Unit 3 What's your brain power?

Try to solve these problems with a partner.

1. How many squares do you see?

2. When my mother was 41 years old, I was 9. Now she is twice as old as I am. How old am I?

3. How can you make four 9's equal 100?

4. Can you make eight 8's equal 1000?

5. You go to bed at 8 o clock in the evening and set the alarm to get up at 9 in the morning. How many hours of sleep would this allow you?

6. One month has 28 days. Of the remaining 11 months, how many have 30 days?

7. Why can't a man living in New York, N.Y. be buried west of the Mississippi?

8. If you stand on a hard marble ftoor how can you drop a raw egg five feet without breaking its shell?

9. Two fathers and two sons shot three deer. Yet each took home one deer. How was that possible?

10. How many times can you subtract the numeral 2 from the numeral 24?

11. A farmer has 4 7/9 haystacks in one comer of the field and 5 2/9 haystacks in another corner of his field. If he puts them all together, how many haystacks will he have?

12. You won a pize in a contest and could choose either a truckload of nickels or half a trucktoad of dimes. Which would you choose? (Both trucks are identical in size and shape.)

13. You are sitting in a room with 12 friends. Can any of them seat themselves in any particular place in this room where it would be impossible for you to do so?

14. After a woman was blindfolded, a man hung up her hat. She walked 50 feet, turned around, and shot a bullet through her hat. How was she able to do this?

nickel: coin of the U.S. and Canada worth 5 cents

dime: coin of the U.S. and Canada worth 10 cents, smaller in size than a nickel

UNIT 4

The questions below are all taken from the different IQ tests and each is aimed at examining one of the 7 basic skills (to find out what these basic skills are you need to look through the text Parts of an IQ Test below). First, try to find the solutions and then define which skill is being examined in each case.

1. Which of the figures, you think best fits the series below?

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B.

C.

D.

2. If NEW YORK can be encrypted as PGYAQTM, how can you code the word CHARLOTTE?

1. EICSNPVVG

2. EJCTNQVVG

3. EICTNPVVF

4. EJCSMPVVG

3. The day after the day after tomorrow is four days before Monday. What day is it today?

1. Monday

2. Tuesday

3. Wednesday

4. Thursday

5. Friday

4. Forest is to tree as tree is to ?

1. plant

2. leaf

3. branch

4. mangrove

5. Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in which it fits. "FADLOFDI"

1. city

2. fruit

3. flower

4. vegetable

6. Identify the pair, one word from each group, that is closest in meaning (match the column)

Group A Group B crude top light raw stairs ignite

crude and raw crude and top light and ignite stairs and top light and raw

7. If 10 people can do a piece of work in 5 days, working 2 hours a day, how long will 2 people take to do the same work, working 5 hours a day?

1. 8

2. 5

3. 10

4. 12

8. Which number should come next in this series? 10, 17, 26, 37, ?

1. 46

2. 52

3. 50

4. 56

9. Pick out the odd diagram?

10. Select the figure that is missing from the collection below:

A.

B.

C.

D.

11. Choose the odd one out.

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B.

C.

D.

E.