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We all know that the hour hand and the minute hand on a clock travel at different speeds. However there are certain occasions when the hands are exactly opposite each other. Can you give a simple formula for calculating the times of these occasions?
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All the nine digits are arranged here so as to form four square numbers: 9, 81, 324, 576 How would you put them together so as to form a single smallest possible square number and a single largest possible square number?
While in San Francisco some time back, I hired a car to drive over the Golden Gate bridge. 1 started in the ; fternoon when there was no traffic rush. So I could do 40 miles an hour. While returning, however, I got caught in the traffic rush and I could only manage to drive at a speed of 25 miles an hour. What was my average speed for the round trip?
A family I know has several children. Each boy in this family has as many suters as brothers but each of the girls has twice as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there?
Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock, how many minutes is it until six o'clock?
Next door to me live four brothers of different heights. Their average height is 74 inches, and the difference in heipht among the first three men is two inches/'The difference between the third and the fourth man is six inches. Can you tell how tall is each brother?
Two identical trains, at the equator start travelling round the world in opposite directions. They start to-gether, run at the same speed and are on different tracks. Which train will wear out its wheel treads first?