SOLVE THIS PUZZLE

See If You can Solve These Bashers*

*1) **Alex, Bret, Chris, Derek, Eddie, Fred, Greg, Harold, and John are nine students who live in a three storey building, with three rooms on each floor. A room in the West wing, one in the centre, and one in the East wing. If you look directly at the building, the left side is West and the right side is East. Each student is assigned exactly one room. Can you find where each of their rooms is: *

   *1. **Harold does not live on the bottom floor.*

   *2. **Fred lives directly above John and directly next to Bret (who lives in the West wing).*

   *3. **Eddie lives in the East wing and one floor higher than Fred.*

   *4. **Derek lives directly above Fred.*

   *5. **Greg lives directly above Chris.*



*2) **What does this equation simplify to? *

(x - a) * (x - b) * (x - c) * ... * (x - z) =?

*3) **Starting in the bottom left corner and moving either up or right,
adding up the numbers along the way, what is the largest sum which can be made? *

*4) **How many squares, of any size, can you find on this chess board
which do not contain a Rook? *

*5) **What four digit number has digit 1 three less than digit 4 which is
one more than digit 2 which is twice digit 3 which is not a prime number and is one more than 1/3 of digit 4?*


*Here are the Solution’s…*

1. *Answer:*

*West*

*Centre*

*East*

*Harold*

*Derek*

*Eddie*

*Bret*

*Fred*

*Greg*

*Alex*

*John*

*Chris*


2. *Answer:** **“0” since one of the terms is (x - x).***

3. *Answer:* *3+2+5+9+6+1+ 7+4+1 = 38*

4. *Answer:** **There are 128 Squares without the Rook***

5. *Answer: **6849.*

I WANT TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER

I asked my friend's little daughter what she wanted to be when she grows up.

She said she wanted to be Prime Minister some day.

Both her parents, Labour supporters, were standing there, so I asked her,"If you were Prime Minister what would be the first thing you would do?"
She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all those poor people on benefits." Her parents beamed, and said, "Welcome to the Labour Party!"

"That's a worthy goal!" I told her, and continued, "But you don't have to wait until you're Prime Minister to do that. You can come over to my house,mow the lawn, pull weeds, sweep my drive and I'll pay you Rs. 25. Then I'll take you over to that homeless chap who hangs out in front of the store. You can give him the Rs. 25 to use toward food."

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless man come over and do the work himself and you can just pay him the Rs. 25?"

I smiled and said, "Welcome to the Conservative Party."