Hi Meet... Initially, when the book was published, this particular puzzle had received some criticism even from native English speakers. But then they had to agree with it. Just forget about the grammar or any English related stuff.... lets think logically. There are only entities which can be referred by "as many minutes"..... they are... either 50 minutes (which was just addressed), or X minutes (which is about to be addressed)..... Now consider the duration from 3:00 till (Now-50) as.... either 4x50.... or 4X. The former of the two (4x50) can be eliminated instantly, because 200 minutes past 3 would mean 6:20. The only strong candidate for this comparison is X. Anyways, my intention was to clarify the confusion/ambiguity of this problem, because who ever had ever attempted this problem in past, is likely to still have the confusion.
@@LOGICALLYYOURS I agree but what I mean is this kind of puzzles are far worse than those which have very clear language yet very challenging. They involve real beauty. For example take this puzzle Every point of the plane is colored red or blue. Show that there exists a rectangle with vertices of the same color. Generalize to n different colour. You know that the problem statement is true but you need clever insights to actually prove it
You are right. But it's inherently the nature of a puzzle to play with words. In a mathematical sense it's completely bs but as a puzzle it's outstanding.
Well language may be tough or ambiguous but I was still able to understand and solve the problem. Because there was no other interpretation of this puzzle hence after reading 3 times I was able to understand the question
The puzzle is not wrong it is ambiguous. Because as many minutes can mean the ‘50 minutes’ or it can mean the minutes which is remaining to 6 o’clock. So if we consider it as the 50 minutes then 4×50 minutes will be 200 minutes which is well past 6 o’clock if we count from 3 o’clock so based on this logic we eliminate the possibility that ‘as many minutes’ is ‘50 minutes’ and hence we consider the minutes to be with reference to the remaining minutes from now till 6 o’clock and then we can solve it easily.
Exactly. I actually got the right answer 26. But I had to assume what puzzle wants to ask. And luckily I assumed it right. Incorrectly asked puzzle can never be a good puzzle.
It's quite easy to see that four times as many must refer to the 50 minutes and not to the minutes remaining until 6 o'clock. Just rephrase. "Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock, what time is it now?" If the puzzle is presented as such, then there is no mention of 6 o'clock, and this would be okay. The puzzle means 50 minutes ago it was 200 minutes past 3, so now it's 250 minutes past 3, which is 7:10, which is 650 minutes (10 minutes shy of 11 hours!) from the next time 6 o'clock shows up.
I would suggest that there is an intrinsic ambiguity in the phrasing and that one may as reasonably construe the value sought (let us call it y) to be that number of minutes past 3:00 such that fifty minutes ago is was four times as many minutes past 2:00. Under this reading, y+10=4y, yielding the time of 3:03:20, whence one concludes that the time until 6:00 will be 176:40, or 176 complete minutes and change. Obviously, this is not so tidy a solution as you give, but it seems equally coherent to me.
I agree with this method but not with 2:00 as it states directly 3:00. fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past 3:00. I assumed the four times as many minutes was in regards to NOW. So like Thomas says above yield a time of 4:03:20 minus 50 minutes = 3:13:20 (13:20 ÷ 4 = 03:20) so the time to 6:00 is 116:40
Why is the puzzle interpreted as 4x the number of minutes "until 6" and not 4x the number of minutes it is past the hour "now"? Edit: This, to me, is why the question is poorly worded. I'll explain. Because you are referencing "50 minutes ago", you are talking about the time it is *now*. There is another typo in your video, and that is the omission of the first comma offsetting the dependent clause. However, what's left is completely nonsensical - "50 minutes ago, how many minutes is it to six o'clock?" This is not just poor English, it is absolute rubbish. "If, 50 minutes ago, it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock *as it is past the hour now*, how many minutes is it to six o'clock?" is the only way I can get this puzzle to make grammatical sense. So the question is either worded terribly or people are interpreting it incorrectly. When you're talking about a word puzzle, the usage of English is just as valid as any mathematics that may be involved because that is how you determine your parameters. If Shakuntala Devi indeed had a genius level IQ and was skilled in both mathematics and as a writer, something like this is unlikely to have gone unnoticed. So either interpreting the sentence correctly is part of the puzzle itself, (in which case the answer is 50 minutes), or she left it purposefully vague with more than one correct possible answer. Also, consider the beautiful symmetry involved in this logic of the "50 minutes" answer. It seems like the kind of puzzle you would create in the moment. 'It's now 50 minutes until six. What time was it 50 minutes ago?' Did she ever reveal her answer before she died? I find it incredibly difficult to believe that someone with that level of intelligence would have overlooked such a glaring grammatical error, but if she ever declared a definitive answer, then my assumption is overruled.
