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A bear walks south for one kilometer, then it walks west for one kilometer, then it walks north for one kilometer and ends up at the same point from which it started. What color was the bear?
The Bacteriologist
A scientist is experimenting with bacteria that are one micron in diameter and that reproduce by dividing every minute into two bacteria. At 12:00 PM, he puts a single organism in a container. At precisely 1:00 PM, the container is full. At what time was the container half full? How big was the container?
Fiji (in Melanesia) and Samoa (in Polynesia) are two islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Fiji is about 970 kilometers (600 miles) west of Samoa. A small airplane can fly this distance in two hours. When will you arrive in Fiji if you leave Samoa on a small airplane on Tuesday night at 11:30 PM?
The Wanderer
You start walking north and you walk in a straight line for two kilometers. When you look at the map, you discover that you actually walked one kilometer north and one kilometer south. How is this possible?
The Philatelist
My sister has six red stamps and three blue ones. In her collection, seven stamps are from Mexico and six stamps are from France. One stamp is purple and it is not from Mexico or France. Two of her Mexican stamps are red and one is blue. Two of her French stamps are blue and three are red. How many stamps does she have?
The Handshake
At a party, everyone shook hands with everybody else. There were 66 handshakes. How many people were at the party?
Government Subsidy
The government pays farmers a specific fee for each row of four trees that they plant. An enterprising, but dishonest farmer found a way of planting five rows of four trees using only ten trees. How did he do it?
Eye Puzzle
This rectangle of seemingly random colored dots contains a message. Do you know the answer?
Numerology
Mathematical aptitude tests frequently have sets of numbers where you are supposed to figure out a pattern or guess the next number. For example, (2, 4, 6, 8, 10) is a list of even numbers corresponding to 2n for n=1, 2, 3, ... (1, 1, 2, 3, 5) is the well-known Fibonacci series where two adjacent numbers are added to produce the next number. (1, 2, 3, 5, 7) is a list of prime numbers. (1, 2, 4, 8, 16) is an exponential series corresponding to 2n for n=0, 1, 2, ... Can you figure out the special significance of the following sequence? (2, 6, 10, 15, 19)
You have been promoted to pet detective while Ace Ventura guides some tourists on a safari. From the following clues, you must figure out who is the owner of each pet, and where the pet got lost. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A rabbit and a dog are two of the lost pets. The pet lost in the garden is owned by Mary. Robert does not own a dog. John's pet was lost in the woods. The cat was not lost in the woods or in the park.
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An investor trading through a discount stock broker that charges $10.00 Dollars per transaction bought 200 shares of Vola Tile Corporation at $50.00 Dollars per share. The stock quickly increased in value by 50%, but then lost 40% of its value. The investor sold the stock. How much money did the investor gain or lose?
Boolean Enlightenment
The path to enlightenment lies behind one of two doors. In front of each door stands a guard who knows which door leads to enlightenment, but one of the guards always lies and the other one always tells the truth. In your search for enlightenment, you are allowed to ask one guard only one question that can be answered "yes" or "no", but unfortunately, you do not know which guard is the liar. You will be banished to the dungeon of logical illiteracy if you fail in your quest. What question should you ask to find the path to enlightenment?
The Electrician
An electrician has two two-way switches, a light bulb, and a power source. How should he connect the terminals so that either switch can be used to turn the light on or off?
The Hematologist
After many years of looking through a microscope at human blood slides, a hematologist in a hospital laboratory is very excited that he found five different types of leukocytes (white blood cells) in a row. The hematologist gives you the following hints so that you can identify the white cells: 1. The basophil. 2. The monocyte. 3. The neutrophil, lymphocyte is immediately to the right of the neutrophil is immediately to the left of the eosinophil is not adjacent to the monocyte, the or the basophil.
Three Generations
The grandson is about as many days old as the son is in weeks. The grandson is approximately as many months old as the father is in years. The ages of the grandson, the son, and the father add up to 120 years. What are their ages in years?
It is said that Galileo (1564-1642) dropped balls of various weights from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to refute an Aristotelian belief that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects. If the balls were dropped from a height of 54 meters, how long did it take for the balls to hit the ground?
How fast were the balls going when they hit the ground?
Aquarius
You have to measure exactly 4 liters of water, but you only have a 3-liter bottle and a 5liter bottle. How do you do it?
Ship in a Tub
A toy ship is floating in a cylindrical container 10 centimeters in diameter that is partially filled with water. How much will the level of the water rise if a silver teddy bear weighing 100 grams is loaded on the ship? By the way, silver has a density of 10.49 g/cc. If the teddy bear falls off the ship and sinks to the bottom of the container while the ship continues to float, how much will the level of the water rise compared to the original level with just the ship? 1. I visited my math teacher last February. My teacher told me there were 3 groups of students came to his house on that day already. He also told me each group had different numbers of students. He said it was a coincidence that the product of the numbers of students in each group was equal to the visiting date (todays date). He asked me if I knew how many people came in each group I looked at the calendar and found out that there might be 4 possible answers. So I asked my teacher a question. He replied: No. Then I gave him the correct answer. Do you know on what date I visited my teacher? How many people came in each group? What was the question I asked my teacher?
2. There were 2 tribes living on an island. The east tribal people always tell a lie. The west tribal people always tell the truth. Alan and Bryan came from the same tribe. However, we do not know which tribe they came from. When they were asked the marital status, Alan said: Both of us are married. But Bryan said: I am not married. Are they really married?
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A very long integer, with 22 digits and trailing by the magic number 7, multiplied by 7 and made the result leading by 7, and shifted all other 21 digits to the right.
In the figure, the different letters might represent the same number. What is that long number? 4. A spider has 8 legs. A dragonfly has 6 legs and 2 pairs of wings. A cicada has 6 legs and one pair of wings. Now we have all 3 kinds and a total of 18 insects in a cage. We have a total of 118 legs and 20 pairs of wings. How many insects do we have of each kind? 5. Long time ago, a rancher spent $100.00 and bought 100 animals. There were 3 kind of animals he bought: each Bull cost him $10.00, each Cow cost him $5.00 and each Calf cost him $0.50. How many he bought for each kind of animal? 6. 5 Sailors and a monkey landed on an island in the southern Pacific Ocean. They found a big pile of coconuts. Since they were so tired and it was getting late, they all went to sleep instead. Allan woke up at night. He wanted to get his share right then. He divided the coconuts evenly into 5 piles, but one coconut was left. He hid one pile for himself and gave the extra one to the monkey. He went back to sleep. Brad woke up (without knowing what had happened) after Allan. He divided the rest of the coconuts evenly into 5 piles, but one coconut was left. He hid one pile for himself and gave the extra one to the monkey. He went back to sleep. Charlie woke up (without knowing what had happened) after Brad. He divided the rest of the coconuts evenly into 5 piles, but one coconut was left. He hid one pile for himself and gave the extra one to the monkey. He went back to sleep. David woke up (without knowing what had happened) after Charlie. He divided the rest of the coconuts evenly into 5 piles, but one coconut was left. He hid one pile for himself and gave the extra one to the monkey. He went back to sleep. Earl woke up (without knowing what had happened) after David. He divided the rest of the coconuts evenly into 5 piles, but one coconut was left. He hid one pile for himself and gave the extra one to the monkey. He went back to sleep. When they all awoke in the morning, they determined to divide the rest of the coconuts evenly into 5 piles. Each sailor got a pile. Again one coconut was left, and they gave it to the monkey. Everybody got one pile. How many coconuts did each person get?
7. As shown in the figure, each letter represents a distinct digit. What are A, B, C, and D?