Archive for December, 2008

Ball in a Hole

Ball_in_Hall

A ping pong ball  fell into a tight deep pipe ( eg. 30 cm long, buried in concrete pavement – having firm metal bottom), only 1 cm of the pipe is above the ground – so it can not be moved. The pipe was only a bit wider than the ball, so you can not use your hand. How would you take it out, with no damage?

An Easy Short One [Answered]

here comes the winners of the Easy and Short problem

not so many but better than the Fontas one :P

the first is -for the first time i think :D –   

TeCNoYoTTa

then 

Mohamed Gawish

then

AlaaShaker

and 

Tasniem Seliem

go and check their solutions here

An Easy Short One

we have a rectangular cake, where a square portion is cut of it

that square may not be in the exact center of the cake

how can you cut the cake into two equal halves with only one cut.

The Man and The Fontas [Answered]

well, 

i know that this one was tough

it needed some imagination and geometry :D

and no one had answered it except Alaa Shaker

go and check his answer

good luck with the next problems ;)

if you cant understand his solution we can explain it here, just ask :)

The Man and The Fontas

A man has A Fontas (Uniform Cylinder) and infinite source of water, and a pencil.
He know that the volume of the fontas is 8 liters and he does not have any thing to calculate time , length or volume just a fontas , infinite source of water and pencil.
he want to divide the fontas into 8 equal parts (8 liters) and mark those parts of course using the pencil.
can you help him ?!

Break the Silence [Answered]

Well, it seem that the Feast have a special effect :D

Only TWO winners for this week ..

Metal_ then Tasniem Seliem

Happy Feast :) and the answer is as usual right here ..

Break the Silence

One day, a frustrated Math teacher lost his patience with his students’ non-stop chatting. Thus, he decided to give the ultimate hard problem:

Find the only positive integer number less than 20,000 that is also a sum of three different positive integers, all containing exactly 7 factors.

There was a steady silence. Can you break the silence by figuring it out?

Just a number [Answered]

Last week results ..

The First one to solve was ..

Mohamed Gamal

then 

Ibrahim Ahmed Mohammedy

then 

Mon

then

  • AlaaShaker
  • TeCNoYoTTa
  • Mohamed Abd Elmonem Ali
  • Simo
  • Mohamed Ghost
  • Shimaa Ahmed
  • Noran El-Kafrawy
  • Ahmad Farid
  • Profahmedsaad
  • Mona Yehia
  • Eman
  • Mohamed Gamal
  • Metal_

well done, wait for the next one ;)

The answers are right here ..