. 102 A Problem of Ping Pong There are 150 members in my club. We decided to have a ping pong tournament. All the members came forward to play in the game. Every time a member loses a game he is out of the tournament. There are no ties. Can you tell how many games must be played in order to determine the champion? 103 Missing Terms 48, 60, 58, 72, 68, 104 Here is a sequence. Can you find the two missing terms? 49 104 - Measure out the Time We have an old grandpa clock at home. It takes seven seconds for this clock to s trike seven gongs. Now how long do you think it will take for striking ten gongs . 105 Packets of Candy If 6 men can pack 6 packets of candy in 6 minutes how many men are required to p ack 60 packets in 60 minutes? 106 Classify the Numbers Here are a set of numbers: 161 163 167 169 187 289 293 365 367 371 Can you classify these numbers as prime numbers and composite numbers. And when you find a composite number, can you giv e its prime factors? 107 A Problem of Weight In my neighbourhood lives a man who weighs 200 pounds. He has two sons. They bot h weigh 100 pounds each. On a festival day they decide to go across the river on a boat to visit some relations. But 50 the boat could carry a maximum load of only 200 pounds. Yet they managed to get across the river by boat. How did they? 108 Biggest Number What is the biggest number that can be expressed in three figures? 109 Find Out 1757051 Take a good look at this number. Now tell me, is it a prime number? If not, what are its factors? 110 Mnemonic 'May I have a large container of coffee?' This is a mnemonic. Can you tell what it signifies? 111 A Problem of Ribbon We have a 100 ft piece of ribbon. If it takes one second to cut it into a 1 foot strip how long would it take to cut the entire ribbon into one foot strips? 51

112 A Problem of Gooseberries When I was a little girl, one day my mother had left a bowl of gooseberries to b e shared between my two sisters Lalitha, Vasantha and myself. I went home first. I ate what I thought was my share of gooseberries and left. Then Lalitha arrive d. She thought she was the first one to arrive and ate the number of gooseberrie s, she thought was her share and left. Lastly Vasantha arrived. She again though t she was the first one to arrive and she took what she thought was her share an d left 8 gooseberries in the bowl. When we three sisters met in the evening we realized what had happened and my mo ther distributed the remaining 8 gooseberries in a fair share. How did my mother do it? 113 Value of a Googol How much is a googol? 114 Angle of Hands The time is 2.15 P.M. What is the angle between the hour and minute hands? 115 A Problem of Candy Bars Recently I attended a birthday party. All the children in the party were given c andy bars. All the children got 52 three candy bars each except the child sitting in the end. She got only two cand y bars. If only each child had been given two candy bars there would have been e ight candy bars remaining. How many candy bars were there altogether to begin wi th? 116 Speeding Train The distance between Bangalore to Mysore is about 60 miles. Two trains leave at 10 in the morning. One train leaves Bangalore at 40 mph and the other from Mysor e at 50 mph. When they meet are they nearer to Bangalore or Mysore? 117 Why Front Wheels Wear Out? Perhaps you have noticed the wheels of some carts the front ones are smaller than 4he rear ones. Why do the front axles wear out faster than the rear? 118 Match Sticks Here are twelve match sticks. Can you remove exactly two so that exactly two squ ares remain? 119 Mathematical Oddity In the 20th Century there are only seven years whose numbers are a mathematical oddity because their numbers signify a prime number. The first one of its kind w as the year 1951. Can you name the other six? 120 Two Pumpkins I was shopping for vegetables at the New Market. I saw two pumpkins of the same quality but of different sizes. One was bigger than the other. The bigger one wa s 60 cm in circumference and the other 50 cm. I asked the vendor the price. The bigger one was one and a half times more expensive. Which one do you think would have been a better buy. 121 Division of 45 Can you divide the number 45 into four parts such that when 2 is added to the fi rst part, 2 is subtracted from the second part, 2 is multiplied by the third par t, and the fourth part is divided by 2. All the four results should be the same number. 54 258

A Problem of Probability This happened when I was visiting Bagaio, a holiday resort in the Philippines. I was lunching with a young mathematics professor who was also holidaying. We we re seated at a table by the window. We spoke about various things and finally we hit upon the subject of the determinational of the probability of a coincidence . The professor, incidentally his name is Prof. Alfredo Garcia he took out a coin and said 'Now watch, I am going to flip this coin on the table without looking. Tell me what's the probability of a tail-up turn?' At that time two other friends of ours walked in and joined us at the table for coffee. We briefly explained to them the topic of our discussion. 'First of all, professor, explain co us what is 'probability' said one of the tw o friends.' 'Yes, please do. Not everyone knows it' I said. 'Certainly. Well it's really very simple. If I toss a coin in the air, there are only two possible ways in which it would fall. Head or tail. Of these only one will be exactly what we want. Let's call it a favourable occurrence. Then it can be deduced mathematically this way. The number of favourable occurrence = 1 The number of possible occurrence = 2 In this way the probability of a tail-up can be represented by the fraction y2. What if it is not a coin.... say it is something more complicated' interrupted o ne of the friends. 'Say for example a die' joined in the other. 'Yeah, a die. Let me see.... of course.... it's cubical in shape'. 55 The professor was thoughtful for a moment. Then he continued 'Yeah.... it has nu mbers on each of its faces .... 1,2,3,4,5,6, . . . .' 'Now what's the probability.... of.... say number 6 turning up'? I asked. 'Well, there are six faces. Therefore we have to see how many possible occurrenc es there are said the professor. 'Any of the numbers from 1 to 6 can turn up. Th e favourable occurrence for us, naturally will be 6. And naturally the probabili ty in this case will be 1/6'. 'But can you really compute in this manner any event'? queried one of the friend s. 'Take for example, if I were to bet that the very next person to pass our win dow will be a woman, what's the probability that I would win the bet?' 'Well, 1 would say it is l/2, provided we decide to regard even a little boy as a man and a little girl as a woman', the professor replied. That's assuming that there's an equal numoer of men and women in the world' I jo ined in. 'In such a case what's the probability that the first wo persons passing the win dow will be men?' one of the friends asked. 'Well, a computation of this kind will be a little more complicated. We'll have to try all the possible combinations. The first possibility will be that both th e persons will be men. Second possibility that the first person may be a man and second a woman. Third, the first person may be a woman and second a man. Fourth , both the persons may be women. That makes four combinations. And of course, of these four combinations only one is favourable'. 'I see' I agreed. 'So, the probability is V4 the professor continued. 'And that's the solution to your problem'. We were all silent for a moment. Then one of the friehds spoke. 56 'Supposing, instead of two, we think of three men. What would be the probability that the first three persons to pass our window will be men?' 'The solution is obvious, isn't it?' the professor said. 'We start by computing the number of possible combinations. When we calculated for two passers by, the number of combinations we found was 4. Now by adding one more passer-by we have to double the number of possible combinations, because each of the four groups o f the two passers-by can be joined by a man or a woman. That makes the number of possible combinations in this case 4x2 = 8.'

'One would have never thought of it that way' remarked a friend. 'But you see it for a fact! The probability is quiet obvious it is 1/8. Only one in eight will be a favourable occurrence. The method of calculating the probabi lity is very easy really'. The professor took out a ball pen from his pocket and wrote on the white table c loth. 'Two passers by, the probability is % x xk = % OK' 'Yes' I agreed. 'For three it is >/2 x l/2 x :/2 = l/&' 'Agreed' said a friend. 'Now for four the probability will be, naturally, the product of 4 halves, that is 1/16'. 'It appears the probability grows less each time' remarked a friend. 'Right. Take the case ot ten passers by, for example. The answers will be the pr oduct of 10 halves. Do you know how much it is 1/1024'. 'No' we all said in a chorus. 'In other words' said one of the friends 'If I bet a dollar that the first ten p assers-by will be all men, chances of winning the bet is only 1/1024' 57 'Well I can put up a bet for a $ 100.00 that it will not happen'. The professor said very confidently. 'I can surely use a hundred dollars. Wish I could catch ydu on that bet professo r' I joined. 'But then your chance to win will be only one in one thousand twenty-four'. 'I don't mind .... all I would be losing is only $ 1.00' 'Still a dollar is dollar' said a friend. 'And your chances of winning the bet is so remote' said the other. I looked out of the window. The road was somewhat deserted. After lunch, most pe ople were home enjoying their after-lunch siestas. I looked at my watch. It was almost approaching 2 P.M. only a minute or so left. I spoke quickly. 'Tell me professor, what are the chances of my winning. If I were to bet one dol lar against one hundred that the next hundred passers-by outside our window will be men'. 'Your chances of winning would be even less than one in a million for twenty pas sers-by and for 100 passers-by the probability would be even less than' he wrote on the table cloth 1 1000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 'Really!' I remarked 'I still want to take the bet with you that the next one hu ndred passers-by will be men'. 'I will give you one thousand dollars instead of one hundred. You can't win the bet' he said excitedly. I looked at my watch again. It was only a few seconds before 2 P.M. As our friends watched us with utter amusement I reached for the professor's han d and shook it, confirming the bet. The very next moment something happend. 58 In exactly five minutes after that the professor was heading towards the bank to encash all his travellers cheques in order to pay me my one thousand dollars. H ow do you think I won my bet. 123 Arrange the Digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Here are the nine digits. Can you arrange the nine digits in order from left to right and + or signs only so as to produce a result of 100? 124 Something in the Way of Calculus We have a rectangular sheet of tinfoil whose dimensions are 32 centimetres by 20 centimetres. Equal squares are cut out at each of the corners. Can you find the maximum volume of a wooden box which can be lined by suitably b ending the tinfoil to cover the base and sides of the box?

125 The Problem of the Music Concert Recently I was at a music concert in Calcutta. I was sitting only one hundred fe et away from the musicians. The performance was being broadcasted. My sister Vasantha who lives in Bangalore also heard the same concert on -the radio. I am sure you know that Bangalore is over a thousand miles away from 59 Calcutta, and also that sound travels at 1100 feet per second. Do yoli think there was any difference in the times at which the music was heard by Vasantha and myself? If so which one of us did hear the given note first? 126 Count the Triangles Can you tell how many triangles are there in each of these figures? 60 258 Third Dimension of a Box I have a box. The two dimensions of the box are 4" and 3". Compute the third dim ension of the box so that the space diagonal of the box is an integer. 128 Out in the Cold Mammu and I, we were on a tour of West Germany. It was a very cold winter evenin g. We stepped in the street to walk to a coffee shop. Mammu is only five and a h alf years old. We were dressed similarly. Who do you think felt colder? 129 Height of a Room Given the floor area of a room as 24 feet by 48 feet, and the space diagonal of the room as 56 feet, can you find the height of the room? 130 Average Speed It was a long drive. I drove 60 kilometres at 30 kilometres per hour and then an additional 60 kilometres at 50 kilometres per hour. 61 Compute my average speed over the 120 kilometres. 131 Special Number What is special about this number 1729 ? 132 A Problem of Water Lillies In India water lillies grow extremely rapidly in the ponds. If the growth enlarg ed so much that each day it covered a surface double that which it filled the da y before, so that at the end of the 20th day if entirely covered the pond, in wh ich it grew, how long would it take two water lillies qf the same size at the ou tset and at the same rate of growth to cover the same pond? 133 Decode the Mnemonic Here is a piece of Mnemonic: Now I even I, would celebrate In rhymes unapt the great Immortal syracusan rivaled never more, who in his wondrous lore Passed on before, Left men his guidance How to circles mensurate. Can you tell what it signifies? 62 258 Computing to Infinity How much is 1/7 + 2/72 + 1/73 + 2/74 + 1/75 + 2/76 + 1/77.... to infinity ? 135

How to Increase the Volume? A cylindrical container has a radius of eight inches and a height of three inche s. Compute how many inches should be added to either the radius or height to give t he same increase in the volume? 136 A Problem of Family Relations Every man or woman alive today had 2 parents, 4 grand-parents, 8 great-grand par ents, 16 great-great-grand parents, 32 great, great, great grand parents and so on. Let us take the case of Ram. Two generations ago Ram had 2x2 or22, or 4 ancestor s. Three generations ago he had 2 x 2 x 2 or 23 or 8 ancestors. Four generations ago he had 2 x 2 x 2 x2 or 24 or 16 ancestors. Assuming that there are 20 years to a generation, can you tell 400 years back ho w many ancestors did Ram have? 63 258 Counting A Billion If you were to count one number per second and counted seven hours per day, how long would it take you to count to a Billion? 138 A Question of Identity Is this a prime number? 1000009 139 Deck of Cards A standard deck of cards has 52 cards. What is the probability that six cards dr awn at random will all be black cards? 140 Value of 'X' 17 . x = 17 + x What is the value of X ? 64 258 Solving Problems Romila appeared for a maths exam. She was given 100 problems to solve. She tried to solve all of them correctly but some of them went wrong. Any how she scored 85. Her score was calculated by subtracting two times the number of wrong answers fr om the number of correct answers. Can you tell how many problems she solved correctly? JL42 Boy or Girl Vikram Chadda has two children, and at least one of them is a girl. What is the probability that both children are girls? 143 Playing Children A group of boys and girls are playing. 15 boys leave. There remain two girls for each boy. Then 45 girls leave. There remain five boys for each girl. How many b oys were in the original group? 65 258 Amicable Numbers The numbers 220 and 284 are known as amicable numbers. The reason is the sum of the proper divisions of 220 equals 284 and what is even more interesting is the sum of the proper divisors of 284 equals 220. So far about 100 pairs of amicable numbers are known. Can you find some in four digits? 145 Matching Pair of Socks

Mammu has 16 pairs of white socks and 16 pairs of brown socks. She keeps them al l in the same drawer. If she picks out three socks at random what is the probabi lity she will get a matching pair? 146 Naming A Number Take a good look at this number: 222221 Is it a prime number? 147 A Problem of Roofing Paper For doing the interior decorations of my apartment, 66 I have bought a roll of roofing paper. I do not know its exact thickness, but le t us assume it is X. How can I find out how long the roll is without unrolling i t? In other words, can you derive a formula for length of roll if the radius is r? 148 Positive Integers What are the three positive integers whose sum is 43 and the sum of the cubes of the three integers is 172992. 149 Dimensions of a Rectangle Only two rectangles have dimensions that are integers and their area and perimet er equal the same number. Can you find both? 150 My Bank Balance My bank pays me 4% simple interest compounded annually. If I deposit one hundred dollars at the beginning of each year for five years, what would be my balance at the end of five years? 151 The Benediktov Problem The great Russian poet Benediktov (1807-1873) was 67 very fond of mathematics and he collected and compiled a whole volume of tricky brain teasers. Though' his work was never published, the manuscript was found in 1924. An interesting problem contained in the manuscript, captioned 'An Ingenio us Way of Solving a Tricky Problem' goes as follows: One woman who made a living by selling eggs had 90 eggs which she wanted to sell , so she sent her three daughters to the market, giving 10 eggs to her eldest an d cleverest daughter, 30 to the second and 50 to the third. 'You'd better agree among yourselves,' she told them, 'about the price you're go ing to ask for the eggs, and keep to it. Stick to the price you decide upon. But I hope that, in spite of your agreement, the eldest, being the cleverest, will receive as much for her ten eggs as the second will receive for her thirty and w ill teach the second to sell her thirty eggs for as much as the youngest will se ll her fifty. In other words, each of you is to bring home the same amount, and the total for the 90 eggs is not to be less than 90 kopeks.' A kopek may be treated as a rupee. How do you think the girls carried out the in structions of their mother. 152 A Computing Problem Compute: (100-1) (100-2) (100-3) .... (100+1) (100+2) (100 + 3) = ? 153 Number Wheel Here is a number wheel. Can you arrange the 68 numbers 1 to 9 in such a way as to have one of them in the centre and the rest a t the ends of the diameters? The sum of the three numbers on. each diameter should be 15. 154 Largest Number What is the largest number you can write with the following Roman numerals?

