Can YOU pass the world's shortest IQ test?

Daily Mail ^ | 10/11/17 | Siofra Brennan

[InterceptPoint]

1 and 3 were a bit tricky. But 2 made me actually think before answering.

It takes a machine 5 minutes to make a widget. Give me 100 machines or 1000 and I will pump out exactly one widget from each machine every five minutes.

It always takes 5 minutes for each machine to build a widget.

I got all three correct. For those of us who did I declare this makes us smarter than all liberals, none of whom would have gotten better than 1 out of 3 at best.

[Bob434]

[[Given the speed of widget making, one machine would still take five minutes to make a widget.]]

only in the original first 5 machines- the other 200 could be slower or faster- we don’t know- it’s a trick question- if however, all widget machines everywhere were capable of making a widget per minute- then yep- we could then know the 100 mentioned were capable of 1 p/m

[sparklite2]

If it’s half covered on day 47, then it just takes one day to cover the remaining half.

[dr_lew]

Yeah, they didn’t define a day 0. What would be a grammatically innocuous way to do this?

... how about:

In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. If the patch doubles in size every day, and it will take 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how many days will it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?

... but that almost makes it too easy!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Because the second half of the lake is covered in 1 day.

[Bob434]

also- were not even sure how fast the first 5 machines are- one could create a widget in 30 seconds, another in 1 minute 30 seconds another the rest taking 1 minute each-

Question is too vague to answer

[sparklite2]

The left, in this case Robert Reich, thinks decreasing the rate of increase in a program’s funding is a decrease in funding. That’s why we have a twenty trillion dollar debt.

[Bob]

47 days covered the first half and one more covered the second half.

[Seruzawa]

I should ask the kid at the store where he rang up a $3.27 total and then couldn’t make change when I gave him $5.27 to take the test.

[chiller]

2 & 3 were easy., but if that ball costs 10c and the bat is 1$ more the total cost is $1.10.

What am I missing ?

[Syllojism]

Actually there are 2 correct answers to the third question, because they didn’t word it explicitly enough.

47 days is one answer. 1 day is also a correct answer.

Seems explicit enough to me. It says it takes 48 days to cover the lake, not merely that it will be covering the lake after 48 days.

[sparklite2]

I like you, Bob. You could read a
novel in a bowl of alphabet soup.

[dr_lew]

Why does the porridge bird lay his eggs in the air?

[sparklite2]

No, the total cost of bat and ball would be 1.20.

[Syllojism]

2 & 3 were easy., but if that ball costs 10c and the bat is 1$ more the total cost is $1.10.

What am I missing ?

If the bat costs $1.00 and the ball costs $0.10, then the bat only costs $0.90 more than the ball. The question says the bat costs $1 more than the ball does.

[TruthWillWin]

Same, took less than a minute.

[gitmo]

All three

[Do the math]

An IQ test takes about a week to finish. I took one when I was 12. It cost the state about $1000 dollars back then. That was a lot of money back in those days. I'm not a genius, but I'm very bright. The phyicrist that gave me the exam told me that I was the most sane person he had ever met. My reply was that I was deeply disturbed by that comment?

[Syllojism]

also- were not even sure how fast the first 5 machines are- one could create a widget in 30 seconds, another in 1 minute 30 seconds another the rest taking 1 minute each-

Question is too vague to answer

Like many math questions, it makes certain assumptions which should be obvious to the reader, namely that the machines are identical. It seems you're still struggling with the idea that five machines making five widgets in five minutes = one machine making one widget per minute, too, which would be why you got the answer wrong in the first place.

[ModelBreaker]

It was either a very big pond or a very very tiny patch of Lilly Pads