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from: "dipendra chattopadhyay" <cv19609@rect.ernet.in>
organization: r.e.c., tiruchirappalli, india
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date: tue, 14 mar 2000 22:25:52 ist+530
subject: r - 6
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hi friends,
sorry for being late . the responses to r-5 kept pouring in very late
& then there were mid -sems, culfest etc.... if u r ready, here goes
r-6 :

1. two painters are painting plaques for the numbers of the

houses of puzzle street ( which are consecutive starting with
one). in the time it takes the younger one to paint 4 digits, the
older painter paints 5 digits. the younger begins with the numbers
1,2, 3.... and the older painter with the last ones. they paint
the last house plaque at the same time and each one has painted
the same number of plaques. how many houses are there on the
street ?

2. a fly sitting on one of the hours around the rim of a 12 hr

clock took it into its primitive head ( i.e. decided ) to jump
forward the same number of hours as the number of the hour it was
first sitting on. it continued in this way with each jump moving
the same nunber of hours until it was back where it had started.
what are the chances that it visited all the hours before getting
back to where it started ?

3. as a sequel to the previous one, the fly alights again on one

of the hours around the rim of a 12- hr clock. this time it
always jumps forward the same number of hours as the number of
the hour it has just alighted on. what are the chances of
getting back to where it statred ?

please reply as early as possible. enjoy exercising your brain

cells.

regards,
the brain cell.