February 22nd, 2018

Today's Question - Algebra for logicians - What is the only possible number that can be the answer to the following series (X - A) x (X - B) x (X - C)....(X - Y) x (X - Z).

Reveal Answer Answer - The logic of the series was that at some point down the alphabet you'd wind up with (x-x) which has to equal zero. So whatever product you had up to then became zero when multiplied by zero.

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February 21st, 2018

Today's Question - An old Sr. Partner decided to really test a hotshot job applicant. He said - "My son is 24 years younger than I am. My grandson is 25 years younger than my son. My age plus my grandson's age equals 73 years. If you want the job tell me how old I am." Well??

Reveal Answer Answer - The Senior Partner is 61 years old. (A barroom short hand trick for this one - add the number 24, 25, 73 and divide by 2.)

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February 20th, 2018

Today's Question - What's my handicap - Bob and Ross ran a race of 100 yards. Bob won by 10 yards. Ross proposed they race again but Bob should start 10 yards back. Thus Bob had to run 110 yards while Ross ran 100. All things being equal - who won?

Reveal Answer \x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments February 21, 2018 Page 3 of 3 Answer - Bob won the new race by a yard. In the first race Bob ran 100 yards while Ross ran 90. If the race took, say, 10 seconds than Bob ran 10 yards per second while Ross ran 9 yards per second. Thus Bob would run the 110 yards (100 + 10 yard handicap) in 11 seconds enough time for Ross to run 99 yards.

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February 7th, 2018

Today's Question - It was for a good cause anyway – With a break in the artic chill, half the floor turned out to watch a charity mini-marathon. The runners were Mike, Pete, Rich, Dan and Ed. Mike finished in front of Pete but behind Rich. Dan finished in front of Ed but behind Pete. What was the order of finish? NO COMMENTS THURSDAY MORE MEDICAL STUFF

Reveal Answer Answer \xe2\x80\x93 On February 9th we asked you - If 6 people can paint 9 landscapes in a day and a half.....how many people would it take to paint 270 landscapes in 30 days? Answer - It would take 9 painters to paint 270 landscapes in 30 days. (If six painters paint 9 landscapes in a day and a half, they paint 6 in 1 day or 1 per day per painter.)

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February 6th, 2018

Today's Question - "Come on Professor! I was only off by one!" Sometimes only one letter can change one word into another word. Here are some words followed by (hints) that suggest the "other" word. (Warning - to keep it from getting too easy sometimes you add and sometimes you subtract.) Example - "Bodices" (things they drape) Answer - "Bodies".

Reveal Answer \x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments February 7, 2018 Page 3 of 3 Answer - The words changed by one letter would be: A) Belated; B) Play day; C) Mortality; D) Hideouts.

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February 1st, 2018

Today's Question - What two well-known five letter words end in "y" but do not contain "A,E,I,O, or U"?

Reveal Answer Answer - The word with all the "i\'s" is indivisibility (we said not uncommon). \x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments February 6, 2018 Page 3 of 3 A) Belted (delayed) B) Payday (same day or maybe day after) C) Morality (limitation) D) Hideous (unknown places)

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January 31st, 2018

Today's Question - In a small county election there were four candidates: Larry, Charles, Sal and Ivan. The total votes cast were 8,341. Larry won beating Sal by 560 votes, beating Charles by 830 and Ivan by 981. How many votes did each candidate get?

Reveal Answer Answer - To find how many votes each one got take the total vote (1841) and add each of the spreads between the winner and each loser (560 + 830 + 981). That total (10712) would be the votes cast if the others had tied Larry. Now divide by 4 to find out how many votes Larry got (2678). Now subtract the spreads in the question, giving: Sal = 2118; Charles = 1848; and Ivan 1697.

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January 30th, 2018

Today's Question - As a lark Nelson set up a stall at the fair to sell statuettes. He sold the jade ones for $5, the amber ones for $4 and the porcelain for $3. After 3 days, he had sold 2000 statuettes for a grand total of $7,500. Interestingly, he was able to sell 1,494 of 1 type. How many of each type did he sell??

Reveal Answer Answer - To get his $7,500 Nelson would have sold: 3 jade; 1494 amber; and 503 porcelain.

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January 25th, 2018

Today's Question - You recall the old children's code of substituting a number for a letter. Well here is the opposite - each letter represents a number. Can you solve this addition problem? (Remember if M = 6, it must always = 6) STIR TWO WHEAT Cashin’s Comments January 25, 2018 Page 3 of 3 No Comments on Friday and Monday Medical Testing & Such

Reveal Answer Answer - The addition problem would be: 9754 + 713 = 10467

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January 24th, 2018

Today's Question - How old are you? Two people are comparing ages. Bob is three times as old as Bill. But in two years Bob will only be twice as old as Bill. How old is each??

Reveal Answer Answer - Bob would be 6 years old while Bill is 2. In two years it will be 8 and 4.

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January 23rd, 2018

Today's Question - "Don't hold dinner dear!" Timothy can't get his car started so he grabs a train, which takes him halfway home at a speed 20 times faster than he walks. As he gets off the train, he twists his ankle and Cashin’s Comments January 23, 2018 Page 3 of 3 must ride the rest of the way in a farmer's cart which travels half as fast as he walks. Would he have been home sooner or later if he had walked all the way. (You don't need a calculator.)

Reveal Answer Answer - No Algebra needed. If the farmers cart took Timothy half the distance at half the speed of walking, that took as much time as walking the whole way, so the train trip was wasted.

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January 22nd, 2018

Today's Question - There are 11 states that border Canada. Without looking it up, what are they? (Hint: Four start with "M" and 3 with "N".)

Reveal Answer Answer - From East to west - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Alaska. We only used states with land to land borders rather than shared bodies of water.

