QOD #17 — Solution

Solution

a) Find the name of an animal that many people fear by forming an anagram of a homophone of an antonym of a homophone of an anagram of the word FEAR.
FEAR ==> FARE ==> FAIR ==> FOUL ==> FOWL ==> WOLF

b) Given the values of the first five words below, what is the value of the sixth?

DO = 1
RE = 2
MI = 3
FA = 4
SO = 5
LA = 6
TI = 7
DO = 8

mire= 3-2 = 1
redo = 2-3 = 1
sore = 5-2 = 3
tire = 7-2 = 5
dodo = 8-1 = 7
sofa= 5-4 = 1

Bonus question: Take the square root of the 5.6729043 using only pencil and paper without using linear approximation. You must show work!
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Comments

Scribbles included:
- Adding ".1415926527" after the "17" in the title. Apparently, not everyone knows the value of pi as well as calculators do
- Writing "5048" as the answer

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