Friday, 3/2/12
Prepare sheet for Test #22.
Mental Floss.
  1. An infinite number of mathematicians are standing behind a bar. The first asks the barman for half a pint of root beer, the second for a quarter pint, the third an eighth, and so on. How many pints of root beer will the barman need to fulfill all mathematicians' wishes?
  2. Find the name of a planet hidden in each of the following sentences:
  3. What two words contain the most letters?
  4. Mom baked a cake. Dad ate 1/6 of the cake. Brother ate 1/5 of what was left. Then sister had 1/4 of the remaining cake. After that the dog ate 1/3 of the remaining cake, and finally another kid ate 1/2 of what was left after the dog was finished. What fraction of the whole cake is left for mom to eat? (Alert: math.)
  5. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the middle field?
  6. When you behead a word, you remove the first letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.

  7. Example: Begin -> Sour     Answer: The words are Start and Tart.


Test #22