I salute Shakuntala Devi,she is proud for India in the feild of mathematics,I love maths ,I took seminar in my graduation on some puzzles of Shakuntala devi
Your puzzles are interesting. I also felt this Shakuntala devil's puzzle seems to be confusingly worded till you clarified. Good service, we sharpen our intellect
Ammar. This puzzle is asked or worded incorrectly. It should have been clearly mentioned that 50 minutes ago it was 4 times as many minutes past 3 as it is to 6 now. From the question worded as it was, this wasn't clear at all. Once that is clear, it's very easy to figure out the answer.
Well language may be tough or ambiguous but I was still able to understand and solve the problem. Because there was no other interpretation of this puzzle, hence after reading 3 times I was able to understand the question and solve it within minute.
Sir I got your point but where i feel not being on the same page is as follows I think that "past 3 o'clock" refer as Let's take a scenario when we say 5 minutes past 5 it means 5:05, so here also applying the same concept "as many minutes past 3 o' clock" means 3:X ( let's suppose as many minutes be equals to "X" minutes) so that makes a difference because that in turn ends with an equation 10+5x=240 Let me expalian How As said 50 minutes ago and we are not provided with any particular information that says anything like 50 minutes back also we are somewhat past 3 o' clock so i take a random reference point as 2 o' so till 3 it's 60 minutes past according to question suppose X minutes are passed as of current time so in such position we have 2 cases either the X >50 or X< 50 minutes so get to the time 50 minutes ago we subtract X from 50 ie "50-X" If that comes to be negative value then surely the time that is referred to be 50 minutes ago was somewhat past 3 o' clock and if that's positive the definitely the time we are refering to is before 3 o' clock so we subtract this from 60 minutes as our reference is 2 o' clock so we come up with 60-(50-x) Now it's the time if added with 4 times X will end up 6 o' clock So 6 o' clock from our initial reference will be 4*60 minutes that is 240 minutes hence equating the equation we get 60-(50-X)+4*X=240 10+5X=240 X=46 minutes And it varifies well with the question statement Now we have our current time as 3:46 So it's 134 minutes to 6 o' clock
Hi Ayush, I'll reply to your comment again after careful analysis.... but I quickly went through it, and I have observed something in your approach that is wrong.... Fifty minutes ago... would mean, from now we should traverse 50 minutes back in past and mark this point (say t)... if it was (means at 't') SOME VALUE as many minutes past 3 o'... So we must consider the minutes that passed from 3 o' till point 't'. My concern with your comment is, why did you consider any time instance before 3 o'....
I thought 4 times of current min value. So I came up with below solution Current time : 5:10 50 mins ago = 4:20 4 times current min value i.e 20 *4=80 mins, past 3:00 --> 4:20 how many to 6:00 --> 50 mins as current time as 5:10
This one is easy but it takes minimum around 1.5 to 2 minutes to both understand and solve the problem.So post if there are anymore fast solving techniques plz
I don't think its the beauty of the puzzle but it is confusion created by wrong format of sentence. Beauty is that there can be various correct answers according to how each person perceive the sentence. One can say with logic that 50 min ago if it was --- means the time in clock was 4 times as many min passed 3 O' clock. Now if min passed after 3:00 is 60 min ie 1 hr then 4 times it is 4:00 which is the time on clock after 1 hr. So beauty lies in various answers how one perceives it.Otherwise the so called correct answer given does not match with the grammer of the sentence and only to fool . If I know the answer I can bend the meaning of the sentence to reach to it.
