Tests（45mins）

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1. A group of numbers consist of 【3,7,15,?,63,127】
what is the number of【?】? (5 points)
Answer: 31

2. There are 6 water cups labeled A,B,C,D,E,F side by side in order ●●● 〇 〇 〇 , of which
A,B,C are the cup with filled water and D,E,F are the cup without water. Only one water cup can
be moved. Explain how to alternately separate the filled cup from the empty cup. ● 〇●〇●〇(5
points)
Answer: Cup labled C moved to D, cup labeled B moved to C, cup labeled D move to E, cup
labeled C moved to D

3. A snail climbs from the bottom of a 20 feet deep well to the top. It can climb 3 feet during the
day and slide down 2 feet at night. How many days does it need to climb to the top? (5 points)
Answer: 17 days

4. Two people (A and B) play guessing numbers. The number ranged from 1 to 4, and they can
only see each other's numbers, but not their own. Difference between the two numbers is 1. A and
B take turns guessing their number in the following dialog.
A: I don't know
B: I don't know either
A: Now I know
B: Now I know too;
What are the possible numbers of A and B? (5 points)

5. There are two bottles with 5L and 6L capacity. When you pour water in or out of bottle, you
have to fill it full or empty it, unless you pouring from one bottle to another, then you can leave
some water on the pouring bottle when the other bottle full. Explain the sequence of getting 3L of
water through the combination of pouring in and pouring out water. (5 points)

6. One thousand Indonesian rupiah can buy one peach, and three leftover peach seeds can be
exchanged for one peach. You use all your 10000 rupiah to buy peaches. You trying to eat as much
peach as you can, so you borrow 1 peach with promise to return it later. What is the maximum
number of peaches you can eat? Please explain. (15 points)
Answer=
10.000 = 10 peach and 30 leftover
30 leftover=10 peach
You can eat 20 peach maximum

7. A rope is lit from one end, and it takes 1 hour to burn it out. If you can use N ropes of the
same material, you can get 1 hour and 15 minutes by burning (without using timer) (15 points)
7-1. How many ropes do you need at least? (must be integer)
7-2. Explain how to obtain it.

8. A dad bought a cake to be shared but it was eaten by one of his four sons. The four sons are
set as ABCD. And only one son told the truth, and the others lied. Please infer which son stole the
cake and which son is telling the truth through the following dialogue. (15 points)
A: The cake was eaten by B.
B: D stole the cake.
C: I didn't steal.
D: B is lying.

9. One person has 240kg of water and plans to sell it to arid areas, and he can only carry 60kg
of water at a time. Assuming that the price of water at the starting point is 0usd/kg, the price of
water will increase by 1usd/kg every 1km from his starting point (for example, when he goes to
10km, the price of water is 10usd/kg; when he goes to 20km, the price of water is 20usd/kg); But
he needs 1kg of water every 1km to maintain his life. (15 points)
He needs to return safely and makes the maximize profits:
9-1.How many km can he walk from the starting point?
9-2.How much money dose he earn altogether?

10. There are 100 balls. You and your opponent take turns to take balls. Whoever gets the 100th
ball wins. Take at least one ball at a time and at most five balls at a time;(15 points)
You take the ball first, in order to win the game:
10-1.How many balls should you take for the first time?
10-2.Then the opponent takes N balls, after that how many balls should you take?