quarta-feira, 22 de maio de 2024

Challenger - puzzles - for beginners (and for experts too)!!! - Math Problems of PAS and Vestibular

        A maioria destes puzzles me foram enviados by my pupils, in Poruguese language e eu os traduzo para the English language: 

a)    What makes a man twist his head?  A pretty girl?  A lovely friend?  Or …….......……

b)    What does a dumb/mute man to talk?  ...........................

c)  A thief stole a bell from a church and put it into an oven. What is the name of the picture/movie?   Answer only in Portuguese!!!  ..........................

d)  If three rats run away from three cats in three minutes, in how many    minutes a hundred rats will run away from a hundred cats?  ………………………

e)    If a person has lunch in twenty minutes, how many minutes a hundred people will do that?  ....

f)    Which is the specie of monkey  that adore to hear Argentinean music?  .................

g)    Which specie of monkey would serve (or help) a carpenter? …..........................

h)  If an electrical train goes to north; where it’s smoke will go to?  .......................

i) What specie of animal can jump higher than a house?  .............................

j)  Some months have thirty days, others have thirty–one. How many months have 28 days?  …… 
  
Only for experts …  the following numbers estão contidos no book (and movies) The Da Vinci Code:  what numbers correctly fill the spaces? .São conhecidos como os Números de Fibonacci:
{one, one, two, three, five, ….. , thirteen, twenty-one, …………, fifty-five.}



The ace (o gabarito) !!!

a) the neck! (O pescoço)

b) It's tongue (A língua)

c) O Assassino!

d) In three minutes, too!

e) In twenty minutes too!

f) O orangoTANGO.

g) O macaco PREGO

h) An electrical train doesn't produce smoke!

i) Did you see a house jumping in Olympic Games??? Oh, NO!!! Houses don't jump!!! Then, it's elementary my Dear Watson!!  Every animal that can jump, jumps higher than a house!!! 

i)  All months have tenty-eight days!!!.

j) The Da Vinci Code???  Try a little more!!!     I'll post the answer  soon!!! (The Code's Secret is: ( The first number is 1 + 1 = 2; The second number is 1 + 1 (o número anterior) é = a  2; The third number is 2+ o número anterior, que é 1 + 2 =3; The fourth number is 3+ o número anterior(2) -->  3 + 2 = 5; ENTÃO:  3 + 5 = ??? it's EIGHT...)
A segunda incógnita is 13 plus 21 = thirty-four. E... 34 + 21 = 55)


According the authors and your score, you are ….
10 – genius – listen to CBN, read the best newspapers, and watch Discovery Cannel.     
9 – Fan of Culture TV                   8 – Master (mestre)                  7 – Graduated student  
6 – High school student                   5 – Primary student.              4 – Preschool student
3 – Nursery (crèche) student        2 – Run away of the school             0 – Portuguese. 



New challengers - for beginners and masters, too! 

1. (FaFi-BH - Adapted). During Second World War the Allies captured a Nazistian concentration field and they rescued 979 prisoners.  527 were with measles, 251 with tuberculosis and 321 didn't have any of those two diseases.
Quantos prisioneiros tinham as duas doenças? .......................................
Which the number of prisoners with the two diseases?  ………………………….

           2 – A  red car starts from Gama City to Goiânia in a medium velocity of sixty kilometers per hour at nine a. m.    Another car, a blue one, starts from Goiânia City to Gama in an average speed of eighty kilometers per hour, one hour before.  Consider the distance between the two places with two hundred and forty kilometers. 
a)  A que horas o carro vermelho chegará no destino?..................................
b) A que horas o carro azul chegará no destino? ……………………………

       3 – A man traveled to other cityHe has to rent a car.  The value depends of the distance that he will use.     The price is composed of two parts:  (have/has = ter;  travel = voyage)
-– 1st  part – a fixed price of R$ 40,00 daily  (every day);
–- 2nd part – Cr$ 0, 50 by kilometer voyaged.

a)  How much ele paga by a car que voyaged four hundred kilometers em um day? ……….
b)   Alguém paga R$ 180,00 pelo aluguel de um car in one day. 
       How many kilometers a pessoa voyaged nesse car? …………………………..

    4 - From PAS/UNB
“On a road to Saint Ives
I met a man with two wives
Every wife had two sacks
Every sack had two cats
Every cat had two kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives


How many were on the road to St. Ives?”


    5 - 2ND VEST/UNB/2OOO.
The following document illustrates  a public servant’s pay–slip  in which  some of the  values were omitted (X, Y and Z).  All values are in dollars.
P U B L I C    S E R V I C E
P A Y  -  S L I P  (Month = MAY, 2000)
Identification
B. Smart
Government  Department
Ministry of Culture

ITEMS SPECIFICATIONS

EARNINGS

DEDUCTIONS

GROSS SALARY
2,500.00

HOUSING ALLOWANCE
500.00

FAMILY ALLOWANCE
1,000.00

FEDERAL TAX

250.00
SOCIAL SECURITY

X
HEALTH INSURANCE

125.00
                            TOTAL
4,000.00
Y
                          NET PAY                                   z  
          
           Considering that Mr. Smart spends 2%  of his month “NET PAY” on leisure activities, find out,  in dollars, such amount (without the cents, if any)  given that X corresponds to 15% of the “GROSS  SALARY”. 

       6)  A medic gives (dá) you five pills to drink (tomar/beber) in intervals of thirty minutes. In how many times (em quanto tempo)  will you drink the five pills?   ……… (Resolva este problema (drawing) desenhando uma (timeline) na "linha do tempo"; como requerem os problemas de "intervalo".

        7) You have a match (fósforo) and enter in a cold (frio/a) and dark (escuro/a) room which (que) has an oil warmer (aquecedor), a gas lamp, and a candle (vela). Which one do you fire/light /inflame (acende) firstly?  ………………………………

        8) Take (pegue) two of  three apples.  How many apples do you have? ……

         9) How many  animals of each (cada) specie Moses transported in the  Arc? ………

         10) A farmer (fazendeiro) had (tinha) 17 cows. All (todas) they died (morreram), less (menos) nine. How many alive (vivas) cows are there (há) in the farm?  ……….


Nenhum comentário:

Postar um comentário

FILMES E VÍDEOS DO PAS UnB 2024 - PLAYLIST das 3 Etapas com mais de 120 filmes e vídeos

Playlist dos filmes e vídeos do PAS/UnB, ENEM E VESTIBULARES . Se você tiver um tempinho para relax, não deixe de dar uma fugidinha no meu o...