Apolitical Intelligence Tests With Important Point to Follow

At least i know better than to go in against a sicilian when death is on the line.


I didn't even go into the idea that the most likely paper to be in the warden's office would actually be a yellow legal pad.

So the hat would be yellow with blue lines and a charcoal outline

 

Wrong. First both of these are so old their petrified.

2nd the problem is he had one too many hats with a red dot.

Basically what this does a brilliant job of is dileneating the mind set of far too many people in the country today especially on the left. A tendency to bitch first and think later.

 

No idea what you are talking about.

 

They are trivial questions, and aren't worth our time to do. Also they have nothing to do with intelligence tests. Anybody who read the title of the thread is disappointed with two riddles, when they were expecting an intelligence test.

 

Well thank YOU for speaking out for everyone else. Please tell those reading by what authority you claim to speak out on behalf of everybody. It should be quite easy for someone of your towering intellect.

Then please write something that DOES have "to do with intelligence." I think everyone wants to learn. Please teach us, but don't again presume to speak for everybody. That is so very presumptuous of you. (You dislike President Trump a great deal, don't you?)

 

I am truly mortified.

 

They might have met at an Inn where they all were resting on their way to St. Ives. In fact that is the image I had in my mind influenced by the Canterbury tales.

 

Three men rent a hotel room and the clerk charges them thirty dollars. Each man pays ten. Later the clerk finds he overcharged the men as the room was only twenty five dollars. He gives five dollars to a bell boy to return to the men. The bell boy, not being the most honest type gives each man one dollar.

So each man paid 9 dollars for a total of 27 plus 2 the bell boy kept makes 29 dollars. What happened to the 30th dollar?

 

Or they may have met at a cross street and then all gone the same way to St. Ives.

If you really want to test intelligence, there are lots of mathematical and logic quizes online that are far more representative than this.

 

Here's one for you then:

1
1 1
2 1
1 2 1 1
1 1 2 1
2 1 1 2 1 1
1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1

What is the next line? Hint: it is slightly easier to see the pattern if you write it triangular.

Story:

The great physicist John von Neumann was presented with this puzzle:

Two bicycles twenty miles apart ride toward each other at ten miles an hour. A fly on the forward part of one wheel flies toward the other bicycle. When it touches the wheel it flies back to the first bicycle until it reaches the wheel. This process repeats until the fly is crushed between the two wheels. The fly travels at 15 miles an hour.

von Neumann thought for a few seconds and gave the correct answer: 15 miles.

His questioner smiled and said, "Very good Professor. Most people try to sum the infinite series."

Von Neumann looked puzzled, "You mean there is another way?"

 

A man thinking about Eisenhower's first presidential run is walking across a railroad bridge that goes from point A
to point B. He starts at point A, and when he is 3/8 of the way
across the bridge, he hears a train approaching. The train's speed
is 60 mph (miles per hour).

The man can run fast enough so that if he turns and runs back
toward point A, he will meet the train at A, and if he runs
forward toward point B, the train will overtake him at B.

The bridge is one mile long.

What is the name of the man?

 

Hmmm......I'm usually pretty good at these but it looks like the pattern was broken at the 6th line. I'll go with 112212211

There is another version with a different pattern going to 3 on the 6th line.

I don't know why I find these fun - even the ones I'm too dumb to solve....

 

Very good, but I don't see the broken pattern. What algorithm did you discover?

 

How does this have anything to do with Trump? Talk about TDS, albeit pro-Trump TDS.

Also, at least one person agreed with me.

 

Yes and they might have been.... (fill in anything your heart desires here).
The point is, you are given the riddle, as it has stood for some 200 or so years. That is all. Inferences and assumptions carry with them the
requirement that you should be reasonable. Had the met at an inn, more than likely some or all of the seven wives would have been in their room, or
in the bathroom, quite unlike meeting face to face while crossing paths on their journeys to and from.

 

Question1 is indeterminate since the meeting could have taken place at a junction or crossroads.

 

It's not about "Trump." It's about you and your contorted way of thinking and expressing yourself. It's common among Leftists.
You simply could not admit that I hit the nail squarely on the head, and that upsets you.

 

Question 2: all the prisoners are religious and pray to god for the answer, and none of them has the correct answer.

 

Or you can show how smart you are by pointing out the how riddle is malformed. Such a talent is displayed endlessly on this very forum on almost all questions.

 

Here is a really hard problem:

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

And a similar one:

Three prisoners, A, B, and C, are in separate cells and sentenced to death. The governor has selected one of them at random to be pardoned. The warden knows which one is pardoned, but is not allowed to tell. Prisoner A begs the warden to let him know the identity of one of the two who are going to be executed. "If B is to be pardoned, give me C's name. If C is to be pardoned, give me B's name. And if I'm to be pardoned, secretly flip a coin to decide whether to name B or C."

The warden tells A that B is to be executed. Prisoner A is pleased because he believes that his probability of surviving has gone up from 1/3 to 1/2, as it is now between him and C. Prisoner A secretly tells C the news, who reasons that A's chance of being pardoned is unchanged at 1/3, but he is pleased because his own chance has gone up to 2/3. Which prisoner is correct?

 

I think the riddle is just fine as it was written. "Malformed" is your word, not mine. Putting words in other people's mouths is displayed endlessly on this very forum.
Anything anyone says is subject to context, interpretation, conformational bias and other factors. You're smart enough to understand that.

 

Funny thing is, I'm not a leftist. I voted for Reagan, GHW Bush (twice), Dole, GW Bush (twice), McCain and Romney. As I'm not a leftist, I did vote against Trump twice (voted for Johnson in the general), but that's because I'm a conservative, not a populist. I will probably vote for Trump in 2020 (if he's not impeached and removed from office). Your second post on this thread was whiny, which is why I responded the way I did.

 

Nope. "Met" is vague at best. I can meet somebody on my way somewhere and they could well be heading the same direction. You're smart enough to understand that.

 

Actually, with the refund of the dollar, each men now paid 9.33. Remaining 66 cents (rounded) which if you takes the $2 dollar divide by 3, you would get the remaining 66 cents (rounded) for each.

 

Nope. They each paid $10 and got $1 back. They paid $9