Posted on 10/13/2012 2:57:36 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
ACHIEVING an IQ score higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking seems almost impossible, but not for one young girl.
Northwood College School pupil, Fabiola Mann, of Harrow on the Hill, scored a remarkable IQ of 162 in this summer’s University of London’s (UCL) Mensa medical test. It is the highest possible score anyone can achieve in the UK and European test. The 15-year-old beat physicists Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein, who both scored 160 when they took it.
Being a whizz kid at puzzles and mathematical tests, Fabiola decided to give it a go, she sat the test on July 30 at UCL in Gower Street, central London, and received her results on August 20, she said: “When I got the results I couldn’t believe it. The three-hour test was quite intimidating as it was in a very formal setting. There were about 30 other people taking the test and with the exception of one other candidate they were all adults in their 20s and 30s.”
Mensa is a society for people with a high IQ, to take the three-hour test you have to be over 10-years-old. The scoring is amended marginally for 10 to 18-year-olds who can score a maximum of 162. Those over 18 can only score a maximum of 161.
After completing her GCSE’s and A-levels, Fabiola wants to study medicine at Cambridge University. She said: “I am excited to explore the new possibilities that something like this has opened up for me, beating Einstein and Hawking is pretty scary, I don’t think I will ever be able to measure up to what they have achieved but I hope to achieve my dream of being a successful doctor and helping others.”
Along with being a fan of science fiction books, Fabiola loves to play chess and martial arts.
Fabiola’s mother, Rene Mann, 46, said: “As parents we are very proud of Fabiola and we hope she will be able to use this gift in a meaningful way that helps others and utilises her potential.”
The headteacher of Northwood College, Jacqualyn Pain, said: “I was delighted to hear about Fabiola’s success. “At Northwood College we focus on raising young women who know their own minds and are creative and flexible thinkers, as well as being able to achieve outstanding results. We are all thrilled with Fabiola’s achievement.” Fabiola received her official certificate on Wednesday last week.
And just where does it state that the trip has to be completed in four minutes?
It’s in the question itself. You must average 30mph the whole trip.
30mph is 2 miles per minute. The whole trip is two miles therefore at 15mph going up the hill it’ll take the entire 4 minutes doing the first uphill mile. There is no time left to do the second mile. It’d have to be a “beam me up Scotty” moment.
Actually, an IQ of 163 puts her in the top 0.0018%, or one person in 18,750. Anything over 135 is in the top 1%.
http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx
Many moons ago I scored 165 on a Mensa IQ test. The person administering the test read a long passage on an extremely obscure subject, in this case the minute details and terminology of ancient Greek religious practice (priests and sacrifices and such, as opposed to mythology) then I had an hour to complete a long timed multiple choice exam on the subject covered.
Unfortunately for the accuracy of the test at measuring my IQ, I had just the week before finished a long book on the subject at question.
Aced the test. The monitor about stroked out. LOL
(Also, anyone who says their IQ "is" a certain number because of a test they took earlier in life, they are mistaken. That number was an indicator of their ability, divided by their physical age, but only AT THAT AGE AND THAT MOMENT IN TIME. The next year/month/week/day, their physical age changed, and thus so would their IQ (unless they advanced their mental acuity by the exactly correct proportion during that time).
Just sayin'.
(And yes, I had high scores as a child and as an adult, and was admitted to MENSA just for my SAT scores, way back when I was a much thinner 317.)
To travel at an average speed of 15 mph means you will take 4 minutes to travel each mile.
To travel at an average speed of 30 mph means you will take 2 minutes to travel each mile.
Therefore, to average 30 mph for the 2 mile trip you must travel the distance in 4 minutes.
If you travel the first mile of the trip at 15 mph it will take 4 minutes.
So at the completion of the first mile you have already used up all the time available to average 30 mph.
Therefore it is impossible to complete the trip in the necessary time to average 30 mph.
If you travel the second mile at 45 mph, as has been suggested, it does not give you an average of 30 mph.
At 45 mph it will take an additional 1 min. 20 seconds to travel the second mile.
(60/45 = 1.333
That means the total time for the 2 mile trip is now 5 minutes 20 seconds.
