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There are 5 girls in a long row.
Each girl has a favorite chocolate bar, color, pet, hobby, and would like to go on a certain holiday.
All the girls like different things.
Your task is to solve the following clues - "who owns the crocodile"
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A census taker approaches a house and asks the woman who answers the door þ
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The census taker walks next door, comes back and says þ
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What are the ages of each of the three children?
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I have some pencils and some jars.
If I put 4 pencils into each jar I will have one jar left over.
If I put 3 pencils into each jar I will have one pencil left over.
Êow many pencils and how many jars?
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Again I have some pencils and some jars
If I put 9 pencils into each jar I will have two jars left over
If I put 6 pencils into each jar I will have three pencils left over
Êow many pencils and how many jars?
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The first one is quite easy.
The second question is more involved.
You will probably need to create an algebraic expression for each statement in the problem.
Solve the equations and you have your answer.
A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river.
Êe has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing.
If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken.
If the chicken and the corn is left together, the chicken will eat the corn.
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Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von ?indemann determine to be a
transcendental number in 1882?
Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530
B.C.?
Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?
Q: What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with
crossing it"?
Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
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