June 2022

Lester has a number of oranges that he has to put into a box. He finds that when he puts them 2 at a time, 1 remains; when he puts them 3 at a time, 2 remain; when he puts them 4 at a time, 3 remain; when he puts them 5 at a time, […]

FRANK’S FAST FOOD EATERYHamburger with toppings $2.25Fries $0.95Cola $0.50Coffee $0.75 Frank’s Fast Food Eatery offers a Saturday Soccer Team Special. When student sports teams come in wearing their uniforms and accompanied by their coaches, each can get 1 hamburger free for every 5 they purchase.The entire Meadowland team wore their uniforms and went to Frank’s

There are 6 places set at each table for the big outdoor party. All the tables and the chairs have 4 legs each, and altogether the tables and the chairs have a total of 196 legs.If there is one place set for each person who will attend, how many people are expected to come to

A numismatist decides to divide his coin collection among his children. The oldest gets 1/2 of the collection, the next gets 1/4, the next gets 1/5, and the youngest gets the remaining 49 coins. How many coins are there in the collection? AnswerThere are 980 coins in the collection.490 + 245 + 196 + 49

In the small country of Zog, each person owns one and only one car. Every licence plate of the car is different and each one contains only one letter and one one-digit number including zero. How many people live in the land of Zog, assuming every licence plate is used? Answer52026 (letters of the alphabet)

The Snapsville Town Council decided to have some fun with numbering the houses in Snaps Road which was in a new residential development in the town. For reasons known only to the Council, they elected not to use house numbers that contained the digit 3 (eg. 13, 32, etc.) or numbers that were multiples of

Alex, my very mathematical but forgetful friend, made an elaborate code to remember the 10-digit combination to his bicycle lock. He came up with:A – K – B – J – C – H – D – G – E – Fwhere each letter stands for a different digit (0-9).Sometimes a scatterbrain, he wanted to

Waldo ate a total of 100 peanuts in 5 days. Each day, he ate 6 more peanuts than he did the day before. So, how many peanuts did Waldo start with on the first day? AnswerWaldo ate 8 peanuts on day 1. He had 14 peanuts on day 2 and added 6 peanuts each day

Bob and Jean really like chocolate. When they heard the local cafe come up with a challenge to get a free chocolate sundae with each meal, they jumped at the chance. Their challenge was this. From the following menu, if you choose a complete meal that costs exactly $5.00 before tax, you get a free

Abe Drivers has to drive 200 km once a week to pick up his deliveries from the post office. He then quickly drives home to open them up. One week, he left off and, expecting something, drove at 110 km/h. When he reached the post office, there was nothing, so he drove home at the

I am the owner of a pet store. If I put in one canary per cage, I have one bird too many. If I put in two canaries per cage, I have one cage too many. How many cages and canaries do I have? Answer4 birds and 3 cagesSolution:let x = the number of canaries

When Nora and Corman stopped by the school to whisk Monette off to lunch, the poor principal was hemmed in by two tall, annoyed Maths students.“My answer is right, and I want my three points!” the blond cried.“But it’s not the answer Mr. Collins left on the key!”“He’s wrong,” the other one insisted, “My answer

Mr. Smith needs snacks for all the students going on a field trip. He bought 9 boxes of granola bars containing a total of 88 bars. He wanted variety, so he purchased 3 different flavours, which happened to come from 3 different companies. The almond chunky granola bars were packaged 8 to a box, the

In a 14-stage cycle race, there were a 100 competitors, among them “Crazy” Charles.In all 14 stages, “Crazy” Charles finished in the same position: 93rd. However, at the end of the race, “Crazy” Charles was declared a runner-up in the competition: his accumulated time was less than that of all the other competitors except one,

A husband and his wife were walking home from the shopping mall with their purchases when the husband began to complain that his load was too heavy. The wife turned to her husband and said, “I don’t know what you’re complaining about because if you gave me one of your parcels, I would have twice