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Problems 08/1/19

Problem 1:

Jay ate 1/3 of a bag of peanuts, Meera ate 1/4 of the remaining in the bag of peanuts, Anu ate 1/2 of the remaining bag of peanuts, Pal ate 10 peanuts, there are 71 peanuts left. Hon many peanuts were in the bags?

Problem 2:

A monkey fell in 23 meters deep well. Every day it climbs 3 meters, at night it dropped back by 2m. On what day it gets out from the well?

Congratulations to Vijay Aivalli, Ramachandran Balakrishna, Kishore Balsara, Harsh Sanchorwala and Bharath Venkataraman who were the winners of the last set of puzzles.