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General Forum: Love | | PUZZLES PUZZLES AND PUZZLES | |
| Posted by: బండోడు At: 7, Oct 2007 7:30:57 AM IST
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Without Excel? NO WAY - I think that guy in 1930 couldnt answer this becuase he didnt have Excel :))
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 7, Oct 2007 8:42:07 AM IST
1. 44 is right as Malak rightly eliminated 14 - it would be actually fun solving this without excel :-)
2. It is between 2.05 and 2.07, exact is 5 5/11 minutes past 2'o clock.
Nice work Malak and Niranjan.
I forgot abt the 'Answers to puzzle' thread to avoid spoilers, we'll use it next time.
Posted by: చంటోడు At: 7, Oct 2007 7:30:57 AM IST
Well Niranjan, Lets see what Cluey says ...
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And here is how I went about the Puzzle 1.
First assumption was that the man was born before 1900 and died after 1900, as per the question asked
As the Birth year of the man was 29 times his age, I used excel sheet to geenrate two columns of data .. the cells of the first column had numbers from 1 to 100 and the other had the numbers in those cells multiplied by 29.
There were only 2 rows that referred to the case of man being born before 1900 and being dead after that.
Age Birth Year
64 1856 ( ie 64*29)
65 1885 ( ie 65*29)
(All others were leading to the man dying before 1900 or taking birth after 1900 - so I discarded them)
In the first case, the year of death was 1856 + 64 = 1920 ( and he would have been 44 in 1900)and in the second case it was 1950. ( and he would have been 15 in 1900)
The second assumption was that the man died before 1930 (Since the question was first asked in 1930) .. so I eliminated the 1950 case ..
That results in 44 as the answer .. (Hope I am correct .. keeping the fingers crossed!)
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 6, Oct 2007 5:16:38 AM IST
:)) avunu malak karekTE.. :) 3:12, 2:17 ayite akyurET gA vunTAyi :)
Posted by: Mr. N Pulipati At: 6, Oct 2007 4:22:05 AM IST
OOps 2. Correct time was 3.10
Misread time was 2.15
Posted by: Mr. N Pulipati At: 6, Oct 2007 4:12:45 AM IST
2. Correct time was 3.10
Misread time was 2.15
Posted by: Mr. N Pulipati At: 6, Oct 2007 4:12:23 AM IST
I didnt prefer 3:10 because the hand moves slightly below "3" when the time is 3:10
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 6, Oct 2007 4:11:14 AM IST
Hehe Niranjan .. I was a few seconds earlier :))
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 6, Oct 2007 4:10:07 AM IST
Two cases for (2)
IF IT IS BETWEEN 2 and 3 (actual time)
one might be tempted to say 2:05 (Actual) and 1:10 (What you saw) .. but I would go with something like 2:07 (Actual) and 1:12 (What you saw)
IF IT IS BETWEEN 2 and 3 (time you saw)
Using the same logic I go with 3:12 (actual) and 2:17 (What you saw), instead of 3:11 or 3:10 (Actual)
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 6, Oct 2007 4:07:03 AM IST
Hint for the solution: Use Microsoft Excel :))
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 6, Oct 2007 3:56:22 AM IST
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