Brain Teasers and Puzzles 

Workings

Hint
The word APPLES appears 34 times.

Answer
The word APPLES appears 34 times.

Workings

Hint
There are 1,760 yards in a mile, 3 feet in a yard, and 12 inches in a foot.

Answer
Inches in a mile.

Reasoning
There are 1,760 yards in a mile, 3 feet in a yard, and 12 inches in a foot.

So:

1 mile = 1760 yards = 1760 x 3 feet = 1760 x 3 x 12 inches = 63,360 inches in a mile.

And:

There are approximately 1,000 x 52 = 52,000 Sundays in a thousand years. Depending on the day of the week the first day of the year falls, there are actually either 52,177 or 52,178 Sundays in a thousand years.

Workings

Hint
Look for anagrams.

Answer
ceffio.

This is an anagram of office.

The others are animals:
   dgo     = dog
   act     = cat
   ehors   = horse
   ceffio  = office
   elrttu  = turtle
   ekmnoy  = monkey

Workings

Hint
I bought at least 5 of every stamp.

Answer
Five lots of 2p, 7p and 15p, and six lots of 10p, and 20p.

Reasoning
The shopkeeper rightly figured that I required five lots of all of the stamps, which came to (2p + 7p + 10p + 15p + 20p) x 5 = £2.70.

For two of the stamps I needed one more of each, and these must have added to the remaining 30p, so can only have been the 10p and 20p stamps.