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    Thinking Skills Weekly Questions

    Written by Alvin Deng


    {Thinking Skills Specialist}

    Phone: 0450322818

    Email: cortexacademy1@gmail.com
    1 Inside Jimmy’s bag is a writing utensil. Joan wants to borrow it but Jimmy will only
    lend it to her if she can guess what the utensil is exactly. His hints are:

    • If it can click then it’s either a pen or pacer.


    • If it has ink it can only be a pen.
    • If you can erase its writing, then it’s either a pencil or pacer.
    The utensil can click but its writing is non-erasable.
    Which utensil should Joan guess?
    A Pencil

    B Pen
    C Pacer
    D Not enough information

    2 In a Taronga Zoo enclosure, there are a number of snakes, lizards and ants. In total,
    there are 18 heads, 44 legs and 16 tails.
    Snakes have no legs, lizards have four legs and ants have six legs.
    How many snakes are there in the enclosure?
    A 3
    B 6

    C 8
    D 12

    1
    3 James attends St Bernard Public School and he has only two ways of getting to
    school.
    His mum can drive him to school, which usually only takes 10 minutes, but
    around once a month the car breaks down randomly and they have to wait for it
    to restart again. The other way is if James walks to school himself, which takes
    forty minutes every time.
    School starts at 8:50 a.m. every day.

    James: “I have my Selective Test in 20 minutes and cannot be late for it, so the best
    option is if I just walk to school.”
    Tracey: “James left for school at 8:00 a.m. but arrived late, so he mustn’t have
    walked to school today.”

    If the information in the box is true, whose reasoning is correct?


    A James only
    B Tracey only
    C Both James and Tracey
    D Neither James nor Tracey

    4 A frog fell into a well that was 22m deep. The frog climbs 8m up the well during the
    day, but slides 4m down when it sleeps at night. How many days will this frog take to
    get out of the well?
    A 4
    B 5
    C 6

    D 7
    2
    5 Which option fills in the missing piece of the pattern?

    A B C D

    3
    Solutions

    1 B
    The utensil can click so it must be either a pen or pacer. It can’t be erased so it can’t be a
    pencil or pacer. The only utensil that fits both criteria is the pen.

    2 C
    Since there are 16 tails and ants are the only animals without tails there, 2 of the 18 heads
    must be from ants. That means 12 of the legs are from ants, leaving 32 legs between snakes
    and lizards. Since snakes have no legs, all 32 legs must be from the lizards, meaning 8 lizards
    and hence 8 snakes.

    3 B
    James is incorrect because if he walks to school, he’ll definitely be late for the test. If he gets
    driven to school, he’ll have a chance of getting to the test on time. Tracey is correct because
    if he walked he would’ve arrived at school at 8:40 a.m., so since he is late he must’ve been
    driven and the car broke down.

    4 B
    Don’t be tricked by this question, take the time to write out the height of the frog across
    each day.
    Day 1: 8  4

    Day 2: 12  8
    Day 3: 16  12
    Day 4: 20  16
    Day 5: 24
    On day 5 the frog will climb higher than 22m and hence get out of the well.

    4
    5 D
    The missing piece has a triangle pointing towards the top left corner and one black dot.
    Option C and D both fit this criteria, but the triangle in option C is too small, so it must be
    option D.

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