# calculation-puzzle's questions - Chinese 1answer

544 calculation-puzzle questions.

### -1 How to solve attached screen shot problems [on hold]

0 answers, 78 views mathematics calculation-puzzle
In the image there are 4 question are there Can anyone guide me how to solve below questions

### 7 Order matters twice

3 answers, 529 views mathematics calculation-puzzle
Mr. Accurado, a keen and sharp eyed professional thought of starting his special assignment at few seconds past midnight. However due to a distraction- which lasted for less than a minute - he could ...

### 2 How cold is too cold? [closed]

6 answers, 1.092 views mathematics story calculation-puzzle
On a day during a severe winter, somewhere in cold countries, I watched a weather report on a television. The report showed that on that particular day the temperature was 0° ....but due to some ...

### 6 Magic Square Puzzle

Construct a 5x5 magic square. 1- Numbers from 1 to 21 can be used. 2- Sum should be 55 (Horizontally, Vertically and Diagonally) 3- Any 4 digits from 1 to 21 can be repeated only once. 4- The Numbers ...

### 27 Making Things Difficult

An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1. Factoring the Time Think fast! If you're looking for meaning, these clocks have some for you. Keyboards are Disgusting Gunky ...

### 7 Houses and Telephone #s

There are 16 houses consecutively numbered 1-16. All houses have 7-digit telephone numbers, numbered consecutively, in the same order. For example, if house #3's phone number is 1111111, house #4 will ...

### 1 3 Horses out of 25 Horses [duplicate]

0 answers, 64 views mathematics calculation-puzzle
You've got 25 horses and you can host races in groups of 5. You don't have a stopwatch, obviously. Then what should be the minimum number of races that you should be conducting so as to ascertain the ...

### 9 How old are Charlie's pets?

2 answers, 395 views logical-deduction calculation-puzzle
Last year at a picnic, Charlie told Julie's daughter the sum and the product of the ages of his dog and two cats, but she guessed the ages incorrectly. This year, he gave Steve's daughter the same ...

### 4 Permutation At A Railway Track

Engines numbered 1, 2, ..., n are on the line at the left, and it is desired to rearrange(permute) the cars as they leave on the right-hand track. An engine that is on the spur track can be left there ...

### 3 An Incorrect Summary of a Twenty-Two Day Tour

1 answers, 119 views calculation-puzzle story physics
After a long but rewarding life in an office cubicle, Sally the office worker became Sally the retiree. Feeling unfulfilled, and with ancestors who had served admirably in the Navy, Sally the retiree ...

### 2 Need little help

Note: Sorry, this puzzle almost similar with the last question: The main purpose of this QUESTION is: To know what types of this puzzle is exactly. It is still can be solve if I remove the most ...

### 11 An Incomplete Puzzle

I'm sorry to offload some of my work as the puzzle creator on to you solvers. (No, I'm not.) At least there's only one clue missing, right? EDIT: When the puzzle is ready to be solved, there will be ...

### 2 What are the chances on watching the clock? [closed]

This is a relatively straightforward little puzzle, but the answers are somewhat unintuitive or can prompt a new perspective. It might be an interesting little puzzle for a probability teaching ...

### 5 A pokemon puzzle [closed]

3 answers, 1.429 views mathematics calculation-puzzle
You have recently caught N Pokemon and you also have M Pokemon candy bars. You can evolve any of your Pokemon by paying X candy bars. Alternatively, you can sell any of your Pokemon for a price of ...

### -5 Surprisingly(not literally) easy one? [closed]

What are the next two numbers in the following sequence: 0, 1, 4, 18, __, __. Please explain your logic.

### 2 Extension to The grazing cows of Sir Isaac Newton

There is an earlier question, The grazing cows of Sir Isaac Newton, which says: Sir Isaac Newton's book "Arithmetica Universalis" contains the following famous puzzle: In $4$ weeks, $12$ ...

