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    What speaks with one voice, yet walks on four feet in the morning,.

    Well it's actually more philosophy than puzzle. It's about a man's life. four feet in the morning: you walk on both arms and legs when you are a kid.(2legs+2 arms=4) two feet at noon: you walk on your legs only when you are young.(2legs only) three feet in the evening: You walk with a...
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    Undergrad Deserted Island Math Challenge: Solve for the Coconuts

    The number should be something which when divided by 2..10 gives remainder 1,2,3..9, right? That's LCM of (2,..10) -1
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    High School Iq 130+ simple but confusing brain teaser.

    You lose 100 $...imagine u lost the voucher(same as fake.) All u did is u borrowed 100$ from neighbour and repaid 100 $ to him again. All u lost was ur ring (70$) and additional 30 $. That makes a total loss of 100$
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    Undergrad Partitioning a Cube into Unequal Size Cubes: Can it be Done?

    not sure if i got your question
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    Undergrad Can a cube be cut in 27 smaller cubes in less than 6 cuts?

    I think you can do that in 3 ways..not counting repeatitions.. cube of 1, cube of 2*2*2 and a cube of 3*3*3
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    Undergrad Can a cube be cut in 27 smaller cubes in less than 6 cuts?

    In simple terms.. if you make a,b and c number of cuts along length,breadth and height , you'll have (a+1)*(b+1)*(c+1)=27. And for a+b+c to be minimum, the optimal solution is a=b=c .. and that leads to a=b=c=2. hence total number of 6 cuts. I don't think it can be better than this. But...