March 10, 2009

Date of birth puzzle



Ninu was born on 3rd march 1980. Mini was born 4 days before nenu.
The Republic Day of that year fell on a saturday.
Then Mini's birthday was on

(a) Sunday
(b)Monday
(c)Friday
(d)Tuesday

10 comments:

  1. Republic Day is 26 Jan. 26 Jan 1980 was a Saturday. 1980 was a leap year with 29 Feb being a Friday.

    Ninu was born on 3 Mar 1980 which was a Monday. Mini was born 4 days before Nenu(?). If Nenu is a third person then there is insufficient information to solve this puzzle. If Nenu=Ninu then she was born on a Thursday.

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  2. answer is tuesday

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  3. its based on concept of calender.
    so as a form of intellectual charity let me xplain it.
    the birthday falls on 28th.
    26th jan is saturday.
    26 jan to 28th feb = 33 days.
    every 7th day on 26th feb will b sat. n so 28th day's sat.
    n so the 33rd day is Friday.
    god bless.
    (the leap yr. funda not needed)

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  4. By your own opening statement, this is reckoned by the calendar. I assume you refer to the widely accepted Gregorian calendar and not the Julian or something even more obscure.

    If you actually took the time to have a look at the calendar for 1980, you will see that the date you correctly calculated (Feb 28) is actually a Thursday, as per my answer back in March.

    The fact that 1980 is a leap year is indeed relevant because the extra day (Feb 29) changes which date is 4 days before March 3.

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  5. Friday. Hate Rebecca blacks song Friday it came it to mind when I guess the right answer.

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  6. It's Thursday...

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