The solutions to today’s puzzles
Earlier today I set you these puzzles for English majors, i.e people who studied English at university. Here they are again with solutions and commentary from Ben Orlin, whose book Math for English Majors is out in September.
For each question below, which option is bigger? No calculators allowed!
the sum of all squares from 1 to 499
the sum of all cubes from 500 to 999
17% of 32
32% of 17
3997/4001
4996/5001
the square root of 6
the cube root of 15
the number of seconds in a year,
the number of hours in a millennium
2100
545
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