Some students are standing in a square. Counting from any of the eight directions, Victor is the fifth. How many students are there?HintIt is not 100.AnswerSince Victor is the fifth counting from any direction, there are 5+5-1=9 students on each row and each column, and there are 9*9=81 students.The students stand like this: V is […]
If seven people meet one another and each shakes hands only once with each of the others, how many handshakes will there have been? Answer21.
Takashi took part in a marathon race.At half-time, he is 6th last. After that, he is overtaken by three more contestants, but then he struggled and overtook 10 in a row, getting himself the bronze prize (3rd place).How many contestants were there in total? Answer15.
Gus and Joe are raising pigs. Gus said that they would have an equal number if Joe would give him two pigs. But if Gus gave Joe two of his, Joe would have twice as many as Gus. How many pigs did they each have? AnswerGus had 10Joe had 14
A 1-6 number cube is sitting on a table. Lenore counts 17 dots on all the sides she can see.Which face of the number cube is resting on the table?HintCount the total number of dots on a 1-6 number cube. AnswerThe side resting on the table is the one with 4 dots.21 total dots –
Mad Ade’s great great grand-dad was a Cowboy in the wild west.He was known either by the Indian name “Dances with Alcohol” or his nickname “Mad Cow McBrownpants”. One day, he saw his face on a poster nailed to a tree. As he approached, he saw “Wanted, Dead or Alive”. Under his picture, it read:
Too many people knew the code to Joe’s menu and he was losing a fortune in free pizza. Now he has a new code (based on the value of letters). Can you crack it, discover the price of pancakes, and win a free hamburger?MENUApple pie … $13.60Ice cream … $15.90Chocolate cake … $24.90Pancakes … $?
In Shmithalithaophogous the currency is marbles. A yellow one is equal to about 87 American dollars. A green one is twice that. A red one is a third of a green one. A blue one is 4x a red one. A purple one is 10% of a blue marble.What would be the simplest combination to
There once was a man who liked to pick apples from his big old apple tree. On the first day he picked 1 apple, on the second he picked 2 apples, on the third he picked 4 apples. On the fourth he picked 8 apples. If this pattern continues, then how many days will it
The Snapsville Town Council decided to have some fun with numbering the houses in Snaps Street 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 were the multiples of 3 or 4. If the last house on Snaps Street
A butler is promised $100 and a cloak as his wages for a year. After 7 months he leaves this job, and receives the cloak and $20 as his payment. How much is the cloak worth? Answer$92
Mad Ade’s office is on the 3rd floor of the “Multinational Kebab and Lard Insurance Company” building. Though there is a lift yet, he likes using the big circular staircase. He goes up the stairs 2 at a time (to get more exercise) but is annoyed that there is always just 1 stair left over
Jane has twenty bills in her wallet. She has a total of $80. If she has two more $5 bills than $10 bills, and four more $1 bills than $5 bills, how many bills of each does she have? AnswerShe has:ten $1 billssix $5 billsand four $10 bills
A tennis championship is played on a knock-out basis (i.e. a player is out of the tournament when he loses a match).(a) How many players participate in the tournament if 63 matches in total are played?(b) How many matches are played in the tournament if 28 players in total participate?AnswerThe final: total matches = 1
Lester saw a number of men, dogs and spiders in a group. When he counted the number of legs of all of them in the group, he found them to be 420. He knows that the number of dogs in the group is double the number of men and the number of spiders is double