A Brain teaser !!

Blood
By Blood

Hey guys you have one hour to solve this, the first to solve will be entitled to a dinner in a restaurant worth a hundred on the 4th of August, so here it goes:
A bird passed a tree and saw a group of birds so he told them hey guys all of and the same number you are plus half of that number and a quarter of it adding me will have the sum of a 100 bird!!!

So how many birds are in the first place on that tree.
Lets see I hope Rishi is online he will get it, and the prize is for real....

By Wings Of Fire• 28 Jul 2010 20:05
Wings Of Fire

Sorry WK,

i am in very fast reading mode only.....office office office...tierd and need the weekend desprtly!

ny ways dont forget my parcel :-)

By fhyzzal• 28 Jul 2010 19:34
fhyzzal

blood said we guys have one hour to answer... it means people who answered correctly within one hour should have prize.. :D

By anonymous• 28 Jul 2010 19:11
anonymous

drmana, try it and if you get it right...all i can give you is...another one to crack ..:)

By drmana• 28 Jul 2010 19:05
drmana

I was 2nd one to answer and I get nothing :-((

By fhyzzal• 28 Jul 2010 18:56
fhyzzal

it does not have reward so i will not answer rishimba's sample..lol

By anonymous• 28 Jul 2010 18:54
anonymous

ok, let me give a simple one..

in a room ( just an ordinary room with no doors or windows ) a lizard rests on the wall at the end of one solid-diagonal and watches an insect resting on the opposite end of the diagonal.

what will be the route of the lizard to get to the insect at the shortest time.

By anonymous• 28 Jul 2010 18:49
anonymous

lol ok I will not answer anymore, post some new one :)

By anonymous• 28 Jul 2010 18:49
anonymous

lol WoF, dinner it is and it is for 4th :)

Coffee was offered to gloomy

By anonymous• 28 Jul 2010 18:48
anonymous

WK, yes it is a nice puzzle...but you should not have answered it...lol

By Wings Of Fire• 28 Jul 2010 18:48
Wings Of Fire

WK if i have my glasses on , he wrote for a dinner treat-not coffeeee treat!

catch hold of him now...and send me parcel as well...

By Pajju• 28 Jul 2010 18:46
Pajju

69

By anonymous• 28 Jul 2010 18:42
Rating: 5/5
anonymous

rishi take 1 ball from first box, 2 from second, 3 from third and so on till all 10 from the 10th box. You have 10(10+1)/2= 55 balls.

Measure the weight of the balls, it should be 55 X 10 =550 if all had balls weighing 10 grams but since one box has 9 gram balls, it will fall short of 550 by the number of balls you took from that box, if it's 549 it's the first box and so on :)

To be fair, I had done this earlier :)

By bubblymom• 28 Jul 2010 18:42
bubblymom

ok blood... i'll just drink my 3-in-1 at home.

By anonymous• 28 Jul 2010 18:32
anonymous

ok, now that the puzzle has been solved, i am writing another one..

- there are 10 identical boxes and each box contains 10 identical balls. each ball weighs 10 grams. BUT, in any one of the boxes, all the balls weigh 9 grams.

if you have not done this before, try locating the box with 9 gram balls just by ONE weighing. you can take out the balls from the boxes to weigh.

By Blood• 28 Jul 2010 18:30
Blood

you still got it right, better late than never, but sorry you will not be eligible for the coffee treat I promised you. Maybe next time ;)

By bubblymom• 28 Jul 2010 17:58
bubblymom

and i was late to respond again (damn this work!) the letter "G" is the answer. :p

By TheSpottedOne• 28 Jul 2010 17:25
TheSpottedOne

G

By Blood• 28 Jul 2010 17:18
Blood

for you anything, just give me the answer of that last one.

By bubblymom• 28 Jul 2010 17:14
bubblymom

but at least you can still invite us all for the effort blood. a cup of coffee with blueberry cheesecake on the side will do. :p

By Blood• 28 Jul 2010 17:11
Blood

what ends everything always?

By dandem• 28 Jul 2010 17:07
dandem

Congratulations.........need more of these brain teaser!

By Blood• 28 Jul 2010 16:59
Rating: 4/5
Blood

The winner is the first one who answered, you could have waited for sometimes WK LOL

you are eligible for the dinner 100 QR on the 4th just PM me your tel No. (not the one you want to sell LOL)

By fhyzzal• 28 Jul 2010 16:46
fhyzzal

36 is right..

By fadi lebanon• 28 Jul 2010 16:42
fadi lebanon

its too easy to be 36, its a brain teaser. so the answer must be 99

By fadi lebanon• 28 Jul 2010 16:18
fadi lebanon

by the way, you never state if the original birds were on the tree or not!!! he saw the birds, but were they on the tree???

By bubblymom• 28 Jul 2010 16:17
bubblymom

if the answer is not 36, then it will bear decimals.

By anonymous• 28 Jul 2010 16:16
Rating: 4/5
anonymous

cherukkan, number of birds= x

same number as the birds are= x

half of that number= x/2

quarter of it(Since we are only talking about the number so far, it will refer to the number) = x/4

adding me, me=1 bird.

x+x+x/2+x/4+1=100

Solve it to get x=36 :)

By jkaanm• 28 Jul 2010 16:15
jkaanm

36 is the answer.

x+x+(X/2)+(x/4)+1=100

=> x=36

By drmana• 28 Jul 2010 16:15
Rating: 3/5
drmana

Is it quarter of the original number, if so it is 36...if quarter of half of original number then the answer changes.

By bubblymom• 28 Jul 2010 16:14
bubblymom

my answer is also 36.

By cherukkan• 28 Jul 2010 16:14
cherukkan

As per the question 36 is a wrong answer

but if the question is posted correctly the answer is 36.

By cherukkan• 28 Jul 2010 16:12
cherukkan

Could you clarify the quarter of which number. Your question is vague.

By fadi lebanon• 28 Jul 2010 16:11
fadi lebanon

whyteknight is right, its 36. eventhough there is a missing word or words between '' all of'' and ''and'' that might change the result

By drmana• 28 Jul 2010 16:10
drmana

10 min late but yes 36:-)

By anonymous• 28 Jul 2010 16:10
anonymous

9

By anonymous• 28 Jul 2010 16:06
anonymous

lol brit, I will think over it, plenty of time till the 4th :)

By britexpat• 28 Jul 2010 16:05
britexpat

Which restaurant are we going to ?

By anonymous• 28 Jul 2010 16:00
anonymous

36

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