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              97 Think of a number
         Puzzli ing pyramid                   The weighing game                    Pass or fail?
                                              Eleven strawberries balance one      Susan receives ten points for each
                        120
                                              pineapple and three bananas.         of the correct questions, which gives
                     70    50                                                      her 150 points. But she got five wrong
                  44    26    24                                                   and five points are deducted for each,
              30     14    12     12                                               making a total of 25.
           25     5     9      3     9                                             150 – 25 = 125
                                                                                   Susan has passed the test.
         Only one chance
         54 x 3 = 162
                                              Pineapple = 5 strawberries
         Flower power                         Orange = 4 strawberries              Dazzling stars
         Add the three            5           Apple = 3 strawberries
         largest numbers                      Banana = 2 strawberries                1 1 1     2 2 2     3 3 3     4 4 4
                                 105
                                  05
                                 105
         and then multiply   7   10   6
         them with the                        Pieces of eight                      Multiple fractions
         smallest.                8           888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000         The answer is 5.



          102–103  Seeing in 2-D                                  104–105  Thinking in 3-D
          Up and down                                             Different angles           Four triangles
                              and
          Bask et   A   will   m ove   u p   a    Bask et   B   will   m ove   down  The two matching shapes   The pencils are moved
          Basket A will move up and Basket B will move down..
                                                                  are A and F.               into a 3-D shape called
          F Five into four                                                                   a tetrahedron (triangular
                                                                  A            F F           pyramid) with a triangle
                                                                                             at the base and three
                                                                                             triangular sides.






                                                                 View from the top
                                                                 The correct overhead
                              le
                 -
          Upside
                  do
                        triang
                     wn
          Upside-down triangle                                   position is F.
                               e
                               e
                                                                                             Bottoms up
                                                                                             The color of the
                                                                                             face-down side in the
                                                                                             third picture is green.
          Equal division
                                                                  Boxing clever
                                                                  Box C shows the correct    Find the shape
                                                                  pattern of fruit.          Shape   A   shows
                                                                                             Shape A shows thethe
                                                                                             remaining pink section.















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