The Mole: Round 10! - FIXED A TYPO! RE-READ!

[Colin]

Round 10 will begin tomorrow evening, at any time after 4 pm (note: not AT 4 pm... any time after 4 pm... which means I can post it any time Thursday night that I wanna so Nyah! :p)

In preparation for the challenge, both teams must prepare their wagers... and, to make things interesting... wager what you want. However much, or however little you'd like... just keep in mind my many fun ways of scoring the challenges :)

Wagers must be submitted to me, in some manner of posting, be it PM, Posting, IM, Smoke Signals, Sign Language, Da Vinci Code, whateve; by 4 pm tomorrow.

[Lord Dalek]

Wagers must be submitted to me, in some manner of posting, be it PM, Posting, IM, Smoke Signals, Sign Language, Da Vinci Code, whateve; by 4 pm tomorrow.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/lorddalek/wittyresponse.jpg

[Colin]

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Okay! $1 Million it is! :D

[Conekiller]

"A million, jillion dollars!"

[Mr. Pedro]

$8000 if no one else has done so.

[guinaevere]

HEATCHCLIFF!!!!

: breaking into Kate Bush's song, Wuthering Heights:

Heathcliff!!!
It's me, your Cathy! I've come hooooooooome!!
It's so coooooooooold
let me into your windoooooooooowww..

Crueel Heathcliff, my one dreamm
My only Masteeeeeerrrr.

I'm coming back to his side to put it riiight
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering, Wuthering HEIIIIIGHTS!!!

[Lord Dalek]

HEATCHCLIFF!!!!
http://www.thescratchingpost.co.uk/images/january/heathcliffe.jpg

[guinaevere]

That is SO not the Heathcliff I pine away for.



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[Colin]

Alrighty gang! Round 10 is on!

Here's the wagers:

Flock of Molegulls: $1
Spongebob Molepants: $8000

Now... as you know by now... this is a math challenge... so, in keeping with the theme... here's how the payouts will work:

Correct Answers: X
Incorrect Answers: 2x-squared - 250x + 2

X= Wager

Both teams are to submit answers. You have until Sunday night to submit them to me... use your time wisely!!!

Here's the challenge:

1. Which of the following numbers below becomes a common English word when converted into Roman Numerals?
a) 28
b) 54
c) 626
d) 1,009
e) 2,376
f) 3,128

2. Grandpa Jones has four grandchildren. Each grandchild is precisely one year older than the next oldest one. One year Jones noticed that if you add the ages of his four grandchildren, you would get his age. How old is grandpa Jones?
a) 76
b) 78
c) 80

3. In a 10-kilometer race, Alex beat Burt by 20 meters and Carl by 40 meters. If Burt and Carl were to run a 10-K race, and Burt were to give Carl a 20-meter head start, who would probably win?

4. Sue Perstition was born on Friday the 13th. She recently celebrated one of the birthdays below on Friday the 13th. Which one was it?
a) 10th
b) 20th
c) 30th
d) 40th
e) 50th
f) 60th

5. Define the "letter class" of a whole number as the number of letters in that number. For example, the letter class of 16 (SIXTEEN) is 7, the letter class of 25 (TWENTY-FIVE) is 10, and so on. There is only one number between 1 and 5,000 that is the ONLY representative of it's letter class. Care to find it?

6. Place the numbers one through nine in the blanks below so that BOTH multiplications are true
__ __ X __ = __ __ __ = __ __ X __

7. A Cereal company places prizes in its cereal boxes. There are four different prizes distributed evenly over all the boxes that the company produces. On average, how many boxes of cereal would you need to buy before you collected a complete set?


8. Only once in American history has there been a decade in which four of the years were prime numbers. Can you find it?

9. A customer brought four items to the casheir of the 7-11 convenience store. "That'll be $7.11," the clerk said. At first, the customer thought it was a joke. "Ha Ha! Seven-eleven. I get it." But the clerk was serious. "No, really. I multiplied the prices of the four items you gave me, and I cam up with $7.11."
You multiplied them?" the customer asked. "You're supposed to ADD them, you know."
"I know" said the clerk, "but it doesn't make any difference. The total is still $7.11."
What were the prices of the four items?

10. Imagine a pasture that is just big enough to feed 11 sheep for a total of 8 days. It turns out that if we reduce the number of sheep to 10, they would be able to eat for 9 days. Theoretically, how long could two sheep last?

11. Bert and Ernie take turns multiplying numbers. First Bert chooses the number 4. Ernie multiplies it by 4 to get 16. Bert multiplies that by 4 to get 64. Ernie multiplies that by 4 to get 256.
After going back and forth several times, one of them comes up with the number 1,048,576. Who came up with that number?

12. Lucy Sly, a brilliant detective, has tracked some pirates to their island base. In their secret cave, she finds the pirate chief with three chest of treasure. One chest contains pieces of iron, one chest pieces of gold, and the third has a mixture.
In return for a chance to escape, the pirate chief offers Lucy one chest to take away with her. All three chests are labeled - IRON, GOLD, and MIXTURE. But, he warns her, all the labels are on the wrong chests.
"Then I can't tell which is which," She replies.
"I will take one object out of any of these chests and show it to you-although, you may not look inside."
Which chest would you choose to see an object from? How would you be sure you got the chest of gold?

13. Joe bought a bag of apples on Monday, and at a third of them. On tuesday, he ate half of the remaining apples. On wednesday, he looked in his bag and found he had only two apples left. How many did he have to start?


14. As you can see, each of the following three alphametics involves a famous name. Unfortunately, only one of these equations is possible. Can you determine which one has a solution?
a) MARY + TYLER = MOORE
b) JOYCE + CAROL = OATES
c) JAMES - EARL = JONES

[guinaevere]

Colin. I love you. Just not as much as I did this time yesterday.

