1. A young tot answered the phone and asked who was calling. “I married your mother, but I am not your father – or your stepfather!” the man replied. Who was calling?
2. Using only pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters (but at least ONE of each), make change for $1.00, using exactly fifty coins.
3. A digital clock forms palindromic numbers* 114 times a day. What is the least time between two consecutive palindromic clock numbers? What is the most?
*Numbers that read the same forward and backward, like 8:28 or 12:21.
4. Ralph drives 60 miles at an average speed of 30 mph (fog maybe?), then returns over the same route at an average speed of 60 mph. What is his average speed for the entire trip?
5. What are the next two letters in this sequence? O, T, T, F, F, S, S, ___, ___
(Lots of ‘right’ answers here. There’s one that probably fits ‘best'(?), but I’ll take anything you can justify convincingly.)
6. A wooden cube is dropped into red paint. It is then cut into 27 equal-size smaller cubes (2 cuts each direction, like a Rubik’s Cube). How many of the smaller cubes are found to have red paint on a) 3 faces, b) 2 faces, c) 1 face, and d) no faces?7. Which is more: The product of the integers from -5 to 5, or the sum of those same integers?8. a) Find the sum of the reciprocals of the first four primes. b) Is that sum more or less than the product of the same four numbers?9. Fill in the blank below with the symbol for one of the four standard arithmetic operations in such a way that the answer is a) The largest b) the smallest
0.9 ___ 0.9
10. Find a number between 3/7 and 4/9.
11. Sam goes to the bank to get an equal number of dimes and quarters. On the way home he spent 3 quarters and 1 dime, leaving him 52 coins. What is the total value of all the dimes and quarters Sam got from the bank?
12. The first 10 numbers in the sequence 3, 33, 333, 3333, . . . are added. What is the digit in the thousands place of the answer?
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