(4 minutes for the first mile plus 1 1/3 minutes for the second mile)
Therefore the average time per mile is half of that, or 2 minutes 40 sec. (2.666 minutes).
That equates to an average speed of 22.5 mph for the 2 mile trip.
(60 minutes / 2.6666 = 22.5)
You are assuming facts not in evidence. The question is about that particular trip on that particular 2-mile section of road; there is no "return trip" mentioned.
There is a short story by Aldous Huxley very much like this.
Your garbage man isn't going to send humans and things to space, develop life saving medical treatments, wreck the economy on a massive scale, and etc...
the “return trip” is the downhill trip back to the starting point. hence “return”
There is no limitation on ‘time’ given in the ‘test question’.
Attended one and only one Mensa meeting.
Several people were sitting around reassuring each other that the world’s problems would be solved if Mensa members were given absolute power.
I pointed out that my goals for society were diametrically opposite to their’s.
Intelligence is a tool, it is only a tool. Like any other tool, it can be used wisely or foolishly. The major difference between a really smart person and anyone else is that the smart guy has greater potential to do good, or to cause a lot of damage.
Skip direct fuel injection and go through the worm hole.
It is asking (ignoring all the irrelevant rubbish about hills and such) that you (or your car, or both of you) achieve an **average** velocity of 30 mph over the 2-mile distance.
To travel 2 miles at a velocity of 30 mph will require 4 minutes, whether uphill or down, or swimming through goo or whatever other nonsensical extraneous condition as to your mode of travel may be applicable. Velocity is velocity, ok?
If you travel the first mile at a velocity of only 15 mph, that first mile will -- guess what? -- require 4 minutes to traverse. Thus, to achieve an average velocity of 30 mph over the 2 mile trip, you will have precisely ZERO time left to travel the second mile and your velocity must therefore be "infinite" (which is an idiotic proposition on its face).
Contrary to your post, there is indeed a time factor mentioned in the problem, to wit, the problem's usage of VELOCITY, which is by definition DISTANCE PER UNIT OF TIME.
Got it now, mate?
no faster than an average speed of 15 mi/h
Because it is so old, the car can climb the first mile—the ascent—no faster than the average speed of 15 mph
The car "CAN" travel no faster than 15 mph but did it actually do it?
AND it does not state how long it took to traverse the first uphill mile, YOU merely assumed it.........
NO MENSA FOR YOU!
Nonsense. The limitation on time is prescribed by the usage of “velocity”, which is by definition “distance per unit of time”, and the measure is given also within the problem: mph.
OK. Let's say we did. Averaged 15 mph for 1 mile (uphill, right ?)
Now, let's say that on the downhill run, we average 45 mph.
That would take about 1.2 (as you say) minutes. The uphill part took 4.
OK. 1.2 +4 = 5.2 minutes. Which means exactly squat, and has nothing to do with Average miles per hour.
The Average mph for 1 mile was 15, for the second it was 45, and therefore the average MPH for a 2 mile course =(15+45) 60 divided by 2 miles gives An average of 30mph over a 2 mile course.
No kidding. Mensa is only top 2%, maybe 133 IQ.
Think of it in terms of “time” and not “speed” and it will make sense.
It is fundamentally a time, not speed, problem. Took me a min or two to wrap my head around it which is why I am not a physicist but rather an economist.
I despise Physics. Makes my head hurt. ;)
She’s my cousin actually. She reads everything I post here so I’m sure to get an email about this :-)
Q1- Distance, Time, and Speed An old car has to travel a 2-mile route, uphill and down. Because it is so old, the car can climb the first mile—the ascent—no faster than an average speed of 15 mi/h. How fast does the car have to travel the second mile—on the descent it can go faster, of course—to achieve an average speed of 30 mi/h for the trip?
There's the question. Doesn't state that the trip must take 4 minutes. The only place that was stated was in someone else's comment. And that person is wrong.
You must average 30mph the whole trip.
So... how does one determine average MPH for such a course?
If you drive 1 mile at 15 mph, and 1 mile at 45 mph, you will have gone 2 miles, and your average MPH is the two SPEEDS ADDED and then DIVIDED by the length (2). That gives 30 MPH average for a course length of 2 miles.
Doesn't matter how darn long it took. It isn't an issue in the question. There was no time limitation specified.
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