Oakridge Estates - Newbury Park

Where sunset arrives a bit early

December 2006 Newsletter Puzzle Solution

Puzzle:

We have 352 homes, many with swimming pools, situated on 12 streets. Pool owners celebrate the good life by doing laps to stay fit or sitting poolside sipping margaritas.

Here are three questions to test your knowledge about the number of our pools.

  1. Judging from the city’s aerial view of Oakridge, how many pools are there?
    (a) 84, (b) 107, (c) 132, (d) 176
  2. Which 3 streets have the highest percentage of pools?
  3. Which 3 have the lowest?

Answer:

  1. (b) 107
  2. Calle Mira Monte (50%), Calle Clara Vista (45%), Calle Alta Vista (43%)
  3. Calle Las Colinas (21%), Lesser Drive (19%), Calle Buena Vista (16%)
Pool counts and percentages by street
street home count pool count pool pct rank
Calle Mira Monte 22 11 50.0 1
Calle Clara Vista 22 10 45.5 2
Calle Alta Vista 28 12 42.9 3
Calle Valle Vista 22 8 36.4 4
Calle Loma Vista 14 5 35.7 5
Calle Mazatlán 28 9 32.1 6
Calle Posadas 27 8 29.6 7
Cayo Grande Court 94 25 26.6 8
Calle Linda Vista 22 5 22.7 9
Calle Las Colinas 28 6 21.4 10
Lesser Drive 26 5 19.2 11
Calle Buena Vista 19 3 15.8 12

Of course, you may look at the same map, and come up with a different result. If you do, carefully document your challenge (name the street and the house numbers of pool homes), email me, and I will carefully review your statement and post a correction here along with your name.