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Half as Long Till Midnight
If it were two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it now?
Answer
21:002 hours later (23:00 - 1 hour before midnight) is half the time until midnight as 1 hour later (22:00 - 2 hours before midnight).
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What's up with military time? is that a country thing?
Stolen from the Mensa exercise test.
No! The Mensa test couldn't possibly have something as brain-dead simple as this, could it?
I tried mental arithmetic but seemed to come up with a 220 somewhere so I wrote it down and voila! Could have been the Cabernet-Shiraz- Merlot.
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What's this?
Sorry, just figuring out that colon zero is interpreted by the HTML pre-processor as a smiley. (Confounded machines )
Sorry, just figuring out that colon zero is interpreted by the HTML pre-processor as a smiley. (Confounded machines )
I feel like this can have two answers, both accomplish very similar. Over all good problem
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