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

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