A man went into a bank to cash a check. In handing over the money the cashier, by mistake, gave him dollars for cents and cents for dollars. He pocketed the money without examining it, and spent a nickel on his way home. He then found that he possessed exactly Read more…
Research Links 536 Puzzles and Curious Problems The clerks attached to the finn of Pilkins and Popinjay arranged that three of them would lunch together every day at a particular table so long as they could avoid the same three men sitting down twice together. The same number of clerks Read more…
Research Links 536 Puzzles and Curious Problems The Crackhams made their first stop at Bugleminster, where they were to spend the night at a friend's house. This friend was to leave home at the same time and ride to London to put up at the Crackhams' house. They took the Read more…
Research Links 536 Puzzles and Curious Problems Complete Solution
Research Links 536 Puzzles and Curious Problems This is what the author called a trick question. The sum of the distances are constant. To see why draw in lines from the vertices of the original triangles forming subtriangles T1,T2,T3. Now the sum of the areas of T1,T2,T3 = area Read more…
The solutions giving in the book 536 Puzzles and Curious Problems are quite shorthanded and in order to understand them often you have to dig. Since in a right triangle: and area we can substitute and get Now since we can substitute in which Read more…