@@chessandmathguy yes it just depends on how we interpret the sentence.. imagine getting this question in exam and having both 650 and the ans given in video as options
Very nice puzzle 😋, tricky part is to know the starting point from where we have to do four times , and i took it from 12 o' clock that gives me answer : 70 minutes Really a very nice puzzle , your explanations are very perfect and awesome 🥰 Please upload atleast one puzzle a week 😉 I love your videos ❤️
I think as many minutes in first statement is not related to final statement how many minutes? So for this question we can have more than one answers . Everything is same whatever u told except the last one where time from now to 6:00 is X. We can take it Y . So we need to solve eqn 4*X+50+Y = 180 minutes where we can have infinitely many solutions for solving it. One could be if X= 1 we can have Y= 126 min , in that case we will have Now timings as 3:54 and 126 minutes are left to have 6 o clock.
Logically yours I am a 9 th class student I am unable to solve mathematical puzzles . I want to know that my math is weak .or u r using higher class maths.please give advice to me.
In this case, it isn't that your math is weak, it's that the sentence is structured to be grammatically backward. As it is written, the puzzle is asking "If now is 250 minutes past 3 o'clock, how many more minutes is it to 6 o'clock?" The reason is because "fifty minutes ago" is the term that would be multiplied when using proper grammar, so the "four times as many" minutes would total (50*4)+50, or 50*5, which is 250. 250 minutes past 3 o'clock is 4 hours and 10 minutes later, or 7:10. Therefore, the answer demanded by the grammar used in the original question is 10 hours and 50 minutes to all the way back around the clock to 6 again, or 650 minutes.
Your answer is wrong: 50 minutes ago if it was 4 times 50 (as many minutes) past 3 o clock. As in its 4*50 +50 mins past 3 o clcok = 7:10 right now. So its 70 mins from 6 o clock backward or 650 mins forward to 6 o clock
At first I also thought that its multiple of 50. But the current time has to be in between 3 and 6 o'clock. Then realized I was barking up the wrong tree
@@mohammedzubair8618 It does not define that it must be 6 o'clock within the same half of a day or even the same day. ANY time is between 3 o'clock and 6 o'clock. It is 2pm for me right now. 3 o'clock was 11 hours ago, 6 o'clock is in 4 hours.
206 minutes Actually I took now before 3 pm , this made the question to be correct so I think now is before 3 pm and that's why my answer is 180+26=206 minutes
Hi Vinit... sure I will. In fact I have already planned for this. I'll share a complete tutorial video on how to make such puzzles or any other topic videos.
Ambiguous question. Without providing the complete data , you phrase a question in the second part and ask us to derive the data from the second part. How should we treat it ? Question or Data ? It is a simple puzzle buy for the ambiguity.
I got to the correct answer but the question is completely wrong. It should read "If 50 minutes ago it was 4 times as many minutes after 3 o'clock as it is now to 6 o'clock then how many minutes to 6 o'clock is it now?". What the original question is asking is that if 50 minutes ago it was 4 times as many (4*50) minutes past 3 o'clock then how many minutes to 6 o'clock is it now. That answer would be that it is now 6:20 which is after 6 o'clock so technically it would then be 700 minutes to 6 o'clock (another 11 hours and 40 minutes away). So the confusing bit is the fact that the question is badly formulated.
104 minutes., I took it like that 50 minutes ago, if it was four times as many minutes past three o' clock for 6, then tell me from now how many minutes will be remaining for 6'o clock? I took it like that because when two phrases are repeated then u can omit one phrase assuming that it can be inferred from the meaning of sentence.
