Thread: Can You Pass the World's Shortest IQ Test?

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The 1% post here.

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Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Which uni had this on the entrance exam?...

Fiddy cent passed dat xam. As well as Pee did he.

If you are going downriver at 2mph and your canoe loses a wheel , how much pancake mix would you need to re shingle your roof ?

^Now that's a much batter question.

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

1. A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

Negotiable after bar fine paid.

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

2. If it takes five machines five minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?

No hab widgets. You want order.

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

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?

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Originally Posted by Dillinger

How do you get 5c for the ball?

I got the second one right i think

The bat is $1 more than the ball; remove $1 from the total = 10c (5c for ball and add 5c to bat).

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

The third question about the lily pads reminds me of this one (or a version of it):




The Rice And Chessboard Story


There's a famous legend about the origin of chess that goes like this. When the inventor of the game showed it to the emperor of India, the emperor was so impressed by the new game, that he said to the man

"Name your reward!"

The man responded,

"Oh emperor, my wishes are simple. I only wish for this. Give me one grain of rice for the first square of the chessboard, two grains for the next square, four for the next, eight for the next and so on for all 64 squares, with each square having double the number of grains as the square before."

The emperor agreed, amazed that the man had asked for such a small reward - or so he thought. After a week, his treasurer came back and informed him that the reward would add up to an astronomical sum, far greater than all the rice that could conceivably be produced in many many centuries!

Yes, I did some calculations.
If the lily pads covers only 1 square metre on day 1, then on day 48, the size of the lilys can cover over 140 million square kilometres.
The entire earth's water surface is approx 360 million square kilometres.
So by day 50, all the eath's oceans, seas, lakes etc would be covered.

a+b = 1.1
b=a+1
a+a+1=1.1
2a=0.10
a=0.5
b=1.05

Correct.

and I actually got it wrong like everyone else when doing it from memory

Answers.

1 - What sort of bums only spend 5c on a ball, and a buck on a bat? That is the real question. So my answer would be "I have no idea, but I expect at that price, they are very poorly made, most likely in slave labour conditions, and will fall apart fairly soon. So the real price is $1.10 and another $100 as well to buy a proper bat and ball.
2 - Frankly I do not care. I am more interested in the profit levels achieved which can not be gleaned from this.
3 - Never. The groundskeeper should be under strict instruction to only let them cover at a maximum one third of the lake for aesthetics sake.


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