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Make a Century
There are eleven different ways of writing 100 in the
form of mixed numbers using all the nine digits once
and only once. Ten of the ways have two figures in the
integral part of the number, but the eleventh expre-
ssion has only one figure there.
Can you find all the eleven expressions?
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The Perplexed Postal Clerk
M, 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 5
paise stamps.’
The bewildered Shuba thought for a few moments
and finally she handed over the exact fulfilment of the
order to the man—with a smile.
How would you have handled the situation?
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