Puzzle 793
Can you find the hidden country in the following sentence:
Alex's aches and pains felt worse because of swollen glands that had flared up during the night, perhaps a tonic would help?
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The country ends with the letter D.
Answer
England.
Alex's aches and pains felt worse because of swollen glands that had flared up during the night, perhaps a tonic would help?
Puzzle 794
My local shop wanted to create a sign that said PUZZLES, and they had the following multicoloured letters:
P P P U U Z Z Z Z Z L L L L E S S
How many different ways could they have made the sign?
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960.
Reasoning
P P P U U Z Z Z Z Z L L L L E S S gives 3 x P, 2 x U, 5 x Z, 4 x Z (only 4 as we've already used one), 4 x L, 1 x E, 2 x S.
3 x 2 x 5 x 4 x 4 x 1 x 2 = 960.
Puzzle 795
Traffic was bad going to work this morning. I only managed to average 30 mph.
How fast must I go home tonight, along the same route, to average 60 mph for the entire round trip?
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It doesn't matter what the distance is, so try a random distance.
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This cannot be done.
It does not matter how far the trip is, let's assume that it is random distance, say 60 miles, and remembering that Time = Distance ÷ Speed.
The morning trip took 60 miles ÷ 30 mph = 2 hours.
To average the required 60 mph, we would have to travel the total distance (of 120 miles) in 2 hours. However, we've already used all of the two hours for the morning trip!
Choosing any random distance would also show that it can't be done.
Puzzle 796
What number is...
...one half of one third of one quarter of 360?
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Try working backwards.
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15.
One quarter of 360 is 90.
One third of 90 is 30.
One half of 30 is 15.
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