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Have fun………….

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1. sugar

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5. -40

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The solutions given by Bruce to Q1 and Q5 were both speedy and correct………

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03 20/7 or 2 6/7

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04 8 – 1 – 15 – 10 – 6 – 3 – 13 – 12 – 4 – 5 – 11 – 14 – 2 – 7 – 9

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Wow! Good work, Hans. …I knew Q4 would go in short order but I thought Q3 would keep anyone busy for a while. Unless you have the same book I do, then color me impressed.

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Q3 isn’t that hard: Left hand triangle has sides 4 and 4, right hand triangle has sides 4 and 6. Use these ratios to get equation (4-s) + (6-1.5s) = s from which s = 20/7.

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5 -32

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Claude – That’s not what I got…

The formula for converting F to C is:
F = (9/5)C + 32 To find where they’re the same, just set F and C equal to one another…so
C = (9/5)C + 32 Or
C – 32 = (9/5)C And
-32 = (4/5)C then finally,
-40 = C

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, pasted the wrong number AND missed Bruce’s answer. I blame the flu medicine on this one , and the fingers, and the eyes, and everyone else. So there

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Q2 Remains unsolved – Too easy, I suppose…

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Q2 not very easy at all. A quick attempt shows 10 possible first letters, 5 possibles for second place, then 9, 4, 4, 11, 12. This gave a total of 950,400 possibilities to check. I resorted to an anagram solver to find Ostlers.

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StuartR

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Wow Stuart, you’ve discovered an alternate solution! I wasn’t familiar with the word “ere. But I looked it up and it is a word. There is another solution that uses 7 common words …

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… so where’s that clue you promised us? My anagram solver is between my ears, and this one is driving me mad!

Tony.

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Okay, but it’s hard to give a clue for Q1 without giving away the puzzle. Let’s just say that the fifth word down is IRE.

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Thanks! OSTRICH . Serves me right for burying my anagram solver! Actually, it was Stuart that helped me as well – I had missed SOY.

Tony.

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Yep! That’s the solution I had for Q2.

Both Tony and Stuart came up with correct solutions for Q2 – Thanks

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Stuart – Curious to know what anagram solver you’re using!

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I’m using TEA, available from http://www.bryson.demon.co.uk/%5B/url%5D

I just gave it the string [bcefjmptw][bchjst][bcfmprtvw[ etc and it offered me a choice of the answer I gave and Ehrlich

StuartR

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Re Q5

I would have thought that all temperatures are the same, no matter what scale they are recorded on. Walk outside in a Nth American winter and you just know its cold! Doesn’t matter if its recorded in F or C (or absolute for that matter).

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I don’t disagree. Since I’ve moved to the midwest, I can assure you that: Cold

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