It's not really difficult? I know quite a few kids who could do all of these, it's just not trying to take shortcuts to find the right answer, I got them all correct on my first try, and I know my preteen-aged brother could accomplish it.
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Trevor is taller than Daniela‚ and Nadine is taller than Hamish. If Samira and Nadine are both shorter than Daniela‚ who is second-tallest?
Since Samira and Nadine are shorter than Daniela, and Trevor's taller, then she's second tallest.
That's two.
Actually, these really aren't all that hard.
yellowdingo does some crazy things.
This being easy makes me wonder if the actual objective is not to test people for "smarts" but rather to see how many people will visit the link.
10/10, in about 4 minutes.
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Wouldn't knife and scissors be piercing or slashing?Which one does not belong?
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That's one, and how I figured it out.
I think people on this forum may have an unfair advantage on that one.
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My line of thinking was going towards everyday usage and not as a weapon. Scissors, for example, generally aren't designed to poke things with. At least in my experience with them. Emergency weapon? Heck yea it'd be piercing.
Knife I suppose would be stabbing at times on standard usage. I was just thinking of cutting food stuffs.
So how about the Pin is piercing only?
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After question 1, I call "foul" and refuse to participate.
That's two perfectly valid reasons why "scissors" should an acceptable answer.
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Question 3 has no correct answers. "45 x 9" is meaningless; the correct answer would be $45/m^2 x 9 m^2.
For the hen question, we have insuffienct information. It seems unlikely that all hens lay eggs at exactly the same rate. Are some of them are past menopause, and don't lay eggs at all?
Disclaimer: Once upon a time, I was on the Standards of Learning test construction committee for the State of Virginia. There's a whole field of learning concerned with test construction, especially geared toward how to make sure the test is measuring what you want it to measure, and not other stuff -- in this case, the test is directly measuring one's ability to ignore real-world considerations in favor of simplistic math puzzles.
After question 1, I call "foul" and refuse to participate.
Scissors have a hinge. Pins, axes, and (fixed-blade) knives don't.
Also, "Scissors" is 2 syllables. "Axe," "knife," and "pin" are all 1-syllable words. That's two perfectly valid reasons why "scissors" should an acceptable answer.
I got 9 out 0f 10 exactly because of the hinge issue
10 out of 10, but I had to use a calculator on the long division
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I got 9 out 0f 10 exactly because of the hinge issueAfter question 1, I call "foul" and refuse to participate.
Scissors have a hinge. Pins, axes, and (fixed-blade) knives don't.
Also, "Scissors" is 2 syllables. "Axe," "knife," and "pin" are all 1-syllable words. That's two perfectly valid reasons why "scissors" should an acceptable answer.
I'm throwing the question out on Kirth's say so.
So you got 100%.
Not sure yd would agree, but he thought gigantopithecus was a carnivore. Maybe he ended up learning about evolution from Peter Jackson's King Kong. So,....
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I don't want your pity, I'm no grade-grubber!
YOU'RE OUTTA ORDER! YOU'RE OUTTA ORDER!!!
As to the axe knife pin scissors ... Kirth makes a great point. :)
Two of them!
10 out of 10. The last one probably took me the longest. The Code was actually the easiest...I just looked at the common last letter of the words matched them up and checked for it in the answears. (It was the letter 'N').
But not really a hard test.
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Got all 10, and didn't even need a calculator for the one with the 1190 - I basically knew the right answer from intuition + remembering that 30^2 is 900.
That's nothing though. I once participated in a competition where two contestants are asked to solve a calculation, and the one to answer first with a correct number wins. I was up against this guy, who was a quicker thinker than anyone Iv'e ever known.
The judge starts by saying "203, divided by..." and let it hand there for a moment to get the tension up. Then, he completed the sentence with "7". The guy I was up against shouted "29" in less time than it took me to blink.
Seems that as soon as the judge said "203", the guy was thinking "203 is 210, which is 30 times 7, subtracted by 7".
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0/10. I didn't immediately see a test, and lost interest shortly thereafter. In fact, I -- Oh shiny!