FOR CHILDREN

PROBLEM # 1

a. Is 0 an odd number or an even number.
b. Is 0 a positive number or a negative number.

PROBLEM # 2

A car is moving at 60 miles per hour. How long will it take the car to move a distance of 176 feet.

FOR GROWNUPS

PROBLEM # 3
Coin A is flipped tree times and coin B is flipped 4 times. What is the probability that the number of heads obtained from flipping the two fair coins is the same.

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SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS ON 03/11/04

FOR CHILDREN

1,2,3,6,2,8,16,2,18,36,2... What are the next 6 numbers in the sequence?

SOLUTION

38, 76, 2, 78, 156, 2

FOR GROWN UPS

Three mutually tangent spheres of radius 1 rest on a horizontal plane. A sphere of radius 2 rests on them. What is the distance from the plane to the top of the larer sphere?

SOLUTION

3 + sqrt (23/3)

Congratulations to R. Dhillon, R. Kulkarni, R. Mirchandani, P. Mutalik, A. Shah and S. Shah who were winners of the last set of puzzles.

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