SUBMITTED BY:

KENETH ADLAWAN
RICA ANN
BONGHANOY
LYNDELLE
ARRIESGADO
PEA JANE LIMORAN
FRESHLY SUBMITTED TO:
PARAGUSO
MR.
ELMER
 QUESTION #1
A soccer team just became first in the national
league. The players which were on the field just
after the referee blew the final signal wanted to
congratulate each other by shaking hands.
Assuming that each player shook hands with
every other player only once, how many time were
the hands shaken in total? (There are of course 11
players in a soccer team)
SOLUTION AND ANSWER
Solution
Just name the players 1, 2, 3, .... and 11. Player 1 has to
shake hands with player 2, 3, ... and 11. So this counts
for 10 shakes.
Player 2 has already shaken hands with player 1. He still
has to shake hands with player 3, 4, ... and 11. So this
counts for 9 shakes.
So continuing, player 3 has now to shake still 8 times,
then player 4 7 times,So in total hands were shaken
10 + 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 =

Answer:
=55 times.
 Question #2
A hiker walked for two days. On the second day the
hiker walked 2 hours longer and at an average
speed 1 mph faster than he walked on the first
day. If during the two days he walked a total of 64
miles and spent a total of 18 hours walking, what
was his average speed on the first day?
 ANSWER AND SOLUTION
Solution
When t=time and s=speed:
t1 + t2 = 18 and t2 = t1 + 2, from which t1 = 8 and t2 = 10
s2 = s1 + 1 and s1 * t1 + s2 * t2 = 64
so 8*s1 + 10*(s1+1) =

ANSWER:
64, from which s1 = 3
QUESTION #3
Today, John has to transfer 50 euro to the bank
account of a Dutch friend. He has written down the
account number on a piece paper. But since he had
forgotten to take out the paper from his trousers
when he put them in the washing machine, one digit
of the bank account number became unreadable.
The note says: 3170?4847. The friend of John is
climbing the Mount Everest at the moment, so it is
impossible for John to call his friend. Suddenly he
remembers that a for a valid Dutch bank account
number it holds that the first digit times 9 + the
second digit times 8 + the third digit times 7 + ...... +
the nineth digit times 1 should be divisible by 11.
John thinks for a moment and finds the correct
number. What is it?
 ANSWER AND SOLUTION
Solution

Let us call the unreadable number x. The bank account

number is hence 3170x4847.
The first digit times 9 + the second digit times 8 + the
third digit times 7 + ...... + the nineth digit times 1
should be divisible by 11. So 27 + 8 + 49 + 0 + 5*x + 16
+ 24 + 8 + 7 should be divisible by 11, in other words
139 + 5 * x should be divisible by 11. Since 132 = 11*12
it follows that 7 + 5 * x should be divisible by 11. That
only works if x = 3.

ANSWER:
Hence the correct bank account number is
317034847.
 QUESTION #4
Bob buys two things in a shop. With his pocket
calculator he calculates in advance what he has to
pay: 5.25 dollars. But what he does not notice is
that he pressed the division instead of the addition
button. At the desk he is not surprised if he hears
that he has to pay 5.25 dollars. What is the price
of the two things Bob has bought?
 ANSWER AND SOLUTION
Solution:
Let us call the two prices of the things x and y.
According to Bob's (wrong) calculation: x / y = 5.25
According to the shop x + y = 5.25.
From the first equation it follows that x = 5.25*y. Pluggin
this into the second equation gives that
6.25 * y = 5.25.
This gives y = 0.84 and x = 4.41.

Answer:
So the things Bob has bought costed 0.84 and 4.41
dollars.
QUESTION #5

A sultan has 14 daughters. He decides to

tell every night four of his daughters a
fairy tale, but in such a way that every
night, there will be another combination
of four daughters. How many nights will
keep the sultan busy telling fairy tales?
 Answer and Solution
Solution:
Name the daughters of the sultan A,B,C,..., I. On a
particular day the sultan can choose in 14 * 13 * 12 *
11 ways 4 daughters. In total this are 24024
combinations. But some of the combinations are
equalt, that is if for example A, C, D, and F are
listening to a fairy tale, this is the same as F, C, D, and
A. There are 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 24 permuations which are
equal. So in total the X ere are 24024 / 24 = 1001
distinct combinations.
Answer:
The sultan will hence tell fairy tales for 1001 nights.
 QUESTION #6
A wire with a length of 60 meter is hanging between
two high voltage pylons. The wire is connected to
the pylons at a height of 50 meters. The middle
part of the wire is 20 meters above ground level.
How far are the high voltage pylons standing
apart?
ANSWER AND
SOLUTION
Solution:
because the length of the wire is exactly
enough to go down from one pylon to the
lowest point (30 meter) and up again (30
meter).

