Replace all '*' with digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to make below statement true.
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How many people must be gathered together in a room, before you can be certain that there is a greater than 50/50 chance that at least two of them have the same birthday?
A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going home, all but three break. How many eggs are left unbroken?
Christina, Allison and Lena are 3 daughters of John a well-known Mathematician, When I asked John the age of their daughters. He replied "The current age of her daughters is prime. Also, the difference between their ages is also prime."
How old are the daughters?
Replace the question mark with the correct number, given the pair of numbers exhibits a similar relationship?
? : 3839 :: 11 : 1209
While house hunting in London, I came across a very good leasehold property Discussing the lease the landlady told me:
'The property was originally on a 99 years lease and two-thirds of the time passed is equal to four-fifths of the time to come. Now work it out for yourself and see how many years are to go!
Two friends decide to get together; so they start riding bikes towards each other. They plan to meet halfway. Each is riding at 6 MPH. They live 36 miles apart. One of them has a pet carrier pigeon and it starts flying the instant the friends start traveling. The pigeon flies back and forth at 18 MPH between the 2 friends until the friends meet.
How many miles does the pigeon travel?
Look at this sequence from top to bottom. What is the next number in the sequence?
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
Baseball bat and ball cost $100. If the bat cost $99 more than the ball, what is the cost of each?
Can you think of a smallest +ve number such that if we shuffle the digits of the number, the new number becomes double the original number?
Use the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the symbols + and = to make a true equation. Conditions: Each must be used exactly once and no other numbers or symbols can be used.
In the 1920s, people feared that crossword puzzles would contribute to illiteracy.