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the time it's taken you to work that out you could have dug it yourself ;lol
It's a bit like the question: A bath when the plug is pulled out it will empty at a rate of 7.5 litres a minute, when the hot tap is on full it will fill the bath at a rate of 5 litres a minute. If the hot tap is running at full and you pull the plug when there is 75 litres of water in it, how long will it be before the bath is empty?
Now there is a whole lot of numbers in that one which will lead you to work out a calculation of how much goes in whilst the original amount empties then another for how much goes in while the second amount empties etc.
Now think about it seriously for a moment........
When you next turn on the tap to your bath, take a minute to watch........
The force of the water from the tap forces water up the bath before it runs back down, as it equalises, once the water goes down the plug and it becomes stable and there is always some pooling in the bath, so the real answer to the question is - if you turn the tap off first the bath will be empty in ten minutes, if you don't it will never be empty.
1. Give the dates of at least two of the following:
(1) William the Conqueror.
(2) 1066.
2. What is a Plantagenet? Do you agree?
3. Trace by means of graphs, etc.,
(1) The incidence of scurvy in the Chiltern Hundreds during the reign of Rufus.
(2) The Bosom of the Pope.
(Squared paper, compasses, etc., may be used.)
4. Expostulate (chiefly) on
(a) The Curfew,
(b) Gray’s Energy in the Country Churchyard.
5. Estimate the size of
(1) Little Arthur.
(2) Friar Puck.
(3) Magna Charta.
6. Fill in the names of at least some of the following:
(1) __________________
(2) __________________
(3) Simon de Montfort.
I always thought the Mensa test was a trick question, since surely one demonstrates intelligence by not attempting it?
Some of the questions are exactly that as it does as you suggest. Think it is to do with having the intelligence/ability see beyond the information supplied and the question posed.
The question I used as an example was actually one in a test for being accepted for training for the GS, you would not believe the number of people on the test who spend quite some time calculating an answer and were then quite hacked off when told they had got it wrong - think there were only two of us that got that one and both of us thought it was the answer within a minute or two of reading the question.
You did not need to get 100% on the test, it was designed so that certain questions (this being one of them) were more important, providing you got those you were considered for the training.
Since there is no mention of where the tap is situated, any back force must be discounted meaning there is a net loss of 2.5 litres/min.
Incidentally, I have a free standing bath with the taps installed in the wall about halfway along the bath from the drain. ;biggrin
Btw what is GS? ;hmm
I feel a bit beaten about the head with all first, last, bye, buy stuff myself.
GS are the initials for a slag term for a section in HM Forces.
Good to see Ticketmaster has cracked the problem ;doh
Except...
My epurse credits hadn't been rolled over because I paid for my season ticket for the 16/17 season before the 15/16 season had ended, they can't tell me were that money went.
Once again not the best customer service imo.
They just can't help it.