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1. Jenny has bought 86.1kg of gourmet pick ‘n’ mix, to be sold at a week-long food festival. She divides them into 500g and 200g packets. If she uses the same number of 500g packets as 200g packets, then how many packets did she use altogether? 2. What connects cart, fly and free? 3. Which British middleweight boxer might see AIRMAN TRY RUM? 4. Which is the odd one out: Vendee Globe, Bathurst 1000, Fastnet Race, America’s Cup? 5. Starting with A, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach MEDICATE. How you rate: 15 words, average; 20, good; 25, very good; 30 or more, excellent. Solution tomorrow. Yesterday’s words: appro, arrow, awoke, okra, opera, paperwork, poke, poker, pope, pore, pork, porker, power, prop, proper, prow, repro, rework, roar, rope, roper, rower, woke, wore, work, worker.