THINK ABOUT IT
(e.g., Divide 6 by 1/2. Answer: 12.)
Freshman level
1. Make another word using all the letters in the word “night.”
2. Change one letter in each word to make a common sign: “No Now Oven.”
3. What four-letter word can mean both speedy and fixed firmly in place?
Graduate level
4. What is the next letter in this sequence? T T F F S S
5. What two-digit number is two times the sum of its digits?
6. You paid $24 due to a 20% discount. What was the original price?
Ph.D. level
7. What five-letter word is spelled out by the four Roman numerals 6, 5, 1, 500?
8. Decode this word rebus: 678SAFETY9876
9. What is the last letter in this sequence? a, b, d, e, g, ...
Answers: 1. Thing. 2. Do Not Open. 3. Fast. 4. E (numbers from two to eight). 5. Eighteen. 6. $30. 7. Vivid. 8. Safety in numbers. 9. p (lowercase letters that enclose a space).
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