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Hint
There are 1,760 yards in a mile, 3 feet in a yard, and 12 inches in a foot.

Answer
Inches in a mile.

Reasoning
There are 1,760 yards in a mile, 3 feet in a yard, and 12 inches in a foot.

There are 1760 x 3 x 12 = 63,360 inches in a mile, and around 1,000 x 52 = 52,000 Sundays in a thousand years.

Depending on the day of the week the first day of the year falls, there are either 52,177 or 52,178 Sundays in a thousand years.

Workings

Hint
The first word begins with L.

Answer
Look before you leap.

Using the initial letters of each word.

Workings

Hint
How many clock minutes pass in a real hour?

Answer
1:20pm.

Reasoning
The clock now shows 10:12am, so we know that 10 x 60 + 12 = 612 clock minutes have passed.

Since the clock is losing 6 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed, the clock will show 54 minutes.

So, 612 ÷ 54 ≈ 11.33 real hours have passed.

This equals 680 minutes, which is 11 hours and 20 minutes = 11:20am.

The clock stopped 2 hours ago, therefore the time must now be 1:20pm.

Workings

Hint
A dollar is 100 cents, a quarter is 25 cents and a dime is 10 cents.

Answer
⁷/₂₇ of each coin was missing.

Reasoning
The original value of the three coins was 100 + 25 + 10 = 135 cents, and the new value was 100 cents.

Therefore, ³⁵/₁₃₅ = ⁷/₂₇ of the original value has been removed.