If you could chose to increase the average fuel economy of a car, which of these would save the most fuel?
1. 10mpg -> 12mpg
2. 12mpg -> 15mpg
3. 15mpg -> 20mpg
4. 20mpg -> 30mpg
5. 30mpg -> 60mpg
It turns out they all save the same amount of fuel.
If you travel 100 miles:
100 / 10 = 10 gallons used
100 / 12 = 8 1/3 gallons used
10 – 8 1/3 = 1 2/3 gallons saved
100 / 30 = 3 1/3 gallons used
100 / 60 = 1 2/3 gallons used
3 1/3 – 1 2/3 = 1 2/3 gallons saved
It turns out they all save the same amount of fuel.
If you travel 100 miles:
100 / 10 = 10 gallons used
100 / 12 = 8 1/3 gallons used
10 – 8 1/3 = 1 2/3 gallons saved
100 / 30 = 3 1/3 gallons used
100 / 60 = 1 2/3 gallons used
3 1/3 – 1 2/3 = 1 2/3 gallons saved
I beam, shine and sparkle white,
I brighten the day with a single light.
I charm and enchant one and all,
I can counter the darkest pall.
What am I?
A smile.
I am a word of 5 letters and people eat me. If you remove the first letter I become a form of energy. Remove the first two and I’m needed to live. Scramble the last 3 and you can drink me. What am I?
wheat
heat
eat
tea
You’ll have me at night and if you remove the first letter I denote the top, such as on a train
Supper. You eat supper at night, and removing the first letter leaves upper. Thanks to Dude for figuring it out.
Supper. You eat supper at night, and removing the first letter leaves upper. Thanks to Dude for figuring it out.
You eat something you neither plant nor plow.
It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies.
Salt. It comes from saltwater but salt melts ice (the solid form of water).
Salt. It comes from saltwater but salt melts ice (the solid form of water).
What 11-letter word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?
The word “incorrectly”.
A man without eyes saw plums on a tree.
He neither took them nor left them, how can this be?
The man had only one eye and took one plum. (note singular versus plural)
The man had only one eye and took one plum. (note singular versus plural)
011 235 813 213 ???
What comes next?
455. The numbers are from the Fibonacci sequence in groups of 3. The next numbers in the series are 34 (the 3 was already used in 213) and 55.
455. The numbers are from the Fibonacci sequence in groups of 3. The next numbers in the series are 34 (the 3 was already used in 213) and 55.
The first two letters of this English word refer to a male, the first three refer to a female, the first four to a great man and the whole word is a great woman.
What is the word?
Heroine (he, her, hero)
Think of the six-letter name of a European capital city whose starting letter falls in the last half dozen letters of the alphabet and whose last letter is a vowel.
Now think of a three-letter words that means “permit”.
Last, combine all nine letters from the two words above. Rearrange the letters to form a word that you might call someone you like.
1. Vienna
2. let
3. Valentine (Vienna + let)
1. Vienna
2. let
3. Valentine (Vienna + let)