Garfield and His Millionth Meal! Gotta love Garfield! Let’s have some fun. Here are 3 related BT mini-challenges: Answers are in red: 1. Garfield says it’s noon. Let’s suppose he’s been eating non-stop since midnight. How fast would he have to eat meals to make his statement possible? A little over 23 meals per second!! 2. It doesn’t quite […]
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Macy’s Painted Cube Solution
Macy’s Solution to the Painted Cube Brain Teaser Macy Middleton is a 5th grade student of subscriber Alexis Avis. You probably can’t see (or zoom into) the writing on her paper, but the cube represents her solution as well. The purple corner cubes represent the cubes in the original problem that would be painted red […]
Various Answers
For Summer BTs, Posted throughout May & June 2016 REMINDER: Answers in red. Solvers (submitted) in blue. (Forgive any omissions.) Comments in green. For further elaboration, feel free to ask! 1. A palindrome is a number, like 535, that reads the same forward or backward. How many palindromes are there between 10 & 1000? 99. Jim Waterman, Dan […]
