[peekmyster]

Greetings,
After completing a online IQ exam I was very perplexed that the answers for these specific questions were not given. Would you please help me solve these problems and give the reasons you got the answers so that I may help educate myself and others, thank you.

1. Which of the following items is different from the others?
Car Bus Wagon Sleigh
You Selected Answer:
Wagon (was thinking it wasn't used for mass transport - but I was thinking kids wagon, sleigh may have been more appropriate?)

2. Which month does not belong with the others?
August September October November
You Selected Answer:
August (since the others are fall months)

3. What is the missing number in this series of numbers: 8 - 10 - 14 - 18 - __ - 34 - 50 - 66?
22 26 24 28
You Selected Answer: 26 (pattern is 2, 4, 4, 8, 8, 16, 16 not sure what the function is)


4. Thursday is to Wednesday, as October is to..
December November September February
You Selected Answer:
sept (pattern is one after)

5. Insert the next letter in the series: A - D - A - E - A - G - A - I - A - M - A - ____
N Q O P
You Selected Answer: P (DE = no skipping a letter, GI = skip 1 letter H, MP = skip 2 letters N and O?)


6. Which of the following cities does not belong with the others?
London Paris New York Washington
You Selected Answer: New York (not a country capital city)


7. DE is to girlfriend, as NM is to.. .
kl lk po op
You Selected Answer: op


8. Which word belongs with the following words: "Belt" - "Blood" - "Guard"?
Time Water Tide Bird
You Selected Answer: (no clue here)


9. Which of the following words is different from the others? "Enterprise: rent, peer, rite, pair"
rent peer rite pair
You Selected Answer:
rite (what is the pattern? Total guess)

10. Which number completes the following series: SCOTLAND 27186453, LOTS 7293, LOAN 8367, AND _____.
271 453 786 675
answer 453 (because AND is the last 3 letters in scotland which ends in 453, though if you look at LOAN the A = 6 and N =7 so I would have chosen 673 (scotland D = 3) if it were available).

[Wondergirl]

1. Which of the following items is different from the others?
Car Bus Wagon Sleigh

The first three have wheels. The sleigh has runners.

2. Which month does not belong with the others?
August September October November

August does not end with "ber."

3. What is the missing number in this series of numbers: 8 - 10 - 14 - 18 - __ - 34 - 50 - 66?

I'm thinking 24, but can't give you a good reason at the moment.

4. Thursday is to Wednesday, as October is to..
December November September February
You Selected Answer:
Sept (pattern is one after)

I agree

5. Insert the next letter in the series: A - D - A - E - A - G - A - I - A - M - A - ____
N Q O P

Q, but am not sure why I choose it.

6. Which of the following cities does not belong with the others?
London Paris New York Washington
You Selected Answer: New York (not a country capital city)

I agree.

7. DE is to girlfriend, as NM is to.. .
Kl lk po op

Lk (consecutive letters backwards vs. frontwards)

8. Which word belongs with the following words: "Belt" - "Blood" - "Guard"?
Time Water Tide Bird

No clue.

9. Which of the following words is different from the others? "Enterprise: rent, peer, rite, pair"
Rent peer rite pair

Rent has only one vowel?

10. Which number completes the following series: SCOTLAND 27186453, LOTS 7293, LOAN 8367, AND _____.
271 453 786 675

No clue.

[lrleake]

1. Which of the following items is different from the others?
Car Bus Wagon Sleigh

Sleigh because it does not have wheels

2. Which month does not belong with the others?
August September October November

I also said August because of Fall months, but the other person was right as well that it does not end in "ber"

3. What is the missing number in this series of numbers: 8 - 10 - 14 - 18 - __ - 34 - 50 - 66?
22 26 24 28

I also said 26 because the pattern appeared to be 2-4-4-8-8-16-16


4. Thursday is to Wednesday, as October is to..
December November September February

Agreed, September, as it is one before October.

5. Insert the next letter in the series: A - D - A - E - A - G - A - I - A - M - A - ____

Q, you had (NQOP? Should be NOPQ)


6. Which of the following cities does not belong with the others?
London Paris New York Washington

Same, NY is not a county capital


7. DE is to girlfriend, as NM is to.. .
Kl lk po op

Op - DE is in order, girlfriend is reversed. NM is reversed, so op should be in order.


8. Which word belongs with the following words: "Belt" - "Blood" - "Guard"?
Time Water Tide Bird

I said "time" because there are 2 letters from "belt" in "blood" (B and L), then 1 letter from "blood" in "guard" (D), so the only word that has 0 of the letters from "guard" is "time". Not sure if this is correct.


9. Which of the following words is different from the others? "Enterprise: rent, peer, rite, pair"
Rent peer rite pair

Rent, peer and rite each have all of their letters within Enterprise. However, "pair" has an A where Enterprise does not, so I picked pair since I couldn't find all the letters within the original word.

10. Which number completes the following series: SCOTLAND 27186453, LOTS 7293, LOAN 8367, AND _____.
271 453 786 675

Answer is 786. Start with the A.
A in SCOTLAND is 4, it does not appear in LOTS but it would be 5, it LOAN, it is 6, so in AND it would be 7.
N in SCOTLAND is 5, it does not appear in LOTS but it would be 6, it LOAN, it is 7, so in AND it would be 8.
D in SCOTLAND is 3, it does not appear in LOTS but it would be 4, it LOAN, it would be 5, so in AND it would be 6.