posted by kev1 on Friday, August 28, 2009
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Here's the latest brain teaser:
Carleigh has a large collection of pets. 1/3 of them are cats, 1/4 of them are dogs, 1/5 are hamsters and the rest are goldfish. If Carleigh has 39 goldfish, how many pets in total does she have?
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posted by kev1 on Saturday, August 22, 2009
Here is this week's brain teaser. Remember to post your answer to the discussions tab of the Cramster.com Facebook Fan Page!
Here's the latest brain teaser:
Arrange the numbers "11337799" to form an 8-digit number (referred to as "ABCDEFGH") that will meet the following conditions:
1. ABCDEFGH is a prime number
2. HGFEDCBA (reversing the digits) is a prime number
3. All consecutive two-digit subsets of ABCDEFGH are prime numbers (AB, BC, CD, DE, EF, FG, GH are all prime)
4) All consecutive two-digit subsets of HGFEDCBA are prime numbers (HG, GF, FE, ED, DC, CB, BA are all prime)
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posted by kev1 on Friday, August 14, 2009
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Here's the latest brain teaser:
POSTER PRICES:
12" x 18" posters cost $7
24" x 36" posters cost $9
41" x 20" posters cost $11
The Poster Market is offering a special sale on their posters: "Buy two posters, and take a dollar off one of the posters." Carleigh, Lauren, Peter, Travis, and Shirley each bought two posters and spent a total of $85.
Shirley bought two different-size posters, but they were not the same combination as those Travis or Carleigh bought.
Carleigh spent $17 on two different-size posters.
The two posters Travis bought cover 1,080 square inches.
Lauren spent the most, purchasing two posters of the same size.
How much money did each person spend, and what size posters did they buy?
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posted by kev1 on Friday, August 07, 2009
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Here's the latest brain teaser:
Four classmates combined their money and have a total of $30. Assume that only one person is not telling the truth.
Steve: I don't have any money.
John: Jessica has less money than Steve.
Jessica: I have $15 more than John.
Andy: I have one fourth of what Jessica has.
What is the product of Andy and John's dollar amount?
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posted by kev1 on Friday, July 31, 2009
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Here's the teaser:
Carleigh and Peter agree to meet at the corner coffee shop. They agree to each show up at a random time between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM. Wait 20 minutes for the other person, or until one o'clock, whichever comes first.
Assuming they stick to their word, what is the probability that they will meet?
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posted by kev1 on Friday, July 24, 2009
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Here's the teaser:
Kevin and Carleigh are in charge of counting people who get on and off the lift. They take turns riding to the top floor and back down, counting as they go. After three such trips each morning noon and evening, there is an average taken.
The hotel manager wants to know the day's average.
1. On Carleigh's noon trip there were 32 fewer people than morning count.
2. Kevin counted a total of 122 in the morning and noon counts, just one higher than his evening count, but 24 more than Carleigh's evening count.
3. Kevin's morning count is the same as Carleigh's average.
4. Kevin's evening count was 37 more than Carleigh's morning count.
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posted by kev1 on Friday, July 17, 2009
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Here's the teaser:
A group of college professors attended a conference last week. All but 40 were English professors. All but 50 were math professors. All but 60 were history professors. These were the only types of professors in attendance. How many in all attended the conference?
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posted by kev1 on Friday, July 10, 2009
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Here's the teaser:
There is a 10 digit number (no leading 0), represented by ABCDEFGHIJ. Each numeral, zero (0) through nine (9), is used once. Given the following hints, what's the specific number?
Please note: a leading zero (0) can be used in the following equations.
1) CD * 3 = AJ
2) GH * 2 = JA
3) D * H = BE
4) B * H = FI
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posted by kev1 on Friday, July 03, 2009
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Here's the teaser:
Ben was given 16 coins by his older, somewhat meaner brother, Mark. He told him that he could keep them all if he could place all 16 on the table in such a way that they formed 15 rows with 4 coins in each row.
After 10 minutes, Ben walked away with the coins and Mark, after complaining futilely to his mother, left with nothing.
How did Ben place the coins?
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posted by kev1 on Friday, June 26, 2009
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Here's the teaser:
An old antique clock has 12 hours in a rotation of the hour hand, 60 minutes in the rotation of the minute hand, and 60 seconds in a rotation of a second hand. Using the following things, starting at 0 hours and 0 seconds, how much time is passing in all these intervals?
5 rotations of the second hand
2/12 rotation of the hour hand
3/6 rotation of the minute hand
3/4 rotation of the minute hand
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