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Anil Saigal
06/05/2019

Problem 1:
A company sent four painters to paint a school. They should be done in 12 days. After 3 days, one painter got ill. After 5 days, another painter got ill.  How long will the remaining painters paint the school?



Problem 2:
4 workers can lay the floor  in a school in 20 days. After 2 days 4 more workers join them.  After 5 days, 3 of them decide to work half the time. How long did it take to lay the floor.  





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Problems - 05/23/19

Problem 1:
There is given a circle K with a radius r = 8cm. How large must a radius have a smaller concentric circle that divides the circle K into two parts with the same area?

Problem 2:
It is given trapezium ABCD with bases | AB | = 12 cm, |CD| = 8 cm. Point S is the intersection of the diagonals for which |AS| is 6 cm long. Calculate the length of the full diagonal AC.


Congratulations to Meena Kaushik who was the winner of the last set of puzzles. 



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