Puzzle - Page 9

Arjun tht was a good1...Guess 1 more try wd have helped me...anyway njoyed tht... 👏

Consider the following list of words:
Edition
Sight
Dimension
Estate
Column
Sense
Heaven

Which words can precede these, forming a pattern?

that is easy and brilliant. had to think a while and struck gold when i told myself fourth estate and seventh heaven and got the pattern!!

First Edition
Second Sight
Third Dimension
Fourth Estate
Fifth Column
Sixth Sense
Seventh Heaven

A soldier looses his way in a thick jungle. At random he walks from his camp but mathematically in an interesting fashion.

First he walks one mile East then half mile to North. Then 1/4 mile to West, then 1/8 mile to South and so on making a loop.

Finally how far he is from his camp and in which direction?

Answer:
The soldier is 0.8944 miles away from his camp towards East-North.

It is obvious that he is in East-North direction.

Distance travelled in North and South directions
= 1/2 - 1/8 + 1/32 - 1/128 + 1/512 - 1/2048 + and so on... (a geometric series with r = (-1/4) )

(1/2) * ( 1 - (-1/4)n )
= ---------------------------
( 1 - (-1/4) )

= 1 / ( 2 * ( 1 - (-1/4) ) )
= 2/5

Similarly in East and West directions
= 1 - 1/4 + 1/16 - 1/64 + 1/256 - and so on... (a geometric series with r = (-1/4) )

(1) * ( 1 - (-1/4)n )
= ---------------------------
( 1 - (-1/4) )

= 1 / ( ( 1- (-1/4) )
= 4/5

So the soldier is 4/5 miles away towards East and 2/5 miles away towards North. So using right angled triangle, soldier is 0.8944 miles away from his camp.

There is a man who lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Everyday he gets the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building to go to work.

Upon returning from work though, he can only travel half way up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it's raining! Why?

that is an easy one. the guy is incredibly short and lives on a floor whose button he cant reach. on rainy days he probably has an umbrella with which he is able to reach the button of the floor desired!!!

A man went into a restaurant and had a meal costing Rs. 105, giving the accountant a Rs. 500 note. He got the change.A few minutes later he had some food packed. He gave the accountant a Rs. 100 note and received Rs. 20 in change. Later the bank told the accountant that both the Rs. 500 and the Rs. 100 notes were counterfeit.

How much money did the restaurant lose? Ignore the profit of the food restaurant.

basically the restaurant lost 600 rs (from the counterfeit notes)for which they gave change and 185 rs worth of food

Bingo Jas.. 👏 👏 👏 And now i wish u would post a puzzle..