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By Terry Stickels

What percentage playing cards do i must deal ahead of i do know for definite that you've a straight?
If typists can variety pages in mins, what number typists will it take to variety 18 pages?
How many days are in five million seconds?
If you think that those are stable questions, this can be the e-book for you! Over 2 hundred wonderful puzzles concerning mathematical and mechanical calculations contain demanding situations for your lateral considering and logical reasoning. whilst your brain's bored with being teased, you could seek advice the total strategies.

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What time is it now? 7 If 1/3 = 7 in some other system, then 5/16 is equal to what in that system? 8 Each figure contained within the largest square is also a square. What are the sizes of the squares with the question marks? 9 If the figure below is folded back into a cube, what side is opposite the blackened square? What about opposite the transparent circle? 10 A solution for n is (a)4 (b)9 (c)64 (d)128 (e)256 11 Here is a coin puzzle that may appear to have a counterintuitive answer, but I assure you it is correct.

66 PEACE occurs in the first and second message and so has to be FLANG. IN occurs in the first and third, so it has to be BRONO. So, HASSI translates to WE COME. 67 Two ways are 512 × 125 = 64,000 and 29 × 53 = 64,000. Did you find another? 68 The answer is 56 boys. If 2x boys attend the school, then 7x girls do. We are given that so 7x = 3(2x + 8) = 6x + 24 and x = 24. Thus 2x + 8 = 56. 69 The answer is 6 dots. The faces and their opposites are 3 and 6, 2 and 4, and 1 and 5. 70 Each of the hash marks represents 1 foot.

138 Molly works out in a gym on the first floor of a large building almost every day and she walks up an escalator that connects the ground and the first floor. If she walks up the escalator step-by-step, it takes her 20 steps to reach the first floor. One day, she doubles her stride length and walks up climbing two steps at a time. It takes her 16 steps to reach the first floor. If the escalator stood still, how many steps would there be that would be visible on sight? 139 You have two pieces of string of varying thickness that each burn for 40 seconds.

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