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Creative ThinkingCreative Thinking

It’s a StartIt’s a Start

Warm Up Recorded on side A of an old 45 rpm LP

record is a musical number that last 3 minutes and 20 seconds. How many grooves are there on side A of this LP?

Diameter = 7.5 inchesSong starts outer edge and works towards the middle

Warm Up Sioux Falls and Rapid City are exactly 100

miles apart. Mary leaves Rapid City and heads towards Sioux Falls driving 60 mph. Stu leaves Sioux Falls headed towards Rapid City 30 minutes later driving 75 mph. Who will be closer to Pierre when they meet?

Kahlua and Milk You have one quart of kahlua and one quart of

milk. You take one cup of kahlua and mix it with the milk – shake it up. Take one cup of the mixture and pour back into the kahlua. You now have 1 quart of mostly kahlua with some milk and one quart of mostly milk with some kahlua. Does the kahlua contain more, less, or the same amount of milk as the milk does kahlua?

Mat and Pat Flat, the Thin Twins

Mat starts at Sylvan lake at 7:00 am and hikes to the top of Harney peak. He arrives there at 11:10 am. He then hikes down and arrives at Sylvan at 1:30 pm.

Pat has been camping out at Harney peak and meets Mat. At 7:00 am the following day he hikes down to Sylvan Lake and arrives at 9:45.

Is there a point in time where Mat and Pat Flat are at the same point on the trail but 24 hours later?

Center Lake has lilly pads. Each day the number of lilly pads double. On a trip to Playhouse June 6, you note the lilly pads cover a small section near thecampground. On another trip on Sept. 18 you notice the lake is half covered with lilly pads. How long before the lake is completely covered with lilly pads?

The butcher at Tony’s Meat Market is 41 years old, 6 feet 2 inches tall, wears an extra large shirt and a size 14 shoe. What does he weigh?

How many times can you take 3 from 25?

Lateral Thinking Here is an equation of Roman numerals

made with 10 sticks. It is incorrect. Can you correct the equation without touching the sticks, adding in new sticks, or taking away any sticks?

XI + I = X

Lateral Thinking Here is an equation of Roman numerals

made with 10 sticks. It is incorrect. Can you correct the equation without touching the sticks, adding in new sticks, or taking away any sticks?

XI + I = X

XI + I = X

XI + I = X

X = I + IX

Lateral Thinking

Shown below is the Roman numeral nine. By adding only a single line, turn it into a six.

IX

A Parable

Where should we put the additional armor?

Logic Puzzle

Move two toothpics to make five squares

Lateral Thinking A transformer weighing two tons sits on a

free-standing platform 4 feet high. Find a way to lower the transformer to the ground withour using a crane and without destroying either the transformer or the platform.

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