RELAY QUESTION 1 RELAY QUESTION 2

A ball is dropped from a height of 125m.

Jane is older than Kim.
Kim is older than Shawn. Each time it hits the ground it bounces 3/5 of
Shawn is younger than Jane. the height it fell.
Rachel is older than Jane How high will the ball
List the people from oldest to youngest. bounce on the 3rd bounce?

RELAY QUESTION 3 RELAY QUESTION 4

In the first year of production
What is the four-digit number in which the
a play sells 1572 tickets, in its
first digit is one-third the second, the third
second year it sells 1753
is the sum of the first and second, and the
tickets, in its third year it sells
last is three times the second?
152 less than in its second
year. How many tickets are
sold in 3 years?
 RELAY QUESTION 5 RELAY QUESTION 6
Add up all the numbers Replace each blank with the correct digit.
on the telephone dial,
and then multiply that 43_2
sum by every number 42_
on the telephone dial. +_127
What do you get? -------------
8893
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RELAY QUESTION 7 RELAY QUESTION 8

You bought 2 antique lamps for £50 each. Later, you
How many cubes are needed to build this were offered £60 for one and sold it. Then you changed
solid figure? your mind when you saw another such lamp being sold
for more, and bought it back for £70. You then sold it
for £80. The 2nd one didn’t sell at all, so you reduced it
to 10% of what you paid for it and finally managed to
get rid of it. Overall, how much money did you make or
lose?
 RELAY QUESTION 9 RELAY QUESTION 10
Place the digits 9, 4, 7, 6, 5, 1, in the boxes in John was having a hard time lining up his tin
order to get the largest result. soldiers. He didn’t have that many (fewer than a
hundred) but he couldn’t seem to arrange them in
parade properly. He kept having numbers left over.
He tried rows of 5 and there were 4 left over –
x + x = ? rows of 6, 4 left over – rows of 7, 1 left over. He
( )( ) finally decided to have a very narrow parade and
arranged them in rows of 4. This time it worked.
What’s the smallest number of tin soldiers he could
have?

RELAY QUESTION 11 RELAY QUESTION 12

Linda didn’t like to tell her age, so when
The antique TV set you bought has
she was asked, her mother answered for
proved very difficult to sell. At first it
was priced at £100, but you had to her. Her mother said, “I’m just seven
mark it down to £80. Then it was times as old as she is now. In twenty
marked down to £64. How much will it years, she will be just half the age that I
cost after the next markdown?
will be then.”
How old is clever little Linda?
 RELAY QUESTION 13 RELAY QUESTION 14
I stroll daily at 2 miles an hour. My jogger friend,
however, has worked to change this, saying, Using the number 987654321 and seven
“Why don’t you jog? You’d cover the same 12-mile addition signs we can make 99:
distance, and you’d save a lot of time.” I notice that
9+8+7+65+4+3+2+1 = 99
he jogs exactly 3 times as fast as I stroll. How much
time will I save if I jogged with him? Can you use 987654321 and six addition
signs to make 99?

RELAY QUESTION 15 RELAY QUESTION 16

The local sweety shop sold large packets of sweets for
Divide the clock
25p and small packets for 10p. The new cashier wasn’t
face into 3 parts up to the job, though; she marked down the number of
with 2 lines so sacks she sold, but forgot to record their prices. At the
that the sum of end of the day, she found she had sold 385 packs of
the numbers in sweets and had £62.65 in her cash register. Fortunately,
the three parts she figured out how many of each size of packs of
sweets she had sold before her boss came by. Can you?
are equal.
Relay Answers:

1. Rachel, Jane, Kim, Shawn

2. 27cm
3. 1349
4. £4926
5. Zero.
6. Each blank needs a ‘4’.
7. 22
8. Lost £25
9. [9][5] * [7][6] + [4] * [1] = 7224
10. 64 soldiers
11. £51.20
12. 4
13. 4hours
14. 9+8+7+6+5+43+21 = 99
15. see below…

16. 161 large packs and 224 small ones.