How many minutes before 12 noon is it if 72 minutes ago it was twice as many minutes past 9 am?
Answer:
36 minutes
Monday, April 30, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Word link
Find two words, one from each list, closest in meaning or with the strongest
connection.
Answer:
1. B Purchase, E Acquisition; 2. A Recognition, D Acknowledgement; 3. B Liable, F
Accountable; 4. C Flexible, D Variable; 5. C Supplement, D Attachment; 6. B
Observe, E Respect; 7. C Adjoining, F Juxtaposed; 8. A Suspension, F Deferral; 9. C
Arbitrate, D Negotiate;
Ultimate Psychometric Tests: Over 1000 Verbal, Numerical, Diagrammatic and IQ Practice Tests (Ultimate Series)Answer:
1. B Purchase, E Acquisition; 2. A Recognition, D Acknowledgement; 3. B Liable, F
Accountable; 4. C Flexible, D Variable; 5. C Supplement, D Attachment; 6. B
Observe, E Respect; 7. C Adjoining, F Juxtaposed; 8. A Suspension, F Deferral; 9. C
Arbitrate, D Negotiate;
While checking his supplies, Cy Corncrib noticed something
interesting about his flour sacks. The sacks were
stacked three to a shelf and numbered one through nine.
On shelves one and three, he had a single sack next to a
pair of sacks, while the middle shelf held three sacks
grouped together. Now, if he multiplied the number on the
single sack (7), by the number on the pair next to it (28),
he got 196, the number on the middle sacks. However, if he
tried multiplying the numbers on the third shelf, (34) and
(5), he got 170.
Cy then came up with this problem: How do you rearrange
the sacks, with as few moves as possible, so that
when you multiply each pair by its single neighbor, you
will come up with a product equal to the number on the
middle shelf?
Answer:
On the first shelf exchange sacks (7) and (2). You now have a single sack (2) and a pair (78). Multiplied together we get 156. We then move single sack (5) and exchange it for sack (9) on the middle shelf. The total number on the middle shelf is now 156. Finally, we move sack (9) from the middle shelf down to shelf three, where it takes the place of sack (4) in the pair. Sack (4) is moved to the right, where it becomes the single sack. Now on shelf three we have (39) times (4), which gives us a product of 156. We did this by moving only five sacks.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Line One of Sonnet 46 (William Shakespeare)
Memorize the following single verse of Sonnet 46 by William Shakespeare:
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
If you have problem with memorizing it, read it; continue on reading it for 10 times, 20 times ... until it would be memorized. Just memorize it!
In a future post, if you would be asked to say Line One of Sonnet 46 by William Shakespeare, you should recall the above verse completely; i.e., you should say it from the memory!
Proverbs
Can you supply the beginning words of each of the following proverbs?
1. . . . catches the worm.
2. . . . number one.
3. . . . a bowl of cherries.
Answer:
1. The early bird catches the worm.
2. Watch out for number one.
3. Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Monday, April 16, 2012
John Cash
John Cash saw his face on a poster nailed to a tree. As he approached, he saw "WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE." Under his picture, it read "REWARD: DOLLARS."
There was a three-digit figure on the poster. John drew his Colt and shot at the first number (in the hundreds column).
He had just reduced the price on his head by five times. "Good Lord!" said the doctor's daughter, who was sitting on the other side of the tree doing her math homework.
John blushed, and shot again at another number (in the tens column). He had just reduced the price on his head by another five times.
"Nice shooting!" said the young girl.
"Thank you, miss," said John. He spurred his horse and never returned.
What was the initial reward offered on John's head?
Reference: Hard to Solve Brainteasers, Jaime & Lea Poniachik
There was a three-digit figure on the poster. John drew his Colt and shot at the first number (in the hundreds column).
He had just reduced the price on his head by five times. "Good Lord!" said the doctor's daughter, who was sitting on the other side of the tree doing her math homework.
John blushed, and shot again at another number (in the tens column). He had just reduced the price on his head by another five times.
"Nice shooting!" said the young girl.
"Thank you, miss," said John. He spurred his horse and never returned.
What was the initial reward offered on John's head?
Reference: Hard to Solve Brainteasers, Jaime & Lea Poniachik
The reward was 125 dollars. If you erase 1, you have 25 left, which is one fifth the original amount. If you erase 2, you have 5 left, which is one fifth of this amount. To get 125, find a two-digit number in which you can take the first digit off and the result is one fifth of the number. The only possible number is 25. 25 * 5 = 125.
How many students ...
Thirty-two students took a nationwide exam and all the students from New York passed it. If the students from New York made up exactly 5% of the total number of the students that passed the test, how many students passed it and how many students were from New York?
Reference: Quick-to-Solve Brainteasers, J.J. Mendoza Fernandez
Answer:
The number of passing grades is a whole number less than 32, and 5% of it is also a whole number. It can only be 20. If 20 is the number of passing grades, the number of students from New York that took the test is one.
Reference: Quick-to-Solve Brainteasers, J.J. Mendoza Fernandez
Answer:
The number of passing grades is a whole number less than 32, and 5% of it is also a whole number. It can only be 20. If 20 is the number of passing grades, the number of students from New York that took the test is one.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Picture One
Remember the following objects in Picture One.
In a future post, if you are asked to say the objects in Picture One, from the memory, you should say:
- Red Rose
- Blue Whale
- Green Eyes
The order in the above list is not important.
In a future post, if you are asked to say the objects in Picture One, from the memory, you should say:
- Red Rose
- Blue Whale
- Green Eyes
The order in the above list is not important.
Advertisement (Puzzle)
A small repertory company touring overseas, placed an advertisement in English in a small, foreign-language newspaper. Unfortunately the type became muddled, and the advertisement appeared thus:
ALBINO THEREAT
SERPENTS
THELMA NO GATES
ACHE THING - NET HARPS
(TON SEATER DYNAMO)
RATS: LARCHES INWARD
STARTLE: RIDING TURNIP
PROCURED: SINNED ADVISE
CREDITOR: MARGIN WANDERS
CRIPES FORM THERE HANDOUTS LIAR
Can you interpret the original message?
Answer:
Albion Theatre/Presents/Hamlet on stage/Each night - ten
sharp/CNot Easter MondayVStar: Charles Darwin/Starlet:
Ingrid Turpin/Producer: Dennis Davies/Director: Ingmar
Andrews/Prices from three thousand lira
ALBINO THEREAT
SERPENTS
THELMA NO GATES
ACHE THING - NET HARPS
(TON SEATER DYNAMO)
RATS: LARCHES INWARD
STARTLE: RIDING TURNIP
PROCURED: SINNED ADVISE
CREDITOR: MARGIN WANDERS
CRIPES FORM THERE HANDOUTS LIAR
Can you interpret the original message?
Answer:
Albion Theatre/Presents/Hamlet on stage/Each night - ten
sharp/CNot Easter MondayVStar: Charles Darwin/Starlet:
Ingrid Turpin/Producer: Dennis Davies/Director: Ingmar
Andrews/Prices from three thousand lira
How many days he idled?
A man persuaded John, with some difficulty, to try to work on a job for thirty days at 80 dollars a day, on the condition that he would forfeit 100 dollars a day for every day that he idled. At the end of the month neither owed the other anything, which entirely convinced John of the folly of labor. Can you tell just how many days' work he put in and on how many days he idled?
John must have worked 16 and 2/3 days and idled l3 and 1/3 days. Thus the
former time, at $80.00 a day, amounts to exactly the same as the latter at $100.00
a day.
John must have worked 16 and 2/3 days and idled l3 and 1/3 days. Thus the
former time, at $80.00 a day, amounts to exactly the same as the latter at $100.00
a day.
Boats!
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Reference:
Puzzles 101, N. Yoshigahara, A. K. Peters Ltd.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
6 Lots with the Same Shape
Can you divide the following area into 6 lots with the same shape?
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Monday, April 9, 2012
CONCERNING A CHECK (BY Henry Ernest Dudeney)
A man went into a bank to cash a check. In handing over the money the cashier, by mistake, gave him dollars for cents and cents for dollars. He pocketed the money without examining it, and spent a nickel on his way home. He then found that he possessed exactly twice the amount of the check. He had no money in his pocket before going to the bank. What was the exact amount of that check?
Improve Your Brain Power with Variety PuzzlesThe amount must have been $31.63. He received $63.31. After he had
spent a nickel there would remain the sum of $63.26, which is twice the
amount of the check.
Squares
In one minute, can you determine how many squares (not rectangles) are in the following figure?
Answer:
45 squares
Sunday, April 8, 2012
A Quick Calculation!
In 30 seconds, try to calculate the area of the following shape:
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Answer:
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108 square meters
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