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There are 2 Threads which are uneven although their lengths. Each will burn for 60 minutes. You need to calculate 45 minutes using both those threads. You had no watch or anything, just only the threads and the match box

  
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RE: There are 2 Threads which are uneven although thei...
take the both threads and burn one of the threads on two sides and the other only on one side simultaneously however the thread burning on two ends take 30 min to complete by the time half of the lenght is burned for 2 thread now strat brning at the other end of 2 thread it will take 15 min hence 45 min is caluclated
 
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