Lateral thinking

Discussion in 'Non Technical' started by vbevan, Mar 26, 2007.

  1. bigbaz

    bigbaz New Member

    landed on the fire stairs
     
  2. vbevan

    vbevan Active Member

    Interior window?
     
  3. vbevan

    vbevan Active Member

    Nope you got it, last man alive, regrets it cause who would ring the telephone :p

    Kinda like a short story I heard once:

    The last man in the world sat in a room, there was a knock at the door.

    Or more scary:

    The last man in the world sat in a room, there was a lock on the door.
     
  4. vbevan

    vbevan Active Member

    More (Hint: Use common sense)

    #26
    A dog can run fifty miles in a day. How far could he run into a 120 square mile forest in two days?

    #27
    A light year is 5.9x10^12 miles and Alpha Centuri is 2.5x10^14 miles away. If your friend stood on the surface of Alpha Centuri and waved, how long would it be until you could see it from the earth?

    #28
    The chance of rolling snake eyes is 1 in 36. If you roll snake eyes eight times in a row with the same pair of dice, what is the chance of rolling snake eyes on your ninth roll?

    #29
    What's the largest number of coins you can have without having even change for a dollar?

    #30
    Suppose you are on an elevator on the 16th floor of a building, when the cable breaks. As you plummet toward the ground, you recall that you once heard that by jumping up fast at the instant of impact, you can escape death. You also recall that the floors are twelve feet apart and that the acceleration of a falling object is 32 feet per second squared. When should you jump?
     
  5. bigbaz

    bigbaz New Member

     
  6. vbevan

    vbevan Active Member

     
  7. bigbaz

    bigbaz New Member

    #26
    A dog can run fifty miles in a day. How far could he run into a 120 square mile forest in two days?

    no idea

    #27
    A light year is 5.9x10^12 miles and Alpha Centuri is 2.5x10^14 miles away. If your friend stood on the surface of Alpha Centuri and waved, how long would it be until you could see it from the earth?

    never it is too far away

    #29
    What's the largest number of coins you can have without having even change for a dollar?

    infinite if you had 1 or 2 dollar coins
    #30
    Suppose you are on an elevator on the 16th floor of a building, when the cable breaks. As you plummet toward the ground, you recall that you once heard that by jumping up fast at the instant of impact, you can escape death. You also recall that the floors are twelve feet apart and that the acceleration of a falling object is 32 feet per second squared. When should you jump?

    3 seconds after breakage (it depends on the height of each floor so technically you could be right, but the answer is, do you think you could make those calculations in the 3 seconds you have before you have to jump?) yes but the question did not say that it said when should you jump not that you had to make the calculation whilst doing it
     
    Last edited: Mar 28, 2007
  8. Newmo

    Newmo Lover of XXXX

    Winnar!
     

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