DXP Survivor 2014 Part IX Challenge

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Posted by GetMisted
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The weather isn't quite what would normally be preferred for margaritas, but I haven't had one in a while, so why not. Thank you.

May I offer you anything in return? I should hate to be an ungrateful host.



No thank you.

I have glasses of wine 🙂
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Red or white? I've always preferred full-bodied reds. 🙂
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Posted by GetMisted
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The weather isn't quite what would normally be preferred for margaritas, but I haven't had one in a while, so why not. Thank you.

May I offer you anything in return? I should hate to be an ungrateful host.



No thank you.

I have glasses of wine 🙂

Red or white? I've always preferred full-bodied reds. 🙂



Red. And dry dry dry.

Cabernet Sauv
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An excellent choice! I propose a toast to the surviving players. May you acquit yourselves well and the best among receive the crown. Cheers!
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Posted by MadameDeScruffsalot
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Good on you for ignoring my proposal Mr. GOAT, but prizes make contests more interesting dont you think? Otherwise I dont see these debates any more different than anything else on this god forsaken forum.



You don't see the mental stimulation?! The debauchery?! The BLOOD. SWEAT, and TEARS??!!

You need to step it up a notch or six Sir Goat..
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You forgot the most important two: bragging rights and the opportunity to give free-reign to the sneaky, consciousless side of your character. 😄
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Players, your challenge is comprised of the mathematical problems below. These problems all have multiple things in common, but there is only one specific thing that will win the challenge. The first player to correctly identify it will win. In the event no player correctly identifies it, that player who is closest will win. Word to the wise: as these are math problems, it is sometimes necessary to round the answers; standard rounding rules apply. Wait for them??_

1. At 8AM, two cars started driving toward each other on the highway. One started from Bucharest and the other started 300 kilometers away in Ahtopol. One of the drivers is traveling 10 kph faster than the other. At 10 AM, the cars are 80 kilometers apart. How fast were the cars traveling?

2. Arrange 32 identical equilateral triangles into a single solid 2 dimensional shape. How many sides does this shape have?

3. Aquasnoz owns a retail store that sells everything from pool tables to chamber pots. His overhead — payroll, rent, utilities, advertising, insurance, etc. — is $ 10,000/month. His average per unit cost for the wares sold in his store is $ 50. What percent markup would his average retail price need to be to break even?

4. The terms on an invoice Aquasnoz received for some of his merchandise are 2/10 net 30. He was feeling under the weather for a bit, so he didn't get around to paying the invoice for four full months. If the original invoice amount was $ 9,696 and the current interest rate is 1% , what penalty did he pay for delaying the payment?

5. Calculate profit as a percentage of sales and as a percentage of investment:
A) sales = $ 1 billion; costs = $ 950 milion; investment = $ 400 million.
B. Sales = $ 40 milion; costs = $ 38 million; investment = $ 5 million

6. A shoe store has one particular style of shoe on sale because they ordered 100 pairs more than they have room to store. Each shoe is being offered for sale at $ 26, which represents what percent discount on the store's total purchase of $ 9,454?

7. While strolling through the men??s clothing, you notice a suit originally priced at $ 999 is now on sale for $ 579. What percent does the sale price represent of the original listed price? If the store's cost for the suit was $ 467, what percent profit will the store make when it sells this suit?

8. 276 divided by the quantity 6 + 6 equals what value?
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9. A bakery has 24 bagels available to sell. If one customer buys one third of the bagels, and a second customer later buys one quarter of the remaining bagels, how many bagels will be left in the store?

10. The proprietor of the bakery is a certain Lady Scorp, who is very particular about her baking and uses a recipe for her famous bread that calls for wheat flour, rye flour, and corn flour in a ratio of 9:5:2. If she uses 4 cups of the combined flour to make one loaf of bread, how many cups of corn flour are needed to bake six loaves?

11. A storage tank has a capacity of 480,000 gallons. Assuming the tank was full, how many hours would it take to empty it if the tank were emptied at the rate of 320 gallons per minute?

12. There are approximately 2.2 pounds per kilogram. To the nearest eighteenth, how many eighteenths of a kilogram are in one pound?

