Puzzle 5
Three builders are laying a brick wall.
Freddie can lay 1,000 bricks in three hours, Jimmy can lay 1,000 bricks in two hours and Kevin can lay 1,000 bricks in six hours.
How long will it take Freddie, Jimmy, and Kevin to lay 1,000 bricks if they all work together?
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How many bricks are laid in six hours?
Answer
1 hour.
Reasoning
How many bricks are laid in six hours?
In six hours, Kevin lays 1000 bricks, Freddie lays 2000 bricks, and Jimmy lays 3000 bricks.
So, in six hours, we have a total of 6000 bricks laid.
Which means that it will take one hour to lay 1000 bricks.
Puzzle 6
From each of these words, remove one letter, and then rearrange the remaining letters to find a new word. The resulting ten new words are related to each other.
energy
oregano
clearest
weight
outlive
embark
calmer
solemn
voiding
archery
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Try removing the Y from ENERGY.
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energy -y = green
oregano -o = orange
clearest -e = scarlet
weight -g = white
outlive -u = violet
embark -k = amber
calmer -l = cream or -r = camel
solemn -s = lemon
voiding -v = indigo
archery -a = cherry
Puzzle 8
Can you find a word starting with BR …
… that with the addition of the letter E becomes another word that sounds the same as the first?
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There are at least two different answers.
Answer
BRAKING becomes BREAKING
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BROWS becomes BROWSE
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