When I'm new, I'm worthless. After I'm old and used, I'm worth hundreds, thousands, and millions. What am I?
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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.
Where did pilgrims land when they arrived in America?
Answer:- On their feet.