Puzzle 273
At a recent school fayre, 500 people attended and £500 was raised. The prices were as follows:
Fathers £2.00
Mothers £3.00
Children £0.48
More mothers than fathers turned up. How many children were there?
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Answer
375 children: 70 mothers and 55 fathers.
Puzzle 275
Which letter is missing from this sequence:
B C D G P T V
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Try saying the letters out loud.
Answer
E.
These are letters which all sound the same, bee, see, dee, ee, etc. All depending on how you pronounce Z (zee or zed), you can include this.
Puzzle 276
Which letter is missing from this sequence:
b · c · e · g · k · q · s · w
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Convert the letters to positions in the alphabet.
Answer
M.
Reasoning
These are letters that occupy prime number positions in the alphabet:
b = 2
c = 3
e = 5
g = 7
k = 11
m = 13 *
q = 17
s = 19
w = 23
