What is the Answers to these questions?
3. Given an equilateral triangle with sides, a square with side s and a circle with diameter a, which figure has the greatest area?
5. I have twelve envelopes, which are numbered 1 through 12 and twelve cards which are numbered 110 through 121. How can I place one card inside each envelope so that the number on each envelope is a divisor of the number on the… Continue reading
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Can someone answer these math questions?! Test of Genius worksheet.?
(1) Make this equation correct by changing the position of only one digit.
101-102=1
(2) Steven has 9 gold coins that are identical in appearance. However, one coin is counterfeit and weighs slightly less than the others. Using a balance scale, how can he find the counterfeit coin inn just two weighings?
(3) In the following addition problem, the letters A,B,and C stand for three different digits… Continue reading
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can you figure this out?
this is what i think the hardest question in the world, i didn’t figure it out but can you? here it is
A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is… Continue reading
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Word Problems?
1) Steven has 9 gold coins that are identical in appearance. However, one coin is counterfeit and weighs slighlt less than the others. Using a balance scale, how can he find the counterfeit coin in just two weighings?
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2) In the following problem, the letters A, B and C stand for 3 different digits. What digit should replace each letter?
ABC+ACB=CBA… Continue reading
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Counterfeit Coin problem with a twist?
We all know the counterfeit coin problem with 7 real coins & one fake one.
n coins = x weighings
2 coins = 1 weighing
3 coins = 1 weighing
4 coins = 2 weighings
5 coins = 2 weighings
6 coins = 2 weighings
7 coins = 2 weighings
8 coins = 2 weighings
9 coins = 2 weighings
10 coins = 3 weighings
11 coins =… Continue reading
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