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Spatial and Pattern Reasoning in Words

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  1. What is the next number in the sequence 2, 6, 18, 54?
  2. What is the next number in the sequence 3, 5, 9, 17?
  3. A cube is painted on all faces and cut into 27 equal small cubes (3 x 3 x 3). How many small cubes have exactly two painted faces?
  4. A cube is painted on all faces and cut into 27 equal small cubes (3 x 3 x 3). How many small cubes have exactly one painted face?
  5. A 4 x 4 x 4 cube is painted on all faces and cut into 64 small cubes. How many small cubes have no painted face?
  6. A square sheet of paper is folded in half twice, giving a smaller square. A hole is punched through the centre of the folded square. How many holes does the sheet have when it is unfolded?
  7. What is the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock at 3:15?
  8. What is the angle between the hands of a clock at 4:00?
  9. An arrow points up. It is turned 90 degrees clockwise and then 180 degrees anticlockwise. In which direction does it point?
  10. The letter b is reflected in a vertical mirror placed to its right. Which letter does the reflection look like?
  11. On a standard die, opposite faces add up to 7. The top face shows 2. What is on the bottom face?
  12. In a 3 x 3 grid every row adds up to 15. The rows so far are 8, 1, 6 and 3, 5, 7 and 4, 9, ?. What is the missing number?
  13. Figures are made of dots: figure 1 has 3 dots, figure 2 has 6, figure 3 has 10 and figure 4 has 15. How many dots does figure 6 have?
  14. What is the next number in the sequence 1, 4, 9, 16, 25?
  15. A cube has an edge of 2 cm. Its surface is painted, and it is then cut into 8 equal cubes with an edge of 1 cm. What is the total painted area of all the small cubes?
  16. In the sequence 5, 8, 12, 17, 23, what is the difference that should be added to 23 to get the next term?

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