When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?
SEE 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.
Where do all unwanted shoes go?
Answer:- Boot camp.
Where do astronauts leave their spaceships?
Answer:- At parking meteors
Where do baby ghosts go while their parents work?
Answer:- To day scare!
Where do butterflies sleep?
Answer:- On Caterpillows!
Where do coal diggers play baseball?
Answer:- The minor (miner) leages.
Where do dead outlaws go on a saturday night?
Answer:- To ghost towns.