The question was poor. If she put "x" instead of "many minutes" then it will be ok.. The question doesn't shows that first part "many minutes" are same as second part "many minutes". Puzzle was very easy. No one can solve this puzzle because of that many minutes. And this is not confusion. This is totally wrong, no one can understand that two separate "many minutes" were same.
This puzzle is not tricky, but rather not worded correctly at all. As such, the answer provided is wrong. The statement can and SHOULD have been interpreted as 4x the value of 50. If this were on an actual math test, anybody answering anything other than 650 minutes would have failed the question.
I believe the question has grammatical issues and the question should have been "Fifty minutes ago if there were 4 times as many minutes past 3 o'clock as it is to 6 o'clock, how much time is left to 6 o'clock"
Sorry late to the video. I think your answer is wrong for this reason. Your 4 times past three is 4:44. The question references past 3 o’clock. I suggest that 50 minutes ago the time was 3:36 as 4 * 36 is 144 mins plus the 36 mins is 180 mins. So the current time is 3:36 plus 50 minutes which makes it 4:26 or 94 minutes until 6 o’clock...It is saying that some time past three o’clock (x) it will be 4x minutes until 6 o’clock and that time was 50 minutes ago so how many minutes is it now until 6 o’clock.
0:34.how I can read 10 times . Your timer goes faster then your words. You tell me pause 😂😂. Then why you use timer .😂😂 It's makes no sense like indian education system
Most of the viewers saying this..as bad question r grammatically wrong, honestly I think my english is even worst, but some how am able solved it with in 2,3 minutes.. there is nothing but remaining minutes to six to consider for calculation. Being Indians we are proud of Shakuntala Devi.... Very soon a movie also going to come based on her life.... I think this question is too small to judge her caliber...
Sorry to disappoint, but you're actually the one who is wrong. You can't argue against people who speak proper english if you don't fully speak it yourself.
"If 50 minutes ago it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock than it is now to 6 o'clock, then how many minutes is it now to 6 o'clock?" That would be a proper way to phrase the question your version is just an unitelligable mess!
Has anybody observed the spelling mistake in last screen? :)
Be honest ;)
Yes ,I observed
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@Bharathy Kumaran ... you also made a mistake in your comment :)
The actual mistake was "suSBcribe".
Oh.. no. But who cares🤪
For ur reply I have made it wrong
Mr. Ammar bro
I saw your comment before last screen 😋😋. So i identified.
It is not beauty in puzzle but all is ambiguity of english. I hardly think ambiguous puzzles are even puzzles.
Hi Meet... Initially, when the book was published, this particular puzzle had received some criticism even from native English speakers. But then they had to agree with it.
Just forget about the grammar or any English related stuff.... lets think logically.
There are only entities which can be referred by "as many minutes"..... they are... either 50 minutes (which was just addressed), or X minutes (which is about to be addressed)..... Now consider the duration from 3:00 till (Now-50) as.... either 4x50.... or 4X.
The former of the two (4x50) can be eliminated instantly, because 200 minutes past 3 would mean 6:20.
The only strong candidate for this comparison is X.
Anyways, my intention was to clarify the confusion/ambiguity of this problem, because who ever had ever attempted this problem in past, is likely to still have the confusion.
@@LOGICALLYYOURS I agree but what I mean is this kind of puzzles are far worse than those which have very clear language yet very challenging. They involve real beauty.
For example take this puzzle
Every point of the plane is colored red or blue. Show that there exists a rectangle
with vertices of the same color. Generalize to n different colour. You know that the problem statement is true but you need clever insights to actually prove it
You are right. But it's inherently the nature of a puzzle to play with words. In a mathematical sense it's completely bs but as a puzzle it's outstanding.
Well language may be tough or ambiguous but I was still able to understand and solve the problem.
Because there was no other interpretation of this puzzle hence after reading 3 times I was able to understand the question
@@LOGICALLYYOURS if you go past 6 o clock, there's another 6 o clock in 12 hours
I think that the sentence is grammatically wrong
It's ambiguous. That's why it has no solution.