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January 18th, 2018

Today's Question - I P R U A E M O T N T is an odd set of letters. It is a nagging problem to make a word of these letters. One word might be "importunate" (naggingly solicitous). Can you transform the letters into a more common word? (Hint: The change may be strange but not impossible.)

Reveal Answer Answer - The only letter not used in spelling the names of all 50 states is "Q".

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January 17th, 2018

Today's Question - Here are clues for pairs of words that are different by only one letter. (Number of letters in parens.) (Example: bias, street talk (5, 5) = slant, slang). A) pen, cover (5, 5); B) release, up to (5, 5); C) delete, far off (6, 6); D) seek, stiffen (6, 6)

Reveal Answer Answer - Kevin should go directly to the "Either" bag. Since it\'s labeled incorrectly, it must be all black or all gold. Assume he finds a gold coin. Now he must swap the Either label with the "Gold" label. What about the other bag? Since it could not have been labeled correctly and we now know "Gold" is correct. Thus he should swap the Either label with the Black. (We hope he gets seats on the 50 yard line.)

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January 12th, 2018

Today's Question - What is the lowest number which requires the five vowels A, E, I, O and U once each in its spelling?

Reveal Answer Answer - Art would have been 35 minutes early. \x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments January 17, 2018 Page 3 of 3

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January 11th, 2018

Today's Question - Stay in line please! What number comes next in this series: 5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, __?

Reveal Answer Answer - The next number in the series is: 5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, 12

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January 10th, 2018

Today's Question - Hey! Wait a minute! This ruler has no numbers on it! - Here's the old 3 bottle puzzle with a twist. - The 3 bottles have 3 shapes - round, square, and Bowl. The square holds 3 pints more than the bowl shaped. The round bottle holds 4 pints more than the square shaped. How could you use these 3 bottles to measure exactly 1 quart of water into a pail? (Hint: It's less than 10 moves but remember you do not know the full capacity of any of the bottles.)

Reveal Answer Answer - The quart can be found in 9 moves. 1) Fill the square with water. 2) Fill the bowl shape from the square bottle. 3) Empty the bowl onto the ground. 4) Pour what's left in square into the round. 5) Fill the square bottle again. 6) Fill the bowl with water from the square 7) Pour what's left in the square into the round. 8) Fill the square bottle with water again. 9) Fill the round bottle with what is in the square bottle. What is left in the square bottle should be 1 quart.

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January 9th, 2018

Today's Question - There are six water pails in a row. The three on the left are full. The three on the right are empty. By moving only one pail, how can you put the pails in the sequence - full/empty/full/empty/full/empty?

Reveal Answer Answer - It was a bit of a trick question - but not too tricky for most of you. If you pick up pail #2 and empty it into pail #5 and replace the now empty pail #2 - you get the requisite full/empty/full rotation.

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January 5th, 2018

Today's Question - Kevin is a big West Point sports fan. He is invited into an informal fraternity of Army fans. To pass the initiation, he must pass the "Black and Gold" test. He is presented with three cloth bags, each is marked "Black"; "Gold" and "Either". One bag contains only black coins, one only gold coins and the third bag has both. He is told all the bags are incorrectly marked. Assuming he cannot see beyond the coin he chooses - what is the fewest number of choices he must make to re-label the bags correctly?

Reveal Answer Answer \xe2\x80\x93 The word you\xe2\x80\x99d get by reconfiguring those letters would be Permutation. \x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments January 9, 2018 Page 3 of 3

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January 4th, 2018

Today's Question - "She loves me; She loves me not!" - pluck one letter from each word and use the remaining letters to spell the name of a flower. A) Stared; B) Openly; C) Snappy; D) Store; E) Dismay

Reveal Answer Answer to "She loves me; she loves me not!" - The anagrammed flowers were: A) Aster; B) Peony; C) Pansy; D) Rose; E) Daisy.

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December 29th, 2017

Today's Question - "Are we related?" - What comes next in this logical (?) series –

Reveal Answer Answer - The next number in the series would be 2048. The numbers were alternately divided or multiplied by the next number.

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December 27th, 2017

Today's Question – Bob asked Ron when he had bought the champagne for the New Year’s party. Ron responded with a puzzle – “It was not the day after Monday or the day before Thursday and it wouldn’t have been Sunday the next day nor was it Sunday the day before, and the day after the next day wasn’t Saturday and the day before the day before wasn’t Wednesday.” What day of the week did Ron buy the Bubbly?

Reveal Answer Answer - "Auld Lang Syne" is Scottish (not Scotch - that comes out of a bottle) and literally means "Old Long Ago" or, idiomatically, "The good old days."

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December 21st, 2017

Today's Question - What large former retail outlet commissioned and published Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Publication Schedule Given her legendary organizational skills, Wonder Woman has been drafted by the North Pole Elves to manage sleigh packing and post event debriefing. Therefore, there will be no Comments Dec. 22, 25, 26. May you and all you hold dear find Christmas in your heart, in your home and in your whole world! Peace on Earth to all of good will!

Reveal Answer Answer \xe2\x80\x93 Last Thursday we asked - What large former retail outlet commissioned and published Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Montgomery Ward

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December 20th, 2017

Today's Question - What were the names of Three Wise Men and what gift did each bring?

Reveal Answer Answer - The Three Kings were: Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar - bringing Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. Melchior (Emperor of Arabia = gold); Caspar (King of Tharsis = Frankincense) and Balthazar (King of Ethiopia = Myrrh). Their names and identities did not appear in general circulation until centuries after the first "Epiphany."

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December 18th, 2017

Today's Question - We call him Santa Claus but what do they call him in:

Reveal Answer Answer - Coca-Cola Bonus Answer - A Visit from St. Nicholas

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