Over your Christmas vacation, you decided to go on an expedition to Kolepom Island because you heard there was a sighting of Attenborough's echidna there! Unfortunately, soon after you arrived at the village to meet your guide, the chief of the tribe took your weapons and locked you in a hut.
It seems the chief will not deal with any Westerners unless they prove that they respect the tribe's culture. He has given you the problem below to prove your worth. If you can solve it before the sun sets, he will be your personal guide to find Attenborough's echidna which he claims to have seen with his own eyes. But if you fail, you will be cooked and eaten at their annual feast of the echidna in three days time.
Congratulations, you helped the first mate get his GED! But now you've got another problem--your pet marsupial moles are almost out of food! Their favorite meal is ant larvae so you'd like to order more for them. However, you don't know how much they cost. The first mate ordered the previous two shipments but he doesn't remember how much they cost per pound.
However, he does have his credit card statements which show the first batch was $12.25 and the second batch was $21.75. He also remembers that the first batch was $2 a pound more expensive because of extra shipping costs. And the second batch was $2 per pound cheaper because he picked it up at the warehouse himself. And he knows that he received five pounds total for the last two shipments. From this information, figure out the regular price (in dollars per pound) for ant larvae.
Congratulations, you got a friend for Jerry and now they share a new habitat. But the first mate still has more problems for you to help him with. If you help him with the problems below, he'll show you a picture of a new species of Angler Fish discovered in June of this year!
The first mate is so happy with you for helping him with his math problems that he has offered to give you his pet marsupial mole so Jerry will have a friend! The only problem is that the habitat you built for Jerry is not big enough. The current habitat is six feet by nine feet and you need to double the area so it can hold two marsupial moles. You decided to increase both the length and width by the same amount. How many feet should you increase each dimension to double the area?
Congratulations, you solved the problems and played with the cutest frog ever! Since it's Friday and almost the weekend, the first mate only has three problems for you to help him with today. And he is getting out his turtles to show you. The first is his Mata Mata turtle which is a female he name Greta Greta.
Solve the problems below to see his other turtle which uses a clever camouflage technique.
Congratulations, you solved the problems and were able to feed a snake to a centipede! Today, the first mate has six easy problems for you to help him with. And to show his appreciation, he's going to let you play with his pet frogs.
The first is a Purple Harlequin Frog, discovered in 2006 during a follow-up survey of the Nassau plateau in Suriname, a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.
The second is even cooler--and you won't believe the sound it makes--but you'll have to do the problems first before you can see it.
Congratulations, you helped the first mate with his math problem and played with his eastern quoll. Today he has three more problems but he also has some insects for you to play with!
At right is one of his pet panda ants. And later, if you solve all the problems and get the password, he'll let you feed a snake to his centipede!
Either enter the answers into the comments to get the password or wait for another A.A.K.V.O. agent to check your answers later this afternoon.
Congratulations, you've discovered a planet with viable animal life on it! A.A.K.V.O. agents are investigating this planet further and preparing for a mission to explore it. In the meantime, the first-mate has asked you for some help. He is practicing to take his G.E.D. (a test he has to take as an adult to get his high school degree because he dropped out) and needs help on the problem below. Please show him how to do the problem. If you do, he'll let you play with his pet eastern quoll!
Check List For Simplifying Polynomials
Separate out largest common factor.
Is the polynomial a perfect square?
Is the polynomial a difference of squares?
If the polynomial is a quadratic, reverse-FOIL it.
Congratulations, you figured out which TV was bigger and enjoyed some nature documentaries on the Captain's HDTV. The first mate was so happy you showed him how to do the math that he wasn't mad at all and joined you in watching TV.
But now you have work to do. A.A.K.V.O. has started a program to protect animals in outer space, but first they need to know which other planets have life. Fortunately, they have developed a computer program that can look for life on other planets, all 281 trillion 474 billion 976 million 710 thousand 656 of them! And you only need to find one with life. Just find a planet and put the planet number in the comments. An A.A.K.V.O. agent will double-check that the planet does indeed have life and will respond with the password in the comments.
Good Luck!
P.S. One way to find planets with life is to click Random Planet until you find one that goes down to some simple oscillating patterns and then click the < or > buttons at the bottom to flip boxes. Or you can randomly click boxes. Or you can randomly enter planet numbers. No one really knows the best way to find life on other planets!
