A mathematician couple was having a Frappuccino in Starbucks sitting opposite to each other. Suddenly the guy noticed the text written on the paper in front of them and exclaimed that it was wrong. The girl denied and said it is appropriate. Both are correct. What is written on the paper ?
The text on the paper was X = XI + 1 which is inaccurate but when read from the girl’s side it becomes I + IX = X which is accurate.
A chess tournament is taking place on knock-out terms (the one who loses the match is out of the game).
(a) If 15 matches are played in total, how many players participated?
(b) If 50 players took part in the tournament, how many matches were played?
(a) If you look at the question closely, it is a knockout tournament and the winner will be just one. Thus no. of players is equal to 15+1=16.
(b) The number of matches will always be one less than the number of players (in knockout tournaments). Thus the answer is 49.
How can you write nineteen in a manner that if we take out one, it becomes twenty?
XIX. On taking one i.e. I, we get XX i.e. 20
James named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third gamma and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son’s name.
What
Bruce Banner was having a candle light dinner with his girlfriend. Suddenly a cold gush of wind entered through the open window and three of the ten candles were extinguished. Assuming that none of the other candles were extinguished.
How many candles are they left with in the end ?
Three.
The candles that were not extinguished will melt down completely eventually. Thus only three candles will remain in the end.
While preparing the table for dinner, wife came up with an idea to tease his mathematician husband. She asked her husband to pick nine toothpicks and make ten without breaking any toothpick.
The husband was also smart and did it within seconds.
How ?
He aligned the toothpicks to form TEN using one toothpick for each line.
A girl died and her soul was received in heaven. She was astonished to find uncountable naked people who looked as beautiful as they must have been in their twenties. She looked around to find anyone she knew and spotted Adam and Eve.
How could she recognize them?
As Adam and Eve were not born out of a women, they never had umbilical cords and hence were without navels.
Peter wakes up daily to pick his cycle and crosses the border between Spain and France daily with a bag on his shoulder. He is investigated daily by the officials but they don’t find anything suspicious.
If we tell you that he is smuggling something what would it be ?
Cycle
Analyze the series below and find out the next number.
5, 25, 325, 4325, __?
54324
Consider 1 = 5
2 = 25
3 = 325
4 = 4325
Then 5 = 54325
With every digit, the previous numbers are added after that digit
So the answer is 54325
Can you count the number of matches in the picture below ?
8
This can be a really tricky question. The five matches in the front are clear. Now a part of what you see on the lighter are reflection. There are five matches in total that are part of the reflection. Out of those five, we can see that three are visible apart from the reflection as well. So the total becomes eight.