1.What is the missing number in the following series?
23, 48, 9, 39, __, 51, 12, 37
2.Four baseball players from the same team. Richard, John, Bob and Ben.They play right field, first base, left field and catcher but not in that respective order. From the following additional informationdetermine what each player's position is.
1) Richard hits more homers than the catcher but fewer than the leftfielder
2) Ben and the left fielder are cousins
3.Here are six words that can have a four-letter word in front of them as well as behind them, forming two new eight letter words. FOOT SOME BODY DROP MASS BALL. Can you find how?
4.There are four words in the english language that end in "vous". Two of them are mischievous and nervous.What are the other 2?
5.What is the next number in the series? 100 100 90 72 50.4 30.24 ??
Answers Below!
1. 21, Starting with the two outside numbers and moving toward the middle, each pair adds up to 60.
2.First Base: Richard, Right Field: Ben, Left Field: John Catcher: Bob
3.BAREFOOT FOOTNOTE HANDSOME SOMETIME SOMEBODY BODYWORK RAINDROP DROPKICK LANDMASS MASSAGES HANDBALL BALLROOM
4.Grievous and rendezvous
5.15.12, each successive number is found by taking a percentage of the previous number, starting with 100%, then 90%, 80%, 70%, etc.
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