There is a square of a particular number which when doubled, becomes 7 more than its quarter.
Can you find the number?
A man has a barrel filled with oil that weighs 100 pounds, and then he puts something into it. Now the barrel weighs less than 100 pounds. What did he put in the barrel?
There are hundred red gems and hundred blue gems. The blue gems are priceless while the red gems equal wastage. You have two sacks one labeled Heads and the other Tails. You have to distribute the gems as you want in the two sacks. Then a coin will be flipped and you will be asked to pick up a gem randomly from the corresponding sacks.
How will you distribute the gems between the sacks so that the odds of picking a Blue gem are maximum?
1. How can we put an elephant in the refrigerator?
2. How can we put a Giraffe in a refrigerator?
3. The king of the jungle invites all the animals to a party everyone comes except for one animal, which animal?
4. You come to a crocodile-infested lake, you can't go around it, you can't co under it and you can't go over it, how do you get across?
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
In my garden, I have many trees but only one of them is the mango tree. In these mango trees, there are some mangoes(as expected).
But after a strong wind, there are neither mangoes on the tree nor on the ground. Explain?
What is the word or phrase?
Can you calculate the probability of getting a sum of six when a dice is thrown twice?
Replace all '*' with digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to make below statement true.
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A 3 digit number is such that it's unit digit is equal to the product of the other two digits which are prime. Also, the difference between it's reverse and itself is 396.
What is the sum of the three digits?
The day before the 1996 U.S. presidential election, the NYT Crossword contained the clue “Lead story in tomorrow’s newspaper,” the puzzle was built so that both electoral outcomes were correct answers, requiring 7 other clues to have dual responses.