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Question Ese and Oke are playing a game with two tennis balls — one yellow, one blue — concealed in a bag.   They let the

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Question Dark-grey gears have 10, yellow gears have 30, and light-grey gears have 60 teeth. We don’t know how many teeth the

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Question What weight on which side will balance the bottom scale shown?   1 kg on the left-hand side 1 kg on the right-hand s

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Question Which of the numbers below can’t you get by changing some of the + to -? 2 + 4 + 6 + 8 = 20   -8 0 6 8

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Question After a square is placed on the third scale, which side of the scale is heavier?   The left side The right side The

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Question In New Math City (NMC), streets follow a square grid with integer coordinates, and all distances are measured in terms of

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Question Which side of the last scale is heavier?   The left-hand side The right-hand side The scale is balanced We don&#8217

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Question Rekha connected three identical bulbs and a battery as in the picture.   How can Rekha increase the total brightness

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Question Some railroad tracks are made of 20-meter-long metal rails bolted together by metal plates. The quintessential “cli

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Question In circle puzzles, dashed arrows indicate addition while solid arrows indicate multiplication. Which number will replace

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Question In the following two puzzles, you can change some of the addition signs to subtraction, multiplication, division, and con

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Question A fair die with 20 faces has each side labeled with a number from 1 through 10, with some labels appearing multiple times

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