Yes, the question in itself does not make any sense..
The sentence works, but it means that fifty minutes ago, it was two hundred minutes after 3. Four times as many means four times as many as fifty.
The puzzle is not wrong it is ambiguous. Because as many minutes can mean the ‘50 minutes’ or it can mean the minutes which is remaining to 6 o’clock. So if we consider it as the 50 minutes then 4×50 minutes will be 200 minutes which is well past 6 o’clock if we count from 3 o’clock so based on this logic we eliminate the possibility that ‘as many minutes’ is ‘50 minutes’ and hence we consider the minutes to be with reference to the remaining minutes from now till 6 o’clock and then we can solve it easily.
Exactly. I actually got the right answer 26. But I had to assume what puzzle wants to ask. And luckily I assumed it right. Incorrectly asked puzzle can never be a good puzzle.
It's quite easy to see that four times as many must refer to the 50 minutes and not to the minutes remaining until 6 o'clock. Just rephrase. "Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock, what time is it now?"
If the puzzle is presented as such, then there is no mention of 6 o'clock, and this would be okay. The puzzle means 50 minutes ago it was 200 minutes past 3, so now it's 250 minutes past 3, which is 7:10, which is 650 minutes (10 minutes shy of 11 hours!) from the next time 6 o'clock shows up.
Honestly,I watched this video not to find the answer,but to understand the question itself.
I would suggest that there is an intrinsic ambiguity in the phrasing and that one may as reasonably construe the value sought (let us call it y) to be that number of minutes past 3:00 such that fifty minutes ago is was four times as many minutes past 2:00. Under this reading, y+10=4y, yielding the time of 3:03:20, whence one concludes that the time until 6:00 will be 176:40, or 176 complete minutes and change. Obviously, this is not so tidy a solution as you give, but it seems equally coherent to me.
I agree with this method but not with 2:00 as it states directly 3:00. fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past 3:00. I assumed the four times as many minutes was in regards to NOW. So like Thomas says above yield a time of 4:03:20 minus 50 minutes = 3:13:20 (13:20 ÷ 4 = 03:20) so the time to 6:00 is 116:40
Why is the puzzle interpreted as 4x the number of minutes "until 6" and not 4x the number of minutes it is past the hour "now"? Edit: This, to me, is why the question is poorly worded. I'll explain. Because you are referencing "50 minutes ago", you are talking about the time it is *now*. There is another typo in your video, and that is the omission of the first comma offsetting the dependent clause. However, what's left is completely nonsensical - "50 minutes ago, how many minutes is it to six o'clock?" This is not just poor English, it is absolute rubbish. "If, 50 minutes ago, it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock *as it is past the hour now*, how many minutes is it to six o'clock?" is the only way I can get this puzzle to make grammatical sense. So the question is either worded terribly or people are interpreting it incorrectly. When you're talking about a word puzzle, the usage of English is just as valid as any mathematics that may be involved because that is how you determine your parameters. If Shakuntala Devi indeed had a genius level IQ and was skilled in both mathematics and as a writer, something like this is unlikely to have gone unnoticed. So either interpreting the sentence correctly is part of the puzzle itself, (in which case the answer is 50 minutes), or she left it purposefully vague with more than one correct possible answer. Also, consider the beautiful symmetry involved in this logic of the "50 minutes" answer. It seems like the kind of puzzle you would create in the moment. 'It's now 50 minutes until six. What time was it 50 minutes ago?' Did she ever reveal her answer before she died? I find it incredibly difficult to believe that someone with that level of intelligence would have overlooked such a glaring grammatical error, but if she ever declared a definitive answer, then my assumption is overruled.
@@subhampathak6141 Rereading my comment, I was far too upset about this. Lol Your explanation is the most likely answer. 😂
Was your answer 94 minutes?
