Two great white sharks were boasting about how much they ate. Jaws said to Teeth, “I ate 98 pounds of codfish and half as much shrimp. Then I ate 44 bluefish that weighed 3 pounds each, and for dessert I had a 100-pound boat anchor.”“That’s nothing,” said Teeth, “I gulped down an entire tuna that […]
Haretown and Tortoiseville are 27 miles apart. A hare travels at 7 miles per hour from Haretown to Tortoiseville, while a tortoise travels at 2 miles per hour from Tortoiseville to Haretown.If both set out at the same time, how many miles will the hare have to travel before meeting the tortoise en route? AnswerThe
Two years ago, a man was offered a motorcycle for $1024, but he declined to buy it. A year later, he was offered the same motorcycle for $640, but again decided not to buy it. A little while after that, he was again offered the motorcycle, this time at $400. Again, he refused to buy
Vampire numbers are the products of two progenitor numbers that when multiplied survive, scrambled together, in the vampire number. Consider one such case: 27×81=2,187. Another vampire number is 1,435, which is the product of 35 and 41. Find others. Answer21×60=1,26015×93=1,3951,234,554,321 x 9,162,361,086 = 11,311,432, 469,283, 552,606 with others that also work.
A farmer with seven daughters is budgeting the food and medical expenses they will incur to care for their herd of cows over a two-week period. The herd consists of adult mother cows and their calves.Each of the farmer’s daughters has seven ploughs, each plough is pulled by seven mother cows, and each mother cow
Farmer Brown owns one pregnant pig. How many pigs will he have after:1) The pig gives birth to 7 pigs,2) 3 of those give birth to 8 each,3) 2 of them give birth to 4 each,4) 1 of those pigs gives birth to 10 pigs?Assume that two pigs die in every litter of eight or
If two typists can type two pages in two minutes, how many typists will it take to type 18 pages in six minutes? Answer6.One typist types one page in two minutes.
Two brothers share a flock of x sheep. They take the sheep to the market and sell each sheep for $x. At the end of the day, they put the money from the sales on the table to divide it equally. All money is in $10 bills, except for a few $1 bills (less than
Alice, Ben, Charlie, David and Ed entered a contest to guess how many jelly beans were in a jar. Alice guessed 30, Ben guessed 28, Charlie guessed 29, David guessed 25 and Ed guessed 26. Two were off the mark by 1, one was wrong by 4 and one by 3. But the one was
Mad Ade was studying for his Kebabology examinations at the University of MADADIA. He was doing some final revision before his morning exam, but alas there was a power-cut. This was around 1:00 am. Mad Ade managed to find two candles in the dark and lit them. The two candles were of equal length but
Captain Derrick Washington is one of the four captains of the Timberland Tigers basketball team. Derrick has this theory: if he drinks water every 8 minutes, milk every 12 minutes, and coffee every 14 minutes, he will do better in that day’s game. If Derrick woke up at 9:30am and drank all three drinks at
A rich man left home, with only a gold chain with 123 links. He decides to stay at an inn. The owner of the inn wants one link for the first week, two links for the second week, three links for the third week, etc. What is the minimum amount of cuts? AnswerThe minimum number
You have two pots which fit the same lid. The large pot is 12 ounces without the lid. With the lid it weighs twice as much as the small pot on its own. The small pot with the lid is one-third more than the large pot on its own.(1) How much does the lid weigh?(2)
My dad has a miniature pyramid of Egypt. It is 5 inches in height. Dad was invited to display it at an exhibition. Dad felt it was too small and decided to build a scaled-up model of the pyramid out of material whose density is (1/ 5) times the density of the material used for
Joe and Bob can build a house together in 45 days. Bob works exactly half the speed that Joe does. How many days can Joe and Bob each build a house on their own? AnswerSince it takes them 45 days together to build one house, they can build 1/45 of a house in one day.