(1) A snail is at the bottom of a well that is 20 meters in depth. Every day the snail climbs 5 meters upwards, but at night it slides 4 meters back downwards. How many days must elapse till the snail reaches the top of the well?

(2) A guy is sitting in some foreign country in death row awaiting his execution the next day. The executioner decides to grant him one last favor; he'll give him a choice in the execution method. The prisoner is therefore allowed to make one last statement. If this statement is true, he'll be hanged the next day. If however his statement is false he will be beheaded the next day. What should the prisoner say?

(3) A POLICEMAN has captured a gang of ten CIMINALS. His jail has only nine cells, and he cannot put more than one man into any one cell. What should he do? He tries taking the first two men and putting them into the first cell. The third CRIMINAL is put into the second cell, the fourth into the third, and the fifth into the fourth. The sixth, seventh, eigth and ninth men go into cells five, six, seven and eight respectively. Then then goes back to the first cell, where he originally put two men, and move the last man from there into cell nine. Has he solved the problem? Why or why not?


(4) Sam and Max run a 100 meter race. Sam wins by five yards. To make it sporting, he starts 5 yards beind the original start line in the second race. Assuming both runners run at the same speed, who wins the second race? The challenge is to solve this problem without doing any algebra

(5) A patient has fallen very ill and has been advised to take exactly one pill of medicine X and exactly one pill of medicine Y each day, lest he die from either illness or overdosage. These pills must be taken together. The patient has bottles of X pills and Y pills. He puts one of the X pills in his hand. Then while tilting the bottle of Y pills, two Y pills accidentally fall out. Now there are three pills in his hand. Because both types of pill look identical, he cannot tell which two pills are type Y and which is type X. Since the pills are extremely expensive, the patient does not wish to throw away the ones in his hand. How can he save the pills in his hand and still maintain a proper daily dosage?


answer five of them correctly and win a watch from sam milla

(1) 20 days, the snail moves 1 meter each day.
5m upwards - 4 m dowwards = 1m each day.

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(4) If they both runs at the same speed, Max will win the race, cos Sam is 5m behind.

(5) No two different dose can be so identical, He is actually taking the same dose. So if he mistakenly pours the, he should return one and take two. SImple


I didnt actually get 2 and three right, but i'll take time out to read them and then give u d answer.

Is the price for real How do u intend getting it across?