Saturday, June 30, 2007

Two mathematicians met after 27 years...

Two mathematicians met after 27 years in their college.

This was their conversation.
First: How are you doing?
Second: Fine I got married and have 3 daughters.
First: Fine. I also got married 2 years after the college. How old are your daughters?
Second: Well, Product of their ages is 72 and their sum is equal to that house number over there..(It was not mentioned).
First: Wait, I am still counting.
Second: Sorry, youngest of them just started walking.
First: Is it! Youngest of mine is also of the same age.

How old are the three daughters?

Cookie Seller

U r a cookie seller.. U hav 3 types of cookie boxes. They hav 6 or 9 or 400 cookies each. U hav infinite number of boxes of each type. Then wat is the maximum number of cookies u cannot sell ??

12 Coin Puzzle

This is our first puzzle..

U hav 12 identical coins out of which 1 has a slightly different weight (It may be heavier or lighter).U r given a balance and u r asked to find out the defective coin using the balance. Wat is the minimum number of trials required to find out the defective coin??

Puzzles Never Fascinated me.............

Puzzles Never Fascinated me.............until some weeks back.My friends used to solve all those puzzles and i just stood there watching it...It was some days back,when i tried solving one i realized how exciting it is when u find a solution to a puzzle...
We are trying to solve as many puzzles we can,and will be posting the solutions in here..The visitors to this blog can give their suggestions and can point out any discrepancy in the solutions.U can also post your puzzles too as comments and we will try to solve it too...Hope this would work out...