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Yesterday’s Problem:
Two of the following statements are false. What are the real names of each person?
Carl’s last name is Smythe.
Carl’s last name is Taylor.
Kevin’s last name is Taylor.
Answer:
Carl Taylor, Kevin Smythe
Today’s Problem:
A very neat office worker wears a clean shirt every day. If he drops off his laundry every Monday night, and at the same time picks up his previous week’s laundry, how many shirts does he need to keep wearing a clean one every day?
Yesterday’s problem:
If forty bakers can bake twenty cakes in two hours, how many hours will it take for two bakers to bake ten cakes?
Answer:
20 hours
Today’s Problem:
Two of the following statements are false. What are the real names of each person?
Carl’s last name is Smythe.
Carl’s last name is Taylor.
Kevin’s last name is Taylor.
Last Problem:
Think of 5 squares of the same size. How many ways can you combine these squares, edge to edge (with no mirror images), using all 5?
Answer :
12 ways. Try to see if you can figure out all 12.
Today’s problem:
If forty bakers can bake twenty 4th of July cakes in two hours, how many hours will it take for two bakers to bake ten cakes?
Last Problem:
Jerry asked his fiance to name the day they’ll get married. She wasn’t prepared when he asked, but said
“I will marry you when the week after next is the week before last.”
Jerry said
“If I had received the promise yesterday, the waiting would have been six days shorter.”
On what day of the week did she accept Jerry’s proposal?
Answer:
Sunday. Sunday, being the first day of the week, she promised to marry Jerry “when the week after next is the week before last”. So, she will marry Jerry in 28 days after her promise. If she had promised a day earlier, then on Sunday, 22 days later, her promise would have fallen due.
Today’s Problem:
Think of 5 squares of the same size. How many ways can you combine these squares, edge to edge (with no mirror images), using all 5?
Last Problem:
If forty bakers can bake twenty cakes in two hours, how many hours will it take for two bakers to bake ten cakes?
Answer:
20 hours
Today’s Problem:
Jerry asked his fiance to name the day they’ll get married. She wasn’t prepared when he asked, but said
“I will marry you when the week after next is the week before last.”
Jerry said
“If I had received the promise yesterday, the waiting would have been six days shorter.”
On what day of the week did she accept Jerry’s proposal?
Yesterday’s Problem:
Tania has the same number of sisters as she has brothers. Her brother Ken has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many boys and how many girls are in this family?
Answer:
There are 4 girls and 3 boys.
Today’s Problem:
If forty bakers can bake twenty cakes in two hours, how many hours will it take for two bakers to bake ten cakes?