1) One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. How come?
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2) If it were two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it now?
2006-11-11
05:55:03
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Another one:
3) About 2000 B. C. there lived Ahmes, a royal secretary and mathematician of the Pharaoh Amenemhat III. In 1853 an Englishman Rhind found one of Ahmes's papyruses near the temple of Ramses II. in Thebes. The papyrus is a rectangle 33 cm wide and about 5 m long. There is the following math brain teaser on it (besides others).
100 measures of corn must be divided among 5 workers, so that the second worker gets as many measures more than the first worker, as the third gets more than the second, the fourth more than the third and the fifth more than the fourth. The first two workers shall get seven times less measures of corn than the three others. How many measures of corn shall each worker get?
10 pts if you get all 3! Good luck ;-)
By the way I know the answers...
2006-11-11
05:55:54 ·
update #1
Thank you all for your answers!
dd: your response was clever and you're right, you really answered my original question so here are your 10 pts...enjoy!
Tammy: Your answer was correct, but you submitted it way too soon which makes me think you researched the answer and didn't figure it out yourself...
Yepitsjessi: Your answer was only partially correct ;-)
2006-11-11
10:52:25 ·
update #2