Answers to Math Aptitude Test #3

  1. Yes, if they stand back-to-back.
  2. Horse Racing.

  3. Half a trunk full of dimes would be worth more.
  4. Once. After that, you are subtracting from 19, 17, ...

  5. None. It's a peach tree, so it doesn't bear apples.
  6. Your mother.

  7. Elevators.
  8. None. Abel didn't slay Cain?

  9. Volume Nine.
  10. Start it four feet above the floor.

  11. 200.
  12. Period, comma, quotes, question mark, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, ellipses (...), dash, exclamation point, asterisk, braces, hyphen, brackets, parentheses. Actually, that is 15.

  13. STRENGTH. There may be others...
  14. QUEUE. Queueing theory has five vowels in a row!

  15. SLEEPLESSNESS.
  16. 59 minutes.

  17. Take 2 friends at the same time -- you only have to buy 3 tickets. Taking them separately requires the purchase of 4 tickets.
  18. He is too short to reach button 12. Sometimes no one else is on the elevator.
  19. 1 day. It is 1/8 the size of the large hole.
  20. 116 Years. (from 1337 to 1453)

  21. When he is a clergyman performing his daughter's wedding.
  22. 10 o'clock + 4 hours = 2 o'clock. (MOD 12)

  23. 3:36 PM.
    The clock loses 10 minutes each hour, so it loses 5 minutes every half-hour, and it loses 1 minute very 6 minutes.
    It is 12:50 PM at 1:00 o'clock.
    It is 1:40 PM at 2:00 o'clock.
    It is 2:30 PM at 3:00 o'clock.
    It is 2:55 PM at 3:30 o'clock.
    It is 3:00 PM at 3:36 o'clock.
  24. 8 minutes.

  25. 32 buttons.
  26. Nickel and Quarter (the other coin is a quarter).

  27. A coffin.
  28. The child was born before 1776.

  29. Mount Everest (it just hadn't been discovered).
  30. Carrie lives in the Southern Hemisphere.

  31. The lady was a justice of the peace (or a minister).
  32. They were husband and wife.