I. C. X V.L. You can use each numeral only once. 155 A Circle and a Triangle What do you call a circle which passes through the vertices of a triangle? 69 268 Every One has the Same Answer! We were a group of four, sipping coffee in a wayside cafe near Montmartre in Par is. Andre is a student of mathematics at the University and he is very clever wi th numbers. He showed us a very interesting puzzle. He asked us all to think of a number any single digit. We were not supposed to d isclose the number to each other. He asked us to add 9 to the number and then sq uare it. From this he asked us to subtract the square of the original number and again subtract 61 from the result. This number, he asked us to multiply by 2, a dd 24 and subtract 36 times the original number. Now he asked us to take the squ are root of that number. To our surprise he told us the exact number we had finally got and what was even more amazing was that we, all the three of us, had got the same final result. How do you explain it? 157 A Circle and a Polygon What do you call a circle that touches all the sides of a polygon ? 159 __ Life of the Sun Can you tell how long the sun has existed? 70 159 Number of Poles in a Fence A farmer built a fence arpund his 17 cows, in a square shaped region. He used 27 fence poles on each side of the square. How many poles did he need altogether? 160 A Problem of Population If human beings did not die the earth would sooner or later be overcrowded with the progeny of just one couple. If death did not hinder the growth of human life , within a score of years or so our continents would be teaming with millions of people fighting each other for living space. Let us take for instance the case of two couples today. Supposing each of these couple,give birth to 4 children and the eight children in turn form 4 couples an d each couple in turn give birth to 4 children, and those 16 children again form eight couples and give birth to 4 children each and so on, can you tell exactly the number of progeny the two initial couples would have after 10 generations? 161 A Mule and a Donkey Eating Wheat This following problem is supposed to have been given by Euclid in his lectures in Alexandria about 280 B.C. A mule and donkey were going to the market laden 71 with wheat. The mule said "if you give me one measure, I should carry twice as m uch as you, but if I give you one, we should have equal burdens." Whaf were thei r burdens? 162 Age of Our Earth Can you tell how old is our earth approximately? 163 Crossing Circles What do you call two circles which cut 'right' across each other? 164 Weight of Sugar Can you tell what is heavier a cup of lump sugar or a cup of powdered sugar? 165

Find out the Numbers The difference between two numbers is 54. They are composed of the same two digi ts reversed. What are the numbers? 72 258 Weight and Height There are two men. One is tall and the other is a midget. The tall man is two me tres in height and the midget stands 1 metre high. By how much does the tall man outweigh the midget? 167 Six Rows of Children 24 children are attending a flag hoisting ceremony. How can you arrange them in six rows with each row comprising 5. 168 Magic Star 73 Here is an eight pointed star. Can you fill in the circles at the points of inte rsection with numbers from 1 to 16 so that the total adds upto 34 on each side o f the square and 34 at the vertices? 169 Switching Problem High Off 9 Low Medium Here is a light switch. Please note the order of the positions. If the light is now at medium and it is switched 3922 times what will be the position of the swi tch? 170 A Steamer's Route A 150 metre long steamer has changed its direction through 30 degrees while movi ng through a distance equal to twice its own length. Can you tell the radius in the circle in which it moved? 171 Continue the Sequence What are the next two terms in the sequence? 1/5, 0, 1, -2, 9, -28, 101 74 301 Square of a Natural Number Can you name the square of a natural number that is twice the square of some oth er natural number? 173 Find Numbers 12 and 21 are numerical reversals of each other; so are the squares of these num bers; 144 and 441. How many more numbers can you think of which have this proper ty? 174 Absolute Value Supposing the roots of a quadratic equation are: 8/5 and -7/3 What is the absolute value of the coefficient of the x term, if the equation is written in standard form. (ax2 + bx + c = 0), and a = 1 175 Water Pipes A circular pipe with an inside diameter of six feet can carry a certain amount o f water How many circular pipes with an inside diameter of one inch will be needed to ca rry the same amout of water? 75 258 Broken Eggs

A boy was carrying a basket of eggs. He fell down and all the eggs broke. When h e went back home without any eggs his mother asked how many he had been carrying altogether in the basket. He was unable to remember. But he was able to recall that when they were counted two at a time one was left , when counted three at a time one was left, when counted four at a time one was left, when counted five at a time none were left. Can you tell how many eggs were broken. 177 Volume of the New Bottle If all the dimensions of a one litre bottle are doubl-ed what is the volume of t he new bottle? 178 A Dinner Party At a dinner party every two guests used a dish of rice between them. Every three guests used a dish of dhal and every four used a dish of meat between them. The re were altogether 65 dishes. How many guests were present? 76 258 Triangles in a Star figure? 180 Brothers and Sisters In the Sareen family each daughter has the same number of brothers as she has si sters and each son has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. Now can you tel l me how many sons and how many daughters do the Sareen family have? 181 Dissection of an Octagon Here is an octagon 77 258 Can you dissect it into 5 sections so as it can be rearranged to form a square. 182 A Problem of Card Game Asha and I were playing cards. The stake was 1 P a game. At the end I had won th ree games and Asha had won three Paises. How many games did we play? __ 183 Squaring the Circle What is meant by squaring the circles? 184 Building a Play House Rakesh and Nikhilesh were carrying pieces of timber to build a playhouse. Nikhil esh said to Rakesh 'Give me one of your pieces so that we shall both be carrying the same number of pieces'. 78 'No' said Rakesh, proudly wanting to display his strength 'Give me one of yours and I shall be carrying twice your weight'. Can you tell how many pieces of timber were each Rakesh and Nikhilesh carrying? 185 Missing Letters Here is a logical pattern: O. T. T. F. F. S. S. E. N What are the next nine lett ers? 186 Selling Eggs The egg vendor calls on his first customer and sells half his eggs and half an e gg. To the second customer he sells half of what he had left and half an egg, an d to the third customer he sells half of what he had then left and half an egg. By the way he did not break any eggs. In the end three eggs were remaining. How many did he start out with? 187 Guess the Missing Number

Here is a multiplication 7451 x 3982 = 29 * 69882 One digit is missing from the product. Can you find the missing number without p erforming the multipli-cation? 79 301 Width of the Human Hair It is estimated that the width of the human hair is inch 1000 About how many hairs placed side by side would measure an inch? 189 Span of Life Can you tell how old is life on our Earth? 190 Consecutive Natural Numbers There are two consecutive natural numbers whose product is equal to the product of three consecutive natural numbers for example (x + 1) = y (y + 1) (y + 2).Wha t are the two numbers? 191 Speed of Ships What is the standard measurement of the speed of ships? 80 301 Size of a Cherry The cherry is a round fruit with a round stone. If the flesh of the cherry aroun d the stone is as thick as the stone itself, can you calculate mentally how much more pulp than stone there is in the cherry? 193 Stolen Mangoes Three naughty boys stole some mangoes from a garden. As it was late in the eveni ng, they decided to divide the fruit equally among them in the morning, and went to sleep. At night while the other two were sleeping, one boy woke up, tip-toed to the bas ket of mangoes, counted them and ate one. From the remainder he took a precise t hird and went back to sleep. After some time a second boy woke up. He counted the mangoes, ate one, took an e xact third of the remaining and went back to sleep. A little before sun rise the third boy also woke up, ate one, and like the other two boys took a precise third of the remainder in whole mangoes. In the morning, all the three boys went together to the basket of mangoes, count ed them. Amongst them they found one which was over ripe almost rotten. They threw it away. From the remainder they made an exact division. How many mangoes in all did they steal? 81 258 Computing to Infinity What is the sum to infinity? s = 1 + (-1) + 1 + (-1) + (-1) + (-1) + (-1) + 1 + .... 195 Factors Compute the number n(n2 + 1) (n2 - 1) If n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17. When 'n ' is an integer greater than 1 what factors do all the numbers possess? 196 Missing Digit A three digit number consists of 9,5 and one more number. When these digits are reversed and then subtracted from the original number the answer yielded will be consisting of the same digits arranged yet in a different order. What is the ot her digit? 197 A Jumping Frog A frog starts climbing a 30 ft wall. Each hour he climbs 3 ft and slips back 2.

How many days does it take him to reach the top and get out? 82 301 Vanishing one Rupee Two farmer's wives set out to the market to sell some oranges. Each had 30 orang es for sale. The first sold hers at 2 a rupee and the other at 3 a rupee. When a ll the oranges were sold the former had made in all Rs. 15 and the latter Rs. 10 , a total of Rs.25. The next day when they set out for the market, they decided to do business toget her. So they pooled their sixty oranges and sold them at the rate of 5 for Rs2 ( Two a rupee plus three a rupee). But when the oranges were all sold out and they counted their takings, to their dismay, they found that they had only Rs24 in all. They could not understand whe re the other one rupee went. They ended up accusing each other of having appropriated the rupee. Where did the one rupee go? 199 Add the Numbers Find the value of: cxvi + xm + vi + CCLXV 200 A Three Digital Problem By using only the digits 9, 9, 9, can you make: a) 1, b) 4, c) 6? You can adopt mathematical processes such as + , x, J~ etc. 83 301 Smallest Number What is the smallest number which when divided by 10 leaves a remainder of 9, wh en divided by 9 leaves a remainder of 8, when divided by 8 leaves a remainder of 7 and so on until when divided by 2 leaves a remainder of 1 ? 202 Fast and Slow Running Train An express train leaves Calcutta for Bombay at the same time as a passenger trai n leaves Bombay for Calcutta. The express travels at the speed of 60 kilometres per hour and the slow train at the rate of 30 kilometres per hour. Which is furt her from Calcutta when they meet? 203 Earth and the Sun What is the distance between earth and the sun? 204 Red Corpuscles The cubic inch of average human blood is said to contain eighty thousand million red corpuscles. If an average adult has 210 cubic inches blood, how many led co rpuscles are there in the body of an adult? 84 301 A Global View Do you know the surface area of the globe, counting all continents and oceans? 206 Pricc of a Bottle A bottle and its cork together cost Rs. 1.10, and the bottle costs Rel more than its cork. What is the price of the bottle? 207 A Special Magic Square Here is a magic square. Can you tell what is special about it? 96 11 89 68 88

69 91 16 61 86 18 99 19 98 66 81 208 A Cipher What is a 'Cipher'? 85 301 Piling up Corpuscles The red corpuscles in the human body are said to have a thickness of .00008 inch . Approximately how high would all the corpuscles in an average adult's body be if they could be piled on top of one another without compression? 210 A Book Worm's Route There are three volumes of the same book each three centimetres thick. They are kept in shelf side by side in order. Volume I, II and III. If a book worm starts outside the front cover of volume I and eats its way through to the outside of the back cover of volume III, travelling in a straight line, how far does it tra vel? 211 Share of a Garden My friend owns a small rose garden in Bangalore. My sister Lalitha has a share o f 3/5 of it, and my sister Vasantha has twice as much as myself. What fraction o f the field belongs to me? 212 A Problem of Wearing Shoes On a certain island, 5% of the 10000 inhabitants are one legged and half of the others go barefoot. What is the least number of shoes needed in the island? 86 301 A Problem of being Photographed My friend Asha, Neesha, Vijay, Parveen and Seema and myself, we decided to have a group photo taken in the studio. We decided to sit in a row. How manyi differe nt arrangements can be made of the order in which we could have sat? After the sitting at the photo studio, we all decided to lunch together in a res taurant. The waiter led us to a round table. We had a little bit of an argument about who should sit next to whom. How many different arrangements can be made of the order in which we could have sat? 214 The Three Integers What are the three integers in arithmetic sequence whose product is prime? 215 A Bigger Dozen Six dozen dozen: is it greater than, equal to, or less than half a dozen dozen? 216 Smallest Integer 7! < 107 8! < 108 Which is the smallest integer S so that S!>10s 87 301

' Match Sticks Game Here are three different figures made out of 8 match sticks. They are all differ ent in size. What would be the biggest possible figure you can make out of these eight match sticks? 218 Selecting a Candidate A school announced the opening ot the posts for six teachers in the local newspa per. 12 persons applied for the job. Can you tell in how many different ways thi s selection can be made? 88 301 A Batting Problem A team has nine players. How many possible batting orders are there? 220 Smallest Integer ? M If the largest of x consecutive integers is M, what is the smallest? 221 The Fly and the Molasses A cylindrical glass container is 20 centimetres tall and has a diameter of 10 ce ntimetres. On the inside wall, three centimetres from the upper circular base, t here is a drop of molasses. On the lateral surface, diametrically opposite it, t here is a fly. Which is the shortest route for the fly to take to reach the molasses? 222 A Set of Bat and Ball Mammu wanted a bat very badly to play with her ball. The shopkeeper showed me a set of bat and ball. He told nie that they would together cost me Rs.3.75. But I did not need the ball as Mammu had one already. 89 Then he said that the bat would cost me 75 Paise more than the ball. Whai was the cost of the bat and the ball? 223 Edges of a Pencil How many edges has a hexagonal pencil? 224 The 'Lattice' Method 4 5 1 2 8 3 // 5 o 7 2 // 4 3 // 3 0 // 6 1 // 2 1 K 5 0 3 1 1 3 This is the multiplication of the numbers 451 x 763. The 'Lattice' method has be en used. Can you find the product and the method? 225 The Television Tower Bombay has a high television tower. Supposing you do not know the height, but yo u have a photograph of

90 the tower, is there any way in which you can find the real height of the tower? 226 Football Game In order to ensure that one forecast is correct, how many different forecasts mu st be made of 5 football games? 227 Factorials There are many factorials that can be expressed as the product of two or more ot her factorials. To give you an example: 7! x 6! = 10! How many others can you find? ' 228 Open Pantograph What is the geometrical shape associated with an open pantograph? 229 A Chess Board A regular chess board has 8 by 8 squares. How many individual rectangles can you identify? 91 301 Rising Tide The ship was sailing. The tide was rising at the rate of 16 inches per hour. Fou r rungs were already below the water. Each rung was V/2 inches thick and there w as a gap of eight inches between rungs. After five and one half hours later how many rungs of the ladder would have been submerged? 231 The Weight of a Pan Two pans are similar in shape. They are also of the same thickness. However one of them is eight times more capacious than the other. Can you tell how heavier is the bigger one than the other? 232 A Boat Race The yacht club recently held a boat race. The captain had some difficulty decidi ng the order of rowing in the boat for his crew. 3 of his crew were strokeside oarsmen only and 2 of them were bow side oarsmen o nly. Weights and personal preferences were not important really. In how many ways the captain could have arranged his eight men to form the crew? 92 301 Giving Away Five Billion Rupees Supposing you had five billion rupees and you gave away a Rs. 500 note every min ute, how long would it take you to give away all your money? 234 Two Excellent Mnemonics 'To disrupt a playroom is commonly a practise of children' AND 'It enables a numskull to memorize quality of numerals! These two pieces of mnemonics signify a certain mathematical term to 9 places of decimals. What is the term? 235 A Problem of Flies The common fly is considered an appallingly prolific insect. Each female fly is capable of laying 120 eggs at a time. Out of the eggs hatched, half of them are generally females. The female flies hatched grow sufficiently within 20 days to lay eggs themselves . Assuming that the female fly lays her first eggs on the 1st of April, can you te ll how many eggs will be hatched in the course of that summer, in the seventh ge

neration. 93 301 Height of a Palm Tree A palm tree was 90 cm high, when it was planted. It grows by an equal number of cms each year,and at the end of the seventh year it was one ninth taller than at the end of the sixth year. Can you tell how tall was the tree at the end of the twelfth year? 237 Make a Series What are the next three'terms to the series: 1 + 3 + 7 + 15 + 31 + 63 + 238 Around the Equator Supposing one decides to walk around the earth on the equator, the top of the pe rson's head would describe a circle whose circumference would be longer than the circle described by his feet. How great do you think the difference would be? 239 Intersecting Squares There are two squares. One is large and the other one is small. The large square has a side of 17 units and the smaller square has a side of 15 units with its v ertex at the centre of the large square, and intersects the side of the large sq uare 3]/2 units from the vertex. What is the area of the shaded overlapping regi on? 94 301 Weight of Diamonds What is the measure used to weigh diamonds? 241 Meaning of the Term What does the term 'Casting out the nines' refer to? 242 Make a Sequence What are the next two terms of the sequence? 1, 1, 5, 17, 61, 217 243 Natural Numbers Using the numeral 4 just four times only combining it with any mathematical symb ols + , -, x, ,-J~ Can you form each of these natural numbers 1,2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. 244 The Spoilt Holiday A group of friends and myself went on a holiday to a hill station. It rained for 13 days. But when it rained in the morning the afternoon was lovely. And when i t 95 rained in the afternoon the day was preceded by a clear morning. Altogether there were 11 very nice mornings and 12 very nice afternoons. How man y days did our holiday last? I love to mix drinks. When I have one glass orangeade and one glass lemonade eac h glass contains the same amount. I take 2 ounces full of the orangeade and mix it with the lemonade, and then I take 2 ounces full of this mixture and put it b ack in the orangeade. What do you think of the resulting mixture? Do you think there is more orangeade in the lemonade or more lemonade in the ora ngeade? 245 A Problem of Drinks 246 A Simple Problem Simplify: 247 Googolplex

