Friday, 10/17/03 -- Seventh Grade Prepare paper for Test #6.
Correct Outsiders quizzes.
Mental Floss
A baker can roll the dough left over from 4 cookies into
1 cookie. He started out with 4 balls of dough; enough for 16 cookies.
How many cookies is he ultimately able to bake?
In which six-letter country can the following capitals be
found? Athens, Delhi, London, Nassau, Oslo, and Peking.
Natives on a strange island are either Truth-sayers or Liars.
You come across three of them and ask the first, "Are you a Truth-sayer
or a Liar?" He mumbles something that you don't understand. The second
one says (about the first one) "He says that he's a Truth-sayer." The third
one says (about the second one) "He's lying." Who's lying and who's telling
the truth?
A heavyset man who works in the butcher's shop is 6'2" tall.
He has a 42" chest and a 34" waist. What does he weigh?
A rooster lays an egg which rolls down a ramp with a 45-degree
incline. How far will the egg roll after thirty seconds? Assume that the
weight of the egg doesn't matter.
