Maths Puzzles

 Pinterest came to my rescue. And this is not a mathematical puzzle but a logical one.      Solution : Julian is neither photographer, nor doctor, nor thief. So he is a writer. David is neither photographer, nor doctor, nor writer. So he must be thief.  Tom is a not a doctor, so he must be photographer. James is the only one remaining. So he must be a Doctor. 

 I am running out of websites to steal copy puzzles from. A car meter reading shows 72927 miles a palindromic number. what is the minimum number of miles you would need to travel to see another palindromic number on the car meter reading?  By the way, did you know that a day in the last month was a palindrome and also an ambigram. Ambigram is a word or phrase which remains same when you flip it too.  Palindrome is a phrase which reads same forward and backward.  The date was 20-02-2022. Solution: 110 miles.     Explanation: The next palindrome will be 73037. Difference between 72927 and 73037 is 110.

 No, today I don't have any puzzles.  Instead I have a good news.  Wordle . You might already heard about it. It is a five letter word puzzle which has gone viral. You get 6 attempts to solve the puzzle. Only 6, not infinite. And there is only one puzzle per day. Which common for all. So why don't you try it?

 There is a new term for you and me.  A cryptarithm is a mathematical puzzle where the digits in a sum have been replaced by letters. Let us look at the famous example of this category.     SEND + MORE ------------ MONEY Each of the letter S, E, N etc stand for a unique digit. When the alphabets are replaced with their digit values, the addition equation must hold good. Let us try to find out the easiest hint. Since there are no values in 5th position in both SEND and MORE, M is the carry-over value. It can only be 1. Even if S is 9 and M is 2, the carry will be still be 1.  So M is 1. Now replacing M with 1, we get         SEND +      1ORE   ---------------------       1ONEY  You need to proceed in this way.  Now let me give you today's puzzle. Solve       SHIRT   +TSHIRT ----------------  CLOTHES           using...

 This time we have two geometry problems. And both are images, easy for the eyes and brain. What is the area of shaded part? 

 This is a simple questions involving directions -  Starting from the point M, Jatin walked 10 m towards west. He turned left and walked 15 m. He then turned left and walked 10 m. After this he turned to his right and walked 12 m. How far and in which directions is now Jatin from M? You may want to draw the diagram on a piece of paper.

 The three numbers whose sum = their product are 1,2 and 3 1+2+3 = 6 1*2*3 = 6