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_______ A. How many days did it take Phileas Fogg to go around the world? _______ B. What is the total number of letters you would need to make a clock face showing the 12 hours in Roman numerals? Add this to your first answer above _______ C. Subtract the number of years celebrated on a Silver Anniversary from the number of "winks" in a short nap, and multiply your result by answer B _______ D. Subtract the number of trombones in a famous song from The Music Man from answer C _______ E. What is the number that people with triskaidekaphobia fear? Subtract this number from answer D _______ F. Add the year that the 1968 film whose title includes the words A Space Odyssey takes place to answer E _______ G. Divide this number by the sum of Beethoven's total number of symphonies and the number on a black billiards ball _______ H. Now subtract the number of squares on a checkerboard _______ I. Multiply this result by the product of the number of minutes in a professional boxing round and the number of feet in a pole that you would not use to touch something you were definitely trying to avoid _______ J. Divide answer I by the answer you get when you divide the number of days that September hath by the Amendment number that protects a person from self-incrimination _______ K. Deduct from this the length, in miles, of a famous auto race that takes place every Memorial Day weekend in Indianapolis _______ L. Divide answer K by a number that's another name for the game of blackjack _______ M. Subtract from answer L the number of times that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to the presidency _______ N. Your answer to M should equal the number of the route that you could "get your kicks" on in an old song, divided by the sum of Bart Simpson's age (in years) and the date of April Fools' Day. |
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Solution to the Problem: A. 80 (Around the World in Eighty Days) B. 26 (total letters) + 80 (Answer A) = 106 C. 40 (winks) - 25 (years) = 15 x 106 (Answer B) = 1590 D. 1590 (Answer C) - 76 (Trombones) = 1514 E. 1514 (Answer D) - 13 (triskaldekaphobe's fear) = 1501 F. 1501 (Answer E) + 2001 (A Space Odyssey) = 3502 G. 9 (symphonies) + 8 (billiards ball) = 17 3502 / 17 = 206 H. 206 (Answer G) - 64 (checkerboard squares) = 142 I. 3 (minutes) x 10 (ten-foot pole) = 30 142 (Answer H) x 30 = 4260 J. 30 (days In September) / 5 (Amendment) = 6 4260 (Answer I) / 6 = 710 K. 710 (Answer J} - 500 (miles) = 210 L. 210 (Answer K) + 21 (blackjack) = 10 M. 10 (Answer L) - 4 (times elected) = 6 N. 10 (years) + 1 (April 1) = 11 66 (Route 66) / 11 = 6 |
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