Shah's Quiz Corner 223

QUIZ CORNER (\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_ 1. A CUTE CALL: What is that nine-letter word that can be found by rearragning the letters in this anagram?
2. Three Fat Ladies: Agatha, Betty and Cathy are old spinsters living in a top floor apartment of an old building that has a small elevator (lift) that can take the weight of maximum 355 lbs. These ladies are so fat that only one of them can go by the lift. Agatha and Betty together weigh 25 lbs more than the lift's capacity. Agatha and Cathy together weigh 30 lbs and Betty and Cathy together weigh 15 lbs more than the capacity. So Agatha and Cathy decide to reduce weight and in one month Agatha loses 35 lbs and Cathy loses 20 lbs but Betty gains 5 lbs. Now any two ladies can use the elevator together. But Betty is advised not to gain any more weight, as She and Cathy together weigh exactly 355 lbs, which is the maximum capacity of the elevator. Can you work out the individual weights of the ladies?
3. google is a popular search engine for surfers. But what are Googol and googolplex?
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1. Calculate
2. Agath weighed 200 lbs but reduced that to 165.
   Betty weighed 180 but now she weighs 185 lbs.
   Cathy weighed 185 lbs but reduced to 170 lbas.
3. Googol is the largest number named. When you add 100 zeros
   to the numeral 1 you get a googol. It is also written as
   the number 10 raised to the power 100 (10'100). The term
   is believed to have been coined at the age of nine by
   Milton Sirotta, nephew of Edward Kasner (1878-1955), American
mathematician.
   Googolplex is the number 10 raised to the power googol,
   written out as the numeral 1 followed by 10'100 zeros.
   It is believed that it would take ages to write the
   number of zeros and no one has able to do that!