PUZZLES 3

Orange Problem
Two sisters Sita and Gita collect 30 oranges each from their garden everyday and take them to market. Sita sells her oranges at the rate of 3 oranges for Re.1 and Gita sells her oranges at the
rate of 2 oranges for Re. 1. Thus everyday Sita gets Rs.10 and Gita gets Rs. 15 and their combined earning is Rs. 25. One day, after collecting oranges in her basket, Sita feels uneasy and
therefore requests Gita to carry her basket to the market and sell the oranges at usual rate. When Gita reaches market, she decides to sell the oranges in both the baskets at an average price.
Thus, instead of selling oranges in Sita’s basket @ 3 oranges for Re.1 and oranges in her own basket @ 2 oranges for Re.1, she decides to sell all 60 oranges @ 5 oranges for Rs. 2. But to
her dismay, after selling all the 60 oranges Gita earns Rs. 24 only and not Rs. 25 as they use to get everyday. Where has Re. 1 goan?
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Pizza
How can you make one full pizza into Eight pieces using only Three straight line cuts.......?????????

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Solve this...
Chart 1 shows the distribution of 12 million tonnes of crude oil transported through different modes over a specific period of time. Chart 2 shows the distribution of the cost of transporting this
crude oil. The total cost was Rs. 30 million.
Road-22% Rail 9% (volume transportation) Chart1
Road 6% Rail 12%(cost of transportation) Chart2_
Note: other means of transport figures are avoided since not used in the Q.
Q)The cost in rupees per tonne of oil moved by rail and road happens to be roughly
[2001]
a) Rs. 3
b) Rs. 1.5
c) Rs. 4.5
d) Rs. 8


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Strength of glass
There is a building with 100 floors. You have only one piece of glass.
The glass piece will NOT break if dropped from Nth floor or below and break if dropped from (N+1)th floor or above.
1. How to find out "N"? What is the best strategy that would require minimum number of throws? (This is very easy)
2. Same as above, but you have two identical glass pieces.
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The Hat-trick problem
This is a famous true incident.
In an international test cricket match, a bowler (I think he was an Australian) got a hat-trick.
He got wickets on three distinct deliveries, but neither of them was in the same over. HOW??

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Thieves and coins
There are 10 thieves who steal some no of coins at night and go to sleep....
midnight one of them gets up n thinks of running away ..thats when another one gets up, so they decide to split it up the coins, but they get 1 remainder coin...
and,in the meantime another thief gets up so they now split it up amongst 3 thieves and now remainder is 2. .. and so on till all 10 are up and after splitting the remainder is 9. Whats the min no
of coins they stole ?
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