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Mindbender

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A: Andy was looking at the old grandfathe­r clock. "It's a beauty," he said. "But that's not the right time. I make it exactly nine now."

"Well, it gains a lot, but less than twelve hours a day, and that doesn't worry me," Paul replied. "At six this morning, it said ten and struck one, and at ten it said three and struck five. It is quite consistent, however, so what would you expect at midnight tonight?"

You say!

B: "Was that your new maths teacher you were talking to?" Greg asked. "She looked a bit young, is she in her twenties?"

Betty smiled. "That's right, Dad, and she's lots of fun. Today she told us her age is one less than four times the product of its digits. That's our homework."

How old?

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