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Moon-and-Star · Someone's watching me - I can feel it.

RE: Mensa

Moon-and-Star · Someone's watching me - I can feel it.

dqm either wrote:
Moon-and-Star wrote:
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?:18:6
54
Sorry, nope.
yeah no of course not! 54 is clearly too high. If each typist is averaging one page per minute and I have 54 of them going for 6 minutes I'm going to get WAAAAAAY more than 16 pages That'd be over 300 pages *smacks forehead*
Ok so back to the drawing board board. I say
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if each one puts out a one page per minute then after 6 minutes I will have 18 pages.

Much closer, but still not right.

Moon-and-Star · Someone's watching me - I can feel it.

winds55 wrote:
Moon-and-Star wrote:
Here are couple:

2. If 2 typists can type 2 pages in 2 minutes, how many typists will it take to type 18 pages in 6 minutes?

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6

Yay!

Moon-and-Star · Someone's watching me - I can feel it.

dqm either wrote:
I posted the stack of $5 bills question on the web page of the Mensa book were I found the question.

Whoever hosts the site insists that the answer is $585

Their reply:

759501-759384 = 117
117*5=
$585

I asked why 501-384????? Explanation:
so as to include bills 385 and 500. The Mensa person insists that there are 117 $5 bills

So I took out a stack of $5 bills and labled them 2-21 and I used his/her formula.

22-1=21*5 = $105 per Mensa's formula WHAT AM I MISSING?

FTR I only have $100 in front of me. I have 20 $5 bills.

They're wrong. Doing the subtraction 500-385 includes one of the endpoints so you don't need to add 2 back in, just 1. To demonstrate, let's use a smaller stack. Say numbers 385 through 400. The bill numbers would be:

385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, and 400.

The Mensa person's formula would be 401-384=17

My formula is 400-385+1=16

Count the bills. There are 16. The Mensa person is wrong - they're overcompensating.

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Or, to use your example, the bill numbers would be:

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Count 'em - there's 20, NOT 21. The Mensa person's formula gives the wrong answer. It should be 21-2+1=20 (end number - start number + 1).

-- Edited by Moon-and-Star on Monday 23rd of July 2012 08:10:56 PM

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

I posted the stack of $5 bills question on the web page of the Mensa book were I found the question.

Whoever hosts the site insists that the answer is $585

Their reply:

759501-759384 = 117
117*5=
$585

I asked why 501-384????? Explanation:
so as to include bills 385 and 500. The Mensa person insists that there are 117 $5 bills

So I took out a stack of $5 bills and labled them 2-21 and I used his/her formula.

22-1=21*5 = $105 per Mensa's formula WHAT AM I MISSING?

FTR I only have $100 in front of me. I have 20 $5 bills.

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

Farmer Guy wrote:
-pur, right? like jumpur, hampur, campur,

um, yeah sure

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dqm either · Don't Quote Me

Moon-and-Star wrote:
To demonstrate, let's use a smaller stack.

I TOTALLY did. I got out 20 $5 bills and numbered them! You're right the Mensa person is wrong.

If his/her formula is right I want my extra $5 damnit! biggrin

And then everyday I'll get out stacks of money and magically make more. muahahahahaha!

Moon-and-Star · Someone's watching me - I can feel it.

dqm either wrote:
Moon-and-Star wrote:
To demonstrate, let's use a smaller stack.
I TOTALLY did. I got out 20 $5 bills and numbered them! You're right the Mensa person is wrong.
If his/her formula is right I want my extra $5 damnit!
And then everyday I'll get out stacks of money and magically make more. muahahahahaha!

Oooh, wouldn't that be nice! I'd use the highest denomination bills I could get my hands on to magically create more. And who says you're limited to once a day? I totally want the Mensa person to be right, now - easy way to get rich. biggrin Too bad they're not. cry

Papa Bear · Senior Member

dqm either wrote:
A father and daughter are in the working together when the little girl starts the following conversation:
“Is 60 more than 30?”
“Yes honey, 60 is more than 30.”
“Is 100 more than 60?”
“No honey, 100 and 60 are the same.”
“Is 100 more than 90?”
“No, 90 is more than 100.”
If the father was always correct, what were they doing?

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Setting the microwave.

60 sec > 30 sec, 100 (1 min) == 60 sec, 90 sec > 60 sec

-- Edited by Papa Bear on Monday 27th of August 2012 05:33:26 PM

Papa Bear · Senior Member

One I did on GT.

Monday, guy enters hardware store to buy 1, for $2.
Tuesday, he buys 22, for $4.
Wednesday, he buys 333 for $6.
Thursday he buys 4444 for $8.

What items did he buy?
(If you remember the answer from GT, try to let others get it.)

Papa Bear · Senior Member

I did this on GT, but it's worth repeating here.

Monday, man goes into a hardware store to buy 1, for $2.
Tuesday, he buys 22 for $4.
Wednesday, he buys 333 for $6.
Thursday, he buys 4444 for $8.

