top button
Flag Notify
    Connect to us
      Site Registration

Site Registration

How many silver marbles does Paul have?

0 votes
200 views

Peter, Paul and Mary have between them 282 marbles. Though of the three friends, it is Peter who has the most marbles, he is the one with the fewest silver marbles, just the square root of the number of all his marbles. On the other hand, Mary, who has the fewest marbles, is the one with the largest number of silver marbles, precisely one seventh of her marbles. How many silver marbles does Paul have?

posted May 8, 2017 by anonymous

Share this puzzle
Facebook Share Button Twitter Share Button LinkedIn Share Button

1 Answer

0 votes

Paul has 11 silver marbles.
.
Mary = 12 / 84
Paul = 11 / 98
Peter = 10 / 100

answer May 8, 2017 by Jcm



Similar Puzzles
+1 vote

Mark and Sam each have a bag with the same number of marbles.

How many marbles must Mark give Sam so that Sam will have ten more marbles than Mark?

0 votes

You are a prisoner sentenced to death. The Emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game. He gives you 50 black marbles, 50 white marbles and 2 empty bowls. He then says, "Divide these 100 marbles into these 2 bowls. You can divide them any way you like as long as you use all the marbles. Then I will blindfold you and mix the bowls around. You then can choose one bowl and remove ONE marble. If the marble is WHITE you will live, but if the marble is BLACK... you will die."

How do you divide the marbles up so that you have the greatest probability of choosing a WHITE marble?

+1 vote

Anirudh had 25% more DVD's than he has, he would have twice as many as if he had given away 126 of them.
How many DVD's does Anirudh have?

0 votes

Thornbury Round Table have an odd number of fireworks for their display, less than one thousand.
The sum of the digits in the number of fireworks is thirteen, the hundreds digit being twice the value of the ones digit.
How many fireworks does the organisation have altogether?

...