13. In 1966, the mortality rate for open heart surgery at a hospital was 8.1 per 100 cases. By 1974, the rate had declined to 4.8 per 100. If the rate declined by 20% from 1973 to 1974, by what (approximate) percent did it decline from 1966 to 1973?

14. In the group of 25 regular patrons who gather every morning before the bakery opens, 15 have brown eyes. 6 women do not have brown eyes. Of the 11 men, how many have brown eyes? 7 If each of the men with brown eyes was an octuplet and his identical siblings showed up to the bakery one morning to pull a hilarious and monumental joke on the friendly Scorpionic baker, how many men with brown eyes would be there?

15. Two machines are used to glaze donuts. The first machine takes 10 hours longer to glaze 660 donuts than the second machine and the second machine glazes 10% more donuts per hour than the first. How many donuts per hour does the first machine glaze?

16. 199.17 cubed divided by 2,002.31 squared is most nearly equivalent to what?

17. Each of 3 businesses has 8 people on its board of directors. If exactly 4 people serve on 3 boards each and each pair of businesses has 5 directors in common, how many unique individuals serve on the boards of directors?

18. If it costs $ 3 to for internet access at an internet caf? for the first 1/3 hour??s use and it costs $ 6 per hour thereafter, if you were to access the internet in this caf? for two and one half hours, what would your bill be?

19. Among the three digit numbers between 100 and 200, how many have a digit that is the average of the other two digits?
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20. If 2z + 2 = -8, what does the quantity 2z squared equal?

21. A given number is equal to one half the sum of 5, 6, 7, and itself. What is the value of the mystery number?

22. In this hodgepodge class, one third of the students are honors students and one quarter play varsity sports. If 12 honors students play varsity sports, what is the smallest possible size of this class?

23. In LilyTree's print shop, one particular grade of paper is 0.08 centimeters thick and every 500 sheets of this paper costs $ 3. What would be her cost for a stack of this paper 4 meters tall? Assuming the sale price after printing and trimming was 47 percent higher, what revenue would that stack of paper bring in for her?

24. After a 40% reduction in price, a watch sells for $ 6. What was the original MSRP?

25. A given chemical solution is 25% mercury and a second chemical solution is 10% mercury. If 12 ounces of the first solution are added to 13 ounces of the second solution, what percent mercury (approximately) would the combined solution be?

26. 120 minutes are given to the players to complete a given challenge. If GetMisted completes 30 of the items in 30 minutes, what will be the ratio between the problems he still has to complete and the minutes available in which to complete them?

27. In reviewing the scores of the players, I noticed that Damnata scored 74, 70, 77, 68, 68, 74, 75, 80, 72, 75, and 65 over the debates and challenges in which she participated. What was the range of her scores over these debates and challenges?

28. I went back and counted the page numbers on which someone accused GetMisted of whining or otherwise insulted him and noted that these page numbers (out of those I sampled) were 26, 14, 18, 31, 33, 29, and 31 in the order I saw them. What was the median page number on which GetMisted was accused of whining or otherwise insulted?

29. If a half a triangle's base is 2 feet and its height is 7, what is the area of the triangle?

30. Fence boards are $ 2.25 each and the kennel to be fenced has a perimeter of 19 feet 10 inches. If each fence board is 8?? wide and there is a one half inch space between each board, how many spaces are in the fence? What would be the total cost of materials to purchase the fence boards?

31. If we assume DXP equals the sum of the first 15 positive numbers, DXP cannot be a multiple of what?
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32. Nacho walked into a BestBuy and bought a radio, a clock, and a calculator. The clock cost 3 times more than the calculator and $ 16 less than the radio. If the average cost of the items was $ 52, what was the cost of the radio?

33. Madame de Scruffsalot went out to a Broadway show this past weekend. It was an exclusive showing with only 350 tickets sold. The orchestra seats went for $ 120 and the balcony for $ 80. While speaking with the ticket agent, she learned that the show grossed $ 33,200 that night. Although she pressed the agent for more detail, she was unable to find out how many more tickets were sold for the balcony than the orchestra. Can you?

34. If a given number is equal to 105 and this number cubed is equal to twenty one times twenty five times forty five times some other number, what is the value of this missing number?

