A survey of India worker was taking the 2000 census in Behrampur distance of Orissa. It was a Wednesday in the second half of the year in the waxing moon phase right aftera major national festival. In one of the villages the worker intervewed a toothless old lady sitting in front of hut. The lady declared: My grand daughter is about as many days as my daughter is weeks, and my grand daughte is as many months as I am years. The three of us together are 140 years. The surveyor quickly took out her calculator and started punching in a few numbers to find the lady's age. Her calculator has a seven segment LCD displaye but she was puzzled to see the number so she did the calculations again, this time assuming 30 days in a month and 365 days in a year. This time the results were correct. Can you tell what did the calculator display showed, if you made the same assumptions?a)85 yearsb)83 yearsc)84 yearsd)86 years
doppalapudi sairam , 14 Years ago
Grade 11
