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Taliesin's math problems are turning my brain to mush!!
So I say...
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks
In each sack was seven cats.
Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, wives...
How many were going to St. Ives?
are we counting kits as cats? or only kits?
*kit-kat, kit-kat :D
One person going to St. Ives
Hey, hey, hey! You should know better than playing with a gal's feelings! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by amuse
*wiggles fingers in ears and repeats Schemantra. :p
Tal, are you sure about the last number in that sequence? Shouldn't it be 13112221? And if so, the number to follow is: 1113213211?Quote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin
Which letter comes next?
A C F J O ...
The letter 'U.'Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Tricky - Psyche gave me this one once: :brow:
Which letter comes next in this one: O T T F F
S followed by another S and E and N and T... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mono
Tom runs the first half of a race at 5 miles per hour. Then he picks up his pace and runs the last half of the race at 10 miles per hour. What is his average speed on the course?
Like going back to math class! :D
Should be 7.5 miles per hour, yes? That's too easy... I must be missing a trick...
What has four wheels and flies?
A flying car! Lol - nah, Im just being stupid :p
Hm. I'm with Shimbry... is there a trick to that question, Scher?
A garbage truck!
And, uh, hm... Gonna have to scratch my brain awhile for a riddle, in the meanwhile, back to patterns!
A 3 B 2 C 2 D 2 E 5 F 4 G 4 H ...
That should be enough. :)
The answer is not 7.5 miles per hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Say the course is 20 miles long. Tom runs the first half the course in 2 hours and the second half in 1 hour; which means he needs 3 hours to run the total of 20 miles. Therefore, his average speed is 20/3 = 6.66 (or 6.7) miles per hour.
Scher, you didn't mention if the race meant the distance of the race or the time of the race and therefore one cannot be sure whether to use the arithmetic or the harmonic average.
Maybe I should have said 'race course'...
Tal, have you seen post #36?
Any takers for this one? As some of my students would say 'It's doin' me head in...' ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Snukes
Or shall we ask Snukes to reveal the answer?