AJ. The Pop Quiz

March 13, 2006 · The Mathcast, answers, logic, math puzzles, paradoxes · Permalink

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Why 462 is the least interesting number less than 1000, and the students get a paradoxical pop quiz.

(plus, the answer to the census taker’s puzzle)

 
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  1. guywaters said,

    June 18, 2007 at 4:14 am

    Your Census question was wrong. You need to say oldest child not oldest daughter the answer to the question as you posed it could also be 1 9 9 with the one year old being a girl and the two nine year old twins being a boy and a girl. The answer my oldest daughter would still apply for 1 9 9

  2. strauss said,

    June 18, 2007 at 7:22 am

    Yes, a slip o the tongue; thanks for pointing that out.

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