Long, long ago, in a village there used to be held an annual animal fair where only elephants, horses and sheep used to be sold. During one year the price-list in the fair was as follows:- One Elephant — $5One Horse — $1Twenty Sheep — $1 A merchant sent his servant with $100 to the […]
Amoebas reproduce by splitting in two. An amoeba which does so every minute is placed in a jar at exactly ten o’clock in the morning. At 12:00 noon the jar is full. At what time is the jar half full? Answer11:59. Since they double every minute, at 11:59 it was half full. One minute later
Mr. Greenwich and his wife were shopping when they decided to go their separate ways to speed things up. They agreed to meet at the bank at 2:00 p.m. Mr. Greenwich realized several minutes later that he had forgotten his watch. He asked a lady walking by for the correct time. Her watch was five
Two ostrich breeders, Mandy and Marcia, were talking one day, and noticed that, Mandy would have exactly as many ostriches as Marcia if Mandy sold Marcia seven ostriches.On the other hand, if Marcia sold Mandy seven ostriches, then Mandy would have exactly twice as many ostriches as Marcia. How many ostriches did each have? AnswerMandy
Tom is chasing Jerry again! Jerry can run at 1 metre/sec, but Tom can run at 1.5 metres/sec.Tom, being a stupid cat, runs into a 3-metre long sofa and takes 3 seconds to wriggle out. Jerry’s mouse hole is 2 metres away from the other end of the sofa.If Jerry runs under the sofa 1
There are two cakes for Little Choc’s birthday party. One of them is Chocolate (C) and the other is Vanilla (V). Little Choc and his 7 other guests will each get one slice of C and one slice of V.Since Little Choc loves chocolate, and it is his birthday, he proposes a slight change: rather
Suppose I am a grandfather. My grandson is about as old in days as my son is in weeks. He is also as many months old as I am in years. Together, the three of us are 140 years old. How old am I? AnswerAs noted, all three are 140 years old. Thus, a+b+c=140, where
There was a famous mathematician named Karl Friedrich Gauss. When he was young, he entered Gotinga University. One day, he met an old professor, and spoke to him. They chatted, and the professor asked Gauss about his age.Gauss said: “The cube and the fourth power of my age contain each digit from 0 to 9
Five actors, Billy Hunt, Ryan McCrazy, Jimmy Lymmon, Lauren Fender and Rosanna Folia, are shooting a scene in a new movie. Billy managed to do the scene correctly in 5 takes, then in every 7th take afterwards. Ryan managed to do the scene perfectly in the first take, but then he lost his touch and
A butcher had a number of legs of lamb to chop up. He chopped each leg into 11 pieces. He chopped at the rate of 45 strokes per minute. How many legs would he chop in 22 minutes? Answer99 legs.Explanation: Each leg is chopped 10 times. 22 multiplied by 45 equals 990. 990 divided by
Sarah, Daniel and Megan had a contest to see who could bike the most miles. Together Sarah and Daniel biked 21 miles. The combined total for Sarah and Megan was 19. Together Megan and Daniel rode 22 miles.Who was the winner? AnswerDaniel is the winner.Sarah = 9 milesMegan = 10 milesDaniel = 12 milesSet up
One day, a knight went to the legendary kingdom named Breadland. The Breadlanders love eating bread. They also play chess. What’s different from normal chess is that the chessboard they use is 9×7; each player has a queen on each side of the king; one is next to the king and the other is between
A bricklayer has 9 bricks. 8 bricks weigh the same amount, but one brick is slightly heavier than the rest. The bricklayer wants to find the heavy brick. He has a balance scale. How can he find the heavy brick in only two weighings? AnswerHe should divide the bricks into 3 groups of 3. He
Three friends planned to race against one another on their bikes. Neil owned a good racing bike and had lots of experience (he belonged to a bike club), while Oscar had just learnt to ride. The race seemed unfair, to say the least. After much discussion, they came up with a solution that seemed to
A man was called forth from his cubicle to perform a time-honoured task: get lunch.His boss, Medster, told him to get a certain number of salads and bagels. A salad costs $1.10, and a bagel costs $1.50. Medster gave him $32.10, the exact amount needed to buy all the items for 23 people (one item