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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:

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).

Subject: Word Puzzles

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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

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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:

Logical puzzle

Miss Anne has eleven kids in her class. She has a bowl containing eleven apples. Now Miss Anne want to divide the eleven apples to the kids, in such a way that a apple should remain in her bowl. How can Miss Anne do it?