Problem 1 How can you add eight 8's to get the number 1,000?
Problem 2
What digit is the most frequent between the numbers 1 and 1,000 (inclusive)?
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Problem #1
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?
Problem #2
A set of encyclopedias consists of volumes that have 1/8-inch covers and one inch of pages. The set is arranged in order on a shelf from left to right. If a bookworm starts at the first page of Volume I and eats its way through to the last page of Volume II, how far does it travel?
Congratulations to RK Sambangi, who was the winner of last set of puzzles.
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