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Friday, February 17, 2012

Questions for Monday Feb 20


This week you have to solve the following puzzles.
Each is one point.

1.     What does this mean?






2.     What 5-digit number has the following features: 

If we put the numeral 1 at the beginning, we get a number three times smaller than if we put the numeral 1 at the end of the number.

3.     One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process. 

There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off.

How can the man survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)

4.     TUNE  TUNE  TUNE  TUNE  : What does this mean?

5.     What are the next three in this sequence:
2 1 F 1 1 F 0 1 F 9 F ==?==

Good luck!
Mr A 

13 comments:

  1. 2.42857
    5. 8, F, 7.- from the f8 and f7 on a computer keyboard

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  2. Very good Grace, you got those two.
    Mr A

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  3. 1. two left feet
    3. the man uses the other fire to light a stick then create a fire on the est side of the island, the wind will blow it away and he can survive on the burnt part
    but he will probably die of starvation after the fire has died

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  4. Yes to both!
    Two more points Grace.

    Mr A

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  5. Noora, Grace already got #1, only #4 is left to answer. And no, #4 is nit right.
    Mr A

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  6. Not right, NOT nit right, if you know what I mean.
    Mr A

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  7. fortunes as in 4 tunes

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  8. Looks like Grace gets it by 2 minutes!!
    Mr A

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