# Puzzles Questions

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Q:

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

 A) Shoe B) Charcoal C) Belt D) All the above

Explanation:

It is Charcoal which is black when we buy it or when not being used. It gets red in appearance when put in use means to say when burning. And eventually when it's been consumed by fire or after getting burned out or used up, changes into ashes which look grey in color.

Filed Under: Logic 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?

Ten kids will get each one apple. The eleventh kid will get the apple with the bowl.

Subject: Logic 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:

Arrange four nines(9) and a one(1) and only one mathematical symbol to make it equal to 100 ?

199 - 99  = 100

Subject: Math Puzzles

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Q:

Which number multiplied by itself will give the output as 12345678987654321 ?

11 * 11 = 121

111 * 111 = 12321

what we observe is that the square of the number follows a pattern: 2 1's gives 121. 3 1's gives 12321.

so to get 12345678987654321 we need to get square of 9 1's(111,111,111).

Subject: Math Puzzles

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Q:

A cuboid shaped wooden block has 6 cm length, 4 cm breadth and 1 cm height.
Two faces measuring 4 cm x 1 cm are coloured in black.
Two faces measuring 6 cm x 1 cm are coloured in red.
Two faces measuring 6 cm x 4 cm are coloured in green.
The block is divided into 6 equal cubes of side 1 cm (from 6 cm side), 4 equal cubes of side 1 cm(from 4 cm side).

How many cubes will have green colour on two sides and rest of the four sides having no colour ?

 A) 8 B) 24 C) 16 D) 4

Explanation:

There are 16 small cubes attached to the outer walls of the cuboid.
Therefore remaining inner small cubes will be the cubes having two sides green coloured.
So the required number = 24 - 16 = 8

Filed Under: Math Puzzles
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Logical puzzle

You work at a fruit factory.
There are 3 crates in front of you. One crate contains only apples. One crate contains only oranges. The other crate contains both apples and oranges. And each crate is labeled. One reads "apples", one reads "oranges", and one reads "apples and oranges". But the labeling machine has gone crazy and is now labeling all boxes incorrectly. If you can only take out and look at just one of the pieces of fruit from just one of the crates, how can you label ALL of the crates correctly?