How many times do all the hands on a clock go around in an hour? AnswerSecond hand=60Minute hand=1Hour hand=1/12 Total: 61.083333

A rabbit and a kangaroo decided to have a race. Their course was 100 feet up and back (200 feet total). The rabbit only jumped in sets of three jumps of 2 feet each in the same time that the kangaroo only made two jumps of a yard each. Who won the race? AnswerThe rabbit

Which is the larger, the number of seconds in a week or the number of minutes in a year? AnswerThe number of seconds in a week is the larger.There are 6,04,800 seconds in a week, and 5,25,600 minutes in a calendar year.Note: There are 5,25,960 minutes in a leap year, which is still less than

Joan and Jane are sisters. Jean is Joan’s daughter and 12 years younger than her aunt. Joan is twice as old as Jean. Four years ago, Joan was the same age as Jane is now, and Jane was twice as old as her niece. How old is Jean? AnswerJoan is 32, Jane is 28, and

Maria doesn’t like to tell people her real age. When somebody asks her how old she is, she says that she is twenty-one. (Maria mentally omits all Sundays because on Sundays she doesn’t work, so she claims she doesn’t get any older.)How old is Maria really? AnswerMaria could be either 24 or 25. She subtracted

Jemal, Lara and Oren were making a giant sandcastle on the beach. They had 4 buckets: 2 red buckets that carry 3 lbs of sand each, 1 blue bucket that carries 5 lbs of sand, and 1 orange bucket that carries 7 lbs of sand.They took turns carrying full buckets of damp sand back to

Ten ice cream bars and 6 ice cream cones cost $13. But if you buy 6 ice cream bars and 10 ice cream cones, the bill will be $11. How much does an ice cream bar cost? AnswerIce cream bars cost $1. (Ice cream cones cost 50 cents.)

Martin rushed into the room bearing good news.“Joseph, your idea worked! The company liked the idea of using only two types of weights to measure heavy objects!” announced Martin, giving the letter to Joseph.“I told you so. Given any two types of weights, you can measure objects that are above a certain weight,” explained Joseph,

A block of wood, in the form of a cuboid 4″ x 7″ x 14″, has all its six faces painted pink. If the wooden block is cut into 392 cubes of 1″ x 1″ x 1″, how many of these would have pink paint on them? AnswerThe 1″ x 1″ x 1″ cubes that

The Boldavian navy has a rigorous training programme. In order to graduate from the naval academy, cadets must enter a pool and fight sharks. Today, a group of cadets was tested. Each cadet put on his mask, snorkel, two flippers; and armed himself with a knife. Then the cadets jumped into the pool. The sharks

Juanita was helping her mom and dad weed their garden. She noticed an interesting thing about the pea vines. No matter how tall they were, their leaves started one foot from the ground. Above that point, there was one leaf every four inches. The three vines in the garden were five, seven and eight feet

An insurance salesman knocks at the door of a house. He asks the lady about her family and wishes to know the ages of her children. She informs him that she has 3 children but does not wish to disclose information about them to a complete stranger. So, he asks for a clue.She tells him

Joe needed a rope 80 feet long. He went to a local hardware store, but found that they did not have ropes nearly that long. They had only 3′, 5′, 12′, and 20′ segments of rope. Joe would have bought only 20′ segments, as they were the cheapest per foot; unfortunately, they had such a

You have two vertical poles. One stands at 6ft. 6in, the other at 7ft. 7in. From the top of each pole tie a string to the bottom of the other pole.At what height do the two strings cross? Answer42 inches.You multiply the height of the two poles and then divide that by the sum of

Detective Grant was inspecting the scene of the crime. The 50-year-old victim, Joe, had been poisoned by a candy containing cyanide. On the table surrounding him were 9 other candies, but none of them contained cyanide. This murder was highly suspicious, because Joe had just got off a 2-yr jail sentence. Grant was very puzzled,