That's not a stupid question. It's uses the standard names cryptography problems. I don't remember all of them, but Alice and Bob are the people communicating. Eve is an eavesdropper.
Q: Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?
A: Hilarity Ensues. (I love it when hilarity ensues)
For question number 1. 6 dollars a window only from the outside. Anything over 2 stories the rate goes up by 2 dollars per window per floor.
I have 52,000 people who just arrived who can do the work. They will be the Monday.
That's not a stupid question. It's uses the standard names cryptography problems. I don't remember all of them, but Alice and Bob are the people communicating. Eve is an eavesdropper.
1. There isn’t enough money.
2. To keep the covers from falling down into the hole.
3. The note says: Bob, call me, BoT.
4. Who cares?
5. All the wome become widows.
6. He hocked his out of gas car for cash and lost it gambling.
7. Second had included or not?
8. Four.
9. Everybody leave. Before the zombies get here.
10. As opposed to living flesh still on the cow?
11. There is no practical limit.
12. Pinch myself to wake up.
13. A lot.
14. No, it would be a fools bet
15. A bunch of lists of stuff and the categories associated with them. A database could be s small as a list of all the kids in his school class and the video games they own. It could be as large as all the people in the US and their names, address, phone numbers, ages, their children, the types of car they drive, and anything else.
Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco
Those questions seem oblique, but they’re actually intended to gauge how a person thinks, and if they do so flexibly. They’re not ridiculous unless you toss the guy out if he doesn’t know “the answer”. It’s more about observing the process.
The guy was dead serious. He said he asked that question of every candidate for every position.
I did not get the job.....and I'm actually thankful for that.
#2—this is the only shape that guarantees they won’t fall into the hole. True stuff.
How about the candidate who prepares assiduously for a (government, admittedly) job interview, only to be met with the opening remark: “We’re not interested in your qualifications or experience to perform the duties of this position...”
Duh...!
Place two pictures (exactly alike) having lots of detail in them side by side.
Then ask the applicant to list the differences.
The one who quickly dismissed any differences was considered for the general manager position.
The ones who took some time but then cautiously saying that no differences exist would be department head candidates.
Anyone hesitating to answer and not committing were hired as line staff.
Anyone who quickly found differences weren’t hired.
A few others are still taking the test which began last year.
Presently there are no job openings left but they insist on finding the differences.
From the Reader’s Digest YEARS ago re: college students applying for a job:
What are your strengths?
I am honest, trustworthy, reliable, diligent, faithful, etc.
What are your weaknesses?
Sometimes I am not honest, trustworthy, reliable, diligent, faithful, etc.
What positive change have you noticed in yourself lately?
The sight of blood no longer excites me.
A buddy of mine looking for a job went through these endless questioning routines. When asked why he wanted this job at this company, he snapped and replied “to feed my family in the manner to which they have become accustomed to.” (He didn’t get the job.)
In the question about eggs, they never specified chicken eggs. I presumed fly eggs which won’t break no matter what height they’re dropped from. Further, at the height of a nickel (I am stipulating the thickness of a nickel as the height), I could hide below the blades of the blender.
I would ask these questions. Then, if the applicant didn’t walk out after four of them, I’d reject him.
If a human's linear dimensions are reduced by a certain factor (let's say 1/500), the mass of the human, assuming the density doesn't change, would be reduced by an amount equal to the factor cubed; or 1/(500*500*500).
The strength of the muscles would only be reduced by an amount equal to the square of the factor, or 1/(500*500). This means that the shrunken human's ability to leap would be increased by the ratio of the strength to the mass.
Assuming that a full size human can jump to one-third of his height, then the shrunken human would be able to leap 500 times one-third of his height, or about 170 times his height.
Assuming that a nickel is one-tenth of an inch in height, then the shrunken human would be able to leap 170 times the one-tenth inch, or about 17 inches.
My answer to the blender question is that the shrunken human, before the blender is started, simply jumps out of the blender.
The concept above explains why fleas can leap hundreds of times their body size and why dinosaurs were not able to grow to any greater size than what the fossil record indicates.