2. When he was a chick, he was pushed out of the nest by a
demented bear, the poor thing. He was raised by a pair of
scientists who wanted to study about ravens. They found that
he weighed 0.8kg. The scientists fed him 10%of his body weight
each day. How much did he weigh after:
a. A week
b. 2 weeks?
3. As Andy grew, he learned. He learned the Quadratic Formula,
Isaac Newton’s Laws of Physics, and how to find density. He
also learned how to fly. He flew up a 1,758m tree, and foolishly
jumped off it. He hovered for a bit, then accelerated at 6m/s
towards the floor. How fast was he travelling when he was:
a. A quarter of the way down
b. An eighth of the way down
c. At the floor?
However, he had the good fortune to land exactly on the
tummy of a fat builder, taking a nap on the job, so he stayed
alive.
4. After that falling-out with the tree, he began to eat. A lot. He
started to eat all the pet mice in the neighbourhood. At the
beginning, there were 248 mice in the neighbourhood. ¼ of the
mice went missing, under mysterious circumstances. A further
sixth were terrified and ran away. How many were left in the
neighbourhood?
5. Andy, ironically, was eaten by the same demented bear that
pushed him out of his nest. The scientists erected a statue in
his honour. It cost:
a. 5000 times his weight as a baby
b. Twice the weight he was at 4 months
c. 3 times the height of the tree
d. 4 times the amount of mice that went missing
e. How much change did the scientists receive from £10000?
