mapleleaf
MB Enthusiast
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2002
- Messages
- 1,719
- Location
- Hinckley, Leicestershire
- Car
- 2022 GLC 300 estate- replaced 2018 Gle 43 AMG Night - replaced previous 2015 E63 AMG
Mrs mapleleaf has a friend who is taking an aptitude test tomorrow that involves answering a variety of questions - some multiple choice , some you have to work out and write out the answer and how you got there. We got hold of an example of the type of questions and this one has completely flummoxed us - even no1 uni graduate son.
There is a prize of a bunch of dancing bananas to the first person who can tell me how the heck you work out this one.... we do have the answer and still cant figure how its arrived at. Its probably staring us in the face but we cant see it.
Here goes:
"In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a page contains 2,400 words. The article is allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller type."
enjoy !
There is a prize of a bunch of dancing bananas to the first person who can tell me how the heck you work out this one.... we do have the answer and still cant figure how its arrived at. Its probably staring us in the face but we cant see it.
Here goes:
"In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a page contains 2,400 words. The article is allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller type."
enjoy !