35. The hospital Aqualove volunteers at has 3 floors, one with 85 patients, one with 68, and one with 80. This morning she saw sixty percent of the patients on the floor with the second most patients, she visited with half of the patients on the smallest floor while helping with lunch, and she saw twenty percent of the patients on the largest floor before going home for the day. In total, what percent of the hospital??s patients saw their day brightened by Aqualove today?

36. Imagine a wedge door stop with perfectly straight sides after the form of a standard 3-4-5 triangle. When dropped into her aquarium, APC notes that the wedge displaces exactly 30 cubic inches of water. She's curious what the surface area of this door stop that randomly deposited itself into her aquarium is, but not sufficiently curious to figure it out for herself. Can you tell her the surface area of this door stop?

37. A property management company charges landlords fifteen percent of the tenant's annual rent per month. If the tenant is paying $ 3,280 per year, what is the management company??s monthly cut?

38. Duchess just took a job working as an illustrator for a local publisher of children??s books where she gets paid $ 4,800 every four weeks. If she gives seventy five quarters to the nice older homeless man who is regularly outside her new office building each week, how many times will her annual income be than her total gift to the kindly homeless man?
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39. Although the new job pays fairly well, it is downtown and Duchess has to pay to park at her new employer each time her vehicle enters the garage. She drives to lunch every day and always eats at a restaurant where she uses her debit card. The parking garage, however, only accepts dollar bills. Every day when she gets home she has 2 quarters, 2 dimes, and 8 pennies with which she did not start her day. What does the garage charge to park her car?

40. A solid cubical block of Unobtanium weighs 13 pounds. If two of the sides of this block are doubled in length, what will be the weight of the resultant block?

41. Onto the center of a sheet of 11 x 17 paper a rectangle is printed. After printing, the margins between the sides of the rectangle and the edge of the sheet of paper are 2 and 2.5. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?

42. Onto the center of a second sheet of 11 x 17 paper another rectangle is printed. This rectangle's shortest sides have margins of 2 and the longest sides have margins of 2.5. Newly added to the image are two circles inside the rectangle, their edges separated from one another by one half and tangent to the short sides of the rectangle. What is the area of the rectangle not occupied by the circles?

43. A right triangle's second largest angle is 47 degrees. What is its smallest angle?

44. A clock has a face 30 centimeters in diameter with an inexplicably stuck hour hand. When the clock shows 12:06:30, what percentage of the clock??s face exists in the small portion between the hour and minute hands?

45. The cage where DXP??s hamster is kept occupies 74,000 cubic centimeters. If the cage is 50 centimeters long and its width is twenty percent smaller than its length, how tall is the cage?

46. If poor advertising revenues required the hamster to be moved to less luxurious accommodations, specifically, quarters approximately eight percent smaller by volume, but the square footage remained unchanged, what would the ceiling height of the hamster??s new cage be?

47. As DXP??s hamster ages, his interest in all of that ceiling height will shrink as his knees begin to creak. Let's assume he downsizes further from his high rise to a ranch and the ceiling height is cut in half. The square footage is smaller, too, with the length, which is exactly five percent larger than his original home's width, being exactly twice his retirement home's width. How wide is his retirement home?
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Players, your challenge is comprised of the mathematical problems below. These problems all have multiple things in common, but there is only one specific thing that will win the challenge. The first player to correctly identify it will win. In the event no player correctly identifies it, that player who is closest will win. Word to the wise: as these are math problems, it is sometimes necessary to round the answers; standard rounding rules apply. Wait for them??_




Did you read the directions?
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what is the deadline for this?



(who the heck knocks on someones door 1am in the morning? wrong door at that)smh

The boogie man?


Somebody that wants to make her an omelet in the morning.
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lol, yeah right

Seriously if you are going to visit someone, make sure you know what door,
dont just boom boom boom, wake people up (lol)

I take it as a sign that i should be doing this challenge....lol

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As the only player who posted anything related to the challenge, GetMisted wins it.

Players, please submit your votes for whom you wish to remove. GetMisted has immunity. Anyone not submitting their vote within 12 hours of the time stamp on this post will forfeit their right to win points in the next challenge. In the event all players do not submit their votes within the time specified, the total number of votes shall equal the number of players submitting votes. A majority is required to remove any player from the game. In the event of a tie or a majority vote not being attained, a cage fight will follow.