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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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


Divide 110 into two parts so that one will be 150 per cent of the other. What are the 2 numbers?

Asked by Neha on 27 Oct 2024

0 0 0 = 6
1 1 1 = 6
2 2 2 = 6
3 3 3 = 6
4 4 4 = 6
5 5 5 = 6
6 6 6 = 6
7 7 7 = 6
8 8 8 = 6
9 9 9 = 6

You can use any mathematical symbols in the space provided to make all above algebraic expressions true.

Asked by Neha on 24 Jul 2021


At a Society election for president, precisely 963 votes were cast.
There is a total of 4 candidates that participate in the election.

The winning candidate exceeds the opponents by 53, 79 and 105 votes.

How many votes do each candidate gets?

Asked by Neha on 04 Aug 2024

A Shopkeeper sold a few chickens to four different customers on a particular day. It was such that each customer purchased half of the remaining chickens and half the chicken more.

Can you find out how many chicken were sold by the shopkeeper on that day if we tell you that the fourth customer bought a single chicken ?

Asked by Neha on 01 Jul 2024

What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?

Asked by Neha on 26 Feb 2022


A cricket has 6 legs, a squirrel has 4 legs and a spider has 8 legs.

In a local zoo, it was found that the total number of legs is 612. Also, there are equal number of each of the above animals/insects.

Can you find out how many animals are there in the zoo?

Asked by Neha on 06 Feb 2021

What is next number in the pattern below:

131 517 192 123 ?

Asked by Neha on 31 Dec 2023

What will be the best approach to finding all the prime numbers less than 75 that leave an odd reminder when we divide them with 5?

Asked by Neha on 12 Jul 2021


Place a mathematical symbol between the numerals 5 and 9 in such a way that the resulting number is greater than 5 but smaller than 9.

Asked by Neha on 30 Jul 2021

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