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  1. Your task is to debunk the rumor that I am psychic. Should not be hard. .
  2. don't take for granted where The dog is tied
  3. What do you look at with one eye, but never with two? Who can whistle from another man’s mouth? Who has a house too small for guests?
  4. Conjecture: As long as each of the two smaller pentagons are formed by joining the midpoints of the next larger pentagon, the two ratios of the areas will always be equal and the two ratios of the perimeters will always be equal, no matter what shape the largest pentagon has. Under what conditions is this true?
  5. You put your dog on a leash. Your leash is 80 feet in length. The dog is tethered to part of the exterior of your house (the tie is not part of the 80 feet). Your home's dimensions are 60ft by 40ft. How much yard does the dog have access to?
  6. I agree with the picture but you are missing something...something obvious
  7. Little Timmy weighs less than 60 lbs. He is the smallest sixth grader at his middle school, possibly the smallest sixth grader period. One day, on spring break, he went to the local beach. Shy, Timmy was resolute to sitting by himself, minding his own business on a sand dune. Unfortunately, being small and alone makes you the perfect target for bullies. Spotted, James the jerk and his troop descend on Timmy. Caught unprepared, Timmy had no where to disappear to. The bully set in calling Timmy names and taunting him. Tired of the taunts, Timmy posed a challenge to James. He told James that if he could lift James further away from the ground than what James could lift Timmy then James and his friends would have to leave him alone for a year. Naturally James, the biggest sixth grader at his school, possibly the biggest sixth grader ever agreed to the deal. Tim won the challenge. What happened?
  8. for the sake of simplicity and hopefully so i can actually declare a right answer, let's assume it originates from a fixed point.
  9. Still haven't found the answer I am looking for
  10. Michelle, john, and Kiru are all outside at the time a Jet is observed in the sky. Kiru hears the Jet's sonic boom two seconds before Michelle and seven seconds before John. if you were to draw a line to connect their locations they would form a triangle. Michelle is 10000 feet from Kiru. Kiru is 15000 ft from John. And John is 6000 ft from Michelle. Find a formula to derive the possible locations of where the sonic boom originated.
  11. **Hopefully this one is not actually a chestnut ** A military tank needs to cross a two hundred mile dessert (a straight flat path). The tank can travel 1 mile per gallon of gas and can only hold 40 gallons of gas in its tank. The tank is carrying its maximum capacity when it contains 40 gallons of gas (so you may not store additional gas anywhere on the tank); however, your crew knows of a way to store gas in the desert sand for retrieval at a later time. Presume that you have an infinite source of gas at the starting point. How much gas will it take to cross the dessert? How many times would you need to turn back towards the starting source? How many miles will you travel?
  12. there is a 50% chance of having a boy or girl in this society since it wasn't implied. I should had stated it as being stacked in the favor of boys to make the ratio more fun, but oh well
  13. Your child needs help. He needs to cut out 10 circles. Upon measuring the circle size he needs, you find the radius of the circle to be 2.5 inches. Assuming that a sheet of paper is only 8.5x11 what is the minimum number of sheets of paper needed to make the circles?
  14. Why are trailers rectangular And flower pots circular in shape? (There is a mathematical explanation)
  15. In a society in which people only want girls every family continues to have children until they have a girl. If they have a boy, they have another child. If they have a girl, they stop. What is the proportion of girls to boys in this society?
  16. Best In the sense of using the fewest amount of bulbs and taking the least amount of time but still getting accurate results.
  17. also this is not the most efficient way as you may not be done until the 97th floor or something.
  18. Whomever moved it, thank you. I realized after the fact that I put it in the wrong place and didn't know how to move it.
  19. Aren't you assuming that there are no defective lightbulbs? Surely not every bulb is made exactly alike (some variance)
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