09-17-2007, 08:57 PM
The answer to question #3 is
Estimate the number of windows in Seattle (boring and complex. Number of people. windows per person at home; at work; in cars, blah blah, blah)
Estimate the time it would take you to wash each window (maybe changing for those inside, and those outside on various stories).
Estimate the number of windows a person could in an 8 hour day
Multiply by an hourly rate (say $20)
But those market sizing questions are much more detailed and boring than, the mind benders.
Question #1 is a market sizing question. Boring. Figure out the volume of a school bus. Figure out the volume of a golf ball. Math
Question #2 I don't get. Maybe duck? If I'm the size of a nickel, I can easily hide under the blades. But will the blades eventually stop or are they just going to go forever? Maybe climb out from the measurement ticks? I wouldn't be surprised if this is some math problem where you can be more powerful if you shrink but have the same density. It seems to be a strange fact to throw out there unless it's crucial to the answer.
Question #3. Already addressed
Question #4. Don't get it.
Question #5. Don't get it.
Question #6. I like DIG's answer. That's probably the right answer, because the immediate response of "once per hour" is too easy to actually be correct.
Question #7. I don't really know what they are trying to get at here. I assume "get the address, and google it" isn't the correct answer.
Question #8: By occasion. Sub by the most logical breakdown for you (e.g. pattern, color, collard/not collared, etc). For me, it would be color since I wear suits a lot and need to coordinate my colors. I don't know what kind of detail they are looking for.
Question #9: This one is odd. This shouldn't be news to the other women. They should already know that everyone cheats (at least everyone except their husband). If we assume that the women communicate, they would even know that their own husbands cheat. I'm sure I'm getting it wrong.
Question #10. I'm sure my math is wrong, but no matter if people stop at girls or boys, it still doesn't change the fact that 50% of children are boys and 50% are women, so it should still be 50-50, no?
Question #11. If you have a constant default probability, that should mean that you have a 95% chance of seeing a car at any point in time, so it should remain at 95%. If there is a constant rate of traffic so that 95% of the time, you'll see a car within 30 minutes, then it would be 1/3 of 95%. I think the first way is more righter.
Question #12
The hour hand will be 1/4 of the way between 3 and 4. Each hour (1/12th) is 30 degrees. 1/4 of 30 is 7.5 minutes
Question #13
Wow, DIG's method is devoid of logic. If you are going to have people carry others. Why not have the 1 minute guy carry the 10 minute guy and take 1 minute. Someone would be slower if they had to carry someone else. The exact 17 minutes is
Send 1 & 2 - 2 minutes
send 1 back - 3 minutes
send 10 & 5 - 13 minutes
send 2 back - 15 minutes
send 1 & 2 - 17 minutes
Question #14 - This seems like a retarded question. Unless everyone there is there because they share the same birthday.
Question #15 - another market sizing question. Don't care
Question #16 - Hedcold got it.
Question #17 - I think DIG got it.
Estimate the number of windows in Seattle (boring and complex. Number of people. windows per person at home; at work; in cars, blah blah, blah)
Estimate the time it would take you to wash each window (maybe changing for those inside, and those outside on various stories).
Estimate the number of windows a person could in an 8 hour day
Multiply by an hourly rate (say $20)
But those market sizing questions are much more detailed and boring than, the mind benders.
Question #1 is a market sizing question. Boring. Figure out the volume of a school bus. Figure out the volume of a golf ball. Math
Question #2 I don't get. Maybe duck? If I'm the size of a nickel, I can easily hide under the blades. But will the blades eventually stop or are they just going to go forever? Maybe climb out from the measurement ticks? I wouldn't be surprised if this is some math problem where you can be more powerful if you shrink but have the same density. It seems to be a strange fact to throw out there unless it's crucial to the answer.
Question #3. Already addressed
Question #4. Don't get it.
Question #5. Don't get it.
Question #6. I like DIG's answer. That's probably the right answer, because the immediate response of "once per hour" is too easy to actually be correct.
Question #7. I don't really know what they are trying to get at here. I assume "get the address, and google it" isn't the correct answer.
Question #8: By occasion. Sub by the most logical breakdown for you (e.g. pattern, color, collard/not collared, etc). For me, it would be color since I wear suits a lot and need to coordinate my colors. I don't know what kind of detail they are looking for.
Question #9: This one is odd. This shouldn't be news to the other women. They should already know that everyone cheats (at least everyone except their husband). If we assume that the women communicate, they would even know that their own husbands cheat. I'm sure I'm getting it wrong.
Question #10. I'm sure my math is wrong, but no matter if people stop at girls or boys, it still doesn't change the fact that 50% of children are boys and 50% are women, so it should still be 50-50, no?
Question #11. If you have a constant default probability, that should mean that you have a 95% chance of seeing a car at any point in time, so it should remain at 95%. If there is a constant rate of traffic so that 95% of the time, you'll see a car within 30 minutes, then it would be 1/3 of 95%. I think the first way is more righter.
Question #12
The hour hand will be 1/4 of the way between 3 and 4. Each hour (1/12th) is 30 degrees. 1/4 of 30 is 7.5 minutes
Question #13
Wow, DIG's method is devoid of logic. If you are going to have people carry others. Why not have the 1 minute guy carry the 10 minute guy and take 1 minute. Someone would be slower if they had to carry someone else. The exact 17 minutes is
Send 1 & 2 - 2 minutes
send 1 back - 3 minutes
send 10 & 5 - 13 minutes
send 2 back - 15 minutes
send 1 & 2 - 17 minutes
Question #14 - This seems like a retarded question. Unless everyone there is there because they share the same birthday.
Question #15 - another market sizing question. Don't care
Question #16 - Hedcold got it.
Question #17 - I think DIG got it.