A patient is given five different tablets to take at night at an interval of 15 minutes. How long will it take the patient to consume all the five tablets?
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Cake of Soap
If you place 1 cake of soap on a pan of a scale and 3⁄4 cake of soap and a 3⁄4 pound weight on the other, the pans balance. How much does a cake of soap weigh?
Riddle AnswerSaving Time
Our man Ostap was going home from Kiev. He rode halfway by train – fifteen times as fast as he goes on foot. The second half he went by ox team. He can walk twice as fast as that. Would he have saved time if he had gone all the way on foot? If so, by how much?
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Yes. He took as much time for the second half of his trip as the whole trip would have taken on foot.
So no matter how fast the train was, he lost exactly as much time as he spent on the train. He would have saved 1⁄30 of the time by walking all the way.
Chestnut Tree Every 6 Yards
A street that’s 30 yards long has a chestnut tree every 6 yards on both sides. How many chestnut trees are on the entire street?
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