How much is a googolplex? 96 301 Tell the Time Can you tell at what time between 7 and 8 O'clock, the two hands of a clock, wil l be in a straight line? 249 Name of the Line What is the name of the line referred to when you say 'Cut a circle in two points'? 250 A Cardioid What is a cardioid? 251 A Problem of Age Today was Lakshmi's birthday. She turned 24. Lakshmi is twice as old as Ramu was when Lakshmi was as old as Ramu now. How old is Ramu now? 252 The Common Name What is the common name for a regular hexahedron? 97 301 Name the Circle Can you name the circle which is implied by 'The circle which touches all sides of a polygon'. 254 Find out the Value Can you tell the value of the following: Sin 45 = Cot 45 = Cos 45 = Sec 45 = Tan 45 = Csc 45 = 255 Alter the Numbers Here is a circle with marked numbers. Can you alter the numbers so that the sum of any two adjacent numbers is equal to the sum of the pair of numbers at the ot her ends of the diameters. 98 258 256 Climbing Problem of Creepers Two creepers, one jasmine and the other rose, are both climbing up and round a c ylindrical tree trunk. The jasmine twists clockwise and the rose anti-clockwise, and they both start at the same point on the ground. Before they reach the firs t branch on the tree the jasmine has made 5 complete twists and the rose 3 twist s. Not counting the bottom and the top, how many times do they cross? 257 Throwing the Dice We have two dice one red and one black. In how many different ways can they be t hrown? 99 301 Algebraic Language Can you change the following statement into algebraic language? 'A certain number is equal to twice another number diminished by 5'. 259 Complaints about the Excursion Our group consisted of 400 when we went on an overseas excursion. On our return we were asked if we had any complaints to make. 240 had no complaints at all. Am ongst rest 60 complained about the delays everywhere, 3 complained about the del ays, food, and lack of facilities, 11 about food and lack of facilities, 8 about delays and food, and 7 about delays and lack of facilities. An equal number com

plained about either lack of facilities or food only. How can you represent these figures on a venn diagram and calculate the number o f persons who complained about the food only? 260 Insert Numbers in Circles Can you arrange the numbers 1,2,3,4, 5,6, 7,8,9, 10,11 and 12 in the twelve circ les of their figure so that the sum of the three numbers on each of the six side s is the same, and the three circles connected by single line 100 and the two circles connected by the double line also give the same sum? 261 One Word Answer Can you tell in one word the name of the following suffix? 'The medians of a triangle have this point in common'. 262 Simpson's Rule To what use is Simpson's rule put?" 263 Sound of a Striking Axe Sound is said to travel in air at about 1100 feet per 101 second. A man hears the axe strike the tree 11/5 seconds after he sees it strike the tree. How far would you say the man is from the wood chopper? 264 Name of the Solid What is the name of the solid formed by cutting a pyramid or a cone by two paral lel lines. 265 Name of the Line What is the name of the line that joins all the points of the same latitude on t he earth? 266 A Problem of Eggs A farmer has six baskets full of chicken and duck eggs he is taking to the marke t to sell. Basket A has 29 eggs, basket B has 14 eggs, basket C has 23 eggs, bas ket D has 6 eggs, basket E has 5 eggs and basket F has 12 eggs. The farmer points to a particular basket and says 'If I sell all the eggs in thi s basket, I shall have twice as many chicken eggs left as duck eggs.' Which was the basket he was pointing at? 267 Value of K If K = a- ba b what is the value of K when a = -1 and b = -2? 102 301 Honey Comb What particular geometrical shape do you associate with the cell in a honey comb . 269 Sides of a Triangle The sides of a right-angled triangle have a length of an exact number of m. Supp osing the perpendicular is 9m long and the hypotonuse is lm longer than the base , what is the length of the sides? 270 Name the Triangle What is the name of the triangle formed by joining the facet of the perpendicula rs from the vertices of a triangle to the opposite side? 271 Playing Chess A chess board has 64 squares. In how many different positions can you arrange tw o draughts on the board? 272 Rows of Numerals

Name the triangle which does not have three lines for sides but only rows of num erals. 103 273 Count the Faccs Can you tell how many faces does a stellated Dodecahedron have? 274 Problem of a Handbag I found a very nice handbag in the shop tha+ I thought I should simply must have . The price was Rs. 10. But I did not have the Rs. 10. The storekeeper was known to me. He said that he had a credit system by which I could pay Re. 1 only at the time of purchase and the balance RslO could be paid by me at the rate of Re 1 per week for 10 weeks. Can you tell what annual rate of interest the storekeeper was charging me? 275 A Broken Gold Chain A goldsmith was given a chain to be repaired. The chain was torn into five equal sections of three links each. The goldsmith began to wonder how many links he would have to open up and then s older. After some thinking he decided that it would be four. What do you think? Could he have done this job with opening up a fewer links and then soldered? 276 Quick Descent What does the curve of quick descent refer to? 104 301 Square Number Can you prove that the sum of two adjacent triangular numbers is a square number . 278 A Series of Numbers Can you write 10 numbers from least to greatest which have a remainder of 3 afte r division by 7. What kind of series is formed and what is the common difference ? 279 Length of the Strif) What is the length of the strip of all millimetre squares in one square metre, i f placed one along side the other? You must calculate mentally. 280 Moving a Safe A heavy safe is to be moved. Two cylindrical steel bars of diameter 7 centimetre s are used as rollers. When the rollers have made one revolution, how far will the safe have moved forw ard? 105 301 . Filling Wine in Barrels A friend of mine in London has a very nice cellar. He has two large barrels in t he cellar. The larger barrel is mostly empty. But the smaller barrel is only 5/6 th full of wine while it can hold 536 litres. Supposing he empties the smaller barrel and fills the bigger barrel to find that the wine fills only 4/9ths of it, how much wine would the larger barrel hold wh en full ? 282 A Standing Tripod Why is it that a tripod stands firmly, even when its three legs are of different length? 283 Women at Club Socials Women outnumbered men by 16 at a club social. Sometimes the number of women exce

eds nine times the number of men by 32. What was the number of men and women at the club? 284 Constellation Pegasus What particular geometrical shape is associated with Constellation Pegasus? 106 301 A Game of Billiards Rajiv, Sanjiv and Vijay were playing a game of billiards. Rajiv can give Sanjiv 10 points in 50, and Sanjiv can give Vijay 10 points in 50. How many points in 5 0 must Rajiv give Sanjiv to make an even game? 286 Finding a Way B A Here is the plan of an estate. It has been divided into square lots.There are ma ny ways a person can take to reach from point A to point B. Can you tell how man y different ways of the same length are there for a person to take? 107 301 Playing a Rccord A gramophone record has a diameter of 30.5 centimetres. The centre is unused and has a diameter of 10 centimetres. There is also a smooth outer edge 1.25 centim etres wide around the recording. If the grooves are 36 to the centimetre, how far does the needle move during the actual playing of the record? 288 Greatest and the Least Can you name the greatest and the least of the following? log(2 + 4), (log 2 + log 4), log (6 - 3) and (log 6 - log 3). 289 Sum of Odd Numbers Find the sum of the first 70 odd numbers. 290 Length of a Train A train is travelling at the speed of 96 kilometres per hour. It takes 3 seconds to enter a tunnel and 30 seconds more to pass through it completely. What is th e length of the train and the tunnel? 108 291 Planting Trees If you wished to plant some trees so that each was equidistant from every other tree, what is the largest number you could plant? 292 Name of a Sieve What is 'The Sieve of Erastosthenes'? 293 Segments and Dots Here are some dotted points. Gan you draw four segments without lifting your pen cil off the paper in such a way that each of the points is at least one of the s egments? o o o o o o o o o 294 Value of the Series Take a good look at the following series: + + _ I + 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 109 Find the values of the series and multiply the answer by 4. You will notice that a well-known value approximates this product. Even more interesting is that as

you add more terms the approximation becomes closer. 295 Name of the Exchange In Great Britain some years back the first three letters of a telephone number u sed to indicate the name of the exchange. How many such arrangements of 3 letter s is it possible to devise from the 26 letters of the alphabet? 296 Filling a Cistern Pipe S can fill cistern in 2 hours and pipe K can fill a cistern in 3 hours. Pip e Y can empty it in 5 hours. Supposing all the pipes are turned on when the cist ern is completely empty, how long will it take to fill? 297 A Thirst Problem Rajiv and Sanjiv went camping. They took their own water in big plastic bottles. Rajiv got thirsty and drank half the water in his bottle. A little later on he d rank 1/3 of what was left. Some time afterwards he drank 1/4 of what remained an d so on. Sanjiv also had a bottle of the same size. He drank 110 half the bottle at the first instance, half of what remained when he drank next and so on. After each took ten drinks, the water Rajiv had left was how many times greater than the water Sanjiv had left? 298 Snapping a Plane A plane has a span of 12 metres, ft was photographed as it was flying directly o verhead with a camera with a depth of 12 cm. In the photo the span of the plane was 8 mm. Can you tell how high was the plane when it was snapped? 299 A Running Race Rajiv, Sanjiv and Vijay join a running race. The distance is 1500 metres. Rajiv beats Sanjiv by 30 metres and Vijay by 100 metres. By how much could Sanjiv beat Vijay over the full distance if they both ran as before? 300 An Election Problem My club had a problem recently. They had to appoint a Secretary from among the m en and a Joint Secretary from among the women. We have a membership of 12 men and 10 women. In how many ways can the selection be made? I l l 301 Flying Around This happened in the Heathrow airport, London. I had just missed a flight. So I decided to kill some time in the Cafetaria until my next flight was ready. A man walked in and asked my permission to join me at my table. Sipping coffee we began to chat. He told me he was a commercial pilot and in the course of his work he has flown all over the world. I also gathered that he was a Russian. He posed this very interesting puzzle to me: 'One fine day I just decided to fly around no fixed destination just fly around. I t ook away from Leningrad in a northerly direction. I flew continuously for five h undred kilometres. Then I turned my direction. I flew eastward 500 kilometres. I turned direction again I turned south and covered another 500 kilometres. Now a gain I turned my direction. I flew 500 kilometres in the westerly direction and landed. Can you tell me where did I land? West, East, South or North of Leningra d?' 'Oh well' I said quickly 'Leningrad, naturally'. 'No' he said. 'Where else would you possibly land? 500 kilometres north, 500 kilometres east, 500 kilometres south and 500 kilometres west. You are exactly where you started

from'. 'Not at all' he said. 'I don't understand!' '1 actually landed in Lake Ladoga'. 'Really! How could that be'. He explained to me in detail and also drew a sketch to illustrate how he could n ot have possibly landed back in Leningrad. What do you think his explanation was? 112 Solutions ILet us assume that originally Meena had X rupees and Y 20 paise coins. Going sh opping she had (100X + 20 Y) paise She returned with only (100 Y + 20 X) paise. This last sum, as we know, is one-third of the original and therefore 3(100 Y + 20 X) = 100 X + 20 Y Simplifying we have X = 7 Y IfY is 1 thenX is 7. Assuming t his soMeena had 7.20 rupees when she set out for shopping. This is wrong because Meena actually had about 15 rupees. Let us see now what we get if Y = 2. Then X = 14. The original sum was 14.40 rupees which accords with the condition of the problem. If we assume that Y = 3 then the sum will be too big 21.60 rupees. Therefore the only suitable answer is 14.40 rupees. < After shopping Meena had 2 one rupee notes and 14 twenty Paise coins. This is actually l/3rd of the original sum 1,440:3 = 480. Meena's purchases, the refore, cost 14.40 4.80 = Rs. 9.60 2There is nothing to explain here. The driving time there and back is absolutely the same because 90 minutes and 1 hour and 30 minutes are one and the same thin g. This problem is meant for inattentive readers who may think that there is some d ifference between 90 minutes and 1 hour 30 minutes. 113 3The smallest integer that can be written with two digits is not 10 as one may a ssume. But it is expressed as follows: JLJL-L A. etc uPto 2 1 2 3 4 9 4It is very easy to answer this question. We can find the number of times all the five groups met on one and the same day in the first quarter the New Year's excluded by finding the least common multipl e of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. This isn't difficult. It is 60. Therefore, the five will all meet again on the 61st day. The literary group will meet after 30 two-day intervals, the Dramatic after 20 t hree-day intervals, the Musical after 15 four-day intervals, the Dancing after 1 2 five-day intervals, and the Painting after 10 six-day intervals. In other words, they can meet on the one and same day only once in 60 days. And since there are 90 days in the first quarter, it means there can only be one oth er day on which they all meet. Now coming to the second question, this is positively more difficult to find the answer. How many days are there when none of the groups meets in the first quar ter? To find the answer to this, it is necessary to write down all the numbers from 1 to 90 and then strike out all the days when the literary group meets for exampl e the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th etc. Then we must cross out the Dramatic Group days for example 4th, 7th, 10th etc. This way we must cross out the days of the musical, dancing and painting groups also. Then 114 the numbers that remain are the days when none of the groups meet. When we do that we will find that there are 24 such days eight in January (2. 8. 12. 14. 18. 20. 24 and 30), seven in February and nine in March. 5People often think of the number 1111 as the biggest number that can be written with four l's. But there is a number many, many times greater than this number, namely : llu 11" = 285311670611

As you can see ll11 is almost 250 million times greater than 1111. 668 regions. Each new tangent increases the non-enclosed areas by two. 7This problem can be solved only by appli-cation of algebra. Supposing we take X for the years, the age three years hence will beX + 3 and the age three years a go X - 3. Now we have the equation 3(X + 3) - 3(X - 3) =X When we solve this, we obtain : 18. The girl is 18 years old. To check this: Three years hence she will be 21 and three years ago she was 15. And the difference is: (3 x 21) - (3 x 15) = 63-45 = 18 8Since a = b, a - b = 0. Hence division by zero. -1 1 g (1/8) -2/3 = ( (V2)3 ) -Hz = 0/2) -2 = Vh)2 == 4 115 /VThere are many ways of solving this problem X vlwithout equations. Her,e is one way : In five minutes the son covers % of the way and the father 76 i.e. V4 V6 = V12 ' ess than the son. Since the father was x/t of the way ahead of the son, the son would catch up wit h him after 7^4/i2 = 2 five minute intervals, or 10 minutes. There is one other way of doing this calculation which is even simpler: To get to work the father needs 10 minutes more than the son. If he were to leav e home 10 minutes earlier, they would both arrive at work at the same time. If t he father were to leave only five minutes earlier, the son would overhaul him ha lf way to work i.e. 10 minutes later, since it takes him 20 minutes to cover the whole distance. ^One can think of at least 9 examples : 39 x 186 = 7254 18 x 297 = 5346 28 x 157 = 4396 42 x 138 = 5796 12 x 483 = 5796 48 x 159 = 7632 4 x 1738 6952 27 x 198 5346 4 x 1963 7852 If you try patiently, perhaps you may come up with some more. 12 (2f = 28; H^LlIL = 28; = 28; 2 2 n2 - n -56 = 0; n =8. There were altogether 8 guests present at the get-together.

