January Mindbenders

Quick and Easy

  1. If 5 cats can catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long would it take 50 cats to catch 50 mice?
  2. Divide 30 by ½ and add 10.
  3. Louise wound up her alarm clock, set it for 9 o’clock in the morning and, having hardly had any sleep over the last few days, went to bed at 8 o’clock in the evening.  How many hours of sleep does she get before being woken up?
  4. An electric train is travelling due north at 70mph.  A gust of wind is blowing at 50mph due west.  In what direction is the smoke going?
  5. If there are 10 apples in my left hand and 30 apples in my right hand, what do I have?
  6. A farmer had 43 cows.  All but 12 died.  How many are left alive?

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Continue the Sequences

  1. 5, 8, 17, 44, 125, ?
  2. 225, 289, 361, 441, 529, ?
  3. 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, ?
  4. 1, 1, 3, 5, 11, 21, 43, ?

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Spot the Intruder

  1. fishing, hair, income, safety
  2. bag, storm, teaser, wave
  3. board, hole, ring, spike, stone
  4. game, gown, net, point, room
  5. camera, dwarf, pole, pop

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