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1. 1600. Sally likes perfect squares.
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2. 6. One typist types one page in two minutes.
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3. 21:00. 2 hours later (23:00 - 1 hour before midnight) is half the time until midnight as 1 hour later (22:00 - 2 hours before midnight).
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4. C.
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5. 5. 1/10 of 400 is 40, 1/4 of 40 is 10, 1/2 of 10 is 5.
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6. 20. If you found 10, you forgot about 70, 71, etc. If you got 11, you forgot about the 70 series, but remembered 77 had 2; if you got 19, you forgot about the extra 7 in 77; if you got 21 you created a 7 out of thin air.
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7. 10. The fact that the words are the names of the months doesn't matter. The rule is that each syllable is worth 5.
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8. 25. Apples are worth 7, bananas are worth 8, strawberries are worth 3 and cherries are worth 2.
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9. 10 meters. sqrt(3*3 + 4*4) * 2. They make two right triangles.
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10. 8. Circle has one line, octagon has eight.
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11. It is not really sensible to rely on something that has not yet happened and may not ever happen.
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12. No. The other 800 elephants can be any mix of all blue and pink and green stripes.
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13. POST. POSTcard POSTbox POSTcode POSTbag POSThaste.
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14. 64. Each number is the cube of the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
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15. PARACHUTE.
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16. DAY. DAYlight, DAYbreak, DAYtime.
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17. LAND. grassLAND, LANDscape.
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18. STRONGER.
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19. BANALITIES.
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20. O. JKLMN ->O<- PQRST.
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21. Radish. Both grow underground.
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22. Flower. The only one not made by man.
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23. Elk. The only one that isn't a pet.
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24. A. When the outer shape is a hexagon, the center is a circle and vice-versa. The colors alternate.
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25. 11 5. Alternating numbers go up by 2, and down by 1.
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26. C. The number of lines on the side with the stick goes increases by one, while the side opposite the stick decreases by one. The stick alternates sides.
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27. 25.
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28. 17. Prime numbers.
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29. E. Alternate letters increase by one.
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30. E. The first column has 6 'petals', while the second has 5. The first row is solid. The second row has lines going from the 'petals' into the center.
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