116 OWell one would always think that the small XOcog wheel will rotate three times. But this is a mistake. It is actually four times. In order to convince yourself of this fact, take a sheet of paper and place on i t two equal sized coins. Then holding the lower one tight in its place, roll the upper coin around it. You will find out to your surprise that by the time the u pper coin reaches the bottom of the lower one it will have fully rotated on its axis. And when it has done a complete circle around the lower coin, it will have rotated twice. Speaking in general, when a body rotates round a circle, it always does one revo lution more than one can count. It is precisely this that explains why the earth revolvingroundthe sun succeeds in rotating on its axis not in 365% days but in 3 66% days. If one counts itsrevolutionsinrespecttothe stars and not the sun, you will understand now, why sidereal days are shorter than olar days. 14 15 0123456789 He ate 26 idlis on the fourth day. Day No. Eaten 1st day X 2nd day X + 6 3rd day x + 12 4th day x + 18 5th day x + 24 Total 5x + 60 = 100; x = 8; 8 + 18 = 26 117 16 7 2 3 10 4 5 6 8 9 1 y2.This problem can be worked by simul-X / taneous equations, but the solution s hown below is a more clever, more intuitive approach. a b a + b ~aE10 20 2 OThe N column is the most restrictive column AO since it has only four open choi ces, instead of the five usual choices. These four choices must be made from the set (31, 32, 33 43, 44, 45) which contain fifteen elements. Thus when we have made all possible selections of 4 nu mbers from 15 numbers, we will have reached the total possible number of differe nt Bingo cards. , 15 15 x 14 x 13 x 12 ( ) = = 1365 4 4x3x2x1= 19 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000 Complete answer to Question 19 + 8 1) -JLL? (8x8x8 -8)- 8 = 1000 2) 8888 - 888 _ i000 8 118 3) ( 88 - 8 ) ( 8 + All) = 1000 4) ( 8 + -ll8- ) ( 8 + All) = 1000

5) 8(8x8 + 8x8)-8-8-8 6) 8(8 + 8)- (lll-l_8i^ 8 8 Using the factorial signs we have: 8! 7) 8( 8 - 8 8+8+8, 8 ' 1000 1000 = 1000 8) 8! -8-A 8 8(88 - 8) 1000 119 2 Q There are 47 different triangles I am showing below the possible solutions. The important thing to remember about the problem is that P must be less than four or it would be possible to make ch ange for one rupee: Asha or Nisha IP 5P 10P 25P 50P 4 0 4 3 0 Asha or 4 0 9 1 0 Nisha S = 112 + 126 + 994 S = 14 (8 + 9 + 71) 120 S = 14 (8 + 71) (71 - 8 + 1) 2 S = 7(79) (64) = 35392 14 Squares 24 25 13 4 y4 m 6% 9% 10% 8 m 5'A Let n ttfe n2 = 12 + n n* - n - 12 = 0 (n - 4) (n + 3 ) = 0 n = -3 or 4 So n - 4 Since expression is principal sq. root The hair that falls last is the one that is the youngest today i.e. the one that

is only one day old. Let us now calculate how long it will take before the last hair falls. 121 In the first month a man sheds 3000 hairs out of 150,000 he has on his head. In the first two months 6000. And in'the first year 3000 x 12 = 36000 Therefore it will take a little over four years for the last hair to fall. It is in this way that we have determined the average age of human hair. 1 11 ( _L + i )io = = 2.5937424601 10 1010 This is a multiplication magic square. The product of each set of three numbers in any column or row is the constant 120. If the son is x years old, then the father is 2x years old. Eighteen years ago t hey were both eighteen years younger. The father was 2x - 18 and the son x - 18. We know that then the father was three times as old as the son: 3(x - 18) = 2x - 18 When we solve this equation, we will find that x =36. The son is 36 and the fath er 72. 4 x 21978 = 87912. The number is reversed 49 If instead of a sari, handbag and shoes if I had bought only two pairs of shoes, I would 122 have had to pay not 140 rupees but as many times less as" the shoes are cheaper than the sari and the handbag, i.e. 120 rupees less. Consequently, the two pairs of shoes would have cost 140 - 120 = 20 rupees. Hence one pair costs 10 rupees. Now we know that the sari and the handbag together cost 140 -10 = 130 rupees. We also know that the sari is Rs.90/- more expensive than the handbag. Now let us use the same reasoning again. Had I bought two handbags instead of a sari and a handbag, I would have had to pay not Rs.130/- but Rs.90/- less. Therefore two handbags cost 130 - 90 = 40 rupees. And one handbag costs 20 rupee s. Now we know exactly how much each article cost: Shoes Rs. 10/- Handbag Rs. 20/Sari Rs. 110/- Rs. 140/-in all. The rule of three means proportion. In the words if three numbers are given when four numbers are in proportion, this is a method of finding one of them. 35 m Bro (23)" 23m 3m m = 5/3 = 32 = 25 = 25 = 5 = 5/3 36 37 14 14 14 14 14 (1) + (2) + (3) + (4) +... (14)= 214 -1=16383 142857 ' 123 2127_1 = 170 1411 83460469231731687303715884 105 727 39" X - 1 n = 1+0+0+0+0+ +0+0+ n + 1 = (4) 4. i) + (i 3 3 (n + 1

) 1 n n + 1 n + 1 A /YThe early Romans before Julius Caesar from T"\/whom our calendar comes from began the year in March. Therefore December was the tenth month. However, when New Year was moved to January 1, the names of the months were not shifted, which caused the disparity between the meaning of the names of certain months and their sequence: Here is an example: Months Meaning Place September (Septem-Seven) 9th October (Octo-Eight) 10th November (Novem-Nine) 11th December (Deka-Ten) 12th 41 5280 5280 880 c 6 "" 77" 124 42 15, 21, 28. These are triangular numbers: 1, 3, 6, 10, 15 21 28 n (n + 1) 2 A O This problem would easily lead one to think that TrO the speed we seek is the mean result of 10 and 15 kilometres i.e. 12.5 an hour. But this is wrong. In fact, if the distance the skier covers is x kilometres, then going at 15 kilometres an hour he will require x i x 2x -Tlf-and at 12.5 kilometres irvrr or -? 1d 1^72 Zb So the equation:2x 1 1 2x 25 15 10 25 Because each of these is equal to one hour, when we simplify, we obt ain: 2 _ 2 25 15 25 Or it can be expressed in arithmetical proportion: 4 - 1 + 1 25 15 10 But this equation is wrong hecause: i.e. and not 111 4,4 + = 15 10 6 24 25 But it can be solved orally in the following manner: If the speed is 15 kilometr es an hour and was out for two hours more he would cover an additional 30 kilo-m etres. In one hour, as we already know, he covers 5 kms more. Thus, he would be out for 30:5 = 6 hours. This figure determines the duration of the run at 15 kil ometres an hour : 6 - 2 = 4 hours. And now we can easily find the distance cover ed : 15 x 4 4 = 60 kilo-metres. 125 Now, again, without any difficulty we can see how fast he must ski to arrive at the appointed place at 12 noon i.e. five hours. 44

73 - 7 x 48 = 7 ATi2 or 536 870 912 HrO The sum of the coefficients equals the sum of the combinations of twentynine things taken none at a time plus twentynine things taken one at a time. A ^First of all, let us see what happened to the TrOoriginal number. A similar n umber was written alongside it. It worked out to the same as if we took a number , multiplied it by 100 and then added the original number. For example: 872872 = 872000 + 872 Here my friend has actually multiplied the original number by 1001. What did he do after that? He had it divided successfully by 7, 11 and 13 or by 7 x llx 13 i.e. by 1001. So he actually first multiplied the original number by 1001 and then had it divi ded by 1001. How very simple! 47 Begin here 126 A Q 45 Paise, 2 five Paise, 2 ten Paise and 1 twenty T"Ofive Paise. /IA7, 346, 648, 004, 560, 986, 215, 348, 444, 286, * 3/ 445, 305, 146, 039, 140, 046, 960, 678, 582, 256, 003. frr|7. 52 X 7 = 364 364 + 1 = 365 days vJ V/There are 52 of each day plus 1 extr a day. Thus the probability of anyone day of week occurring, in a non-leap Year is one-seventh. 51 Let the change in radius or height be x. Then (8)2 (3 + x) = (8 + x)2 (3); x = 1 6/3 {TQWhen Itook half ofthe stringthere naturally remained y2. After Deepa took wha t she wanted there remained l/n. After Arhit V8 remained, and after Pallavi -g- x =, ^ . If30cm= 3 3 then the original length was 30. ^ = 400 cm or 4 metres. 53 64 (26 _ 1) / 2 = (18 x 19) + (14 x 47) = 1000 55u 127 Very simple. All you have to do is to find the digit which, added to the two you will get nearest divisible by 9. For example, in 639, I crossed out the 3, and I told him the othe/ two 6 and 9. All he had to do was add them and get 15. The nearest number divisible by 9 is 18. Therefore the missing number is 3. Now we have to-see how the numbers are to be placed. Let us assume the following : The sum of the numbers at the points is 26, while the total of all the numbers of the star is 78. Therefore, the sum of the numbers of the inner hexagon is 78 - 26 = 52. We shall now proceed on to examine one of the big triangles. The sum of the numb ers on each of its sides is 26. If we add up the three sides we get 26 x 3 = 78. But in this case, the numbers at the points will each be counted twice. Since t he sum of the numbers of the three inner pairs i.e. the inner hexagon must, natu rally be 52. Then the doubled sum at points of each triangle is 78 - 52 = 26 or 13 for each triangle. At this point our search narrows down. We knowthat neither 12 nor 11 can occupyt he circles at the points. So we can try 10 and immediately we come to the conclu sion that the other two digits must be 1 and 2. It is all very simple now. All we have to do is follow up and eventually we shal l find the exact arrangement we are looking for, as shown in the figure below: 128 1, 3, 9, 27, 81, 243. All powers of three. Let us assume a is 'Diophantus' age a/6 + a/12 + a/7 + 5 + a/2 + 4 = a; a = 84 Diaphantus lived to be 84 years old 24 billion hours later it would be 9 O'clock and 8 hours before that it would be

one O'clock. We shall do a simple listing below, \vhich will provide us the solution: 12 3 Co nditions Met 12 3 No 129 1 3 2 No 2 1 3 No 2 3. 1 Yes 3 1 2 Yes 3 2 1 No Answer is or /ZO One may think that the magnifying glass {3m increases our angle to 172 x 4 = 6. But it is a great mistake. The magnifying glass cannot increase the magnitude of the angle. Yes, the arc measuring the angle increases, but then its radius increases propor tionally too. And the result is that the magnitude of the central angle remains unchanged. It may be worth your while to make a practical experiment with this. O One of the fathers is the son of the other father. The problem posed would seem as if there are altogether four persons concerned. But that is not so. The three persons are grandfather, father and son. The grand father gave his son Rs. 150/- and the latter passed on Rs. 100/- of them to the grandson (i.e. his son). Thus increasing his own money by Rs. 50/-. 64 Sin 30 Cos 30 Tan 30 Cotn 30 1 2 Sin 60 ^3 2 vT 2 Cos 60 1 2 1 vT Tan 60 3 Cot 60 1 130 Sec 30 2 Sec 60' 2 \/3"

Csc 30 2 Csc 60' 2 V3 f" C* You will be stunned at the answer. The pole UlJ would be 1000 kilometres h igh. Let us try to cal-culate it mentally. A cubic metre equals: 1000 cubic millimetre x 1000 x 1000. One thousand millimetre cubes placed one atop another will make a pole 1 metre i n height. And since we have 1000 * 1000 times more cubes, we shall have a pole t hat is 1000 kilometres long. |T*7The total of all the numbers on a clock face is O / 78. And so that total of each of the six parts should be 78 : 6 = 13. This helps to find the solution as shown in the figure above. 66 No one knows! 131 /* Q An essential fact we must know before we start 00,solving the problem, we m ust know how many legs the spider and the beetle have. From the study of natural science, we know that spiders have 8 legs and beetles 6. Let us now assume that there were only beetles in the box 8 of them. Then there should be 48 legs, or 6 less than mentioned in the problem. Now if we substitute one spider for one of the beetles, the number of legs will increase by 2, because the spider has 8 legs and not 6. It is now clear that if we substitute three spiders for three beetles we shall b ring the number of legs in the box to the required 54. In that case, instead of 8 beetles we shall have 5. The rest will be spiders. Now we can conclude that the boy collected 5 beetles and 3 spiders: 5 beetles ha ve 30 legs and 3 spiders have 24 legs. In all the boy collected 54 legs. If S434S0 is to be divisible by 36, then it is also divisible by 4 and 9. To be divisible by 4 S must be an even number. To be divisible by 9, 25 + 11 is a multiple of 9. The digit '8' is the only numb er that meets these two conditions. When we substitute 'S' with '8' we get the A ns: 843480. M = 1000 D = 500 C = 100 L = 50 X = 10 and VI = 6 If we add all these together, the result is 1666. nAll the problems proposed by the magician are insoluble. The magician could eas ily make such an offer, very well knowing that he never would have to part with his hundred rupees. Let us now analyse the problem algebraically, to know exactl y where the magician had his safety valve: 132 To pay 5 rupees : Let us assume that it is necessary for us to have 'a' number o f 50P coins, 'b' number of 20P coins and 'c' number of 5P coins. Then we will ha ve the equation: 50a + 20b + 5c = 500 P = 5 rupees. Simplifying this we get : 10 a + 4b + c = 100 However, according to the problem, the total number of coins is 20, and therefore we have the other equation: a + b + c = 20 When we subtract this equation from the first we get: 9a + 3b = 80 Dividing this by 3 we obtain: 3a + b = 262/3. But 3a i.e. the number of 50 P coi ns multiplied by 3 is, of course, an integer like b, the number of 20 P coins. A nd the sum of these two numbers cannot be a fractional number. Therefore the pro blem is insoluble. In the same way the 'reduced' payment problem are also simila rly insoluble. In the case of Rs.3/- we get the following equation: 3a x b = 137 2 And in the case of Rs. 2/- we get the equation: 3a + b = 62/3 Both, as we can see, are fractional numbers. Therefore the magician risked nothi ng in making such a generous offer. But it would have been another thing altoget her had he asked for Rs. 4/- instead of Rs. 5/-, Rs. 3/- or Rs. 2/-. Then we cou ld have found seven different solutions to the problem. Cycloid. Cycloid is the simplest member of the class of curves known as roulette s and it was not known before the 15 Century. And it was seriously studied until the 17th Century. Many great mathematicians like Descartes, Pascal, Lisbuitz, the Bermoullis and o

thers have investigated the properties of the Cycloid that it was sometimes name d the 'Helen on Geometers'. 133 73 74 370, 371, 407. 75 a) b) c) d) e) f) S) h) i) 9 = 32 16 = 42 25 = 52 36 = 62 49 = 72 64 = 82 81 =92 (291 + l)2 = 21316 76 a) In a given circle O, draw a diameter AB b) Construct CD as perpendicular bisector of AB 134 268 c) Bisect OB, label its centre M. d) Using M as a centre and CM as a radius, draw an arc intersecting AO at E, e) CE is the required length of one side of the inscribed pentagon. ^T^ First of all let us find out how the typists / / should divide the job to fi nish it at the same time. The more experienced typist, that is Mr. Das Gupta, can work times faster than t he other. Therefore it is clear that his share of work should be times greater. Then Mr Das Gupta as well as the new lady typist will both finish the work simul taneously. Hence Mr Das Gupta should take3/s of the work and the lady typist 2/s. This solves the problem, but there still remains for us to find how long it take s Mr. Das Gupta to do his share i.e. 3A of the work. We know that he can do the whole job in two hours. Therefore 3/s of job will be done in 3/5 * 2 = V-/s hours. So the other typist also must finish her share of work within the same time. 135 Therefore the fastest time they can finish the work is 1 hour and 12 minutes. There were two girls and a boy, their father and mother, and their father's fath er and mother. As it would be too much for words to go into the explanations of relationships h ere, the most satis-factory thing for you to do would be to sit down, write out a list of the seven people involved, and check off the twentythree relationships . 79 33 + 43 + 53 = 27 + 64 + 125 = 216 = 63 p + 63 + 83 = 1 + 216 + 512 = 729 = 93 2 53 + 383 + 873 = 15625 + 54872 + 658503 = 729000 = 903 Qf| While solving this problem, we must bear in Ovfmind the rule governing the d ivisibility of a number by 11. A number is divisible by 11 if the difference of the sums between the sums of th e odd digits and the even digits, counting from the right, is divisible 11 or eq ual to 0. Let us, for example, try the number 49836781. The sum of the even digits :9 + 3 + 7 + l= 20 The sum of the odd digits -.4 + 5 + 6 + 8= 23 The crescent may be divided in six parts as shown in the diagram. The six parts are numbered for the sake of convenience. 136 DCCLXXXIX

