TESTS FOR INFANTS

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1782, 13 July 1926, Page 2

TESTS FOR INFANTS

ARITH'METIC PUZZLES THAT 'BAFFLED ADULTS. Arithmetic tests which, confessed an official of the Lond.on County Council, would have “ floored ” most of the officials in the Education Department, were put to 7000 children about 11 years of age during the final of the London junior county scholarship examination.

“Nevertheless, the examiners expect that a fair number of boy s and,'girls will get full marks,” said the official. “ Some of the questions have to be made difficult owing to the high standard of intelligence among the children, and the consequent difficulty of placing them in order of merit The problem of finding ‘ Xo. 1 child', London,’ becomes harder each year.”

These were some of 'the questions: Tom had, a bag of marbles, of which one-third were glass and \the rest stone. Jack had as many marbles as Tom, but one-third of his were stone and the rest glass. They mixed it he marbles and then each took half of them. For every three glass marbles which Tom now had he had seven stone marbles. What fraction of Jacks marbles were glass? A car which travelled 21 miles per hour was to leave. “ The Laurels ” in time to meet Mr White at the station and bring him home by 6 p.m. The car was five minutes late in starting, and brought Mr White home at 5.45 p.m. Mr White had caught an earlier train, and had walked homeward for an hour before he met the car. At what speed did Mr White walk? One sid,e of an oblong piece of wood is painted with three black’ and two red stripes. The black stripes are the same width, and each red stripe is twice the width of a red stripe. If the total black area is 12 square feet, what is the area of one red stripe?