Puzzle 281
What has four legs …
… and only one foot?
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Hint
This thing isn't alive.
Puzzle 282
Which is greater?
The number of seconds in a year.
Miles that light can travel in 3 minutes.
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Light travels around 186,000 miles each second.
Answer
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.
Puzzle 283
Alex can eat 27 chocolates in an hour, Billie can eat 2 chocolates in 10 minutes, and Charlie can eat 7 chocolates in 20 minutes.
How long will it take them to share and eat a large box of 120 chocolates while watching a movie?
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How many chocolates can they eat in one hour?
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2 hours.
Reasoning
In one hour, Alex eats 27 chocolates, Billie eats 12, and Charlie eats 21.
A total of 60 chocolates.
Therefore, 120 chocolates would take 2 hours.
Puzzle 284
Can you find the sum of the second column?
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14.
Reasoning
The values are: @ = 7, & = 4, $ = 8, # = 3, % = 5.
But …
… you don't have to find the value of every symbol!
The rows add up to 80, which means that the columns must also add up to 80.
24 + ? + 17 + 25 = 80.
? = 14.
