Posted on 10/11/2017 8:29:51 PM PDT by sparklite2
It doesn’t say WHICH half of the lake.
The first half takes 47 days. The last half takes 1 day.
2 was just me not stopping before answering
I see the formula for number one and don’t get it.
Oh well.
I’m still amazing...
And... they say:
“So if 100 widgets are all making widgets”
...but mean: ‘So if 100 _machines_ are all making widgets’ lol
What does IQ stand for? : )
1.05 + .05 = 1.10
The bat costs a dollar more than the ball
It’s from Firesign Theater’s I THINK WE’RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS, used as a question to stump a computer, or rather “The Doctor”, vaguely, the operating system.
“The Doctor” tries several paraphrases, e.g. “... wise ass the poor rich bird laser’s edge in the aeyre? ...”, each time intoning, “noooooooooo ...” as it can’t make sense of it, before finally capitulating with the announcement, “Open for maintenance alignment.”
Way ahead of its time in 1971.
intelligence quotient
I live 7 miles from Lily Pad Pond.
It`s full of frogs that double in population every 6 weeks.
“3. 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?”
At night the frogs come out, sit on the lily pads and croak til 5 am. This causes the lily pads to become waterlogged, heavy and sink.
If each frog jumps to a new pad every 5 seconds, how many frogs will it take to sink the whole caboodle of lily pads if it doubles every day but sinks every night from the croaking frogs if each frog lays 20,000 eggs, each frog weighs 22.7 g and each lily pad can hold 32 kg of weight before sinking from 1,409 frogs jumping on it every 5 minutes?
Ridiculously easy.
easy peasy
I loved Firesign Theatre. Some favorite bits ===
Marilyn Monroe comes back to life and is interviewed.
“It’s great to have you here, Marilyn.”
“Thank you. It’s great to be here. It’s great to be *anywhere*!”
Jane Fonda — “If it wasn’t for my writers, I couldn’t answer the phone!”
The real trick with these online tests is not to reveal your honest answers.
A co-worker liked to play a game where she would ping us to such online tests and asked us to share our scores. She always emerged on top. Until one day when I waited her out. After she announced that she trumped everyone else (again), I replied and topped her score. No more games.
Yep. Those three questions were easy and could be done without any pen and paper.
Why can’t it be 1 + .10 = 1.10 making it $1 more?
True story.
I loaded up a card to buy coffee. It was 2.10 per cup so I decided to load up enough for 20 - $42.
The guy asks how much when I say I want to load my card. I say 42.
He thought I was making a joke, a Hitchhikers Guide reference.
I had to say, no, I want $42 on the card.
Why can’t it be 1 + .10 = 1.10 making it $1 more?
The first two are straight forward algebra. The last one can be figured logically or taking the log based 2 of half of 2 to the 48 power.
That’s one of those frictionless spherical cow questions. :-)
On day 48 a full half of the lake is covered.
Cost of ball + 1 + cost of ball = 1.1
2 cost of ball = .1
Cost of ball = .05
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