Fourier Life Demonstration (click Run or scroll down for blog posts)
Cellular Automata System:
Even generation rule: B3/S23 Odd generation rule: B2/S56
Congratulations, you rented the boat and made it to the A.A.K.V.O. freighter! You're finally free!
Once on the freighter, you decided to catch up on all the TV you missed. Unfortunately, you walked into a controversy between the captain of the ship and the first mate. The captain just got a new HDTV with a 42-inch diagonal and a 16:9 aspect ratio, and he wants you to watch TV with him. However, the first mate has an older 37-inch diagonal TV with a 4:3 aspect ratio and claims that his TV actually has a bigger area for the picture. He said because his TV is more square, it's bigger even though the diagonal is less. As evidence, he has pointed out that his TV is taller than the new one.
You want to watch the TV with the largest area. Which one should you watch?
P.S. The first mate is so confident he will win that he has offered to let you use his calculator.
Congratulations, you got a framed picture for Jerry and he loves it! (He really likes chewing on the corner!) You heard from A.A.K.V.O. that they have a freighter passing through the Makassar Straight in a few hours and if you can get a boat, you can meet it and escape the island. Unfortunately, the only boat available is an old river boat, and you're not sure if it can go the required 6.5 km/h in steady water.
The boat owner is willing to take you to the freighter (he takes A.A.K.V.O. credit) but he doesn't know how fast it is. He only knows that every day it goes up the river 30 km and back again in 8 hours, and that the river moves at 2 km/h. Fortunately, that's all the information you need to calculate the speed of the boat in steady water. Is it fast enough to escape the island?
P.S. The PASSWORD is TREE but there's only a note inside. If you solve this problem before I get home, we can get the thing on the note when I get home. If not, maybe after dinner...
Congratulations, you figured out the combination and escaped the FAMPO facility! You made your way to the coast and now you need to signal A.A.K.V.O. to come pick you up. But when you got to the beach, you saw a picture framing store and decided to get a present for Jerry!
You took the picture on the right of Jerry and want to get it framed. The cost for framing a picture is made up of two parts: glass costs 100 rupiah per square inch and the frame costs 200 rupiah per inch. If the frame has to be 4 by 3 to fit the picture of Jerry, what size picture can you get framed for 122,400 rupiah, the amount you have left (about $9)?
Congratulations, you've escaped from the cell thanks to your math skills and Jerry's digging! But now you have to escape the room! Unfortunately, the kid's father is trying to teach him math so he's locked him in the room and given him a math problem to get out. Fortunately, the kid is sleeping in the corner and shouldn't wake up for a few hours so you've got time to solve the problem and escape.
The door to the room has a lock on it that needs three numbers to open it. Taped to the door is a picture of Phineas and these words: "Suppose that the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle are three integers with each one 10 bigger than the last (e.g. 1, 11, 21). Find the lengths of the three sides and you will have the combination!"
Congratulations, thanks to your hard work, the bratty kid got 100% on his extra credit work and can now move up to the eighth grade! But you're sick of being in this cell. Fortunately, Jerry was digging--as he loves to do--and he found a note left by a previous prisoner. It's a diagram that shows how he dug a hole through the floor to the room below that would let one of the bars slip through and create enough of a space to squeeze out of your cell! After he used it for his escape, he put a small piece of wood in to keep the bar up and covered it back up with dirt. Unfortunately, they replaced the bars after his escape and the spacing is different so you can't just count the number of bars over to see where you have to dig. Fortunately, on the back of the slip of paper, the prisoner left some calculations. You've learned that the height (h) in the diagram is 16 feet less than three times the width (w). You've also learned that the total area of the rectangle in the diagram is 75 square feet. How many feet over from the edge of your cell (w) should you dig to open up the hole and slide the bar through?
Congratulations, you finally finished the previous nine problems for the bratty kid's extra credit. You only have four more to go but they're due tomorrow. The kid is sick of taking care of "your stupid rat" as he calls Jerry, so he's decided to give him back to you if you complete these four problems by the end of the day. But if you don't, the kid said it's "curtains for Jerry"!
Congratulations, you solved the problems and were able to see Jerry, your pet marsupial mole, for about a minute. When your minute was up, the bratty kid snatched him back. Then Jerry did something that made you so proud--he bit the bratty kid in the hand! The kid screamed like a baby and dropped Jerry who ran back to you. You were able to spend an additional half hour with him while the kid got his hand bandaged up. He also had to have a very painful rabies shot!
But now you and Jerry are apart again and the kid is making you do nine more problems. Good luck!