Answer:
0 meter
QUESTION #7
If you would fold a letter in two fifty
times, how thick should the envelope
be that can fit the letter? Assume that
the thickness of a piece of paper is
about 0.05 mm.
 ANSWER AND SOLUTION
Solution

1st time folding: 0.05 x 2 = 0.1 mm

2nd time folding: 0.1 x 2 = 0.2 mm
3rd time folding: 0.2 x 2 = 0.4 mm
...
50st time folding: 2 to the power 50 times 0.05
mm.

ANSWER: Compare this to he distance between

the earth and the sun which is about 150
million kilometers!
 QUESTION #8
A high school has as strange principal. On the first day,
he has his students perform an odd opening day
ceremony:
There are one thousand lockers and one thousand
students in the school. The principal asks the first
student to go to every locker and open it. Then he has
the second student go to every second locker and
close it. The third goes to every third locker and, if it is
closed, he opens it, and if it is open, he closes it. The
fourth student does this to every fourth locker, and so
on. After the process is completed with the
thousandth student, how many lockers are open?
 ANSWER AND
Solution: SOLUTION
The only lockers that remain open are perfect squares (1, 4,
9, 16, etc) because they are the only numbers divisible by
an odd number of whole numbers; every factor other than
the number's square root is paired up with another. Thus,
these lockers will be "changed" an odd number of times,
which means they will be left open. All the other numbers
are divisible by an even number of factors and will
consequently end up closed.
So the number of open lockers is the number of perfect
squares less than or equal to one thousand. These
numbers are one squared, two squared, three squared,
four squared, and so on, up to thirty one squared. (Thirty
two squared is greater than one thousand, and therefore
out of range.)
ANSWER:
So the answer is thirty one.
 QUESTION #9
A long and straight row of soldiers is marching with
constant speed. The dog of the commander runs
along the row from the end till the beginning, from
the beginning till the end, from the end till the
beginning etc. This takes always 2 minutes, 1
minute, 2 minutes, etc.
At some point the soldiers have to pass a very small
bridge. However, the commander does not trust
the strength bridge completely. He wonders how
much time it will take them to pass the bridge
when they stay marching with the same speed.
How much time is that?
ANSWER AND SOLUTION
Solution:
It takes the dog 1 minute to run from the first to the last man.
Then he runs 2 minutes from the last to the first man and
then 1 minute back from the first man to the last man. So
since the dog ran 2 minutes in both directions, after 4
minutes he is at the same point where he was 4 minutes
ago. Since 4 minutes ago he was at the beginning of the
row, and now he is at the end, this implies that it takes the
marching soldiers 4 minutes to pass a point. So since the
bridge was very small

ANSWER:
they will also pass it in 4 minutes.
QUESTION #10
A very rich lady goes with a bag of coins (not
more than 400) to the city. In the city she meets
four vagabonds. She gives the first vagabond 4
coins and a quarter of the number of coins
which is left in the bag. She applies the same
procedure to the second, third and fourth
vagabond (so division by 4 worked always).
With how many coins did she leave home?
ANSWER AND SOLUTION
SOLUTION:
There are many ways to solve this problem. But there
is at least one simple way to solve it. Suppose that
the lady starts with 40 coins. The first vagabond
gets 4 and 1/4 * 36 = 9, in total 13 coins. You would
have found this number 13 immediately if the lady
had brought 12 coins in addition (52) and then
divided by four! This implies that if the lady brings
12 coins in addition, she had be able to divide 4
times by 4 without a remainder. So she should have
brought 4 * 4 * 4 * 4
ANSWER:
= 256 coins. But since we "borrowed" 12 coins, in reality the lady
brought 256 - 12 = 244 coins to the city. (the other possibilities
are 500, 756, ....)