The model is 8000000 times lighter than the real Eiffel Tower. Both are made of the same metal, and so the volume of the model should be 8000000 times less than that of the real tower. We know that the volumes of similar figures are to one another as the cubes of t heir altitudes. Therefore, the model must be 200'times smaller than the original because 200 x 2 00 x 200 = 8,000000 The altitude of the real tower is 300 metres', and so the he ight of the model should be 300:200 = V/z metres. Then the model will be about t he height of a man. 1408 hours is actually 8 minutes past 2 P.M. "This is the system of twenty-fourhour clock. Writing the hours and minutes this way is a sensible means of avoidi ng any confusion between A.M. and P.M. This system which is commonly used in the railway time tables in continent of Eu rope leave no possible doubt about the time of the day or night when a train is 137 due to leave a station. Midnight is expressed as 0000 hours. O fTThe first tear results in two, or 21, pieces of OiJpaper. The second tear re sults in four or 22 pieces, the third tear eight or 23, the fourth in sixteen or 24 pieces and so on. It is evident at once that after the fiftieth tear the sta ck will consist of 250 sheets of paper which equals 11258 9990 6842 624 Now, we know that there are a thousand sheets to the inch. Therefore the stack w ill be about 1125899906842 inches high. To get the height of the stack in feet we have to divide this number by 12 and t o get it in miles we have to divide the resulting number by 5280. The final resu lt will be well over 17,000,000 miles. Q/^Harmonic Progression. This is sometimes O^fcbbreviated to H.P. (Don't confuse it as Horse Power or the sauce). 87 360 O OFibonacci series. In this series the sum of the 002nd and 3rd terms equals th e 4th term, tjje sum of the 3rd and 4th term equals the 5th term, the sum of the 4th and 5th term equals the 5th term and so on all the way through the series. This series is named after Fibonacci, who was born in 1175. Fibonacci thought that his series of numbers 138 solved many problems connected with plant growth and it was found to be true tha t the positions and numbers of the leaves on the stems of certain plants are connected by the series. 7- 8-> 7-8- 9- 8- 9- 10 One would quickly come out with the answer, 1 kilogramme, that is four times les s. But this is absolutely wrong. The smaller brick is not only four times shorter than the real one, but it is al so four times narrower and four times lower and therefore its volume and weight are 4 x 4 x 4 = 64 times. The correct answer would be : 4000: 64 = 62.5 Grammes. Now let's see how this could have been done with the least possible number of mo ves. To start with let us assume that we had only two coins 25 F and 5 P, and not fiv e. How many moves would we require then ? We would exactly require three moves. The 25 P coin would go into the middle sau cer, the 5 P coin into the third and then the 25 P comes over it. Now let us add one more coin to this three instead of two, 25 P, 5 P and 10 P. W e shall now see how many moves we need to transpose the pile. First we move the two smaller coins in the middle saucer, and to do that as we a lready know we need three moves. Then we move the 10 P coin to the third saucer. That is one more move. Then we move the two coins from the second saucer, to th e third and that makes it another three moves. Therefore, we have to do altogeth er 7 moves. 139 For four coins we need 15 moves and for 5 coins we will need 31 moves.

An interesting pattern can be noted from the above calculations. The numbers we obtained are : Coins Moves Pattern 2 3 2x2-1 = 22 - 1 3 7 2 x 2 x 2-1 = 23 - 1 4 15 2 x 2 x 2 x 2-1 = 24 - 1 5 31 2x2x2x2-1 = 25 - 1 So the easiest way to find out the number of moves is to multiply 2 by itself as many times as there are coins to be transposed and then subtract 1. For instance if there are eight coins the operation would be as follows : 2x2x2x 2x2x2x2x2-1 or 28-l And ten coins: 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2-1 = 210-1 Q O Approximately 24 feet. J 8 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 + y2 + y2 + % +1/4 + 1/8 = 8 + 2 (4 + 2 + 1 + y2 + >/4 + 1/8 + ) 8 + 2 (4 + 2) + 2 (2) = 24 8 + 12 + 2(2) (1 + >/2 + Y* + 1/8 ) = Sn = 1 + 0/2)1 + {y2y + +(>/2)n-l y2 Sn = (i/2) + (i/2)2 + (i/2)3 +(y2)n-l + 0/2)n Subtracting the second line from the first, we have Sn (l>/2) = 1 - (y2)n And th erefore: , Sn =(i-y2)n = 2-(y2) Since n increases indefinitely, !/2 n-1 approaches zero and Sn approaches 2 as a limit. 1 - (y2)n n-1 Sn = V2 = 2 - ([/2) 140 The odd terms increase by 9 each time, and the even terms increase by 7 e 44, 36 ach time. To solve this problem, we shall have to start from the end. We have been told that after all the transpositions, the number of matches in ea ch heap is the same. Let us proceed from this fact. Since the total number of matches has not changed in the process, and the total number being 48, it follows that there were 16 matches in each heap. And so, in the end we have: First Heap: 16, Second Heap: 16, Third Heap: 16 Immediately before this we have added to the first heap as many matches as there were in it, i.e. we had doubled the number. So, before the final transposition, there are only 8 matches in the first heap. Now, in the third heap, from which we took these 8 matches, there were: 16 + 8 = 24 matches. We now have the numbers as follows: First Heap: 8, Second Heap: 16, Third Heap: 24. We know that we took from the second heap as many matches as there were in the t hird heap, which means 24 was double the original number. From this we know how many matches we had in each heap after the first transposition: First Heap: 8, Second Heap: 16 + 12 = 28, Third Heap: 12. Now we can draw the final conclusion that before the first transposition the num ber of matches in each heap was: First Heap: 22, Second Heap: 14, Third Heap: 12. ET Here is the completed magic square: 141 67 1 43 13 37 61 31 73 7

To find the solution, we must, first of all find the number in the central cell which in this case is y2 (43 + 31) or 37. When this diagonal is complete, we know total for each diagonal, row and column which in this example is 111. In this way you build up the entire magic square cell by all. 588 - 7 x 84; 4200 = 50 x 84; Yes Each term in this series is a factorial, in other words, the product of all the numbers from 1 to the particular term considered. The first five terms of the se ries are, therefore 1, 2,6, 24,120 and the sum of these numbers is 153. No. Knitting needles conform to the Standard Wire Guage (S. W. G. ) sizes, and t he larger the S. W. G. number, the smaller is the diameter of the wire. fVfVThe thirtieth set would consist of: 230 = J.Ul/1073 74 1824 letters The first set consists of 2 or 21 letters. The second set consists of 4 or 22 letters. The third set consists of 8 or 23 letters. And therefore the 30th set would consist of 230 letters. /\ Here are four solutions. But with patience X w A and pencil work you can find - more: 765 859 364 849 324 743 725 357 1089 1602 1089 1206 - 1) = 149, since all but one lose one /\0 78, 116 The odd terms are in the decimal X UO system and differ by 10. And e ach even term is the preceding odd term expressed in the octonary system. 78 - 8 = 9, remainder 6:9 : 8 = 1, remainder 1. 1 A A (7/16) X 9 + 10y2 seconds 143 ~t 6 men pack 6 boxes in 6 minutes JL\/v/6 men pack 1 box in 1 minute ' 6 men pack 60 boxes in 60 minutes 106 Primes Composites 163 161 = 7 x 23 167 169 = 132 293 187 = 11 x 17 367 289 = 172 "1 First the two sons rowed across the river XVI / and one stayed behind while the other returned in the boat to his father. The son remained behind while the father crossed the river. Then the other son b rought back the boat and the two brothers rowed over together. 108 9 means the product of 9 nines. 9 x 9 x 9 x 9 x9 x9 x 9 x 9 x 9 = 387420489 9 9 9 would mean 9387420489 or the product of 387420489 nines. This claculation would require more than three hundred and eightyseven million m ultiplications and at the rate of one digit per second, it would require nearly twelve years to write the number. 109 It is not a prime number. 1757051 x 1291 x 1361 144 /\The value of Pi to seven places of decimals X X vf are contained in this mnemo nic. The num-ber of letters in each word corresponds to the succes-sive integers in the decimal expansion of Pi. One minute and thirtynine seconds, because XXX when the ninetyninth cut is made, the remaining foot does not have to be cut. C\ Lalitha got 3 and Vasantha 5.1 ate my share X X M of the gooseberries which w as 61/3. Therefore there were 2/3 of the gooseberries left in the bowl. Lalitha took her 1/3 of these or 1/3 of 2/3 = 2/9 of them. So when Vasantha arrived already 1/3 + 2/9 = 5/9 of the original gooseberries ha

d been eaten. Therefore only 4/9 of the original number of the gooseberries rema ined from which Vasantha proceeded to eat her share. Therefore Vasantha ate 1/3 of 4/9 and there remained 2/3 of 4/9 = 8/27. But in the evening we saw that eight gooseberries remained in the bowl. Therefore 8/27 of the original number = 8. So there were 27 gooseberries in the bowl when I first took my share of 9. I was the only one to have had my fair share of the gooseberries. Lalitha took what she thought was her share, from the remaining 18 gooseberries namely 6. And from the remaining 12 Vasantha had taken 4 gooseberries think-ing that to be her share. Now after Lalitha got her 3 and Vasantha her 5 gooseberries, we all had eaten an even share of 9 gooseberries each. 145 1 1 QThe googol is: 10,000, 000, 000, 000, 000, X X*J000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000,-000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000. A 22y2 The hour hand moves same fraction X X T" of the distance between two and t hree (30) as the minute hand has moved of a complete rotation (1/4) 30 - -1(30) = 30 - 7 = 22 4 2 2 (T If there were x children at the party then the X XJtwo ways of distributing th e candy can be represented by these two expressions: 3(x - 1) + 2 and 2x + 8 .3x -3 + 2 = 2x + 8 or x = 9 The number of candy for distribution = 2x9 + 8= 26 "1 The train leaving Mysore travels faster, and X XO naturally they meet and cross one another nearer to Bangalore. The meeting place is 40/90 of 60 or 26-2/3 miles from Bangalore and 50/90 of 60 or 33-1/3 miles from Mysore, and this happens at 10-40 A. M. "1 "1 ^ This is a typical example of a problem with XX/ geometrical basis, disgu ised by extraneous details. It is impossible to solve this problem without geome try. The question is why does the front axle wear out faster than the rear. We know f rom Geometry that the cricle with a smaller circumference has to make more revol utions than the bigger circle to cover the same distance. And, naturally, the wh eel turns more often, and quicker the front axle wears out. 146 118 oc oc 119 1973, 1979, 1987, 1993, 1997, 1999 "1 C\ /> Circumferences are to one another as their X " diameters. If the circum ference of one pump-kin in 60 centimetres and of the other 50 Centimetres, then the ratio between their diameters is. 60:50 = 6/5 and the ratio between their sizes is: (6/5p = 216/125 = 1.73 The bigger pumpkin, if it were priced according to its size or weight should cos t 1.73 times or 73 per cent more than the small one. Yet the vendor has priced i t only 50 per cent more. Therefore, it is clear, that the bigger pumpkin is a be tter bargain. cy 8, 12, 5, 20 ^XA + B + C + D= 45 A + 2 = B - 2 = 2C = D/2 A = B - 4 ; C - B 2 ; D = 2(B - 2) 2 B-4 + B- 2 + 2(B 2 2) = 45 147 B = 12 A = 8 C =. 5 D = 20 Thus: 12- 2 = 8 + 2= 5x2 = 20/2 = 10 "I OOA battalion of soldiers came marching past our window. I had known all alon g that a corps of army cadets consisting of over 100 men, marched past our hotel exactly at 2 P. M. every Tuesday afternoon. QQ 123 - 45 - 67 + 89 X^O Also 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8x9

fy A 1152 cubic centimetres. X^T"Let us assume v is the volume of the box, and x be the side of the squares cut out. Then v = (32 - 2x) (20 - 2x)x or v = 640x 104x2 + 4x3 ' = 640 - 208x + 12x2 For a maximum volume = o dx or 3x2 - 52 x + 160 = 0 or (3x - 40) (x - 4) = 0 40 or x = 4 or x = The real volume of x can only be 4. Therefore the maximum volume of the box is24 xl2x4 = l 152 cubic centimetres. 'I C% P* Yes. Vasantha did. The person listening to^he JLd\3 radio hears the give n note first. 148 5 b_i3 c~27 d-48 C\ 12 inches. The diagonal of the end is 5. 1M / Therefore the space diagonal wi ll be the hypotenuse of a right angle, one of whose legs is 5, the other an inte ger. Three numbers, known as the Pythagorean Triples, can be represented by: mi y2 (m2 -1) and ^(m2 + 1) because iri2+ 0/2(m2 - l))2 = (i/2 (m2 + l))2 52 + \ 22 = 132. The other dimension is 12 inches. Therefore the space diagonal is 13 i nches. 1 nQ Here again there is an example of a problem X^rOthat does not seem mathemat ical at all at the first glance but a closer look will reveal that this is a pro blem that cannot be solved without geometry. We all know that things usually cool down from the surface. So, a child standing out in the street, in the cold, feels the cold more than a similarly dressed ad ult, though the amount of heat in each cubic centimetre of the body is almost th e same in the case of both. A child has a greater cooling surface per one cubic centimetre of the body than an adult. This also explains why a person's fingers and nose suffer more from cold and get frost bitten oftener than any other parts of the body whose surface is not so g reat when compared to their volume. This same theory explains why splint wood catches fire faster than the log from which it has been chopped off. Heat spreads from the surface to the whole volume of a body and therefore the heat sets splint wood on fire faster than the log. "I Q Suppose x is the diagonal of the floor. X^37Then x2 = 242 + 482, x = 24 \J~ 5 149 And if h is the height of the room, then h2 + (2475)2 = 562 and h = 16. Thus the height of the room is 16 ft. 0/\Time required for the first XOvr sixty miles : 120 minutes Time required for the second sixty miles : 72 minutes Total time required : 192 minutes I travelled 120 miles in 192 minutes. Therefore the average speed in miles per h our was: 60 x 120 = 37Vz 192 1 Q 1 This is the only known number that is a sum X O X of two cubes in two diff erent ways. Example: 103 + 93 = 1729, 123 + l3 = 1729 This is popularly known as Ramanujam's number. There is an interesting story abo ut it. The story goes this way. When Ramanujam was sick in the hospital, Prof. H ardy, his tutor paid him a visit. Prof. Hardy told Ramanujam that he rode a taxi cab to the hospital, with a very unlucky number. When Ramanujam enquired what the number was, Prof. Hardy replied: 1729. Ramanujam's face lit up with a smile and he said that it was not an unlucky numb er at all, but a very interesting number, the only number that can be represente d as the sum of two cubes in two different ways! 13219days-

