Think creatively to solve these

questions!
 The English Encyclopedia.

Four volumes of an English Encyclopedia, num

bered 1 through 4 from left to right, have been
placed on a shelf. Each volume has 500 pages
. The thickness of each 500-prgram volume is
2cm and the thickness of each cover is 1/4 cm.

If a worm were to begin at page 1 of Volume 1

and eats up to page 4500 of Volume 4, what di
stance will it have traveled?
 Answer:

¼+¼+2+¼+¼+2+¼+¼

= 5.5 cm
• You have 2 cubes which contains numbe
rs on each side. You are to decide which
numbers are to put onto each cube so th
at they represent the dates on a calendar
. What are the numbers on each side?
 Answer:
0 0 0 0
1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2
3 6 6 8
4 7 3 4
5 8 5 7
6 can be turned to become 9 Or any other combination
 Crossing a bridge
• On a dark night, 4 people wanted to cross
a bridge but they only had a torchlight that
could brighten the path. The bridge could
only take the weight of not more than 2
people at any one time and hence they
needed to take turns to cross it.
 Crossing the Bridge:
The list shows the time taken for each person t
o cross the bridge.
A: 1 min
B: 2 min
C: 5 min
D: 10 min

If the faster person had to keep to the speed of

the slower one, what is the shortest time neede
d for all of them to cross the bridge?
 Answer:
• AB CD 2 min
A
• B CD 1 min

CD
• B A 10 min
B
• CD A 2 min Total = 17 mins
AB
• CD 2 min
Copy this in a foolscap and try this
question.
Container A contains 250 red marbles an
d 200 blue marbles.
Container B contains 600 red marbles an
d 150 blue marbles.
How many red and blue marbles must be
moved from Container A to Container B s
uch that 25% of the marbles in Container
A are red and 75% of the marbles in Con
tainer B are red?