Brock and his brothers bought their mom a 3 pound box of candies. Each candy was wrapped in coloured foil and weighed 2 ounces.There were at least 3 wrappers of each colour.There were twice as many blue wrappers as green wrappers.The number of gold wrappers equalled the number of silver wrappers.There was one more candy […]
The odometer of a car shows 7,2,927 miles, a palindromic number. What is the minimum number of miles you would need to travel to form another?HintA palindrome can be read both forwards and backwards, like “Kayak”. Answer110 miles (73037)
At a certain fast-food restaurant, Brain can buy 3 burgers, 7 shakes and one order of Fries for $120 exactly. At the same place it would cost $164.50 for 4 burgers, 10 shakes and one order of fries. How much would it cost for an ordinary meal of one burger, one shake and one order
In the course of constructing a pyramid, a large stone cube was being transported across the desert on logs. All of the logs were two metres in circumference. How far did the stone cube move in relation to the ground, with each complete revolution of the logs? AnswerFour metres. The logs move ahead two metres
How much money would I have had if, in spending 1/5 and then 1/5 of the remaining, I had altogether spent $36.00? Answer$100.
The last three digits of Allison’s licence plate have a product of 360. The sum of the digits is 22 and the digits are in order from the least to the greatest. What are the three digits of her licence plate? AnswerLast Digits=5, 8 and 9. (5×8)x9= 360. 5+8+9= 22.
Aly lives in a street with 12 houses. Every day she gets more letters than are delivered to any other house. Today 57 letters were delivered to her street. What is the smallest number of letters that Aly could have received today? Answer6 letters.For Aly to receive the least amount of letters, the deliveries had
Dear Jim:Our twenty-fifth reunion went wonderfully last week. The Maths Department put on a great spread. I’m sorry you couldn’t make it. I ran into Ralph Jones there. Do you remember him? It turns out he married Susie Jacobsen a couple of years after graduation. Imagine that! They have three kids, all boys, and their
I was talking to a friend Tammy, the middle child of five. She has a younger sister Tracey, and three brothers Tommy (Oldest child), Timmy and Tony (youngest child). I asked her how old she was, but she hardly ever gives a straight answer. The following is the conversation we had.“How old are you, Tammy?”“I
A child went to the doctor. The doctor took the child’s temperature. On his note pad the doctor noted the temperature as 97.6. After the examination the doctor told the child that he was perfectly healthy. How can this be? Answer98.6 degrees Fahrenheit is only an average of people’s body temperatures. Someone’s true temperature may
Saku was feeling hungry one summer day, so she decided to make herself a strawberry jam sandwich.She spread the jam on the bread and when she had finished making her sandwich she went to pick up the jar of jam, only to find that it was now sitting in a puddle where previously there had
Lisa is on the top of the mountain. Snow is all around her and she is freezing. She lost her tent. However, she is warm enough now and has a place to sleep. What did she do? AnswerShe made a hole in the snow in the shape of a big sock and that is where
What is the most amount of times that a dry, square piece of ordinary paper can be folded in half? AnswerSeven (any size of paper)
It is estimated that the earth weighs 6 sextillion tons. How much more would the earth weigh if one sextillion tons of concrete and stone were used to build a large wall? AnswerIt would weigh the same since all materials are taken from the earth’s original weight.
“Hello folks, I am a man with a weird situation. Every week I will give you a situation in which you will have to find the answer to the question. Okay, here is the scenario:“Two men were talking about water. One man was a chemist, and the other was a doctor. The doctor said, ‘If