Five Fat Femmes

By

KT Rajagopal

The question:

I ran into five girls at the health club. They were Asha, Bina, Chitra, Diana and Esha. To say they were rather on the heavy side wuld be an understatement.

A little indiscreet on my part, I agree, but I asked them how much they weighed. They looked at each other, conferred and refused to tell me how much each of them weighed.

I knew that they were shy – and understandably so – to state their respective weights, but needed the information.

‘Well, tell me at least the combined weight of each of you with the other four separately.’ I pleaded.

So I had ten numbers with me: 160, 156, 161, 158, 155, 152, 157, 154, 150, 153.  If Chitra is the heaviest, how much does she weigh? (All weights are in kg.)

(a) 81           (b) 80           (c) 82           (d) 83           (e) 79    

Would you like a hint?

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