This puzzle would be super easy if the question was asked properly. I can make any statement difficult if I say it wrong!
bruh
I salute Shakuntala Devi,she is proud for India in the feild of mathematics,I love maths ,I took seminar in my graduation on some puzzles of Shakuntala devi
Very confusing question 🤪
And Ur explanation is simply ... BEAUTIFUL...
Your puzzles are interesting. I also felt this Shakuntala devil's puzzle seems to be confusingly worded till you clarified. Good service, we sharpen our intellect
Ammar. This puzzle is asked or worded incorrectly. It should have been clearly mentioned that 50 minutes ago it was 4 times as many minutes past 3 as it is to 6 now. From the question worded as it was, this wasn't clear at all. Once that is clear, it's very easy to figure out the answer.
Very nice Amar...
You explain every riddle in so simple manner...
Thanks Ajay :)
Well language may be tough or ambiguous but I was still able to understand and solve the problem.
Because there was no other interpretation of this puzzle, hence after reading 3 times I was able to understand the question and solve it within minute.
I took it differently. Four times as many minutes means four times the current minutes. For example if the current time is 05:23 then 4*23
Beautifully explained in simple terms. Hats off Ammar great going. Looking forward to enjoy
interesting puzzles.
Sir I got your point but where i feel not being on the same page is as follows
I think that "past 3 o'clock" refer as
Let's take a scenario when we say 5 minutes past 5 it means 5:05, so here also applying the same concept "as many minutes past 3 o' clock" means 3:X ( let's suppose as many minutes be equals to "X" minutes) so that makes a difference because that in turn ends with an equation 10+5x=240
Let me expalian How
As said 50 minutes ago and we are not provided with any particular information that says anything like 50 minutes back also we are somewhat past 3 o' clock so i take a random reference point as 2 o' so till 3 it's 60 minutes past according to question suppose X minutes are passed as of current time so in such position we have 2 cases either the X >50 or X< 50 minutes so get to the time 50 minutes ago we subtract X from 50 ie "50-X"
If that comes to be negative value then surely the time that is referred to be 50 minutes ago was somewhat past 3 o' clock and if that's positive the definitely the time we are refering to is before 3 o' clock so we subtract this from 60 minutes as our reference is 2 o' clock so we come up with 60-(50-x)
Now it's the time if added with 4 times X will end up 6 o' clock
So 6 o' clock from our initial reference will be 4*60 minutes that is 240 minutes hence equating the equation we get 60-(50-X)+4*X=240
10+5X=240
X=46 minutes
And it varifies well with the question statement
Now we have our current time as 3:46
So it's 134 minutes to 6 o' clock
Hi Ayush, I'll reply to your comment again after careful analysis.... but I quickly went through it, and I have observed something in your approach that is wrong....
Fifty minutes ago... would mean, from now we should traverse 50 minutes back in past and mark this point (say t)...
if it was (means at 't') SOME VALUE as many minutes past 3 o'... So we must consider the minutes that passed from 3 o' till point 't'.
My concern with your comment is, why did you consider any time instance before 3 o'....
I solve it in my mind... After 3 days.
that was a mind scratching puzzle..😂 awsomeee.. loved it
I thought 4 times of current min value. So I came up with below solution
Current time : 5:10
50 mins ago = 4:20
4 times current min value i.e 20 *4=80 mins, past 3:00 --> 4:20
how many to 6:00 --> 50 mins as current time as 5:10
This is exactly how I interpreted it, too.
What if the current time is 3-50
it was very simple.
180 -50 =130
4 times as many it means divide by 5 = 26
This one is easy but it takes minimum around 1.5 to 2 minutes to both understand and solve the problem.So post if there are anymore fast solving techniques plz
I think the reference should be 00:00 hours. It sounds logical.
