My Neurons Love Me For Exercising Them
Yesterday’s Problem:
Which word is different from the others in this list:
cigar, calmer, sorbet, wined, beeches
Answer:
“beeches” – the other words can be rearranged into known boy’s names: cigar=>Craig, calmer=>Marcel, sorbet=>Osbert, wined=>Edwin. Beeches doesn’t rearrange into a known boy’s name
Today’s Problem:
You know how to use Roman numerals.
If we write CXV = SIX and CMLMI = SEVEN, what is LMXI?
Last Pr0blem:
When you take two dollars from three dollars, what do you have?
Answer:
$2 – you just took two dollars
Today’s Problem:
Which word is different from the others in this list?
cigar, calmer, sorbet, wined, beeches
Last Problem:
Name 10 parts of the body that are 3 letters long.
Answers:
arm, leg, eye, ear, toe, lip, gum, jaw, hip, bud (taste bud). You may have guessed others. Any ten words are acceptable as long as they really are body parts.
Today’s Problem:
When you take two dollars from three dollars, what do you have?
Last Problem:
What word has only two letters, but repeated 3 times?
Answer:
deeded
Today’s Problem:
Name 10 parts of the body that are 3 letters long.
Last Problem:
What is the next letter in the sequence:
A D G K O T _
Answer:
Y – the pattern is 2 letters in between the first letter (B,C), 2 letters after the second letter (E,F), 3 letters after G, 3 letters after K, 4 letters after O, so again 4 letters after T is Y. After “T” – there are 4 letters and next after those is “Y”
Today’s Problem:
What word has only two letters, but repeated 3 times?
Yesterday’s Problem:
What comes next in this sequence: e, g, k, m, q, _ ?
Answer:
s – arrange prime numbers according to alphabet 1=a, 2=b, etc., but starting at 5 it’s 5(e), 7(g), 11(k), 13(m), 17(q), 19=s
Today’s Problem:
What is the next letter in the sequence:
A D G K O T _
Last Question
You are supposed to take 1 gallon of lemonade to the soccer game. You made fresh-squeezed lemonade in a 2 gallon jug which is perfectly cylindrical, but it looks like more than half full to you, and your soccer girl is certain there is less than half of the jug filled with lemonade. If you don’t use anything to measure with, how can you tell who is correct?
Answer:
Tip the jug on its side, until the lemonade gets to the lip of the jug, just before any spills out. If you can see any part of the bottom of the jug when you look inside the jug, there is less than 1 gallon in it. If the bottom cannot be seen through the lemonade, there is at least a gallon of lemonade in it.
Today’s Problem:
What comes next in this sequence: e, g, k, m, q, _ ?
Last Problem:
What two numbers (X) come next in the following sequence?
1 6 2 7 3 8 X X
Answer:
4,9 – the pattern is +5 -4 or if you look at every other number, you can see two different patterns going on, 1,2,3,_ and 6,7,8,_ – so the next number of each sequence is a 4 and 9
Today’s Problem:
You are supposed to take 1 gallon of lemonade to the soccer game. You made fresh-squeezed lemonade in a 2 gallon jug which is perfectly cylindrical, but it looks like more than half full to you, and your soccer girl is certain there is less than half of the jug filled with lemonade. If you don’t use anything to measure with, how can you tell who is correct?