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(Message started by: kokrocks on Jul 14^th, 2004, 2:28pm)

Title: Three Questions
Post by kokrocks on Jul 14^th, 2004, 2:28pm

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

Title: Re: *help me please...
Post by towr on Jul 14^th, 2004, 2:38pm

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

Title: Re: *help me please...
Post by Eigenray on Jul 14^th, 2004, 6:13pm

1. X ([hide]-- + .--. = -..- + ....[/hide])
2. 59 ([hide]The largest prime less than 60[/hide])
3. 18 ([hide]"18 in the following series" is incorrect.[/hide])
Any more?

Title: Re: *help me please...
Post by Leon on Jul 14^th, 2004, 8:11pm

on 07/14/04 at 14:38:42, towr wrote:

The alphabet goes abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz

You sure about that towr? ??? ;D ;)

Title: Re: *help me please...
Post by towr on Jul 15^th, 2004, 12:02am

Well, it may depend on what language you're looking at ::)
And on how tired you are :P

Title: Re: *help me please...
Post by rmsgrey on Jul 15^th, 2004, 4:34am

2. 12 - the number of factors (including itself and 1)

OK, so it's not one of the multiple choice, but nor is 59...

Title: Re: *help me please...
Post by Three Hands on Jul 15^th, 2004, 7:07am

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.

Title: Re: *help me please...
Post by Grimbal on Jul 15^th, 2004, 4:57pm

on 07/14/04 at 20:11:18, Leon wrote:

You sure about that towr? ??? ;D ;)

He is a mathematician. X is unknown to him.

Title: Re: *help me please...
Post by Icarus on Aug 3^rd, 2004, 7:38pm

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) [hide](c) M is the fifth letter after H, U is the fifth letter after P.[/hide]
2) [hide](d) 60/40 = 3/2.[/hide]
3) [hide](b) The series repeatedly goes down by 4, then up by 7. Except that the first 17 should be 18 to match the pattern.[/hide]