Answer each of the 8 questions with a letter from A to D. The word "answer" in the test refers to YOUR answer, not some hypothetical "best" answer.

After choosing the 8 answers score the test by comparing each question with your answers.

Score 1 point for each question answered correctly, 0 otherwise.

Keep re-taking the test, trying to get the highest possible score. (Of course you must know what the highest possible score is in order to correctly score the last question!)

(1) The next question with the same answer as this one is:
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5

(2) The first question with answer C is:
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4

(3) The last question with answer A is:
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8

(4) The number of questions with answer D is:
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4

(5) The answer occuring the most is: (if tied, first alphabetically)
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D

(6) The first question with the same answer as the question following it is:
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5

(7) The answer occuring the least is: (if tied, last alphabetically)
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D

(8) The highest possible score on this test is:
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 6 (D) 8

1 - C
2 - A
3 - D
4 - C
5 - D
6 - D
8 - B
8 - A

My first conclusion is that the above has to be the correct answer but with number 8 saying that the highest possible score is 5, that cannot be true. 1 through 7 would be true and that makes number (B)7. Well that would make number 8 true and would throw the rest of the answers out of whack.

Next, I decided that in order to get the highest possible score you have to answer incorrectly, in which i came up with 5 being the highest possible score. The letters to the right of the previous answers shows what the answer has been switched to, if they have been changed.  "+" = true   "-" = false

-1C
+2A
-3D C
+4C A
-5D A
+6D C
+7B D
+8A

5 of these answers are true, concluding my overall answer.
This is the only solution I can seem to figure.

Posted by 3llis on 2005-01-13 14:51:42