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Are you smarter than a high school student?

When researchers put the following three problems to 3400 students in the US, only 17 per cent got all three right. Can you do any better?

1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

2) If it takes five machines 5 minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?

3) 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 of it?

[For answers, see below]

Answers: 1) 5 cents, 2) 5 minutes, 3) 47 days

Source: Shane Frederick, 2005

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Words of Wisdom

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

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Rachel Newhouse

Born Jun. 16, 1978
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Murder Victim. A student at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, where she majored in nutritional science. She disappeared about midnight on November 12, 1998, while walking home from a fraternity party at the Tortilla Flat Restaurant. Despite help from the public, nothing was heard from Newhouse until several months later when her body was found buried on the property of a convicted sexual offender named, Rex Allan Krebs. Krebs had spent most of his life in and out of prison for various crimes. Along with Rachel’s body was that of Aundria Lynn Crawford who disappeared days earlier. Krebs was arrested and charged with stalking, kidnapping, two counts of rape, and first degree murder. Krebs was later convicted of the murders and given the sentence of death. He is currently on San Quentin Prison’s death row. The story was seen on “America’s Most Wanted” and on an episode of A&E’s “American Justice” entitled, “The Monster Inside.”