How Many Pluses

How many pluses should we put between the digits of 987654321 to get a total of 99, and where?




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In a town, there are four houses located at different distances from each other. Following are the distances:

The third house is 60 meters apart from the first house.
The fourth house is 40 meters apart from the second house.
The third house is 10 meters nearer to the fourth house than it is to the second house.

Can you find out the distance between the fourth and the first house?

Asked by Neha on 14 Sep 2024


In a competitive exam, each correct answer could win you 10 points and each wrong answer could lose you 5 points. You sat in the exam and answered all the 20 questions, which were given in the exam.
When you checked the result, you scored 125 marks on the test.

Can you calculate how many answers given by you were wrong?

Asked by Neha on 08 Apr 2025

Find the mistake in the below maths equations

A = 2
A(A-1) = 2(A-1)
A2-A = 2A-2
A2-2A = A-2
A(A-2) = A-2
A = 1

Asked by Neha on 15 Oct 2024


If nine thousand, nine hundred nine dollars is written as $9,909,
how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred twelve dollars be written?

Asked by Neha on 24 Sep 2023

I have two coins.
* One of the coins is a faulty coin having a tail on both sides of it.
* The other coin is a perfect coin (heads on side and tail on other).

I blindfold myself and pick a coin and put the coin on the table. The face of the coin towards the sky is the tail.

What is the probability that another side is also tail?

Asked by Neha on 07 Jun 2023

Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?

Asked by Neha on 11 Oct 2021


I throw two dice simultaneously.

What is the probability of getting a sum as 9 of the two numbers shown?

Asked by Neha on 08 Jun 2023

What is next number in the pattern below:

131 517 192 123 ?

Asked by Neha on 31 Dec 2023

What is the largest number you can write with just 3 digits?

Asked by Neha on 18 Apr 2025


A number can be multiplied by multiple of nine
i.e 9 18 27 36 45 ...

and the resulting number consist of only one digit.

Can you identify the number ?

Asked by Neha on 07 May 2023

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