13. The Counterfeit NoteWhile walking down the street, one morning, I found a hundred rupee note on the footpath. I picker it up, noted the number and took it home.In the afternoon the plumber called on me to collect his bill. As I had no other money at home, I settled his account with the hundred rupee note I had found. Later I came to know that the plumber paid the note to his milkman to settle his monthly account, who paid it his tailor for the garments he had made.

The tailor in turn used the money to buy an old sewing machine, from a women who lives in my neighbourhood. This women incidentally, had borrowed hundred rupees from me sometime back to buy a pressure cooker, remembering that she owed me hundred rupees, came and paid the debt.

I recognized the note as the one I had found on the footpath, and on careful examination I discovered that the bill was counterfeit.

How much was lost in the whole transaction and by whom?

 

14.    Cotton or Gold

Which would you say is heavier, a pound of cotton or a pound of gold?

 

15.       Nuts for the Nuts

Last time I visited a friend’s farm near Bangalore he gave me a bag containing 1000 peanuts. From this I took out 230 peanuts for my self and gave away the bag with the remainder of peanuts to three little brothers who live in my neighbourhood and told them to disturbing the nuts among themselves in proportion to their ages  which together amounted to17 ½ years.

Tinku, Rinku and Jojo, the three brothers, divided the nuts in the following manner:

As often as Tinku took four Rinku took three and as often as Tinku took six Jojo took seven.

With this data can you find out what were the respective ages of the boys and how many nuts each got?

 

16. The Wedding Anniversary

Recent I attended the twelfth wedding anniversary celebration of my good friends Mohini and Jayant. Beaming with pride Jayant looked at his wife and commented, ‘At the time when we got married Mohini was 3/4^th of my age, but now she is only 5/6^th’.

We began to wonder hoe old the couple must have been at the time of their marriage!

Can you figure it out?

 

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