Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Thrissur, Kerala
CHILDREN'S CONTRIBUTIONS
1. How many times number 25 can be subtracted from the number 100?
2. When does 2 and 2 make more than 2?
3. Find the sum of the numbers from 1 to 50 without adding them or using any formula.
4. How can you make a total of 1000 by using only sixteen 4’s?
5. Which Roman number when read either from left or right is the same and the value is not changed?
Answers:
1. Only once, because when 25 is subtracted from 100, the remainder is 75.
2. when they make 22.
3. The sum is 1275, you have to arrange them in pairs, 1 and 50, 2 and 49, so on. The sum of each pair will be 51 and there will be 25 pairs. Therefore 51*25=1275
4. 444+444+44+44+4+4+4+4+4+4
5. XIX
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Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
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Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.