Math
Puzzles
Puzzles
I add four to eleven and get three. How is this correct?
I am a clock
The father of geometry
Euclid
If you have a horse tethered to a stake with a rope of a certain length, and you decide to replace that rope with a new one with double the length, how does the grazing area available to the horse change?
The grazing area becomes four times larger.
In the Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper uses these to make all trivial decisions.
Dice
Mary bought an air cooler for ₹3300 including a tax of 10%. Find the price of the air cooler before tax was added.
₹3000
What single digit appears most frequently between and including the numbers 1 and 1,000?
1
The father of calculus alongside Wilheml Leibniz
Sir Isaac Newton
Double Points!
What is the interior angle of an octagon?
135 degrees
In Iron Man 3, Tony Starks calls his suit, Mark __, 'The Prodigal Son'. (Fill in the blank with the correct number)
42
A train is moving at a uniform speed of 75 km/hour. Find the time required to cover a distance of 250 km.
3 hours and 20 minutes
Tom was on the way to KLCC Park. He met a guy with 2 wives and each of them came with 3 sacks. Each sack contained 4 cats and each of these 4 cats had 5 kittens. So in total, how many were going to KLCC Park?
1 (only Tom)
Double Points!
The mathematician of sound and has a great contribution in geometry of triangles.
Pythagoras
You have a rectangular garden measuring 12m x 8m. If you wish to enhance the garden's size by adding a uniform-width walking path around it, such that the total area becomes twice the original, what should be the width of the path?
In Friends, Janice, Chandler's ex-girlfriend, has a very distinctive laugh that annoys everybody. If she laughs for 3 seconds each time and laughs on average 3 times per episode she appears in, how many seconds of laughter have there been from Janice throughout the series if she has appeared in 19 episodes?
171
Suppose 2 kg of sugar contains 9 × 10^6 crystals. How many sugar crystals are there in 5 kg of sugar?
2.25 × 10^7
What is the smallest number that increases by 12 when seen upside down?
86
Aryabhatta invented zero, but who is credited for introducing it in calculations and defining its rules?
Bhramagupta
If a clock displays the time as 6:30, what angle does the hour hand make with the 12 o'clock position?
165 degrees (180-15)
The movie "Bahubali: The Beginning" had a budget of ₹180 crore, while "Bahubali 2: The Conclusion" had a budget of ₹252 crore. What was the percent increase in the budget of the movies?
40%
Two numbers differ by 40. When each number is increased by 8, the bigger one becomes thrice the lesser number. What are the two numbers?
12 and 52
Suppose 1+9+8=1, then what is 2+8+9=?
10 (first letter of each number spells the answer)
She was the first programmer, and her program was an algorithm to calculate Bernoulli numbers.
Ada Lovelace
If the diameter of a circle is 10.5 cm, what is its approximate circumference?
33 cm
The Justice League consists of 7 founding members. If each member of the team shakes hands with every other member once, how many handshakes occur in total?
21
Ravi steps out of his house at 8:20am on his bicycle. His school starts at 9am sharp. If he travels at a speed of 10km/h, then he reaches his school late by 8 minutes. How far is his school?
8 km