^^^ Pi to 30 decimal places. 150 1 Qyj We must, first of all separate the sum into lJTtwo parts, x and y. 1 1 + 1 . + + 1 7 73 7s 72n 2 2 + 74 1 7 2 + 2 72 76 . 7 72n 1 - 72 2 72 48 72 48 7 2 _ 9 _ 3 48 48 48 16 ^ ^ Supposing the change in radius or height be Then (8)2 (3 + x) = (8 + x)2 (3) 16 3 "t or 1048576 400 years ago, that is 20 generations X 3 O back, Ram for that matt er each one of us had 220 or 1048576 ancestors. 137About 109 years 138No 1000009 = 293 x 3413 151 139 {3L) ^ = 253 6 ' (6) 22372 140 l7 16x - 17 x = _iZ 16 A "| She solved 95 problems correctly At* A Let us assume W = Wrong and R = Righ t R - 2W = 85 R + W = 100 - 3W = - 15 W = 5 W = 5 R = 95 A*} There are three possible outcomes: G - B, B - G or G - G. Since only one of these three is girls the probability is Vs "I AO 40 boys. A TrO Let G represent the number of girls in the original group and B the number of boys in the original group. Then we have: , G 2 , G - 45 1 = and = B-15 1 B-15 5 then G = 2(B - 15) 5(G- 45) = (B - 15) 152 Solving the simultaneous equations above we get: B = 40 and G = 50

1 A A 1184 ~ 6368' 5020 - 2924' X*T2620 - 5564, 6232 - 1210 ^^^P = 1. She is certain to get a pair. J^gNo. 222221 = 619 x 359 A Ff The area of the edge of the paper which is a X i rectangle equals the area of the end of the roll. If the radius of the roll is R, then R2 = W1 or 1 = R2/W /fl 25,11, 7 First of all we must consider even-X TrO odd possibilities for A + B + C = 43 A, B and C must all be odd or two of the three numbers must be even and the othe r o^d. Let us, to start with, investigate the case where all three are odd. By using a table of cubes, we can see that the unit digit of A, B and C must be odd 1,3,5, 7, or 9. Also we can see the following pattern: Unit Digit Unit Digit Unit Digit Unit Digit of A B C A+B+C 1 1 1 3* 3 3 3 9 5 5 5 5 7 7 7 1 9 9 9 7 5 7 9 1 3 7 9 9 3 5 9 7 3 5 7 5 153 17 9 7 15 9 5 1 5 7 3* '1 3 9 3 * 1 3 7 1 13 5 9 Now it is clear that we only need to consider the three cases where 3 appears in

the last column i.e. (1, 1, 1), (1, 5, 7) and (1, 3 9). Unit Digit Unit Digit U nit Digit Unit Digit of ABC A3+B3+C3 1113 1 5 7 9 x 1 3 9 7 Now we need consider only one or two digit num-bers with unit digits 1, 5 and 7. And the possible value for the ten's digits of A, B and C are 0, 0, 3 or 0, 1, 2. 313 > 17299 therefore 353 and 373 are too large. 273 > 17299 253 = 15625 ll3 =1331 073 = 343 Sum total = 17299 Now I leave it to the reader the investigation of the case where two of A, B, C are even and the other odd. 149 L. W=2(L + W) W - 2 = 1 or W-2 =2 2W W = 3 or W = 4 L" W-2 Thus a 4 x 4 rectangle or a 3 x 6 rectangle meets the conditions. 154 150Rs 563/31 1 PI Thus goes the Benediktov story: 'The problem XX was a tricky one and the th ree daughters discussed it ori 'their way to the market, with the second and thi rd appealing to the eldest for advice. The latter thought for a while and then s aid: 'Look, sisters, we'll sell our eggs even at a time and not ten as we always do. We'll fix a price for seven eggs and stick to it, as mother has told us to. Mind you, don't reduce the price however much people may bargain! We'll ask three ko peks for the first seven eggs, all right?' 'That's pretty cheap!' the second sister interjected. 'Never mind,' the eldest retorted, 'we'll raise the price for the eggs that rema in after that. I have made sure that there won't be any other egg vendors at the market. So there'll be no ohe to fore? our prices down. And when there's a dema nd for eggs and not many of them are left, the price goes up, that's only natura l. And that's exactly where we'll make up.' 'And how much shall we ask for the remaining eggs?' the youngest sister asked. 'Nine kopeks an egg. And believe me, people who need eggs will pay the price.' 'That's pretty stiff,' the second sister remarked. 'So what? The first seven-egg batches will be cheap. The expensive eggs will make up for the loss.' 'The sisters agreed. 'At the market each chose a place. The cheap price brought on an avalanche of bu yers and the youngest, who had 50 eggs, soon sold all her eggs but one. At three kopeks per seven eggs she made 21 kopeks. The second sister, who had 30 eggs, m ade 12 kopeks by selling four people seven eggs each, and had two eggs 155 left in the basket. The eldest made 3 kopeks from the sale of seven eggs and was left with three eggs. 'Suddenly a cook appeared with instructions to buy ten eggs'Her mistress's sons had come home on leave and they loved omlette. The cook rushed about the market, the but the only vendors were the three sisters and then they had only six eggs youngest had one, the second two and the eldest three. 'It is only natural that the cook rushed to the one who had three that is, to th e eldest sister who had sold her batch of seven eggs for 3 kopeks. 'How much d'you want for your eggs?' she asked. "Nine kopeks an egg,' was the reply. 'What! You're crazy!' 'Take them or leave them. These are my last and I won't take a kopek less.' 'The cook ran to the second sister, the one who had two eggs left in her basket. 'How much?' she yelled. 'Nine kopeks an egg. That's the price and these are my last eggs.' 'And how much do you want for your egg?' the cook turned to the youngest sister. 'Nine kopeks.' 'Well, there was nothing the cook could do, so she bought the eggs at this exorb itant price.

'All right,' she burst out, 'I'll take the lot.' 'She paid 27 kopeks to the eldest sister for her three eggs and with the three k opeks the latter had from the earlier sale this brought her total receipts to 30 kopeks. The second sister got 18 kopeks and with the 12 kopeks she had received earlier that also made 30 kopeks. The youngest got 9 kopeks for the remaining e gg and that, added to the 21 kopeks she had made on the sale of 49 eggs, brought the total also to 30 kopeks. 'The three sisters then returned home, gave the 156 money to their mother and told her how, sticking to the price they had agreed up on, they had succeeded in selling ten eggs for the same price as 50. 'Their mother was very pleased that her instructions had been carried out and th at her eldest daughter had proved so clever. But she was even happier that her d aughters had brought her exactly what she had told them to bring 90 kopeks.' JEJ^CLXVI = 166 (T fT CircumscriOed. The meaning of tocircums-XOOcribe, to describe a figure rou nd another so as to touch it at points without cutting it. This is exactly what takes place with a circum-scribed circle. To find the centre of such a circle, we have to bisect 157 the sides of a triangle and erect perpendiculars, which are concurrent at the ci rcumcentre. The radius R of the circumscribed circle of the triangle ABC is given by: R = - = -J? = 2 Sin A 2 Sin B 2 Sin C 1 x + 9 XclO(2) (x + 9)2 = x2 + 18x + 81 (3) x2 + 18x + 81 - x2 = 18x + 81 (4) 18x + 81 - 61 = 18x + 20 (5) 2(18x + 20) = 36x + 40 (6) (36x + 40) + 24 = 36x + 64 (7) 36x + 64 - 36x = 64 (8) SM + 8 The answer will always be the same since the variable term drops out. 1 PfT Inscribed. A circle is said to be inscribed in JL\3 i a polygon when each side is tangential to the circle. In case of the simplest polygon a triangle, th e inscribed circle is obtained by bisecting the angles of a triangle. These bise ctors pass through a common point which is the centre of the inscribed circle. "I CQ Scientists have worked it out though only X %J O approximately: The Sun ha s existed 10, 000, 000, 000, 000 years. 159 4 x 25 + 4 = 100 + 4 = 104 poles f" 8184 We start out with 2 couples, four people XOl/or 22 people who increase the ir progeny as follows: 23 + 2" + 25 + 26 + 27 + 28 + 29 + 210 + 211 + 212 = 8184 158 ^ ^ ^ Their burdens were 7 and 5. /IO Scientists have worked it out though IQai approximately: The earth has exist ed ....2000000000 years. L O Orthogonal: Orthogonal means 'right-angled'. J, OO In other words pertaining to or depending upon the use of right angles. If any curves cut at right angles, they are said to intersect orthogonally. Such curves are of interest in many branches of applied mathematics. A point of interest about two circles cutting orthogonally is that the square of the distan ce between the centres is equal to the sum of the squares of their radii. " A The problem may seem tricky, but it is actually AO1*very simple. Let the diameter of lump sugar be 100 times of powdered sugar. And let us assume that the diameter of the sugar particles and the cup which they fill increase 1 00 times. Then the capacity of the cup will increase 100 x 100 x 100 = 1000000 t imes proportionally.

Next, let us measure out an ordinary cup of such enlarged powdered sugar i.e. on e millionth part of the contents of our giant cup. It will, of course, weigh exa ctly the same as an ordinary glass of ordinary powdered sugar. Then the question arises, what does our enlarged powdered sugar represent? Just a lump of sugar. Lump sugar is geometrically similar to powdered sugar and it makes no difference if we enlarge a sugar particle 60 times instead of 100. A cup of lump sugar wei ghs the same as a cup of powdered sugar. 159 -I 71 and 17, 82 and 28 and 93 and 39. X Ov-J Suppose X be the digit in the unit's place and Y be the digit in the ten' s place of the larger number. Then the larger number is (10Y + X). And the smaller number is (10X + Y). And the difference between them is (10Y + X) -(10X + Y) = 54. or Y - X = 6 We know that Y cannot be greater than 9 and X cannot be less than 1 and Y - X is exactly 6. Considering these conditions there are only three possibilities for Y and X name ly the pairs 9 and 3,8 and 2, and 7 and 1. /Z/IThe man who is twice taller outweighs the XOOother not two, but eight times. 1 H The only way is to arrange the children in the X O / form of a hexagon, as sh own in the diagram. ooooo o cx o a o o Q. o rs Q. o o o ooooo 160 "1 Metres Let a small angular movement X / " take place during a small displacement ds. Then if R is the radius of the circle in which it moves: 1 _ d0 R ds ds = R d0 S = R V6I0 = R [ e ] n/6 .'.2.150 = R. 7r,/6, 0 .". R = 573 metres. "I ^ "J -342,1189 The only way to obtain the law in A. i A. this case is by the sy stem of trials. 161 Tn = 5T n-2 - 2T n-1 Hencd Ts = (5X - 28) - (2 x 101) = - 342 H^O There is no such natural number. X / M If A is a natural number, then 2A2 ca nnot be a square since A2 can be represented as the product of pairs of prime fa ctors. There is no 'extra' factor of two to 'pair up with' the factor of two in 2A2. 1 nrQ The next two numbers are : 13 and 31; 102, JL O 201.Squares are 169 and 96 1; 10404 and 40401. 174115 Since (x-~) ( x + y) = 0 x2 + -y- x 175722 or 5784 ^ There is only one way of finding a solution A / Oto this problem: Numbers whic h leave a remainder of 1, when divided by 2: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35. Numbers which leave a remainder of 1, when divided by 3: 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 2 2, 25, 28, 31, 34, 37 Numbers which leave a remainder of 1, when divided by 4: 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 2 9, 33, 37. 162 Numbers which leave no remainder when divided by 5: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. T

he only number fulfilling the four conditions is 25. "I Litres We must remember that a X / / volume has three dimensions. And when each is doubled according to the que stion, the new volume is 2 x 2 x 2 times the original volume. ^ Q 60 Let x equal the number of guests. The 1 / Or number of dishes shared: XXX + + = 65 2 3 4 6x + 4x + 3x = 65 x 12 13x = 65 x 12 65 x 12 x = = 60 13 179 20 Triangles 1 QA4 daughters and 3 sons. Consider d = number XOvlof daughters, and s = number of sons then d - 1 = s 2(s - 1) = d Solving d and s, d = 4, s = 3 163 181 1 Q(1 Nine: I won three games and thus I win 3 XO^fps. Asha has to win back thes e three pennies which takes another three games. And finally Asha wins three mor e games to win the total sum of three more ps. 1 QQ Finding a Square with the same Area as a given X OO Circle is a problem whi ch confronted even the Greek Mathematicians. The difficulty in this problem lies in the fact that a ruler and compass only could be used. If only we could draw a straight line equal to the circumference of circle Eureka! But attempts to solve the problem from as far back as 460 B.C. has been in vain. 1 Rakesh was carrying 5 pieces of lumber and XOt* Nikhilesh 7. Supposing Nikhilesh had n pieces. If he gave 1 piece to Rakesh , he would have n -1 -pieces. But Rakesh would have then the same number as Nikhilesh. Therefore the total num ber of pieces must have been: n-l + n- lor2n-2 Since Nikhilesh had n originally, Rakesh must have had 2n - 2 - n or n - 2. If Rakesh gave Nikhilesh 1 of his n - 2 pieces, he would have n - 3 and Nikhiles h would have n + 1. But we have the information that n + 1 is twice n - 3 i.e. n + 1 = 2(n - 3) or n + 1 = 2n - 6 or 7 = n 5 = n - 3 1 ftGfc1, E, T,T, F, F, S, S, E. lO<J First letter of consecutive whole number n ames. 186 31 Eggs 187 7451 8 3982 4_ 29 * 69882 8 The numbers at the right of the two factors and the product are the residues aft er casting out nines. ' Since 8 x 4 = 32, the residue on the right of the multiplicand should be 5. Since 8+7 = 14 residue 5 the missing digit must be 6. J gg About 330 QQ Scientists have worked out though only XOapproximately: Life on earth has exi sted 300, 000, 000 years 165 2.3 = 1.2.3 And 14.15 = 5.6.7 Q "| Knot: A log of thin quadrant of wood was 17 1 weighed to float upright and fastened to a line wound on a reel, and pieces of knotted string were fastened t o the log line. The number of these knots which ran out while the sand glass was running gave th

e speed of the ship in knots, or in nautical miles a nautical mile is 6080 feet per hour. QQ The diameter of the cherry is three times that X J of the stone. So, the size of the cherry is 3 x 3 x 3 = 27 times that of the stone. Thus, the stone occupies 1/27 part of the cherry and the remaining 26/27 part is occupied by the flesh of the cherry. In other words, the flesh is 26 times bigger in volume than the stone. Q O Let the number of mangoes be X. X yv) The first naughty boy at one, leaving x - 1. He left behind two third of (2x -1) 2x -2 x - 1 or or 3 3 The second naughty boy ate one leaving 2x - 2 3 2x - 2 - 3 2x - 5 or or 3 3 He left behind two-thirds of 2x - 5 2(2x - 5) or or or 3 3x3 166 4x -10 9 The third naughty boy ate one, leaving 4x - 19 . 9 4x-10-9 4x - 19 or or 9 9 He left behind two-thirds of 4x - 19 2(4x -19) 9 3x9 4x -38 or 27 In the morning one mango was eaten leaving 8x - 38 r 8x - 38 - 21 8x - 65 27 27 27 . 8x - 65 Since 27 mangoes were divided equally into three parts, the number must be a multiple of 3. , 8x - 65 Let 27 = 3n where n is an integer. Then 8x - 65 = 81n 8x = 81n + 65 Since x is a whole number, 81n + 65 must be an even number, because no odd number is divisible by 8. Since 65 is odd 81n must be odd, because the sum of two odd numbers is even. Since 81n is odd, n must be odd. 167 Let n be equal to the odd number 2b + 1 Then 8x = 162b + 81+65 or 8x =162b + 146 or 4x = 81b + 73 As before the right side must be even. Therefore b must be odd. Let b be equal to the odd number 2c + 1 Then 4x = 162c + 81 + 73 or 4x = 162c + 154 or 2x = 81c + 77 As before the right side must be even. Therefore c must be odd. Let c be equal to the odd number 2d + 1 Then 2x = 162d + 81 + 77 or 2x = 162d + 158 or x = 81d + 79 The least value of x will be obtained when d = 0 Then x = 79 The next value of x can be obtained when x = 1 Then x = 160

