Posted on 10/13/2012 2:57:36 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
ACHIEVING an IQ score higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking seems almost impossible, but not for one young girl.
Northwood College School pupil, Fabiola Mann, of Harrow on the Hill, scored a remarkable IQ of 162 in this summers University of Londons (UCL) Mensa medical test. It is the highest possible score anyone can achieve in the UK and European test. The 15-year-old beat physicists Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein, who both scored 160 when they took it.
Being a whizz kid at puzzles and mathematical tests, Fabiola decided to give it a go, she sat the test on July 30 at UCL in Gower Street, central London, and received her results on August 20, she said: When I got the results I couldnt believe it. The three-hour test was quite intimidating as it was in a very formal setting. There were about 30 other people taking the test and with the exception of one other candidate they were all adults in their 20s and 30s.
Mensa is a society for people with a high IQ, to take the three-hour test you have to be over 10-years-old. The scoring is amended marginally for 10 to 18-year-olds who can score a maximum of 162. Those over 18 can only score a maximum of 161.
After completing her GCSEs and A-levels, Fabiola wants to study medicine at Cambridge University. She said: I am excited to explore the new possibilities that something like this has opened up for me, beating Einstein and Hawking is pretty scary, I dont think I will ever be able to measure up to what they have achieved but I hope to achieve my dream of being a successful doctor and helping others.
Along with being a fan of science fiction books, Fabiola loves to play chess and martial arts.
Fabiolas mother, Rene Mann, 46, said: As parents we are very proud of Fabiola and we hope she will be able to use this gift in a meaningful way that helps others and utilises her potential.
The headteacher of Northwood College, Jacqualyn Pain, said: I was delighted to hear about Fabiolas success. At Northwood College we focus on raising young women who know their own minds and are creative and flexible thinkers, as well as being able to achieve outstanding results. We are all thrilled with Fabiolas achievement. Fabiola received her official certificate on Wednesday last week.
It’s a trick question. There is no speed you can travel the second mile and end up with a 30mph average over the two mile course. It’s impossible since you took 4 minutes to do the first mile.
You must travel the entire two miles in exactly four minutes to average 30mph.
Instant acceleration is not needed as it was stated as the max average speed the car could do for one mile up the hill.
This means it attained a speed faster than 15mph at some point on the uphill leg.
Time is not the issue.
Answer this riddle:
If you go 15mph for 1 mile and 45mph for 1 mile, what is your average SPEED in MPH for the two mile trip ?
Oh My! I feel your pain FRiend, I'm also up there with you. It's a shame our IQ does not match our tonnage :-)
She edged me out by 100.
But the question is about speed, and not time. Time is not in any of the givens. Time is a factor in determining MPH, but so is DISTANCE.
The issue is how you get AVERAGE MPH, not AVERAGE TIME.
Look at it this way:
IF I go 15mph for 1 mile, and 45mph for 1 mile, what is my average speed (mph) for a 2 mile course?
Doesn’t matter how darn long it took
If that’s true then it gets more complicated than the simple 15/45 answer. Once at the top of the hill how much time will it take to accelerate from 15mph to 45mph. That is an unknown factor and next to impossible to figure the mph necessary to offset this acceleration time to finally reach the 30mph average.
Einstein, himself, said there was no time left.
No one should feel dumb because they did not get the proper answer to this question at once. After all, Einstein was stumped for a short time by this same question.
Once you see the trick, you will never be fooled by a similar question again. Indeed, if you took an IQ test and kept this question and how the trick was played in mind you would score higher than you would have had you never seen this question.
Just as in the real world, you MUST distill a problem down to its fundamentals. This is what a genius like Einstein did.
I can tell you that the unforgiving world of real-time programming will soon teach you how to get down to the bare facts.
If I’m in a top fuel dragster,
and I do 100mph for one mile, and then I go 300mph for the second mile, what is the average MPH for a 2 mile trip ?
“Attended one and only one Mensa meeting.”
As mentioned earlier, I was stunned by what complete jerks most of them were. There was no way I wanted any of them as friends. I was expecting much more, and was profoundly disappointed. So,,, I kept on making poor decisions on my own! I really wish I had never gotten involved in music, but it catered to my creative side, when my schooling was just failing to provide me with what I really craved! I’m a very good guitarist,,,, but I haven’t touched a guitar in two years, except to move it out of my way. Very sad.
Nope. Average speed is total distance divided by total time. 2 miles/5.2 minutes = 23.077 miles per hour.
Doesn’t matter how darn long it took.
I think it does matter. To average 30mph the trip will take 4 minutes. You can go 100mph part of the trip and 10 mph some of it and 33mph some of it or 80mph some of it but the given is that you must average 30mph the whole trip. That is 4 minutes maximum allowed to make that 30mph average. You’ve used up 4 minutes going the first mile. No time left unless you can make it to the bottom of the hill instantaneously.
no “return trip” mentioned.
Sorry, my error. I didn’t mean return trip.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with average MPH.
Let's say that during the first mile, you went 5, then 10, then 15 mph, at each third of a mile. What would your average MPH for the mile course be? How long would it take? And what does it matter ? The answer you are working on is AVE MPH, not TIME.
If you are GIVEN MPH and DISTANCE, the outcome is 'time'. Therefore it cannot be the INPUT factor.
I knew four mensa people — one who became a warehouse manager, one who became a paralegal and never bothered to finish college, one who was the secretary of the president of the company (who couldn’t beat her on the test), and one who became a mid-level manager in a human resources department.
100 mph for 1 mile, 36 seconds. (0.01 hours)
300 mph for 1 mile, 12 seconds. (0.00333333 hours)
Total distance traveled, 2 miles.
Total time, 0.01333333 hours. (48 seconds)
Average speed, 150 MPH.
Interesting about your career in music versus your high aptitude in architecture. I can relate somewhat (not the ultra-high IQ part) in that I have strong aptitudes in music and in math/physics. I chose a career in engineering, and this has worked out very well for me, but I have always felt like I have failed to find a way to adequately express my musical ability - I am considering doing something about this, with tentative plans to create a blog to share my compositions and arrangements. I actually majored in music one year...surprisingly, engineering was much easier for me.
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