Each day, he was buying the same kind of item. What was he buying?

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

A father and daughter are in the working together when the little girl starts the following conversation:
“Is 60 more than 30?”
“Yes honey, 60 is more than 30.”
“Is 100 more than 60?”
“No honey, 100 and 60 are the same.”
“Is 100 more than 90?”
“No, 90 is more than 100.”
If the father was always correct, what were they doing?

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

Papa Bear wrote:
dqm either wrote:
A father and daughter are in the working together when the little girl starts the following conversation:
“Is 60 more than 30?”
“Yes honey, 60 is more than 30.”
“Is 100 more than 60?”
“No honey, 100 and 60 are the same.”
“Is 100 more than 90?”
“No, 90 is more than 100.”
If the father was always correct, what were they doing?
Spoiler
Setting the microwave.
60 sec > 30 sec, 100 (1 min) == 60 sec, 90 sec > 60 sec

I can't believe you got that on the first try!!!!!!

Oh and don't forget to spoil the answers.
Edited to spoil but I STILL can't believe you got that on the first try. That one was HARD!

-- Edited by dqm either on Monday 27th of August 2012 06:36:11 PM

Papa Bear · Senior Member

Papa Bear · Senior Member

I tried just typing the previous post, but it was interpreted as spam (for some reason). So I put it in image form.

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

Papa Bear wrote:

Something with a HUGE bulk discount!

Papa Bear · Senior Member

DQM I'm sorry, I flatout forgot about spoilers. I redid my post so if you wish to spoiler that part of the quote, you're set.

The big hint on mine is it's a hardware store. If you really "gotta know" and I'm not around, Richard also knows the answer.

Evil Stepmother · Guru

Papa Bear wrote:

Spoiler: Is it grades coarsness of sandpaper?

Papa Bear · Senior Member

Nope. Nothing to do w/ sandpaper.

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

I was thinking a bolt or something that the more you buy the cheaper they get.

Papa Bear · Senior Member

All numbers are in ordinary, base 10 decimal and they mean what they appear to mean.

150 *natch* 6 = 5.
180 *natch* 5 = 6.
300 *natch* 3 = 10.

If all of these are true, define the meaning of *natch

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

I still haven't gotten the *natch* problem so I asked a friend. He thinks he figured it out but I can't understand his explanation. LOL!

To the best of my ability to understand his explanation the answer is

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natch means take the answer and ^2

so

150 *natch 6= 5^2

150=6*5^2
150=6*25
150=150

180 *natch 5=6

180=5*6^2
180=5*36
180=180

300 *natch 3=10

300=3*10^2
300=3*100
300=300

-- Edited by dqm either on Friday 7th of September 2012 02:14:01 PM

Papa Bear · Senior Member

He's close!

Spoiler: A natch B == SQRT (A/B). So 150 natch 6 == SQRT(150/6) == SQRT(25) == 5.

Guesses for the other one?

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

Papa Bear wrote:
Guesses for the other one?

A bolt in the bulk bin? Regular price on Monday but sale prices on the subsequent days?

*I know that's not right. That's why I didn't bother putting it in a spoiler.

Moon-and-Star · Someone's watching me - I can feel it.

Papa Bear wrote:
I did this on GT, but it's worth repeating here.

Monday, man goes into a hardware store to buy 1, for $2.
Tuesday, he buys 22 for $4.
Wednesday, he buys 333 for $6.
Thursday, he buys 4444 for $8.

Each day, he was buying the same kind of item. What was he buying?

Spoiler: House or mailbox numbers? I.e., a single number (1) on Monday, 2 numbers (2 and 2) on Tuesday, etc. Each number costs $2.

-- Edited by Moon-and-Star on Sunday 9th of September 2012 09:59:44 AM

Papa Bear · Senior Member

Moon is correct.

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

This is a good one and not impossible to solve.

Of those numbers whose English representation in capital letters consists only of straight lines, only one number has a value equal to the number of straight line segments required to write it out. What number is this?

Papa Bear · Senior Member

Spoiler

It's a tough one!

Spoiler: 29

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

Dude I posted that like a half hour ago how'd you get it so quick?!

Papa Bear · Senior Member

It was up 20 min before I saw it

That question is a kind-of code-breaking. I have lots of practice w/it.

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

Yeah I like code breaking too but I still need scratch paper and a few minutes LOL!
ONE -nope
TWO- nope
THREE- nope

LMAO! I'm not kidding

I wrote out all the numbers then circled FIVE, NINE, TEN.

Since ten wasn't it and wasn't going to repeat (unless it was FIFTEEN -nope) then it had to be a number with five or nine. The only thing I wasn't sure of was if the I's were counted as one or three.

Ok your turn. Hopefully I won't have to cheat and ask a friend this time.

Papa Bear · Senior Member

Am on my phone but when I get home, am sure to come up with a good one.