21. The Perplexed postal clerkMy friend Shuba works in a post office and she sells stamps. One day a man walked in and kept seventy five paise on the counter and requested, ‘Please give me some 2 paise stamps, six times as many as one paisa stamps, and for the rest of the amount give me five paise stamps.’The bewildered Shuba thought for a few minute and finally she handed over the exact fulfillment of the order to the man with a smile.

How would you have handled the situation?

 

22. The Mystery of the Missing Paisa

Two women were selling marbles in the market place    one at three for a paisa and other at two for a paisa. One day both of them were obliged to return home when each had 30 marbles unsold. They put together the two lots of marbles and handing them over to a friend asked her to sell them at five for 2 paise. According to their calculation after all, 3 for one paisa and 2 for one paisa was exactly the same as 5 for 2 paise.

Now they were expecting to get 25 paise for the marbles, as they would have got, if sold separately. But much to their surprisr they got only 24 paise for the entire lot.

Now where did the one paisa go? Can you explain the mystery?

 

23.   Walking back to Happiness

A man I know who lives in my neighborhood, travel to Chinsura everyday for his work. His wife drives him over to Howrah Station every morning and in the evening exactly at 6 p.m. She picks him up from the station and takes him home.

One day he was let off at work an hour earlier, and so he arrived at the Howrah station at 5 p.m. instead of at 6.p.m. he started walking home. However, he met his wife enroute to the station and got into the car: they drove home arriving 10 minutes earlier than usual.

How long did the man have to walk, before he was picked up by his wife?

 

24.On the Line

It is a small town railway station and there are 25 stations on that line. At each of the 25 stations the passengers can get tickets for any of the other 24 stations.

How many different kinds of tickets do you think the booking clerk has to keep?

 

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