Riddle: Where does today come before yesterday
Answer:- A dictionary
Riddle: What gets bigger when more is taken away
Answer:- Correct answer is a hole.
What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer:- A Sponge
What invention lets you look through a wall?
Answer:- A window
I am a bird a fruit and a person what am I?
Answer:- kiwi
A gun with five bullets is fired thrice, the bullets hit two men and end a life. The gun fires again and it shoots a nun.
How many people were hit by the gun?
Answer:- Zero. Three persons were hit by the bullets.
70% respond badly:
20 + 30x0 + 1 =?
Answer:- 21
My age today is three times what it will be three years from now minus three times what my age was three years ago.
How old am I?
Answer:- 18 years old
At college, 70% of the students studied Maths, 75% studied English, 85% studied French and 80% studied German.
What percentage at least must have studied all 4?
Answer:- 10%
70
75
85
+ 80
310 รท 3 = 100 remainder 10
310 รท 3 = 100 remainder 10
There were some people on the train. 19 get off at the first stop and 17 get on. Now are 68 people.
How many people were on the train to begin with?
Answer:- 70 people
A bag contains 64 balls of eight different colours. There are eight of each colour (including red). What is the least number you would have to pick, without looking, to be sure of selecting 3 red balls?
Answer:- 59
The first 56 balls could be of all colours except red. This would leave 8 balls, all of which are red, so any three chosen would be red.
In a party of 35 people there are twice as many women as children and twice as many children as men.
How many of each are there?
Answer:- 5 men, 10 children and 20 women
If x = the number of men, then x + 2x + 4x =35 therefore 7x = 35 so x = 5
If x = the number of men, then x + 2x + 4x =35 therefore 7x = 35 so x = 5
An item is made from lead blanks in a lathe shop. Each blank suffices for 1 item. Lead shavings accumulated from making 6 items can be melted and made into a blank.
How many items can be made from 36 blanks?
Answer:- From 36 blanks, 36 items are made. The lead shavings are enough to make 6 blanks, which make 6 more items. But don't stop here. The new shavings are good for 1 more item. Total: 43
A driving school claims an average test pass rate of 76.8 percent.
What is the least number of pupils required to achieve this result??
Answer:- 125
96 passes out of 125 give an average of 76.8%