I don't think its the beauty of the puzzle but it is confusion created by wrong format of sentence. Beauty is that there can be various correct answers according to how each person perceive the sentence. One can say with logic that 50 min ago if it was --- means the time in clock was 4 times as many min passed 3 O' clock. Now if min passed after 3:00 is 60 min ie 1 hr then 4 times it is 4:00 which is the time on clock after 1 hr. So beauty lies in various answers how one perceives it.Otherwise the so called correct answer given does not match with the grammer of the sentence and only to fool . If I know the answer I can bend the meaning of the sentence to reach to it.
its great puzzle, really confusing one
yeah i m a 10 year kid i saw your video yerstaday and solved today it was too stressting the day but finnaly with help of my father
It's like someone is doing
++a+b++-a++-b++ in coding
Unreadable = poor coding.
Hence this question
Did anyone else came up with ans 650 min😅. I thought it was 4 times 50
Same
The sentence DOES mean 4 times 50 if we interpret it literally, which we should. And yeah, 650 minutes lol.
@@chessandmathguy yes it just depends on how we interpret the sentence.. imagine getting this question in exam and having both 650 and the ans given in video as options
Amazing....
This question should be age restricted 😅
Very nice puzzle 😋, tricky part is to know the starting point from where we have to do four times , and i took it from 12 o' clock that gives me answer : 70 minutes
Really a very nice puzzle , your explanations are very perfect and awesome 🥰
Please upload atleast one puzzle a week 😉
I love your videos ❤️
Many thanks Kunal... I will certainly try my best to really upload at least once a week.
@@LOGICALLYYOURS thank you so much ❤️💓💖
I think as many minutes in first statement is not related to final statement how many minutes?
So for this question we can have more than one answers .
Everything is same whatever u told except the last one where time from now to 6:00 is X. We can take it Y . So we need to solve eqn 4*X+50+Y = 180 minutes where we can have infinitely many solutions for solving it.
One could be if X= 1 we can have Y= 126 min , in that case we will have Now timings as 3:54 and 126 minutes are left to have 6 o clock.
Logically yours I am a 9 th class student I am unable to solve mathematical puzzles . I want to know that my math is weak .or u r using higher class maths.please give advice to me.
In this case, it isn't that your math is weak, it's that the sentence is structured to be grammatically backward. As it is written, the puzzle is asking "If now is 250 minutes past 3 o'clock, how many more minutes is it to 6 o'clock?" The reason is because "fifty minutes ago" is the term that would be multiplied when using proper grammar, so the "four times as many" minutes would total (50*4)+50, or 50*5, which is 250. 250 minutes past 3 o'clock is 4 hours and 10 minutes later, or 7:10. Therefore, the answer demanded by the grammar used in the original question is 10 hours and 50 minutes to all the way back around the clock to 6 again, or 650 minutes.
Bro I had completed seeing all ur videos pls update with some more quizzes
Your answer is wrong: 50 minutes ago if it was 4 times 50 (as many minutes) past 3 o clock. As in its 4*50 +50 mins past 3 o clcok = 7:10 right now. So its 70 mins from 6 o clock backward or 650 mins forward to 6 o clock
At first I also thought that its multiple of 50. But the current time has to be in between 3 and 6 o'clock.
Then realized I was barking up the wrong tree
Bruh.. I too got the same before understanding the question..
@@mohammedzubair8618 It does not define that it must be 6 o'clock within the same half of a day or even the same day. ANY time is between 3 o'clock and 6 o'clock. It is 2pm for me right now. 3 o'clock was 11 hours ago, 6 o'clock is in 4 hours.
Didn't understand the question itself😅(Grammatically improper) so no chance of accurate answer
Nice video
i think the question is just that bad. bad puzzle.
Yeah make sense🙌
206 minutes
Actually I took now before 3 pm , this made the question to be correct so I think now is before 3 pm and that's why my answer is 180+26=206 minutes
nice brain exercise
Super
Sir, Can You Also Advice About How You Make Your Videos 🙂
Hi Vinit... sure I will.
In fact I have already planned for this. I'll share a complete tutorial video on how to make such puzzles or any other topic videos.
Nice one man....