[Conekiller]

I knew it, Colin IS making you guys do his homework for him!

[Lord Dalek]

Are these even mathmatically possible?

[guinaevere]

Ooohh!! Ooohh!! I've got one!

If a train leaves Atlanta heading north at 80 mph, how long before Colin gets whapped upside the head?

[Artimus Gigan]

Are these even mathmatically possible?Yes

[Jave]

Are these even mathmatically possible?Yes. ALL of them. You guys only which I was part of your team.

[Kury Wagner]

Ooohh!! Ooohh!! I've got one!

If a train leaves Atlanta heading north at 80 mph, how long before Colin gets whapped upside the head?Hah!

[Tanooki]

hmm... those were pretty fun. yes. i know i'm not playing, but being a math nerd, i can never turn down a good math quiz :D

Falcon

[Colin]

I knew it, Colin IS making you guys do his homework for him!
Yep... and in the next challenge, you guys will be helping me prep for my Quantum Physics exam! YAY!

[Jave]

Every week I have to write an essay about a Marketing topic. Can I submit that here as a challenge?

[True Noir]

Yep... and in the next challenge, you guys will be helping me prep for my Quantum Physics exam! YAY!
Hey, i just got done reading a book about quantum physics. it was pretty interesting stuff.

[Artimus Gigan]

Hey, i just got done reading a book about quantum physics. it was pretty interesting stuff.Too bad everything in that book was a lie

[True Noir]

Too bad everything in that book was a lie
Mmmhm....okay. ........so if you know what book i was reading, then you were...stalking me? Kurt that's another to add to the list of creepy stalkers. Put Gigan under "naked man" as "egotistic weirdo"

[Kury Wagner]

Kurt that's another to add to the list of creepy stalkers. Put Gigan under "naked man" as "egotistic weirdo"Aye aye, captain! *salutes*

[Artimus Gigan]

Mmmhm....okay. ........so if you know what book i was reading, then you were...stalking me? Kurt that's another to add to the list of creepy stalkers. Put Gigan under "naked man" as "egotistic weirdo"
So you assume that I am stalking you?

...I LIVE IN YOUR MIND!!

You know that voice that tells you to smear applesauce all over your face like war paint, then burn your T-Shirt in one of the stalls in the girls bathroom, THAT'S ME **** THAT'S ME!!!!

[True Noir]

:yawn:

Gigan, find yourself a girlfriend and a life..you seriously need one.

[HumanoidTyphoon]

...I LIVE IN YOUR MIND!!

You know that voice that tells you to smear applesauce all over your face like war paint, then burn your T-Shirt in one of the stalls in the girls bathroom, THAT'S ME **** THAT'S ME!!!!That's you!?! those girls were none too pleased with me.:ack:

[Artimus Gigan]

:yawn:

Gigan, find yourself a girlfriend and a life..you seriously need one.Well I have the life thing covered, I raided the mushroom kingdom recently and got 3 green mushrooms for my share...

Girlfriend thing is easier said then done...the problem is not finding a female, the problem is finding a female who doesn't tackle me and cause me to fall down a flight of stairs....and when they do it in hordes...it can cause deep hurting

[Colin]

Just a reminder folks (in an attempt to get this thread back on to the subject at hand... THE GAME)... Your final answers for the challenge are due in within the next 24 hours (so, by 9 PM tomorrow night...)

[guinaevere]

Yes. ALL of them. You guys only which I was part of your team.
hmm... those were pretty fun. yes. i know i'm not playing, but being a math nerd, i can never turn down a good math quiz :D

Falcon Put your money where your mouth (or keyboard) is. You wanna talk smack, PM your answers to Colin, so we can all see how l33t your math skeelz really are.

[Tanooki]

Put your money where your mouth (or keyboard) is. You wanna talk smack, PM your answers to Colin, so we can all see how l33t your math skeelz really are.i didn't get all of them. i skipped three of them because i was in a hurry to get to work. and, yep, i already pm'd them to colin :p

Falcon

[Colin]

and the challenge is now over!

...and, coming as surprise to none... BOTH Teams are losing substantial amounts of money...

Flock of Molegulls lose a whopping $2,950 on this challenge...
...and Spongebob Molepants... well... um... I'm not sure what to say about this number.... silly little wager you made there, wasn't it? hehehe... okay, well... you guys lose a gargantuan... $377,912,006

For all players, Firing Squad will begin Tuesday evening... however, I will be making a special offer tomorrow... stay tuned!:)

[Lord Dalek]

Flock of Molegulls lose a whopping $2,950 on this challenge...
...and Spongebob Molepants... well... um... I'm not sure what to say about this number.... silly little wager you made there, wasn't it? hehehe... okay, well... you guys lose a gargantuan... $377,912,006
So much for the grand prize.

[guinaevere]

...and Spongebob Molepants... well... um... I'm not sure what to say about this number.... silly little wager you made there, wasn't it? hehehe... okay, well... you guys lose a gargantuan... $377,912,006 Waiter, I am NOT paying this bill. You see it's clearly Mr The Pedro's tab.


however, I will be making a special offer tomorrow... stay tuned!:) Can I call in now? Are operators standing by?

[Mr. Pedro]

So much for the rose quartz sculpture of Annete Benning I was hoping to build.

[guinaevere]

Awwww... so what am I to do with this 4 ton rose quartz crystal?


Mr Colin, Sir... I don't suppose you'll be posting the results of our work? I'm curious to know who got what right. (I'm looking at you, Blue Falcon.)