> 1 ---
> First an 'easy' one (from an old Oxbridge entrance paper):
> What's the next letter in this sequence?
> O T T F F S S
>
"E"; the sequence is "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight..."

> 2 ---
> Now a little more tricky:
> One plus two = two plus one - TRUE
> One plus twelve = eleven plus two - TRUE
> Four plus eight = seven plus five - FALSE
> Why?
>
This one would have been harder if you hadn't already gotten me to mentally associate numbers with letters in the first problem. In the first two examples above, the same set of letters appears on both halves of the equations. "oneplustwo" has all the same letters as "twoplusone", and "oneplustwelve" has all the same letters as "elevenplustwo". But "fourpluseight" doesn't contain the same letters as "sevenplusfive".

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