Ambiguous question. Without providing the complete data , you phrase a question in the second part and ask us to derive the data from the second part. How should we treat it ? Question or Data ? It is a simple puzzle buy for the ambiguity.
I got to the correct answer but the question is completely wrong. It should read "If 50 minutes ago it was 4 times as many minutes after 3 o'clock as it is now to 6 o'clock then how many minutes to 6 o'clock is it now?". What the original question is asking is that if 50 minutes ago it was 4 times as many (4*50) minutes past 3 o'clock then how many minutes to 6 o'clock is it now. That answer would be that it is now 6:20 which is after 6 o'clock so technically it would then be 700 minutes to 6 o'clock (another 11 hours and 40 minutes away). So the confusing bit is the fact that the question is badly formulated.
Arduous question
Sir please do more puzzles of shakuntala devi
Yes Keval.... I'll post several interesting puzzles of Shakuntala Devi
104 minutes., I took it like that 50 minutes ago, if it was four times as many minutes past three o' clock for 6, then tell me from now how many minutes will be remaining for 6'o clock?
I took it like that because when two phrases are repeated then u can omit one phrase assuming that it can be inferred from the meaning of sentence.
I did it....
Puzzles are not puzzle if it’s purpose is to confuse the puzzle taker with broken or confusing English.
The question was poor.
If she put "x" instead of "many minutes" then it will be ok..
The question doesn't shows that first part "many minutes" are same as second part "many minutes".
Puzzle was very easy. No one can solve this puzzle because of that many minutes. And this is not confusion. This is totally wrong, no one can understand that two separate "many minutes" were same.
Sir my answer cam to be 134 minutes..
When well you post your next new video
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This puzzle is not tricky, but rather not worded correctly at all. As such, the answer provided is wrong. The statement can and SHOULD have been interpreted as 4x the value of 50. If this were on an actual math test, anybody answering anything other than 650 minutes would have failed the question.
I believe the question has grammatical issues and the question should have been
"Fifty minutes ago if there were 4 times as many minutes past 3 o'clock as it is to 6 o'clock, how much time is left to 6 o'clock"
Yes this one is easy
Sorry late to the video. I think your answer is wrong for this reason. Your 4 times past three is 4:44. The question references past 3 o’clock. I suggest that 50 minutes ago the time was 3:36 as 4 * 36 is 144 mins plus the 36 mins is 180 mins. So the current time is 3:36 plus 50 minutes which makes it 4:26 or 94 minutes until 6 o’clock...It is saying that some time past three o’clock (x) it will be 4x minutes until 6 o’clock and that time was 50 minutes ago so how many minutes is it now until 6 o’clock.
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It’s a post-modernist logic puzzle.
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the english though so hard I'm Indonesian struggled with that english
it is not a Maths test, it is a English test.
Yes spelling mistake in subscribe
Got it wrong, again.
I didn't understand sentence
I thought this statement has been given after drunk.
0:34.how I can read 10 times .
Your timer goes faster then your words.
You tell me pause 😂😂.
Then why you use timer .😂😂
It's makes no sense like indian education system
Not a good puzzle at all. Only full of ambiguity
Most of the viewers saying this..as bad question r grammatically wrong, honestly I think my english is even worst, but some how am able solved it with in 2,3 minutes.. there is nothing but remaining minutes to six to consider for calculation. Being Indians we are proud of Shakuntala Devi.... Very soon a movie also going to come based on her life.... I think this question is too small to judge her caliber...
Sorry to disappoint, but you're actually the one who is wrong. You can't argue against people who speak proper english if you don't fully speak it yourself.
No. Learn grammar.
Oh.. I see that you should be an English major too to solve these type of puzzles.. except that.. this isn't a puzzle at all😐
🙏 brain fry
Count no: of balls....
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"If 50 minutes ago it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock than it is now to 6 o'clock, then how many minutes is it now to 6 o'clock?" That would be a proper way to phrase the question your version is just an unitelligable mess!
I got it i am new here i usually do Ted riddles but this was fun and plz keep uploading