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Brain Buster #751

Find the number that best completes the following sequence:

3     9     4     16     5     25     6     ?

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Brain Buster #752

Which of the following is the odd man out?  It has nothing to do with letters or syllables.

WASHINGTON          LINCOLN          HAMILTON          POLK

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Brain Buster #753

Each of the following definitions can be answered by two words that rhyme.

E.A.'s agricultural instruments

_ _ _ _     _ _ _ _

Dorothy's noisy dogs

_ _ _ _ _ _ _      _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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Brain Buster #754

Mrs. Jones is 32 years older than her daughter.  Six years ago, she was exactly three times as old as her daughter.  What are the correct ages of Mrs. Jones and her daughter?

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Brain Buster #755

Two years ago, a man offered to sell his Chevy to a car dealership for $7000, but they declined to buy it.  A year later the seller offered the same car for $6000, but again the car dealer decided not to purchase it.  A few months later the man offered the Chevy for $5142.85, but yet again the car dealership refused to buy it.  Yesterday, the car was offered for $4,408.16.  The car dealer still did not want to purchase the car.  If the owner offers the car for sale again, and he maintains a consistent reduction, how much will the offer be?

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Brain Buster #756

What two letters should replace the question marks?

ACE                    GIK
CFI                      LOR
EIM                     Q??

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Brain Buster #757

What number comes next in the following series?

21, 42, 63, 84, 06, ?

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Brain Buster #758

The following letters occur in these sequences in English words.  What are the words?  Exampe:   OOKKEE is Bookkeeper.

CKKN          WKW          YZY

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Brain Buster #759

What one four-letter word can be added in the blanks below to make a new word in each case?

_______REAL
_______SWIPE
_______LINE
_______CAR

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Brain Buster #760

Cathy bought two different types of candles, one that burned for 12 hours and one that burned for 16 hours.  Both candles were exactly the same length.  One night, Cathy lit both candles when her electricity went out during a thunderstorm.  Sometime later, when one candle was exactly 1/2 the length of the other, the power came back on.  Cathy needed to reset the clocks that had stopped during the outage, but didn't know how long the electricity had been out.  Can you help Cathy figure out how long the candles had been burning?

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Brain Buster #761

All the vowels (including "y") have been removed from the following line in a nursery rhyme.  Can you read it?

MSTRSSMRQTCNTRRHWDSRGRDNGRW.

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Brain Buster #762

What is the next number in the following sequence?

4          8          32          128          2,048          ?

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Brain Buster #763

Take an "s" from a word meaning "area" and find a word meaning "rate of speed."

Take an "s" from a word meaning "to glue" and find a word meaning "head."

Take an "s" from a word meaning "a sedimentary rock" and find a word meaning "tardy."

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Brain Buster #764

Which of the following groups of letters is the odd man out?  The difference has nothing to do with vowels or consonants.

NAANAB          NEIPPPLEA          AEGRP          SFIH

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Brain Buster #765

The impetuous young man was telling his fiancee  what time he would be at her house so they could elope.  He wanted to arrive at midnight, so he had done a few practice runs.  If he drove 40 miles per hour, he'd be an hour early.  If he drove at 30 miles per hour, he'd be on time, but at 20 miles per hour, he'd be two hours late.  How far away was he?

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Brain Buster #766

One of the following is the odd word out.  Which one and why?

apocryphal, spurious, indubitable, disingenuous, illegitimate

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Brain Buster #767

Can you tell what number comes next in this strange sequence?

3415826          345826         34586           4586          ?

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Brain Buster #768

Bryan is now twice as old as Jennifer.  Ten years ago, he was four times as old.  Ten years from now, Jennifer will be five-eights Bryan's age.  How old are they now?

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Brain Buster #769

Replace the number signs with mathematical symbols to make this equation work:

7 # 7 # 77 # 7 # 7 = 497

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Brain Buster #770

The following nine letters can be anagrammed to form a three-word, rather bizarre way of wishing a person good luck.

A A B E E G K L R

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Brain Buster #771

Mary has seven passwords for seven computers at work.  she has to match each password with its respective computer.  If Mary picks one of the passwords and one of the computers to see if she has a match, what is the probability she will be successful?

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Brain Buster #772

Here is an interesting math puzzle that is not as difficult as it appears.  Can you find a number that when divided by 2, has a remainder of 1; when divided by 3, has a remainder of 2; when divided by 4, has a remainder of 3; and when divided by 5, has a remainder of 4?

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Brain Buster #773

All the vowels (including "y") have been removed from the following quotation.  Can you read it?

RSBNTHRNMWLDSMLLSSWT

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Brain Buster #774

Change the first letter of each pair of words to form a new pair of words.  Place the letter, the same for each pair, on the blank line in the middle.  When you have finished all the pairs, you will have a new word reading down.

SLAM   _____ SAME
DATER _____ FINGER
IRE       _____ AVER
CHINE _____ BRING
PASTY _____ RESTLE

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Brain Buster #775

Find the six-digit number in which the first digit is three times the second; the third is one more than the second; the fourth is one-fifth the last; and the fifth is the sum of the first and fourth.

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