It is a TEST. Actually do it for real. There are 10 questions, so
you should be able to answer them all in 5 minutes.
DO NOT look at the answers found at the end of this document, thatwould be cheating! Write each of your answers down, it makes a difference!
1) Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How many
months have 28 days?
2) If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill
every
half hour, how long would it be before all the pills had been taken?
3) I went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and wound up my
clock
and set the alarm to sound at nine o'clock in the morning. How many
hours sleep would I get before being awoken by the alarm?
4) Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?
5) A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep were
left?
6) If you had only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where
there was an oil heater, an oil lamp and a candle, which would you
light first?
7) A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction,
each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What
color is the bear?
8) Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have?
9) How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the
Ark?
10) If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from Chicago and
stopped
at Pittsburgh to pick up 7 more people and drop off 5 passengers and
at
Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 4 more and eventually
arrive at Philadelphia 20 hours later, what's the name of the driver?
Scroll down for answers.
ANSWERS :
1) All of them. Every month has at least 28 days.
2) 1 hour. If you take a pill at 1 o'clock, then another at 1.30 and
the last at 2 o'clock, they will be taken in 1 hour.
3) 1 hour. It is a wind up alarm clock which cannot discriminate
between a.m. and p.m.
4) 70. Dividing by half is the same as multiplying by 2.
5) 9 live sheep.
6) The match.
7) White. If all walls face south, the house must be on the North
Pole.
8) 2 apples. I HAVE 3 APPLES, YOU TAKE 2, WHAT DO YOU HAVE?
