When I asked her how old she was, she smiled and said cryptically: "The day before yesterday I was 22, but next year I'll be 25." What is her birthday and when was the date of our conversation?
SEE ANSWER
We conversed on January 1 and her birthday was on December 31. So, the day before yesterday on Dec. 30th she was 22 and he turned 23 on Dec. 31. So her next birthday, when she turns 24, would be Dec. 31 of the same year the question was asked. However, next years birthday would be the following year on Dec. 31, when she would be 25.
When I'm new, I'm worthless. After I'm old and used, I'm worth hundreds, thousands, and millions. What am I?
Answer:- A canvas. A blank canvas is worthless until it becomes a painting!
When I'm used, I'm useless, once offered, soon rejected. In desperation oft expressed, the intended not protected.
What am I?
Answer:- A poor alibi or excuse.
When is a pistol like a young horse?
Answer:- When it is a colt.
When it's alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?
Answer:- A birthday candle.
When may a man's coat pocket be empty, and yet have something in it?
Answer:- When it has a hole in it.
When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?
Answer:- The difference in age is 23 years, so I must be 23 if my father is twice as old as me.
When the celebrated German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was nine he was asked to add all the integers from 1 through 100. He quickly added 1 to 100, 2 to 99, and so on for 50 pairs of numbers each adding to 101.
Answer: 50 X 101=5,050.
What is the sum of all the digits in integers from 1 through 1,000,000,000? (That's all the digits in all the numbers, not all the numbers themselves.)
Answer:- The numbers can be grouped by pairs:
999,999,999 and 0;
999,999,998 and 1'
999,999,997 and 2;
and so on....
There are half a billion pairs, and the sum of the digits in each pair is 81. The digits in the unpaired number, 1,000,000,000, add to 1. Then:
(500,000,000 X 81) + 1= 40,500,000,001.
When was beef the highest that it has ever been?
Answer:- When the cow jumped over the moon.
When you stare at me u see a you in reverse. What am I?
Answer:- A mirror.
When you stop and look, you can always see me. If you try to touch you cannot feel me. I cannot move, but as you near me, I will move away from you. What am I?
Answer:- I am the horizon.
Where can everyone sit on except you?
Answer:- Your lap.
Where can you learn to make ice cream?
Answer:- In sundae school.