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Puzzle 5 


You've been asked to buy the cakes for the school party, and you've been given $100 to buy 100 cakes.

Donuts cost 56c, chocolate eclairs cost $2.26 and iced rolls cost 92c.

How can you spend exactly all of the money on the 100 cakes?

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Puzzle 6 


At a local village gala, the entire population turned up, 500 people.

The event raised £3,000.

Tickets were priced as follows:
£7.48 men
£7.12 women
£0.45 children

How many children were there?

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Puzzle 7 


What letter should complete this sequence:

L · A · H · A · R · U · R · E · D · L · ?

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Puzzle 8 


My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault.

I listed six countries, and how far away each was from England, and here are the results:
Spain     14,000 miles
Fiji      12,000 miles
Germany   18,000 miles
Brazil    16,000 miles
India     16,000 miles
Iceland   --,--- miles

How far away did it list Iceland as?

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