### 25 Create all numbers from 0-100 only using all of 1,2,3,4 and 5

4 answers, 13.469 views calculation-puzzle formation-of-numbers
Create all numbers from 0-100 only using 1,2,3,4 and 5. No repeats and you have to use each number. Also, you can use any operation. I've only gotten to 50 by pure brute force. I think that this might ...

### 8 Fully confused calculation

3 answers, 1.622 views mathematics calculation-puzzle
The sum of a three digit number (ABC) and another three digit number (DEF), where DEF is obtained by thoroughly shuffling* the original three digits of ABC, is 1000. Then, find all possible such pairs ...

### 12 The grazing cows of Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton's book "Arithmetica Universalis" contains the following famous puzzle: In $4$ weeks, $12$ cows graze bare $3\frac13$ acres of pasture land, and in $9$ weeks, $21$ cows graze ...

### 3 Your age and my age [closed]

2 answers, 485 views mathematics calculation-puzzle time
This is not a very difficult problem, but it seems that it hasn't been asked here. It's one of my favorites, so here we go: I am twice as old as you were when I was as old as you are. When you ...

### 3 systematic number removal [duplicate]

The whole, natural numbers 1 through 50 are written on a board. The following operation is performed 49 times: select any two of the numbers on the board and write the absolute value of their ...

### -1 Fuzzy's Fizzy Dilemma

1 answers, 145 views calculation-puzzle word-problem physics
Fuzzy the Fuzzball's friends was going to the Fuzzball Festival, and of course he went along. While there, he saw the most curious display. The booth was displaying brand new types of Fuzz. There was ...

### 13 A truly amazing way of making the number 2016

Find a mathematical expression that yields the value $2016$ while obeying the following rules: Each of the digits $1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9$ is used exactly once Decimal points are allowed You ...

### 8 Elementary vowel equations

2 answers, 347 views mathematics calculation-puzzle english
Challenge Solve the following equations by converting to standard form (see below):** eeeeee = aeeeeiiiouu...

### 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 1

This question inspired me to write the same puzzle but instead replace the "= 100" with "= 1" with similar requirements and restrictions. What is the expression with the fewest number of operators ...

### 38 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 100

The sequence of numbers $1\ 2\ 3\ 4\ 5\ 6\ 7\ 8\ 9$ has the property that you can insert mathematical operators in between the numbers from $1$ to $9$ and make the expression evaluate to 100. For ...

### 2 How can i move forward (kenken)

I can't seem to find a next step to logically come to without guesswork. Any ideas on how to move forward?

### 2 Dividing money in school [closed]

A businessman instituted an annual award in a city school, with part of the award given to the school itself to improve its facilities. It was stated that if a student from a wealthy family were to ...

### 6 What is the next number to appear in this sequence?

$1, 1, 0, -2, 4, 18, 328, 107638 ,?$ This problem can be complex, use your imagination. Hint: Hint 2: Hint 3: Hint 4: Hint 5: Hint 6: Hint 7:

### 25 A game of multiplication and addition

Carol is playing a game with Alice and Bob. She secretly chooses two integers between 1 and 10 and gives the sum to Alice and the product to Bob. After some time, the following discussion occurs: ...

### -2 Water Difference

1 answers, 128 views calculation-puzzle decanting-problems
While solving a puzzle, I misinterpreted the whole thing and ended up creating a new harder puzzle. Here it is: You have 2 cups filled with water, cup A is 5oz and cup B is 3oz. How can you get one ...

### -3 Calculate cost of excess water consumed [closed]

1 answers, 105 views calculation-puzzle arithmetic
100 Liters of water is available equally in a month for consumption among 5 members @ 1 dollar per liter. If some members don't use their own available 20 liters, it can be used by the others at the ...

### 45 A camel transporting bananas

10 answers, 31.412 views mathematics calculation-puzzle optimization
A somewhat well-known puzzle is described as such: You have a pile of 3,000 bananas. You wish to transport them to a place 1,000 miles away on the back of a camel; however, the camel can only carry ...

