Help needed with son's school quiz!

PeterT · 27 Dec 2006 at 11:42

Hi, we have been straining our brains with my son's christmas school quiz and are left with the tricky questions (for us!) so I could do with a bit of help please!!
Here are 3 questions to get you going:

Add the missing terms in these sequences ( The question marks indicate where the gaps are)

a) HC, IP, 2P, 3OAK, S, F, FH, 4OAK, ?, ?

b) ?, G, B, B, ?, B

c) 4-20, 16-27, 9-30, 12-16, ?, ?

All help gratefully received so see what you can do!!

Cheers, PeterT.

Pajeh · 27 Dec 2006 at 11:53

I think the answer to b. is : B, G, B, B, G, B

AndrewP · 27 Dec 2006 at 11:58

PeterT said:
Hi, we have been straining our brains with my son's christmas school quiz and are left with the tricky questions (for us!) so I could do with a bit of help please!!
Here are 3 questions to get you going:

Add the missing terms in these sequences ( The question marks indicate where the gaps are)

a) HC, IP, 2P, 3OAK, S, F, FH, 4OAK, ?, ?

b) ?, G, B, B, ?, B

c) 4-20, 16-27, 9-30, 12-16, ?, ?

All help gratefully received so see what you can do!!

Cheers, PeterT.

a) is poker hands, so straight flush then royal flush presumably

Talbs13 · 27 Dec 2006 at 12:02

AndrewP said:
a) is poker hands, so straight flush then royal flush presumably

Very Well Spotted. How the hell are kids meant to know the answer relating to Poker? How old is your son? Bizarre.

Pinkeyes · 27 Dec 2006 at 12:03

b) maybe b=boy g=girl - who has had 6 children ?

*edit: doh. See below.

AndrewP · 27 Dec 2006 at 12:11

c) is some kind of alternating pattern, ?s should be 16-40 (following on from 4-20 and 9-30) and 8-7 (16-27 = 4*4-3*9, 12-16 = 3*4-2*8, 8-7 = 2*4-1*7) i.e. actual hyphen separators and not minus signs

Makes sense to me, anyway

Pinkeyes · 27 Dec 2006 at 12:11

b) Y,G,B,B,P,B

Yellow - Green - Brown - Blue - Pink - Black.

Snooker Loopy....

kitten_caboodle · 27 Dec 2006 at 13:38

Pinkeyes said:
b) Y,G,B,B,P,B

Yellow - Green - Brown - Blue - Pink - Black.

Snooker Loopy....

Pot the reds then screw back??

PeterT · 27 Dec 2006 at 19:41

Lots of replies and well done for giving some good answers.

I am still baffled about the poker, please could you explain it out to me.

Regarding the age of the child, the quiiz is for the parents to have a go at when you are sick of watching the telly or talking to the mother in law.

Here are another couple of questions to have a go at:

How did the following pop groups come by their names?

a) Take That

b) Frankie goes to Hollywood

Cheers, PeterT

SourChipmunk · 27 Dec 2006 at 19:46

PeterT said:
I am still baffled about the poker, please could you explain it out to me.

HC = High Card,

1P = 1 Pair,

2P = 2 Pair,

3OAK = 3 of a Kind,

S = Straight,

F = Flush,

FH = Full House,

4OAK = 4 of a Kind,

? = SF = Straight Flush,

? = RF = Royal Flush

Overload · 27 Dec 2006 at 20:02

Taken from http://www.amiright.com/names/origins/t.shtml

a)"They didn't know how to name the band so one day they saw a magazine with "Madonna" on the cover and the title said "Madonna: Take That & Party" so they thought it was cool "Take that & Party", then they found out there was a rapper named "The party", so they cut it to Take That....(And that's why their first album's name was "Take That & Party")"

Quoted from Wikipedia (so might want to check elsewhere for reassurence)

b) "On the B-side to the group's first single, Johnson explained that the group's name derived from a page from the New Yorker magazine, featuring the headline "Frankie Goes To Hollywood" and a picture of Frank Sinatra. "

EDIT: on that band names origin site, it says that for b) it is Frankie Vaughn and not Frank Sinatra!! Who to believe? Dunno.

PeterT · 27 Dec 2006 at 20:27

Excellent answers and thank you for explaining the poker. As you can see I am not a gambling man!!

shimy182 · 27 Dec 2006 at 20:38

PeterT said:
Excellent answers and thank you for explaining the poker. As you can see I am not a gambling man!!

Very Well Spotted. How the hell are kids meant to know the answer relating to Poker? How old is your son? Bizarre.

maybe the teachers wants to know how supportive parents are these days.. and how often they gamble and go to pubs.

wmb · 27 Dec 2006 at 20:59

AndrewP said:
c) is some kind of alternating pattern, ?s should be 16-40 (following on from 4-20 and 9-30) and 8-7 (16-27 = 4*4-3*9, 12-16 = 3*4-2*8, 8-7 = 2*4-1*7) i.e. actual hyphen separators and not minus signs

Makes sense to me, anyway

Not sure about that, but I think your on the right lines. I think the sequence is 16-42, then 8-7.

My reckoning is that the sequence is (2*2 - 4*5), (4*4-3*9), (3*3-5*6), (4*3-2*8) so the next two will be (4*4-6*7) and (4*2-1*7)

Dfhaii · 27 Dec 2006 at 22:55

Sorry not to be of much help, but which Solihull school is this from?

I was at Tudor Grange.

Deadly Ferret · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:10

wmb said:
Not sure about that, but I think your on the right lines. I think the sequence is 16-42, then 8-7.

My reckoning is that the sequence is (2*2 - 4*5), (4*4-3*9), (3*3-5*6), (4*3-2*8) so the next two will be (4*4-6*7) and (4*2-1*7)

I recognised a pattern as I usually do with such things, but I never thought about it mathematically. I came up with:

4-20, 16-27, 9-30, 12-16, 16-42, 8-7, 25-56, 4-0, 36-62, 0+5

Does that agree with your working out?

PeterT · 28 Dec 2006 at 16:57

Dfhaii said:
Sorry not to be of much help, but which Solihull school is this from?

I was at Tudor Grange.

Hi there, another Solihull resident! My son is at Warwick school.

PeterT

wmb · 28 Dec 2006 at 20:02

Deadly Ferret said:
I recognised a pattern as I usually do with such things, but I never thought about it mathematically. I came up with:

4-20, 16-27, 9-30, 12-16, 16-42, 8-7, 25-56, 4-0, 36-62, 0+5

Does that agree with your working out?

I take it you mean 72 (8*9) not 62

4-20, 16-27, 9-30, 12-16, 16-42, 8-7, 25-56, 4-0, 36-72, 0+5 works,

However, it may be hyphens betwen the numbers rather than negative/positive signs so it may also be:
4-20, 16-27, 9-30, 12-16, 16-42, 8-7, 25-56, 4-0, 36-72, 0-5