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[anonymous]
Have fun~
What object has keys that open no locks, space, but no room, and you can enter, but never leave?
A small ship has 15 passengers on it. Right as it's passing through shark infested water, however, its engines break and it begins to sink! There are only 20 minutes before the ship sinks completely and the only method of escape is a small, 5-person raft. Luckily, there's an island nearby, but it takes the raft 9 minutes to travel to the island and back. How many people will survive?
A student is told by his teacher that he must study every day for one week and that each time he studies, he must study for at least two hours. However, the student is very lazy and wants to study as little as possible. What is the absolute lowest number of hours he has to study for?
What animal is guaranteed to draw blood if it attacks you? The answer is 8 letters long.
You have business on the 8th floor of a building. You've managed to climb from the 1st floor to the 4th floor in 48 seconds. How much longer will it take you to get to the 8th floor, provided you climb at the same pace?
By the way, the first person to solve them all correctly will win a prize. A pretty useful one, if I do say so myself~
What object has keys that open no locks, space, but no room, and you can enter, but never leave?
A small ship has 15 passengers on it. Right as it's passing through shark infested water, however, its engines break and it begins to sink! There are only 20 minutes before the ship sinks completely and the only method of escape is a small, 5-person raft. Luckily, there's an island nearby, but it takes the raft 9 minutes to travel to the island and back. How many people will survive?
A student is told by his teacher that he must study every day for one week and that each time he studies, he must study for at least two hours. However, the student is very lazy and wants to study as little as possible. What is the absolute lowest number of hours he has to study for?
What animal is guaranteed to draw blood if it attacks you? The answer is 8 letters long.
You have business on the 8th floor of a building. You've managed to climb from the 1st floor to the 4th floor in 48 seconds. How much longer will it take you to get to the 8th floor, provided you climb at the same pace?
By the way, the first person to solve them all correctly will win a prize. A pretty useful one, if I do say so myself~
folded over, anonymous, in a disguised hand
Depends on how fast the leaking ship can travel.
Zero. (He ought to study more, but that doesn't mean he has to.)
Mosquito.
Assuming that "story" and "floor" are synonymous here, 64 seconds.
[anonymous]
folded over, anonymous, same disguised hand
And as for the lazy student? If he's devious about his teacher's exact wording - and willing to do schoolwork in the late hours of the night - he'll be able to make it out with just eight hours of study.
[anonymous]
[folded, not disguised]
Is that nine minutes round trip, or each way? Either way -- too many factors. Drift, anyone on the ship who can bail, possibility of the Coasties being competent for once. And you can put more than 5 people on a five-man raft if none of them are typical overweight Americans.
Who the fuck listens to teachers. As long as his parents make him study for.
I'm guessing you don't mean the self-inflicted claw marks after a black fly bite -- Mosquito.
64.
What's the prize?
Re: [folded, not disguised]
Try again, I guess? You'll have to get them all right to get the prize.
no subject
What do you get when you attach a lawnmower engine and a propeller to your hypothetical five-man raft?
[anonymous]
no subject
[folded, not disguised]
what wascomputer keyboard.2. Assuming this is a straight logic problem and not some kind of trick question, and assuming that the raft isn't self-propelling, thirteen of them should survive. The raft can make two full round trips and have two minutes left over to pick up a final passengers before the ship sinks. One passenger has to return the raft to the ship on each return trip.
3. Eight. He should start a two-hour study session before midnight one day and continue it over into the next (i.e., Sun-Mon, Tues-Weds, Thurs-Fri), with another two-hour session on the last day. But I'd recommend that he work a little harder than that, especially if he wants to pass my course.
4. Mosquito.
5. The wording's unclear here. It will take sixty-four seconds to climb from the fourth to the eighth floor, but if you're asking "how much longer will it take you to climb from the fourth floor to the eighth than from the first to the fourth," then the answer is sixteen--it's sixteen seconds a flight.
[reposted because Indy wouldn't ICly make his mun's idiot logic flaw in #2, but I think Wonka's already won]
[anonymous]
Anyway, just leave your room number or let me know where I can find you tonight or tomorrow night and I'll deliver your prize to you! You didn't get 1st place, but 2nd place deserves something, too, right?
[also anonymous]
[anonymous]
[written a little later]
Uh, not a blowtorch or something like that. Just a plain old torch. It'll be on fire, though! That's useful, right?