If a wheel has 54 spokes, how many spaces are there between the spokes?
There are a hundred statements.
First person says: At least one of the statements is false.
Second person says: At least two of the statements is false.
Third person says: At least three of the statements are false.
Fourth person says: At least four of the statements are false.
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Hundredth person says: At least a hundred of the statements are false.
Analysing it, how many statements do you think are false and how many are true?
Can you find the odd number in the following?
2716, 4135, 5321 and 7145
There are 2 people near the river and both of them want to get on the other side. The boat can only take one of them. But they got across.
How?
If a shopkeeper can only place the weights on one side of the common balance. For example, if he has weights 1 and 3 then he can measure 1, 3 and 4 only. Now the question is how many minimum weights and names of the weights you will need to measure all weights from 1 to 1000? This is a fairly simple problem and very easy to prove also.
I have a five and a three-gallon jar. Assuming there is an infinite supply of water, how can I measure one-gallon water?
A very interesting trivia question for all.
Why do men's shirts have their buttons on the right side and women's have buttons on the left-hand side?
By removing one matchstick and adding one matchstick, can you convert the word "ZOO" to an animal name?
On rolling two dices (six-sided normal dice) together, what is the probability that the first one comes up with a 2 and the second one comes up with a 5?
What's the next in the series?
H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, In, Gd, Tl, ?
One day, all the courtiers from Akbar's court were gathered in the assembly hall when one of them told the Emperor that all his valuables had been stolen by a thief the previous night.
This shocked the Emperor to his core as the place where that courter stayed was the most secured in the kingdom. The Emperor thought that it is not at all possible for an outsider to enter into the courtier's house and steal the valuables. Only another courtier could commit this crime. He quickly called Birbal to identify the thief.
Birbal thought for a while and successfully solved the mystery by identifying the thief in just one statement.
What did Birbal say?
In Canada, a mathematical puzzle must be solved in order to win the lottery to classify it as a “game of skill” not gambling.