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For The Mathematically Inclined

Anil Saigal
12/16/2019

Problem 1:
A cake contains milk, yeast, sugar, and flour in a ratio of 20: 1: 4: 15 by weight.  How may pounds of sugar is needed to make a 5 pound cake?


Problem 2:
While baking a cake in a oven water evaporates at the rate of 1% of the current weight per minute.   If you place 5 pounds of cake mixture in an oven, what is the weight of cake baked after 30 minutes.

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Problems 12/05/19

Problem 1:
How many words can be created from the word MATEMATIKA by changing the order of the letters, regardless of whether or not the words are meaningful?


Problem 2:
What is the probability that a random word composed of chars E, Y, G, E, R, O, M, T will be the GEOMETRY?


Congratulation to Kishore Balsara, who was the winner of the last set of puzzles.



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