Friday, 2/26/10 -
Prepare sheet for Test 20.
Mental Floss.
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Wacky Wordies:
a) 
b) 
c) another one
thing d) 
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What property do 1, 2, 6, and 10 all have that no other whole
number has?
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Read the next sentence, and determine what the four uppercase
words have in common.
As you put down your bowl of STEW and take your SEAT, you let out a
SHOUT and leap back up; you sat on a THORN!
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If you balanced a broom horizontally on your finger, so that
your finger was exactly on the broom's center of gravity, marked that spot
and cut the broom in two, then you would have a long and a short piece;
the long piece being most of the handle and the short piece being the bristle
end and a small part of the handle. Now, if you weigh both pieces, which
will weigh more? Or will they weigh the same?
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Bob owns a pet store. He has thirty-five birds for sale.
If twenty of those birds are parrots, what is the probability that any
of the remaining birds are dodo birds?
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What's so unusual about this sentence? (Be specific.)
A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the
streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
Test 20