1 2 Which direction do more arrows point in? 3 a) Up b) Down c) Left d) Right e) Equal number for each direction 4 How can you plant seven trees in six lines of three trees each? Draw your solution on the answer sheet. 5 6 The day before yesterday I was 25 and the next year I will be 28. This is true only one day in a year. What day is my birthday?
7 8 9 Add one straight line to make the following true: 10 How many computers are in the room if all but two are made by Apple, all but two are made by Sony, and all but two are made by Samsung? 11 You must get all of these correct to receive credit:
12 13 14 Starting in the bottom left corner and moving either up or right, adding up the numbers along the way, what is the largest sum which can be made? 5 2 5 4 1 7 6 1 7 3 5 9 4 1 5 2 3 8 3 2 3 1 4 9 6 15 I am the owner of a pet store. If I put in one canary per cage, I have one bird too many. If I put in two canaries per cage, I have one cage too many. How many cages and canaries do I have? 16 Mac's new house number has three digits. When she challenged her friends to guess it, they tried: 135, 780, 785, and 732. "That's amazing," Mac said. "You've each guessed exactly one digit correctly and in its right place!" What is Mac's house number? 17 You are visiting a new town and need a haircut. There are only two barbers in town. You visit each shop. One is disorganized and messy and the barber has a horrible haircut. The other one is neat and tidy and the barber has a wonderful haircut. Which barber would you choose and why?
18 There are ten people in a house. Everybody wants to make a hand shake with only people shorter than themselves. Assume everybody is different in height. How many hand shakes are made? 19 In which six-letter country can the following capitals be found? Athens, Delhi, London, Nassau, Oslo, and Peking. 20 On a clock, the big and small hand are exactly between 1 and 2. Both hands lie on top of each other. What time is it? 21 A certain mathematician, his wife, and their teenage son all play a fair game of chess. One day when the son asked his father for 10 dollars for a Saturday night date, his father puffed his pipe for a moment and replied, "Let's do it this way. Today is Wednesday. You will play a game of chess tonight, tomorrow, and a third on Friday. If you win two games in a row, you get the money." "Whom do I play first, you or mom?" "You may have your choice," said the mathematician, his eyes twinkling. The son knew that his father played a stronger game than his mother. To maximize his chance of winning two games in succession, should he play father-mother-father or mother-father-mother?
22 A 3 inch cube is painted on all sides with RED. The cube is then cut into small cubes of dimension 1 inch. All the so cut cubes are collected and thrown on a flat surface. What is the probability that all the top facing surfaces have RED paint on them? 23 A farmer has seventeen sheep. All but nine of them die. How many sheep does he have left? 24 You are running in a street marathon and you pass the person in 2nd place. What place are you now? 25 Which statement is true out of the following? One statement here is false. Two statements here are false. Three statements here are false.