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Hint
Look at the letter positions in the alphabet.

Answer
R.

If you take the alphabetic positions of each letter in a row, the total is always 56.

Double-Checking
Y + G + W + A = 25 +  7 + 23 +  1 = 56
K + L + R + O = 11 + 12 + 18 + 15 = 56
Z + J + P + D = 26 + 10 + 16 +  4 = 56
V + F + T + H = 22 +  6 + 20 +  8 = 56

Workings

Hint
How many minutes are there between 2:00 and 7:00?

Answer
65 minutes.

Reasoning



We need to break down the five hours in the following way:

3 x Answer minutes past two o'clock 40 minutes Answer minutes before seven o'clock
Why? It is now Answer minutes before seven o'clock, and then we have the 40 minutes before that, and the remaining time was 3 x Answer minutes past two o'clock.

So, five hours = 5 x 60 = 300 minutes. We already know about the 40 minutes, so we have to share the remaining 260 minutes in the ratio 3:1, which gives 195:65 minutes. Or using algebra 4 x Answer = 300 − 40, so Answer = 65 minutes.

Therefore, the five hours is made up of:

195 minutes past two o'clock 40 minutes 65 minutes before seven o'clock
So, it's currently 65 minutes before 7:00 = 5:55.

Double-Checking
It is now 65 minutes before seven o'clock = 5:55, so 40 minutes ago it was 5:15, which is 195 minutes after 2:00 as required (as 65 x 3 = 195).

Workings

Hint
Adults have fewer bones than children.

Answer
Days in a year.

There are usually around 206 bones in an adult human body, and 365 or 366 days in a year.

Workings

Hint
The first word starts with L.

Answer
Leaf and tree.