Quiz:
The following message was found on the side of an "unmanned"
alien spacecraft that crashed on the Earth.
The picture on the right is a drawing of the spacecraft,
and we think the picture on the left is a drawing of an alien.
We have determined that the markings and
are alien characters for the numeral
indicating the size of the object, in units known only to the aliens.
We believe that is the character for 4 and
is the character for 6. We have measured the
size of the spacecraft in our units (meters), and find that it is 8 meters
long.
Please predict how tall the alien is in meters. Select from the
following the whole number nearest the height of the aliens in meters.
Explain how you figured out your prediction: