Puzzle Bank 1

1. A two digit number, read from left to right is 4.5 times as large as the same number read from right to left.
what is the number?
2. Only one of these 5 statements is correct--which one is corect?
1.Only one of these statement is correct
2. Only two of these statements are false
3.Three of these satatements are false
4. Four of these statements are false
5. All five of these statements statements are false

3. Which number when added to 5/4 gives the same result as when multiplied by 5/4
4. A Girl has as many sisters as she has brothers.But each brother has twice as many sisters as brothers. How many sisters and Brothers in the family?

5. A train leaves Chennai at 8.00AM and travels to Hyderabad at 60kmph . At 9am Another train leaves Hyderabad and travels towards Chennai at 90kmph. Which train is nearer to Hyderabad when they pass?

6. If the only sister of your mother's only brother has an only child, what would be your relashionship with that child?

7.A man buys a carton of 200 cigarettes, and every day he smokes seven cigarettes less than the day before Evantually the arrives when his quota is down to one cigarette-which happens to be all that there left in the original carton.
How many a day was he smoking when he bought the carton?

8. There are eight oranges in a box. How can you devide them between eight people so that each person gets one orange, and one orange left in the box.
The oranges must not be peeled or cut.

9. Jack's famous Beanstalk doubled its hieght every day. After twenty one days it was as high as the town hall. after how many days was it half the hieght of the town hall?

10. Some ducks are marching across a path. There's a duck in front of two ducks , there is a duck in the middle

answers

1. 81

2. Statement (4), i.s only four of these statements are false

3. X+5/4= X*5/4 i.e 4X+5= 5X...solving u get X=5..Hence the Nuber is 5

4. Three boys and four girls

5. Both are at the same distance away when they pass

6. It would be you

7. He was smoking fifty a day at the outset, but he also had four cigarettes left over from his last packet.

8. Each person gets one orange but one man also gets the box

9.Twenty days

10. Three ducks