Problem #1
The product of three consecutive odd numbers is 357,627. What is the smallest of the three?
Problem #2
A shopkeeper wants to be able to dispense sugar in whole pounds ranging from one pound up to 40 pounds. He has a standard, equal-arm balance weigh scale. Being of an extremely economical outlook, he wants to use the least possible number of weights to enable him to weigh any number of pounds between 1 and 40. How many weights does he need and what are they?
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Solutions from 9/11/2014
Problem #1
I am in the habit of walking up the subway escalator while it is running. I climb 20 steps at my normal pace and it takes me 60 seconds to reach the top, whereas my wife climbs only 16 steps and it takes her 72 seconds to reach the top. If the escalator broke down tomorrow, how many steps would I have to climb?
Problem #2
How far is the horizon from the top of a 125.7-meter-high lighthouse? (The earth can be considered spherical with a circumference of 40,000 km.)
Congratulations to Shailesh Goregaokar, who was the winner of the last set of puzzles.
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