Puzzle 29
What four related words are merged together?
TOUS RGQC URRO IAAN RLGS EEET ENE
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The words are all colours.
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Orange, green, turquoise, scarlet.
Puzzle 30
Which of the shapes is identical to the first one?
There might be more than one.
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Try to rotate them around in your head, but watch out for mirror images.
Puzzle 31
Which four-letter word can be placed between the two following words to make two new words:
arm[----]stand
In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case
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The second letter is A.
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Band.
To give armband, and bandstand.
Puzzle 32
I recently asked a friend of mine to buy me some ribbon for my latest embroidery project.
He went to the haberdashery shop for a particular length, but he accidentally interchanged the feet and inches.
When I measured the purchased ribbon, I only had 30% of the length I required!
How much ribbon did I originally ask for?
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Remember that there are 12 inches in a foot.
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I asked for 9 foot 2 inches (110 inches) and my friend brought me 2 foot 9 inches (33 inches).
Reasoning
I asked my friend to buy me A feet and B inches, which is a total of 12A + B inches.
He accidentally bought me B feet and A inches, which is 12B + A inches.
We know that 12B + A is actually only 30% of what I wanted, so:
12B + A = 0.3 x (12A + B)
Multiply throughout by 10:
120B + 10A = 3 x (12A + B)
120B + 10A = 36A + 3B
117B = 26A
B = 26A ÷ 117
Don't forget that A and B can only be integers, and between 0 and 11.
Since 26 x A has to be at least 117, the lowest possible value for A is 5. We can check the remaining possibilities.
5 x 26 = 130
6 x 26 = 156
7 x 26 = 182
8 x 26 = 208
9 x 26 = 234 (*)
10 x 26 = 260
11 x 26 = 286
The only number wholly divisible by 117 is 234, which means that A = 9, and B = 2.
So, I originally asked for 9 feet 2 inches.
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