14 – Monday, May 26, 2014

Liz ZelencichProgram Manager

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As I was going to Saint Ives,

I crossed the path of seven wives.

Every wife had seven sacks,

Every sack had seven cats,

Every cat had seven kittens,

Kittens, cats, sacks, wives,

How many were going to Saint Ives?

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PROBLEM ONE

The three little pigs, as you know, built houses. One of straw, one of sticks, and one of bricks. By reading the six clues, figure out which pig built each house, the size of each house, and the town in which each house was located. Use this chart to keep track of your information and your logic.

1. Penny Pig did not build a brick house.2. The straw house was not medium sized.3. Peter's house was made of sticks, and it was neither medium nor small.4. Patricia Pig built her house in Pleasantville.5. The house in Hillsdale was large.6. One house was in a town called Riverview.

PROBLEM TWO

Using the letters AAEEIIMMPPTT complete this grid with valid words. The grid reads the same across as down.

PROBLEM THREE

PROBLEM FOURIf you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?

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PROBLEM TENYou have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple. Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket. How?....................................................................................

PROBLEM EIGHTTake the number of days in a leap year, add the number of months with 30 days, divide by the number of loaves in a baker's dozen, add the number of days in March, add the square root of nine and divide by the number of days in a week. Which month are you left with?

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PROBLEM FIVECan you name four days which start with

the letter "T"?

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PROBLEM SIXUsing eight eights and addition only, can

you make 1000?

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PROBLEM TWELVE

Use the numerals 1, 9, 9 and 6 exactly in that order to make

the following numbers: 28, 32, 35, 38, 72, 73, 76, 77, 100

and 1000. You can use the mathematical symbols +, -, ×, /,

, ^ (exponent symbol) and brackets.

Example: 63 = 1×9+9×6

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PROBLEM SEVEN After a local Post Office burglary, five

suspects were being interviewed. Below is a summary of their statements.

Police know that each of them told the truth in one of the statements and lied in the other.

From this information can you tell who committed the crime?

Brian said: It wasn't Charles. It was Alan.Derek said: It was Charles. It wasn't Alan.Charles said: It was Brian. It wasn't Eric.

Alan said: It was Eric. It wasn't Brian.Eric said: It was Derek. It was Alan.

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Nine dots are arranged in a three by three square. Connect each of the nine dots using only four straight

lines and without lifting your pen from the paper.

PROBLEM NINE

PROBLEM ELEVENFive sisters all have their birthday in a different month and each on a different day of the week. Using the clues below, determine the month and day of the week each sister's birthday falls. 1. Paula was born in March but not on Saturday. Abigail's birthday was not on Friday or Wednesday.2. The girl whose birthday is on Monday was born earlier in the year than Brenda and Mary.3. Tara wasn't born in February and her birthday was on the weekend.4. Mary was not born in December nor was her birthday on a weekday. The girl whose birthday was in June was born on Sunday.5. Tara was born before Brenda, whose birthday wasn't on Friday. Mary wasn't born in July.

Answers: 1. One person. 2. Patricia Pig/Pleasantville/m

edium/brick, Penny Pig/Riverview

/small/straw, Peter Pig/Hillsdale/

large/sticks. 3. limp, idea, m

eat, pate 4. The match. 5. Today, tom

orrow, Tuesday & Thursday 6. 888+88+

8+8+

8=1000

7. Derek. 8. September. 9. 10. You give one of your friends an apple and the basket. 11. Abigail, February, M

onday/Brenda, Decem

ber, Wednesday/M

ary, June, Sunday/Paula, March, Friday/Tara, July, Saturday. 12. M

any solutions.

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