Five clocks show different times. One is 15 minutes fast, one is 10 minutes fast, one is 5 minutes slow and one is 10 minutes slow. Only one shows the correct time. Which clock is correct?
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In an online game, each player starts with 10 points and answers 10 questions. A correct answer adds 1 point and a wrong answer subtracts 1 point. Mr Smith finishes with 14 points. How many answers did he get wrong?
Anna has 9 pieces of paper. She chooses some pieces and tears each into 3 smaller pieces. She ends with 15 pieces altogether. How many pieces did she tear?
In a quiz, a correct answer to the first question earns one sweet. Starting with question 2, each correct answer triples the sweets currently held; a wrong answer loses as many sweets as the question number. Nam stops after answering question 6. He answered question 4 incorrectly. He then exchanges all his sweets for oranges at a rate of 5 sweets per orange. How many oranges does Nam finally have?
The boy weighs 41 kg. He holds weights of 5 kg and 3 kg and stands on two scales, as shown.
The first scale reads 23 kg. What does the second scale read?
The number 2018 and the digits from 0 to 9 are written in the “8-segment” style shown below. Using the same total number of segments as in 2018, make the largest possible new number. What is its leftmost digit?
A book has pages numbered consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, … . The digit 5 occurs exactly 16 times in the page numbers. What is the greatest possible number of pages?