Have a look at the house plan at the right hand side, with five rooms and sixteen doors in total.
The intention is to make a run through the rooms and pass each of the sixteen doors exactly once.
Mr. Kothari runs a taxi service in
Ahmedabad. Every day, he travels from Ahmedabad to one nearby city and back.
All the cities are less than 100 km away from Ahmedabad. Everyday morning, Mr.
Kothari fills his car’s fuel tank to the brim. On a full tank, the car can
travel maximum 250 km. Unfortunately, Mr. Kothari forgot to fill his tank
today. What is the probability that he will run out of fuel during the day?
Using the digits 1 up to 9, two numbers must be made.
The product of these two numbers should be as large as possible.
All digits must be used exactly once.
What are these 2 numbers?
A carpet of size 10 by 10 meters should be placed in a room of size 12 by 9 meters. In the center of the room,
there is an aquarium of size 8 by 1 meters
(see the figure below).
The carpet should be cut into no more than two pieces (i.e. one cut in total).