17. I’ll Get it for You Wholesale…A wholesale merchant came to me one day and posed this problem. Every day in his business he had to weigh amounts from one pound to one hundred and twenty-one pound, to nearest pound. To do this, what is the minimum number of weight he needs and how heavy should each weight be?
18 The Broken Glasses
My friend Asha was throwing a very grand party and wanted to borrow from me 100 wine glasses. I decided to send them through my boy servant Harish.
Just to give an incentive to Harish to deliver the glasses intact I offered him 3 paise for every glass delivered safely and threatened to forefeit 9 paise for every glass he broke.
One settlement Harish received Rs.2.40 from me.
How many glasses did Harish break?
19 The Peculiar Number
There is a number which is very peculiar. This number is three times the sum of digits. Can you find the number?
20. Make a Century
There are eleven different ways of writing 100 in the form of mixed numbers using all the nine digits once and only once. Ten of the ways have two figures in the integral part of number, but the eleventh expression has only one figure there.
Can you find all the eleven expression?
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