IQ tests are a great way to measure pattern recognition skills, creative thinking expertise, and reasoning abilities. In layman’s terms, an IQ test will ask a bunch of tough questions that utilize logic and reasoning to find the correct answers. It was said that Albert Einstein had an IQ of about 160, but the highest IQ score ever recorded was 228, which was given to writer Marilyn vos Savant, so there is plenty of room for even geniuses to keep learning!
IQ tests are a great way to measure pattern recognition skills, creative thinking expertise, and reasoning abilities. In layman’s terms, an IQ test will ask a bunch of tough questions that utilize logic and reasoning to find the correct answers. It was said that Albert Einstein had an IQ of about 160, but the highest IQ score ever recorded was 228, which was given to writer Marilyn vos Savant, so there is plenty of room for even geniuses to keep learning!
Added together, the total of Ernie’s items would be $5.17. Subtracting that total from 10.00 will bring you the number 4.83, which is exactly what change he should be given back from the cashier.
If you were running and passed the person in second place, then you would be in second place because you were previously in third place.
Dividing 50 in half will result in a total of 25. 25 plus 15 will equal 40. 40 multiplied by 10 is 400. And 400 minus 25 is 375, which is the correct answer.
If the girl is 18 years old and her brother is a third of her age, the boy is 6 years old. Therefore, when the girl is 36, her brother will still be 12 years younger than his sister.
If Tuesday was the third day of the month, Wednesday would be the fourth day, Thursday would be the fifth day, Friday would be the sixth day, Saturday would be the seventh day and Sunday would be the eighth day.
Using the same pattern that was used in the beginning of the question with Q’s as 3’s and R’s as 1’s, the correct answer should be 1331131311.
If the letters C C I I A P and F are rearranged, they can spell Pacific, which is the name of an ocean that extends from the western coast of North and South America to the eastern coast of Asia, Europe and Australia.
16 is 2% of 800, which means that a very small percentage of the employees of Corporation Z received awards for their performance.
If Friday is the second day of the month, Saturday would be the third day of the month, making Sunday the fourth day of the month.
Each painter will still be able to paint three walls in three minutes, so there needs to be a total of nine painters to paint 27 walls over nine minutes.
Every time four is multiplied by itself, the end result gets exponentially larger. 4 x 4 equals 16, 16 x 4 equals 64 and 64 x 4 equals 256.
While all of these objects might be things found outside in a backyard, only the word rake can be used as both a noun and a verb.
If Rick could only move three boxes at a time, he would have to make 8 trips to the loading dock. During his eighth trip there, he would only have to pick up two remaining boxes.
Art is usually placed on a wall to be viewed in a room or gallery. Likewise, cups are usually placed in cupboards to be be used later.
To figure out this problem, utilize the Pythagorean theorem, which can determine the longest side of a triangle with a right angle using the lengths of the other two sides.
Because the first sentence states that Gertrude is taller than Janelle, we know that Janelle can’t be the tallest. The second sentence states that Nancy is taller than Gertrude, making Nancy the tallest out of the three.
Cars, boats and trains are all methods of transportation that people use to travel from one location to another. Wheelbarrows are usually used to transport things, like tools or vegetables.
Because each of the five people present at the business meeting shakes hands with four other people and each handshake is only counted once, there will be a total of 10 handshakes.
Because guacamole is a dish made primarily out of avocados, the phrase that makes the most sense to finish the sentence would be marinara sauce, a sauce made out of tomatoes.
The letters above can be rearranged to spell Argentina, which is a country located in South America. Argentina has a population of about 44 million people and its capital is the city of Buenos Aires.
Added together, the total of Chris’s items equal $3.48. His change subtracted from his total would come to $0.52.
The 4’s that will be encountered on the way from 1 to 46 would be 4, 14, 24, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46.
In order to boil 48 pots of water in the same amount of time that it took six cooks to boil 12 pots of water, there would need to be 4 times as many cooks, bringing the total to 24 cooks.
It may seem odd that 25 multiplied by 25 is 625, but it’s the correct answer! Maybe it seems odd because the number 6 isn’t in the number 25, but math doesn’t always look perfect.
No combination of any of the three numbers above will add up to equal 44. All but one of the numbers listed are odd numbers, which would make that equation pretty tricky.
A cupcake and a muffin have a similar mushroom-like shape, but cupcakes are made by creaming butter and sugar together to create a fluffy batter. Muffins on the other hand are beaten briefly and remain relatively lumpy, which makes them denser than cupcakes.
While the words run, eat, and scream are all actions that people can take, a potato is a vegetable and cannot perform an action unless it's being thrown at someone.
Bantering is an exchange of remarks in a good-humored teasing way. Other ways this might come about is through wisecrack jokes, quips, and puns.
The sum of the digits in the product of any number and nine will always add up to a multiple of nine. The only exception to this magic 9 trick is if nine is multiplied by zero, which will always be zero.
