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For The Mathematically Inclined

Anil Saigal
09/12/2011

PROBLEM #1
2 men and 2 boys need to cross a river in a boat big enough for 1 man or 2 boys. How do they do it?

PROBLEM #2

This subtraction sum uses all the digits from 1 to 9.

  9 * *  - * 4 *    -----    * * 1  
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Problems from 09/01/11

PROBLEM # 1
How many liters of pure water should be evaporated (removed) from 160 liters of 12% saline (salt) solution so that the solution that remains is a 20% solution?

SOLUTION 1
60 liters.

PROBLEM #2
Two trains, one 500 meters long and the other 1000 meters long, are traveling in opposite directions on parallel tracks. The first train is traveling at 100km/h and the other at 80km/h. How long will it take for the trains to pass each other from the moment the locomotives are at the same point?

SOLUTION 2
30 s. 

Congratulations to N. Alamelu, Praful Thakkar, Smit Kadakia, Stephen Snider and Suhas Joglekar, who were the winners of the last set of puzzles.



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