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    The document contains sample puzzles intended to test a person's ability to think logically and avoid assumptions. It includes two sets of puzzles with multiple choice or short answer questions. It also includes a word problem describing passenger changes at different train stations, followed by questions testing if the reader focused only on the passenger details rather than other implied information like the number of stations. The purpose is to show how preexisting mindsets or "mental sets" can cause a person to overlook important details outside their initial frame of reference.

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    The document contains sample puzzles intended to test a person's ability to think logically and avoid assumptions. It includes two sets of puzzles with multiple choice or short answer questions. It also includes a word problem describing passenger changes at different train stations, followed by questions testing if the reader focused only on the passenger details rather than other implied information like the number of stations. The purpose is to show how preexisting mindsets or "mental sets" can cause a person to overlook important details outside their initial frame of reference.

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    Puzzle Set #1 (30 Seconds/question)

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    The document contains sample puzzles intended to test a person's ability to think logically and avoid assumptions. It includes two sets of puzzles with multiple choice or short answer questions. It also includes a word problem describing passenger changes at different train stations, followed by questions testing if the reader focused only on the passenger details rather than other implied information like the number of stations. The purpose is to show how preexisting mindsets or "mental sets" can cause a person to overlook important details outside their initial frame of reference.

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    Puzzle Set #1 (30 seconds/question) 1. You walk into a class with 25 students in it.

    Will you be surprised if 2 students share a birthdate? 2. You toss a coin Will you be surprised if you get a Heads? 3. Which occur with more frequency in the United States - homicides or suicides? 4. Which is darker in the below image Square A or Square B?

    Puzzle Set #2 (30 seconds/question) 1. If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? 100 minutes OR 5 minutes 2. In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half the lake?

    Overloading System 2 To be read aloud Assume that youre the engineer of a passenger train. At the first station, 20 passengers get on. At the next station, 5 passengers get off and 15 get on. At the next station, 10 passengers get off and 12 get on. At the next station, 7 get off and 10 get on. At the next station, 20 passengers get off and 5 get on. At the next stations, 8 passengers get off and 3 get on. After I narrate the story, write down answers to the following questions: How old is the engineer of the train? How many stations were there? How many passengers are left on the train? Altogether, how many passengers have disembarked (or got off) the train since the first station? Altogether, how many passengers have boarded the train along its route?

    Answers 1st question might startle a lot of students who might claim it is unanswerable, but just repeat the first sentence and they will groan. 2nd question will be difficult unless they have heard the problem before. We are so busy attending to changes in the number of passengers that we dont attend to the stop themselves (mental set). 3rd question - most will get correct as their mental set had them continually processing passenger total. 4th and 5th questions - will probably be missed because the students will have kept to one set ie keeping track of the revelant quantities.

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