December's "Fun with Math"
Figuring prices on three make-believe planets
Puzzle
inventor George Yu has come up with three unique "Fun with
Math" questions for December that call for you to figure
the logic behind the pricing of things on three imaginary
planets.
The answers won't be in dollars and cents.
In each question, he gives you the prices of three things
and expects you to figure out the price of the fourth, based
on the pattern developed for the first three.
The answer to the first question involves the size of the
words. The second answer involves the size of the word and
the different quality of the letters.
The third question deals with a combination of what you've
learned from the first two questions.
That all sounds a little jumbled and it is. But, once the
patterns are figured, the answers become clear.
After how well you did in answering the questions in the
first two months, Mr. Yu deserves a chance to step up the
difficulty to test your limits. Lets show him!!
(For the answers to the November puzzles and names of
the winners, click here.)
The monthly "Fun with Math" contests follow the same
rules YSL.com has had for its math puzzlers for previous
years. They are:
