Monday, February 22, 2010

Brain Teaser - 5



Hardware Store

A woman strolls into a hardware store.
She approaches a clerk and asks : "What is the cost of each item?"
The clerk replies : "Each item costs twenty-five cents".

She answers :"I'll take one hundred".
The clerk charges her seventy-five cents.

Question : What did she buy?

Answer to BT-4:"You divide Rs.527 (in whole Rs. increments) into 10 bags as follows: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ... , 256, 16. " ; answer to BT-5 in BT-6

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