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| Is it candle????
Posted by: Mrs. Aruna At: 3, Mar 2003 1:31:08 PM IST
I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off.
What am I?
Posted by: Ravi At: 3, Mar 2003 1:28:12 PM IST
Find a four digit number such that its first and last; first two, last two and middle two; first three and last three; and the number itself are all prime.
(One clause: 1 can be considered as prime.)
Posted by: Ravi At: 3, Mar 2003 1:21:38 PM IST
sorry correct.
Posted by: Mrs. Aruna At: 3, Mar 2003 1:07:18 PM IST
correst.
Posted by: Mrs. Aruna At: 3, Mar 2003 1:06:56 PM IST
is it the letter 'g' ? :)
Posted by: Ravi At: 3, Mar 2003 1:05:26 PM IST
What always ends everything?
Posted by: Mrs. Aruna At: 3, Mar 2003 11:09:42 AM IST
On a very elementary level, you can settle on 3 and 4 as the answer.but the question is lil complicated , by introducing Priti and Shalini (not vice versa), then posing the puzzle where Shalini is the first character. Hence the confusion. Now to the real answer which is 4 and 4!
Here's why.
1. If it were 3 and 4, Shalini would have known it since Priti didn't jump up and down seeing 10.
2. If it were 2 and 6, Priti would have deduced it looking at 12, and Shalini not having solved it. So she wouldn't have said I don't know the answer. Which leads us to Priti looking at 16!
Here Priti has no clue if its 4X4 or 2X8. She also knows that Shalini is completely stumped because she is looking at either 8 [2+6,3+5 or 4+4] or 10 [2+8, 3+7, 4+6 and 5+5]! So Priti says I haven't the foggiest either!
3. Now Shalini knows its 4 and 4, and responds she knows the answer because:
--She is not looking at 10 as Priti might have surmised she was for being so confused.
--She is looking only at 8. She has already eliminated 2 and 6 using the above logic where Priti would have chimed in. Priti would have known right away if it was 3 and 5 by looking at 15. The only reason why Priti never knew the answer also was because of 4 and 4!
there might be lott of other solutions to this but ..this is the easiest one :)
Posted by: Ravi At: 28, Feb 2003 11:40:44 PM IST
I am wrong, Since no where its mentioned that x+y = xy.
Posted by: Mr. G Ravinder At: 28, Feb 2003 8:59:15 PM IST
I will go for
2 and 2.
Posted by: Mr. G Ravinder At: 28, Feb 2003 8:11:42 PM IST
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