Archives
Contribute
| For The Mathematically Inclined |
Anil Saigal
04/14/2005
FOR CHILDREN FOR GROWNUPS PROBLEM # 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS ON 04/07/05 SOLUTION FOR GROWNUPS
PROBLEM # 1
Determine the next number in 77, 49, 36, 18, ____ and provide an explanation of your answer.
If
73 hens lay 73 dozen eggs in 73 days and if 37 hens eat 37 kilograms of
wheat in 37 days, what weight of wheat corresponds to 1 dozen eggs?
Please send your solutions to anil@lokvani.com.
Use Problem Solutions M-042105
as the subject line. Please include your full name in the text of the
main message. Everyone with the right answer will be acknowledged in
the next issue of Lokvani.
Please do not post your solution in Post Comments. No credit will be given for solutions not sent to anil@lokvani.com.
If you need clarification on any problem, please contact anil@lokvani.com.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOR CHILDREN
PROBLEM # 1
Of
the 200 seniors in a high school, exactly 40 are in the band, 60 are in
the orchestra and 10 are in both. How many students are neither in the
band nor in the orchestra?
110.
PROBLEM # 2
For how may positive integers m<=100 is (m-5)(m-45) positive?
59 (1<=m<=4, 46<=m<=100).
Congratulations to Sandeep
Bansal, Amar Gupta, Kirti Khandelwal, Mahesh Murali, Pooja Mutalik,
Sarthak Pani, Arun Saigal, Mukund Seshadri, Neha Sharma, Tahera and
Ramya Tammisetti, who were winners of the last set of puzzles.
|
You may also access this article through our web-site http://www.lokvani.com/
