Saturday, December 13, 2008

Get ready to make your brain ache!!

This is a brain-teaser that Matthew was given as math homework. It is hard! I am curious to have you try it, and see how you do! Please leave your answers in a comment when you have them. This should be fun!

Assign a value to each letter of the alphabet. Example: A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, F=6, etc. See if you can come up with words whose letter values equal the given sum. Example: Write a three-letter word with a sum of 24. CAT (3+1+20)

1. Three-letter word with a sum of 15.
2. Four-letter word with a sum of 18.
3. Five-letter word with a sum of 24.
4. Three-letter word with a sum of 11.
5. Six-letter word with a sum of 32.
6. Six-letter word with a sum of 60.
7. Four-letter word with a sum of 22.
8. Three-letter word with a sum of 35.
9. Five-letter word with a sum of 77.
10. Any length word with a sum of 50.
11. Any length word with a sum of 100.
12. Any length word with a sum of 130.
13. Three-word sentence with a sum of 100.
14. Four-word sentence with a sum of 200.
15. Five-word sentence with a sum of 300.

Matthew is convinced that all of the single-word answers are supposed to rhyme. I am not so sure. I think that would make it virtually impossible. It is hard enough already!

On your mark, get set, go!! Don't forget to share your answers.

2 comments:

Liz said...

Holy crud. That's making my brain hurt just looking at it. I'm sure I could do it, but man....sure would take some time, wouldn't it?!`

Kelley said...

Yes! He didn't finish. gilbert and I worked on it some, just for us, and between us we got all the single words. No sentences yet!