There are five coins. There are three real coins, one fake coin that weighs more than the real coin, and one fake coin that weighs less than the real coin. In three weighings, identify both counterfeit coins.
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🎞 Toy models — small mathematics in a big world — Tadashi Tokieda
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🎞 Toy models — small mathematics in a big world — Tadashi Tokieda
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‘Toys’ here have a special sense: objects of daily life which you can find or make in minutes, yet which, if played with imaginatively, reveal surprises that keep scientists…
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‘Toys’ here have a special sense: objects of daily life which you can find or make in minutes, yet which, if played with imaginatively, reveal surprises that keep scientists…
There are 64 coins, all different in weight. For no more than 94 weighings, determine the lightest and heaviest coins.
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On the clock that runs exactly, all the numbers have come off. Only the divisions without signatures remained. How do I know where to return each digit? (You don't have any other watches.)
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Olivia spends 10% more time on homework than Emma. And Charlotte spends 10% less time than Olivia. Which of the girls does their homework the fastest?
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4%
Olivia
43%
Emma
52%
Charlotte
The driver of a long-range truck looked at the instruments of his car and saw that the speedometer shows 25952. "What a beautiful number I drove. Probably, the next beautiful number will not fall out soon," he thought. However, after an hour and twenty minutes, the following beautiful number appeared on the speedometer. How fast was the truck going?
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There are two hourglasses: for 7 minutes and for 11 minutes. The porridge cooks for 15 minutes. How do you use this clock to measure the right time? Leaflet #transfusion
There are two hourglasses: one for 5 minutes and one for 8 minutes. How can they be used to time 7 minutes?
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📜 Leaflet #time
Lucas's alarm clock is ruined: he is in a hurry for 4 minutes an hour. At 7 p.m., Lucas set the exact time on it and set the call to 7 a.m. What time will Lucas wake up?
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📜 Leaflet #time
James has 10 sticks 50 cm long. He wants to cut them so that 50 sticks with a length of 10 cm are obtained.
How many cuts will he have to make?
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How many cuts will he have to make?
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Centimetre
SI unit of length equal to one hundredth of a metre
In a 7×7 square, paint over several cells so that there are exactly three painted cells in each row and in each column.
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On an island of knights and liars (knights always tell the truth and liars always lie) in some company each declared to the others: "There are two knights among you."
How many knights could there be in this company?
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How many knights could there be in this company?
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Knights and Knaves
logic puzzle
The store sells chocolate in the form of letters of the English alphabet. The same letters have the same price, and different ones have different prices. It is known that the word ONE costs $6, the word TWO costs $9, and the word ELEVEN costs $16.
How much does the word TWELVE cost?
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How much does the word TWELVE cost?
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English alphabet
Latin-noscript alphabet consisting of 26 letters
Lucas borrowed $19 from James, pledging to return it within 4 months. Moreover, every month the amount of payment should grow, amount to an integer number of dollars and be completely divided by the amount of payment in the previous month.
How much will Lucas pay in the last month?
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How much will Lucas pay in the last month?
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Debt
deferred payment, or series of payments, that is owed in the future