Puzzle 1
What comes next in this sequence:
boron · carbon · nitrogen · oxygen · ?
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The first in the list would be Hydrogen.
Answer
Fluorine.
These are the elements in atomic number order.
Puzzle 4
Which is larger:
seconds in a year.
miles that light can travel in 3 minutes.
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Light travels around 186,000 miles each second.
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Miles that light can travel in 3 minutes.
There are 31,536,000 seconds in a typical year, and light can travel about 33,530,831 miles in 3 minutes.