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Workings

Hint
Think of Italy.

Answer
M.

Reasoning
1,000 in Roman numerals.
X = 10
L = 50
C = 100
D = 500
M = 1,000

Workings

Hint
Think of the whole alphabet, and not just the vowels (AEIOU).

Answer
8,300.

Each letter of the country is worth 100 miles based on its position in the alphabet.

Therefore, Germany = 7 + 5 + 18 + 13 + 1 + 14 + 25 = 83 x 100 miles.

Workings

Hint
Look at the lengths of their names.

Answer
James was sitting on the left.

Children with an even number of letters in their name sat on the right.

Workings

Hint
What could we do with the digits?

Answer
If the sum of the digits is divisible by nine, so is the number.

Add up all of the digits in the number and see if the sum is divisible by 9. If you still can't tell, you can add those digits again to see if the new sum is divisible by 9. You can keep going until you the sum is obviously divisible by 9 or not.

For example, is 486451464 divisible by 9?

Do 4 + 8 + 6 + 4 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 6 + 4 = 42.

Is 42 divisible by 9? Not sure, you can then do:

4 + 2 = 6. Which clearly isn't divisible by 9. So our original number, 486451464, isn't either.