Puzzle 173
Below, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.
These chunks have been mixed up, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.
Can you determine the 10 original words?
rbr tim sag tel lig ent
hea dli ble whi htn fer
car age esc ing ind wat
til hai ush dif eta new
rlw all erf ope ent ght
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The first letters of the words are: t, t, h, d, w, l, h, w, c, n.
Answers
tel + esc + ope = telescope
tim + eta + ble = timetable
hai + rbr + ush = hairbrush
dif + fer + ent = different
wat + erf + all = waterfall
lig + htn + ing = lightning
hea + dli + ght = headlight
whi + rlw + ind = whirlwind
car + til + age = cartilage
new + sag + ent = newsagent
Puzzle 174
How many squares have been placed in the drawing below?
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There are fewer than 20 squares.
Answer
18 squares.
In the solution below you can see 6 squares in the middle, with another 12 squares around the outside.
Puzzle 175
Last week I travelled from London to Leeds, a distance I measured as 174 miles.
I started at 9.15am and completed the journey with an average speed of 40 miles per hour.
On the way back, in the evening, I travelled exactly the same route, starting at 5.15pm. The traffic was light, and I completed the journey with an average speed of 60 miles per hour.
What was the overall average speed for the round trip?
The answer is not 50 mph.
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Remember that Time = Distance ÷ Speed, and Speed = Distance ÷ Time.
Answer
48 miles per hour.
Reasoning
Using:
Time = Distance ÷ Speed
Tpeed = Distance ÷ Time
The outward journey took 174 miles ÷ 40 mph = 4.35 hours.
The return journey took 174 miles ÷ 60 mph = 2.9 hours.
So I travelled a total of 2 x 174 = 348 miles. I did this in a total of 4.35 + 2.9 = 7.25 hours.
My overall average speed was therefore 348 miles ÷ 7.25 hours = 48 miles per hour.
Puzzle 176
Can you find a five-digit number that has no zeros, and no digit is repeated, where:
The first digit is a prime number.
The second digit is the fifth digit minus the first digit.
The third digit is twice the first digit.
The fourth digit is the third digit plus three.
The fifth digit is the difference between the first digit and the fourth digit.
Don't forget that 1 isn't prime, the prime numbers start with 2, 3, 5...
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Start with the possible answers where the first digit is a prime number, and then look at the third digit.
Answer
23,475.
Reasoning
By (1), the first digit is prime:
2----
3----
5----
7----
By (3), the third digit is twice the first digit, so we can eliminate 5---- and 7----:
2-4--
3-6--
By (4), the fourth digit is the third digit plus three:
2-47-
3-69-
By (5) the fifth digit is the difference between the first digit and the fourth digit:
2-475
3-696
We know from the introduction that no digit is repeated, so we can eliminate 3-696. And, by (2) the second digit is the fifth digit minus the first digit:
23475
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