Since there are only four pills, they’ll only last three and a half hours each. That means the patient will only have enough dosage to last them 14 hours before they need a refill.
Since A is already smaller than C and A is bigger than B, then C has to be bigger than A and B. It’s tricky, but we have to kind of let it swirl around for a few seconds in our minds.
There is only one month that is 28 days long and that’s February, except on a leap year when it has 29 days. Meanwhile, April, June, September and November are the only four months that are 30 days long.
First, start off by dividing 24 ÷ 6 to get 4. Then subtract 8-4 to 4 within the parenthesis. The parenthesis symbolizes multiplication. So, next multiply 4x4 to get 16.
There are 24 hours in a day. Now X represents 10 in roman numeral, so the two Xs represent 20 and the I represents 1 and V represents 5, but when the I is put before the V it represents 4.
Most people tend to subtract 12 from 26 which is 14, but that answer is wrong. The correct response was already given. All the other goats died but 12 survived, so he has 12 goats.
Ivory is a hard, white material made up mostly of dentine from the tusks and teeth of animals like elephants. However, gold, silver, and platinum are chemical elements not found in organic creatures.
Most people say 10 but when 30 is added to 30, the answer is 60. If 60 is then divided by 3, the answer should always be 20 because 60 is divided into 20 three times.
Reassure is used when referring to putting someone’s mind at ease or to dispel someone’s fears whereas hearten refers to raising someone’s spirit by making them more cheerful and confident. While they’re not exactly the same, they have a similar meaning.
Joan and Joanna are sisters so obviously, they share the same mother who is Joanna. And since Joanna’s mother has a sister named Jane, Jane is Joan and Joanna’s aunt.
In this instance, division comes before addition. So, start by dividing 9 ÷ 3 to get 3 and then the other 9 ÷ 3 to get 3 as well. Then add 3+3 in order to get 6.
A deck is the main part of a ship where the crew stands and walks on. Essentially, it’s the floor of a boat or a ship. But it can also mean a pack of 52 playing cards.
The comparison is simple to explain because just as a bird uses its wing to fly in the air, a dolphin will use its flipper to navigate through water.
The Indian Ocean is the 3rd largest ocean in the world, covering 19.8% of the water on the Earth’s surface. It also touches both Australia and Africa, despite the fact that both landmasses are 4,700 miles apart.
The lips, ears, and eyes are all part of a person’s face. However, ovaries are a vital part of women’s reproductive system where egg cells are produced. So obviously, they're not the same as the other parts named on this list.
Sometimes, a brain teaser is just that and there is no correct answer because there simply isn’t enough information to accurately respond to this question.
Entomologists dedicate themselves to studying insects and how they affect humans, other organisms and the environment that surrounds. In fact, this study has made a major impact in other fields such as animal health, biology, chemistry and agriculture.
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and is also the most populated urban area in the country. But Stockholm isn’t one solid landmass. It’s actually 14 islands with over 50 bridges.
World War II brought together all of the great powers and majority of countries which formed two opposing sides known as the Axis and the Allies.
Dice are small, squared objects with dots on all four sides that are often thrown during a game to create random numbers. This is actually pretty common among role-playing games, board games and even dice games.
Although they’re not exactly the same, the hours of darkness in July are nearly the same as the months in October. However, the month of July takes place during the summer while October is right smack in the middle of fall.
There are actually only 39 letters in the sentence above, but there are 47 total characters in the sentence including punctuation and spaces.
The first sentence proves that Terry is taller that Bernice and the second sentence proves that Madelyn is taller than Bernice, but there is no information about whether Madelyn is shorter or taller than Terry.
Because Bastion was both the 13th in line from the front and 13th in line from the back at the coffee shop, he should only be counted once when figuring out how many people were in line.
When Jill was nine one year ago, Amanda was only one year old. In six years, Jill will be 16, which is twice as many years as Amanda’s eight. So in the present, Jill is 10 years old.
The friends are 6 meters apart because when they turned left for the second time, they got closer to each other. Each friend was parallel to the path they first started walking on.
Counting from the beginning of the English alphabet, which has 26 letters in total, R is the 18th letter, sandwiched between Q and S.
According to the order of operations, multiplication and division problems should be done from right to left. The first equation done in this question should be 20 ÷ 4, which equals 5, then 5 x 10, which equals 50, then 50 ÷ 2, which equals 25.
To figure out this math problem, first find that one half of 600 is 300, then discover that one fifth of 300 is 60, then do the math to find out that one third of 60 is 20.
The first three times Max visited the store, he picked up two doors. But he needed to visit the store a fourth time to pick up the seventh and final door.
In four years, Phil will be 8 and Tim will be 16 years old. Two years ago, Tim was 10 and Phil was 2 years old. So in the present day, Tim is 12 and Phil is 4.