FUN WITH MATHEMATICS
BRAIN-TEASERS
PUZZLES & RIDDLES
In a pizza restaurant, you can get a basic pizza with two toppings: cheese and tomato. You can also make up your own pizza with extra toppings. You can choose from four different extra toppings: olives, ham, mushrooms and salami. Ross wants to order a pizza with two different extra toppings. How many different combinations can Ross choose from?
Answer: ________________ combinations.
SOLUTION
Answer: ________________
6 combinations.
To complete one set of bookshelves a carpenter needs the following components:4 long wooden panels, 6 short wooden panels, 12 small clips, 2 large clips and14 screws. The carpenter has in stock 26 long wooden panels, 33 short wooden panels, 200 small clips, 20 large clips and 510 screws.
How many sets of bookshelves can the carpenter make?
Answer:________________
Answer: _______________
5
From a basket of mangoes when counted in twos there was one extra, counted in threes there were two extra, counted in fours there were three extra, counted in fives there were four extra, counted in sixes there were five extra. But counted in sevens there were no extra. Atleast how many mangoes were there in the basket?
Answer: _______
119
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