### 5 Can you find the value of the question mark$\color{red}?$

Puzzle: Find the value of the question mark $\color{red}?$. $$(2, 13, 47)$$ $$(5, 7, 19)$$ $$(8, 1, \color{red}?)$$ Hint 1: $\color{red}?$ is a prime. Hint 2: $\color{red}?$ is a cyclops. ...

### 3 How to prove that this man has a profit of 20 and not 10?

7 answers, 5.023 views calculation-puzzle explanation
This is not actually a puzzle per se, but I'm asking for an explanation about the puzzle's answer. The puzzle goes like this: A man bought a goat for 60. He then sold it for 70. Later, he bought ...

### 10 Labelling a graph with a partition of 100

Label the vertices of this graph with positive integers (repetitions allowed) whose sum is 100 in such a way that any pair of vertices are joined by an edge if (and only if) they have labels with a ...

### 3 Analyzing Single-Elimination Tournaments

I know there are many questions/answers about single elimination tournaments out there, but I wanted to approach this question in a more holistic way. For a single-elimination tournament with N ...

### 9 How Will You Get 100 Fruits in Rs.100?

Source: https://www.bissoy.com/720699/ For Rs. 0.5 you get 1 Cherry. For Rs.3 you get 1 Orange. For Rs.5 you get 1 Watermelon. Your mother told you to get 100 fruits for Rs.100. ...

### 2 The A-B chocolate puzzle!

Imagine you have 2 types of chocolates (A and B). You randomly pick up two chocolates at once from your bag in a specific pattern. If the same type of chocolates come out, you give them both to your ...

### 2 Sufficient time to fill the bucket [closed]

3 answers, 151 views mathematics calculation-puzzle
Suppose that we have a pierced bucket, and that the hole empties the bucket in four hours. We place the bucket under two faucets at the same time. If the bucket weren’t pierced, the first faucet would ...

### 5 Choosing units for drug testing

Here's a third puzzle that I found in a book, slightly paraphrased because I don't entirely remember the format of the original. A medical researcher is trying to test the effect of a certain drug ...

### 5 Mathematics IQ puzzle, solving puzzle by looking at neighboring digits [closed]

Can anyone solve this puzzle? I have tried many times but I could not find any symmetry or sequence. \begin{array} {|c|c|c|} \hline 3&25&5\\ \hline 16&9&6\\ \hline 125&36&18\\ ...

### 19 You're invited! Now what?

(semi-interactive puzzle) BRIIING! BRIIING! BRIIING! You wake up with a start. It's 6:30... already!? Darn. You roll slowly out of bed, preparing for the day ...

### 5 make a green profit in roulette

4 answers, 2.963 views calculation-puzzle probability board-games
Story You meet a rich drunk CEO at a roulette table in Vegas. She explains to you that she has a way of almost guaranteeing a profit at this game by betting on only black. In the process she gets ...

### 2 Find the next number in the sequence below?

Find the next number in the sequence below: 298 209 129 58 ? Source: Briddles.com

Suppose you have 100 lbs of cucumbers and these cucumbers consist of 99% water. You decide to leave the cucumbers in the sun for a while until they consist of 98% water. You bring the cucumbers back ...

### 8 Where has Jones lost 1 Rs?

3 answers, 1.901 views logical-deduction calculation-puzzle
Jack and Jones are brothers and they both sell apples for living. Jack sells 2 apples for 1 Rs and Jones sells 3 apples for 1 Rs. They each have 30 apples. Hence, Jack earns 15 Rs a day while Jones ...

### 2 How to use the numbers 3, 5, 6, and 7 to get 100? [closed]

Any mathematics symbols and processes to use the numbers 3, 5, 6, and 7 once each to get 100.

### 1 The “Perfect” Lineup

2 answers, 284 views mathematics calculation-puzzle
Alice is the head of her high-school quiz bowl league. She is in charge of choosing who will play in the next quiz bowl tournament. She has executive authority about who plays when, and she can change ...

### 47 Making π from 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

There have been two other questions here and here that are similar to this one, but this changes the rules up a little. Your job is to approximate $\pi$ using the sequence of digits (in order): 1 2 ...