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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Smith and Jones, both 50% marksmen, decide to fight to fight duel in which they exchange alternate shot until one is hit. What are the odds in favor of the man who shoots first. | 2/3 |
| Three marksmen simultaneously shoot at and hit a rapidly spinning spherical target. What is the probability that the three points of impact are on the same hemisphere? | 1 |
| There are 9 cities which served by two competing airlines. One or the other airline (but not both) has a flight between every pair of cities. What is the minimum number of triangular flights (i.e. trips from A to B to C and back to A on the same airline)? | 12 |
| Assuming the sun rises at 6:00 AM, sets at 6:00 PM, and moves at a uniform rate, how can a lost boy scout determine south by means of a watch on a cloudless days? | Align the hour hand, with the sun's azimuth, and south will midway between the hour hand and 12 |
| What is the least number of links that must be disengaged from a 23-link chain so that any number of links from 1 to 23 can be obtained by taking one or more of the pieces. (if removed, what chain?) | 2 // 4th and 11th |
| A ball is dropped from a height of 10 feet. It rebounds one-half the distance on each bounce. What is the total distance it travels? | 30 feet |
| A new kind of atom smasher is to be composed of two tangents and a circular arc which is concave towards the point of intersection of the two tangents. Each tangent and the arc of the circle is 1 mile long. What is the radius of the circle? | 1437.45 ft |
| Rufus T, Flypaper drives two miles to work every morning. Very precise, he knows he must average 30 mph to arrive on time. One morning a woman driver impedes him for the first mile, cutting his average to only 15 mph. He quickly calculated his proper spee | No, he has already used 4 minutes. |
| Station A and B are 120 miles apart on a single-track railroad. At the same time a train leaves A for B at 15 mph. Just as the first train leaves A, a South American botfly flies from the front of the engine straight toward the other train at 100 mph. On | 300 miles |
| very few people are aware of the growth pattern of Jack's beanstalk. On the first day it increased its height by 1/2, on the second day by 1/3, on the third day by 1/4, and so on. How long did it take to achieve it maximum height (100 times its original h | 198 days |
| You and a friend spot a loose $20 bill simultaneously and agree to an auction in which you write down your bids and compare them, High bidder gets the $20 and pays the other amount of the higher bid. The bidders split the $. How much do you bid? | $9.99 |
| A pencil, an eraser, and a notebook together cost one dollar. A notebook costs more than two pencils. Three pencils cost more than four erasers. Three erasers cost more than a notebook. How much does each cost ? | 26, 19, 55 |
| If all 720 permutations of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are arranged in numerical order what is the 417-th term? | 432 5116 |
| A prisoner is given 10 white balls, 10 black balls, and two boxes. He is told his fate depends on drawing a ball from one of the two boxes. If it is white, the prisoner will go free; if it is black, he will remain in prison. Each box has an equally likely | Place 1 white balls in the box and remaining to other box, P = 0.737 |
| Dr. Irving Weiman, who is always in a hurry, walks up an up-going escalator at the rate of one step per second. Twenty steps bring him to the top. Next day he goes up to two steps per second, reaching the top in 32 steps. How many steps are there in the e | 80 |
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