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Workings

Hint
Light travels over 186,000 miles each second.

Answer
Miles travelled by light in a second.

Reasoning
Light travels over 186,000 miles per second.

There are 2.54cm in an inch, 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, and 1760 yards in a mile. So there are 2.54 x 12 x 3 x 1760 = 160,934.4cm in a mile.

Workings

Hint
What's a mathematical way to describe placing a 9 at the beginning?

Answer
23,076.

Reasoning
Placing the 9 at the beginning is equivalent to adding 900,000 (for example, 12,345 + 900,000 becomes 912,345).

Placing the 9 at the end is equivalent to multiplying by 10 and adding 9 (for example, 12,345 x 10 + 9 becomes 123,459).

Let's call the unknown number k, and we know that one of these numbers is 4 times the other, so:

 k + 900,000 = 4 x (10k + 9)

 k + 900,000 = 40k + 36

900,000 – 36 = 40k – k

     899,964 = 39k

899,964 ÷ 39 = k

Therefore, k = 23,076.

Double-Checking
923,076 = 4 x 230,769.

Workings

Hint

Answer
The words are open, pane, ends, nest.

Workings

Hint
The first letters of the words are: P, P, I, P, S, F, A, R, O, R.

Answers
----igy = prodigy ----aoh = pharaoh ----erg = iceberg ----ynx = pharynx ----lth = stealth ----mox = flummox ----ovy = anchovy ----esh = refresh ----awe = overawe ----ipt = receipt