What is the integer that satisfies the following three conditions:
From an old SAT Exam
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A census taker came to the house with no one home. He asked a neighbor the ages of the three inhabitants and was told, "The product of their ages is 252 and the sum of their ages is their house number." Later the census taker returned, saying, "I need more information." The reply was, "The twins are named Derek and Doreen." The Census taker wrote down the ages and left. What were the ages? ANSWER Problems from Mathematics Teacher. (2011). Retrieved Februrary 17, 2011, from National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Website: http://www.nctm.org/publications/calendar/index.aspx?journal_id=2
Today's Math Problem will be simple math riddles. These riddles deal more with logic than mathematical computation
CHALLENGE QUESTION Two Riddles in one!To solve this riddle you don't want to manually do all of the math but rather try to figure out a pattern. A. What digit is the most frequent between the numbers 1 and 1,000? B. What digit is the least frequent between the numbers 1 and 1,000? Answers Riddles #1-4 come from from OnlineMathLearning.com
Math Riddles. (2008). Retrieved February 7, 2011, from Online Math Learning: http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/math-riddles.html The Challenge Question come from the Math Warehouse Math Riddles. (n.d.). Retrieved Feburary 7, 2011, from Math Warehouse: http://www.mathwarehouse.com/riddles/math-riddles.php In the movie, Legally Blonde, Elle uses reasoning to prove to her fellow lawyers that their client did not kill her husband. Elle states, "Exercising gives you endorphins, endorphins make you happy, happy people just don't kill their husbands, they just don't." Elle demonstrates the law of syllogism, which allows her to state a conclusion from two true conditional statements when the conclusion of one statement is the hypothesis of the other. Assuming that Elle's logic is sound, which of the following statements is NOT true? a) People who exercise don't kill their husbands. b) People who exercise are happy. c) People who do not kill their husbands are happy. d) People who kill their husbands are unhappy. answer The word game DOUBLET was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland. The object of the game is to change a word into another word by successively changing only one letter at the time to form an intermediate valid word. For example, the following process changes the word TEN to JOY: T E N T O N T O Y J O Y Using similar process, change the word Gift to Love This problem came from LogicVille.
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