Measure Time with Candle

There are two candles. Both will only burn exactly for an hour. How will you use these two candles to measure forty-five minutes?




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A high school has a strange principal. On the first day, he has his students perform an odd opening day ceremony:

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Katrina wants to go on a date and prefers her date to be tall, dark and handsome.

Of the preferred traits - tall, dark and handsome - no two of Shahrukh, Ajay, Salman and Akshay have the same number.
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Only Ajay or Salman is short and handsome.
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My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit.
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