Discover your intellectual strengths
Challenging situations call for clever and resourceful solutions.
Example 1:
You are in a race and you overtake the person who is in second place. What is your position now?
Solution: You are in second place since you overtook the second runner and took her place!
Example 2:
There is a waterlily in a pond, that doubles in size every day. If it takes the waterlily 180 days to cover the entire pond, how long does it take to cover half the pond?
Solution: 179 days.
1.An elderly Arab sheik wants to give his wealth to one of his two sons. He declares that his two sons will participate in a camel race; whichever camel finishes last will win the fortune for its owner. During the race, the two brothers wander endlessly, neither willing to reach the finish line. Ultimately, they ask a wise man for advice. He gives them a word of advice and they both suddenly leap onto the camels and head towards the finish line. What did the wise man say?
He told them to switch camels.
2.There is a coin in an empty bottle and a cork in the bottle's neck. Describe a way to remove the coin without removing the cork or breaking the bottle.
Push the cork inside the bottle.
3.An analog clock reads 3:15.
What is the angle between the minute hand and the hour hand?
At 3:15 the hour hand has moved a quarter of the way to 4:00.
Each hour is 1/12 of a circle: 30°.
1/4×30° equals 7.5°
4.Your assignment is to design an landscape where four trees are all equidistant from each other. How should the trees be arranged?
Plant the trees according to the shape of a triangular pyramid (all four faces are equilateral triangles, all edges are equal in length, and all faces have the same shape and size. Plant three trees on the ground at the vertices. Create a mound at the center, and plant the fourth tree at the height of the fourth vertex.
5.The cooking time for a recipe is exactly 15 minutes. Explain how to precisely measure the time with a 7-minute and a 11-minute hourglass.
Step 1. Start both hourglasses simultaneously.
Step 2. Turn the 7-minute hourglass when it runs out.
Step 3. Turn the 7-minute hourglass again, four minutes later, when the 11-minute hourglass runs out.