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BESAVILLA’S NOTES 1 March 2022

SET 1
PROBLEM 1
A hunter wished to take his one-piece rifle on a train but the conductor
refused to permit it in the coach and the baggage man could not take any
article whose greatest dimension exceeded 1 yeard. The length of the rifle
was 1.7 yeards. What could the hunter do?
Ans: Put it diagonally in a cubical box 1 yeard on a side.
PROBLEM 2
Stations A and B are 120 miles apart on a single-track railroad. At the same
time that a train leaves A for B at 25 mph, a train leaves B for A at 15 mph.
Just as the first train leaves A, a South American botfly flies from the front of
the engine straight toward the other train at 100 mph. On meeting the second
train it immediately turns back and flies straight for the first train. It continues
to fly back and fourth with undiminished speed until it is crushed in the
eventual collision. How far the fly flown?
Ans: 300 miles
Problem 8
The numbers are divided into three groups as follows; 0, 3, 6, 8, 9,…. in the
first group, 1, 4, 7, 11, 14,…. in the third. In which groups would 15, 16 and
17 be placed?
Ans: 15 and 16 in the 3rd group, 17 in the 2nd group
Problem 9
In a fast Major League baseball game, pitcher Hi N. Outside managed to get
by with the minimum number of pitches possible. He played the entire game,
which was not called prior to completion. How many pitches did he make?
Ans: 25 pitches
Problem 10
Determine the next three terms of a sequence 12, 1, 1, 1,…..
Ans: 2, 1, 3

PROBLEM 3 Problem 11
A man walks one mile south, one mile west, then one mile north ending State University won their first football game of the season 17 to 0. Though
where he began. From how many points on the surface of the earth can such they scored no safeties, they managed to score more points each quarter
a journey be made? (There are more than 1) than they had scored in the previous quarter. What were State’s quarter
scores?
Ans: Infinity of points where one such point is the North Pole.
Ans: 0, 3, 6, 8
PROBLEM 4
A bricklayer has 8 bricks. Seven of the bricks weigh the same amount and 1 Problem 12
is a little heavier than the others. If the man has a balance scale how can he A chemist has three large test tubes and a beaker with 54 c.c. of elixir. Using
find the heaviest brick in only 2 weighings? the test tubes and ingenuity only, how can he retain 50 c.c. in the beaker?
Ans: 3,3,2 Ans: 50

PROBLEM 5 Problem 13
Maynard’s Grandfather Clock is driven by two weights, one for the striking How many colors are necessary for the squares of a chessboard in order to
mechanism which strikes the hours only, the other for the time mechanism. assure that a bishop cannot move from one square to another of the same
When he hears the clock strike his bedtime, he immediately winds the clock color?
and retires. After winding, the weighs are exactly opposite each other. The Ans: 8 colors
weighs are again opposite every six hours thereafter. What is Maynard’s
bedtime?
Problem 14
Ans: 9 pm or 3 am A neat computer programmer wears a clean shirt every day. If he drops off
his laundry and piucks up the previous week’s load every Monday night, how
Problem 6 many shirts must he own to keep him going?
The game reverse tic-tac-toe (known to some as toe-tac-tic) has the same
Ans: 15
rules as the standard game with one exception. The first player with three
markers in a row loses. Can the player with the first move avoid being
beaten? Problem 15
Very few people are aware of the growth pattern of Jack’s beanstalk. On the
Ans: takes the center square and then counters each of his first day it increased its height by ½, on the second day by 1/3, on the third
opponents move by taking the diametrically opposite day by ¼, and so on. How long did it take to achieve its maximum height
square (100 times its original height)?
Ans: 198 days
Problem 7
Dr. Fubisher LaRouche, the noted mathematician, was shoping at a
hardware store and asked the price of certain articles. The salesman replied.
Problem 16
“One would cost 10 cents, eight would ost 10 cents, seventeen would cost 20 Six boys on a hockey team pick a captain by forming a circle and counting
cents, one hundred and four would cost 30 cents, seven hundred and fifty six out until only one remains. Joe is given the option of deciding what number
would aslo cost 30 cents, and one thousand and seventy two would cost 40 to count by. If he is second in the original counting order what number should
cents.” What was Dr. LaRouche buying? he choose?

Ans: 10 cent/number Ans: 10