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Puzzle 45 


What number is …

… three-quarters of eight-ninths of one-half of 2001?

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Puzzle 46 


How many squares of any size on this chessboard do not contain a rook?

Rooks On D6, F3

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Puzzle 47 


I recently travelled from my home town to a distant music concert, on a pedal tricycle, of all things! My wonderful, three-wheeled tricycle.

I knew that the epic 2,345 mile trip would wreak havoc on the tyres, but luckily I took along 4 spares!

Instead of waiting for any single tyre to fail, I decided that I would rotate the tyres evenly, making sure that by the end of the trip, all seven tyres had travelled exactly the same distance.

What was the distance that each tyre travelled?

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Puzzle 48 


Can you find a number such that …

… its double is fourteen more than its quarter?

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