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Question:-
You have two very hungry termites and two sticks of wood.
One stick of wood is 12 inches long and the other is 16 inches long.
One termite can eat sticks at the rate of 1 inch every 3 minutes. The other termite can eat 1 inch in 4 minutes.
How would you use the termites and sticks to measure 61 minutes?

You need to be some strong in your basics to solve this puzzle.

Put some pressure on your brains and try to apply some permutation combination methods

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HINT :- Start from the slow eating termite eating the Longer Stick and then move ahead with fast moving termite.

If you are still not able to solve it, here is the Solution.

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Answer :-
Start the slow termite eating the longer stick.
It will take the slow termite 16 minutes to eat the 4 inches that will make the sticks the same size.
When the sticks are the same size, start the fast termite on the other stick.
This termite will finish his 12 inch stick in 36 minutes.
That’s 52 minutes elapsed so far and the slow termite still has 3 inches left on his stick.
Remove the slow termite and let the fast termite finish off the 3 inches in 9 minutes for a total of 61 minutes.

Easy ! Wasn’t it. We were able to solve it after we got the hint. Have you got any other solution, If you have please share it with us.