The next value of x when d = 3 will be 241. But by verification 79 will be the c orrect answer. "1 Qyl This is an excellent example of associativity A for addition: S = (1 + 1) + (1 + - 1) + (1 + - 1).... Sr. 0 + 0 + 0+ .... S = 0 However S = l + (- l + l) + (-l + l) + (- l + l) + S = 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + S = 1 However, if S = 0 and 1 then 2S = 1 and V2 Thus the sum is indeterminate. 195 168 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 17 0 30 240 1020 3120 7770 16800 42760 1419840 30 is a factor of each of these numbers. However, when we consider the matter ge nerally: n(n2 + 1) (n2 - 1) = n5 - n If any digit is raised to the 5th power, the unit's digit in the result is the s ame as the original digit. For example 85 = 32768 Therefore, if a number is subtracted from its fifth power, the units digit must be 0. 65 - 6 = 7770 95 - 9 = 59040 Generally speaking the units' digit of ft5 - n is zero. Since n2 - 1 (n - 1), we may write n(n2 + 1) (n2 - 1) as (n - 1) n (n + 1) (n2 + 1) But n - 1, n, and n + 1 are consecutive numbers. Therefore their product is an even number. And it has 3 as a factor. We have already found that n (n2 + 1) (n2 - 1) has 5 as a factor. .. It must have 6 x 5 or 30 as A factor 4. Let the digit unknown be n. X w/OThe given number is then 900 + 50 + n = 950 +n. When reversed the new number is lOOn + 50 + 9=59 + lOOn. Subtracting these two numbers 'we get 891 - 99n. 169 The digits can be arranged in 3 ways or 6 ways. We have already investigated 2 of these ways. We can now try one of the remaining 4 ways. One of these is n 95 .'. lOOn + 90 + 5 = 891 - 99n or 199n = 796 .'. n = 4 The unknown digit is 4. Q^The answer is not 30 hours. At the end of 27 A 37 / hours he is 3 ft from the top. And during the 28th hour he climbs the remaining 3 ft and he is out. So the answer is 28 hours. Q The farmer's wives made the error of A O calculating their average price rate by arranging their individual rate of 2 oranges a rupee and 3 oranges a rupee ov er the same number of apples. To insure the same takings as those of the first day, they should have determine d their price by dividing the total number of oranges by the total number of rup ees that is, 60 12 or oranges a rupee. 25 5 They actually sold the oranges at the rate of 2% oranges a rupee. That's where t

he missing rupee went. C X VI X III VI CC LX V 199 CD 170 The answer is actually 400. But it is the custom when you use Roman numerals not to write four similar numerals consecutively. Therefore instead of writing four hundreds (C C C C) it is written as one hundred less than five hundred (C D). Placing the C before the D means C less than D, and placing it after the D, as i n DC means C more than D. Hence CD is 400 and DC is 600. 200 = (b) (c) C\ /\ The number must be in the form: vf X N= RK - 1, where R is the least common multiple of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. K = 1, 2, 3 4, R = 2520 N = 2520 - 1; N = 2519 Oi"|ONo! The answer is not the express. If we miUmi do not take into considerati on the length of the train, then slow train and express are the same distance fr om Calcutta when they meet. 203About 150,000,000 kilometres. 2g4About 17,000,000,000,000 corpuscles 9 + 9 9 + 9 9x9 9 1 4 6 171 2 About 500 million square kilometres. # O /T No, the answer is not Re. 1/-. If the cost of the ^fVrO bottle were Re.l/and that of the cork 10P then the bottle would cost only 90P more than the cork. Considering it more carefully we come out with the correct answer : 105 Paise. Of|7Turn ma3iC s<?uare around and see. Yes! mt\J / This is a magic square both u pside down and right side up. Of"|Q 'Cipher' means Zero. The word 'Cipher' A-fUO comes from the Arabic Sifr. O ur word 'Zero' is derived from this word. 2 Q9 About 110,000,000 feet. O Three Centimetres: The book worm only mxU has to go from the front cover of Vo lume I to the outside of the book cover of Volume III, in other words he only ha s to travel through Volume II, which is 3 Centimetres. 2/15: The two pertinent equations are 2 B + C = -5 and B = 2C From these we are able to obtain 2 2 3C = or C 5 15 172 C\ -t C% 10,000 Surprised? Well, this is how it works M Imi out. It is really im material what percentage of the population is one-legged! In any case the one-le gged people will all require on shoe per head. From the remaining, half will go barefoot and therefore they need no shoes and the rest will need two shoes per h ead. And this works out at one shoe per person for the 'others'. Therefore, we shall need for the whole population on the averaqe one shoe per he ad. O "1 Q(a) 720. It may surprise you to see such Li lOa big number ,of arrangement

s. But it is the product of 6x5x4x3x2x1 that is 6! or 6 factorial 6. Here, for example the lefthand lady can be any one of them, so there are 6 ways of choosing her. The next lady from the lefthand side can be chosen in 5 ways from the remaining 5 ladies. The next lady in 4 ways from the remaining 4 and the next lady 3 ways and so on. If there was only one more lady making us 7 ladies together, the number of possi ble arrangements would be 7 or 5040. If there were 9 ladies then there would be more than three hundred thousand ways of arranging us. (b) 120. Here the situation is entirely different. In this case the answer is no t the same as in the case of (a), because it is only the order which is consider ed here and not the actual position. In this case there will be 6 positions in which the same order will be found but each position will be turned round relatively to the other. And there is another way of considering this problem. This is to keep one lady a lways in the same place and then arrange the remaining 5 ladies. This car be don e in 5 ways or 120. 173 Any order arranged clock-wise has an equivalent order arranged anti-clockwise. S o, the number of 120 different^ ways includes both these as separate arrangement s. 214311 C\~I P* Six Dozen Dozen: Six dozen dozen = Ld IJ6 x 12 x 12 - 6 x 144 = 864 Half a dozen dozen = 6 x 12 = 72 216 23! 25, 852, 000 000 000 000 000 000 1023 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 24! 620, 450, 000 000 000 000 000 000 1024 1,000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 25! 15,511, 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 1025 10,000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Thus the smallest S is 25. O "I ^ Of all the closed plane figures the circle is the X i biggest. It would b e, of course, quite impos174 eight matches it is possible to make a figure as shown in the diagram, which clo a regular octagon . sely resembles a circle 218 (6) = 924 21991 r 362880 220M 1 (1(11 Let us, in order to solve this problem, slit 1 A the cylindrical container open and flatten out the surface. What we will get is a rectangle whose width i s 20 centimetres and whose length is equal to the circumference i e. 10 x 3 1/7 or 31.5 centimetres. Let us, now, mark in this rectangle the position of the fly and that of the drop of molasses. B A 153A 20 cm 31 y2 17 cm The fly is at point A, that is 17 centimetres from the base. And the drop of mol asses is at point B, which is at 175 the same height, but half the circumference of the cylinder away from A i.e. 15% centimetres away. To find the point where the fly must climb over the cylinder, we shall have to, from point B draw a perpendicular line to the upper base and continue it upto a similar distance. This way, we shall obtain C. We shall now connect C by a straight line with poin

t A. Now the diagram should look as below: C n B 15% cm A . 20 cm 17 cm 31 y2 cm D will be the point where the fly should cross over into the cylinder. And the route ADB is the shortest way. Now that we have found the shortest route on a flattened rectangle, we can roll it back into a cylinder and see how the f ly must travel in order to reach the drop of molasses. 222Bat Rs 150 Bal1 ~~Rs 2 25 C% C\ O No. A 'Hexagonal' pencil does not have six edges as you probably think. It has eight, if not sharpened six faces and two small bases. 176 Here the catch is the erroneous interpretation of meaning. OO^The product is 344113. In the multipli-er cation each eel! is the product of the number at the top of each column and to the right of each row, and the sums are added along the diagonals to obtain the final product. O O CT ^es' ^ 's Possible, we have the correct measurements of its height and ba se in the photograph. Let us assume that the height is 95 millimetres and the base 19 millimetres in t he photograph. Then we will have to take the measurement of the base of the real tower which we shall suppose is 15 metres wide. The tower in the photograph and the real tower are proportionally the same, geom etrically. In other words, the ratio between the height and the base of the towe r in the photograph is the same as that between the height and the base of the r eal tower. In the photograph it is 95 : 19 i.e. 5. So the height of the fower is 5 times gr eater than the base. . . The height of the real tower is: 15 x 5 = 75 Metres x3x3x3x3 = 35 = 243. We will have MiMfU to consider each game separately, becaus e each game may be won, lost or drawn by one of the teams. Therefore there are t hree possibilities in every game. The first game has three possibilities and for each one of these possibilities t he second game has three possibilities. Therefore there are 9 possible forecasts for the first two games. 177 For each of the 9 forecasts of the second game, the third game has 3 possibiliti es, which makes it 27 forecasts and so on. Therefore for 5 games there are 243 p ossibilities. QQ*77!6! = 10! ; 5!3! = 6! ; 3!5!7! = 10! , &L* / 2!47!4! = 48! ; 2!287!4!3! = 2 88 ! There are many others. OOO Parallelogram: A Parallelogram is a mi mi O rectangle whose angles are no lo nger right angles, while its opposite sides remain parallel and equal, and its d iagonals still bisect the parallelogram into two equal triangle areas. However, its total area will always be less than the area of the rectangle from which it was formed. OOQln a regular chess board there are 1296 mi m rectangles altogether including 8 by 8 outer square. run^s on'y- Boat rises with the tide. rtQ 1 We must bear in mind that both pans are MI O X geometrically similar bodie s. Since the bigger pan is eight times more capacious, all its linear measuremen ts must be two times greater, and it must be twice bigger in height and breadth. The surface must be 2 x 2 = 4 times greater, because the surface of similar bodi es are to one another as the squares of their linear measurements. Since the wallsides of the pens are of the same thickness, the weight of the pen would depend on the size of its surface. Therefore the answer is The bigger pan is four times heavier. 178 QQQ 1728: The Captain is bound to go crazy de-O m* ciding the order of rowing in the boat with so many possibilities on hand. Whichever way you work out the problem you obtain this number 1728. First of all let us consider the strokeside men first. The fourth oarsman can be

chosen from the 3 who can row on either side in 3 ways. And so when this fourth oarsman is chosen the four strokeside oarsman can be arranged in 4! ways. There fore there are 3x4! ways of arranging the strokeside. Now let us consider the bow side oarsmen.There is no choice of men here, because there are 2 bow side oarsmen and the 2 can row on either side. These two men ca n be arranged in 4! ways. Because, for each strokeside arrangement any of the bo w side arrangements is possible. Thus the total number of arrangements is 3 x 4! x 4! = 72 x 24 = 1728 233Approximately 19 years. 2340 to nine places of decimals 2.71828 1828 9QF1 April: A female fly lays 120 eggs. Mid-April 120 flies will hatch. Females: 60 20 April: 60 female flies lay 120 eggs each Beginning of May 60 x 120 = 7200 fli es will hatch. Females: 3600 5 May: 3600 female flies lay 120 eggs each. Mid-May 3600 x 120 = 43200 flies will hatch. Females: 216000 25 May: 216000 females flies lay 120 eggs each Beginning of June 216000 x 120 =25920000 flies will hatch. Females: 12960000 179 14 June: 12960000 female flies lay 120 eggs each End of June 12960000 x 120 = 15552000000 flies will hatch. Females: 777600000 15 July: 777600000 female flies lay 120 eggs each Mid-July 777600000 x 120 = 93312000000 flies will hatch. Females: 46656000000 25 July: 46656000000 female flies lay 120 eggs each Beginning of August 4665600000 0 x 120 = 559872000000 will hatch. Female flies: 27993600000000 13 Aug: 27993600000000 female flies lay 120 eggs ea ch. Last week of August 27993600000000 x 120 = 33592320000000 flies will hatch. Just in one summer the number of flies that would hatch would be: 33592320000000 Taking each fly to be 5 mm long, if they form a straight line, the distance cove 18 times longer than the distance from the e red would be 2,500000000 Kilometres arth to the sun. C\ O 1 450 Centimetres. Supposing the tree grows MiuUx centimetres each year. Hei ght of the tree at the end of sixth year = (90 + 6x) Cm Growth in the seventh year x = -g- (90 + 6x) Cm 2 x = 10 + x 3 x= 30 The height of the tree at the end of the twelfth year = (90 + 12 x 30) Cm = 450 Cm 180 f oo7127,255'51L mi O / This series is being built up according to the order where the actual ter m = 2n - 1, with n being the number of term. Eg., 1st Term = 21 - 1 = 2 - 1 = 1 2nd Term =22-1=4-1=3 3rd Term =23-1=8-1=7 and so o n OOOLet us assume that the average hieght of MtJOman is 175 cm. Let us take R as the radius of the earth. Then we have: 2 x3.14 x (R + 175) - (2 x 3.14 xR) = 2x3.14x175 = 1100 Cm 1100 Cm = 11 Metres The strange thing you would notice in the problem is the res ult in no way depends on the radius of the earth. (1QQ We must, first of all, rotate the small square so MiJ that its sides bisect the sides of the large square. Thus the overlapping area is % of the area of the large square. 1 289 (_) (17)2 = = 72y4 4 4 f\ A /\ Carat. Carat is the standard legal weight for the sale of Diamonds, prec ious stones and precious metals, since 1878. A Carat originally weighed 3-1/3 grains but now it weighs 3-1/5 grains. 150 Cara

ts make the Troy ounce of 480 grains. 181 Cy A Checking Addition And Multiplication: ^Hr X The method of casting out the nines to check th^ accuracy of additions and multiplications was introduced about a thousand years ago by the Arabs. To check product of a multiplication nines are'Cast out' of each factor in the m ultiplication equation, the remainders are then multiplied and nines are 'Cast o ut' again. The remainders, if they are unequal at this stage, the multiplication is incorrect. However, it does not follow that if the remainders are equal the multiplication is correct. But it shows that the chances are that it is correct. So, the proces s of 'Casting out nines' has only a limited application. 'Casting out nines' can be used to check for mistakes in the addition of numbers also, in the same manner. <y A Cy 773, 2753: In this sequence we have to try MI AMI all the combinations o f mathematical operations we know until we find the order which satisfies the se quence. The order in this case is: Tn = 3 Tn - 1 + 2 Tn - 2 .\T7= 3x217 + 2x61= 773 243 ---- = 1 --4 + 4 vT 4 + 4 + 4 = 6 4x4 44 -4=7 = 2 4 + 4 4 4 + 4 + 4 = 3 (4 x 4) - (4 + 4) = 8 4 182 4 x4= 4 4 + 4 + = 9 4 4 (4 x4) + 4_ 44-4 5 10 i+l=n .4 4 44 + 4 = 12 4 44 -\fT = 13 4 + 4 + 4 + \/4= 14 44 + 4 =15 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 =16 (4x4)+ =17 4 4x4+ =18 v4 4! - ( 4 + Jj- ) = 19 183 4x4 = 20 C% A A Our holiday lasted for 18 days. First of MiT'T'all let us see how many po ssible types of days there could be. There could only be three such as: a) Rain in the morning and fine in the afternoon b) Fine in the morning and fine in the afternoon c) Fine in the morning and rain in the afternoon Let us assume the number of suc h days in each category be a, b and c. Then: Number of days on which rain falls = a + c =

