Friday, December 08, 2006

puzzles for school children

Q1: Each child in a family has at least 5 brothers and 4 sisters. What is the smallest number of children the family might have?

Q2: Louise runs the first half of a race at 5 miles per hour. Then she picks up her pace and runs the last half of the race at 10 miles per hour. What is her average speed on the course?

Q3:what is ?
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2 5 2
1 2 4 2 1
1 2 1 3 1 2 1
1 2 1 1 ? 1 1 2 1

Q4: How Many Days?Froggie fell down a 10-foot well. He cannot hop out. He has to climb out. He climbs three feet a day, but during the night, while resting, he slips back two feet. At this rate, how many days will it take Froggie to climb out of the well?

Q5: How Many Marbles?
Marta distributed 100 marbles among five bags.
Bag #1 and Bag #2 together contain 52 marbles.Bag #2 and Bag #3 together contain 43 marbles.Bag #3 and Bag #4 together contain 34 marbles.Bag #4 and Bag #5 together contain 30 marbles. How many marbles are there in each bag?

Q6: How Many Students?
A new school has opened with fewer than 500 students. One-third of the students is a whole number. So are one-fourth, one-fifth, and one-seventh of the students. How many students go to this school?

Q7: Pick a Pair
Ben has socks in five different colors: two pairs of blue socks, two pairs of black, three pairs of brown, four pairs of green, and four pairs of white. Ben, who is not very neat, doesn't bother to pair up his socks when he puts them away. He just throws them in the drawer. Now Ben is packing to go away for the weekend, but there's been a power failure and he can't see the socks in his drawer.
How many socks does he have to take out of his drawer to be sure he has at least two that will make a pair?

Q8: Sale!
An online shopping site reduced the price of one computer model by 25 percent for a sale. By what percentage of the sales price must it be increased to put the computer model back at its original price?

Q9: Which Way?
Once a boy was walking down the road, and came to a place where the road divided in two, each separate road forking off in a different direction.
A girl was standing at the fork in the road. The boy knew that one road led to Lieville, a town where everyone always lied, and the other led to Trueville, a town where everyone always told the truth. He also knew that the girl came from one of those towns, but he didn't know which one.
Can you think of a question the boy could ask the girl to find out the way to Trueville?

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