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Christmas Quiz

#1 Post by fernando » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:06 pm

Here is a seasonal offering that my maths teacher gave to me. I hope it gets your brains working a bit.
I will have the answers after Christmas.

PLEASE DON'T SEND ME THE ANSWERS AS I DON'T WANT TO CHEAT ON MY HOMEWORK!!
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Re: Christmas Quiz

#2 Post by fernando » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:12 pm

also
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Re: Christmas Quiz

#3 Post by fernando » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:43 pm

And finally
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Re: Christmas Quiz

#4 Post by Scurra » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:50 pm

fernando wrote:I hope it gets you're brains working a bit.
I bet your English Teacher wouldn't be too happy to read this though :wink:

Thanks. I must confess that I'm not a big fan of "maths" puzzles, which is why you won't find too many in Puzzlebrains - but that doesn't mean there won't be any :lol:
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Re: Christmas Quiz

#5 Post by fernando » Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:18 pm

Four typos corrected. :ugeek:

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#6 Post by giraffe » Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:24 pm

Well I'm impressed. I've never used publisher and it would have been a whole lot easier to just scan the sheet in, if only we knew how to use the scanner :roll:

Part of question 5 seems to be missing. :shock:

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Re: Christmas Quiz

#7 Post by fernando » Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:32 pm

Is that better?

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#8 Post by MBH » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:34 pm

These look like fun :) What 'age range' are they being thrown at?

giraffe wrote:I've never used publisher....
if only we knew how to use the scanner :roll:
:?

(You don't work for the library do you? The number of times I hear both these lines from libarary staff :roll: If you want to learn, you've got to learn - and then DO)

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#9 Post by gill216 » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:19 pm

Humph is all I can say MBH. OH being all things musical we have this complicated sound system attached to the TV, DVD, video, etc.

I couldn't get any sound out of the DVD and he said exactly your words. "You have to learn how to use it and then dont be frightened of it"

Guess who would have got the blame if I'd fiddled with it. Then he remembered he'd taken a lead out of the back to use on something else..........................

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Re: Christmas Quiz

#10 Post by Snoopy » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:35 pm

I have also heard that from my husband. He sounds like yours, Gill. We have DVD, bluray DVD, amps, preamps etc. To play a DVDVD(as my granson calls them) I need to use 4 remote controls for 5 pieces of equipment. I have frequently phoned him (he works in a library) to ask why I have sound and no picture or vice versa. Usually he has rewired something and not told me. But I am meant to know this and be able to work it out. MEN!!! :evil: :evil:

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Re: Christmas Quiz

#11 Post by giraffe » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:48 pm

I have scanned things, but they always come out small and blurry. :oops:

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Re: Christmas Quiz

#12 Post by fernando » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:56 pm

These look like fun What 'age range' are they being thrown at?
Mainly years 10 and 11 ie age 14 to 16 I think.

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#13 Post by Bunnylump » Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:48 pm

Probably a bit too hard for me then! :lol:
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#14 Post by MBH » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:43 pm

Snoopy wrote:To play a DVDVD(as my granson calls them)
YOU are Twiki's grandmother? :shock:

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:lol:

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#15 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:37 am

:shock: You get people from all walks of life here, don't you? :lol:
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Re: Christmas Quiz

#16 Post by LAT » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:50 am

Yes, and I don't even understand half of them :shock:

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Re: Christmas Quiz

#17 Post by evilkeen » Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:02 pm

Ooh Fernando, thank you. I might give that to some of my pupils!

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#18 Post by evilkeen » Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:37 pm

Fernando, in question 1 is there by any chance a clue for 10 down? Without it I can solve everything except that there are two alternatives for each of the first two digits of 13 across, which a clue for 10 down would probably resolve.

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#19 Post by gill216 » Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:50 pm

Try the clue for 9 down as there isn't a 9 down.
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Re: Christmas Quiz

#20 Post by giraffe » Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:58 pm

That's right. He has typed 9 instead of 10. There is also a comment at the end of the question that "No answer begins with 0"

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