Mind Benders

Me cold's gone

Brains in gear again

Assuming recycled cups would be recycled in smaller quantities , I make that 375 to the last remaining cup.

Well done to myg, you’re showing your usual brilliant mind.
I have a slightly different answer.
My logic is that you would divide the original figure of 2,251 cups by 7.
Then you would divide the new figure by 7 and so on till there was no whole number below 7 left.
By that assumption and the assumption that you can’t include ‘part’ cups,
I have a figure of 372 cups, from the following.
321 + 45 + 6 = 372.
If you include ‘part’ cups, then I can get the figure to 374 or there abouts, depending on the number of decimal places used.
I include my answer not to challenge, but to say how I would solve the problem.
I may be wrong of course!!!!!! LOL.
Good to be back posting with you myg.

First recycle 321 and 4 left
Second recyle from 325 cups makes 46 and 3 left
3rd recycle from 49 cups makes 7
Last recycle makes 1

Spot on myg, I fully understand your logic.
I tend to over simplify or over complicate things, also I was mithered with fractionl left overs.
It’s the ‘remainder’ of cups after the division by 7 that made your answer correct.
Well done you.

Yes the answer is 375.  Well done

She's good in't she?. makes me feel like a thicko!!!!! LOL

Indeed RMJ.

An easy one

Which letter should appear next in this sequence?
B   F   J   P   ?

b f j p V

I think I may have amazed myself.

I was counting the number of letters between each successive letters and getting nowhere.

So I wrote the alphabet out horizontally, and it was obvious, each of the letters follows a vowel in sequence.

Clever RMJ.  Thats the one  V

Yay!!!!!!!

Clock A was correct at midnight.
From that moment it began to lose two and a half minutes per hour.
The clock stopped one hour ago showing clock B.
What is the correct time now? The clock runs for less than 24 hours.

Lolly wrote:Clock A was correct at midnight.
From that moment it began to lose two and a half minutes per hour.
The clock stopped one hour ago showing clock B.
What is the correct time now? The clock runs for less than 24 hours.

      18. 35 edit 19.35

Close but no Cigar

Lolly wrote:Close but no Cigar

18 54 . and 45 seconds

Closer

Lolly wrote:Clock A was correct at midnight.
From that moment it began to lose two and a half minutes per hour.
The clock stopped one hour ago showing clock B.
What is the correct time now? The clock runs for less than 24 hours.

Any takers before I post the answer?

The number of minutes lost in 17 hours is 17 x 2.5 = 42.5 = 42 min 30 secs
The number of minutes lost in 15 mins is 2.5 x 60 / 4 = 37.5 secs
Total time lost is 42m + 30s +37.5s = 43m 7.5s
The displayed time 1 hour ago was 17-15.
To 17h 15m add 43m 7.5s = 17h 58m 7.5s
But, the time was 1 hour ago, so add that on.

Actual time is 18-58 and 7.5 secs

I may be wrong of course.

My answer

19:00 (7 pm).

Seems I'm just over a second out

A man walks north for 3 miles
Then west for 4 miles
Then south for 1 mile
Then east for 2 miles
Then south for 2 miles
In which direction and for how far should he walk to return to his starting point?

E2

Go on I'll give it to you