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A puzzle related to mathematical facts and objects, whose solution needs mathematical arguments. General mathematics questions are off-topic but can be asked on Mathematics Stack Exchange.
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Number of children
Here comes an easy one:
A Family has several children.
Each brother has the same numbers of brothers and sisters, but each sister has twice as many brothers as sisters
How many sisters and brothers …
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A problem of Age
Recently I met a women which said: Do you know something funny? If you reverse my own age, the figures represent my husbands age. He is, of course, senior to me, and the difference between our age is …
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The mathematical split [closed]
A mathematical split:
Can you split 34 into two parts such that four-seventh of one of these parts equals two-fifths of the other?
This puzzle is from a book so I can't give you a link.
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The date $8.8.6.4$
The date $8.8.64$, meaning August $8, \; 1964$ is a very interesting date, because the product first $2$ numbers equals the third.
Can you find the year of the twentieth century which gives the maxi …
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$3$ quart from $10$, $5$ and $4$ quart
Mr.Affison had two $10$ quart containers full of wine. He also had a $5$ quart and $4$ quart measurement.
All he wanted to do was to put exactly $3$ quarts into $2$ of his measurements.}Now he was s …
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A mathematic riddle [duplicate]
A mathematic riddle:
If $1+9+8=1$, what is $2+8+9$?
I know, many of you out-of-the-box-thinkers, I really like it,
but please don't give answers to this riddle as $1=0$ and $9=0$ and $8=1$, that's w …
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Maximum amount of the Letter-Number-game
There is a number-game which you play like this:
You think of a number eg. $8$.
Then think: How many letters does this number have? In our example: $5$
And now do step one with $5$
This goes on recu …
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The number game
There is a number,
the second digit of which is smaller than the first digit by $4$, and if the number was divided by the digits' sum, the quotient would be $7$.
What is this number.
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Math problem: 1+1=0 [duplicate]
See if you can solve this math-problem:
$$
\begin{bmatrix}
1&+&1&=&0\\
2&+&8&=&2\\
2&+&2&=&0\\
9&+&8&=&3\\
3&+&4&=&0\\
6&+&9&=&2\\
0&+&2&=&1\\
9&+&3&=&?
\end{bmatrix}
$$
Best of Luck!
Ps: Here is the …
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A function. Really?
If you give me a 5, I give you a 21.
If you give me a 6, I give you a 2.
If you give me a 7, I give you a 12.
If you give me a 10, I give you a 101.
What am I processing to get the result?
Hint 1
H …