Number of days with fine mornings = b + c = 11 Number of days with fine afternoons = a + b = 12 We derive from these equations that: a = 7, b = 5, c = 6 Therefore the number of days on holiday is: Qyl r Neither. There is same amount in each. Let us assume: a = amount of orangeade in glass at start b = amount of orangeade first transferred, c = amount of orangeade transferred second time d = amount o f Lemonade transferred to orangeade Now we must show that the amount of Lemonade in orangeade equals the amount of orangeade in the Lemonade or, in terms of a, b, c, d we must show that: 13 7 + 5 + 6 + 18 Time Start 1st Transfer 2nd Transfer d= b-c Amount of Orangeade in Glass a a - b (a - b) + (c + d) 184 The starting amount, a, must equal the final amount after the second transfer. .'. a = (a - b) + c + d or d = b - c 246 -i = 224 16777216 Cy A ^ 1 googolplex = 10 googol = 1 followed by / a googol of zeroes = 100 000 0 00 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 0 00 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 00 Cy A O 5-5/11 minutes .past 7. M iOExactly at 7 O'clock the minute hand is35 div isions behind the hour hand. In order to be opposite one another the minute hand must gain 5 divisions on the hour hand. However, the minute hand gains 35 divisions in 60 true minutes. And therefore the minute hand gains 5 divisions in 5-5/11 true minutes. C% A Q Secant: When a straight line cuts any curve * at two distinct points, it is called a Secant. However, Secant is not the same as tangent. Tangent, no matt er how far it is produced either way, has only one point in common with the curv e. ^fjQCardioid>s a curve shaped like a heart. C\ (T Ramu is 18 years old. vJ JL 24 - x years ago Lakshmi was x years old and now she is 24. 24 - x years ago Ramu was x - (24 - x) years old. 185 Today he is x years old. 24 = 2 (2x - 24) .-.x = 8 OPO Cube: A hexahedron is a solid figure which mi vJmi has six faces. And a regu lar hexahedron is a cube, because it has six equal faces. QCQ Inscribed: In a polygon when each side is mi %JkJ tangential to a circle, th e circle is said to be inscribed in a polygon. The inscribed circle is obtained by bisecting the angles of the triangle, where the bisectors pass through a common point which is the centre of the inscribed c ircle. 1 Sin 45 = Cot 45 1 Cos 45 ~ Sec 45 vT V2 Tan 45 1 Csc 45 VT" 3 255 5 10 8 186 O fT /I Seven: The best way to find the solution to 461CJO this problem is to ma ke a practical experiment. Make a vertical cut in the tree trunk and peel off the trunk to form a long rect

angle. Across the rectangle draw 5 parallel lines to represent the jasmine and a nother parallel line for the rose. Then you will be able to see the seven crossi ng positions. The first die may fall in six different miO I ways. With each of these ways ther e are 6 possibilities for the second die. Let us assume the number who complained about food only be x. Those with complaints = 160 258p 259 P = 2q - 5 Food Delays Everywhere Lack of facilities. .'. 2x + 80 160 40 4 187 From the top clockwise: 10, 1, 11, 7, 4, 6, Li OUl2, 2, 8, 5, 9, 3. Cy "J Centroid: The three times from a vertex to A the mid-point of the opposite side (Med-ians) of a triangle pass through a common point called the Centroid o f the triangle. The term is derived from 'Centre' and 'Oid' the centre of gravit y of a triangular lamina is at this point. Cy LCy Approximating an area: Simpson's rule is M Ui put to use when the area is d ivided into any even number of parallel strips of equal breadth. O L Q 2420 Feet: 1100 ft. x ft. ITSecT" " (lWSi^ Then x = 2420 O/I A Frustrum: The technical translation of Mf U^'Frustrum' would be 'a piece b roken off. However it can be used to refer to that portion of a regular solid left after cu tting off the upper part by a plane parallel to the base. It can also be used to describe the portion intercepted between any two planes. Cy C Parallel of Latitude: A small circle drawn mUiJ through places of the same latitude, it is parallel to the equator and at right angles to the earth's axis or the line joining the North and South Poles. Cy The farmer was pointingat the basket with 29 tm QU eggs. Chicken eggs were in the basket marked 23, 12 and 5. Duck eggs were in the basket marked 14 and 6. To verify the answer 188 23 + 12 + 5 + 40 chicken eggs after the transaction and 14 + 6 = duck eggs. There were twice as many chicken eggs as duck eggs, as the problem said. 267K O/I Hexagon: The open end of the bees cell MiOOhas a hexagonal shape. This is a familiar sight to all of us. The hexagon of the bee's cell is one of the few regular shapes that can complete ly fill the space on a bee frame. One can't but helpreaching the conclusion that bees have a certain geometrical aptitude or sense. C\/IQ9.40 and 41 Metres: To check the solu-tion: Square the length of the perpen dicular, subtract 1 and divide by 2, and the result is the length of the base. A dd 1 to this and this same formula applies when the perpendicular is any odd num ber and these combinations of numbers are sometimes called 'Pythogorean' series. ' This method is derived from the theorem of Pythagoras concerning the right angle d triangle. H2 = B2 + p2 (B + l)2 = B2 + P2 28+ 1 = P2 92 - 1 In this case B = n = 40 Metres We are told that H = B + 1 H = 41 Metres. 189 Cy ^/\ Pedal: This triangle is also called the hi / vf Orthocentric triangle. If AD, BE and CF are the perpendiculars dropped from the vertices of the triangle ABC to the opposite sides, then the triangle DEF is the pedal triangle. The three perpendiculars pass through a common point called the Orthocentre.

^ The first piece can be placed in any of the 64 mi / X squares. In other words, there are 64 ways of placing it. Now remains 63 squares for the second piece, t hat is to any one of the 64 positions of the first piece we can add the 63 posit ions to the second. . .There are 64 x 63 = 4032 different positions in which two pieces may be place d on a draught board. Pascal's: Pascal built up the rows of I Numeral 11,121,1331,14641, etc. that can be enclosed by a triangle. These numerals not only give the coefficients for cer tain binomial expansions, and can also be used to solve problems in Statistics d ealing with probability. 2 y 3 12 x 5 = 60 faces. Cy ^ A At the rate of Re. 1/- for ten weeks we figure mi / T"that the amount of interest for one year would be Rs.5.20. But I do not have the use of my Rs. 10/for the entire period of time but on the average just half that amount. So we c onclude that I paid Rs.5.20 to use Rs.5/- for one year. 5.2 104 = =104% 5 100 .'. The true simple annual interest is 104%. 190 fy ^ (T This job can be done simply by opening up & i \J only three links the li nks of one section, and joining the ends of the other four sections with them. O^T/^Arc of a Cycloid: The Bernoullis are mi / O responsible for the name of the problem. And it refers to the well known brachistochrome problem or the curve o n which a body descending to a given point under the action of gravity will reac h it in the shortest time. O ^ ^ The 9th triangular number = Sum of first 9 mi / / natural numbers. The 10th triangular number = Sum of first 10 natural numbers. The nth triangular number = Sum of first n natural numbers = n (n + 1) 2 9703, 10, 17, 24, 31,38, 45,52,54 and 66. The MI / O series formed is an arithme tical prog-gression with a common difference of 7. square metre equals 1000 square milli-Mf / metres. One thousand millimetre squar es placed one alongside the other will stretch out 1 metre. . .1000 squares will be 1000 metres long In other words 1000 kilometres long. OQf|44 Centimetres: Many a time steel bars mi OU are used as rollers in this way . The safe moves forward twice the length of the circumference of one of the steel bars. 191 .'.This distance is 2.22.7 Cm. 7 * And this is 44 Centimetres. Three or for that matter any number of rollers under the safe will move the safe 44 centimetres forward. In order to see the problem more clearly, let us consider this problem in two pa rts: (a) The motion forward caused by one revolution of the rollers if they were roll ing off the ground. (b) The motion forward of the centres of the rollers because they themselves rol l forward on the ground. The motion amounts to 22 centimetres in both cases. So, the total movement of th e safe mounted on the rolling rollers is 44 centimetres. OOI 630 Litres: Let us assume x is the capacity mtO X of the second barrel. Then our equation will be: 5 4 x 336 = xX 6 9 . 5 x 336 x 9 . . X = = 630

6x1x4 (1QQTripods are so convenient for land survey-mOm ing instruments and photograph ic cameras, because the tripod stands firmly on three legs. The three legs of a tripod always rest on the floor because through any three points of space there can pass one 192 plane. And only one. The reason is purely geometrical and not physical. Cy O O 56 women and 40 men: To solve this iOO problem we need to put the story-do wn in mathematical symbols. W- 16 = M 7W - 32 = 9M Multiplying line 1 by 9, we obtain: 9W - 144 = 9M Taking away line 2 from line 3 we get: 2W - 112 = 0 W =56 M =40 OQ/f Square: the 'Great Square of Pegasus' m 04" stands out distinctly in a very obvious shape in the heavens, because all four stand at the corners are bright and there are no bright stars within the square. During the period of the September equinox, it is clearly seen in the northern h emisphere almost due south at midnight. Cy O (T 18. Rajiv scores 50 whilst Sanjiv scores mOCJ40, Sanjiv scores 50 whilst Vijay scores 40 Sanjiv scores 40 whilst Vijay scores 40 x 40 = 32 50 .'. Rajiv scores 50 whilst Sanjiv scores 40 and whilst Vijay scores 32. .'. Rajiv can give 18 points to Vijay. C% Q There are altogether 70 ways of going from ^OOa to B. 193 OOHT About Nine Centimetres: The needle wO / moves from the outermost groove to the innermost groove in an arc. The radi us of this arc is the length of the pick-up arm. (1QQ Greatest: Log 2 + Log 4: Smallest: Log ^006 + Log 3 Log (2 + 4) = Log 6 Log 2 + Log 4 = Log (2x4)= Log 8 Log (6 - 3) = Log 3 Log 6 Log 3 = Log 6 -f- 3 = Log 2 Log 8 is the greatest and Log 2 is the least of the se values. 2394900 OQ/\ Length of the train 80 metres, Length of the d!j\jtunnel 800 metres. 3 Length of the train= 96 x Km = 80 metres 60 x 60 Length of the tunnel = Km = 800 metres. 60 x 60 QQ-I Four. Most people think the answer is X. three, because it is easy to creat e an equilateral triangle with a tree planted on each corner. But if the land ha d just the right contours, a fourth tree might be planted in a valley or on a hi ll, forming a pyramid shape above or below the centre of the triangle in a spot that would maintain the equidistance. OQO Prime Numbers: Erastosthenes, a contem-m 37mi porary of Archimedes, construc ted an instr194 ument to duplicate a cube and gave a laborious method of constructing a table of prime numbers. This is called the 'Sieve of Erastosthenes.' OQ/f H- The value of the given series is approxi-m Zr * mately 0.76. And when two more terms are added the value approximates to 0.77. When we multiply these valu es by 4, we get 3.04 and 3.08. If this is repeated indefinitely we shall approac h the value of 3.14. 3.14 is the value of II correct to two places of decimals. OQC26 X 25 X 4= 15600. This is an example yJ of 'Permutation of 26 different let ters taken 3 at a time'. It is written in mathematical language as 26 p3 It is easy to arrive at this calculation really, when expressed in terms of fact orials. It is the result of dividing factorial 26 by factorial (26 -3). Generally speaking the number of permutations of n things if only r are taken at any one time is or factorial n divided by factorial (n -r) n Pr 195

296Hours- one hour s fills 1//2 K fills 1/3 and Y empties 1/5 of the cistern. 1 1 1 .'.With all the pipes working ( + ) 2 3 5 19 Or of the cistern is filled in one hour. 30 30 .".With all the pipes working ( ) 30 30 of the cistern is filled in ( ) hours. 297 1024/11 times. 19 R has S has left left End of one drink y2 % End of two drinks ^ 11. 210 3 End of three drinks % (V2)3 End of four drinks (V2)4 5 End of five drinks (M>)5 196 End of six drinks O/2)6 7 = End of seven drinks (V2)7 11 11 8 End of eight drinks (lA)% 9 End of nine drinks OA)9 10 End of ten drinks (l/2)10 11 f)f|Q 180 Metres: The linear measurements of the object are to the corresponding measurements of the picture as the distance of the object from the lens is to t he depth 6f the camera. Let X be the height of the plane, in metres. Then we come to the following propo rtion: 12000: 8 = X: 0, 12 .'. X = 180 metres HQQ71.4 Metres: Sanjiv runs 1470 metres JTJ^ while Vijay runs 1400 metres. At the same rate Sanjiv runs 1500 metres whilst Vijay runs 1500 x 1400 w Metres 1470 or 1428.6 metres Hence Sanjiv ought to beat Vijay by 71.4 metres. 197 0/\/\120: This problem is an example of the OUUmultiplicative principle. Here th ere are 12 ways of choosing the Secretary. With each of these ways it is possibl e to choose the Joint Secretary in 10 ways. The particular woman who is chosen a s the Joint Secretary is not determined by the choice of the Secretary. The choi ce of each is made independently and in succession. Therefore the total number o f possibilities is the product of the two possibilities. Of^ My plane did not fly along the contours of a O vr -L square because the eart h is round and the meridians converge at the pole. Therefore when I flew 500 km along the parallel, 500 kilometres north of Leningr ad latitude, my plane covered more degrees going eastward than it did when it wa s returning along Leningrad latitude. As a result, my aircraft completed its fli ght east of Leningrad. Now the question is, how many kilometres? That can be easily calculated.

The diagram also shows the route taken by my aircraft ABCD. N is the North Pole where meridians AB and DC meet. My plane first flew 500 km northward i.e. along meridian AN. Since the degree of a meridian is 111 kilometres long, the 500 kilometre long arc of the meridian i s equal to 500: 111 = 45\ Leningrad lies on the 60th parallel. Therefore B is on 60 + 45' = 64 5'. The aircraft then flew eastward i.e. along the BC parallel, covering 500 kilomet res. The length of one degree of this parallel is equal to 48 kilometres. Therefore, we can easily determine how many degrees my aircraft covered in its e astward flight: 500: 48 + 104\ 198 Continuing my aircraft flew southward i.e. along meridian CD, and having covered 500 km returned to the Leningrad parallel. Then the way lay westward i.e. along D.A. Obviously, the 500 kilometres along DA are less than the distance between A and D. However there are as many degrees in AD as in BC, i.e. 104'. But the length of 1 a t the 60th,parallel equals 55.5 kilometres. Hence the distance between A and D is equal to 55.5 x 10.4 = 577 kilometres. So my plane could not have very well landed in Leningrad. It landed 77 kilometre s away, on Lake Lagoda. 199 SHAKUNTALA DEVI