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A Publication Featuring The Information Services Technology of Maine State Government
| Volume V, Issue 7 | July 2002 |
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If there are 5 Mondays, 5 Tuesdays, and 5 Wednesdays in January, on what day of the week will March 1 fall? It is NOT a Leap Year.
If that wasn’t challenging enough for you, try this one! What is a third and a half of one third of three and a half? If you get it right you get the satisfaction of figuring it out. If you get it wrong, you get NOTHING!
Please e-mail Lester Dickey with your answer and your name, phone number, and the organization for which you work. Or call Barbara Buck at 624-9501. The winner will be drawn from all the correct entries and will receive a FREE pizza, either from CJ’s Pizza or from the EDOC Cafeteria. All answers must be in no later than the 14th of the month.
Last month's challenge brought 56 answers, with 53 correct. The winner, chosen by random drawing, is Jason Pinkham of Maine Revenue Services.
The answer to the June Challenge is: The number whose double is 99 more than its half is 66. The more "challenging" challenge stumped many of you. Two numbers (containing no zeros) which, when multiplied together, make a million, are: 64 X 15,625
