Problem 5 · 2014 Math Kangaroo
Easy
Logic & Word Problems
careful-counting
Put the animals in order of size. Begin with the smallest. Which animal will be in the middle?
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Answer: B — 2
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Hint 1 of 3
Imagine standing the five animals in a line, the tiniest one first and the biggest one last.
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Hint 2 of 3
With five in a row, the one in the middle has two animals to its left and two to its right.
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Hint 3 of 3
So the middle animal is the 3rd one when you count from the smallest.
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Approach: line the animals up from smallest to biggest and take the one in the middle
- Put the five animals in order from smallest to biggest.
- In a line of five, the middle spot is the 3rd one, with two smaller before it and two bigger after it.
- The animal sitting in that 3rd, middle spot is the one labelled 2.
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