#111 - James Bond Archer Of The Blind

James Bond is caught up in a mysterious scenario where the evil villain has him blindfolded. He somehow breaks through the handcuffs but is unable to get the blindfold off. Upon searching, he comes across a bow and 3 arrows. He can hear the villain speak, and thus tries to take a shot at him. He launches the first arrow, it misses the villain. He then launches the second arrow and it misses by a greater margin.

What is the probability that this third shot our james bond takes will be worse than the second shot?

2/3. How? Well, since he has 3 arrows, each shot has 1/3rd chance of being the best shot. So the chance that the third shot is not the best shot is 1 minus 1/3rd, thus 2/3rd.

#112 - Find Number Problem

Find out a number which is less than 100 and is more than one fifth of its actual value when the digits are reversed.

The number is 45
1/5 of 45 = 9
9+45 is 54.

#113 - Chance Of Surviving Puzzle

Once upon a time there were three rivals who got together in a dark wood on an open spot for composing a quarrel by using guns. It was a kind of duel but there were three people in it and therefore it is a truel. There were A, B and C. there was some rules to be followed in the game. The rules of the games were:
-They have to draw the lots in order to find who will fire first and who will be second and who will be third.
- The next rule is that, they will start firing on each other unless there is a last person alive.
- Each person will decide on his own about which person he will fire on.
-it is quite clear that A hits and kills in all the shots and it is 100%. Whereas 80% of the shots are hit by B and C hits in 50% of the shots he tries to fire in. the three persons have their own strategy for firing. Nobody is killed by the stray bullet.

Question: who will have the highest chances for surviving in the truel and how much is the chance?

the person C will have the highest chances of survival.
Person A hits = 1
Person A misses = 0
Person B hits = 4/5
Person B misses = 1/5
Person C hits = 1/2
Person C misses = 1/2

#114 - Making The Century Puzzle

Use the digits from 1 up to 9 and make 100.

Follow the rules.
=> Each digit should be used only once.
=> You can only use addition.
=> For making a number, two single digits can be combined (example, 4 and 2 can be combined to form 42 or 24)
=> A fraction can also be made by combining the two single digits (example, 4 and 2 can be combined to form 4/2 or 2/4)

Question: how can we do this ?

There are various solutions that one can come up with. Following are some of them.
1 + 2 + 5 + 4/6 + 7/3 + 89 =100
12 + 9 + 75 + 6/3 + 8/4 =100
2 + 95 +1/6 + 4/8 + 7/3 =100
24 + 57 + 8 + 6/3 + 9/1 =100
36 + 51 + 9 + 4/8 + 7/2 =100
5 + 91 + 3/2 + 6/8 + 7/4 =100

#115 - Passcode Mystery Problem

While trying to pull out a robbery, a criminal came across a password lock. He has the following information with him that can assist him in cracking the password.

Can you help him out?

1. The password is a 5-digit number.
2. The 4th digit is 4 more than the 2nd one.
3. The 3rd digit is 3 less than the 2nd one.
4. The 1st digit is three times the 5th digit.
5. Three pairs of digits sum up to 11.

The 5-digit password is 65292.

#116 - How Many Wrong Answer Puzzle

In a competitive exam, each correct answer could win you 10 points and each wrong answer could lose you 5 points. You sat in the exam and answered all the 20 questions, which were given in the exam.
When you checked the result, you had scored 125 marks in the test.

Can you calculate how many answers given by you were wrong ?

If all the 20 questions had been answered correctly, you would have scored a total of 200 marks. Since you scored 125 marks, you have lost 75 marks.
Now, what you have to do is subtract 15 marks from 200 for every wrong answer. This is because you have to deduct 10 marks for not scoring in that question and 5 marks for answering it wrong.
15 * 5 = 75
Therefore, you answered 5 questions wrong.

#117 - Digit Pattern uzzle

Which digit occurred maximum times between the number 1 and 1000?

1
All Digits [0-9] follow the following pattern: There is one occurrence of all digits in every 10 numbers Example. Digit-9 occurred one time between 10 and 19 in 9, between 20 and 29 in 29.
However, for tens(91,92,93...99) and hundreds (900,901.... 999), the occurrence is much more. Since we have included 1000, Therefor 1 is the most occurred digit.
Note: Despite three 0s in 1000, 0 is not most occurred digit as they dont have tens and hundreds like other digits.

#118 - Popular Algebraic Equation Riddle

Can you solve the popular algebraic equation by replacing alphabets with a digit and equation must be true as well?
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10652

#119 - Wine Bottles Maths Riddle

In a classic wine shop in Flobecq, Belgium, list of three most popular wines are:
- The cost of 1 French wine bottle: 500$
- The cost of 1 German wine bottle: 100$
- The cost of 20 Dutch wine bottles: 100$


Homer Simpson entered the wine shop and he needs to buy
- All three types of wine shop.
- Needs to buy Dutch wine bottles in multiple of 20.
- Need to buy 100 wine bottles

Simpson has only 10000$. How many wine bottle(s) of each type, Simpson must buy?

19(French) + 1(German) + 80(German) =>100 wines.
Cost:
19*500 + 100 + 100*4 = 10000$

#120 - Trick Maths Equation Problem

The following question it puts forth you:

25 - 55 + (85 + 65) = ?

Then, you are told that even though you might think its wrong, the correct answer is actually 5!

Whats your reaction to it? How can this be true?

If you read the question again, you will probably notice the slight trick used in this question.

25 - 55 + (85 + 65) = 25 - 55 + 150 = 120

Now, 120 is also equal to 5!

5! = 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 120
Yes, we were talking about 5! (factorial) and if you read the question, thats what is written there.