Category : Puzzles
Solve the following three puzzles :
1. A man ate 100 grapes in 5 days. Everyday he ate 6 more than on the previous day. How many grapes did he eat on the first day?
Solve the following three puzzles :
1. A man ate 100 grapes in 5 days. Everyday he ate 6 more than on the previous day. How many grapes did he eat on the first day?
2. Make 4 triangles, all of the same size as shown in the figure with only 6 match-sticks.
3. A professor had ten volumes of an encyclopaedia. One day he discovered that a bookworm had eaten its way in a straight line from the front cover of volume 1 to the back cover of volume 10. Each book was two inches thick.
How far did the bookworm travel ?Answers :
1) 8 grapes.
2) See figure for solution
3) The worm travelled 16 inches. As you can see when looking at the books the cover of volume 1 is on the right, the back of volume 10 on the left.
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