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Puzzle ZQFL 



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If 7 ingots of IRON weigh 112 tonnes, 4 ingots of COBALT weigh 104 tonnes and 3 ingots of GOLD weigh 54 tonnes.

How heavy are 5 ingots of TIN?

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Answer
65 tonnes.

Vowels (AEIOU) are worth 3 and consonants are worth 5, added together and then multiplied by the number of ingots.

So TIN has 1 vowel (worth 3) and 2 consonants (worth 10).

Added gives 13, then multiplied by 5 ingots = 65.

 

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