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| 1. | In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? |
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47 days | |
| 2. | What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years? |
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The letter 'M' | |
| 3. | Insert the missing vowels and spaces in the following to reveal a well-known proverb: PPRNCSCNBDCPTV |
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Appearances can be deceptive | |
| 4. | In a row of seven houses, each house has a different colour front door. The white door is between the purple door and the red door. There are two houses between the blue door and the purple door. The yellow door is the last in the row. The orange door is next to the blue door. The house between the orange door and the purple door has a green front door. The first house in the row does not have a red front door. What is the order of the front doors? |
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Blue, orange, green, purple, white, red and yellow | |
| 5. | Solve this puzzle to reveal the answer to the bottom line. |
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60 (Drink=10, Burger=5, Fries=1, (5+1)×10=60) | |
| 6. | What number and letter continues this sequence? 12 T 17 E 22 F 27 N ? ? |
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32 F (The numbers increase by 5. The letters are the first letter of the numbers found by adding the two digits together.) | |
| 7. | Which is the correct view for a person who stands at the red point looking at the figure in the indicated direction? |
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D | |
| 8. | If 5,10,7,7,21,7 is the code for CHEESE, what are the following sandwich fillings? 10,3,15 7,9,9 22,23,16,3 21,10,20,11,15,18 |
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Ham, egg, tuna, shrimp (Each letter has been replaced by its alphabetical value plus two) | |
| 9. | What number is missing in this sequence? 5 4 12 11 33 32 ? 95 285 |
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96 (Minus one then multiply by three, and repeat.) | |
| 10. | What numbers should replace the question marks? |
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96 and 50 | |
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