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kokrocks
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Three Questions
« on: Jul 14th, 2004, 2:28pm » |
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can anyone help me on this riddles? thanks ...
1. Which letter is as far away from P in the alphabet as M is from H?
a. J ,b. T ,c. U ,d. V
2. 3 is related to 2 as 60 is related to
a. 50 ,b. 20 ,c. 30 ,d. 40
3. Which number in the following series is incorrect?
12 8 15 11 17 14 21 17 24 20
a. 11 ,b. 17 ,c. 18 ,d. 14
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Re: *help me please...
« Reply #1 on: Jul 14th, 2004, 2:38pm » |
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Well, since you ask so nicely, and post it in far too many boards (where I promptly removed them from), I'll give you a hint for 1)
The alphabet goes abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz
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Re: *help me please...
« Reply #2 on: Jul 14th, 2004, 6:13pm » |
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1. X (-- + .--. = -..- + ....)
2. 59 (The largest prime less than 60)
3. 18 ("18 in the following series" is incorrect.)
Any more?
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Re: *help me please...
« Reply #3 on: Jul 14th, 2004, 8:11pm » |
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on Jul 14th, 2004, 2:38pm, towr wrote:
The alphabet goes abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz
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You sure about that towr?   
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Re: *help me please...
« Reply #4 on: Jul 15th, 2004, 12:02am » |
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Well, it may depend on what language you're looking at 
And on how tired you are 
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Re: *help me please...
« Reply #5 on: Jul 15th, 2004, 4:34am » |
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2. 12 - the number of factors (including itself and 1)
OK, so it's not one of the multiple choice, but nor is 59...
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Re: *help me please...
« Reply #6 on: Jul 15th, 2004, 7:07am » |
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For 3., I'd complain that two of the answers are ambiguous - 17, since it is used twice, and 18, since it is not used. That said, the question couldbe interpreted as "all uses of the number ..." or "The individual use of the given number" - problems which would not arise with better question setting, or by only using each number once in the sequence.
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Re: *help me please...
« Reply #7 on: Jul 15th, 2004, 4:57pm » |
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on Jul 14th, 2004, 8:11pm, Leon wrote:
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He is a mathematician. X is unknown to him.
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Re: *help me please...
« Reply #8 on: Aug 3rd, 2004, 7:38pm » |
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A little behind the times, but I thought it might be nice to provide the "official" answers, since not everyone is as experienced as the jokers above, and kokrocks did ask:
1) (c) M is the fifth letter after H, U is the fifth letter after P.
2) (d) 60/40 = 3/2.
3) (b) The series repeatedly goes down by 4, then up by 7. Except that the first 17 should be 18 to match the pattern.
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