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Question You can change some of the addition signs to subtraction, multiplication, and division. Which result is impossible to obt

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Question To make the result equal zero, you need to change some of the addition signs to subtraction, multiplication, or division.

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Question Jade is using a pulley to lift a baby elephant to her room on the second floor (left image). If she improves her pulley a

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Question You can arrange the following instructions so that in the end the variables sum up to zero.   (Initially: X contains

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Question Sisters Molly and Nia are arguing whose turn it is to do the dishes. Molly suggests shuffling a deck of 20 cards numbered

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Question The mobile shown is balanced and all ornaments have positive weights. Which ornament is the heaviest?   A B C D

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Question Which method of connecting three identical bulbs will provide us with more light?   A B They’ll produce the sa

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Question Number Bunchers puzzles provide two or more boxes into which the numbers provided need to be sorted.   Herbie: “Th

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Question A queen bee wants to decorate her honeycomb so that adjacent (sharing the same border) hexagonal cells are different colo

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Question The fractal shown is made of a stack of shrinking concentric circles, starting from a yellow circle.   As the circle

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Question Ese and Oke are playing a game with two tennis balls — one yellow, one blue — concealed in a bag.   They let the

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Question Dark-grey gears have 10, yellow gears have 30, and light-grey gears have 60 teeth. We don’t know how many teeth the

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