Mental Floss 141

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The answer to last week’s challenge is Q: Someone has to cut a roll of ribbon into one metre lengths. It takes them 2 seconds to measure and cut a length, and the whole roll is 50 metres long. How long will it take them to do it?

A: 98 seconds, the last cut separates two lengths so only 49 cuts are required.

This week’s challenge is:

Q: A woman stopper her car opposite a hotel and was soon bankrupt. How?

The answer along with a new challenge next week …

Have an excellent weekend ….

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Frank Connolly is the Principal of “Think Quick”, a business that adds value through thinking differently. His work history covers all sectors and includes initiatives that have yielded bottom line benefit in the 10’s of millions of dollars.

Frank has worked across Australia, South East Asia, China, the Middle East and Africa where he has trained and facilitated multiple thinking methods and been acknowledged by Edward de Bono as one of the foremost practitioners of the de Bono thinking methods worldwide.

Frank believes strongly that if we can improve the way we think, the actions that follow also improve.

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