# Puzzles Questions

• #### Word Puzzles

Q:

Can you arrange 9 numerals - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 [using each numeral just once] above and below a division line, to create a fraction equaling to 1/3 [one third]?

$\inline \frac{5832}{17496}=\frac{1}{3}$

Subject: Number Puzzles

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Q:

How many letters of the word FAINTS, will their order in the word and that when the letters are arranged in the alphabetical order, remain the same?

 A) Two B) One C) Three D) Nil

Explanation:

When the letters are arranged in the alphabetical order, two remains the same.

Filed Under: Math Puzzles

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Q:

What mathematical symbol can be placed between 5 and 9, to get a number greater than 5 and smaller than 9?

decimal point [i.e, 5.9]

Subject: Number Puzzles

1280
Q:

How many minutes is it until six o’clock if fifty minutes ago it was four times as many minutes past three o’clock?

Subject: Clock puzzles

1230
Q:

In a game of whist, GEORGE partnered MARY, while TED had to select a partner from ANN, EDNA, JOAN or ANGELA. Whom did he choose?

Ans: ANN.

Sol.Give each letter a number according to its position in the alphabet.

TED =20+5+4(29)

ANN=1+14+14(29)

(George  and Mary each add to 57).