Jack sat in his father’s office, atop a bookcase by the wide, floor-to-ceiling window. His father’s employer had built this skyscraper right on the shoreline of the lake, directly across which stood the tallest tree in the state. Jack’s view was spectacular, and, as he looked across the 866 ft. wide lake, he noticed something […]
In front of me, I have level scales. On each side, there are 3 bags. In each bag, there are some marbles. There are 150 marbles in total. Using the clues below, work out how many marbles are in each bag. Bag 1 + Bag 2 = 56 marblesBag 1 + Bag 3 = 54
The local historical society has leased a castle to use it as a museum. The original lease was 99 years. I asked the curator how much time was left on the lease. His answer was as follows: two-thirds of the time past is equal to four-fifths of the time to come. How much time was
John really wanted to know how much money he would get from grandpa for his birthday. But grandpa didn’t want to tell him. Instead he said: “You get so much!”“But how much is so much?” John asked.“If I gave you so much, plus so much, plus the half of so much, plus 1/4 of so
Two aging Mathematics professors, Al Gebra and Cal Culus, were sitting at their favourite Thai restaurant, Phun Kshuns, reminiscing about when they first met, while their waiter, Theo Rumsanrools (who also took Professor Gebra’s Advanced Mathematics course at Cart Eshian University) eavesdropped on their conversation as he brought them their meals.“You know what occurred to
Twice the number of people eating equals half of the people who are laughing; if twenty people are thinking, and all of the people thinking are also all of the people laughing and a quarter of the people laughing are also yawning, then how many people are yawning? How many people are eating? AnswerE= eatingL=
The fish market is selling several kinds of fish. But there aren’t any prices listed. You ask about the prices, but all the seller will tell you is this: A pound of salmon and a pound of bass are $12. A pound of bass and a pound of swordfish are $10. A pound of salmon
Santa Claus sometimes helps the elves by making some toys. He’s not so fast as the elves, but he can still make 30 toys each hour. In order to keep from getting bored he starts each day by building 50 trains and then switches to building 50 aeroplanes. Then he switches back to trains and
Jimbo Gulliver was planning an intergalactic space trip to the planet Lilliputinyweesmallminutania which had a very tiny moon named Tinylittliddybiddy… well never mind what it was called. Here dwelt the smallest people in the universe.In order to give them access to his spaceship doorway, which was 3 metres off the ground, he decided to build
A customer arrives at an apple cider farm with a five-gallon container and asks the farmer to put four gallons of his finest cider into it. Unfortunately, the only measure the farmer has is a three-gallon jug. Can you think of a way that the farmer can measure out exactly four gallons of cider using
I’ve had a very peculiar life. For the first quarter of my life, I played no sports at all. After that, I only played one sport at a time.After the first quarter, I played only baseball for ten years. I got tired of that, so I switched to only playing tennis for nine years. Next,
A word triangle is created by taking a word, putting the first letter on the first line, putting two of the second letter on the next line, three of the third letter on the third line, etc. Given the word TEASER, the word triangle would look like this: TEEAAASSSSEEEEERRRRRR If you begin at the top
In your last adventure, you left a broken-down supply truck in the middle of a desert, near the equator. You and a Desert Patrol Vehicle (DPV) have been airlifted to the disabled truck, so you can repair it and bring it back to the camp.Because of recent attacks, the whole area is under a communications
At the local Sunday school meeting, the teacher brought in some puppies. There were 20 more children than puppies. In the corner of the room, within the ant’s nest, there were exactly 10 times as many ants as children. In total, including the teacher, the children, the puppies and the ants, there were 1440 legs
I have 7 bags of marbles. There are 200 marbles in total. Using the clues below, work out how many marbles there are in each bag. Bag 1 + Bag 2 = 57 marblesBag 2 + Bag 3 = 83 marblesBag 3 + Bag 4 = 71 marblesBag 4 + Bag 5 = 43 marblesBag