The Road to Olympia is the most popular academic television program on television. 4 contestants compete to find the winner through contests, questions of unimaginable difficulty. In addition, the challenge of speed is also what makes it difficult for candidates, because in simple questions but with no time, sometimes candidates will also lose the opportunity to score.
In the Olympia week of the 16th year, a question in the Warm-up section was as follows: In a calendar year, how many months have 30 days?
Before this question, the candidate took a long time to think while the time was very limited. In the end, she gave the answer as 6.
However, the answer is very easy. Except for February, which usually has 28 or 29 days, the remaining months all have 30 days.
Here, it seems the female student was confused and thought the question was asking about months with a maximum of 30 days. If the question is so, then the answer is only 4, which is the months of April, June, September and November.
In another week’s contest of the 22nd year, there was also a question about age with the following content: When asked about his current age, Dung’s uncle replied: “In the year you are my age now, then I was uncle. It’s 71 years old.” Know that Dung is 17 years old now. How old is Dung’s uncle now?
To solve the above problem, we can follow these steps:
Assuming x years from now, Dung’s age will be the same as his current uncle’s age, we have the equation:
17+ x = 71 – x
=>x = 27
The current age of Uncle Dung must be 17+27, ie 44 years old.
This Olympia problem is also not answered by any candidate.
