Lighting Up The Candles

In a group of 200 people, everybody has a non burning candle. On person has a match at lights at some moment his candle. With this candle he walks to somebody else and lights a new candle. Then everybody with a burning candle will look for somebody without a burning candle, and if found they will light it. This will continue until all candles are lit. Suppose that from the moment a candle is lit it takes exactly 30 seconds to find a person with a non burning candle and light that candle.

From the moment the first candle is lit, how long does it take before all candles are lit?

ESCAPE to answer! 

Time Calculation For Lighting Up The Candles

What is the exact situation?

From a moment from first candle is lit, 30 seconds later there would be total 2 candles lit. In next 30 seconds, each of these 2 candle holders will find 1 candle to lit. So there are now 4 candles lit after 60 seconds. In next 30 seconds, these 4 candles would lit another 4 candles making total 8 candles lit. 

In short, for every 30 seconds, the number of candles lit are doubled. So after 7 sets of 30 seconds, 2^7 = 128 candles would be lit. At 8th set of 30 seconds, 256 candles can be lit. But we have only 200 candles. Still 72 of 128 candles would lit another 72 in 8th set of 30 seconds. 

To conclude, 8 X 30 = 240 seconds = 4 minutes required to lit all 200 candles. 

Check Mate in 1 Move

You are playing with white and its your turn. Check mate the opponent in 1 move.

'Here' is that move!

'That' Move to Check Mate The Opponent

First know the current situation on the board!

Just kill the Black Rook by pawn with the move C7 = > B8. Revive KNIGHT at that position to check mate the opponent straightway. Here, opponent can't use bishop at D6 to kill our knight as in that case his king will be in line of attack of our rook at D1.

 

Formations of Special 6-Digit Numbers

How many six digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1 to 6, without repetition such that the number is divisible by the digit at its unit place?

Skip to the count!

Counting The Formations of 6-Digit Special Numbers

You may need to read the question first! 

Let's remind that the numbers can't be repeated. So mathematically there are total 6! (720) unique numbers can be formed.

The number XXXXX1 will be always divisible by 1; so there we have 5! = 120 numbers.

The number XXXXX2 will be always divisible by 2; so there we have 5! = 120 numbers. 

Since sum of all digits is 21 which is divisible by 3; the number XXXXX3 will be always divisible by 3. So we have 5! = 120 more such numbers.

The number XXXXY4 is divisible only when Y = 2 or 6. So in the case we have 2 x 4! = 48 numbers.

The number XXXXX5 will be always divisible by 5; so there we have 5! = 120 numbers.

The number XXXXX6 will be always divisible by 6 (since it is divisible by 2 & 3); so there we have 5! = 120 numbers.

Adding all the above counts - 120 + 120 + 120 + 48 + 120 + 120 = 648.  

So there are 648 six digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1 to 6, without repetition such that the number is divisible by the digit at its unit place.