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Did you know that navigating your way through mazes can increase your total memory, recall and cognition? Did you know that this simple recreational activity (which only requires a pencil and a mind) also delays the outset of senile dementia , enhances your ability to focus, improves your abstract reasoning , improves your ability to plan and carries with it untold and countless other benefits. Mazes are wonderful mental muscle builders. Individuals tend to attack mazes (on paper or on sketch screen applications on mobile devices ) using any one of several approaches: 1) Brute Force Adherents, who only make a cursory inspection of the maze, followed by high-speed trial and error attempts, with each attempt usually getting than the one which preceded it and terminated at an earlier stopping point; 2) Center - Out Examiners, who view the whole maze and first seek to identify the center, and psychologically work their way outward to the entryway of the maze befor putting stylus to scree...

Our challenge of several days ago was to use intellectual "brute force" (very rapid, iterative trial-and-error ) to find out which arithmetic operations were being performed on the numbers in the equations which follow. Instead of using the common symbols, I had substituted the letter "n" for any operation. Let's crack the code, Oh Braintenancers . Find the missing signs which are all represented below as the letter "n" in the following simple equations. I'll have answers for you within the next two days. You have plenty of time. Put away the crossword and Sudoku , and give this exercise a whack. Have at it, then. Answers are posted in red . A ) 9 n 3 n 3 = 30  The first n is multiplication, and the second n is addition . B ) 7 n 5 n 3 = 9  The first n is addition, and the second n is subtraction . C ) 12 n 3 n 1 = 5  The first n is division , and the second is addition . Have fun. By the way, are you doing mathematics, arithmetic or something el...