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The below test can be fun to try and figure out but WATCH OUT!
Some of these are not as easy as you might think.

Name: ____________________________ Date: __________  Period: ____

1.)  Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. 
	 How many months have 28 days? 

2.)  If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take 
	 one pill every half hour, how long would it be before 
	 all the pills had been taken? 

3.)  I went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and 
	 wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at 
	 nine o'clock in the morning. How many hours sleep 
	 would I get before being awaken by the alarm? 

4.)  Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get? 

5.)  A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many 
	 live sheep were left? 

6.)  If you had only one match and entered a COLD and 
	 DARK room, where there was an oil heater, an oil 
	 lamp and a candle, which would you light first? 

7.)  A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular 
	 construction, each side having a southern exposure. 
	 A big bear comes along. What color is the bear? 

8.)  Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have? 
						
9.)  How many animals of each species did Moses take 
	 with him in the Ark? 

10.) If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from 
	 Chicago and stopped at Pittsburgh to pick up 7 
	 more people and drop off 5 passengers and at 
	 Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 
	 4 more and eventually arrive at Philadelphia 20 
	 hours later, what's the name of the driver? 




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