The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. Started in 1961, the award carries a cash prize of ₹ 500,000, a bronze statue of Arjuna and a scroll.

3000 – 3 = 2997

There are four phases that basically gets involved in the cloud architecture:

1. Launch phase: it launches the basic services and makes the system ready for communication and for application building

2. Monitor phase: it monitors the services that is being launched and then manages them so that on demand the user will be able to get what he wants.

3. Shutdown phase: it shutdown the services that are not required first and after all the services gets shutdown, and then it closes the system services. 

4. Cleanup phase: it clean up the left out processes and services that is being either broken or didn’t get shutdown correctly.

In the given puzzle, the logic behind is

9 = 72 => 9 x 8 = 72

8 = 56 => 8 x 7 = 56

7 = 42 => 7 x 6 = 42

6 = 30 => 6 x 5 = 30

5 = 20 => 5 x 4 = 20

Similarly,

4 = 12 => 4 x 3 = 12

3 = 6 => 3 x 2 = 6

Rewrite equation as 122x+1 = 120

Leads to 2x + 1 = 0 

Solve for x : x = -1/2