Computational Thinking
What is the next number in the sequence, 4, 12, 36, 108, ____.
324. Each new number is multiplied by 3 in the sequence.
Five people were eating pies, A finished before B, but behind C. D finished before E, but behind B. What was the finishing order?
From first to last, CABDE.
An ice cream shop offers 4 flavors of ice cream and 3 types of cones. How many different ice cream cones can you order if you choose one flavor of ice cream and one type of cone?
12 different combinations.
I am a two-digit number. My tens digit is twice my ones digit, and the sum of my digits is 12. What number am I?
The number is 48. 4 + 8 is 12. 8 is twice of 4.
The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Saturday. What day is it today?
Friday. The “day before tomorrow” is today. The day before two days after is really one day after. So if one day after today is Saturday, then it must be Friday.
what is the center of gravity?
"V"
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What Is The Next Letter In The Sequence?
J (this is a sequential list of consonants).
Be careful!
Kaylee has four times as many pennies as Amaury and half as many pennies as Maverick. If Amaury has six pennies, how many does Maverick have?
Maverick has 12 pennies.
What building has the most stories?
(hint: think critically)
the library
You have a drawer full of red socks and blue socks, but it's dark, and you can't see the colors. At least how many socks do you need to pull out of the drawer to ENSURE you have a matching pair?
3 socks. When you pull out three socks, you are guaranteeing at least one pair of socks of the same color.
There are two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle. How many ducks are there (least)?
Three, two ducks are in front of the duck in the back. There are two ducks behind the duck in front, and there is a duck in between the duck in the back and in the front.
You have 7 different books to put on a bookshelf. In how many different orders can you arrange them on the shelf?
5,040 different orders.
You encounter three characters in a mysterious town: Alice, Bob, and Carol. Each of them is either a truth-teller, who always tells the truth, or a liar, who always lies. You need to figure out who is the truth-teller.
alice= truth-teller
Bob= liar
Carol= liar
(method: find the contradictory)
If 1+9+8=1, what is 2+8+9?
(hint: look closely in some number words)
10, take the first letter of each spelled out number: One+Nine+Eight= ONE Two+Eight+Nine= TEN
A black man dressed all in black, wearing a black mask, stands at a crossroads in a totally black-painted town. All of the streetlights in town are broken. There is no moon. A black-painted car without headlights drives straight toward him, but turns in time and doesn't hit him. How did the driver know to walk away?
its day time