How smart are you???? - Page 3

Destroyer · #21 03-03-2011, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

It helps if you turn 1/2 into a decimal. Or at least that is what I did.

1/2 = .5

30 / .5 = 60
60 + 10 = 70

Blue, you're exactly correct. What threw me though was something so simple as to be easily overlooked. Ferm actually hit the nail on the head. It was the / symbol. (Divide Divide = Multiply) The / symbol on a computer is or can be used as a divide symbol, since the divide sign that is on a calculator isn't on a computer keyboard. Since I rarely, if ever, use a computer for doing math, I simply forgot that / is divide and * is multiply on a computer keyboard. I completely missed the inversion.

(Truthfully, I think the question could have been written a little better, but the whole idea of this test is to trick us up, so I guess how they wrote it is fair)

And yes RW, sometimes I lose my mind. I usually find it again in a day or so.

(When I don't understand something is just bugs the hell outta me until I find the answer. I'm a night owl by habit, my normal bedtime is around 2am.. so at 1:15am I was just starting to get sleepy).

Blue_Runner · #22 03-03-2011, 12:40 PM

10-4 good buddy!

nipper · #23 03-08-2011, 12:15 PM

I got a 9 out of 11. Like many, I missed the California widow question and the Moses/Ark question. Ok, if the Ark question really was how many animals of each sex did NOAH bring on the ark, the answer would be "I don't know" wouldn't it? If he brought on a male and a female of each animal then existing in the world, we would not know that answer, would we? At least that was the way I was thinking, but of course ignoring the obvious that Moses did not do the ark thing.

RWilson2526 · #24 03-09-2011, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by nipper

I got a 9 out of 11. Like many, I missed the California widow question and the Moses/Ark question. Ok, if the Ark question really was how many animals of each sex did NOAH bring on the ark, the answer would be "I don't know" wouldn't it? If he brought on a male and a female of each animal then existing in the world, we would not know that answer, would we? At least that was the way I was thinking, but of course ignoring the obvious that Moses did not do the ark thing.

Hey Nipper where you been?