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| 1. | Four different villages lie along a straight highway. The third village is 60km away from the first village; the fourth is 40 km away from the second; the third is 10 km nearer to the fourth than it is to the second. What is the distance between the first and fourth villages? |
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75 km | |
| 2. | Place two letters at the end of each word to make a 5-letter word so that, when completed, an 8-letter word can be read in the missing letters from top to bottom. What is it? PIA _ _ SLA _ _ CLI _ _ EAG _ _ |
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November (PIANO SLAVE CLIMB EAGER) | |
| 3. | What two numbers come next in this series? 1 10 3 9 5 8 7 7 9 6 ? ? |
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11 5 | |
| 4. | What is the 4-digit number in which the first digit is one-fifth the last, and the second and third digits are the last digit multiplied by 3? (Hint: The sum of all digits is 12.) |
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1155 | |
| 5. | At a party, 10 men shake hands with each other. They all get to shake everyone's hand. No two people shake hands with each other more than once. How many total handshakes are there? |
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45 (9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1) | |
| 6. | What's the missing number? |
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8 (H=1 G=2 F=3 E=4) | |
| 7. | If John gives Allan 600 baht they will both have the same amount of money. If Allan gives John 600 baht, John will have five times as much as Allan. Who has what? |
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Allan has 1200 baht and John has 2400 baht | |
| 8. | In a footrace, Brian was neither first nor last. Debbie beat Brian. Brian beat John. Chris was neither first nor last. Chris beat James. John beat Chris. Who came in last? |
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James | |
| 9. | 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Ham, egg, tuna, shrimp (Each letter has been replaced by its alphabetical value plus two) | |
| 10. | Which of the four images in the bottom row of drawings best completes the series in the top row? |
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A | |
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