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Here you see a triangle formed by ten coins. The triangle points
upwards. How can just three coins be moved to make the triangle point
downwards?
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| Flip It By Moving 3 |
What's the challenge?
Here should be those 3 coins that you need to move so that the triangle point towards down.
And after moving those coin, it will look like,
Four friends built a colony for themselves. They built their own houses at different
distances from each other.
Chris lived 60 km away from Alex.
Darren lived 40 km away from Bill.
Chris lived 10 km nearer to Darren than he lived to Bill.
Can you find out how far was Darren's house from Alex?
Click here to know the distance!
What was the given data & question?
Let's represent houses of friends by their initial letter of the name i.e. C is the house of Chris, D is the house of Darren, B is Bill's house & A is name of Alex's house.
Now C & A are located at 60 km away from each other while D & B are 40 km apart i.e. CA = 60 & DB = 40.
As per given data, D is 10 km nearer than B from C. Hence, CB = CD + 10
There are 5 possibilities of the locations of these 4 friends.
Case 1. D & B are in between C & A.
In this case,
CD + DB + BA = 60
but DB = 40,
CD + BA = 20,
CB - 10 + BA = 20
CB + BA = 30 i.e. CA = 30
But CA = 60, hence this combination is not possible. Other way, CB >= 40, since CD = CB-10, CD >= 30. That means CD + DB >= 70 for which B needs to be beyond A as CA = 60.
Case 2 : A is between D & B.
In this case, CD + DA = 60, DA + AB = 40 . If we subtract second one from first, we get,
CD - AB = 20
CB - 10 - AB = 20
CB - AB = 30
CA = 30 but CA = 60. Hence, this combination too is invalid.
With all credits to the creator of this picture puzzle, here it is just reproduced once again.
So what do you think, which coffee cup will fill up first?
Hint : Don't conclude early!
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| Coffee Cup Puzzle |
This should be the first one!
Purpose of the title of the post!
If you think that cup 4 will fill up first then you are deceived by the creator successfully. You might have found the order of filling cups as 4,9,7 & 5. Congrats, your brain hasn't processed details! Didn't you notice the blocks?
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Coffee Cup Puzzle
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A man drives his car to the office at 20miles/hr. After reaching the
office, he realizes that it's a new year holiday so he went back home at
a speed of 30miles/hr.
Discounting the time spent in the stoppage what was his average speed of his journey?
Right way to calculate the average speed!
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