The Birthday Party

Yesterday’s Problem:

A hungry bookworm finds several volumes of Collier’s encyclopedia on a shelf. He starts at the front cover of the first volume and begins eating, and gets all the way to the back of the back cover of the third volume. If the covers are each 1/2 cm think, and the pages of each volume are 8 cm think, how far did the bookwork get?

Answer:

The answer is “9 cm” – the front cover of the first volume is touching the back cover of volume 2, and the back cover of volume 3 is touching the front cover of volume 2 – so the bookworm only eats through all of volume 2 – you can see this if you place your books against each other.

Today’s Problem

There are 3 friends at Shannon’s birthday party. Each is allowed to make one vertical cut to the cake. What is the maximum amount of pieces of cake that can be cut?

Hungry Book Worm

Last Problem:

What is the difference between a cat and a comma?

Answer:

A cat has his claws at the end of his paws while a comma is the pause at the end of a clause.

Today’s Problem:

A hungry bookworm finds several volumes of encyclopedia on a shelf. She starts at the front cover of the first volume and begins eating and gets all the way to back of the back cover of the third volume. If the covers are each 1/2 cm thick, and the pages of each volume are 8 cm thick, how far did the book worm get?

What Do These Words Have in Common?

Yesterday’s Problem

During a visit to the neurologist, a patient asked the
doctor what criteria he uses to determine if a person
is having mental challenges.

Well,

said the Doctor,

We show the patient a tub in the bathroom that is filled
with water. Then, we give them a teaspoon, a teacup
and a bucket and ask them to empty the bathtub.

I then watch what they do.

How does the doctor determine whether the patient
has mental difficulties?

Answer:

Many people guess that a person with a “clear” mind will make the logical choice by using the bucket which obviously holds more water than a teaspoon or a teacup.

Choosing a bucket is a signal of mental confusion.
A person with a clear mind pulls the plug.

Today’s Problem:

What do the following words have in common?

light, ear, at, lead, ray, lay

Diagnosis of Mental Confusion

Last Problem:

What is half of 8, but you cannot double
it to make 8?

Answer:

The answer is “zero” – cut the 8 in half
so it becomes a zero on top of zero

Today’s Problem:

During a visit to the neurologist, a patient asked the
doctor what criteria he uses to determine if a person
is having mental confusion.

Well,

said the Doctor,

We show the patient a tub in the bathroom that is filled
with water. Then, we give them a teaspoon, a teacup
and a bucket and ask them to empty the bathtub.

I then watch what they do.

How does the doctor determine whether the patient
has mental difficulties?

A Number Puzzle

Yesterday’s Problem:

What do the following words have in common?

Teak, pike, port, tick, eat, oak.

Answer:

A new word can be formed when you place the
letter ‘s’ in front of each word in the list.
Inserting an “s” at the front of each word
forms the following words:

steak, spike, sport, stick, seat, soak

Today’s Problem

What is half of 8, but you cannot double
it to make 8?