A postman delivered letters every day. On the first day, he delivered one letter; on the second day he delivered three letters; on the third day, he delivered five letters, and so on. Each day from the second on he delivered two letters more than the preceding day.The day he retired, he noticed that he […]
A medieval king needed to work out how he could recruit fighting men for the battle ahead. However, there were so many distractions around the castle; his thinking became confused. So in order to change his daze into knights, he asked for a secluded walk to be made so that he might ponder in peace.
At a recent visit to the reptile house at the local zoo, I counted a total of 27 heads and 70 feet. I was counting snakes, lizards and people. I know that there were exactly twice as many lizards as people. How many snakes did I count? Answer6 snakes, 7 people and 14 lizards.
Five stacks of bricks are piled outside the Winter Street School waiting to be used to create a path. They are in their shipping stacks, which are 9 bricks high, 9 bricks across, and 4 bricks deep. Twelve bricks will cover an area of 16 inches x 24 inches.If the path is to be 4
The following equation involving Roman numerals is formed using matchsticks. The given equation is wrong. Can you correct it by moving just one matchstick? See if you can do it three times; the equation can be corrected in three different ways. Each solution must be an equation, i.e. it must contain one equal sign.Note:I(1) and
The teacher has finished grading the Maths papers at West High School. The class size is under 30. One-third of the class got a B, one fourth got a B- and one-sixth got a C. One-eighth of the class flunked and the remainder of the class received an A.How many students in the class received
After visiting my Great Aunt Bernie, I travelled home in my old jalopy. The car was so old and battered that I was stuck in the second gear. This meant that I could only travel along at a steady 30 miles per hour and managed a paltry 20 miles per gallon of petrol. At the
“I’m telling you, Kurt,” Rod said to his best friend, “these Rnkfurers are the greatest thing since whatever was before sliced bread! They’re low-calorie, high-protein, fortified with vitamins B-1, B-36, and F-22, and come with three months of basic cable!”Kurt finally gave in, and agreed to go in with Rod on a minimum special order
Suppose there is a river that has no current. A man gets into a canoe and paddles upstream from his dock to the river’s bend 5 kilometres away, and then turns around and returns to the dock. The entire trip takes 40 minutes. Now suppose that the river has a current of 2 kilometres per
Once there were 9 children, all of which were in the same family. They were all born 18 months apart. The oldest one (George) was 5 times older than the youngest one (Michael).How old was Michael? Answer3 yrs. old.If each child was born 18 months apart, then there has to be a 12-year gap between
I have a bag containing 24 coloured balls. The colours are red, green and blue. There are twice as many red balls as green balls, and one more red ball than blue balls. How many balls of each colour are there? Answer10 red5 green9 blue
Little Johnny was trying to work out a Maths Magic problem his teacher had given him at school that day. He was having problems, so he asked his mom to help.The problem read, MAD + AS + A = BULL“Mom”, he said, “I need to use some of the numbers from 0-9 to work out
A man took a truckload of chickens to market. In the first hour, he sold one-half of his birds, plus one-half of a chicken. The next hour, he sold one-third of his remaining chickens plus one-third of a chicken. In the third hour, he sold one-fourth of what he had left, plus three-fourths of a
At Camp Brainy, all the campers get a camp logo baseball cap that is the colour of their choice. There are red, blue, yellow, black and green caps. The caps have just arrived in 3 cartons of 50 each. Two volunteers are unpacking them now. The first carton had just black caps. All but 15